Japanese manga series “Tiger Mask” is being adapted into a live-action feature for the international market by Italy’s Fabula Pictures and Brandon Box and Japan’s Kodansha.
The popular manga, which follows a ruthless professional Japanese wrestler named Naoto Date who after making it big in the U.S. returns to his country and fights against evil forces, previously inspired an anime TV series made by Japan’s Toei Animation.
“Tiger Mask’ is a long-beloved figure both in Japan and Italy, where he’s been [considered] a strong, cool and timeless hero since the series’ first release in 1969,” Yohei Takami, head of Kodansha’s media business rights division, said in a statement.
“We are excited to be able to bring a new ‘Tiger Mask’ to global audiences, partnering with respected Italian filmmakers sharing the love and passion for ‘Tiger Mask’ with us, like Fabula Pictures and Brandon Box,” he added.
The popular manga, which follows a ruthless professional Japanese wrestler named Naoto Date who after making it big in the U.S. returns to his country and fights against evil forces, previously inspired an anime TV series made by Japan’s Toei Animation.
“Tiger Mask’ is a long-beloved figure both in Japan and Italy, where he’s been [considered] a strong, cool and timeless hero since the series’ first release in 1969,” Yohei Takami, head of Kodansha’s media business rights division, said in a statement.
“We are excited to be able to bring a new ‘Tiger Mask’ to global audiences, partnering with respected Italian filmmakers sharing the love and passion for ‘Tiger Mask’ with us, like Fabula Pictures and Brandon Box,” he added.
- 11/20/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Alexi Tan, a screenwriter and director who was a protégé of John Woo, has teamed with artist Charles Simpson to launch comic book “Monk Wars.”
The “Monk Wars” universe is a dystopian gritty world filled with martial arts action and a broad array of diverse characters. The first book will follow Monk Ma, who has ancient animal powers, as he assembles his followers to take on the Rat-Men soldiers.
The project is being steered by David U. Lee’s Beijing-based Leeding Media which will manage all media rights to the comic book including film, television and web series. Weston Suh’s Los Angeles-based Final Order Comics has partnered to take print publication rights for the first book and subsequent issues.
“I want to create a world that introduces classic martial arts animal fighting styles from movies I grew up watching and turn them into superpowers for a new generation of young heroes,...
The “Monk Wars” universe is a dystopian gritty world filled with martial arts action and a broad array of diverse characters. The first book will follow Monk Ma, who has ancient animal powers, as he assembles his followers to take on the Rat-Men soldiers.
The project is being steered by David U. Lee’s Beijing-based Leeding Media which will manage all media rights to the comic book including film, television and web series. Weston Suh’s Los Angeles-based Final Order Comics has partnered to take print publication rights for the first book and subsequent issues.
“I want to create a world that introduces classic martial arts animal fighting styles from movies I grew up watching and turn them into superpowers for a new generation of young heroes,...
- 5/12/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
In his film “The Mute Man of Sardinia” (“Il Muto di Gallura”) Turin-born Matteo Fresi reignites the feud between the Vasa and Mamia families, which caused the deaths of more than 70 people in mid-19th century Sardinia. Focusing on deaf-mute Bastiano Tansu, he shows an outsider who – mistreated and marginalized all his life – turned into a feared assassin, driven into a killing frenzy following his brother’s murder.
“My father is from Sardinia, from Gallura, so I would hear about these events a lot. It’s a famous story in that region, yet completely unknown in the rest of the country,” Fresi tells Variety after the film’s premiere at Torino Film Festival, admitting that he reached out to the locals in order to find out a bit more. In 1884, Enrico Costa published a novel about Tansu, described by the helmer as a “very precise” take on the violent conflict.
“My father is from Sardinia, from Gallura, so I would hear about these events a lot. It’s a famous story in that region, yet completely unknown in the rest of the country,” Fresi tells Variety after the film’s premiere at Torino Film Festival, admitting that he reached out to the locals in order to find out a bit more. In 1884, Enrico Costa published a novel about Tansu, described by the helmer as a “very precise” take on the violent conflict.
- 12/3/2021
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Photo: ‘Baggio: The Divine Ponytail’/Netflix Knowing absolutely nothing about someone should not discourage viewers from indulging in the ever-revered and held to extremely low standards genre of the biopic. On the contrary, it is the job of good biopics to establish who the person was to the world and in a private sense to make a good case that this is someone we should care about. I cannot say with confidence that ‘Baggio: The Divine Ponytail’, directed by Letizia Lamartire, succeeds in this task. Related article: ‘Seeing America’: HBO Special Features Soccer Star and Fearless Activist Megan Rapinoe Related article: Andrew Garfield Is Erratically Famous in Gia Coppola’s Internet Satire ‘Mainstream’ ‘Baggio: The Divine Ponytail’ Knowing absolutely nothing except the, for lack of a better word, divine love Italy and most everywhere in the world except the United States holds for soccer and the fact that the...
- 6/2/2021
- by Jacqueline Postajian
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
Skybound Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television’s Skybound Galactic joint venture have partnered with Italy’s Fabula to produce an Italian-language TV series adaptation of the Skybound/Image comic book “Clone.”
The young Italian screenwriters’ collective known as Grams, which wrote Netflix Italian original “Baby,” will adapt and showrun the live action series.
The comic book, created by David Schulner, follows Luke Taylor, whose life is interrupted when an identical, bloodied version of himself shows up at his home. The clone informs Luke that he’s one of a batch of clones who are all out to capture his pregnant wife and their unborn child.
Writing team Grams comprises Antonio Le Fosse, Eleonora Trucchi, Marco Raspanti, Giacomo Mazzariol and Romulo Emmanuel Salvador, who also worked on “Baby” with Fabula, the expanding Rome-based company headed by Nicola De Angelis and controlled by France’s Federation Entertainment.
More recently, Fabula produced groundbreaking Italian series “Zero,...
The young Italian screenwriters’ collective known as Grams, which wrote Netflix Italian original “Baby,” will adapt and showrun the live action series.
The comic book, created by David Schulner, follows Luke Taylor, whose life is interrupted when an identical, bloodied version of himself shows up at his home. The clone informs Luke that he’s one of a batch of clones who are all out to capture his pregnant wife and their unborn child.
Writing team Grams comprises Antonio Le Fosse, Eleonora Trucchi, Marco Raspanti, Giacomo Mazzariol and Romulo Emmanuel Salvador, who also worked on “Baby” with Fabula, the expanding Rome-based company headed by Nicola De Angelis and controlled by France’s Federation Entertainment.
More recently, Fabula produced groundbreaking Italian series “Zero,...
- 5/13/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
"People love you so much because you showed them you're human." Netflix has revealed the full-length official trailer for Baggio: The Divine Ponytail, also known as Il Divin Codino (which is just "The Divine Ponytail") in Italian. The Netflix film retraces the 22-year-long career of famous football / soccer player Roberto Baggio, focusing on the champions' story and the one of the man behind it. By telling the story of the rise of both the champion and the man behind it, the conflicts with his coaches, the unforeseen events and an extraordinary ability to react, it paints the portrait of an icon destined to become, over the years, a symbol of Italian football throughout the world. Huzzah! It will also take a closer look at the man himself, his relationship with his family, and his Buddhist beliefs. It's not a documentary film, but a fictionalization, starring Andrea Arcangeli as Roberto Baggio.
- 5/13/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
It’s safe to say that the Covid content drought is just about over. Netflix prides itself on being the most, let’s say, prolific streaming service in the game. With its list of new releases for May 2021 it’s once again revealing why.
There is a lot going on for Netflix this month and it all starts with some high profile original films. Zack Snyder’s latest zombie effort Army of the Dead premieres on May 21. That will be preceded by Monster, the adaptation of Walter Dean Myers’ classic YA book, on May 7 and Amy Adams Rear Window-esque The Woman in the Window on May 14.
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Netflix’s TV offerings in May 2021 are just as packed. The adaptation of Millarworld superhero comic Jupiter’s Legacy...
There is a lot going on for Netflix this month and it all starts with some high profile original films. Zack Snyder’s latest zombie effort Army of the Dead premieres on May 21. That will be preceded by Monster, the adaptation of Walter Dean Myers’ classic YA book, on May 7 and Amy Adams Rear Window-esque The Woman in the Window on May 14.
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Netflix’s TV offerings in May 2021 are just as packed. The adaptation of Millarworld superhero comic Jupiter’s Legacy...
- 5/1/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
With romantic comedies, action-packed thrillers and buzzy documentaries, Netflix’s upcoming summer film slate has a little something for every movie lover.
The streaming service on Tuesday released a preview of its 2021 popcorn season offerings, a list that includes the final chapter in the “The Kissing Booth” trilogy, Kevin Hart’s touching drama “Fatherhood,” “Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed” and Zack Snyder’s zombie heist adventure “Army of the Dead.”
The schedule kicks off with “Things Heard and Seen,” a horror movie starring Amanda Seyfried, on April 29, followed by “The Mitchells vs. the Machines,” an animated comedy from “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, on April 30.
May will see the debut of the Amy Adams-led “The Woman in the Window,” a highly anticipated adaptation about an agoraphobe that has renewed relevance after a year-long pandemic, as well as “Monster,” an intimate drama starring John David Washington...
The streaming service on Tuesday released a preview of its 2021 popcorn season offerings, a list that includes the final chapter in the “The Kissing Booth” trilogy, Kevin Hart’s touching drama “Fatherhood,” “Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed” and Zack Snyder’s zombie heist adventure “Army of the Dead.”
The schedule kicks off with “Things Heard and Seen,” a horror movie starring Amanda Seyfried, on April 29, followed by “The Mitchells vs. the Machines,” an animated comedy from “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, on April 30.
May will see the debut of the Amy Adams-led “The Woman in the Window,” a highly anticipated adaptation about an agoraphobe that has renewed relevance after a year-long pandemic, as well as “Monster,” an intimate drama starring John David Washington...
- 4/27/2021
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix released a preview of its summer slate Tuesday, including finalized release dates, footage, photos, and other announcements from a range of films. Among the highlights: details from the animated revisionist history “America: the Motion Picture” from the “Archer” team and first-look photos from Paul Weitz’ Kevin Hart-starrer “Fatherhood” and the Melissa McCarthy-produced documentary “Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed.”
Below find Netflix’s summer movie preview sizzle, featuring some of the highlights from the nearly three-dozen films the streamer is set to release between April and the end of August. Included in the video are clips from Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead,” “Fatherhood,” the Jason Momoa-starring “Sweet Girl,” the Amy Adams agoraphobia thriller “The Woman in the Window,” and more.
Netflix set a release date, announced the full cast, and revealed a first-look photo from “America: the Motion Picture,” a project that has been quiet...
Below find Netflix’s summer movie preview sizzle, featuring some of the highlights from the nearly three-dozen films the streamer is set to release between April and the end of August. Included in the video are clips from Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead,” “Fatherhood,” the Jason Momoa-starring “Sweet Girl,” the Amy Adams agoraphobia thriller “The Woman in the Window,” and more.
Netflix set a release date, announced the full cast, and revealed a first-look photo from “America: the Motion Picture,” a project that has been quiet...
- 4/27/2021
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
"Where my ability ends... my faith begins." Netflix has unveiled a teaser trailer for a new sports film titled in full Baggio: The Divine Ponytail, also known as Il Divin Codino (which is just "The Divine Ponytail") in Italian. The Netflix feature is a chronicle of the 22-year career of soccer star Roberto Baggio, including his difficult debut as a player and his deep rifts with some of his coaches. He inspired entire generations to play football. And not only that. A unique footballer, capable of thrilling fans all over the world. This is not a documentary, but a fictionalization, starring Andrea Arcangeli as Roberto Baggio. The feature film will "look at key moments from his 22-year career, including that penalty kick in the 1994 World Cup final and his contentious move from Fiorentina to Juventus. It will also take a closer look at the man himself, his relationship with his family,...
- 3/3/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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