Nikkatsu Adds Restored Title ‘Hiruko the Goblin’ to Cannes Market Slate

While the internet IRL is drenched in morbidity and toxicity, Japanese filmmaker Mamoru Hosoda imagines a brighter semi-utopia in “Belle.” Five billion users have signed up to a virtual society called “U,” a vast chasm of lights and screens, and is populated by algorithmically generated avatars that supposedly bring out the person’s inner strengths.

Atlus director Naoto Hiraoka shared that there are existing plans to bring more Persona events overseas.Speaking in this week’s magazine issue of Famitsu, Hiraoka has expressed a desire to hold more overseas events for Persona fans across the world. As Persona Central writes, Hiraoka has stated:“We want to hold events for Persona to the largest possible extent we can.

While the internet IRL is drenched in morbidity and toxicity, Japanese filmmaker Mamoru Hosoda imagines a brighter semi-utopia in “Belle.” Five billion users have signed up to a virtual society called “U,” a vast chasm of lights and screens, and is populated by algorithmically generated avatars that supposedly bring out the person’s inner strengths.

Christopher Vourlias Maja Doroteja Prelog’s “Cent’anni” won this year’s Docs-in-Progress Award given out by the Cannes Film Market with the support of the Intl. Film Talent Assn.

EXCLUSIVE: Motion Picture Exchange (MPX) has sold North American distribution and NFT (non-fungible token) rights of Brian Baumgartner (The Office) music-comedy Electric Jesus to 1091 Pictures.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterWhile the Cannes Film Festival has served up punishing 80-plus degrees weather every day so far, that heat has yet to translate to the iconic festival’s film market.At the halfway point, Cannes 2021 has not seen the expected flurry of deals at the festival’s concurrent Marché du Film.

Since his 2008 debut film, Passion, Japanese director/writer Ryusuke Hamaguchi has been continuing to make an impact on the world cinema scene. His success at various festivals includes 2018, when he was first in competition in Cannes with Asako I & II, and earlier this year at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival, where his Wheel Of Fortune And Fantasy won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize.

EXCLUSIVE: FilmSharks, the Buenos Aires-based sales agency, is busy on the ground here in Cannes and has inked a series of significant deals on key titles from its slate.

Ann-Marie Corvin Water pollution, organ harvesting and the complex relationships between mothers and daughters were among the subjects to emerge from the Dominican Republic pitching sessions that took place live on Wednesday afternoon during the second day of Cannes’ Film Market.Nine feature projects were presented at the session, which was organized by the DR’s film commission, in a bid to attract sales agents, investors and co-producers.Among them was environmental thriller “Candy Town,”

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has swooped on world rights to horror film CURS>R out of the Cannes virtual market, we can reveal.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefHong Kong- and Paris-based sales agent All Rights Entertainment has picked up representation of upcoming animated film “Agavia and the Forgotten Kingdom,” depicting Mexican mythology, tradition and heritage.The film is being produced by Guadalajara-based Metacube Entertainment, which previously produced “Salma’s Big Wish” (aka “Dia de Muertos”).

EXCLUSIVE: Los Angeles-based Dark Star Pictures has acquired North American distribution rights to Freeland, Mario Furloni and Kate McLeana’s feature debut which recently premiered at SXSW.

Belle” by the Japanese director Hosoda Mamoru will join the Cannes Film Festival lineup.The festival said Sunday that “Belle” will have its world premiere in the Cannes Premiere section and play on Thursday July 15.” ‘Belle’ is the film that I’ve always dreamt to create and that I can make today thanks to the culmination of my previous films,” said Hosoda. “In this one, I explore romance, action, and suspense as well as deeper themes such as life and death.

Ahead of raising the curtain on its 74th edition on Tuesday (July 6), Cannes has made a late addition to its program in the form of Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda’s feature animation Belle.

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran UK sales agent Anthony Buckner, former Head of Sales at Icon, is launching Buckstop Films to coincide with the Cannes Marché.

Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata has revealed that his new studio JP Games, has two projects in development.In an interview with Japanese gaming magazine Weekly Famitsu, Tabata said, “both are large-scale titles” (from a translation by Gematsu).The first title has reportedly finished pre-production and is described as a high-speed RPG that is experimental and an evolution of Final Fantasy Type-0, an RPG that Tabata directed in 2011.Tabata has said that the game’s origin is rooted in the

Antonia Campbell-Hughes thriller gets sales deal

EXCLUSIVE: Miramax has acquired worldwide rights to The Holdovers, the Alexander Payne-directed film that reteams him with Sideways star Paul Giamatti. David Hemingson wrote the script, Mark Johnson is producing, and the film is now greenlighted for a January start date in New England.

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