Terry Gilliam, the US-born director famous for a string of dark fantasy films, has finally finished his version of Don Quixote... after 17 years battling one disaster after another. "Sorry for the long silence...," he posted laconically to Facebook on Sunday. "After 17 years, we have ...
The next Star Wars film will be called, "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," the film studio Disney announced on Monday. The movie will be the second of the sequels, set 30 years after the original movie trilogy, and will follow the adventures of Luke Skywalker ...
A Shanghai court ordered two Chinese firms to pay Walt Disney Co. and Pixar more than 1.35 million yuan ($194,440) compensation for copying parts of their hit movies "Cars" and "Cars 2," the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday. The ruling is the latest ...
Video game maker Nintendo Co. is eyeing the movie business for growth. Company spokesman Makoto Wakae said Monday details are undecided but the work might be a theater release or a DVD. Nintendo, which makes the Wii U home console and Nintendo 3DS hand-held machine, has ...
Manufacturers are thinking inside the box to offer stressed-out consumers a personal sanctuary in Japan's notoriously cramped homes. According to 2013 government statistics, the average size of a Japanese house is 94.4 sq. meters, compared to 157.2 sq. meters for the United States (2011 figures), ...
Actress Maggie Kirkpatrick, who played a sadistic prison warden nicknamed "The Freak" in an Australian television show, has avoided jail when she was sentenced for molesting a 14-year-old who was devoted fan of the series more than 30 years ago. The series was known as ...
With the release of the seventh "Star Wars" installation looming in December, Toys "R" Us Japan Ltd. on Saturday opened dedicated in-store displays at its Odaiba and Kobe stores in an attempt to expand the fan base. "We launched this promotion because we'd like to ...
Clint Eastwood wants to get one thing straight: He did not threaten to kill Michael Moore. "It isn't a bad idea," Eastwood laughed Wednesday during a tribute luncheon for the veteran actor and director at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. The "American Sniper" director was responding to ...
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has recently come up with a smartphone application to guide tourists to Tokyo locations featured in TV dramas, movies and animations, in both English and Japanese. The Tokyo Location Guide, which is free to download on Apple Inc.'s App Store and ...
A Tokyo movie theater will screen movies this month about the death penalty and host guest speakers to stimulate debate about a practice that most developed nations have abolished. "Death Penalty Movie Week" is scheduled for Feb. 14 to 20 at Eurospace in Shibuya and ...
Two extravagant comedies, "Birdman" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel," tied for the most Oscar nominations Thursday morning with nine nods each, including best picture. They were joined in best-picture nominations by "Boyhood," "Whiplash," "The Theory of Everything," "The Imitation Game," "American Sniper" and "Selma." Nominations for ...
Renowned actor Bunta Sugawara, who won fame portraying the grittiness and cruelty of small-time gangsters, died Friday at a Tokyo hospital from liver cancer, movie company Toei Co. said Monday. He was 81. A native of Sendai, Sugawara starred in director Kinji Fukasaku's eight-part "Battles ...
