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‘Between Us’ Review: Estranged Teenagers Process Past Tragedy Through High School Theater in Fitfully Ambitious Japanese Drama

The lingering trauma shared by two middle-class families, once friendly but now estranged following a tragic camping incident, is finally addressed through the unlikely prism of a high-school drama club production in “Between Us,” Shingo Matsumura’s well-intentioned, yet only fitfully successful, exploration of unprocessed grief. The writer-director’s fourth

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‘Ninja Warrior’ Maker TBS Tells Tokyo Market How Legendary, CJ ENM Alliances Fit Its Push to Make J-Content the Next K-Drama

A Thursday morning session at TIFFCOM, the content market of the Tokyo International Film Festival, highlighted the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) Group’s initiatives to find global footholds for Japanese content and “inspiring global love for Japan.” Watanabe Shinya, president of the global business division at TBS Holdings, and Setoguchi Katsuaki, executi

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Dramatische kwartaalcijfers voor Volkswagen: miljarden in het rood

De problemen bij Volkswagen zijn nog lang niet opgelost. De Duitse autofabrikant heeft het afgelopen kwartaal maar liefst 5,8 miljard euro verlies gedraaid, blijkt uit de nieuwste cijfers. In dezelfde periode vorig jaar werden ook rode cijfers geschreven - bijna 1,1 miljard euro. De omzet daalde daarnaast met 6,3 procent naar zo'n 75,3 miljard euro. De slech

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‘Merry Berry Love’ Producers Nippon TV & CJ ENM Talk Korea-Japan Collaboration To Boost J-Drama – TIFFCOM

Japanese broadcaster Nippon TV and Korean studio CJ ENM described how they’re combining the strengths of their respective industries to create drama series that can appeal to global audiences, during a TIFFCOM presentation. The two broadcast giants worked together on ten-part series Merry Berry Love, which started streaming worldwide on Disney+ on October 7.

Entertainment🇺🇸 US
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Amazon Developing Alesia Dangerfield Drama Series ‘Whiskey Matriarch’ Starring Taraji P. Henson

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is developing Whiskey Matriarch, a drama series starring and executive produced by Academy Award nominee Taraji P. Henson, sources tell Deadline. Reps for Amazon declined comment, and plot details are being kept under wraps. The series sold to Amazon competitively after being set up at Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Gr

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Renée Zellweger, Dominic Sessa & Peter Dinklage Set For Sacha Gervasi’s High Concept Comedy Drama ‘Darlington’ – AFM

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar winner Renée Zellweger will play a faded TV actress who gets a shot at redemption in the real world in Sacha Gervasi-directed high concept comedy drama, Darlington, which will be kicking off foreign sales at AFM. A spring production next year in the UK is in the works. The Rocket Science, Monumental […]

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Eric Roberts, Merrick Hanna & Neela Jolene Starring In Vertical Drama ‘It’s My Party And I’ll Die If I Want To’

Oscar-nominated star Eric Roberts is leading the first vertical drama to be revealed from Alon Shtruzman and Scott Einbinder’s nascent Hollywood outfit New Short Media. Created by Gev Miron and Charlie Parker, It’s My Party and I’ll Die If I Want To will be released as both an episodic vertical series and feature film intended […]

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Sphere Media & Paul Barbeau Team Up To Bring TV Drama To Quebec

EXCLUSIVE: Bruno Dubé’s Sphere Media and Canadian producer Paul Barbeau have joined forces to bring international TV drama series to Quebec. Sphere’s recent drama credits include Cardinal and Netflix’s Mae Martin-starrer Wayward and it also part-owns Heated Rivalry distributor Sphere Abacus. It will work with Barbeau, through his Fairmount Films banner, to i

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Kristen Brancaccio To Direct Microdrama & Feature Adaptations Of Claren Hammond’s Short Story ‘Summer Session’

EXCLUSIVE: Clarence Hammond’s romantic short story Summer Session is in development as a microdrama and a feature film. Microdrama veteran Kristen Brancaccio will direct both versions, and will develop the story in vertical format, with Hammond adapting the script for the feature. Plot details are under wraps for the moment. Hammond will produce alongside An

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‘One Cut of the Dead’ Director Ueda Shinichiro on Turning a Microdrama Into Tokyo Feature ‘Earthlings in Love’

Director Ueda Shinichiro made a name for himself with filmmaking that has embraced self-reflexivity: the beloved cult zombie film “One Cut of the Dead” was continually transforming, from a single-take horror-comedy into a meditation on the act of filmmaking and then the chaos of actually being on set. His new feature “Earthlings in Love,” showing […]

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Japanese-Brazilian Grief Drama ‘Yellow Chrysanthemum,’ Set During the 2014 Soccer World Cup, Joins Tokyo Gap-Financing Market

A Japanese-Brazilian teenager forced to face a family loss nobody will talk about is at the heart of “Yellow Chrysanthemum,” the first feature from Japanese-Brazilian director André Hayato Saito, which is among the projects at this year’s Tokyo Gap-Financing Market. The film is set in São Paulo in July 2014, while Brazil is staging the […]

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'Eretz Nehederet' tackles Israel's election-night drama with Gal Gadot, political satire

<img align='right' src='https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_883,w_1400/736808' alt='A superhero in every field. Gal Gadot. (photo credit: GettyImages, KEVIN WINTER)' title='A superhero in every field. Gal Gadot. (photo credit: GettyImages, KEVIN WINTER)' /><br />Eretz Nehederet’s quick-thinking writers tried t

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Ancestral Memory Meets AI in Himalayan Drama ‘Shirjara: Song of Grandmother’ at Tokyo Gap-Financing Market

A Himalayan drama that sets a grandmother’s stories against the rise of artificial intelligence is aiming for a Cannes premiere next year. Director Bikash Subedi’s Nepali feature “Shirjara: Song of Grandmother” has wrapped principal photography and is at the Tokyo Gap-Financing Market to raise its last $44,000. Described as a speculative drama, the film move

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Billy Bob Thornton To Host Mayflower Docudrama For Fox Nation

Billy Bob Thornton is the latest star to team up with Fox Nation. The Landman actor is hosting a three-part docudrama about the Mayflower for the streamer. Billy Bob Thornton Presents: The Mayflower will reveal the “complex” history of the Mayflower voyage, the First Thanksgiving and the events that forever shaped the nation, per the […]

Culture🇺🇸 US
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Fox and Endemol Shine Team to Adapt ‘Fear Factor’ as a Scripted Microdrama Series for My Drama App

The market for vertical media content is expanding at a fast clip and it’s attracting more and more high-profile properties, including the enduring gross-out reality show “Fear Factor.” Fox and “Fear Factor” owner Endemol Shine North America are teaming to adapt the show for vertical media consumption as a scripted series, which adds a dollop […]

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‘Fear Factor’ Vertical Scripted Spinoff Set To Launch On Holywater Tech’s My Drama From Fox & Endemol Shine North America

Fear Factor: House Of Fear is making the first-ever leap from an established unscripted television franchise to an original scripted series. The as-yet untitled Fear Factor vertical spinoff, from Fox Entertainment Studios and Endemol Shine North America, a Banijay America company, will debut on Holywater Tech’s My Drama platform. Date TBA. The series, which

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Chloë Levine To Star In SM Goldberger’s Semi-Autobiographical Adult Film Star Drama ‘Your Heart Is A Hummingbird’

EXCLUSIVE: Chloë Levine, an actress known for her work on shows like Netflix’s The OA and Trinkets, is set to star in Your Heart is a Hummingbird, a semi-autobiographical indie drama written and directed by former adult film actress SM Goldberger. In Your Heart is a Hummingbird, Levine plays successful adult film star Rebekah Rosenberg […]

Politics🇺🇸 US
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‘Until the Day Ends’ Review: Two People Connect Across a Political Divide in a Striking Serbian Youth Drama

Amid the turmoil of mass student protests in the streets of Belgrade, two young people are bonded by a rash act of rebellion, despite their outwardly incompatible ideologies. The premise of Serbian writer-director Jelena Maksimović’s “Until the Day Ends” portends a tidy political parable — a sort of “why can’t we all get along” homily […]

Entertainment🇺🇸 US
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Vantage Media Takes North American Rights To Pole-Dancing Drama ‘Exotic’ As Trailer Unveiled

EXCLUSIVE: Vantage Media has acquired North American rights to Polish feature Exotic, about a woman’s journey toward self-discovery through pole dancing, ahead of its premiere at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. The picture follows a writer whose quest to master pole dancing evolves into something far more profound when the process and community of […

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Casting Round-Up: Arthur McAlpine III To Recur On Starz Black Rodeo Drama; Gillian Nation Joins ‘Baywatch’ & Desmin Borges Cast In ‘Rose Hill’

Arthur McAlpine III (Watson, War Dawgz) has a recurring role in the upcoming Black Rodeo drama series from Starz. The eight-episode family drama comes from Demascus showrunner Kirk A. Moore, who serves as showrunner and executive producer; Breaking Bad executive producer Mark Johnson; and Counterpart Studios. The as-yet-untitled series will be infused with h

Culture🇺🇸 US
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Ecuadorian Queer Drama ‘Princess’ Swooped On by MMM Film Sales Ahead of Tallinn

Paris-based MMM Film Sales has acquired international rights to Ecuadorian filmmaker Christian Rojas’ debut feature “Princess” (“Ñusta”) ahead of its world premiere at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF). “Princess,” which screens in the fest’s First Feature Competition, follows Kallpa, a 12-year-old Indigenous girl from the Andes as she prepares f

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