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Crunchyroll Anime Awards: ‘Jujutsu Kaisen’ Takes Top Honors; Megan Thee Stallion, Bong Joon-ho Among Presenters
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 was the big winner at Crunchyroll’s Anime Awards in Tokyo over the weekend, taking the top-prize anime of the year honor and triumphing in 10 additional categories, including best director, best character design, best action and best cinematography. The best film prize went to Mokoto Shinkai’s anime blockbuster Suzume, while Demon […]
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Netflix Unveils 2024 India Content Slate of 8 Films, 14 Series
Netflix unveiled its 2024 content slate targeting India’s expanding streaming market at a talent-packed gala event Tuesday in Mumbai. The company’s latest India lineup is notably diverse, spanning an array of genres across eight feature films and 14 series, but it’s also a slight step down in terms of volume compared to recent years (Netflix […]
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Disney+ Sets Release Date for Hitman Anime Series ‘The Fable’
Disney+ has revealed the release date for the next title on its growing slate of Japanese anime. The hitman series The Fable, based on the best-selling manga of the same name, will launch worldwide on the streaming service on April 7. The show is the latest anime title released via Disney’s partnership with Japanese publishing […]
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Japanese Producer of Anime Hits ‘Suzume,’ ‘Your Name’ Arrested on Child Pornography Charges
A producer involved in some of Japan’s highest-grossing anime blockbusters was arrested in Tokyo this week on suspicion of creating child pornography. Koichiro Ito, 52, stands accused of coercing a 15-year-old girl he met over social media into sending him nude selfies in September 2021, Japan’s Mainichi Shimbun newspaper reported Thursday. According to another report from […]
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Disney’s Top Asia Exec on Bob Iger’s Streaming Pivot and the “Gold Rush” for Korean Content
During the short period that Disney+ has been active across the major markets of the Asia-Pacific region — just a little over two years in most countries — the Walt Disney Co. has gone through a period of uncharacteristic turmoil. A CEO shakeup, a secular reassessment of the streaming business, cost-cutting, shaky box-office results, speculation over […]
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BTS’ J-Hope Documentary ‘Hope on the Street’ to Release on Amazon Prime Video
Hope on the Street, a docuseries featuring J-Hope of K-pop supergroup BTS, has landed exclusively at Prime Video. Produced by BTS’ label HYBE, the six-part series will premiere on the Amazon service worldwide March 28, with new episodes released every Thursday and Friday. Prime Video describes Hope on the Street as profiling J-Hope’s origin story […]
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Disney+ Unveils Expanded Korean Originals Slate for 2024
Disney+ is steadily boosting its output of high-end Korean drama. The streaming service on Monday revealed a growing slate of star-driven Korean originals for 2024, building on the momentum achieved last year with the critical and commercial popularity of hit shows like Moving and Big Bet. Newly announced titles joining the company’s Korean slate include […]
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Studio Ghibli Inks Deal With China’s Alibaba Pictures to Create Immersive Hayao Miyazaki Exhibition (Exclusive)
Hayao Miyazaki’s acclaimed Studio Ghibli is teaming up with Chinese entertainment company Alibaba Pictures to collaborate on new anime experiences and business initiatives in the greater China market. The two companies signed a strategic agreement to partner on potential animation productions and a major Studio Ghibli immersive exhibition that will launch in China in 2024. […]
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Turner Classic Movies Acquires ‘The Ozu Diaries’ Documentary (Exclusive)
Turner Classic Movies has picked up the exclusive North American television rights to the forthcoming documentary The Ozu Diaries, from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim. An intimate exploration of the life and legacy of Japanese cinematic master Yasujiro Ozu, the film will premiere on the festival circuit this year, followed by a theatrical release in 2025. […]
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It’s Official: Sony Scraps $10B Zee Entertainment Merger in India
More than two years after announcing a bold $10 billion merger of its TV and streaming businesses in India with local giant Zee Entertainment, Sony Group said Monday that it is officially abandoning the deal. “After more than two years of negotiations, we are extremely disappointed that closing conditions to the merger were not satisfied […]
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The Making of ‘American Fiction’: “Tragedy and Comedy at the Same Time, and Often the Same Day”
In late 2020, Cord Jefferson, a journalist turned TV writer, was in a state of creative dismay. He had just gone through a crushing professional disappointment: A big-budget series project he had spent months writing and developing for Apple TV — Scraper, based on his first career, as a writer and editor at Gawker Media — […]
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Bong Joon Ho, Korean Filmmakers Call for Investigation Into Circumstances Surrounding Death of ‘Parasite’ Star Lee Sun-kyun
Prominent Korean filmmakers and arts organizers will hold a media event in Seoul on Friday calling for an investigation by authorities into the circumstances that led to the passing of Parasite star Lee Sun-kyun, who died last month at age 48 of an apparent suicide. Before his death, Lee had been under police investigation for […]
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