US outfit Gkids has partnered with the UK’s Anime Ltd. to secure international rights to The Colors Within, the highly anticipated anime feature directed by Naoko Yamada.
It was revealed today that the upcoming feature will receive its world premiere in competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival (June 9-15).
The two companies secured the rights – which exclude Asia, the Middle East and North Africa – from Japan’s Story Inc. and have appointed Paris-based Charades to handle sales for select territories.
Gkids has rights for North America, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand. Anime Ltd. has rights for the UK,...
It was revealed today that the upcoming feature will receive its world premiere in competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival (June 9-15).
The two companies secured the rights – which exclude Asia, the Middle East and North Africa – from Japan’s Story Inc. and have appointed Paris-based Charades to handle sales for select territories.
Gkids has rights for North America, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand. Anime Ltd. has rights for the UK,...
- 4/25/2024
- ScreenDaily
The official website for the upcoming anime feature film adaptation of Takashi Imashiro's Ghost Cat Anzu ( Bakeneko Anzu-chan in Japan) manga confirmed today that the film will screen at the Directors’ Fortnight program in the 77th Cannes International Film Festival , set to be held from May 14 to 25, 2024. The "Directors' Fortnight" is a high-profile competition in which films that emphasize auteurism are selected, and is known as a gateway to success for world-class filmmakers, and it will be the film's world premiere screening ahead of its theatrical release in Japan on July 19, 2024. The film is co-produced by Japanese animation studio Shin-Ei Animation ( Doraemon ) and French studio Miyu Production, and is co-directed by Atsuhiro Yamashita — whose recent work is a live-action film adaptation of Yama Wayama's Karaoke Iko! comedy manga — and Yoko Kuno — who worked on the 2015 film The Case of Hana & Alice as rotoscope director. Yamashita posted his...
- 4/17/2024
- by Mikikazu Komatsu
- Crunchyroll
An anime feature film adaptation of Takashi Imashiro's Ghost Cat Anzu ( Bakeneko Anzu-chan in Japan) manga is set to release in Japan in July 2024. Japanese animation studio Shin-Ei Animation ( Doraemon ) and French studio Miyu Production co-work on anime production. The film's Japanese official website has opened, releasing a 30-second teaser trailer and two teaser visuals featuring its two main characters — 11-year-old human girl, Karin, and 37-year-old ghost cat, Anzu. The manga was serialized in Kodansha's children manga magazine Comic BomBom from its August 2006 to November 2007 issues, then compiled in one tankobon volume. The film's official website describes its story as: During a thunderous downpour. A monk at a temple finds a kitten mewling in a cardboard box. The kitten was named Anzu and was carefully brought up. Strangely, however, it did not die even after 10 or 20 years. After 30 years, it somehow became a 'ghost cat' that speaks human language and lives like a human.
- 2/22/2024
- by Mikikazu Komatsu
- Crunchyroll
In the contemporary field of Japanese animation, no one makes films and TV shows like Yuasa Masaaki. Compared to the lifelike backgrounds and careful detailing of facial animations that typify much of anime, Yuasa’s mash-ups of disciplines and methods recall the unorthodox approaches of Don Hertzfeldt and Soviet-era Hungarian animators like Marcell Jankovics and György Kovásznai. But Yuasa’s north star—in underlying motivation, if not aesthetic—may be Tex Avery, whose brand of unpredictable comedy can be seen in the filmmaker’s willingness to upend character continuity and even the fundamental outlines of drawings for the sake of pursuing a joke or feeling to its most outlandish conclusion.
The plots of the five films included in Shout! Factory’s new box set are, however fantastical their framings, often elementally simple, and many have reference points in another anime films and shows. A kind of lysergic take on Miyazaki Hayao’s Ponyo,...
The plots of the five films included in Shout! Factory’s new box set are, however fantastical their framings, often elementally simple, and many have reference points in another anime films and shows. A kind of lysergic take on Miyazaki Hayao’s Ponyo,...
- 12/12/2023
- by Jake Cole
- Slant Magazine
The official website of the Golden Globe Awards announced the nominations for the Best Motion Picture- Animated on Dec 11, 2023, and two highly acclaimed anime films of 2023 have secured their spots on the list.
The anime films are none other than Makoto Shinkai’s Suzume No Tojimari and Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy And The Heron.
Other animated films that were nominated includes:
Elemental Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse The Super Mario Bros. Movie Wish
Suzume No Tojimari released in theatres across Japan on Nov 11, 2022, while How Do You Live?, released in Japan on July 14, 2023. It became the first ever Studio Ghibli film to get simultaneous IMAX release.
Both the films had had garnered significant global milestones.
Suzume premiered internationally in competition at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival on Feb 23, 2023, marking the first time an anime film competed in the festival since Spirited Away in 2002. Whereas, How Do You Live? became...
The anime films are none other than Makoto Shinkai’s Suzume No Tojimari and Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy And The Heron.
Other animated films that were nominated includes:
Elemental Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse The Super Mario Bros. Movie Wish
Suzume No Tojimari released in theatres across Japan on Nov 11, 2022, while How Do You Live?, released in Japan on July 14, 2023. It became the first ever Studio Ghibli film to get simultaneous IMAX release.
Both the films had had garnered significant global milestones.
Suzume premiered internationally in competition at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival on Feb 23, 2023, marking the first time an anime film competed in the festival since Spirited Away in 2002. Whereas, How Do You Live? became...
- 12/12/2023
- by Ami Nazru
- AnimeHunch
In just a few weeks, the 18th recipient of the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature will be revealed. While it is highly likely that the new winner will share a 3D visual style in common with nearly all of its predecessors, voters may instead decide to finally honor a fully hand-drawn movie for the first time. Fittingly, this monumental distinction would be credited to the legendary Studio Ghibli and its esteemed cofounder, Hayao Miyazaki, who suspended his brief retirement in order to make his dozenth film, “The Boy and the Heron.”
With an original plot that pointedly references the classic Japanese novel “How Do You Live?,” “The Boy and the Heron” is the 25th entry in Studio Ghibli’s animated canon and the company’s 10th film released after the creation of this Golden Globe category. Although four of its post-2005 productions earned Oscar notices for Best Animated Feature,...
With an original plot that pointedly references the classic Japanese novel “How Do You Live?,” “The Boy and the Heron” is the 25th entry in Studio Ghibli’s animated canon and the company’s 10th film released after the creation of this Golden Globe category. Although four of its post-2005 productions earned Oscar notices for Best Animated Feature,...
- 12/8/2023
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Tatsuya Fuji, Mirai Moriyama star.
Gaga Corporation has acquired international sales rights excluding Japan on Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Platform entry Great Absence ahead of its European premiere in San Sebastian later this month.
Tatsuya Fuji and dance artist Mirai Moriyama star in the recent TIFF world premiere, which marks director Kei Chika-ura’s second feature after Complicity premiered at 2018 TIFF.
Great Absence is inspired by Chika-ura’s own experiences and centres on Takashi, a man who has been estranged from his father Yohji for 20 years and returns home with his wife after receiving a call from the police...
Gaga Corporation has acquired international sales rights excluding Japan on Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Platform entry Great Absence ahead of its European premiere in San Sebastian later this month.
Tatsuya Fuji and dance artist Mirai Moriyama star in the recent TIFF world premiere, which marks director Kei Chika-ura’s second feature after Complicity premiered at 2018 TIFF.
Great Absence is inspired by Chika-ura’s own experiences and centres on Takashi, a man who has been estranged from his father Yohji for 20 years and returns home with his wife after receiving a call from the police...
- 9/20/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
To celebrate the release of Masaaki Yuasa’S Historical Rock Musical “Inu-oh”, available on Blu-ray and DVD, as well as an AllTheAnime.com exclusive Blu-ray & DVD Collector’s Edition, from 7th August 2023, we have 2 standard edition Blu-Rays to give away to 2 lucky winners!
Get ready to experience a show that will change history, from the comfort of your living room! Anime Limited are excited to announce that you’ll soon be able to bring home your very own record of Inu-oh, the Golden Globe and Annie Award-nominated 14th century rock opera from anime auteur Masaaki Yuasa. Inu-oh will be available on Blu-ray and DVD, as well as an AllTheAnime.com exclusive Blu-ray & DVD Collector’s Edition, from 7th August 2023.
Based on a novel by renowned Japanese author Hideo Furukawa and inspired by history, Inu-oh blends historical fantasy and rock musicals to tell the story of an aspiring performer shunned because of his unique appearance.
Get ready to experience a show that will change history, from the comfort of your living room! Anime Limited are excited to announce that you’ll soon be able to bring home your very own record of Inu-oh, the Golden Globe and Annie Award-nominated 14th century rock opera from anime auteur Masaaki Yuasa. Inu-oh will be available on Blu-ray and DVD, as well as an AllTheAnime.com exclusive Blu-ray & DVD Collector’s Edition, from 7th August 2023.
Based on a novel by renowned Japanese author Hideo Furukawa and inspired by history, Inu-oh blends historical fantasy and rock musicals to tell the story of an aspiring performer shunned because of his unique appearance.
- 7/27/2023
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
This winter saw the International Film Festival Rotterdam celebrate the work of Japanese animator Yuasa Masaaki, with a retrospective of the man's work and the Dutch premiere of his newest film Inu-Oh (which is excellent). Yuasa himself was present, finally able to accept the fest's invitation after the 2022 edition had to be cancelled, and he was hailed as a superstar, a highlight of the festival. He gave a masterclass in animation in which he showed several of his favorite film scenes, all animated in his distinct style. The Q&a session after Inu-Oh with him lasted over three quarters of an hour. In short, Rotterdam...
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- 5/16/2023
- Screen Anarchy
Makoto Shinkai’s Japanese anime sensation Suzume held strong at the top of China’s box office over the weekend, earning $22.1 million while easily defeating Paramount’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and Sony’s 65, which both flopped.
Suzume has earned $80.6 million in China, better than any other international film released in the country this year, including U.S. superhero tentpoles like Ant-Man 3 ($39 million), according to box office tracker Artisan Gateway. The film is forecast to bring in over $90 million, which will make it the most commercially successful Japanese anime in China of all time.
Suzume also has earned just shy of $30 million in South Korea and $105 million in Japan. It opens in North America and most of Europe on April 14, providing the latest bellwether for anime’s growing theatrical potential in the West.
Dungeons & Dragons and 65‘s disappointing results continue a streak of poor...
Suzume has earned $80.6 million in China, better than any other international film released in the country this year, including U.S. superhero tentpoles like Ant-Man 3 ($39 million), according to box office tracker Artisan Gateway. The film is forecast to bring in over $90 million, which will make it the most commercially successful Japanese anime in China of all time.
Suzume also has earned just shy of $30 million in South Korea and $105 million in Japan. It opens in North America and most of Europe on April 14, providing the latest bellwether for anime’s growing theatrical potential in the West.
Dungeons & Dragons and 65‘s disappointing results continue a streak of poor...
- 4/3/2023
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Guess who's drunk — er, starring in his own animated show? More than a decade after hitting theaters in 2010, Edgar Wright's commercial failure turned cult classic "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" is getting an official continuation in the form of an anime series. The original movie, which adapts Bryan Lee O'Malley's "Scott Pilgrim" comic books, centers on the eponymous Mr. Pilgrim (Michael Cera), a 22-year-old under-achieving Toronto musician who falls head over heels for the enigmatic Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). The only catch? To date Ramona, Scott must first battle her seven "evil" exes, who range from egotistical film stars to bassists with vegan superpowers.
One could call "Scott Pilgrim" the "Short Term 12" of comic book films in that it features many actors who've gone on to become far bigger names since its release ... including, amusingly enough, the star of "Short Term 12" itself, Brie Larson. It's also...
One could call "Scott Pilgrim" the "Short Term 12" of comic book films in that it features many actors who've gone on to become far bigger names since its release ... including, amusingly enough, the star of "Short Term 12" itself, Brie Larson. It's also...
- 3/31/2023
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
"Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" remains one of the best video game adjacent movies ever, one that captures the aesthetic and the essence of leveling up and defeating bosses, all while also being, along with "Speed Racer" and "Alita: Battle Angel," one of the best live-action anime movies, even though this one is not based on an anime.
Edgar Wright's second most underrated film (after "The World's End") exudes style, is presented through a very specific lens, and if you get on its wavelength, it results in a phenomenal cartoony experience and a great adaptation of the comic series by Bryan Lee O'Malley. And yet, as well as the film captures the anime aesthetic, there are things that just don't quite work in live-action. It is great news, then, that this story is finally making its way to the medium it was always meant to be told in — anime.
Edgar Wright's second most underrated film (after "The World's End") exudes style, is presented through a very specific lens, and if you get on its wavelength, it results in a phenomenal cartoony experience and a great adaptation of the comic series by Bryan Lee O'Malley. And yet, as well as the film captures the anime aesthetic, there are things that just don't quite work in live-action. It is great news, then, that this story is finally making its way to the medium it was always meant to be told in — anime.
- 3/30/2023
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Slash Film
Anime legend Yuasa Masaaki's newest film, the semi-historical musical drama Inu-Oh had its world premiere at the tail-end of 2021. As such, it was originally planned to arrive at the International Film Festival Rotterdam a year ago, together with its maker. Corona (what else?) threw a spanner into the start of 2022 though, and that year's festival had to be replaced by a dressed down online version. I applaud the festival direction's decision to just move all events around Masaaki, visit, retrospective, Dutch premiere of Inu-Oh and all, a year forward, as it allowed Rotterdam to go "Masaaki-crazy" last month. As the saying goes, "Good Things Come to Those Who Wait" and Inu-Oh is very, very good indeed. And I'm happy to have been able...
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- 3/10/2023
- Screen Anarchy
Gkids has snapped up U.S. rights to Ernest & Celestine: A Trip To Gibberitia — the sequel to the acclaimed Ernest & Celestine, which landed a Best Animated Feature Oscar nom in 2014. The decorated producer and distributor of animation, celebrating its 15th anniversary, will put both the original French-language version of Gibberitia and a new English dub in theaters this year.
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Both Ernest & Celestine films are based on the children’s book series by Belgian author-illustrator Gabrielle Vincent. The original helmed by Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar and Benjamin Renner examines the unlikely friendship between a bear, Ernest (Lambert Wilson...
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Both Ernest & Celestine films are based on the children’s book series by Belgian author-illustrator Gabrielle Vincent. The original helmed by Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar and Benjamin Renner examines the unlikely friendship between a bear, Ernest (Lambert Wilson...
- 3/2/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
March brings a fresh slate of new shows and films to Hulu. The rotation of the catalogue also makes room for well-loved films arriving on the streamer this month. Sports buffs will enjoy “Love and Basketball” (2000) as well as “Kicking & Screaming” (2005). Animated family favorites include “Rio” (2011) and “Ice Age: Continental Drift” (2010).
As for new releases, Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon play hard-working journalists in the investigative thriller “Boston Strangler” (2023) from writer and director Matt Ruskin. Olivia Colman can be seen as Miss Havisham in FX’s rendition of “Great Expectations.” And a new twist on reality dating involves the charming countryside with “Farmer Wants a Wife.”
And Best Picture Oscar nominee “Triangle of Sadness” hits the streamer on March 3.
The Oscars as well as the pre-show and post-show red carpets will also be available to livestream around March 12 when the ceremony takes place and March 13, the day after, if...
As for new releases, Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon play hard-working journalists in the investigative thriller “Boston Strangler” (2023) from writer and director Matt Ruskin. Olivia Colman can be seen as Miss Havisham in FX’s rendition of “Great Expectations.” And a new twist on reality dating involves the charming countryside with “Farmer Wants a Wife.”
And Best Picture Oscar nominee “Triangle of Sadness” hits the streamer on March 3.
The Oscars as well as the pre-show and post-show red carpets will also be available to livestream around March 12 when the ceremony takes place and March 13, the day after, if...
- 3/1/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
Oscar frontrunner “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” won a leading five races at the Annie Awards on Feb. 25, including Best Studio Animated Feature over three of its Oscar rivals — “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,” “The Sea Beast” and “Turning Red” — plus “Wendell & Wild.” The fifth Oscar contender, “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On,” won Best Independent Feature nominees over “Charlotte,” “Inu-Oh,” “Little Nicholas” and “My Father’s Dragon.”
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” went five for nine with wins also for director, character work, production design and original score. “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” won three of its four bids including writing and voice acting (Jenny Slate). And “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” went two for six with wins for editorial and storyboarding.
Two of the five Oscar nominees for Best Animated Short also featured at these awards. Frontrunner “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” won...
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” went five for nine with wins also for director, character work, production design and original score. “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” won three of its four bids including writing and voice acting (Jenny Slate). And “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” went two for six with wins for editorial and storyboarding.
Two of the five Oscar nominees for Best Animated Short also featured at these awards. Frontrunner “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” won...
- 2/26/2023
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Refresh for latest… The 50th anniversary Annie Awards for animation are being handed tonight at UCLA’s Royce Hall, and Deadline is updating the winners live as they are announced in all 32 categories. See the list below.
Two very different stop-motion films lead the way in nominations from Asifa-Hollywood: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio from Netflix and A24’s Marcel the Shell with Shoes On drew up nine and eight noms, respectively, with Disney/Pixar’s Turning Red next with seven.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio took the first film award of the night, for Best Production Design, Feature.
Pinocchio and Turning Red will face off in the marquee Best Feature race against DreamWorks Animation’s Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and Netflix;s The Sea Beast and Wendell & Wild. Macel the Shell is vying for Best Indie Feature against Charlotte; Inu-Oh; Little Nicholas, Happy As Can Be; and My Father’s Dragon.
Two very different stop-motion films lead the way in nominations from Asifa-Hollywood: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio from Netflix and A24’s Marcel the Shell with Shoes On drew up nine and eight noms, respectively, with Disney/Pixar’s Turning Red next with seven.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio took the first film award of the night, for Best Production Design, Feature.
Pinocchio and Turning Red will face off in the marquee Best Feature race against DreamWorks Animation’s Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and Netflix;s The Sea Beast and Wendell & Wild. Macel the Shell is vying for Best Indie Feature against Charlotte; Inu-Oh; Little Nicholas, Happy As Can Be; and My Father’s Dragon.
- 2/26/2023
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s ironic but unavoidable that the greatest annual celebration of film should be a television special — but that’s just how it is. March often means Oscar season, a time for cinephiles to boot up that small screen you use for movies and use it to see if they win any awards during a telecast.
If you don’t have TV service anymore, Hulu has you covered with a pre-Oscars telecast as well as two red carpet specials before and after the main event. Though the ceremony itself won’t be livestreamed on Hulu, it will be added the next morning, like regular ABC programming. Awards viewership has been in general decline over the past several years, but next-day streaming gives curious viewers a chance to join the conversation and boost those Oscar ratings after the live show. It’s also a chance for superfans to pause and rewind...
If you don’t have TV service anymore, Hulu has you covered with a pre-Oscars telecast as well as two red carpet specials before and after the main event. Though the ceremony itself won’t be livestreamed on Hulu, it will be added the next morning, like regular ABC programming. Awards viewership has been in general decline over the past several years, but next-day streaming gives curious viewers a chance to join the conversation and boost those Oscar ratings after the live show. It’s also a chance for superfans to pause and rewind...
- 2/17/2023
- by Proma Khosla
- Indiewire
By Paweł Mizgalewicz
Every fallen rockstar was once a child that just plainly had a ton of fun playing music. As obvious as this sounds, it’s a fact that is not too often mentioned in Western cinema. Whether we are watching another comprehensive biopic or a film about a rockstar that has already hit rock bottom and fully jaded (be it “Last Days” or recent “Taurus”), the fame, success and drugs tend to be a more popular subject than the simple pleasure of making sounds and creating your own thing. Now, if you ever wanted to inject a story with a childlike sense of pure fun, a playful tone and anything-goes attitude, you would hardly think of other directors than Masaaki Yuasa. His story of a rockstar is something else – it is, as he said to the audience after the Rotterdam screening, driven by this “dream of purity”. The...
Every fallen rockstar was once a child that just plainly had a ton of fun playing music. As obvious as this sounds, it’s a fact that is not too often mentioned in Western cinema. Whether we are watching another comprehensive biopic or a film about a rockstar that has already hit rock bottom and fully jaded (be it “Last Days” or recent “Taurus”), the fame, success and drugs tend to be a more popular subject than the simple pleasure of making sounds and creating your own thing. Now, if you ever wanted to inject a story with a childlike sense of pure fun, a playful tone and anything-goes attitude, you would hardly think of other directors than Masaaki Yuasa. His story of a rockstar is something else – it is, as he said to the audience after the Rotterdam screening, driven by this “dream of purity”. The...
- 1/30/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Photo: Annie Awards 2023
To honor creators of animated Cinema, the International Animation Society presents the Annie Awards, the award show created to give the best-animated projects of the season with an award granted by Asifa-Hollywood (the Los Angeles division of the International Animation Society). Originating in 1972, the Annie Awards will see its 50th award show in February of 2023. Annie Awards 2023 Best Feature ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinnochio’ leads the Annie Awards nominations with nine nominations, including a nomination for Best Feature. The dark and twisted take on the century-old tale received critical acclaim and many awards for Guillermo and Netflix including a Golden Globe for Animated Feature, so it acts as a front-runner in the Best Feature category. Alongside ‘Pinocchio’, Disney and Pixar’s ‘Turning Red’, ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ from DreamWorks Animation, Netflix’s ‘The Sea Beast’, and Netflix, A Monkeypaw Production, and A Gotham Group Production...
To honor creators of animated Cinema, the International Animation Society presents the Annie Awards, the award show created to give the best-animated projects of the season with an award granted by Asifa-Hollywood (the Los Angeles division of the International Animation Society). Originating in 1972, the Annie Awards will see its 50th award show in February of 2023. Annie Awards 2023 Best Feature ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinnochio’ leads the Annie Awards nominations with nine nominations, including a nomination for Best Feature. The dark and twisted take on the century-old tale received critical acclaim and many awards for Guillermo and Netflix including a Golden Globe for Animated Feature, so it acts as a front-runner in the Best Feature category. Alongside ‘Pinocchio’, Disney and Pixar’s ‘Turning Red’, ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ from DreamWorks Animation, Netflix’s ‘The Sea Beast’, and Netflix, A Monkeypaw Production, and A Gotham Group Production...
- 1/27/2023
- by Nino Vongphachanh
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
Please Note: This forecast, assembled by The Hollywood Reporter’s executive editor of awards, Scott Feinberg, reflects Feinberg’s best attempt to predict the behavior of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, not his personal preferences. He arrives at these standings by drawing upon consultations with voters and industry insiders, analysis of marketing and awards campaigns, results of awards ceremonies that precede the Oscars and the history of the Oscars ceremony itself.
*Best Picture*
Projected Nominees
1. Everything Everywhere All at Once (A24, March 25, trailer)
2. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount, May 27, trailer) — podcast (Jerry Bruckheimer)
3. Elvis (Warner Bros., June 24, trailer)
4. Tár (Focus, October 7, trailer)
5. The Banshees of Inisherin (Searchlight, Oct. 21, trailer)
6. The Fabelmans (Universal, Nov. 11, trailer) — podcast (Steven Spielberg)
7. Avatar: The Way of Water (20th Century/Disney, December 16, trailer)
8. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Disney, Nov. 11, trailer) — podcast (Kevin Feige)
9. All Quiet on the Western Front (Netflix, Oct. 28, trailer)
10. Triangle of Sadness (Neon,...
*Best Picture*
Projected Nominees
1. Everything Everywhere All at Once (A24, March 25, trailer)
2. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount, May 27, trailer) — podcast (Jerry Bruckheimer)
3. Elvis (Warner Bros., June 24, trailer)
4. Tár (Focus, October 7, trailer)
5. The Banshees of Inisherin (Searchlight, Oct. 21, trailer)
6. The Fabelmans (Universal, Nov. 11, trailer) — podcast (Steven Spielberg)
7. Avatar: The Way of Water (20th Century/Disney, December 16, trailer)
8. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Disney, Nov. 11, trailer) — podcast (Kevin Feige)
9. All Quiet on the Western Front (Netflix, Oct. 28, trailer)
10. Triangle of Sadness (Neon,...
- 1/19/2023
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Not surprisingly, our five leading contenders for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars also top the Annie Awards nominations announced on January 17. Our predicted winner of that Oscar race, “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” reaped a leading nine nominations here. “Turning Red” earned a luck seven, “Puss in Boot: The Last Wish” and “The Sea Beast” merited a half dozen mentions each and “Wendell & Wild” has three. All five number a nomination for Best Studio Animated Feature among their haul.
The Best Independent Feature nominees are: “Charlotte,” “Inu-Oh,” “Little Nicholas,” “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” and “My Father’s Dragon.”
These precursor prizes are presented by the Hollywood chapter of the International Animated Film Association. The ceremony is set for February 25.
Seven of the last 12 Annie Awards champs have previewed the Oscar winner: “Rango” (2012), “Frozen” (2014), “Inside Out” (2016), “Zootopia” (2017), “Coco” (2018), “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (2019) and “Soul” (2021).
Last year, the Annies...
The Best Independent Feature nominees are: “Charlotte,” “Inu-Oh,” “Little Nicholas,” “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” and “My Father’s Dragon.”
These precursor prizes are presented by the Hollywood chapter of the International Animated Film Association. The ceremony is set for February 25.
Seven of the last 12 Annie Awards champs have previewed the Oscar winner: “Rango” (2012), “Frozen” (2014), “Inside Out” (2016), “Zootopia” (2017), “Coco” (2018), “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (2019) and “Soul” (2021).
Last year, the Annies...
- 1/17/2023
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” has continued its streak as the most-awarded animated movie of 2022, leading all films in nominations for the 50th Annie Awards, which were announced on Tuesday morning.
A week after winning the Golden Globe and two days after winning the Critics Choice Award, “Pinocchio” picked up nine nominations at the Annie Awards, the main awards show devoted entirely to animation. That total was two more than Pixar’s “Turning Red” and three more than “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” and “The Sea Beast.” Those four films are competing with “Wendell & Wild” in the Best Feature category, while the Best Indie Feature lineup consists of “Charlotte,” “Inu-Oh,” “Little Nicholas, Happy as Can Be,” “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” and “My Father’s Dragon.”
“Turning Red” and “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” were the only films to be nominated for Best Feature (or Best Indie Feature), Best Direction and Best Writing,...
A week after winning the Golden Globe and two days after winning the Critics Choice Award, “Pinocchio” picked up nine nominations at the Annie Awards, the main awards show devoted entirely to animation. That total was two more than Pixar’s “Turning Red” and three more than “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” and “The Sea Beast.” Those four films are competing with “Wendell & Wild” in the Best Feature category, while the Best Indie Feature lineup consists of “Charlotte,” “Inu-Oh,” “Little Nicholas, Happy as Can Be,” “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” and “My Father’s Dragon.”
“Turning Red” and “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” were the only films to be nominated for Best Feature (or Best Indie Feature), Best Direction and Best Writing,...
- 1/17/2023
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Netflix has scored 50 Annie Award nominations across series and features, including bids for “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” which leads in individual nominations with nine.
“Pinocchio,” which has picked up 38 awards so far this season, including the Golden Globe for animated feature, is one of three Netflix projects up for best feature, along with “The Sea Beast” and “Wendell & Wild.” Netflix has one contender in the indie feature field: “My Father’s Dragon,” with Cartoon Saloon.
Other films nominated for best feature are Disney-Pixar’s “Turning Red” and DreamWorks Animation’s “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.” Rounding out the indie feature category are “Charlotte,” from January Films, Balthlazar Productions and Walking the Dog; “Inu-Oh,” from Science Saru; “Little Nicholas, Happy as Can Be,” from On Classics (Mediawan) and Bidibul Productions; and “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On,” from Marcel the Movie, LLC.
Del Toro, with co-director Mark Gustafson, is...
“Pinocchio,” which has picked up 38 awards so far this season, including the Golden Globe for animated feature, is one of three Netflix projects up for best feature, along with “The Sea Beast” and “Wendell & Wild.” Netflix has one contender in the indie feature field: “My Father’s Dragon,” with Cartoon Saloon.
Other films nominated for best feature are Disney-Pixar’s “Turning Red” and DreamWorks Animation’s “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.” Rounding out the indie feature category are “Charlotte,” from January Films, Balthlazar Productions and Walking the Dog; “Inu-Oh,” from Science Saru; “Little Nicholas, Happy as Can Be,” from On Classics (Mediawan) and Bidibul Productions; and “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On,” from Marcel the Movie, LLC.
Del Toro, with co-director Mark Gustafson, is...
- 1/17/2023
- by Terry Flores
- Variety Film + TV
Two very different stop-motion animated films lead the way as nominations for the 50th anniversary Annie Awards were revealed today. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio from Netflix and A24’s Marcel the Shell with Shoes On drew up nine and eight noms, respectively, with Disney/Pixar’s Turning Red next with seven.
See the full list of nominees in all 32 categories below.
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It’s another big year for Netflix as its Pinocchio, The Sea Beast and Wendell & Wild will...
See the full list of nominees in all 32 categories below.
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It’s another big year for Netflix as its Pinocchio, The Sea Beast and Wendell & Wild will...
- 1/17/2023
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Almost 30 years after “The Nightmare Before Christmas” (1993), Henry Selick returns with “Wendell & Wild,” another stop-motion animated sensation that’s sure to generate acclaim throughout the industry. Co-written by Oscar-winning screenwriter Jordan Peele, the Netflix feature film debuted at the Toronto Film Festival and may have asserted itself as the new frontrunner for best animated feature.
Based on Selick and Clay McLeod Chapman’s unpublished book of the same name, the film tells the story of two scheming demon brothers, Wendell (Keegan-Michael Key) and Wild (Peele), who enlist the aid of a 13-year-old Kat (Lyric Ross) to summon them to the Land of the Living. It also features the voice talents of Angela Bassett, James Hong and Ving Rhames.
Marking Selick’s first film since “Coraline” (2009), his sole Oscar-nominated feature, Selick brings the razzle-dazzle stop-motion effects to the screen, exquisitely assembling luscious set designs and breathtaking effects. Finally, five...
Based on Selick and Clay McLeod Chapman’s unpublished book of the same name, the film tells the story of two scheming demon brothers, Wendell (Keegan-Michael Key) and Wild (Peele), who enlist the aid of a 13-year-old Kat (Lyric Ross) to summon them to the Land of the Living. It also features the voice talents of Angela Bassett, James Hong and Ving Rhames.
Marking Selick’s first film since “Coraline” (2009), his sole Oscar-nominated feature, Selick brings the razzle-dazzle stop-motion effects to the screen, exquisitely assembling luscious set designs and breathtaking effects. Finally, five...
- 9/11/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
You just know you’re in for a horrible weekend at the box office when six new movies open in over 250 theaters — two of those into more than 1,500 theaters — along with a major nationwide expansion and a 40th anniversary re-release of a beloved classic, and only two of those eight movies make it into the Top 10.
We’ll get into each of those in a bit, but first, we start with Brad Pitt’s action-comedy “Bullet Train,” which remained in first place for a second weekend with 13.4 million, a pretty substantial 55 drop from its opening last week. It has grossed 54.4 million, so far, with no guarantee it might join this year’s 100 million club.
The animated “DC League of Super-Pets” maintained second place with an estimated 7.2 million, but with one major caveat. According to estimates, the Dwayne Johnson-Kevin Hart animated vehicle only made 20,000 more than Tom Cruise’s “Top Gun: Maverick” in its 12th weekend.
We’ll get into each of those in a bit, but first, we start with Brad Pitt’s action-comedy “Bullet Train,” which remained in first place for a second weekend with 13.4 million, a pretty substantial 55 drop from its opening last week. It has grossed 54.4 million, so far, with no guarantee it might join this year’s 100 million club.
The animated “DC League of Super-Pets” maintained second place with an estimated 7.2 million, but with one major caveat. According to estimates, the Dwayne Johnson-Kevin Hart animated vehicle only made 20,000 more than Tom Cruise’s “Top Gun: Maverick” in its 12th weekend.
- 8/14/2022
- by Edward Douglas
- Gold Derby
A handful of smaller films will start to test audience enthusiasm for movie theaters without big tentpoles. It’s been a rocky summer for specialty releases, and an uphill climb as arthouses emerge from Covid jitters with franchise films sucking up oxygen and screens. But superheroes are on hiatus.
“There isn’t giant competition from tentpoles,” said Howard Cohen, co-president of Roadside Attractions. “On balance, it’s good. Obviously, if you have Top Gun, it sucks the air out of the marketplace. It’s still better — for the specialty market — to have three or four indies than one giant release. Exhibitors are antsy about the sudden dearth of new wide releases this month and next, but they’ve also been asking for more box office breadth.
“We have seen signs of life in our sector,...
“There isn’t giant competition from tentpoles,” said Howard Cohen, co-president of Roadside Attractions. “On balance, it’s good. Obviously, if you have Top Gun, it sucks the air out of the marketplace. It’s still better — for the specialty market — to have three or four indies than one giant release. Exhibitors are antsy about the sudden dearth of new wide releases this month and next, but they’ve also been asking for more box office breadth.
“We have seen signs of life in our sector,...
- 8/12/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
What Westerners don’t know about Noh — the classical Japanese theater form in which masked dancers gracefully interpret supernatural tales — could easily fill a 12-hour PBS documentary. But who wants to watch that? Certainly not the audience renegade anime director Masaaki Yuasa is after with “Inu-oh,” a rowdy punk alternative focusing on two social rejects whose defiantly original performance style broke all the rules and elevated them to rock-star status, only to be (all but) forgotten by history.
Among the most unpredictable artists of his medium, Yuasa specializes in trippy, off-the-wall anime features such as “Mind Game” and “Night Is Short, Walk On Girl” that recall the work of psychedelic toonsmith Ralph Bakshi at his anti-establishment extreme. Of all the filmmakers now working in Japan, Yuasa is the last one fans would expect to show an interest in the rigorously rule-based world of Noh — until it clicks that his...
Among the most unpredictable artists of his medium, Yuasa specializes in trippy, off-the-wall anime features such as “Mind Game” and “Night Is Short, Walk On Girl” that recall the work of psychedelic toonsmith Ralph Bakshi at his anti-establishment extreme. Of all the filmmakers now working in Japan, Yuasa is the last one fans would expect to show an interest in the rigorously rule-based world of Noh — until it clicks that his...
- 8/12/2022
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
by Nathaniel R
Last week we had the pleasure of an invitation to the East Coast premiere of the anime rock opera Inu-Oh, which opens in theaters today. It's distributed by GKids, a company which has long championed non-Hollywood animation for US audiences who we all know can be stubbornly myopic about animation, viewing it as a genre rather than a medium capable of all kinds of genres and visual experiences. The screening was at Japan Society here in Manhattan. I bring this up primarily because I had somehow never been there and must highly recommend the venue which has monthly screenings of both anime films and acclaimed live action Japanese films, too. Seeing specialty films, which generally play to tiny arthouse crowds, in a beautiful respectful context to a large packed crowd is always a thrill.
And Inu-Oh deserves a big screen so don't wait until streaming if it hits a theater near you.
Last week we had the pleasure of an invitation to the East Coast premiere of the anime rock opera Inu-Oh, which opens in theaters today. It's distributed by GKids, a company which has long championed non-Hollywood animation for US audiences who we all know can be stubbornly myopic about animation, viewing it as a genre rather than a medium capable of all kinds of genres and visual experiences. The screening was at Japan Society here in Manhattan. I bring this up primarily because I had somehow never been there and must highly recommend the venue which has monthly screenings of both anime films and acclaimed live action Japanese films, too. Seeing specialty films, which generally play to tiny arthouse crowds, in a beautiful respectful context to a large packed crowd is always a thrill.
And Inu-Oh deserves a big screen so don't wait until streaming if it hits a theater near you.
- 8/12/2022
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Music is transportive to the extremes in Masaaki Yuasa's works. In his 2008 anime "Kaiba," there's a heartbreaking organ scene that inspires a bitter old woman to reminisce on long-lost affection. In "Ride Your Wave," a cheesy love song summons the spirit of a deceased loved one, fleetingly, like an incantation. Yuasa and Science Saru's latest feature cocktail "Inu-Oh," steeped in the 14th century Muromachi period of the ruling shoguns, rolls out rock music that unleashes the restorative power to unlock revelations to mysteries, gives restless ghosts peace through lyrical storytelling, and allow two misfits to assert their place in the world.
Based on Hideo Furukawa's novel "The Tale of the Heike: The Inu-oh Chapters," Akiko Nogi's adapted screenplay kickstarts the film deceptively. At the behest of shady noblemen, young Tomona (Mirai Moriyama) opens an underwater cursed treasure that blinds him and kills his father (Yutaka Matsushige). The...
Based on Hideo Furukawa's novel "The Tale of the Heike: The Inu-oh Chapters," Akiko Nogi's adapted screenplay kickstarts the film deceptively. At the behest of shady noblemen, young Tomona (Mirai Moriyama) opens an underwater cursed treasure that blinds him and kills his father (Yutaka Matsushige). The...
- 8/12/2022
- by Caroline Cao
- Slash Film
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“Inu-Oh” (screening theatrically from GKids) represents Masaaki Yuasa’s summary statement about animation, music, history, and rebellion. It’s the culmination of his wildly imaginative and deeply compassionate work about honoring marginalized people. He takes everything he’s explored in “Lu Over the Wall,” “Mind Game,” “Ride Your Wave,” and “The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl,” and explodes it in “Inu-Oh.”
The film’s an anime rock opera set in 14th century feudal Japan about the friendship between two cursed musical performers, who serve as historical versions of modern-day stars with theatrical fearlessness: the real-life, enigmatic Inu-Oh (Avu-chan from fashion punk Queen Bee), a Noh dancer who dramatizes the Heike’s slaughter at sea in the Battle of Dan-no-ura, and Tomona (Mirai Moriyama), a blind biwa player who chronicles the story in song. But the way Yuasa assaults us with dazzling imagery and musical performance, he comes off...
“Inu-Oh” (screening theatrically from GKids) represents Masaaki Yuasa’s summary statement about animation, music, history, and rebellion. It’s the culmination of his wildly imaginative and deeply compassionate work about honoring marginalized people. He takes everything he’s explored in “Lu Over the Wall,” “Mind Game,” “Ride Your Wave,” and “The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl,” and explodes it in “Inu-Oh.”
The film’s an anime rock opera set in 14th century feudal Japan about the friendship between two cursed musical performers, who serve as historical versions of modern-day stars with theatrical fearlessness: the real-life, enigmatic Inu-Oh (Avu-chan from fashion punk Queen Bee), a Noh dancer who dramatizes the Heike’s slaughter at sea in the Battle of Dan-no-ura, and Tomona (Mirai Moriyama), a blind biwa player who chronicles the story in song. But the way Yuasa assaults us with dazzling imagery and musical performance, he comes off...
- 8/12/2022
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
“Inu-Oh” was reviewed by TheWrap out of the 2021 Venice Film Festival.
The competition may be fierce, but it’s probably safe to say that Masaaki Yuasa’s “Inu-Oh” is the best feudal-Japanese-hair-metal-demonic-curse-serial-killer-political-tragedy-rock-opera of the year. At least so far.
And if that sounds silly, that’s Masaaki Yuasa for you. The filmmaker is crafting an exhilarating career out of transforming oddball pitches into profound pop art, from the grotesquely beautiful “Devil Man Cry Baby” to the joyously earnest “Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!” The stories he tells, like the intense and unhinged animation styles he employs, can barely be contained on the screen, and they have seemingly no interest in conforming to expectation.
So it’s fitting that “Inu-Oh” centers around art that inspires, that challenges, that defies. The film takes place in 14th century Japan, where a young blind boy named Tomona wanders away from his home in search of vengeance.
The competition may be fierce, but it’s probably safe to say that Masaaki Yuasa’s “Inu-Oh” is the best feudal-Japanese-hair-metal-demonic-curse-serial-killer-political-tragedy-rock-opera of the year. At least so far.
And if that sounds silly, that’s Masaaki Yuasa for you. The filmmaker is crafting an exhilarating career out of transforming oddball pitches into profound pop art, from the grotesquely beautiful “Devil Man Cry Baby” to the joyously earnest “Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!” The stories he tells, like the intense and unhinged animation styles he employs, can barely be contained on the screen, and they have seemingly no interest in conforming to expectation.
So it’s fitting that “Inu-Oh” centers around art that inspires, that challenges, that defies. The film takes place in 14th century Japan, where a young blind boy named Tomona wanders away from his home in search of vengeance.
- 8/11/2022
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
Inu-Oh (2021).Something strange happens when you watch a film by Masaaki Yuasa. Something strange in the film, and something strange in your mind. It happens on the surface and in the depths, and it works its way from the movements of the film out into the world. It partakes deeply of both Eastern and Western traditions in art, drama, and film—seeming to pull from everywhere while maintaining a focused center. The experience brings to mind Anthony Bourdain’s meditations on his first trip to Tokyo, which he described as transformative, powerful, and violent: “A window opens up into a whole new thing and you think, what does this mean? What do I have left to say? What do I do now?” In Yuasa’s new film, Inu-Oh, this window opens up from the perspective of its two main characters—14th-century musicians who dress like 1970s glam rockers: one who...
- 8/10/2022
- MUBI
“Face Off” helmer John Woo will receive a Career Achievement Award during Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival, about to celebrate its 26th edition. The Hong Kong filmmaker is currently working on “Silent Night,” starring Joel Kinnaman and Kid Cudi.
“I defy anyone to watch ‘Bullet in the Head,’ ‘Hard Boiled’ or ‘The Killer’ and not walk away wanting to break down the shots and make a movie. His use of camera movement, close-ups, the ways he would block and choreograph, it’s astonishing to look at,” Fantasia’s artistic director Mitch Davis told Variety, noting the “unexpected poetry” of Woo’s work.
“They are such unconventionally soulful films. I wish we could somehow unleash a flock of doves in the cinema when he steps onto the stage. Backlit.”
The festival, which will unspool July 14 – Aug. 3, has also unveiled its first wave of titles, starting with a selection of world...
“I defy anyone to watch ‘Bullet in the Head,’ ‘Hard Boiled’ or ‘The Killer’ and not walk away wanting to break down the shots and make a movie. His use of camera movement, close-ups, the ways he would block and choreograph, it’s astonishing to look at,” Fantasia’s artistic director Mitch Davis told Variety, noting the “unexpected poetry” of Woo’s work.
“They are such unconventionally soulful films. I wish we could somehow unleash a flock of doves in the cinema when he steps onto the stage. Backlit.”
The festival, which will unspool July 14 – Aug. 3, has also unveiled its first wave of titles, starting with a selection of world...
- 5/12/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Masaaki Yuasa‘s “Inu-Oh” is an original take on the life of the 14th century titular Japanese Noh dance performer who was extremely popular back in time, but whose legacy was unfortunately lost. Based on the graphic novel “Tales of the Heike: Inu-oh” by Hideo Furukawa published in 2016, the story of Yuasa’s animated musical unfolds against the backdrop of complicated political events, while at the same time embracing fantastic elements and Japanese mythology.
Inu-Oh screened at Udine Far East Film Festival
Although he rose to a Noh legend during his lifetime, all Inu-Oh’s songs were forgotten during the centuries that followed. In the graphic novel and the film alike, the performer was born with terrible deformities which slowly disappear through his connection with music, and even more through the friendship with a young biwa player Tomona (Mirai Moriyama), a musician blinded as a boy by the light of...
Inu-Oh screened at Udine Far East Film Festival
Although he rose to a Noh legend during his lifetime, all Inu-Oh’s songs were forgotten during the centuries that followed. In the graphic novel and the film alike, the performer was born with terrible deformities which slowly disappear through his connection with music, and even more through the friendship with a young biwa player Tomona (Mirai Moriyama), a musician blinded as a boy by the light of...
- 5/3/2022
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Japan in Frankfurt! After two online editions, the 22nd Nippon Connection Film Festival, which will be held May 24 to 29, 2022, will bring the most exciting current Japanese films and culture programs to the city again. Around 100 short and feature-length films showcase the complete range of Japanese cinema – from newcomers to established directors, from anime to documentaries. The film program includes one world premiere, 24 international, eleven European and 30 German premieres. This year’s thematic focus “Stories Of Youth – Coming Of Age In Japan”, supported by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain, deals with the lives and challenges of young people in Japan.
The supporting program, which will include more than 60 workshops, concerts, lectures and performances, is more extensive than ever, promising a fascinating festival week outside the cinema as well. For snacks in between, there will be a wide range of Japanese foods and drinks available on the festival grounds.
The events take place...
The supporting program, which will include more than 60 workshops, concerts, lectures and performances, is more extensive than ever, promising a fascinating festival week outside the cinema as well. For snacks in between, there will be a wide range of Japanese foods and drinks available on the festival grounds.
The events take place...
- 4/29/2022
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
The BFI today announce full details of a hotly anticipated two-month season dedicated to Anime, running at BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX from 28 March – 31 May. Originally planned for summer 2020 as part of the BFI’s major survey of Japanese cinema BFI Japan, the season arrives, at long last, to entertain and delight anime fans and novices alike.
The programme will include:
· A broad mixture of classic films such as Akira, Ghost In The Shell, Belladonna Of Sadness, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie and Tekkonkinkreet, as well as an early shorts programme spotlighting work from 1917-1946· Previews of new releases including the thrillingly original Inu-oh, high-octane urban fairy tale Bubble and the powerful and thought-provoking short Summer Ghost (2021) followed by a Q&a with director loundraw· Much-loved recent work by major auteurs Mamoru Hosoda, Makoto Shinkai (Your Name) and the late great Satoshi Kon· A spotlight on emerging female talent Naoko Yamada...
The programme will include:
· A broad mixture of classic films such as Akira, Ghost In The Shell, Belladonna Of Sadness, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie and Tekkonkinkreet, as well as an early shorts programme spotlighting work from 1917-1946· Previews of new releases including the thrillingly original Inu-oh, high-octane urban fairy tale Bubble and the powerful and thought-provoking short Summer Ghost (2021) followed by a Q&a with director loundraw· Much-loved recent work by major auteurs Mamoru Hosoda, Makoto Shinkai (Your Name) and the late great Satoshi Kon· A spotlight on emerging female talent Naoko Yamada...
- 3/15/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
“Inu-Oh,” the acclaimed Japanese animation that debuted in Venice and Toronto last year, has been sold widely by Fortissimo Films and Asmik Ace.
Amsterdam and Beijing based Fortissimo is collaborating with Tokyo-based Asmik Ace on two titles, “Inu-oh” by Yuasa Masaaki and “Missing” by Katayama Shinzo, a former assistant director to “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho on “Mother.”
Rock musical animation “Inu-Oh” was licensed to Sun Distribution for Latin America, to Rapid Eye for Germany, Front Row in the Middle East and Cinemaran in Spain. Asmik Ace handles Asian territories, North America, France, U.K. and Benelux. The theatrical release in Japan will be early Summer, followed by all other territories.
“Missing,” which premiered in Busan’s New Currents section, has sold to Dark Star Pictures for North America. It will have a limited theatrical release and festival screenings before being released in other windows. With Asian sales handled by...
Amsterdam and Beijing based Fortissimo is collaborating with Tokyo-based Asmik Ace on two titles, “Inu-oh” by Yuasa Masaaki and “Missing” by Katayama Shinzo, a former assistant director to “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho on “Mother.”
Rock musical animation “Inu-Oh” was licensed to Sun Distribution for Latin America, to Rapid Eye for Germany, Front Row in the Middle East and Cinemaran in Spain. Asmik Ace handles Asian territories, North America, France, U.K. and Benelux. The theatrical release in Japan will be early Summer, followed by all other territories.
“Missing,” which premiered in Busan’s New Currents section, has sold to Dark Star Pictures for North America. It will have a limited theatrical release and festival screenings before being released in other windows. With Asian sales handled by...
- 3/14/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Fujitsu Ryota, programmer of the Tokyo International Film Festival’s anime section, has taken ‘onko-chishin,’ a four-kanji-character term meaning “respect the past, create the new,” as the guideline for this year’s selection.
The festival has featured Japanese animation focuses for several years, reflecting anime’s position as a key component of the Japanese film industry. It is in high and growing demand internationally.
The “past” is examined in a three-film sidebar dedicated to the life and work of Otsuka Yasuo, an industry pioneer who died in March of this year. He was a mentor of the late Takahata Isao and the iconic Miyazaki Hayao.
“Otsuka is not well known overseas, but he worked on big jobs as an animator during the growth period of the animation industry from the 1950s to the 1980s, and had a great influence on the younger generation,” Fujitsu, told Variety. “He also wrote an...
The festival has featured Japanese animation focuses for several years, reflecting anime’s position as a key component of the Japanese film industry. It is in high and growing demand internationally.
The “past” is examined in a three-film sidebar dedicated to the life and work of Otsuka Yasuo, an industry pioneer who died in March of this year. He was a mentor of the late Takahata Isao and the iconic Miyazaki Hayao.
“Otsuka is not well known overseas, but he worked on big jobs as an animator during the growth period of the animation industry from the 1950s to the 1980s, and had a great influence on the younger generation,” Fujitsu, told Variety. “He also wrote an...
- 11/5/2021
- by Mark Schilling
- Variety Film + TV
As one of the most prolific and certainly most original animators, Masaaki Yuasa has graced us with memorable series and feature films alike, most of which are available to watch on streaming platforms. With 22 films and series under his belt as a director, and many more as a screenwriter, key animator or animation director, Yuasa’s name has became a trademark in the animation film universe. It is to him that we owe the pastel beauty of “The Tatami Galaxy” (2010), the sobering reminder of the times we live, depicted in “Japan sinks: 2020”, the deeply touching anime “Ride Your Wave” (2019), to name just a few. His interpretation of subjects is always over the top, colourful and merciless in its depiction of events and people.
After a significant number of awards won at diverse international film festivals, among which – Sitges, Annecy, Fantasia International Film Festival, and Ottawa International Animation Festival, Yuasa has...
After a significant number of awards won at diverse international film festivals, among which – Sitges, Annecy, Fantasia International Film Festival, and Ottawa International Animation Festival, Yuasa has...
- 9/11/2021
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
When Cannes announced it was going ahead in July, and pulled off a successful festival complete with red carpet glitz, it seemed the global film community breathed a sigh of relief. “Before Cannes, many producers were not so sure about submitting their films to the festival. But when Cannes announced and it went ahead, then, suddenly, there was a new festivals-are-back feeling and we saw a surge of submissions,” says Giovanna Fulvi, Asia selector for the Toronto Intl. Film Festival.
But if Toronto has been lucky enough to operate with a degree of normalcy — Canada reopens its borders to vaccinated visitors from Sept. 7 and the festival can host in-person screenings — many in the industry are worried about the direction and future of film festivals in Asia and that feature Asian fare.
Fulvi faced submissions from Asia that approached normal levels, but the number of available slots was slashed by budget...
But if Toronto has been lucky enough to operate with a degree of normalcy — Canada reopens its borders to vaccinated visitors from Sept. 7 and the festival can host in-person screenings — many in the industry are worried about the direction and future of film festivals in Asia and that feature Asian fare.
Fulvi faced submissions from Asia that approached normal levels, but the number of available slots was slashed by budget...
- 9/9/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Masaaki Yuasa has long established himself as one of the most creatively unbridled minds in all of modern animation — his expressionistic films and television shows (“Devilman Crybaby”) alike exude a shape-shifting fearlessness that allows them to address old strifes with new sensitivities — but not even his die-hard fans could hope to adequately prepare themselves for the head-scratching, jaw-dropping, head-banging freak-out of the director’s latest and potentially last feature, “Inu-Oh.” , “Inu-Oh” unfolds like a mash-up between the Japanese legend “The Tale of the Heike” and Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” right down to the Freddie Mercury falsetto. Not since 1973’s “Belladonna of Sadness” has an anime feature reimagined ancient history in such hypnotically psychedelic fashion.
At heart, “Inu-Oh” is a film about storytelling’s power to keep the past alive, and while Yuasa’s carnivalesque extravaganza can be too slippery to hold onto at times, it always proves unforgettable in a...
At heart, “Inu-Oh” is a film about storytelling’s power to keep the past alive, and while Yuasa’s carnivalesque extravaganza can be too slippery to hold onto at times, it always proves unforgettable in a...
- 9/9/2021
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
An animator long showered with awards and critical praise, beginning with his 2004 full-length directorial debut “Mind Game,” Yuasa Masaaki is no stranger to the festival circuit. But Venice, where his new animated feature “Inu-Oh” is screening in the Horizons section, is his first Big Three festival. And his film is the only one from Japan in the lineup.
“I don’t feel that I’m representing Japan or anything like that, but Venice is a festival with a certain status and influence,” he tells Variety in a Zoom interview. “It was the first international festival to invite Kurosawa Akira. And Kitano Takeshi won its biggest prize. So it’s a festival that has recognized the very top people in Japanese cinema.”
The Japanese media has reported that “Inu-Oh,” an animation about how a blind player of the biwa (Japanese lute) and a Noh dancer with a differently formed body created...
“I don’t feel that I’m representing Japan or anything like that, but Venice is a festival with a certain status and influence,” he tells Variety in a Zoom interview. “It was the first international festival to invite Kurosawa Akira. And Kitano Takeshi won its biggest prize. So it’s a festival that has recognized the very top people in Japanese cinema.”
The Japanese media has reported that “Inu-Oh,” an animation about how a blind player of the biwa (Japanese lute) and a Noh dancer with a differently formed body created...
- 9/7/2021
- by Mark Schilling
- Variety Film + TV
Japanese director Masaaki Yuasa focused on an improbable artistic hybrid as the creative basis for his latest anime feature, Inu-Oh, premiering this week in Venice’s Orizzonti section. What would it have been like if a performer of traditional Japanese Noh theater during the Muromachi period (1336 to 1573) danced to arena rock music instead of the gentle, evocative plucking of the ancient Japanese biwa instrument?
“If you think about it, when rock music first came out, it was something so new and exciting,” Yuasa says. “So if everyday people of the Muromachi era had a chance to hear anything ...
“If you think about it, when rock music first came out, it was something so new and exciting,” Yuasa says. “So if everyday people of the Muromachi era had a chance to hear anything ...
Japanese director Masaaki Yuasa focused on an improbable artistic hybrid as the creative basis for his latest anime feature, Inu-Oh, premiering this week in Venice’s Orizzonti section. What would it have been like if a performer of traditional Japanese Noh theater during the Muromachi period (1336 to 1573) danced to arena rock music instead of the gentle, evocative plucking of the ancient Japanese biwa instrument?
“If you think about it, when rock music first came out, it was something so new and exciting,” Yuasa says. “So if everyday people of the Muromachi era had a chance to hear anything ...
“If you think about it, when rock music first came out, it was something so new and exciting,” Yuasa says. “So if everyday people of the Muromachi era had a chance to hear anything ...
Kidman was allowed the skip the mandatory seven-day hotel quarantine stay for fully vaccinated arrivals from Australia.
Hong Kong authorities are facing criticism after actress Nicole Kidman was granted a waiver from the city’s strict Covid quarantine rules to film Amazon series Expats.
According to local reports, Kidman flew from Sydney to Hong Kong on a private jet on August 12 and was allowed the skip the mandatory seven-day hotel quarantine stay for fully vaccinated arrivals from Australia (which has since been increased to 14 days following a surge in Delta variant cases).
Hong Kong’s Commerce and Economic Development Bureau...
Hong Kong authorities are facing criticism after actress Nicole Kidman was granted a waiver from the city’s strict Covid quarantine rules to film Amazon series Expats.
According to local reports, Kidman flew from Sydney to Hong Kong on a private jet on August 12 and was allowed the skip the mandatory seven-day hotel quarantine stay for fully vaccinated arrivals from Australia (which has since been increased to 14 days following a surge in Delta variant cases).
Hong Kong’s Commerce and Economic Development Bureau...
- 8/19/2021
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Film marks feature directing debut of Jafar Panahi’s son Panah Panahi.
Kino Lorber has acquired US rights to Iranian director Panah Panahi’s debut feature Hit The Road and Celluloid Dreams has licensed multiple territories following the road movie’s well received world premiere in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight last month.
Panahi has served as assistant director on several films by his father Jafar Panahi and was most recently an editor on Cannes 2018 best screenplay winner 3 Faces.
Celluloid Dreams has sold Hit The Road in France (Pyramide Films), UK and Ireland (Picturehouse), China (Dd Dreams), Australia and New Zealand (Rialto...
Kino Lorber has acquired US rights to Iranian director Panah Panahi’s debut feature Hit The Road and Celluloid Dreams has licensed multiple territories following the road movie’s well received world premiere in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight last month.
Panahi has served as assistant director on several films by his father Jafar Panahi and was most recently an editor on Cannes 2018 best screenplay winner 3 Faces.
Celluloid Dreams has sold Hit The Road in France (Pyramide Films), UK and Ireland (Picturehouse), China (Dd Dreams), Australia and New Zealand (Rialto...
- 8/18/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Film marks feature directing debut of Jafar Panahi’s son Panah Panahi.
Kino Lorber has acquired US rights to Iranian director Panah Panahi’s debut feature Hit The Road and Celluloid Dreams has licensed multiple territories following the road movie’s well received world premiere in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight last month.
Panahi has served as assistant director on several films by his father Jafar Panahi and was most recently an editor on Cannes 2018 best screenplay winner 3 Faces.
Celluloid Dreams has sold Hit The Road in France (Pyramide Films), UK and Ireland (Picturehouse), China (Dd Dreams), Australia and New Zealand (Rialto...
Kino Lorber has acquired US rights to Iranian director Panah Panahi’s debut feature Hit The Road and Celluloid Dreams has licensed multiple territories following the road movie’s well received world premiere in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight last month.
Panahi has served as assistant director on several films by his father Jafar Panahi and was most recently an editor on Cannes 2018 best screenplay winner 3 Faces.
Celluloid Dreams has sold Hit The Road in France (Pyramide Films), UK and Ireland (Picturehouse), China (Dd Dreams), Australia and New Zealand (Rialto...
- 8/18/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The Japanese animated musical will premiere in Horizons.
Amsterdam-based sales outfit Fortissimo Films has taken all rights outside Asia to new Japanese animated musical Inu-Oh from director Masaaki Yuasa.
Produced by Japanese animation studio Science Saru, the film will have its world premiere in Venice’s Horizons section next month, before showing as a special presentation at Toronto.
The deal was negotiated by Mai Kato, head of international sales at Asmik Ace, and Gabrielle Rozing, general manager at Fortissimo Films. It revives a longstanding relationship between the two companies, which previously co-managed sales on Tran Anh Hung’s Norwegian Wood,...
Amsterdam-based sales outfit Fortissimo Films has taken all rights outside Asia to new Japanese animated musical Inu-Oh from director Masaaki Yuasa.
Produced by Japanese animation studio Science Saru, the film will have its world premiere in Venice’s Horizons section next month, before showing as a special presentation at Toronto.
The deal was negotiated by Mai Kato, head of international sales at Asmik Ace, and Gabrielle Rozing, general manager at Fortissimo Films. It revives a longstanding relationship between the two companies, which previously co-managed sales on Tran Anh Hung’s Norwegian Wood,...
- 8/18/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
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