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Japan’s Toho Acquires 25 Percent Stake in Fifth Season

@Toho Co. Ltd Japanese studio Toho will pay $225 million to acquire a 25% stake in the U.S.-based indie film and television producer-distributor, Fifth Season. The investment from the producer of the current hit box office kaiju movie, Godzilla Minus One, is being made through Toho’s U.S. subsidiary, Toho International, Deadline is reporting. In the…

Ramin Bahrani Signs on to Write and Direct a New Television Series Adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ramin Bahrani has signed on to write and direct a television series adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath. Fifth Season will produce the new adaptation of author John Steinbeck’s celebrated 1939 novel of the same name, Deadline is reporting. The novel is set during the Great Depression and follows the Joads, a poor…