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Fantasia Announces Anime and Manga Highlights for 27th Edition, July 20 – August 9

SAND LAND, KURAYUKABA, and TOKYO REVENGERS 2 are among the anime and manga highlights at Fantasia 2023 Fantasia, North America’s largest and longest-lived genre film festival, returns in 2023 with an amazing selection of imaginative films from around the world, including a bounty of cinematic treasures for aficionados of anime and manga! Best known for…

Nobuhiro Hosoki

July 6, 2023

Festivals

The Fantasia International Film Festival Announces First Wave of Titles for 25th Edtion

FANTASIA’S 25TH EDITION ANNOUNCES FIRST WAVE OF PROGRAMMING FOR UPCOMING VIRTUAL FILM FESTIVAL Richard Bates Jr.’s KING KNIGHT, Tsutomu Hanabusa’s KAKEGURUI 2: ULTIMATE RUSSIAN ROULETTE, Mark O’Brien’s THE RIGHTEOUS, Daigo Matsui’s REMAIN IN TWILIGHT, Edoardo Vitaletti’s THE LAST THING MARY SAW, and Shunji Iwai’s THE 12 DAY TALE OF THE MONSTER THAT DIED IN 8…

Nobuhiro Hosoki

May 22, 2021

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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

News

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

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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

Interviews

‘Boy Kills World’: Exclusive Video Interview with Director Moritz Mohr

©Courtesy of Lionsgate Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel German-born filmmaker Moritz Mohr has been directing short films and television for almost two decades, but with Boy Kills World, he takes on his first feature film, a violent and gory revenge thriller starring Bill Skarsgård (It, Barbarian) as the…

Edward Douglas

April 24, 2024

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Fantasia Announces Anime and Manga Highlights for 27th Edition, July 20 – August 9

The Fantasia International Film Festival Announces First Wave of Titles for 25th Edtion