Exclusive: Loaded Films founder Eiko Mizuno-Gray and Kinoshita-Kansei Group CEO Masahide Kinoshita have teamed up to launch Tokyo-based production company, Kinofaction, which aims to focus on minority Japanese co-productions.
The new outfit will take a minority stake in feature film projects that have significant Japanese elements and/or talent involved. It is actively seeking projects initiated outside of Japan with strong festival and commercial potential.
Loaded Films, the production company founded by Mizuno-Gray and Jason Gray, will continue to separately produce a slate of projects developed in-house, including Renoir, the next project from Plan 75 director Chie Hayakawa, which Goodfellas has boarded for sales.
Kinofaction already has several projects on its slate, including Poland-set The Excursion, from writer-director Kei Ishikawa, whose credits include Venice titles Traces Of Sin (2016) and A Man (2020). His new project is a co-production with Poland’s Lava Films, which is here in Cannes with competition title The Girl With The Needle.
The new outfit will take a minority stake in feature film projects that have significant Japanese elements and/or talent involved. It is actively seeking projects initiated outside of Japan with strong festival and commercial potential.
Loaded Films, the production company founded by Mizuno-Gray and Jason Gray, will continue to separately produce a slate of projects developed in-house, including Renoir, the next project from Plan 75 director Chie Hayakawa, which Goodfellas has boarded for sales.
Kinofaction already has several projects on its slate, including Poland-set The Excursion, from writer-director Kei Ishikawa, whose credits include Venice titles Traces Of Sin (2016) and A Man (2020). His new project is a co-production with Poland’s Lava Films, which is here in Cannes with competition title The Girl With The Needle.
- 5/20/2024
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Goodfellas has acquired world sales rights for Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa’s Tokyo-set drama Renoir ahead of the project’s presentation in the Investors Circle event at the Cannes Marché du Film on Sunday.
The film is Hayakawa’s second film after dystopian euthanasia drama Plan 75, which debuted in Cannes Un Certain Regard in 2022, garnering a Special Mention in the Caméra d’Or contest for best first film.
The drama went on to play in more than 30 film festivals and was selected as Japan’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.
Renoir is set in suburban Tokyo in 1987 and revolves around 11-year-old Fuki, whose father is battling cancer, and is in and out of hospital.
With her mother stretched between caring for him and holding down a full-time job, Fuki is left to her own devices. Turning to her rich imagination, she becomes...
The film is Hayakawa’s second film after dystopian euthanasia drama Plan 75, which debuted in Cannes Un Certain Regard in 2022, garnering a Special Mention in the Caméra d’Or contest for best first film.
The drama went on to play in more than 30 film festivals and was selected as Japan’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.
Renoir is set in suburban Tokyo in 1987 and revolves around 11-year-old Fuki, whose father is battling cancer, and is in and out of hospital.
With her mother stretched between caring for him and holding down a full-time job, Fuki is left to her own devices. Turning to her rich imagination, she becomes...
- 5/18/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Studio C is not going anywhere anytime soon. BYUtv has renewed the sketch comedy series for two more seasons. Season 17 will arrive this fall, and season 18 will arrive in Spring 2024.
The 18th season premiere will be a milestone for the series – episode 200 -- and all 10 original cast members will return. They are Adam Berg, Whitney Call, Mallory Everton, Stacey Harkey, Natalie Madsen, Stephen Meek, Matt Meese, James Perry, and Jeremy Warner.
The show's current cast includes Jason Gray, Garet Allen, Arvin Mitchell, Dalton Johnson, Tori Pence, Naomi Winders, Megan Rico, Joe Balanza, Gabby Moore, and Jericho Lopez.
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The 18th season premiere will be a milestone for the series – episode 200 -- and all 10 original cast members will return. They are Adam Berg, Whitney Call, Mallory Everton, Stacey Harkey, Natalie Madsen, Stephen Meek, Matt Meese, James Perry, and Jeremy Warner.
The show's current cast includes Jason Gray, Garet Allen, Arvin Mitchell, Dalton Johnson, Tori Pence, Naomi Winders, Megan Rico, Joe Balanza, Gabby Moore, and Jericho Lopez.
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- 6/11/2023
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Here’s what happened. . . San Francisco Police Department detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub) had his wife Trudy helping him to conquer many of his numerous phobias and extreme Ocd. She was then killed by a car bomb. It’s the one crime the brilliant detective can’t solve, catapulting him into a severe depression, making all of his fixations and neuroses even more extreme. Although he’s convinced he’ll never be happy again and knows it’s a jungle out there, he rejoins the world as a private detective, often consulting with the Sfpd and his former colleague Captain Leland Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine).
Poor Stottlemeyer is often exasperated by Monk, whose 312 phobias, extreme Ocd and obsession with his wife’s death sometimes hinder an investigation. But the homicide chief also acknowledges that Monk is the greatest living detective, with his idiosyncrasies giving him the ability to pick up details that others miss,...
Poor Stottlemeyer is often exasperated by Monk, whose 312 phobias, extreme Ocd and obsession with his wife’s death sometimes hinder an investigation. But the homicide chief also acknowledges that Monk is the greatest living detective, with his idiosyncrasies giving him the ability to pick up details that others miss,...
- 9/28/2022
- by Susan Pennington, Chris Beachum and Misty Holland
- Gold Derby
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