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Added time for script delays, differing ideas of days off and additional cost of crew. Producers of “Blood & Sweat”, an upcoming eight-episode crime series produced by Japan’s AX-ON and Finland’s ICS Nordic, offered a candid look at real-world challenges facing international co-productions, at a TIFFCOM seminar. TIFFCOM is the market arm of the Tokyo […]

Jabali.ai is making a play to open up game development to the masses with the launch of Jabali Studio, a next-gen platform that lets users design, build and pub 2D and 3D games without wrestling with complex code. The AI game tech company is positioning the platform as a bridge between technical prowess and creative […]

“The Captive” offers the intriguing concept of “Don Quixote’s” author viewed through a lens more redolent of “Arabian Nights,” spinning tales to keep himself alive while a hostage of Moors in Algiers. But the known facts about this murky biographical chapter are vague, permitting writer-director Alejandro Amenabar much imaginative license, though he makes less of […]

For its painstaking physicality alone, stop-motion is inherently impressive as an animation technique, no matter the scale or budgetary specifics of the project. But when artists, like those behind the ambitiously crafted phantasmagorical musical “I Am Frankelda,” throw caution to wind to build an imposing universe to animate frame by frame, one can’t help but […]

Disney’s networks including ESPN and ABC have gone dark on YouTube TV. YouTube TV removed Disney’s networks as much as 30 minutes before the previous carriage deal expired at the stroke of midnight ET, after the two sides remain far apart on a deal renewal to keep ABC, ESPN and more on the internet TV […]

The Tokyo International Film Festival’s TIFF Lounge series of talks and masterclasses featured a conversation between Yamada Yoji, director of the festival Centerpiece “Tokyo Taxi”, and Lee Sang-il, recipient of this year’s Kurosawa Akira Award for his film “Kokuho.” The 94-year-old Yamada, whose, lengthy filmography includes the iconic 48-episode “Tora-san” series that ran from 1969 […]

Director Pengfei’s “Take Off,” which world premiered in competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival, represents both a continuation and evolution of the filmmaker’s artistic preoccupations. Adapted from Shuang Xuetao’s novella “The Aeronaut,” the film follows Li Mingqi (Jiang Qiming), an ordinary worker in Northeast China who inherits his late father’s obsession with flight – […]