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Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car was awarded best feature at this year’s Asian Film Awards (March 12), along with prizes for best editing and best original music. The multiple award-winning Japanese film premiered at Cannes film festival in 2021 and also won the Oscar for Best International Feature last…

Park Chan-wook's stylish crime drama Decision to Leave leads the nominations for this year's Asian Film Awards with a sweeping 10 nods, including Best Director and Best Film. The film's impressive nominations haul also includes a Best Screenplay nod and acting nominations for leads Park Hae-il and…

"The donkey is cute, but this is not a Disney movie," said Jonathan Sehring, the former IFC Films head whose young distribution outlet Sideshow, with Janus Films, presents Jerzy Skolimowski's Cannes Jury Prize winning EO at two NYC theaters this weekend. "We launched Sideshow for great movies that would…

Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car scooped the International Feature Film Oscar on Sunday, becoming the second movie from Japan to take a competitive prize in the category formerly known as Best Foreign Language Film (it’s the fifth for Japan if we count honorary awards given out in the 1950s). From the Dolby stage, and…

Every year at the Cannes Film Festival there is a critics' favorite. Last year, it was Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car, a loose adaptation of three stories from Haruki Murakami's 2014 compendium Men Without Women, that stars Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yūsuke Kafuku, an actor and theater director dealing with a tragic…

Jane Campion fought through tears last night accepting the Best Director award for The Power Of The Dog at the New York Film Critics Circle ceremony last night after a moving intro from Martin Scorsese. He first met Campion in 1990 at the Venice premiere An Angel At My Table "and my admiration has only increased over…

At Contenders Film: The Nominees, Deadline presented a panel with the director and star of perhaps the most historic nominated film at this year's Oscars, Drive My Car, which represents Japan's first-ever Best Picture nomination. It’s an astounding feat for a three-hour Japanese-language film, about a stage director's…

As Drive My Car sped from a best screenplay win and stellar reviews at Cannes to four Oscar nominations (Best Picture, International Feature, Director, Adapted Screenplay), distributor credits for the three-hour Japanese drama went to Sideshow/Janus Films – the former a little known new venture from Jonathan…

EXCLUSIVE: Sonia Yuan, who stars in Japan’s first Best Picture Oscar nominee Drive My Car, has signed with Artist International Group for management. The film from director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, which adapted a 2014 short story by Haruki Murakami, has broken out as a phenomenon over the course of the 2021-22 awards…

MONDAY UPDATES for Worst Person, Ted K, The Cursed, Strawberry Mansion, and adding The Automat. Neon's standout romance about a young woman in Oslo churning though career choices and boyfriends passed $1 million this weekend on 265 screens, up from 49 in a major expansion. With marketing in high gear and strong word…

As Oscar nominees circulate in theaters, exhibitors are studying where and when to play Best Picture contenders during the long run-up from nominations February 8 through the awards March 27, juggling holdovers and new releases. (See this weekend's specialty box office offerings below). In an interview with Deadline…

EXCLUSIVE: Warnermedia OneFifty has acquired the Japanese road drama Drive My Car to premiere on HBO Max on March 2. The film is directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi who also co-wrote the screenplay with Takamasa Oe, adapted from the short story of the same name by Haruki Murakami. It tells the tale of a renowned stage actor…