Arashi Concert Film to Premiere at Shanghai Festival

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterGloria Sanchez Productions, the prolific film unit from producers Jessica Elbaum and Will Ferrell, has signed a first-look film deal with 20th Century Studios.The creative team behind “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar,” “Booksmart,” and “Hustlers” will offer the iconic Walt Disney label first right of refusal on projects meant for both theatrical release and streaming debuts.“We are thrilled to be working with Jessica, Will, and the rest of the team at Gloria

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefFree Stone Productions, one of Japan’s leading indie film sales firms, is poised to bring a big slate to Cannes. It has added three new titles and a catalog.

Ewan McGregor’s daughter, Clara, had to walk the red carpet with a wound on her face from a dog bite.  The 25-year-old actress took to Instagram on Sunday to share that she suffered an injury to her face mere minutes before she was due to hit the red carpet for her new film "The Birthday Cake." Fortunately, that was enough time for her to receive medical attention and she seemed in good spirits about the ordeal in a post on Instagram.  "When a dog bite lands you in the ER 30 mins before the red

This is the epitome of “the show must go on”!

Ewan McGregor's daughter Clara was rushed to the emergency room on Saturday after a dog bit her on the face. The scary incident occurred just half an hour before the premiere of Clara's new movie The Birthday Cake, meaning she had to pose on the red carpet with noticeable red bite marks on her nose and cheek.

Japanese Breakfast has performed in the trailer for new Sims 4 expansion pack Cottage Living – see her perform ‘Be Sweet’ in Simlish below.Simlish is the fictional language spoken within the video game, and Michelle Zauner performs her recent single, taken from her ‘Jubilee’ album, entirely in the language.As announced this week, Cottage Living will launch within The Sims 4 next month.

Flag Day,” which is playing in competition and was just picked up by MGM.

The character posters for Henry Golding‘s new movie Snake Eyes are here.

Katie Holmes has praised her “talented” ex-boyfriend, Emilio Vitolo Jr., 33, almost one month after they called it quits. The 42-year-old actress spoke out ahead of their new short film, Almost A Year premiering at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.

Naman Ramachandran Pan Nalin’s “The Last Film Show,” (aka “Chhello Show”) which opens Tribeca’s Spotlight section on June 10, has attracted buyers around the world, ahead of its world premiere.Neue Visionen has acquired the film for Germany, Karma Films for Spain, Shochiku for Japan, Red Cape and Nachson for Israel and Nos Lusomundo for Portugal.Nalin is known for his eclectic, and visually striking, body of work including “Samsara,” “Valley of Flowers” and “Angry Indian Goddesses.”The partly

The New Yorker, in which she wrote about crying inside her local Korean grocery store after her mother passed away from terminal cancer. The book found Zauner reckoning with her relationship with her mother as well as time spent in Seoul with her grandmother.

Crying in H Mart, the memoir by musician and writer Michelle Zauner (aka Japanese Breakfast) is set to be adapted into a feature film.MGM’s Orion Pictures have acquired rights for the film adaptation of Zauner’s book, which was released earlier this year.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIt wasn’t all that long ago that Michelle Zauner, the creative force behind shoegaze-pop act Japanese Breakfast, was singing about the idea of becoming “Jimmy Fallon big.” The track from 2017’s “Soft Sounds from Another Planet” may have seemed like wishful thinking at the time, but Zauner’s tongue-in-cheek lyric came full circle in March when the band hit “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” to make Japanese Breakfast’s late-night television debut.The singer

Bad Bunny just dropped new music. The Puerto Rican rapper has dropped a new single called «Yonaguni» on Thursday night. «Yonaguni,» named after an island in Japan, fuses rhythms of reggaetón with a calm, chill melody.

EXCLUSIVE: The Match Factory has boarded international rights to Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s (Asako I & II) anticipated Haruki Murakami short story adaptation Drive My Car.

Jamie Lang Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival has unveiled much of its feature lineup including early highlights from several sidebars for this year’s online 25th edition, with the full program to be announced in July.Fantasia’s preliminary lineup is highlighted by a glut of world and premieres including Edoardo Vitaletti’s “The Last Thing Mary Saw”; fest regular Richard Bates Jr.’s “King Knight”; Mikhael Bassilli and Luc Walpoth’s “Baby Money”; Canadian actor-turned-director Mark

Blondie are set to release a Cuba-inspired EP to accompany a film about their 2019 performance in Havana, Cuba.The six-soundtrack EP, ‘Blondie: Vivir En La Habana’ will be released on July 16 ahead of the film’s premiere which will take place at Sheffield Doc/Fest later this year. Directed by Rob Roth, the short film documents their 2019 live debut in Cuba.The EP will see feature special guests Carlos Alfonso, Ele Valdés and María del Carmen Ávila of Cuba’s Síntesis and includes performances of