In the past 12 hours, what film and television news from around the world is worth watching?
<b>01. Fun! </b>Seth Logan starred in the new comedy "American Kimchi"
Seth Logan, starring in the new comedy An American Pickle, announced that HBO Max, a new streaming platform moved from Sony to Warner, will go live this summer. The film also released stills, and the young "old man" who has been pickled by kimchi for 100 years and woke up in brooklyn today is unveiled.
Directed by Photographer Brandon Trost, who often collaborates with Logan, Kimchi is based on the novella Sell Out, published in the 2013 New Yorker, and written by original author Simon Rich. Logan, one of whom was Herschel Greenbaum, a laborer who immigrated to the United States in the 1920s, accidentally fell into a vat of kimchi and was pickled for a hundred years, maintaining its perfect shape. Now, a hundred years later, Greenbaum has woken up in Brooklyn, New York, without the slightest hint of old age. He goes to look for his current family, only to find that only his great-grandson Ben Greenbaum (also played by Logan) still exists. Ben is a mild-mannered procedural ape, and Herschel can't understand him at all.
02. Warner signed an 8-week extension contract with The Matrix 4 Card Division
Warner Bros. is very confident in the filming process of "The Matrix 4" and believes that production will be resumed in 8 weeks. According to foreign media Variety, the new sci-fi film directed by Lana Wachowski has signed an 8-week extension contract with the crew, and it is expected to resume filming after July 6.
Filming for The Matrix 4 began in San Francisco in February and then moved to Berlin in mid-March, but before filming could begin in Europe, production was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. The original trilogy's original team, "Neo" Keanu Reeves, and "Trinity" Kerry-Ann Moss both returned to the film, with Yahya Abdul-Meiding ("Aquaman"), Neil Patrick Harris ("The Romance of Mom and Dad"), Brian M. J. Smith, Toby O'Woomer and Jonathan Grove all joined.
01. "Manslaughter" makes a sequel Digimon movie is expected to be released in the mainland
Hengye Pictures released the 2020-2021 annual film list! Last year's dark horse crime film "Manslaughter 2" sequel "Manslaughter 2" was listed among them, and other domestic films included "China Ping Pong" with "Win the Championship" screenwriter Zhang Ji as the script consultant, the thriller suspense film "Beijing 81 No. 3", and the director/screenwriter film "The Wedding Day".
In addition, the release list also includes the 20th anniversary theatrical version of Digimon, the Japanese animated film "Son of the Sea Beast" that has been confirmed to be introduced, the Japanese version of "Sunshine Sister Tao" starring Ryoko Shinohara and Suzu Hirose, the Sino-Japanese co-production "See You Again Nara" produced by Jia Zhangke and Naomi Kawase, and the live-action film version of "Pinocchio".
<b>02. The Film Bureau is temporarily exempted from collecting special funds for the development of the film industry</b>
Today, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation issued an announcement exempting vat on film screening income for the whole year of 2020, while the Ministry of Finance and the National Film Administration also issued a joint announcement to exempt Hubei Province from the special funds for the development of the national film industry for the whole year of 2020; other provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government are exempted from the special funds for the development of the national film industry from January 1, 2020 to August 31, 2020.
<b>01. Miyazaki's new film has been completed for half an hour, and it may take another 3 years to complete</b>
Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki recently gave an interview to Entertainment Weekly, revealing the latest developments in Hayao Miyazaki's new animated film "What Kind of Life Do You Want to Live"! This film is miyako's latest feature film after 2013's "The Wind Rises", adapted from Yoshino Genzaburo's novel of the same name.
"The film that Miyazaki is currently working on is a grand, fantastic story." Toshio Suzuki said, "We are still hand-painting everything... There is more to draw than before. When we used to make Totoro, we only had 8 animators, and we spent 8 months doing Totoro. For the film that Miyazaki is currently working on, we have 60 animators, but <b>we can only make 1 minute of animation a month</b>. In other words, 12 months a year, you can see 12 minutes of movies. In fact, we've been doing this movie for 3 years, so so far we've done 36 minutes. <b>We hope to complete this work in the next 3 years</b>. ”
In addition, Toshio Suzuki also confirmed that the untitled feature film directed by Miyazaki's son, Miyazaki Goro, is also under development at the same time, which is a work made entirely through CG animation and is Miyazaki's latest feature film since "The Battle of the Earth and The Sea" and "The Hillside where Yu Meiren Blooms".
<b>02. Yuko Oshima's new film "The Voice Of The Voice That Can Only Be Sung" plays the wife of the Unruly</b>
Yuko Oshima joined the new film "Can Only Sing The Voice", and challenged to play the wife of the Inhuman for the first time! The film is directed/written by Hiroya Ishii, director of "The Chronicle of the Boat" and "The Night Sky Always Has the Greatest Density of Blue", and co-starred Taiga Nakano and Ryu Wakaba.
The story tells that Yamada Atsuhisa (Nakano) and his wife Natsumi (Oshima) have a 5-year-old daughter and live an ordinary life, and one day Atsuhisa witnesses Natsumi having an affair with a strange man, and since then, the relationship between Atsuhisa, Natsumi, and Takeda (Wakaba), who is with the two of them, begins to twist.
The film is expected to be released in Japan this fall, and is scheduled to be released in Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.