Japanese studio giant Toho’s North American release of “Godzilla Minus One” was a turning point in the company’s approach to the global market, CEO Matsuoka Hiro said at the Tokyo International Film Festival on Thursday. Matsuoka was speaking at an “Academy in Tokyo” session with Bill Kramer, CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts […]
Top AGBO execs Chris Brearton and Dominic Hughes delivered a keynote discussion at TIFFCOM, the content market of the Tokyo International Film Festival, on Thursday, about how AI is impacting filmmaking, how it can be used to assist rather than replace human creators and how it will shape the future of visual content creation. Brearton […]
The Japan IP Market will be back in Cannes next May for a second straight year. The Cannes Film Market and TIFFCOM, the content market of the Tokyo International Film Festival, are again teaming up on the event, and the 2027 edition will run May 14-15. The return was revealed at TIFFCOM in Tokyo, during […]
Shashank Walia’s “Birds in the Dark,” about a call center executive whom a police informer mistakes for a suspect, will close the 15th Dharamshala International Film Festival with its India premiere. The festival runs Oct. 29–Nov. 1 at Tibetan Children’s Village in Upper Dharamshala. Walia’s debut feature took two prizes at the Busan International Film […]
On Wednesday night’s episode of “The Tonight Show,” host Jimmy Fallon went full Nathan Fielder while guest Jamie Lee Curtis played Elizabeth Holmes to spoof A24’s buzzy documentary, “You Can See Everything.” “Now, be honest. Do you really want to be on the show tonight?” asks Fallon, doing his best Fielder impression. “Of course I […]
James Gunn has once again taken to Threads in defense of his DC universe, and this time, is clarifying his previously proposed eight- to 10-year roadmap for the fictional world and making it clearer where each character stands within it. “You can look at my quotes from January ’23 when we started and I said […]
In the fourth episode of “South Park” Season 29, South America’s beef has surprisingly become a hot commodity — and Cartman, Stan, Kyle and Randy won’t let their lunch-of-choice get taken away from the local mountain town without a fight. The episode, titled, fittingly, “Guinea Pig on a Stick,” opens with Cartman eager to get […]
No one familiar with the oeuvre of Peter Berg — the action merchant behind the Afghanistan war drama “Lone Survivor” and the improbably pumped-up boardgame adaptation “Battleship” — should approach “The Mosquito Bowl” expecting great restraint or good taste. Ostensibly, Berg’s Netflix-backed combat epic is fighting the same fight as Terrence Malick’s “The Thin Red […]
A first-time director who messaged Oscar winner Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s cinematographer directly, and a former hunter whose film led Carlos Reygadas to float a collaboration, were among five Nippon Cinema Now filmmakers who shared the unexpected connections behind their work at the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF). The “How We Make Films” panel at Tokyo […]
“The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping” has officially premiered, and members of the film press are already calling the sixth installment a “perfect adaptation” that breathes “new life” into the franchise. “Sunrise on the Reaping” is the second “Hunger Games” prequel movie following 2023’s “The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.” Film critic Griffin Schiller […]
Put on a happy face, because “Smile 3” is officially in the works. Paramount has hired David Bruckner to direct and Nick Antosca to write the screenplay. They’re taking over for Parker Finn, who created the series and will remain involved as a producer. (Finn pitched the framework for the third installment.) Bruckner’s credits include […]
Stenzin Tankyong’s debut feature “Kakthet” (Idiot), set in the remote high-altitude region of Ladakh, has been selected as the winner of the inaugural INR40 lakh ($42,000) feature film co-production fund run by Humans of Cinema and Safarnaama Pictures. The Ladakhi-language project was selected from nearly 400 entries after an extensive screening and evaluation process. The […]
