The movie is scheduled to be released in the summer of 2024, could also be as early as May.

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Due to the large scale strikes in Hollywood by the actors and writers actors and the possibility for others in Europe joining them affected the film industry all around the world. Actors today are still facing hard times finding work as many other parts of the film industry had also been halted. The slow recovery still affecting the industry but both, production companies and movie goers are going back to work and audiences going to watch and enjoy new films again. Currently, however there is a large number of actors that are still waiting to get a role and many accept below their pay grade jobs.

Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh is set to star in the action thriller film titled THE MOTHER.

Melanie Laurent has been appointed as director for the new movie which is also being shopped to international buyers in Berlin. Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee will produce the movie through Thunder Road, alongside Arthur Sarkissian and John Schramm. 

The story:

Michelle will play Ann, an immigrant mother and business woman looking to make the best for her family and her new life in America. When her two teenage sons stumble into trouble with a Boston dirty cop and a crime ring, Ann has no choice but to rekindle her past and stop at nothing until her sons are safe.

Filming for THE MOTHER will begin in the summer 2024. Stuart Ford will executive produce for AGC Studios alongside 30WEST, which is financing the film.

Wishing best for Michelle and team for the new project.

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Nepal has submitted its first ever competition film titled SHAMBHALA to the 2024 Berlinale Film Festival. The film will be shown at the festival on Feb 23.

Set in the Nepalese Himalayas, Shambhala follows a woman in a polyandrous marriage with a man and his two younger brothers; when the man fails to return from a trading trip, the woman sets off to find him to give legitimacy to her unborn child.

Please watch the Official Trailer for SHAMBHALA

Also please visit the Official Website for the Berlinale Film Festival

The tragic death was reported by Marvel studios when one of their set builder person working on the set of the new superhero film WONDER MAN has fallen and died on the scene on Feb 6. The crew member was identified as 41 year old Juan Carlos Osorio who was walking at a high elevation working on the new set for Marvel's new upcoming film. Marvel Studios was not yet filming at the time but the set builders were creating the set where filming will take place. The film has already been delayed due to the writers and actors strike.

Our condolences to set builder Juan Osorio's family and friends.

Toshihiko Tanaka's human relationships drama REI - along with Iranian filmmaker Oktay Baraheni's film - took the top award at the Rotterdam Film Festival this year. Toshihiko Tanaka took the Tiger Award - with a cash prize of 40,000 Euros.

The drama revolves around a woman in her early thirties in a company job in Tokyo who is struggling to understand the value of her life until she meets a deaf landscape photographer living deep in the mountains of Hokkaido.

"The jury decided to give the Tiger Award to a burgeoning film director who chose to develop his debut film in a loose and unbounded environment," said the jury consisting of Marco Müller, Ena Sendijarević, Nadia Turincev, Billy Woodberry and Herman Yau.

Additional winners with other prizes included Indian director Midhun Murali, Australian filmmaker Jaydon Martin, and the NETPAC Award for the best Asian feature film, awarded by a jury from the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema, went to Ishan Shukla's Indian director dystopian animated feature Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust.

Congratulations to the winners and wishing them best of success in the future.

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Universal Studios begins putting together the next Jurassic World film

For this new installment, however none of the previous main cast are expected to return, no Chris PrattChris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are expected to be back, nor the original trilogy's thespians Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern and Sam Neill, however the project is being picked up by Steven Spielbergs production studio Amblin Entertainment. Executive producers or producers are expected to be Steven Spielberg himself along with Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley and currently the director selected is David Leitch. David Leitch has well proven himself in the action genre as he is also know for starting the very successful John Wick frenchise with the latest installment also featuring Donnie Yen.

The last Jurassic World movie 'Dominion' - which was released in 2022 - still passed the $1 billion mark at the box office and that prompted the continuation of the story by Universal Studios.

The new Jurassic movie is expected to be in theaters sometime middle of 2025.

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Years after retiring from their formidable ninja lives, a dysfunctional family must return to shadowy missions to counteract a string of looming threats. The Tawara family, the last ninja clan. It had abandoned its roots after an incident in the past, but now the family must take on the greatest crisis in Japanese history, one that threatens to shake the nation to its core.

House of Ninjas is a story about a Ninja family that lives in the shadows. Known as the Tawara family, they're the only Ninjas left in Japan. After their last mission doesn't go as planned, the Tawara family decides to live normal lives and never use their powers again. However, a new threat is about to engulf Japan in its clutches, and these hidden ninjas have no choice but to be out and save humanity.

Even though they keep calling themselves a "normal" family, not everyone can hide their skills entirely. When the Tawara family hears of a toxin that is killing hundreds of Japanese people, they know it is time for them to come out of hiding. The Tawara family decides to reunite to save their people. The impact of the last mission is still on their minds. So, will they let go of the past and be their best and bravest selves to save humanity? We will find out everything once the show releases.

Cast: Kento Kaku, Yosuke Eguchi, Tae Kimura

Release date: 15 Feb 2024

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