Japan’s ‘Demon Slayer’ Kills It With Record Opening – International Box Office

Sofia Richie is “having fun” with her new romance with Matthew Morton, 27. The 22-year-old socialite has been spotted out and about with the Cha Cha Matcha founder, most recently when they were photographed kissing while out to dinner at Japanese restaurant Matsuhisa in Beverly Hills on Nov. 2. A few sources close to Sofia spoke with HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY and revealed how the daughter of Lionel Richie feels about her newfound romance.

Variety reported.Joining the Little Women star as her on-screen dad will be her real-life father Ethan Hawke, 49.  Revolver is set in 1966 and follows Jane (Maya) a teen living in Anchorage, Alaska.The northern city is thrown into chaos after a flight carrying The Beatles to Japan makes an unannounced stop in Anchorage, sending the residents into fits of Beatlemania.Jane thinks her ticket to adulthood involves losing her virginity to George Harrison during the band's pit stop at a local hotel,

COVID-19 pandemic. Sega have reported that players at their arcades have “declined remarkably” this year, leading to the sale to the Japanese rental company.

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.

Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentJoanne Waage, GM of specialty streaming platform Crunchyroll, says that anime is becoming more popular. Speaking at TIFFCOM, she said it is becoming a global phenomenon, built around an essentially Japanese product.The company, Waage said, has focused on expanding beyond core fans to viewers not familiar with the anime medium.

Paramount Pictures chairman Jim Gianopulos delivered a keynote address to Tokyo's TIFFCOM content market Wednesday, offering a detailed recap of how COVID-19 has reshaped the movie business in 2020. The veteran studio head's assessment, delivered via video, was sober-minded but also optimistic.

Streaming was the topic for a series of seminars and talk shows at the Tokyo International Film Festival and its TIFFCOM content market. Anime platform Crunchyroll and Amazon Video extolled the virtues of on-demand viewing, while a panel of Japanese film folk took a more cautious view and expressed concerns about its impact on cinema-going.

Mark Schilling Japan Correspondent“Demon Slayer,” the megahit animation that has singlehandedly revived the limping Japanese box office, passed the $150 million mark on its 17th day of release, according to figures compiled by co-distributor Aniplex. Total admissions amount to 11.9 million.Overall, for the Oct.

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.

Imax and Toho Co., the Japanese film giant that also runs the nation's largest movie theater chain, have signed a five movie slate deal in an Asian market breaking box office records while the North American theatrical market struggles. Financial terms of the film output deal with Toho to run through 2021 were not disclosed, but the local language slate deal for Japan marks the biggest yet for the giant screen exhibitor outside of Hollywood.

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.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefJapanese broadcaster and content investor Nippon TV has created a dedicated animation division for the first time. Launched as part of the company’s international business division, the anime department will be headed by Kuwahara Kako, as executive VP of business development.The division will launch with 12-part fantasy series “Tsukumichi – Moonlit Fantasy” adapted from an award-winning novel and manga with the same title, and written by Kei Azumi.

Rebecca Davis editorWarner Music’s independent distribution division ADA launched on Monday in Japan, the world’s second-largest music market.

Unsolved Mysteries depicts, on March 11, 2011, an earthquake caused a massive tsunami that hit the Tōhoku region of Northeastern Japan, and in its wake it stole nearly 20,000 lives. In Ishinomaki, a town within the region, the trauma was intense and immediate.

Mark Schilling Japan Correspondent“Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train,” a Japanese action/adventure anime, was the best performing film in the world this weekend.Given an unusual Friday release, on 403 screens, by distributors Aniplex and Toho, the film earned $12 million on its opening day.

Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentA series of suicides in the Japanese entertainment world, including reality TV star Kimura Hana in May, actor Miura Haruma in July and actresses Ashina Sei and Takeuchi Yuko in September, have raised questions about not only their specific tragedies, but also conditions in Japanese society as a whole that may have contributed to an upsurge in suicide deaths during the pandemic.Understanding the mindset of the victims almost too well is Matsubayashi Urara, who