IRAN: In less than a week, acclaimed director Jafar Panahi has become Iran’s third filmmaker detained. Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, who won a Golden Bear at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival for his film “Taxi,” was arrested in Tehran on Monday when Panahi went to the prosecutor’s office to check on him. According to the semi-official Fars News Agency, Rasoulof …

US: We expect huge things from Steven Yeun this year, and we can’t wait to see it all come together on the big screen again. Okja director Bong Joon-ho will be reconnecting with him five years after they worked together on the film, which was released in 2017. Yeun is the newest addition to the cast of the as-yet-untitled film …

ASEAN – Joko Anwar, the famed Indonesian horror filmmaker behind Pengabdi Setan (Satan’s Slaves) and Perempuan Tanah Jahanam (Impetigore), is preparing to make his Hollywood debut. According to Deadline, he will develop and direct a film adaptation of Charles Beaumont’s famous short tale Fritzchen. The 46-year-old will make his English-language feature debut with the next picture. On his Instagram account, …

Mamoru Hosoda who, on a numerous instances is being compared to two other Japanese animators Steven Spielberg and Hayao Miyazaki has something to talk out with both of them. Hasoda who got an Oscar nod three years ago over his Mirai said that was already fed  up on how the Hollywood treats the digital world as well as how Miyazaki portray …

Metro Manila – Veteran filmmaker and one of Philippine cinema’s greats died on Thursday morning. He was 76. Ricky Gallaga, his brother, told Visayan Star Daily that the award-winning director passed away at the Riverside Medical Center this morning due to “complications arising from past health conditions”. Gallaga was best known for his film Oro, Plata, Mata (1982) which bagged …