Japan’s Wowow Boards Michael Mann’s ‘Tokyo Vice’ As Co-Producer As Production Resumes This Week

Queer Japan (★★★☆☆) reflects the ethos of “live and let live.” Leaving seemingly no LGBTQ+ stone unturned, the movie maps out queer scenes and spaces from Tokyo to Kyoto, Osaka to Okinawa, covering the mainstream and the underground, the artistic, erotic, and unconventional.The film could be accused in its first half of overindulging a taste for the offbeat, focusing exclusively on sex and gender mavericks like gay manga artist Gengoroh Tagame.

As the title suggests, the documentary “Queer Japan” is big and broad, not focused.

Tokyo-based pay TV company Wowow has acquired theatrical distribution rights in Japan for Songbird, the pandemic-set sci-fi thriller produced by Michael Bay and former Paramount president Adam Goodman. The pickup is Wowow's first major acquisition through the new theatrical distribution division the company set up earlier this year.

Nine months after launching its new theatrical distribution operation, Japanese pay TV broadcaster Wowow has made its first theatrical film acquisition, closing an all-rights deal for pandemic thriller Songbird, starring KJ Apa, Sofia Carson, Craig Robinson, Bradley Whitford, Peter Stormare, Alexandra Daddario, Paul Walter Hauser and Demi Moore.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Songbird,” the Michael Bay-produced pandemic thriller that is headed straight to streaming in North America, will be given an in-cinema release in Japan. The rights pickup was the first acquisition by the newly-formed theatrical distribution arm of Japanese pay-TV leader Wowow.The film takes place years in the future, in which a mutated strand of coronavirus, called COVID-23, continues to wreak havoc on the world’s population.

Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees, look at these” as the chanters would pull at their eyes.The “Monster Hunter” scene in question features rapper MC Jin (Jin Au-Yeung) saying, “Look at my knees.” “What kind of knees are these?” his white male scene partner asks.  “Chi-nese!” Jin’s character responds, emphasizing the “knees” pun.Also Read: 'Monster Hunter' Trailer: Milla Jovovich Fends Off Gigantic Dragons With Fire Swords (Video)Users on Weibo, a popular social media platform in China, quickly

Refresh for latest…: Sunday’s international box office reporting looks vastly different to what was expected coming into the weekend. A Friday gross that portended a high-teens launch for Monster Hunter in China was quickly thwarted when local authorities pulled the feature game adaptation from the country’s cinemas.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefUniversal Studios Japan is to open its Nintendo attraction in February 2021, the park announced on Monday. The grand opening of Super Nintendo World will kick off the Osaka-based park’s year-long 20th anniversary celebration.Built at a cost of some $580 million, Super Nintendo World will include rides, replicas and retail outlets.

Universal Studios Japan have announced that Super Nintendo World will officially open on February 4.The theme park has been designed in conjunction with Nintendo, and features several rides and attractions based on their most popular games. The star of the show is a Mario Kart roller coaster, which takes place inside Bower’s Castle.The roller coaster uses a mixture of physical elements, such as the kart, track, and architecture, and AR goggles.

Universal Studios Japan has set a February 4, 2021 grand opening for the first Super Nintendo World, after the launch at the Osaka theme park was delayed earlier this summer because of the coronavirus pandemic. The opening will now coincide with the park’s 20th anniversary celebration.

coronavirus pandemic, the video game-themed amusement park announced Monday.“Super Nintendo World will debut here as the first multi-level land at Universal Studios Japan,” Universal creative executive producer Thomas Geraghty told journalists during a media tour of some park locations — including the interior of Bowser’s Castle, which houses a Mario Kart-themed attraction.Guests in the immersive experience will wear an augmented reality (AR) headset created by Universal as they ride “right

EXCLUSIVE: UK sales firm Independent has sold SXSW-winning documentary The Donut King to key markets with Vice picking the film up for the world excluding North America, UK/Ireland, Japan, Australia/New Zealand and Portugal.

Universal Studios Japan have announced that Super Nintendo World will officially open on February 4.The theme park has been designed in conjunction with Nintendo, and features several rides and attractions based on their most popular games. The star of the show is a Mario Kart roller coaster, which takes place inside Bower’s Castle.The roller coaster uses a mixture of physical elements, such as the kart, track, and architecture, and AR goggles.

Refresh for latest…: DreamWorks Animation/Universal’s The Croods: A New Age led the weekend in China with a $19.2M debut, outpacing local titles One Second and Caught In Time. This is the third best bow for a studio movie in the Middle Kingdom during the pandemic era (behind Tenet and Mulan).