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The star-studded English voice cast for Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron has been revealed.As per Deadline, distributor Gkids announced Christian Bale voicing Shoichi Maki, Dave Bautista as The Parakeet King, Gemma Chan as Natsuko, Willem Dafoe as Noble Pelican, Karen Fukuhara as Lady Himi, Mark Hamill as Granduncle, Robert Pattinson as The Gray Heron and Florence Pugh as Kiriko. Joining the cast are Luca Padovan as Mahito Maki and Mamoudou Athie, Tony Revolori and Dan Stevens as the Parakeets.The Boy and the Heron marks Miyazaki's first feature film in 10 years and is “a semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and creation, in tribute to friendship." Set during World War II, the movie follows the story of Mahito, a young boy attempting to come to terms with the death of his...

The trailer is out for one of Angus Cloud’s final projects, the action-packed heist film, Your Lucky Day.The directorial debut of Daniel Brown follows a drug dealer named Sterling who witnesses an older man win a $156 million USD lottery. Chasing the “American Dream” and angling to take the jackpot for himself, he holds the entire convenience storage hostage in a plot to split up the pool.Cloud plays protagonist Sterling, joined by hostages portrayed by Jessica Garza and Elliot Knight and convenience store owner Mousa Hussein Kraish. Sterling Beaumon plays a policeman.Cloud rose to fame after being street cast in HBO’s hit series, Euphoria, where he played soft-hearted drug dealer Fezco. The rising actor tragically passed away in July 2023 following an overdose. He was 25-years-old.Your Lu...

The Pokémon Company has expanded its live-action projects to a new dramatic series set to arrive later this month. TV Tokyo's upcoming Pokémon-inspired show titled Pack Your Pocket With Adventure, but abbreviated to PokéTsume is slated to center around the life of a young Japanese woman named Madoki Akagi, played by Nanase Nishino, from the Kanto region. It is important to note that the Kanto region was the inspiration for the same region in the Pokémon games. After her college graduation, Madoka found herself working a brief stint as a kamaboko-maker before moving to Tokyo for a new job at a small ad agency. Living in the city and working at the ad agency is the step in the right direction, however, Madoka is chosen to lead a presentation that is set to determine the company's future. In ...

Chris Rock is making moves for his next project. The comedian is taking a more serious tone for his new film, set to examine the life of Martin Luther King Jr.. The Hollywood Reporter has indicated that the actor is in final talks to direct and produce the biopic of the late civil rights icon for Universal. The film will be based on Jonathan Eig's biography, King: A Life, which has earned a National Book Award nomination. The book has gained acclaim, drawing from the newly founded FBI information on King. The publish described the book as an "intimate portrayal of King as a courageous but emotionally troubled individual who demanded peaceful protest while grappling with his own frailties and a government that hunted him." Legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg is also attached to the project...

Following the release of a teaser trailer, the upcoming Mobile Suit Gundam Seed FREEDOM has now received a third preview. The latest promotional video is accompanied by a visual of the mechas set to be introduced in the animated feature film.Most notably, the preview introduces the Rising Freedom Gundam, Immortal Justice Gundam, Gyan Strom, Gelgoog Menace, and Force Impulse Gundam Spec II. While the visuals serve to reveal the mobile suits for the Black Knights Squad.Mobile Suit Gundam Seed FREEDOM will be set chronologically in C.E. (Cosmic Era) 75, following the events of the second Gundam Seed television anime, Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny. The film was first announced in 2021 as part of the Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Project Ignited initiative, which commemorated the 20th anniversary o...

Paris Hilton's life will be the focus of a new TV series from A24 and the Fanning sisters.According to reports, A24 and Elle and Dakota Fanning are adapting Hilton's latest book, Paris: The Memoir, into a show as part of a six-figure deal. A cast, writer and director are yet to be announced, however the Fanning sisters will executive produce alongside Bruce Gersh, Brittany Kahan Ward, David Bernad and Hilton herself.Paris: The Memoir touches on the businesswoman, heiress and socialite's life story and was written in order for to "understand my place in a watershed moment: the technology renaissance, the age of influencers." Her description of the book continued, "I also wrote this book so that the world could know who I am today. I focused on key aspects of my life that led to what I am mo...

It's no secret that the launch of CD Projekt Red's (CDPR) Cyberpunk 2077 did not go according to plan. The much-anticipated title was slated to be 2020's gaming launch of the year with a slew of collaborations from the likes of adidas and Samsung before it even released. It didn't take long for the turbulent launch to lead to the studio taking action with an official apology and refocusing of development. However, with the launch of its award-winning anime themed around the world -- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners -- a massive spike in growth for the game took place. Realizing that the game had undergone significant updates to improve performance and gameplay, gamers were pleasantly surprised by the title and its DLC launch last week serves as the latest milestone for the team.Now, CDPR has announc...

Matt Owens, the showrunner for Netflix's live-action One Piece, dropped some major season two updates in a recent Deadline interview.The exec confirmed that they are back to writing the upcoming season as the WGA strike came to an end, and that they currently have some outlines and "a really solid plan" that the team had shared to Eiichiro Oda, the creator of the One Piece manga. "Part of my trip in April was to talk to him about some of the early ideas that we had, talking to him about things that I want to include to just make sure that our ideas are in line with what he thinks," Owens revealed. "The writers room is up and running, yes, getting scripts done so that we can get into design work, scheduling and pre-production, all of that kind of stuff."Fans can expect "challenge and leader...