The Match Factory Boards Murakami Adaptation ‘Drive My Car’, The Next Film From Cannes & Berlin Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi

BERLIN -- Germany is opening a museum exploring the fate of millions of Germans forced to leave eastern and central Europe at the end of World War II, along with other forced displacements of the 20th and 21st centuries — a sensitive project that has taken years to realize.Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to speak to an opening ceremony Monday for the Documentation Center for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation, more than 13 years after her government gave the plan the go-ahead.

Ben Croll Speaking before a rapt audience at the Annecy Film Festival on Friday, director Pierre Földes, producers Tanguy Olivier and Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, and artists from France’s Miyu Productions premiered work in progress footage from Földes’ “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman,” a 2D animated adaptation of a handful of Haruki Murakami stories that looks to translate the Japanese author’s idiosyncratic style as no feature has to date.Murakami’s is a world of sex, surrealism and cigarettes, a

BERLIN -- German police appealed Friday for information about the possible owners of two 17th-century paintings discovered in a highway rest stop dumpster.Police said a 64-year-old man found the oil paintings at the rest stop near Ohrenbach in central Germany last month.He later handed them in to police in the western city of Cologne.An initial assessment by an art expert concluded the two framed paintings were originals, police said.One is a self-portrait by Pietro Belloti showing the Italian

BERLIN -- American filmmaker Laura Poitras, known for her award-winning 2014 documentary on former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden and his revelations about the National Security Agency, has once again turned her camera on the watchmen.In an exhibition opening Friday in Berlin, Poitras examines the way the state monitors citizens' lives — both abroad and at home, in New York City.While her early work on the war in Iraq and the U.S.

EA Dice‘s Battlefield 2042 Game Designer Daniel Berlin talks about how extreme weather affects the game’s combat.Daniel Berlin joined the Xbox Games Showcase Extended to talk about how the weather effects added to 2042 will affect matches.Using the new map Hourglass as an example, Berlin discussed how the sandstorm is a massive map-wide wall of sand that sweeps from one side of the map to the other.

EA Dice‘s Battlefield 2042 Game Designer Daniel Berlin joined the Xbox Games Showcase Extended to talk about the upcoming game’s modes.The game will feature three main experiences, with all-out war being discussed during the event. This mode combines two game modes, Conquest and Breakthrough.Conquest is a classic mode of the Battlefield franchise and sees two teams fight over points in a completely open and unrestricted map.

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Matthew Modine, Embeth Davidtz and Arian Moayed have boarded the Studiocanal Liam Neeson thriller Retribution in key roles.

Using Leonard Bernstein’s own voice, collected from his myriad interviews throughout his life, as well as personal letters, many of which were published in the 2013 book “The Leonard Bernstein Letters,” Douglas Tirola’s “Bernstein’s Wall” works as both a broad overview of the famous conductor’s life, as well as a deep dive into his political activism.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefKamiya Naoki has been named as new director of programming at Tokyo Filmex, a Tokyo-based festival with a strong focus on Japanese and Asian independent cinema. This year’s Filmex will run Oct.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefFree Stone Productions, one of Japan’s leading indie film sales firms, is poised to bring a big slate to Cannes. It has added three new titles and a catalog.

press release. The company has been in talks since 2016 about “the possibility of building a gallery as a way to share Nintendo’s product development history and philosophy with the public,” the statement continues.

Gkids has acquired North American distribution rights to Belle, the latest animated film from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mamoru Hosoda and Japan’s Studio Chizu. A winter theatrical release is in the works for the pic, which represents a re-team of the distributor, Hosoda and Studio Chizo after 2018’s Mirai, which scored an Oscar nomination.

Naman Ramachandran French filmmaker Arthur Harari’s “Onoda – 10 000 Nights In The Jungle” will open the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes’ Official Selection. The film tells the story of soldier Hiroo Onoda who was sent to an island in the Philippines in 1944 to fight against the American forces.

Amy Robach looks far younger than her years, and it's now easy to see why!SEE: Inside GMA stars incredible homes - Amy Robach, Robin Roberts and moreThe Good Morning America star caused quite the stir on social media over the weekend after sharing a photo of herself and husband Andrew Shue posing with her dad while training for the upcoming Berlin Marathon.In the caption, Amy wrote: "Got my game face on and then smiles all around.

Naman Ramachandran Pan Nalin’s “The Last Film Show,” (aka “Chhello Show”) which opens Tribeca’s Spotlight section on June 10, has attracted buyers around the world, ahead of its world premiere.Neue Visionen has acquired the film for Germany, Karma Films for Spain, Shochiku for Japan, Red Cape and Nachson for Israel and Nos Lusomundo for Portugal.Nalin is known for his eclectic, and visually striking, body of work including “Samsara,” “Valley of Flowers” and “Angry Indian Goddesses.”The partly

The New Yorker, in which she wrote about crying inside her local Korean grocery store after her mother passed away from terminal cancer. The book found Zauner reckoning with her relationship with her mother as well as time spent in Seoul with her grandmother.

Crying in H Mart, the memoir by musician and writer Michelle Zauner (aka Japanese Breakfast) is set to be adapted into a feature film.MGM’s Orion Pictures have acquired rights for the film adaptation of Zauner’s book, which was released earlier this year.

Crying In H Mart, the bestselling memoir by Michelle Zauner a.k.a. Japanese Breakfast, is being adapted into a film by MGM's Orion Pictures.