‘Spirited Away’: Hayao Miyazaki’s Classic Animated Oscar Winner To Be Adapted For The Stage

Oscar nomination on Monday for her role in “Hillbilly Elegy” — just days after the Razzies named the same performance one of the year’s worst.This is only the third time an actor has been nominated for both an Oscar and a Razzie for the same role.

Glenn Close on Monday received an Academy Award nomination for her work inHillbilly Elegy. She alsoreceived a Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Award nomination for the same role.

Glenn Close has received an Oscar nomination for Hillbilly Elegy days after receiving a Razzie nod for the same performance. The Golden Raspberry awards, known colloquially as the Razzies, celebrate the worst film performances of the year, and serve as the spiritual opposite to the Oscars.

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Starting a serious art-house movie with an amateur porn video might seem bold, but for Radu Jude's Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn it was a winning move. The jury of the 71st Berlinale picked the Romanian drama, in which a schoolteacher is caught up in a scandal after a homemade sex tape with her husband (that video we see at the top) gets posted online, for this year's Golden Bear as the best film of the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival.

Elon Musk is sharing a rare picture of his family. The Tesla CEO took to Twitter Monday to share a photo of his girlfriend, Grimes, and their son, X Æ A-XII, while on a trip to Texas.

Petite Maman, Céline Sciamma's follow-up to her 2019 international breakthrough Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a more intimate affair. The acclaimed French filmmaker has switched the erotic charge and sexual politics of her 18th century period drama for a more personal story of love and loss in a tale of an eight-year-old girl trying to connect with her mother.

Baby’s first beach day! Katy Perry looked completely in her element as she cradled her precious six-month-old daughter, Daisy Dove, during a trip to a beach in Hawaii on Wednesday, March 3. The “Firework” singer, 36, was spotted wearing a strapless purple one-piece by Eres while holding her infant daughter, who sported a tropical patterned, long sleeve swim shirt, pink bottoms over her diaper, and a little pink sun hat! You can see the pictures here.

Christopher Vourlias Oscar-winning director Danis Tanovic (“No Man’s Land”) has boarded the high-end comedy-drama series “Frust,” which is currently being developed by Serbia’s Firefly Prods. and Hungary’s Joyrider.The six-episode series follows a young writer struggling for recognition.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentItalian actor Toni Servillo (“The Great Beauty”) is set to star in “Il ritorno di Casanova,” a drama about what happens to a great lover when he gets older, to be directed by Oscar-winner Gabriele Salvatores (“Mediterraneo”).Loosely based on Austrian author Arthur Schnitzler‘s novella “Casanova’s Homecoming,” in which the Venetian libertine is having trouble contending with the fact that he’s over 60, “Ritorno di Casanova,” which translates as

Studio Ghibli‘s Spirited Away is being turned into a stage play that will debut in 2022.Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning film will be adapted by Toho Co. Ltd and Les Misérables theatre director John Caird, according to Indie Wire.Set to premiere in Tokyo in February next year, it will be followed by a tour through Japan visiting the cities Osaka, Fukuoka, Sapporo, and Nagoya.The play has so far cast two actors as heroine Chihiro, Kanna Hashimoto and Mone Kamishiraishi.

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The enchanting world of Japanese anime legend Hayao Miyazaki is heading to the stage. The director's beloved 2001 Oscar-winning classic Spirited Awaywill be adapted into a stage play for the first time, with a premiere date set for February 2022 in Tokyo.

Also Read: Netflix Picks Up International Streaming Rights to 21 Studio Ghibli FilmsArguably the best film of animation master Hayao Miyazaki, “Spirited Away” has also been hailed as among the best films of any genre.