TOKYO – Makoto Shinkai's animation "Your Name" topped the chart for the fifth successive weekend at the Japanese box office, while advancing past the JPY10 billion ($99.5 million) mark. For the…
Daisy Ridley and Elizabeth Debicki have joined the cast of Sony’s live-action/animated hybrid “Peter Rabbit,” starring Rose Byrne and James Corden. The film will be directed by Will Gluck from…
LONDON — Prior to making "Off The Rails," Adam Irving's previous foray into the world of documentary film-making had been a student short about competitive Ivy League university ballroom dancing. His…
ROME — Italy has selected Gianfranco Rosi’s refugee-crisis-themed documentary, “Fire at Sea,” as its candidate for the foreign-language Oscar. The timely pic set on the tiny Sicilian island of…
LONDON — The Raindance Film Festival's ecology and film panel – What Does Green Cinema Mean? – took an unexpected turn when the Guadalajara Festival's Ivan Trujillo, due to host, was unable to attend…
Amazon India has signed a licensing deal with Karan Johar's studio Dharma Productions to make supply future and library titles to the soon to be launched India branch of its Prime Video streaming…
SAN SEBASTIAN — Building Chile's growing pantheon of eye-catching young women directors, already one of the strongest of any national cinema in Latin America, Chile's Jirafa Films ("The Blind…
SAN SEBASTIAN — Loic Magneron's Paris-based Wide Management has acquired world sales rights to "Pretenders," which world premiered at San Sebastian, as Wide cuts more sales on Locarno hit "Glory" and…
UniFrance Film International, the French film industry’s promotion body, is to open a new office in Seoul, South Korea. The Seoul outpost is the organization’s third in Asia — after Tokyo, Japan and…
The Tokyo International Film Festival unveiled six world premieres in the competition section of its upcoming 29th edition. Among the six in the 16-film competition section are Chris Kraus's…
Kim Jee-woon’s foreign-language Oscars contender, "The Age of Shadows," remained on top of the Korean box office for the third consecutive weekend. It suffered a steep decline of 78% following the…
