‘Age Of Samurai’: Netflix Drops Trailer For Japanese Warrior Docu-Drama From Cream Productions

Apex Legends’ next new hero will reportedly be targeted towards a Japanese audience.In a recent interview with Famitsu, which was translated by Dexerto, Apex Legends’ game director Chad Grenier suggested that the next hero being introduced in the game will appeal to its massive Japanese fanbase.Grenier also spoke of the game’s recent release on Nintendo Switch, the most popular console in Japan.

Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentThe Japanese film industry has been relatively quick to recover from the pandemic, despite the slow rollout of vaccinations in Japan. So industry leaders are bringing lineups to FilMart packed with titles that will hopefully play to packed theaters at home in the coming months.One is Gaga Corporation, which is bringing “Junk Head,” a first feature by stop-motion animator Takahide Hori that has won kudos around the international festival circuit.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefJapanese comedy-drama “Ito” (aka “Itomichi”) was named as the Grand Prix winner of the 16th edition of the Osaka Asian Film Festival. It also claimed the audience award.The festival ran March 5-14.

Highland Film Group has secured multiple distribution deals for action-thriller Wash Me In The River, starring Robert De Niro, John Malkovich, Jack Huston, Quavo and Willa Fitzgerald.

Get ready for the return of Lupin!

Assane Diop is on a mission to save his kidnapped son in Netflix’s first trailer for part two of the French crime series. 

It’s one of 2021’s most raved about series and while we still have a ways to go before Lupin is back on our screens Netflix has eased the wait with a teaser clip.

Christina Ricci has nabbed the lead role in Monstrous, the supernatural thriller from director Chris Sivertson and screenwriter Carol Chrest. Film Mode Entertainment is handling international sales at the virtual Berlin market in partnership with Screen Media, which has acquired the world rights outside of North America, U.K., Japan and the Middle East.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has given a 10-episode order to a multi-camera comedy series from Jack Dolgen (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Diary of a Future President), Doug Mand (How I Met Your Mother, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) and Doogie Kamealoha, MD creator Kourtney Kang.

EXCLUSIVE: Derek Kolstad, the screenwriter behind the John Wick series, is collaborating with Amazon Studios to develop a live-action feature film based on the iconic Japanese action-horror manga Hellsing.

ITV has announced a glut of new content as part of a spring showcase, including revealing that it has greenlit a true-crime drama series on John Darwin, the former prison officer who was jailed for faking his own death.

Lori Loughlin, 56, was doing a good deed in her first public outing since her prison release. The Full House star, who finished her two-month prison sentence for the college admissions scandal in Dec., was seen carrying bags of groceries while volunteering with Project Angel Food in Los Angeles, CA on Mar.

Japanese Breakfast, a.k.a. Michelle Zauner, pays tribute to cult sci-fi show The X-Files in the video for new song "Be Sweet." The track is the first to be taken from Japanese Breakfast's forthcoming album Jubilee, due June 4 via Dead Oceans.

Japanese Breakfast has announced her new album ‘Jubilee’ – you can hear its lead single, ‘Be Sweet’, below.Michelle Zauner is preparing the release of her first Japanese Breakfast album since 2017’s ‘Soft Sounds From Another Planet’, having teased its arrival back in January.‘Jubilee’ will be released on June 4 via Dead Oceans. Speaking about the process behind making the album, Zauner said that she’s “never wanted to rest on any laurels.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorUniversal Music Publishing has signed rising British singer-songwriter Holly Humberstone, whose debut EP received a rave review in Variety last fall, to an exclusive, global publishing agreement. The 21-year-old singer was voted No.

Netflix just dropped the new trailer for the upcoming documentary based on the infamous 2019 college admissions scandal, “Operation Varsity Blues”.

Manori Ravindran International EditorLily Franky (“Shoplifters,” “Like Father Like Son”), Ciaran Hinds (“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” “The Terror”) and Ryô Nishikido (“Hospitality Department”) have joined the cast of Oscar-nominated “Philomena” producer Gabrielle Tana’s forthcoming film “Cottontail,” starring Jessie Buckley.BAFTA “Brit to Watch” director Patrick Dickinson directs. Japanese actor Franky replaces Ken Watanabe, who was previously attached to star in the pic.

Japanese Breakfast is teasing a new single which is set to drop next week.The singer – real name Michelle Zauner – directed followers to her TikTok account, which appeared to show behind the scenes footage from a forthcoming music video with the date March 2. The footage also features Marisa Dabice of Mannequin Pussy.The latest clip comes after Zauner joined TikTok last week and uploaded another clip from the video and the caption: “Less than two weeks from the drop people!!”.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorRina Sawayama’s self-titled debut album is indisputably one of the most innovative pop records of recent years, a head-spinning fusion of nu-metal, Lady Gaga-style pop and ballads that is catnip for critics, fans of daring music (such as her big fan Elton John) and prestigious awards like the Brits and Mercury Prize.So there was no small outcry when Sawayama, 30, who was born in Japan and is not a British citizen but has lived in the U.K.