Amazon Developing Adaptation Of Manga Series ‘Promised Neverland’ From Masi Oka, Rodney Rothman, Vertigo Entertainment & Fox 21

Ava Duvernay has signed on to make a new series about sportsman and activist Colin Kaepernick’s early years.The longtime friends will collaborate on the six-part Colin in Black & White, which will focus on Kaepernick’s teenage years and early sports success in California before he spearheaded a social and civil rights movement by taking a knee during the U.S.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorYouTuber Liza Koshy has taken to Instagram to apologize after a video of her using a mock Asian accent resurfaced. Another clip included footage of Koshy pretending to speak Japanese.“What I once thought of as ‘innocent jokes,'” wrote Koshy, “were actually tainted with implicit bias, and what might have been intended as ‘playful’ was actually to some, incredibly painful.

Brandon Choe Photo EditorEXCLUSIVE: Quibi is developing a scripted murder-mystery series produced by Blumhouse Television.Created by Anthony Horowitz (Midsomer Murders, Foyle’s War), the working-titled Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue follows the tale of nine strangers who find themselves lost in a remote Mexican jungle after their small plane crashes. The plot thickens as members are murdered one by one and the remaining survivors must solve the mystery.

Did you know that on Queen and Adam Lambert's tours, the crew celebrates Hawaiian Shirt Fridays?

Kanye West and Kid Cudi enter the "4th Dimension" in their new Kids See Ghosts animated show, and the two premiered a preview clip today (June 26).

her0ism is a Japanese music producer with numerous hits in his home country and abroad under his belt, who has been based in Los Angeles since 2016. Ryo Ito is also a hit-making J-pop music producer who has played a key role in introducing co-writing as a way of making music in Japan.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterGKIDS has acquired the North American distribution rights for Masaaki Yuasa’s animated feature Inu-Oh. GKIDS, Japanese production company Science SARU INC.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorMGM has picked up the remaining offshore territories for Bill & Ted Face the Music from Endeavor Content.The Orion movie opens on Aug.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterAmazon Prime Video has set Theater, the feature adaptation of Naoki Matayoshi’s second novel Gekijo, as its first day-and-date release in Japan.The movie will launch on the service in 200 countries on July 17, and will also play in Japanese theaters, which have started to re-open following the coronavirus lockdown.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmDavid Leitch, who helmed Deadpool 2 and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, will direct Bullet Train, the Sony Pictures action movie based on the Japanese novel Maria Beetle by Isaka Kotaro.

Universal Music Group (UMG) is looking to support, discover and sign independent Japanese artists with the new launch of its global DIY digital distribution service, Spinnup, in the country today (June 24).

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Mark Amin’s U.S. based Sobini Films (Good Kill), Japanese producer Motoko Kimura (L.D.K), and Lifeng Wang’s (Skiptrace) Yintai Investment are teaming up to launch the ACJ Film Fund.ACJ is a joint venture to develop and finance wide-release theatrical films that will appeal to the American, Chinese, and Japanese markets.

Will Thorne Staff WriterBrian Grazer and his Imagine Television Studios shingle have set up a project at HBO Max based on Malcolm Gladwell’s best-selling book “Outliers.”The anthology series, which is now in development at the streamer, is a part historical drama, part biopic. Each season will profile individuals through the unique “Outliers” lens, looking at the specific historical situation which led to their outsized imprint on society and what ultimately makes them an Outlier.

BTS' romantic new song "Stay Gold" has topped this week's new music poll.In the poll, published Friday (June 19) on Billboard, music fans voted for the previously unreleased big-beat ballad as their favorite new release from the past week.

John Legend's sweetly soulful , Phoebe Bridger's emotional and effervescent and Teyana Taylor's instantly iconic Plus, the Black Eyed Peas recruit Shakira for a fun summer song, BTS drop the first single from their upcoming Japanese album, and Alicia Keys delivers a powerful anthem for the moment.Read on for some of our favorite recommendations for new songs and albums to listen to this week — plus, where you can stream them now!John LegendThe soulful singer dropped his sixth studio album on

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Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentTV and film production in Japan shut down in early April in reaction to the coronavirus crisis.

New Yorker Documentary” series. The festival features renowned filmmakers will open with Crystal Kayiza’s “See You Next Time,” which examines the relationships between nail artists and their clients.Here are the other artists’ works to be featured weekly through the summer:Klayman’s ‘Flower Punk’ explores the process behind Japanese artist Azuma Makoto’s works, which use flowers and plants to make emotional arrangements.