Toei Animation to Open Ring of International Outposts, Expand Overseas Production

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Auto-bio Pamphlet,” a Marathi-language film that is both a love story and a rage against class divisions, will open the 18th edition of the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival later this month. The festival will close with the world premiere of spy thriller “13 Bombs in Jakarta.” JAFF run Nov.

Manchester United must focus solely on the Premier League today as they prepare for the visit of Luton Town to Old Trafford.

Manchester United have a mountain to climb in their pursuit for Champions League progression this season.

Manchester United suffered heartbreak at Parken Stadium on Wednesday night as they were beaten 4-3 by FC Copenhagen.

Bruno Fernandes admits the mood in the Manchester United dressing room 'is not the best' after their 'disappointing' defeat to Copenhagen on Wednesday night. United sit at the bottom of Group A with just three points from four matches after they twice let a lead slip to lose 4-3 in Denmark.

Erik ten Hag is adamant fortune will eventually turn in Manchester United's favour, despite a ninth defeat of the season.

Marcus Rashford has been sent off in Manchester United's Champions League clash with FC Copenhagen.

Manchester United may be sweating over the fitness of centre-back Jonny Evans ahead of Saturday's Premier League clash with Luton Town at Old Trafford.

Erik ten Hag has made minimal changes to Manchester United's starting team against Copenhagen because he wants to have a consistent side and reward players for their performances at the weekend.

Erik ten Hag has named his starting line-up for Manchester United's Champions League group stage clash with FC Copenhagen at Parken Stadium this evening.

With the pressure easing slightly for Erik ten Hag at the weekend, the attention now turns to their next issue in the Champions League as they make the trip to Denmark to face Copenhagen. The Red Devils picked up their first win in the reverse fixture but still find themselves in third-place behind Galatasaray who face Group A leaders Bayern Munich.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Unscripted queer reality dating series “Boys Like Boys” is to air on Warner Bros. Discovery’s TLC channel in Taiwan in early 2024, making it the first local LGBTQ+ dating reality show to air on linear TV in the territory. The show is an original production by GagaOOLala, Asia’s out and proud LGBTQ+ streaming service, which is pitching an expanded array of queer content at the Taiwan Creative Contents Fest (TCCF) that launches Tuesday in Taipei. “Boys Like Boys” had its premiere at the Kaohsiung International Film Festival and is now available worldwide on GagaOOLala and WeTV in the Philippines and Thailand, where the ‘Boys Love’ genre has become highly popular.

FC Copenhagen stars Elias Achouri and Kevin Diks have each given a scathing review of Manchester United after their first encounter and fancy their chances in the reverse fixture.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent MK2 Films has boarded Bernhard Wenger’s feature debut, “Peacock,” a tragicomedy headlined by Albrecht Schuch, the German actor who starred in “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “System Crasher.” An up-and-coming Austrian director, Wenger developed the script at the Cannes Film Festival’s Cinefondation residency and was part of Berlinale Talents in 2020. His shorts, including “Keeping Balance,” “Guy Proposes to His Girlfriend on a Mountain” and “Excuse Me, I’m Looking for the Ping-Pong Room and My Girlfriend,” have played at festivals in Chicago, Palm Springs and Nashville, among others.

Saturday Night Live featured another Joe Biden in its cold open tonight, this time with Mikey Day portraying the POTUS in an offbeat Halloween-themed skit that featured a cameo by Christopher Walken.

Alfred Johansson is in charge of F.C. Copenhagen's Under-19s and he talked to this correspondent for an interview last month.

Manchester United earned a huge win in their Champions League campaign on Tuesday thanks to Harry Maguire and Andre Onana.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief A TIFFCOM seminar on Thursday demonstrated both a sense of incredulity that Japanese animation “Suzume” could have enjoyed such wide international success and conveyed the depth of passionate behind-the-scenes strategizing that made it happen. Since its release in Japan at the end of 2022 and international expansion in spring of 2023, following a Berlin festival competition slot, “Suzume,” a fantasy drama about a girl who helps avert natural disasters, sold more than 47 million tickets worldwide. “And most of those people don’t even speak Japanese,” said the session’s moderator Sudo Tadashi, journalist and professor at the Japan University of Economics. Sunami Kazuki, MD of producer CoMix Wave Films and the Takeda Akihiro, an executive attached to the president’s office at the film’s worldwide distributor Toho, said that “Suzumi’s” success was not a foregone conclusion. Its success was years in the making and based on the growing performance of director Makoto Shinkai’s previous movies as well as growing international understanding of the Japanese anime genre. At the beginning of their collaboration, Shinkai and CoMix had little expectation that Shinkai’s works could appeal to non-Japanese distributors and audiences. But, within Asia at least, fans are tuned in to certain kinds of content from other countries. “We also owe this success to the cumulative impact of Studio Ghibli and ‘Demon Slayer 2’,” said Sunami. Shinkai’s 2013 film “The Garden of Words” was initially a Japan-only theatrical release, but it registered in China after Japanese box office success.

Rasmus Hojlund has told people not to compare him to Erling Haaland ahead of a Scandanivan striker head-to-head at Old Trafford this weekend, but the confident Dane is ready to make a big impression on English football.

Naman Ramachandran New Philippines anime franchise “Solemn Vow” has set several partnerships across the Southeast Asian region. Conceptualized as an anime series with a strategy for spinoffs into manga, games, music and merchandise, the franchise, created by Lawrence Panganiban, has formed partnerships with Philippines-based Enigma Kai and media startup Fire and Ice, and Singapore-based companies Anito Studios and Silver Media, in collaboration with Japanese animation giant Toei Animation Philippines, which will handle production.