Tokyo Appointment
Noted Japanese director Ando Momoko has been named as the ambassador for this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival.
She also features, alongside her father Okuda Eiji in the festival’s newly-released poster, which recreates a scene from Ozu Yasujiro’s “Tokyo Story” and in which Okuda and Ando represent the classic film’s Ryu Chishu and Hara Setsuko characters. The poster image, shot at the rooftop garden of Kitte Marunouchi Building, with Tokyo Station in the background, was designed by Koshino Junko, who has created the festival’s key visuals for the past three years.
Tokyo Iff 2023 festival poster.
This is the 120th anniversary of Japanese film master Ozu’s birth, and the 60th anniversary of his death.
The festival, which says that its key themes this year will be “diversity” and “the possibilities of cinema,” will run Oct. 23 – Nov. 1 in the Hibiya-Yurakucho-Marunouchi-Ginza area.
The 36thTIFF opening...
Noted Japanese director Ando Momoko has been named as the ambassador for this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival.
She also features, alongside her father Okuda Eiji in the festival’s newly-released poster, which recreates a scene from Ozu Yasujiro’s “Tokyo Story” and in which Okuda and Ando represent the classic film’s Ryu Chishu and Hara Setsuko characters. The poster image, shot at the rooftop garden of Kitte Marunouchi Building, with Tokyo Station in the background, was designed by Koshino Junko, who has created the festival’s key visuals for the past three years.
Tokyo Iff 2023 festival poster.
This is the 120th anniversary of Japanese film master Ozu’s birth, and the 60th anniversary of his death.
The festival, which says that its key themes this year will be “diversity” and “the possibilities of cinema,” will run Oct. 23 – Nov. 1 in the Hibiya-Yurakucho-Marunouchi-Ginza area.
The 36thTIFF opening...
- 8/17/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Big Zuu Serves Up ITV Travelogue
Grime artist-turned-tv-chef Big Zuu has landed an ITV cooking travelog. Big Zuu’s 12 Dishes in 12 Hours will see the double-bafta winner travel around Europe cooking local delicacies and hanging out with celebrity guests, as he teaches his companions everything they need to know about a place through tasting 12 dishes. The host made his name on Big Zuu’s Big Eats for UKTV and has since launched a production company, Big Productions, which is co-producing 12 Dishes with Twofour. Last year, he made Big Zuu’s Breakfast Show for ITV while Big Productions recently struck a development deal with Banijay. ITV commissioner Natalie Rose, who greenlit 12 Dishes, was the driving force behind Big Zuu’s UKTV show when she worked for that network several years ago. “It’s always been a dream of mine to have my own food travelogue so I’m gassed to finally...
Grime artist-turned-tv-chef Big Zuu has landed an ITV cooking travelog. Big Zuu’s 12 Dishes in 12 Hours will see the double-bafta winner travel around Europe cooking local delicacies and hanging out with celebrity guests, as he teaches his companions everything they need to know about a place through tasting 12 dishes. The host made his name on Big Zuu’s Big Eats for UKTV and has since launched a production company, Big Productions, which is co-producing 12 Dishes with Twofour. Last year, he made Big Zuu’s Breakfast Show for ITV while Big Productions recently struck a development deal with Banijay. ITV commissioner Natalie Rose, who greenlit 12 Dishes, was the driving force behind Big Zuu’s UKTV show when she worked for that network several years ago. “It’s always been a dream of mine to have my own food travelogue so I’m gassed to finally...
- 8/17/2023
- by Max Goldbart and Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Adaptation
Blink Studios, the new content venture from Endeavor Content, has acquired the rights to Canadian author Charlene Carr’s next novel “Hold My Girl” and will adapt the book as a series. Blink Studios will serve as the studio for the production, the company’s first since launching in November of last year.
In the book, two women discover that more than a year ago their eggs were switched during IVF, meaning that one has been raising another woman’s child while the other suffered through a devastating stillborn pregnancy of a child that wasn’t hers. Semi-autobiographical, Carr, a Black woman, gave birth to a visibly white child after IVF and the residual fears that one day a mix-up would be discovered and she would learn her daughter wasn’t her biological child.
Executive producing the series adaptation are Oscar and Primetime Emmy nominated producer Michael London and...
Blink Studios, the new content venture from Endeavor Content, has acquired the rights to Canadian author Charlene Carr’s next novel “Hold My Girl” and will adapt the book as a series. Blink Studios will serve as the studio for the production, the company’s first since launching in November of last year.
In the book, two women discover that more than a year ago their eggs were switched during IVF, meaning that one has been raising another woman’s child while the other suffered through a devastating stillborn pregnancy of a child that wasn’t hers. Semi-autobiographical, Carr, a Black woman, gave birth to a visibly white child after IVF and the residual fears that one day a mix-up would be discovered and she would learn her daughter wasn’t her biological child.
Executive producing the series adaptation are Oscar and Primetime Emmy nominated producer Michael London and...
- 1/20/2022
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
HanWay Boards UK Debut
HanWay Films has picked up world sales rights to Sweet Sue, the debut feature from Leo Leigh, son of filmmaker Mike Leigh. Starring Maggie O’Neill, Tony Pitts and Harry Trevaldwyn, the pic is a comedy-drama following a woman back on the dating scene who meets a mysterious biker at her brother’s funeral. It is produced by Somesuch, Sums Film & Media with BBC Film. HanWay will screen footage to buyers at the virtual European Film Market. A first look at the film is at the top of this post.
Nordisk Film Norway Hire
Nordisk Film Production has hired Thomas Robsahm, the experienced producer who has worked on more than 50 films including with directors Joachim Trier (The Worst Person In The World), Margreth Olin (Self Portrait), and Maria Sødahl (Hope). He will be based in Nordisk’s Norway office.
ITV Hires Former UKTV Commissioner
ITV has reshuffled its entertainment division,...
HanWay Films has picked up world sales rights to Sweet Sue, the debut feature from Leo Leigh, son of filmmaker Mike Leigh. Starring Maggie O’Neill, Tony Pitts and Harry Trevaldwyn, the pic is a comedy-drama following a woman back on the dating scene who meets a mysterious biker at her brother’s funeral. It is produced by Somesuch, Sums Film & Media with BBC Film. HanWay will screen footage to buyers at the virtual European Film Market. A first look at the film is at the top of this post.
Nordisk Film Norway Hire
Nordisk Film Production has hired Thomas Robsahm, the experienced producer who has worked on more than 50 films including with directors Joachim Trier (The Worst Person In The World), Margreth Olin (Self Portrait), and Maria Sødahl (Hope). He will be based in Nordisk’s Norway office.
ITV Hires Former UKTV Commissioner
ITV has reshuffled its entertainment division,...
- 1/20/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The Personal History Of David Copperfield filmmaker Armando Iannucci and Escape From Pretoria director Francis Annan will be the recipients of the inaugural Dda Spotlight Award at 24th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. The honorary prize was set up to time with the 50th anniversary of comms company Dda and will honor honours artists and filmmakers whose recent work takes a concerted step forward in improving diversity and inclusion in the film industry and cinema culture. The pair will accept their awards virtually on November 15.
Exclusive: Danielle C. Ryan, Matthew Lawrence, Dawn Olivieri And Kevin Joy will star in action-comedy feature Double Threat for director Shane Stanley, whose Break Even releases December 1 via Vision Films and Artist View Entertainment. Mo Gallini and Andrea Logan are also on board the pic which follows a forensic accountant (Lawrence) whose quiet pilgrimage to travel cross country to scatter his late brother’s ashes...
Exclusive: Danielle C. Ryan, Matthew Lawrence, Dawn Olivieri And Kevin Joy will star in action-comedy feature Double Threat for director Shane Stanley, whose Break Even releases December 1 via Vision Films and Artist View Entertainment. Mo Gallini and Andrea Logan are also on board the pic which follows a forensic accountant (Lawrence) whose quiet pilgrimage to travel cross country to scatter his late brother’s ashes...
- 11/13/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
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