An ambitious venture in cross-cultural collaboration has just been announced by Upgrade Productions and Shochiku, the prestigious Japanese film studio. The two will work together on producing an eight-part Japanese-language TV adaptation of Mizumura Minae’s 2003 novel, A True Novel. The book, which won a coveted Yomiuri Award, was itself inspired by Emily Brontë’s Wuthering…
Through history art has held the role of an inspirational world shaper. Literature, cinema, painting and sculpture have all conveyed important messages for humanity. The visionary Canadian-born Bruce Mau has dedicated his life to demonstrate how another creative discipline can equally permeate through politics and culture to help build a better tomorrow: design. Mau, written…
Female empowering chronicles about the sex industry have been fertile ground in recent years for cinema and television. An example can be seen with the American drama television series The Deuce (2017-2019) or with the biopic about the star of Deep Throat, Lovelace (2013). Along these lines, Swedish director Ninja Thyberg returns to the themes…
On May 5, Disney+ announced it had cast Leah Jeffries to play the role of Annabeth Chase in its upcoming screen adaptation of the young adult adventure series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. That move unleashed a firestorm of criticism on social media, with many complaints that a Black girl should not be playing a…
Filmmaker Jonathan Levine has signed to direct the highly anticipated sequel to classic romantic dance drama, Dirty Dancing, for Lionsgate. The studio will launch the upcoming movie, which will serve as a direct follow-up to the hit 1987 feature, at next week’s Cannes market, Deadline is reporting. In an exclusive interview with Deadline, Levine, who…
Presents HALLELUJAH: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s documentary, playing around the festival circuits in Venice and Telluride, and now Tribeca. “HALLELUJAH: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song” is a definitive exploration of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, “Hallelujah.” This feature-length documentary weaves…
Warner Bros. Pictures has greenlit a spinoff of Crazy Rich Asians, which will focus on the growing romance between Astrid Young and Charlie Wu, who were played by Gemma Chan and Harry Shum Jr. in the original movie. Emmy Award-nominated Barry producer and scribe, Jason Kim is set to write the spin-off’, Deadline is reporting. Kim pitched…
Serendipity Point Films Telefilm Canada Ingenious Media Present A Film by David Cronenberg A Robert Lantos Production Produced in association with Argonauts Productions S.A. Crave CBC Films ERT Rocket Science with the participation of EKOME The Greek Film Center Ontario Creates Crimes of the Future is a Canada-Hellenic Republic Co-Production and was filmed on location…
Check out more of our video interviews and video reviews on our Youtube Channel. Film Critic : Abe Friedtanzer Abe Friedtanzer is a film and TV enthusiast who spent most of the past fifteen years in New York City. He has been the editor of MoviesWithAbe.com and TVwithAbe.com since 2007, and has been predicting the…
Hollywood is reacting with predictable fury over fears that the Supreme Court may possibly overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision. When Justice Samuel Alito’s draft decision was leaked and published in Politico this week, reactions from both sides of the ideological spectrum were fast and furious. It’s clear, however, that many in the…
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