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The interview was conducted through the good offices of Kaat Kanagawa Arts Theatre.

Special acknowledgement to Asagaya Spiders and sincere gratitude for the support.

In the interview, Keishi Nagatsuka reflects on his past four years as the artistic director of Kaat Kanagawa Arts Theatre, his versatile activities in the industry, and his collaboration projects with overseas partners.

Keishi Nagatsuka is the current Artistic Director of Kaat Kanagawa Arts Theatre, a prominent performing arts venue in Yokohama, Japan. He has made significant contributions to the Japanese theater scene, curating, overseeing, and launching a wide range of performances. Under his direction, Kaat has become known for its innovative programming, including contemporary theater, international collaborations, and a focus on both established and emerging artists. In 1996, he launched the theatre production unit Asagaya Spiders. Their plays: ‘Dogdays’ (2000/2006), ‘Working Men’ (2004/2016), ‘Sakurahime’ (2011), ‘Ageing and Architecture’ (2021) have been known for their distinctive focus on narrative and deep...

For better and worse, Sword Art Online is the most unforgettable and definitive isekai of the 2010s. In the wake of its success in 2012, countless anime about heroes being transported to video games aired. Sword Art Online became so synonymous to isekai anime that it's often mistaken for being the subgenre's progenitor.

Isekai, as a genre and narrative device, is a lot older than some anime fans realize. The idea of escaping or being transported to a fantastical world permeated all forms of popular fiction long before 2012. Sword Art Online may be the first isekai anime that comes to the mind of anime fans today, but it's far from the first of its kind.

Updated on December 13th 2023 by Sage Ashford: Isekai anime's legacy dates back far before the genre's burst in popularity thanks to Sword Art Online. Before that, though, isekai looked a little different. Isekai anime used to...

In the early years of the MCU, the franchise always advertised itself to a younger audience. The character showcased good morality, which made for good role models for other huge demographics of younger viewers. While there are several characters that can be used as examples for this, there is no one better than Captain America himself.

Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers in Captain America: The First Avenger | Credit: Marvel Studios

With his willingness to never back down, constantly sticking with what he believes in, and always being the good guy in the eyes of the audience, there is no denying that his character was the perfect role model for viewers. This is why it is extremely surprising to know that one of the darkest moments in the early years of the franchise was present in the very first film from Chris Evans’ trilogy.

Captain America—The First Censorship Menace

Although Deadpool...

The Dog Days of summer—vaguely from mid-July through mid-August, depending on who does the counting—may not seem like much of an Oscar crucible. You’d think most Academy voters would be sipping Margaritas in Malibu, or Limoncello Martinis somewhere on the Mediterranean.

But as often as not in the last fifteen years, the Dog Day bracket has produced a Best Picture nominee. And last year, of course, it brought a winner in Oppenheimer, which was released alongside fellow Best Picture nominee Barbie on July 21, and was still going gangbusters in mid-August.

There’s a certain rough charm to the Dog Day nominees. They tend to be audience favorites, movies that connect with the movie-hungry middle, which powers them into the Oscar race, whatever the somewhat fussier film professionals may think.

The poster child for...

Eva Longoria's Land of Women has a strong 87% critics' score but a low 31% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Both scores are based on a small number of ratings, meaning they could evolve if more people watch the show. Longoria's acting career over the past decades has been fairly mixed regarding critical and audience reception.

Eva Longoria's return to TV with Land of Women is dividing audiences and critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Perhaps best known for her starring role in Desperate Housewives, Longoria now graces the small screen once more with a comedic thriller series on Apple TV+ from creator Ramn Campos. Land of Women stars Longoria as Gala, a woman who must flee with her family after her husband becomes involved in financial crimes.

Land of Women's Rotten Tomatoes score has now arrived, and it currently sits at a strong 87% with 15 reviews. While this score could change as more reviews are added,...

You know you love her, and why wouldn't you?

Eva Longoria is not only a talented actress who chooses projects that speak not just to her amazing acting talent but resonate with her heart in a way that shows in her performances.

She may have gotten recognition from her role on a drama-dripping soap opera with a cast of actors who have no right to be as attractive as they are talented, but Longoria has proven she is so much more than a pretty face and a smile that could melt steel.

With wins from the Screen Actors Guild and the People's Choice, the actress is a familiar face who has been entertaining folks since the start of the millennium.

If this fantastic woman hasn't won you over yet, do a quick search of her to see how she brings thousands of dollars to charities and foundations that help impoverished communities and immigrants worldwide.

You can watch a handful of movies about dogs, and it still won’t get any easier to not shed a few tears. Kim Deok-min’s Dog Days is no different. It shows that dogs are more than just a pet you bring home, they are family. A truly heartwarming family-friendly watch, Dog Days also advocates for the “adopt, don’t buy” campaign.

Spoilers Ahead

What Happens In The Movie?

Min-sang is a crabby landlord. His veterinarian tenant, Jin-young, gets the worst treatment for running a clinic downstairs. From shouting at her everyday to kicking a bowl of dog food, Min-Sang is not empathetic to dogs. Things start to change when Min-seo, a celebrated architect, comes to the clinic. Min-sang is also an architect, and his ideas mostly don’t impress people. Not like his grumpy and shabby face helps him a lot either. When a woman crashes her car into Min-sang’s car,...

The delayed release of “Wonka” continued to pay dividends as the Timothee Chalamet-starring fantasy headed the box office in South Korea for a third weekend. But the theatrical market contracted sharply after the Lunar New Year holiday.

“Wonka,” which released in much of the world in December, took $1.95 million between Friday and Sunday in Korea. That represented a 50% week-on-week tumble but it put “Wonka” on a cumulative total of $16.7 million after 19 days on release and confirmed the title as the top performing film of 2024 in Korea, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic). Warner Bros. announced that with this weekend’s increment, the film has now grossed $600 million worldwide.

The wider Korean cinema market, however, dropped more steeply – from $11.8 million over the Lunar New Year holiday to $5.26 million in the latest session. That was the fourth lowest weekend over the past 12 months.

Timothee Chalamet’s Wonka Vs Henry Cavill’s Argylle At South Korean Box Office (Picture Credit: IMDb)

Timothee Chalamet, ahead of the release of Dune: Part Two, got the highest-grossing film of his career with the musical fantasy Wonka. The film did an incredible business at the North American box office. It is also doing well in South Korea. Meanwhile, Henry Cavill-led Argylle opened to a poor reception here, and it is also the same at the South Korean box office. Keep scrolling to know.

The film, directed by Paul King, tells the origin story of Willy Wonka. The fictional character first appeared in the children’s novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. In 2005, Johnny Depp appeared as Willy Wonka in Tim Burton’s movie and was widely appreciated by the people. He and Gene Wilder set the standards too high for this character with their performances,...

Hollywood fantasy film “Wonka” held strongly at the top of the South Korean box office on a weekend boosted by the Lunar New Year holidays. But Hollywood spy comedy “Argylle” opened disappointingly in seventh position.

Korea allocates three days of public holiday to the Lunar New Year and took them this time from Friday to Sunday. The extra holiday footfall in cinemas drove up box office and gave “Wonka” an almost unchanged weekend haul, despite a declining share of the overall market.

“Wonka” earned $3.88 million in its second weekend, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic). After 12 days in Korean cinemas, it has a cumulative total of $11.6 million.

The overall theatrical market climbed 50% due to the holiday, from $7.47 million to $11.3 million this weekend.

“Citizen of a Kind” was also boosted by the holiday traffic. It expanded so that its third weekend score...

Prime Video’s big February drop is Mr. & Mrs. Smith! No, not the 2005 Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie action movie, but a new TV series kinda based on it starring Donald Glover and Maya Erskine. The set up for the show version? Glover and Erskine are two strangers who both get jobs at a shady spy agency and are asked to get married so that they can pretend to be a couple undercover, but things get more complicated when they start falling in love for real. Uh oh!

If you’re in the mood for a movie or two this month, you can also check out the Prime debuts of Strays, Bottoms, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. In the meantime, here’s everything coming to Amazon Prime Video and Freevee this month. Amazon Originals are accompanied by an asterisk!

New on Amazon Prime Video – February 2024

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12 Angry Men...

Get ready to watch more Freevee this February! Most of the free streamer's new additions will come all at once on the first of the month, including the three-time Oscar nominee "A Soldier’s Story" directed by the recently departed Norman Jewison, the franchise-launching "How to Train Your Dragon," and more classics of the past four decades.

Check out The Streamable’s top picks for Freevee’s February additions, and continue below to see the full list!

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Early-career Denzel Washington appears in a supporting role in this Oscar-nominated adaptation of Charles Fuller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “A Soldier’s Play.” But it’s Howard E. Rollings Jr. who leads the cast here as Captain Richard Davenport, a Black Army investigator who travels to a remote military base to look into...

I’m trying to stay optimistic. It takes some effort, as just about everyone seems to think the film business is a mess–strike-thinned schedule, cultural chaos, streaming models in flux. But, hey, the Golden Globes audience was up by half, never mind critical reaction to the show. There are still signs of life out there.

So I’ll stick with an earlier prediction, that this will be a big comeback year for the Oscar show.

More, I’ll cautiously suggest that we can expect what you might call an “interstitial hit” between now and next December.

These are movies that seem to come out of nowhere. They arrive with low or no expectations, from companies that are barely on the map. But they work their way into some conceptual or temporal gap in the release schedule, firing up viewers with je ne sais quoi, And suddenly they’re right...

Ron Cephas Jones, who played William Hill — the biological father of Sterling K. Brown’s Randall — on This Is Us, earning two Emmy Awards, has passed away. The actor was 66, succumbing to a “long-standing pulmonary issue.”

Over the course of his appearances on This Is Us, Ron Cephas Jones earned four consecutive Emmy nominations, with one for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and three for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. He is just one of four actors to win the latter multiple times.

Sterling K. Brown, who had some of This Is Us’ best scenes with Ron Cephas Jones, paid tribute to the late actor on Instagram while also nodding to his character, who passed away from cancer. “Life imitated art today, and one of the most wonderful people the world has ever seen is no longer with us. @cephasjaz has passed away, and the world is a little less bright.

Ron Cephas Jones, the Emmy-winning actor who starred as the beloved William Hill on This Is Us, has died. He was 66.

“Beloved and award-winning actor Ron Cephas Jones has passed away at the age of 66 due to a long-standing pulmonary issue,” a rep for Jones told People magazine in a statement confirming his death.

“Throughout the course of his career, his warmth, beauty, generosity, kindness and heart were felt by anyone who had the good fortune of knowing him,” the statement read. “He began his career at the Nuyorican Poets...

Sad news has just broken as actor Ron Cephas Jones has reportedly passed away.

As reported by People on Saturday, a representative for Jones confirmed the actor's death by releasing a statement. It was noted that the Emmy winner had died due to a "long-standing pulmonary issue," going on to touch on Jones' accomplishments as an actor along with how wonderful he was as a person. Jones leaves his loved ones too soon, as he was just 66 years old.

“Throughout the course of his career, his warmth, beauty, generosity, kindness and heart were felt by anyone who had the good fortune of knowing him,” the statement reads. “He began his career at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and his love for the stage was present throughout his entire career, including his recent Tony nominated and Drama Desk Award winning performance for his role in Clyde’s on Broadway. Ron’s inner...

Ron Cephas Jones, an Emmy-award-winning actor for his role as William Hill on This Is Us, has died. He was 66.

A representative for the actor confirmed the news of his death to Deadline.

“Beloved and award-winning actor Ron Cephas Jones has passed away at the age of 66 due to a long-standing pulmonary issue,” read a statement from the actor’s representative shared by People. “Throughout the course of his career, his warmth, beauty, generosity, kindness and heart were felt by anyone who had the good fortune of knowing him.”

The statement continued, “He began his career at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and his love for the stage was present throughout his entire career, including his recent Tony-nominated and Drama Desk Award-winning performance for his role in Clyde’s on Broadway.”

Jones played the role of William Hill on This Is Us, the biological father of Sterling K. Brown’s Randall Pearson.

Ron Cephas Jones, the Emmy-winning actor known for his role as William Hill on NBC’s “This Is Us,” has died. He was 66.

“Beloved and award-winning actor Ron Cephas Jones has passed away at the age of 66 due to a long-standing pulmonary issue,” a representative for Jones confirmed to Variety on Saturday.

“Throughout the course of his career, his warmth, beauty, generosity, kindness and heart were felt by anyone who had the good fortune of knowing him,” the statement continued. “He began his career at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and his love for the stage was present throughout his entire career, including his recent Tony nominated and Drama Desk Award winning performance for his role in ‘Clyde’s’ on Broadway.”

“Ron’s inner-beauty and soul was evident to the huge audience from his multi-Emmy award winning performance on ‘This is Us.’ He is survived by his daughter Jasmine Cephas Jones,...

This week sees two new movies looking to take down the dual behemoths that are Barbie and Oppenheimer as the Seth Rogan produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem and the Jason Statham sequel Meg 2: The Trench hit theaters. The simple fact is that no movie will remove Barbie from her perch atop the charts for a good while. I’d say probably not until at least Gran Turismo on the 25th, although there is no tracking for that movie yet. I don’t think Blue Beetle stands a chance at beating Barbie!

Second place could be a toss up, even with a sub 40% drop, Oppenheimer should finish around the $30 million mark while Mutant Mayhem is currently projected to do $30 million for its full five day release. However, Mutant Mayhem is getting phenomenal reviews Those types of reviews combined with how well family fare (with the exception of Ruby...

Eva Longoria is an American actress, director and producer. She made her first appearance in 1999 as a host on the television show L.A. In A Day and became best known for her distinct role when she was cast as Gabrielle Solis on the hit television series Desperate Housewives.

Eva Longoria Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education

Eva Longoria was born on March 15, 1975 (Eva Longoria’s age: 48) in Corpus Christi, Texas. Her parents are Ella Eva Mireles and Enrique Longoria Jr. She is the youngest of four daughters. One of her sisters grew up with special needs, but Longoria stated that “there was never any resentment, because I saw how hard my mother worked and all she did for my sister [with special needs], and I wanted to do whatever I could to help. We all did.”

Longoria was raised as a Roman Catholic. She didn’t speak Spanish growing up and hadn...

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” had Florence Welch overcome with emotion.

On Monday, the Florence + the Machine frontwoman shared a TikTok video of her reaction to a scene from the latest Marvel movie featuring a “Dog Days Are Over” needle drop.

Read More: ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3’ Soaring To $260M+ Global Opening

The song comes during the film’s climactic scene, and evidently it worked its magic on the artist.

“So I cried all the way through this movie but when the Guardians of the Galaxy started dancing to ‘Dog Days; I really lost it,” she wrote in the caption.

In the video, Welch bursts out crying soon after her song starts playing.

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So I cried all the way through this movie but when the The Guardians of the Galaxy started dancing to Dog Days I really lost it. Thank you so much for all the love for this moment.

Not to give too much away, but there’s a cathartic scene in James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 that features several characters and the residents of Knowhere dancing euphorically to the 2008 Florence + the Machine hit song “Dog Days Are Over.” The climactic scene and the emotive needle drop would make even the blackest of hearts throb with a little emotion.

On Monday, Florence + the Machine frontwoman Florence Welch posted a video to TikTok of herself reacting to the scene and the use of her song. In the clip, Welch almost immediately begins tearing up upon hearing “Dog Days Are Over.” In the caption to the post, she writes, “So I cried all the way through this movie but when The Guardians of the Galaxy started dancing to ‘Dog Days’ I really lost it.”

Welch added, “Thank you so much for all the love for this moment.

We here at /Film love a well-placed needle drop. Whether it's the inclusion of Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence" in "The Graduate" to emphasize the complicated future of the two leads or Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" in "Wayne's World" that inspired audiences everywhere to headbang in their cars, there's an art to the (often very expensive) cinematic needle drop. A song choice can truly make or break the effectiveness of a scene and when done properly, the collaboration between song and screen can become synonymous. "Top Gun" and the Kenny Loggin' song "Danger Zone" now go hand-in-hand with one another, and you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who hears the tin whistle opening of "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion and not immediately think about Jack and Rose in "Titanic."

For a filmmaker like James Gunn, music is often key to his stories. For instance, the titular...

Those who have seen “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” can rest assured that musician Florence Welch also cried throughout the film, especially when she watched the segment set to her hit song “Dog Days.”

The singer of Florence + the Machine posted a TikTok of her reaction to the part in the film where the song starts playing. She was already tearful, but she cried some more tears of joy.

“So I cried all the way through this movie but when The Guardians of the Galaxy started dancing to ‘Dog Days’ I really lost it,” she wrote. “Thank you so much for all the love for this moment. The superhero obsessed little girl in me can’t believe it happened.”

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The hit single plays toward the end of the film...

Smother-In-Law is a Brazilian series created and starred by Rodrigo Sant’anna.

Fresh out of jail, our “beloved” and “favorite” (or not) mother-in-law played by Rodrigo Sant’anna arrives in this second season of Netflix’s popular Brazilian sitcom.

Smother-In-Law (2022-) About the Series

Smother-in-Law is a funny series that, complying with all the rules of the sitcom genre, becomes more naughty, lighthearted and (only from time to time) even witty in its dialogues.

A series that can captivate some fans, especially because of its eccentric main character, and for its Brazilian sense of humor in the style of A Christmas Full of Grace, that peculiar Brazilian Christmas comedy.

If you feel like this peculiar and lighthearted humor is your cup of tea, so spicy and inappropriate, well … from April 12th you can enjoy the witticisms of Dona Isadir on Netflix.

Release Date

April 12, 2023

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ABC's successful and long-running series Desperate Housewives turned star Eva Longoria into a household name – understandably leading to substantial interest in what she has done since. Although the show ended in 2012, Desperate Housewives' success proved to be an invaluable platform for everyone associated with the show. In Longoria's case, this has led to a successful career in both the TV and movie industries, with an impressive resumé both in front of and behind the camera.

Partly as a result of her role as Gabrielle Solis, Longoria had a number of high-profile film and TV roles while Desperate Housewives was still on the air. These included leading parts in hit movies like Harsh Times, The Sentinel, and Over Her Dead Body, as well as small screen appearances on Saturday Night Live and in music videos for the likes of Jamie Foxx. In the years since, Longoria has diversified her output still further,...

Six world premieres, 16 European and international premieres and 70 UK premieres feature in the line-up

Glasgow Film Festival (Gff) has unveiled the full line-up for its 19th edition, taking place March 1-12, with the UK premiere of Nida Manzoor’s Sundance title Polite Society the closing night film.

The festival will screen 123 features, including six world premieres, 16 European and international premieres and 70 UK premieres.

Polite Society is the feature debut of Screen Star of Tomorrow 2021 Nida Manzoor, who created Channel 4 and Peacock series We Are Lady Parts.

Her first feature is an action comedy about an aspiring stuntwoman who tries...

The Toronto International Film Festival abruptly withdrew the German-language drama “Sparta” from its lineup ahead of its planned Friday world premiere after the film’s Austrian director, Ulrich Seidl, was accused of child exploitation in connection to the film.

The festival apologized “for any inconvenience” and said ticket holders would receive an email with more information.

Last week, the German magazine Der Spiegel reported allegations children on the set of his film were exposed to violence and nudity — and were not notified in advance of the film’s pedophilia-themed storyline. “Sparta,” which has yet to screen publicly, follows the story of a pedophile who teaches judo to young boys in an abandoned school building.

TIFF said the article “raised concerns that official guidelines established to protect children and keep their guardians informed when making films were not followed.”

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Anyone seeking a peek into Ulrich Seidl’s worldview–perhaps his soul–could do worse than Rimini, his first film since Safari in 2016 and first narrative feature in almost a decade. It swells with Seidl ephemera: hunting trophies, Austrian basements, and lovelorn holiday-makers of a certain age. And then there’s the mood. Consider a shot near the end of its first act: a ghostly, out-of-season water park looming over an out-of-season man; mist clouds so dense they hang over the park’s slides; and just to the right, still as statues, a group of hooded refugees.

Rimini, a dense and discomforting character study, stars an astonishing Michael Thomas as Richie Bravo, a once-popular singer of German Schlager music (a derided and sentimental genre that came to fame in the postwar years), now making ends meet as a washed entertainer in holiday resorts where he serenades, occasionally seduces (for a little extra income) aging fans.

Exclusive: Days before the world premiere of Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne’s feature directorial debut Am I Ok? at Sundance, Deadline has learned about the duo’s next feature project is Time and Space, which Judd Apatow will produce through his Apatow Productions.

Allynne will direct off a screenplay she wrote based on a story she conceived with her spouse Notaro. Emmy nominee and stand-up comic Notaro also will star in the project, which follows the life of a lesbian couple who are thrown into turmoil when they ditch their Los Angeles city life for upstate New York. Notaro and Allynne will produce through their production company, Something Fierce.

Time and Space reflects Notaro and Allynne’s interest in sophisticated, entertaining storytelling with universal appeal where there just happens to be gay characters and themes.

The duo conceived Time and Space during the pandemic, though the movie is not set during one.

Exclusive: Jon Bass (Miracle Workers) is set as a lead opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Kyle Chandler in the first installment of Super Pumped, Showtime’s anthology series from Billions co-creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien. The installment, which is based on Mike Isaac’s bestselling book Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber, tells the story of the ride-sharing company that stands out as both a marvel and a cautionary tale, featuring internal and external battles that ripple with unpredictable consequences.

Pivoting on Travis Kalanick (Gordon-Levitt), Uber’s hard-charging CEO who ultimately was ousted in a boardroom coup, the series will depict the roller-coaster ride of the upstart transportation company, embodying the highs and lows of Silicon Valley.

Bass will play Garrett Camp, the man with the original billion-dollar idea for Uber.

Kerry Bishé, Babak Tafti and Mousa Hussein Kraish also star.

Each season of the Super Pumped anthology series will...

If you’re a fan of Patti Harrison’s scene-stealing work on “Shrill” — or a devotee of the brilliant shock-humor of her Twitter feed — you’ll be delighted but not entirely surprised by her stellar work in “Together Together,” a movie that gives her the space to be hilarious, yes, but also heartbreaking and human.

The comedy from writer-director Nikole Beckwith, making its debut at the Sundance Film Festival, leaps into the world with all the attributes audiences expect from a character-based comedy: It’s bright and witty and packed with laughs, but those laughs stem from real empathy and understanding of its characters.

Harrison stars as Anna, who’s serving as surrogate for Silicon Valley bachelor Matt (Ed Helms); he’s ready for fatherhood even if he doesn’t currently have a partner. Harrison’s deadpan and Helms’ dorky enthusiasm clash early and often, as Matt’s perpetual efforts...

Albert Banzon is a Filipino, multi-awarded cinematographer. After graduating from college, he took a series of workshops from the Mowelfund Film Institute. From there, he met Bahag-Hari, an Mfi Alumni cinematographer, who hired him as a gaffer to work for Lav Diaz, in essence starting his career. Currently, he has more than 115 credits to his name, having cooperated with directors like Timmy Harn, Shireen Seno and Adolfo Alix Jr, although his most frequent collaborator is Khavn.

On the occasion of our #TheKhavnProject, we speak with him about his career, the differences between working for TV and movies, the changes the industry has undergone and of course, Khavn.

You have been working in film since 2000. Which were the most significant changes you have witnessed in Filipino cinema and which on the field of cinematography?

The most significant change I saw was the transition to digital filmmaking. It changed everything.

There are...

Nicholas Hope in an episode of ‘Deadhouse Dark’ (Photo: Lauren Orrell).

Enzo Tedeschi’s horror anthology Deadhouse Dark will have its world premiere in the short form competition at Canneseries, the only Australian entry in the event which runs alongside the Miptv market in Cannes.

The other nine contenders are Broder (Argentina), Dog Days (Canada), Christmas on Blood Mountain (Norway), Cryptid (Sweden), First Person (Canada), Replay (France), The Writers. A Short Series (Poland), Tony (Argentina) and Zero Day (Us).

Jamie Bamber is the president of the short form competition jury, serving with Erin Moriarty and French actor/filmmaker Timothée Hochet.

The award of Best Short Form Series will be presented during the festival’s closing ceremony on April 1.

Screen Australia and Screen Queensland funded the series of six short horror films for YouTube and Tedeschi’s deadhouse.tv, anchored by a woman who orders a ‘mystery box’ from the dark web,...

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A project which has been developing for the past several years, it would appear 2020 is finally the year in which Ulrich Seidl’s Wicked Games will at last be unveiled, the Austrian auteur’s first narrative feature since his final installment in his underrated Paradise trilogy debuted back in 2013.

Seidl bounces back and forth between narrative and documentary, and over the past several years has released 2014’s In the Basement (review) and 2016’s Safari.…...

Basketball is quite popular in the Philippines and basing a film upon it is definitely not a bad idea. Timmy Harn did so, but extended his narrative in order to include a number of important local subjects, including black magic, drugs, racism, and colonialism. Let us take things from the beginning though.

“Dog Days” is screening at Across Asia Film Festival

The movie starts with a rather impressive sequence, where Carmen sacrifices herself in order to give her infant son supernatural abilities in basketball, in for him to have a great future, away from the blights of his natural habitat. The film then jumps to some years later, where Michael Jordan Ulili (the aforementioned infant) is struggling to make ends meet, having to deal with a coach that does not allow him to play, instead promoting his own son, and a guardian mother, Rochelle, who does not stop nagging him,...

Across Asia Film Festival (Aaff) in Cagliari, in the beautiful Italian island of Sardinia, is back on the 14th of December with a Programme focused mainly on the Philippines and Taiwan, including collateral events, guests and some interesting gems, like a restored edition of the classic Lino Brocka’s “Manila in the Claws of Light”, a Masterclass with directors Shireen Seno and John Torres and the Italian Premiere of “The Kalampag Tracking Agency” an ongoing curatorial initiative between Shireen Seno of Los Otros and Merv Espina of Generation Loss.

Across Asia Film Festival is focused on most interesting languages of recent cinematographic production from Asia, with the goal of promoting and developing cultural exchanges between Italian and foreigners communities. Stefano Galanti and Maria Paola Zedda are the creators and the artistic directors of the event.

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The Festival will kick off with “The Night of the...

Exclusive: Deadline has learned that Ken Marino is coming back to play Dad aka Mr. Johnson in Netflix’s The Babysitter 2, which Charlie’s Angels director McG is helming and producing off a screenplay by Dan Lagana. The film is currently in production.

It’s Marino’s third back-to-back film for the streamer. He just recently wrapped production the Netflix/WWE Studios movie The Main Event and was in Boston filming The Sleepover for Netflix.

The first Babysitter follows Cole (Judah Lewis) who is in love with his babysitter (Samara Weaving) Bee. She’s hot, funny, and popular. One night, in a moment of defiance, Cole secretly stays up past his bedtime to discover she’s actually a cold-blooded killer who’s in league with the Devil. He now must spend his night evading Bee’s band of killers who will stop at nothing to prevent Cole from spilling their dark secret.

Exclusive: As part of Netflix’s growing slate of live-action family films aimed at kids and teens, the streamer has started production on the Ld Entertainment production The Sleepover directed by Pitch Perfect 3 filmmaker Trish Sie.

Pic, written by Sarah Rothschild, follows two siblings who discover their seemingly normal mom is a former thief in witness protection. Mom is forced to pull one last job, and the kids team up to rescue her over the course of an action-packed night. Marino will play Glen Finch, the father of the kids and the husband who learns many unexpected new facts about his wife.

Boasted by a large ensemble cast, The Sleepover stars Sadie Stanley (Kim Possible), Maxwell Simkins, Ken Marino, Cree Cicchino, Lucas Jaye, Karla Souza, Enuka Okuma...

The part documentary, part fiction work stars visual artist Patrycja Planik.

Sébastien Chesneau’s Dubai-based world sales company Cercamon has acquired international sales rights to Austrian director Andreas Horvath’s part documentary, part fiction work Lillian, produced by compatriot filmmaker Ulrich Seidl, ahead of its premiere in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight (May 15-25).

Visual artist Patrycja Planik stars as a woman stranded in New York, who decides to head home to her native Russia on foot. It is a journey that will take her straight across the United States and into the freezing wastes of Alaska.

The film is based on...

Paramount has hired family film specialist David Bowers as the director of its upcoming live-action/CG “Rugrats” movie.

Bowers directed the second, third and fourth “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” movies. He also directed the animated movies “Astro Boy” and “Flushed Away.”

Producers are Brian Robbins, series creator Gabor Csupo and Karen Rosenfelt. “Rugrats” is being produced through the studio’s Paramount Players division. Paramount has set a Jan. 29, 2021 release date.

“Rugrats” is based on animated children’s television series created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, and Paul Germain for Nickelodeon. The show, which first aired in 1991, ran for nine seasons with 176 episodes and focused on the comic adventures of a group of toddlers including Tommy, Chuckie, twins Phil and Lil, and Angelica. The studio released three animated “Rugrats” movies between 1998 and 2003.

The script for the movie was written by David A. Goodman, who had gained notice over the past...

Finn Wolfhard and Carrie Coon are in talks to join the cast of Jason Reitman’s “Ghostbusters,” an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.

Much of the plot remains under wraps, but it follows a single mom and her family. Coon is in talks to play the mom, while Wolfhard would play her son.

Reitman is directing and also co-wrote the screenplay with Gil Kenan. Reitman’s father, Ivan Reitman (who also directed and produced the original film) will produce. The film is expected to go into production this summer and is slated for release summer 2020.

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It will be the second official sequel following 1988’s “Ghostbusters 2.” The film will have no connection to the female-led 2016 film directed by Paul Feig that starred Kristin Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones.

Coon most recently starred in “Kin” and “Widows,...

Brooke Shields is set to star in the CW’s drama pilot Glamorous. Eva Longoria has been tapped to direct and executive produce in her pilot directing debut. Jade Payton also has been cast in hourlong drama pilot from Damon Wayans Jr. and his Two Shakes Entertainment, writer Jordon Nardino and CBS TV Studios.

Written by Nardino, Glamorous centers on a gender non-conforming recent high school graduate who lands the gig of a lifetime interning at a cosmetics company whose products he panned on YouTube.

Shields, a former model herself, will play Madolyn, a former supermodel who is no stranger to the covers of Vogue or the runways of Milan, Madolyn is the founder and CEO of one of the industry’s most respected and sophisticated cosmetics company. A canny businesswoman and entrepreneur, Madolyn is at the top of the game and will stop at nothing to stay there, including...

The Children of the Dead — a zombie home movie shot on Super 8 and directed by Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska of New York's Nature Theater of Oklahoma theater ensemble — has snatched the top critic's prize for best film in the Forum sidebar of the Berlin International Film Festival.

Fipresci, the international association of film critics, named Children of the Dead the best film in the 2019 Forum lineup. The movie, which was produced by Austrian art-house provocateur Ulrich Seidl (Paradise: Faith, Dog Days), proudly embraces the tradition of trash cinema, using amateur actors, original Alpine locations and grainy ...

The Children of the Dead — a zombie home movie shot on Super 8 and directed by Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska of New York's Nature Theater of Oklahoma theater ensemble — has snatched the top critic's prize for best film in the Forum sidebar of the Berlin International Film Festival.

Fipresci, the international association of film critics, named Children of the Dead the best film in the 2019 Forum lineup. The movie, which was produced by Austrian art-house provocateur Ulrich Seidl (Paradise: Faith, Dog Days), proudly embraces the tradition of trash cinema, using amateur actors, original Alpine locations and grainy ...

Ahead of the UK premiere of Adrián García Bogliano’s hypnotic Black Circle at Arrow Video FrightFest Glasgow 2019, star and Swedish exploitation icon Christina Lindberg reflects on memorable moments, meeting Tarantino and making a comeback.

How did your modelling career start and did that inevitably lead to your career as an actress?

I was discovered the classic way; on the beach at the age of 18. After having been photographed as a “bathing girl” for most of the newspapers in southern Sweden, I was asked to do a centrefold shoot for one of Sweden’s biggest men’s magazines, by Siwer Ohlsson, the most celebrated glamour girl photographer of the time. I said yes to throwing away my bra, despite the fact that as a young woman, I was very shy.

The photos grabbed a lot of attention, and a Swedish film producer got in touch. He offered me a role,...

Basketball is quite popular in the Philippines and basing a film upon it is definitely not a bad idea. Timmy Harn did so, but extended his narrative in order to include a number of important local subjects, including black magic, drugs, racism, and colonialism. Let us take things from the beginning though.

“Dog Days” is screening at the

International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019

The movie starts with a rather impressive sequence, where Carmen sacrifices herself in order to give her infant son supernatural abilities in basketball, in for him to have a great future, away from the blights of his natural habitat. The film then jumps to some years later, where Michael Jordan Ulili (the aforementioned infant) is struggling to make ends meet, having to deal with a coach that does not allow him to play, instead promoting his own son, and a guardian mother, Rochelle, who does not stop nagging him,...

Exclusive: Jasmine Cephas Jones is set for a recurring role in HBO’s upcoming comedy series Mrs. Fletcher, starring Kathryn Hahn and directed and executive produced by Nicole Holofcener.

Mrs. Fletcher, based on The Leftovers author Tom Perrotta’s bestselling novel, is a dual coming-of-age story, exploring the impact of Internet porn and social media on the lives of Eve, an empty-nest mother (Hahn) and her college freshman son, played by Jackson White. Casey Wilson, Owen Teague and Jen Richards co-star.

Jones plays Chloe, an undergraduate who runs a support group for students who have family members with autism.

Jessi Klein and Sarah Condon executive produce with Holofcener and Perrotta.

In addition to Hahn, series regular cast includes Jackson White, Casey Wilson, Owen Teague, Jen Richards and Cameron Boyce.

Jones originated the roles of Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds in the Tony-winning Broadway hit Hamilton. Her most recent TV credits...

Written by Jennifer Conroy

The American Cancer Society recently welcomed actress Vanessa Hudgens as their new ambassador.

The actress is participating in an exclusive Super Bowl Liii weekend package to raise critical funds to fight cancer.

Vanessa Hudgens is a San Diego native who emerged as a star from Disney’s popular High School Musical series. It’s no secret that Vanessa Hudgens became a star from the amazing Disney Channel film series. She continues her acting career staring in popular films like Spring Breakers and Machete Kills. Recently she starred in The Princess Switch, Dog Days, and Second Act in which she co-starred with Jennifer Lopez. In 2019, she will star in the television adaption of Rent: Live and the film Polar. In addition to working as an actress, Vanessa Hudgens has a successful singing and theatre career. She has released several albums and has been in numerous Broadway plays.

Around The World When You Were My AgeThe titles for the 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam are being announced in anticipation of the event running January 23 – February 3, 2018. We will update the program as new films are revealed.Tiger COMPETITIONSons of Denmark (Ulaa Salim)Take Me Somewhere Nice (Ena Sendijarević)Present.Perfect. (Shengze Zhu)Sheena667 (Grigory Dobrygin)Nona. If They Soak Me, I’ll Burn Them (Camila José Donoso)Koko-di Koko-da (Johannes Nyholm)Els dies que vindran (Carlos Marqués-Marcet)Bright Future COMPETITIONAlva (Ico Costa)Chèche lavi (Sam Ellison)De nuevo otra vez (Romina Paula)Doozy (Richard Squires)Dreissig (Simona Kostova)Ende der Saison (Elmar Imanov)Fabiana (Brunna Laboissière)The Gold-Laden Sheep & the Sacred Mountain (Ridham Janve)Heroes (Köken Ergun)Historia de mi nombre (Karin Cuyul)Last Night I Saw You Smiling (Kavich Neang)Lost Holiday (Michael Kerry Matthews/Thomas Matthews)Maggie (Yi Okseop)Mens (Isabelle Prim)No Data Plan (Miko Revereza...