Hiroyuki Sanada & Cosmo Jarvis To Lead FX’s Samurai Limited Series ‘Shōgun’

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNBCUniversal gave its strongest indication yet that it would move forward with plans to broadcast 7,000 hours of Tokyo Olympics events even as worries continue over the potential health of attendees and athletes as Japan continues to grapple with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.Jeff Shell, NBCU’s CEO, along with other executives present Wednesday at an event designed to preview the company’s plans, suggested a global audience was eager to emerge from an

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After lightly roasting Russian President Vladimir Putin on his Geneva Summit press conference, Last Week Tonight host John Oliver focused his attention on Japan’s efforts to keep the 2020 Olympics on schedule next month despite criticism from many of its citizens.

Ben Croll Speaking before a rapt audience at the Annecy Film Festival on Friday, director Pierre Földes, producers Tanguy Olivier and Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, and artists from France’s Miyu Productions premiered work in progress footage from Földes’ “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman,” a 2D animated adaptation of a handful of Haruki Murakami stories that looks to translate the Japanese author’s idiosyncratic style as no feature has to date.Murakami’s is a world of sex, surrealism and cigarettes, a

Hiroyuki Sanada will star in an undisclosed role in Lionsgate’s John Wick: Chapter 4 opposite Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Rina Sawayama, and Shamier Anderson. Cameras roll this summer shooting on location in France, Germany and Japan.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterAhead of its Season 1 finale, psychological thriller “Cruel Summer” is getting a second season at Freeform after becoming the network’s most-watched series ever.“Renewing Cruel Summer for a season 2 was an easy decision,” said Freeform president Tara Duncan. “It’s the biggest series debut in Freeform’s history and the audience response has been overwhelmingly positive.

Another day, another Ryan Murphy show. Deadline reports that Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale are set as the leads in “The Watcher,” an upcoming Netflix limited series from Ryan Murphy and frequent collaborator Ian Brennan.

Gkids has acquired North American distribution rights to Belle, the latest animated film from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mamoru Hosoda and Japan’s Studio Chizu. A winter theatrical release is in the works for the pic, which represents a re-team of the distributor, Hosoda and Studio Chizo after 2018’s Mirai, which scored an Oscar nomination.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVFor their first outings as television creators, Ethan Hawke and Little Marvin held nothing back.Hawke acquired the rights to James McBride’s novel “The Good Lord Bird” for the Showtime adaptation. He also wrote scripts, executive produced and starred as abolitionist John Brown, approaching history with a witty bent.

Bright Eyes have unveiled some new summer 2021 tour dates – see them all below.Arriving to support of last year’s comeback album, ‘Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was’, the group are heading out on an 11-date East Coast tour this July and August. You can buy tickets for the gigs here.For their gigs in New Haven, the group will be joined by Japanese Breakfast and Lucy Dacus.Dacus will further support Bright Eyes for their gig in New York City on July 31.

The sports world is having a reckoning right now.

Ew, David! Some people find tremendous joy in pimple popping videos, others love to pick off nail polish. But Daniel Levy’s guilty pleasure may just be the most icky of them all — a skin-shedding foot mask. 

Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith and her Gammy had a joint vaginal steaming session on-screen for 'Red Table Talk'. The 'Girls Trip' star, 49, her 20-year-old daughter and mom Adrienne Banfield-Norris, 67, had the treatment - which penetrates the vaginal tissues - as they got candid about their private parts on the latest episode of their Facebook Watch series.

Billie Eilish and Katy Perry are among the star names to have signed a UNICEF open letter which is urging the Group of Seven (G7) countries to donate coronavirus vaccines to the global vaccine equity initiative COVAX.The G7 – whose core members are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US – are meeting in St Ives, Cornwall from Friday to Sunday (June 11-13) for their latest summit, with the global response to the coronavirus pandemic expected to be top of the agenda.In an open

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorConcerns about holding the Tokyo OIympics continue to surface, but at least one participant is ready to go all in on it.NBCUniversal plans to broadcast 7,000 hours of Olympics coverage across NBC, USA, CNBC, NBCSN, and Peacock, among other properties, signaling the intense economic interest in keeping the athletic extravaganza going despite the challenges of holding it amid coronavirus outbreaks in Japan.

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Gaston (The Leftovers) has been cast alongside Vera Farmiga, Cherry Jones, Adepero Oduye, Julie Ann Emery, Cornelius Smith Jr. and Molly Hager in Five Days at Memorial, Apple TV+’s limited series from John Ridley, Carlton Cuse and ABC Signature.

Shamier Anderson has closed a deal to join the cast of John Wick: Chapter 4, the latest pic in the Keanu Reeves-led franchise in the works at Lionsgate. Anderson joins the recently added Donnie Yen and the female lead Rina Sawayama in the project, which is being directed by Chad Stahelski from a script by Shay Hatten and Michael Finch.

number of stars have come out in support of the Japanese talent. This includes fellow player Coco Gauff and tennis icon Billie Jean King.

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