Tokyo Festival Prize Awarded to ‘Hold Me Back’

Blu-ray debutsThis year saw the first release of several Christmas favorites on Blu-ray, from Paul Feig’s 2019 sleeper hit “Last Christmas” (Universal Home Entertainment) to the first North American hi-def releases of the moving and funny anime classic “Tokyo Godfathers” (GKIDS/Shout Factory), a contemporary adaptation of the Christmas-set Western tale “3 Godfathers,” and the all-star WWII drama “A Midnight Clear” (Shout Selects).

NEW YORK -- Charles Yu's satirical, cinematic novel “Interior Chinatown” has won the National Book Award for fiction.Tamara Payne and her father the late Les Payne's Malcolm X biography, “The Dead Are Arising,” was cited for nonfiction and Kacen Callender's “King and the Dragonflies” for young people's literature.

Although she’s not chasing Olympic gold in Tokyo as planned, Alex Morgan is making moves on the soccer field in London. The U.S. Women’s National Team forward signed a one-year deal with Tottenham Hotspur in September — less than six months after she gave birth to her first child, Charlie Elena Carrascoin May. Alex officially returned to competition on Saturday, November 7, for the first time in over a year. 

Katy Perry, BTS, and Pink are among the stars lending their voices to Disney’s Holiday Singalong.New mom Katy will deliver a rendition of the classic I’ll Be Home for Christmas along with her original holiday tune, Cozy Little Christmas, during the event on November 30th.She’s the only star on the line-up to perform their own original composition, with K-pop sensations BTS covering Santa Claus Is Coming To Town and Pink belting out The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire).Also

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent“Ane Is Missing,” the feature debut of Spain’s David Pérez Sanudo, begins with a fixed shot of a woman security guard sitting in a hut on a construction site. For a full 45 seconds absolutely nothing happens until a firebomb suddenly flares outside the hut.

The home renovation genre is getting festive.

The "Con Queen of Hollywood" is getting the book treatment. HarperCollins has secured the rights forThe Con Queen of Hollywood: The Epic Hunt for the Impersonator Who Stole Identities, Money, and Desires from Hollywood Royalty and Dreamers Alike,written by former Hollywood Reporter staffer Scott Johnson and based on his July 2018 investigative feature cover story.(The story also included never-before-heard audio footage of the Con Queen in action).

The Tokyo International Film Festival handed out its audience award Monday to Japanese director Akiko Ohku's for her latest featureHold Me Back, a socially astute comedy about the romantic struggles of a Japanese woman entering her early thirties. The audience award is the only prize the Tokyo festival is presenting this year, after the international jury competition had to be scrapped in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here back in 2004.Then going by her glamour model moniker of Jordan, Price has admitted she was “fixated” with singer Andre after they met in the Australian jungle.The series was eventually won by Kerry Katona, but the series will be best remembered for sparking Price and Andre’s romance - which led to a lavish wedding and two children before they split in 2009.Talking about the relationship on I’m A Celebrity – a Jungle Story on Sunday (8 November), Price told

Leo Barraclough Senior International Correspondent“The Bike Thief,” “Hello Again – a Wedding a Day” and “Karnawal” are among the hottest titles on Beta Cinema’s sales slate for the virtual version of the American Film Market, which starts Monday.The Munich-based sales company will give Matt Chambers’ “The Bike Thief” its market premiere at AFM, following its world premiere this week in competition at the Tokyo Film Festival.