Film-Makers Embrace Tokyo Market’s Gap Financing Initiative

Pirates Of The Caribbean film, promising “lots of girl power”.The new Disney film will see Robbie once again team up with screenwriter Christina Hodson, who she worked with on DC‘s Birds Of Prey.Robbie was reported to be taking the lead role in the film back in June, which, according to The Hollywood Reporter, will be separate from the already-announced franchise reboot being developed by Pirates writer Ted Elliott and Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin.Speaking to Collider about the new movie,

With yesterday’s re-release of the trailer for Zack Snyder’s Director’s Cut of “Justice League,” fans have once again resumed their rabidness for this extended version of a DC superhero film. And now, it seems, when we talk about the Snyder Cut, we must also reference the Ayer Cut of “Suicide Squad,” which is still in its infancy of a social media campaign but already has quite a few faithful fans pressuring Warner Bros.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: SK Global and LA-based production and literary outfit The Mazur Kaplan Company have closed a first-look development deal, with an initial five books set for adaptation. The pact was jointly announced Tuesday by SK Global President of Television Marcy Ross, and Mazur Kaplan principals Paula Mazur and Mitchell Kaplan.

The basketball documentary Gap Year, produced by LeBron James and starring NBA rookie Darius Bazley, is set for a release on Dec. 1 via most streaming services.

Also Read: Colbert: Trump Is 'Like a Toddler Too Hopped Up on Sugar to Go to Bed' With Bogus Fraud Claims (Video)From there, Fallon and Smyth traded lyrics.

The Tokyo International Film Festival handed out its audience award Monday to Japanese director Akiko Ohku's for her latest featureHold Me Back, a socially astute comedy about the romantic struggles of a Japanese woman entering her early thirties. The audience award is the only prize the Tokyo festival is presenting this year, after the international jury competition had to be scrapped in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

A 30-year-old “salaryman” — the Japanese equivalent of an office employee — is getting bored with his two girlfriends at work when a dangerous, unpredictable femme fatale overturns his life. Originally produced by Japan’s Nagoya TV as a 10-part series, this comic book adaptation directed by acclaimed filmmaker Koji Fukada was edited down to a mere 233 minutes for its theatrical release in Japan in October.

Reza Dormishian is one of the most original directors in Iranian cinema, and No Choice (Majboorim) is another example of his ability to enthrall with hard-hitting social critique.

The inaugural Tokyo Gap-Financing Market (TGFM) got off to a busy start on Wednesday, with 20 projects from around the world looking for production and distribution partners, along with the final pieces of their funding puzzles. The 14 films and six TV series, chosen from 87 submissions, have meetings in their own Zoom rooms over the next three days with investors, sales agents, production companies, broadcasters and streamers.

Mark Schilling Japan Correspondent“Underdog,” the two-part boxing film that opens the 33rd Tokyo International Film Festival, is the second movie on the subject by director Take Masaharu. The first, “100 Yen Love” in 2014 won the Japanese Cinema Splash Award at the 27th TIFF and was selected as Japan’s nominee for Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award.

The Tokyo International Film Festival kicked off its 33rd edition Saturday with an abbreviated red carpet and a series of photo ops featuring Japanese stars separated by plexiglass dividers. Representatives of the global film community, meanwhile, including Robert De Niro, Christopher Nolan and Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Frémaux, beamed into the event via a series of video messages wishing the festival well amid the challenges of COVID-19.

Japan's “under-class,” people who are often overlooked in a nation stereotyped as monolithically well-to-do.The heroes of his latest work, “Underdog,” couldn’t be more beaten down, stoically hardworking yet hopelessly under-class: They are boxers.“Most of them will lose.

Remember the dustbowl-set American drama thriller “Dreamland” starring Margot Robbie from the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival? The film kinds of came and went and got forgotten, but in aftermath of Tribeca was bought by Vertical Entertainment. Following that, Paramount Pictures acquired the home entertainment and TV licensing rights to “Dreamland” and are co-releasing the film with Vertical this November.

film makers are focusing on solving wedding invite list headaches during the pandemic - by live streaming the big day.

Gwen Stefani is giving the world a chance to hear what No Doubt tunes would have sounded like with a country music twang. The songstress joined Jimmy Fallon for a fun sketch on Monday’s “Tonight Show”, and she embraced her Blake Shelton-inspired love of country.