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Crunchyroll and Funimation Will be Combined after Sony Acquisition

Sony has confirmed it officially acquired anime giant Crunchyroll from AT&T in a deal worth almost $1.2 billion. According the official site of Sony Funimation, the pact, which was announced in December and finalized Monday, brings the 15-year-old Crunchyroll under the same roof as Sony’s own anime division, Funimation. The former competitors will be combined,…

Karen Butler

August 10, 2021

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Amazon May Be Buying MGM for $9 Billion

A major acquisition appears to be in the making for Amazon, the giant that began as an online bookstore and has evolved into one of the top suppliers of just about everything. online pharmacy avodart with best prices today in the USA The Information first reported the news that Amazon was talking about acquiring MGM…

Abe Friedtanzer

May 18, 2021

Interviews

The Spiderwick Chronicles : Exclusive Interview with Actors Lyon Daniels & Joy Bryant

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Lyon Daniels is an American actor and entertainer, starring as a lead character in the upcoming Roku original live-action series The Spiderwick Chronicles(2024) as well as Netflix film We Can Be Heros(2020) and Amazon Prime series Patriot(2015). Lyon got his start at the young…

Nobuhiro Hosoki

April 26, 2024

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City Hunter / Review : It’s All Very Slick, But Still Faithful to the Fans

Ryohei Suzuki, Fumino Kimura, ©Courtesy of Netflix Like all long-running manga-anime series, the “City Hunter” franchise has a complicated history of adaptations. Technically, this is the first live-action Japanese film based on Tsukasa Hojo’s Shonen series, but previous non-animated film adaptions were produced in Hong Kong (starring Jackie Chan and Gary Daniels) and France (as…

Joe Bendel

April 25, 2024

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Storyline Revealed For Angelina Jolie’s Cancelled Cleopatra Movie

©By the Sea. Screenwriter Brian Helgeland has revealed the plot details for his canceled Cleopatra movie, which would have starred Angelina Jolie as the titular Egyptian queen. The scribe, who won an Oscar for penning L.A. Confidential, started writing a screenplay for a new Cleopatra film in 2011 for Sony Pictures. Emmy winner David Fincher…

Karen Benardello

April 25, 2024

Reviews

The Hazy Days of Art College 1994

©Courtesy of Dekanalog Like many young people, the Chinese art students in this film largely ignore politics. Very few of them could have conscious memories of the Cultural Revolution, unlike superstar Chinese artists Ai Weiwei, Cai Guo-Qiang, and Wang Guangyi. However, these artists-in-training consciously aspire to their level of success. They also hope to make…

Joe Bendel

April 25, 2024

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Crunchyroll and Funimation Will be Combined after Sony Acquisition

Amazon May Be Buying MGM for $9 Billion