Tokyo Film Festival's Audience Award Goes to Akiko Ohku's 'Hold Me Back'

Dave McNary Film ReporterHanWay Films has closed multiple international sales for Phillip Noyce’s “Peggy Jo,” with Lily James attached to star as Peggy Jo Tallas, who robbed Texas banks in the early 1990s while posing as a man.A deal with Universal Pictures Content Group includes Benelux, German speaking Europe, Italy, Portugal, Scandinavia, and the UK.

Lady Gaga may be joining the star-studded cast of David Leitch’s upcoming assassin thriller film, Bullet Train.As reported by Collider, the Oscar-winning singer and actress has apparently joined Brad Pitt, Zazie Beetz, Brian Tyree Henry, Joey King, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Andrew Koji, Masi Oka and Michael Shannon for the film.The script, written by Zak Olkewicz, is based off Japanese author Kotaro Isaka’s novel, Maria Beetle.

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.

Kotaku explained that “Unkore” is a portmanteau for unko, meaning “poop,” and kore, or “collection.”Developed as part of a public-health campaign in Japan, where colorectal cancer is on the rise, the free game is set in the fictional kingdom of Untopia, which players must defend with the help of anthropomorphic intestinal bacteria.The cheeky app also encourages users to log details of their own bowel movements, such as color, shape and frequency — with the hope they receive a clean bill of

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentCharades, the Paris-based sales company behind the Oscar-nominated “Mirai” and “I Lost My Body,” has locked a raft of deals on “Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds,” a 3D animated feature inspired by Alexandre Dumas’ 19th-century classic D’Artagnan novels.Budgeted in the region of $10 million, the family-skewing film is a reboot of the popular 1980s Japanese TV series “Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds,” which aired in more than 100 countries and on

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. 

Henry Golding isn’t shying away from the difficult conversation surrounding his new role.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.THE Suzuki Ignis has bags of character and it’s one of those cars that puts a smile on your face.But beneath the surface of the Japanese marque’s compact crossover lies a serious bit of kit in the shape of an all-wheel-drive, mild-hybrid powertrain.It is offered with the top-spec SZ5 ALLGRIP, featuring a five-speed manual transmission, that I had on test, which is keenly priced from £17,749 on the road.And

Chinese director Ning Hao will head the competition jury at the upcoming digital International Film Festival & Awards Macao (IFFAM), with thefestival also set to honor Japanese auteur Hirozaku Kore-eda with their 'Spirit of Cinema' award. The fifth edition of the event, which will take place Dec.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterThe International Film Festival & Awards Macao has unveiled its program and jury ahead of its 5th edition taking place digitally December 3 – 8.Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda will receive the festival’s ‘Spirit of Cinema’ award at a virtual awards ceremony taking place online December 8.

Dave McNary Film ReporterWith the COVID-19 pandemic persisting, the American Film Market is launching its 41st edition Monday — and its first as an online-only event — with a record 562 exhibitors registered from 48 countries.The United States leads the way with 259 companies followed by Italy (59), the United Kingdom (46), Russia (25), Germany (20), France (19), Canada (17), South Korea (14), Japan (12), and Thailand (11).AFM, usually held at beachside hotels in Santa Monica, Calif., is

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefJapanese comedy-drama “Hold Me Back” was Monday announced as the winner of the Tokyo International Film Festival. Azerbaijan drama, “In Between Dying” was named winner of the Tokyo Filmex Festival, which this year cooperated and overlapped with TIFF.Among the changes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, TIFF festival this year ditched its regular prizes decided by a jury.

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.