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Film projectionist and collector Wang Chin-ting (left) watches as staff members from the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute transfer old film reels at his archive in Changhua County on May 29.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jul 6, 2026
Taiwanese film hunters rescue aging reels from bygone era
Ranging from popular operas to romance dramas, the films resonated with many Taiwanese who had been educated during Japan’s colonial rule and had limited Mandarin skills.
Cosm's large-screen theater in Dallas offers seating that includes high-top tables and booths designed to create a more social theater experience.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 25, 2026
Sony Pictures invests $100 million in giant-screen startup Cosm
Founded in 2020, Cosm serves food and offers seating that includes high-top tables and booths designed to create a more social theater experience.
A Studio Ghibli store in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. Studio Ghibli will open a pop-up store in Los Angeles later this month, bringing a wide selection of merchandise to the U.S. for the first time.
JAPAN / Society
Jun 17, 2026
Studio Ghibli to open its first U.S. pop-up store in Los Angeles
Called “Donguri Republic in Los Angeles,” the store will be opened for six months from June. 23 to Dec. 31.
Tao Okamoto (left) and Virginie Efira (right) shared the Cannes Film Festival’s best actress honor for their roles in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “All of a Sudden,” a coproduction between Japan, France, Belgium and Germany.
CULTURE / Film
Jun 4, 2026
Japan’s Cannes moment signals a new global push
Tao Okamoto made history at Cannes, while Japanese filmmakers and producers looked ahead, embracing collaboration as the future of the industry.
Japan's Tao Okamoto and Belgium's Virginie Efira, co-winners of the best actress award for their roles in the film "All of a Sudden," celebrate during the closing ceremony of the 79th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on Saturday.
CULTURE / Film
May 24, 2026
In first for Japanese, Tao Okamoto shares Best Actress award at Cannes
Okamoto shared the honor with Belgium’s Virginie Efira for their roles in the drama “All of a Sudden” by Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi.
"Sinners" wins the outstanding Motion Picture honor at the 57th NAACP Image Awards in Pasadena, California, in February. Debates over Black British actors playing African Americans ignore Hollywood’s global nature and risk limiting opportunities.
COMMENTARY
May 19, 2026
Should Black Brit actors play African Americans?
Nearly 7% of Black children in the U.S. don’t have access to arts education in school, more than twice the rate of their White peers, according to a 2019 report.
The former Suma Belt Conveyor Tunnel is used as a filming location for "City Hunter"
JAPAN / FOCUS
May 7, 2026
Film commissions give economic boost to local communities
The nonprofit entities provide help with location-hunting, site coordination and filming operations free of charge.
Sony Pictures Entertainment is restructuring for growth, leading to hundreds of job cuts across its film, TV and corporate divisions in the coming months.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 8, 2026
Sony Pictures Entertainment to cut hundreds of jobs in TV and film
The job cuts at Sony Pictures come amid a deep slump and existential crisis in Hollywood, which has faced setbacks, two labor strikes and the ongoing collapse of cable TV.
Subhabrata Debnath, co-founder of NeuralGarage, an AI startup, shows a demonstration of AI-generated dubbing on his computer at the company's office in Bengaluru last August.
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Apr 4, 2026
AI is rewiring the world’s most prolific film industry
India produces the most movies of any country, but shifting audience habits are squeezing production budgets and studios are responding by tapping AI.
India’s film industry is pivoting from Hindi Bollywood to multilingual southern cinema that dominates box offices with folklore fantasy and regional hits.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 23, 2026
Bollywood is no match for India’s new wave cinema
This is the new, multilingual Bollywood, and its main offering is fresh stories, set in new cinematic universes.
Hairstylist and makeup artist Kyoko Toyokawa (center) and other creative staff members of the film “Kokuho” face reporters in Los Angeles on Saturday.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Mar 16, 2026
‘Kokuho’ misses out on Oscar for makeup and hairstyling
The kabuki-focused film’s hair and makeup artists were the first Japanese nationals from a Japanese movie to be nominated in the category.
Japanese film director Hideo Sakaki was sentenced to eight years in prison Friday for sexually assaulting two women actors under the guise of “acting instruction,” media reports said.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 6, 2026
Japanese film director jailed for 8 years for sexual assault
Hideo Sakaki’s film “Confession” was pulled following the accusations in 2022, part of a string of sexual abuse allegations to hit Japan’s film and television industry.
The Warner Bros. Water Tower is pictured at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California, on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 28, 2026
Paramount to buy Warner Bros Discovery in $110 billion deal; Netflix out of race
The deal is among Hollywood’s biggest media shake-ups and will create one of the largest film studios in the world.
The Toho group earned ¥160.5 billion at the box office in 2025, accounting for more than half of the overall box-office revenues in the country.
CULTURE / Film
Jan 29, 2026
Japan box-office revenues mark record high in 2025
The number of movie theater goers increased 30.7% to 188,756,000, the second highest on record.
Fiction writing, commercial photography, radio, music and — most ominously — journalism face a reckoning with artificial intelligence. 
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 26, 2026
The takeover of all media by artificial intelligence is coming
Not only is AI already upending the filmmaking industry, but Hollywood is just one example of how the technology will cause enormous social and economic pain.
"One Battle After Another" director Paul Thomas Anderson (second from right) poses with producer Sara Murphy (far left) and cast members Teyana Taylor (second from left) and Chase Infiniti at the 83rd Annual Golden Globes. The film won four of its nine nominations including best director and best screenplay. Taylor won best supporting actress.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jan 12, 2026
‘One Battle After Another’ and ‘Hamnet’ triumph at Golden Globes
Paul Thomas Anderson’s screwball thriller and TV’s teen murder saga “Adolescence” each received four prizes, but the night’s final award was its biggest surprise.
The Warner Bros. studio lot in Burbank, California, on Dec. 8
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 31, 2025
Warner Bros. plans to reject Paramount offer next week
The storied Hollywood studio is set to turn down the amended $108.4 billion hostile bid despite a personal guarantee from billionaire Larry Ellison backing the offer.
French actress Brigitte Bardot addresses a news conference in 1965 in Hollywood for the film "Viva Maria," directed by Louis Malle (background). A female icon of the 1960s and a fervent animal rights activist, it was announced Sunday that she died at age 91.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Dec 28, 2025
Brigitte Bardot, sex symbol turned animal activist, dies age 91
Bardot quit making movies at age 39, and she courted controversy with comments about marginalized members of society.
Film director Kiwi Chow holds a poster for his latest thriller, “Deadline,” inside his office in Hong Kong.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 22, 2025
Banned film exposes Hong Kong’s censorship trend, director says
“If it involves Hong Kong’s real political situation, absolutely no one will make a movie about it,” says Deadline director Kiwi Chow.
Defense attorney Alan Jackson speaks to the media as he leaves a courthouse in Los Angeles on Wednesday after Nick Reiner appeared in court for the first time on charges over the deaths of his parents.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 18, 2025
Son of filmmaker Rob Reiner appears in court on charges he murdered parents
Nick Reiner appeared in court three days after his arrest and a day after he was charged with one of the most shocking celebrity homicide cases in Los Angeles’ history.
China’s demand for Soviet-style apartments shows limits to revival
Apartments built during a Soviet Union-inspired construction drive in the 1970s and 1980s tend to suffer from poor insulation and outdated plumbing, but they are seeing a revival in interest due to their attractive locations.
Japanese scientists identify neural mechanism that may explain why we dislike people
The aggressive mouse (left) used in the experiment and a mouse defending itself
Japanese payment processor’s collapse hits banks and restaurants
Zentoshin served around 200,000 shops, many of which rely on early payments to maintain cash flow, raising concerns over their financial stability following the disruption.
Over 70% of accommodations in Japan say they are understaffed amid tourism influx
The number of foreign visitors to Japan reached a high of 42.68 million in 2025.
Lenders seek $700 million after Japanese payments firm’s collapse
The financial failure of Osaka-based Zentoshin has left 63 creditors with claims totaling ¥115.16 billion, according to Tokyo Shoko Research.
Japan’s largest exhibition of women photographers rights a wrong in cultural history
Miwa Yanagi’s “Elevator Girl House” series skewers the superficiality of gender roles through staged images.
Over 70% of accommodations in Japan say they are understaffed amid tourism influx
The number of foreign visitors to Japan reached a high of 42.68 million in 2025.
‘Princess Mononoke’ comes alive in Super Kabuki staging
The “Princess Mononoke” adaptation was created under Shochiku’s Super Kabuki initiative, a modern form of kabuki with more technology in staging and open to pop culture collaborations.
The beating heart inside ‘Human Vapor’
Different forms of love and connection form the emotional backbone of Netflix’s “Human Vapor,” says actor Shun Oguri, who plays troubled detective Kenji Okamoto.
Japan bets on character IP to drive global growth
Born on social media platforms in 2022, Opanchu Usagi has become a major hit, especially among Generation Z.

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