Naoki Yoshida has teased the reason Zenos is a Reaper in ‘Endwalker’

Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentNot long ago, director Yoshida Keisuke was little known both in Japan and abroad, though he scored the occasional festival invitation with films like the 2008 quirky comedy “Café Isobe” and the 2016 thriller “Himeanole.”A former lighting director to cult favorite Tsukamoto Shinya, Yoshida was one of many Japanese filmmakers laboring in the middle zone between low-budget indies and major commercial films.

EXCLUSIVE: Harriet Walter (Succession, Killing Eve), Avi Nash (The Walking Dead, Barry) and Chinaza Uche (Dickinson, Nigerian Prince) will round out the cast of Wool, Apple’s world building drama series based on the New York Times bestselling trilogy of dystopian novels by Hugh Howey.

River City's Stephen Purdon has revealed Walter Smith once pulled him up for ruining his Tuesday night in front of the TV.

Nick Cave and his former Bad Seeds and Birthday Party bandmate Mick Harvey, the frontman has shared a tender memory of missing a gig due to being locked in jail before Harvey came to his rescue.To celebrate the release of new compilation ‘B-Sides & Rarities Part II‘, two new audio conversations between Nick Cave & Mick Harvey and Nick Cave & Warren Ellis will be released on Wednesday October 27 at 10am BST here.

David Henrie will be playing a young Ronald Reagan in the upcoming film Reagan, which will be the first full-length feature film about the 40th U.S. president.

Stephen Colbert wants in on Nick Offerman’s “three-way bromance” with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy and acclaimed author George Saunders.

Monday, October 18 marks the beginning of National Adoption Week 2021.

Nick Cave has reflected on his current run of live shows with long-time collaborator Warren Ellis, describing them as “pure happiness”.On his website The Red Hand Files, where the Bad Seeds musician answers questions from his fans, Cave was asked by one fan how he manages the website while on tour.“The truth is, it is very hard,” Cave said. “Playing these concerts is pure happiness, more than I have experienced in a very long time.

Entertainment One (eOne) is to strengthen its relationship with Nordic networks as the studio reveals plans for a “Swedish Scandi-noir” production in the region.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Aurora and more have been announced for Øya Festival 2022 – see the full line-up so far below.The event returns to Tøyenparken in Oslo, Norway between August 9 and August 13, having cancelled its 2020 and 2021 editions due to the coronavirus pandemic. Ticket information can be found here.Norwegian artist Aurora, who announced her new album ‘The Gods We Can Touch’ today (October 14), had been scheduled to perform at both of the scrapped festivals.

Leigh-Anne Pinnock is no longer following Nicki Minaj.

MiHoYo has revealed the details for two brand new playable characters coming soon to Genshin Impact.Genshin Impact‘s developer took to Twitter today (October 11) to share a first look at the RPG’s latest, upcoming playable characters.First up is Arataki Itto, who has only been mentioned in the free-to-play game by various characters and NPCs until now. Itto is “the first and greatest head of the Arataki Gang” in the Inazuma region and will wield the Geo Vision.

Alex Rodriguez has joked about his split from Jennifer Lopez, teasing the reason why they broke up.MORE: Jennifer Lopez stuns in a bra on the beach in gorgeous photoThe former baseball player was covering the American League Series with broadcasters Kevin Burkhardt, David Ortiz, and Frank Thomas when they began joking about the Tampa Bay Rays players who were caught on camera eating popcorn in the dugout.WATCH: Alex Rodriguez teases real reason he and Jennifer Lopez splitHowever midway through

Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja has made a short film for the Legacy Of War Foundation’s new No More Wars campaign, which aims to highlight the costs of the 20 years of war that followed the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001.The first in a series of collaborations with photographer and Legacy Of War founder Giles Duley, Del Naja’s film – for which he has also composed new music – focusses on the stories of civilian casualties in Afghanistan and the work of the Italian NGO Emergency at

The trailer for Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is here!

Resident Evil franchise, Welcome To Raccoon City, has been released.The film will dive into the origins of Resident Evil, and will star former Skins actor Kaya Scodelario as the lead character.It will be an adaptation of the original two Resident Evil video games. A synopsis reads: “Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town.“The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface.