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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The 2024 edition of K-pop’s MAMA Awards will kick-off in Los Angeles for the first time, before expanding into a two-day event in Osaka, Japan. Organizers said that the decision to present awards and have performances on both sides of the Pacific Ocean is “a significant step towards broadening K-pop reach as well as connecting global K-pop fans across time zones.” Activities will start at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre on Nov. 21 and at the Kyocera Dome in Osaka, Japan from Nov. 22 and 23.

A post shared by Tomcraft (@tomcraftofc)Brückner, who came from Munich, Germany, has been credited as a significant contributor to the trance and progressive trance scenes of the ’90s and early ’00s. His singles, ‘Prosac’, ‘Overdose’, and ‘The Mission’ were released to acclaim, but it was ‘Loneliness’ that he was best known for.

Jujutsu Kaisen are clashing over a new design for the character Gojo Satoru – check out the reactions below.Jujutsu Kaisen began as a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Gege Akutami, and is set in a world where negative emotions can manifest as Curses – a race of demonic entities bent on harming humanity.As well as a manga, Jujutsu Kaisen has gone on to inspire movies, TV shows, video games and a stage play, with two seasons of the hit anime adaptation so far having been made by MAPPA.And now, to celebrate the results of the fourth ‘Jujutsu Kaisen Popularity Poll’, a new artistic design for Gojo Satoru, the mentor of the manga’s lead character Yuji Itadori, has been shared by Akutami.

Variety, Rosario explained how he created over 2300 designs for the series set in feudal Japan. Elswit, who reunited with directed Steven Zaillian for Netflix’s “Ripley,” earned his first Primetime Emmy nod. The Oscar winning DP (“There Will Be Blood”) sat down for Variety’s Inside the Frame series and explained how he wanted to get inside Tom Ripley’s (Andrew Scott) mind and give the series a painterly effect.

EXCLUSIVE: Korean animated film Yumi’s Cells: The Movie will be released on streaming platform Rakuten Viki on July 19, after a theatrical run at the domestic box office in April.

Eleven filmmakers from Argentina, China, France, Georgia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey and the USA will show their first and second films in the San Sebastian Festival’s (Sep 20-28) New Directors section.

Aramide Tinubu During the Tokyo Olympics — held in 2021 rather than 2020 because of the pandemic — Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast of all time, pulled out of the competition at the last minute. Leading up to the games, all eyes were on the U.S. Women’s Gymnastics team, and Biles’ exit caused a frenzy of vitriol across the globe, especially since there was speculation it would be her final Olympics.

Twisters, a new chapter in the Amblin-produced, Michael Crichton co-written franchise, will hit U.S. and Canada with a force of $50M from Friday-Sunday. That number will easily outstrip the start of the original 1996 movie which posted $41M.

Japan Times.The plaintiff in the case, a trans woman in her 30s, had sought to legally change their gender, but the Hiroshima High Court and the family court ruled that she failed to meet the “surgical requirement.”The woman’s lawyers then appealed to the Supreme Court, which ruled last year that the sterilization requirement was unconstitutional.The court subsequently sent the case back to the Hiroshima High Court so it could rule on whether requiring surgical interventions to meet the “appearance requirement” was legal.On July 10, the court ruled that a person assigned male at birth can legally change their gender without undergoing surgery.The high court found that the plaintiff already resembles a female in bodily appearance due to hormone therapy and that there is no need for her to undergo sterilization.The court also found that the plaintiff has a right to avoid undergoing invasive and often expensive gender confirmation surgery that would cost over a million yen ($6,190 dollars), according to the newspaper The Mainichi.“[The law] gives them a tough either-or choice of having the surgery, thereby eliminating the right not to damage one’s body, or eliminating the right to enjoy the legal benefits based on their gender identity,” the ruling reads.There are differences in how Japanese courts look at the law’s application to transgender men versus transgender women.For example, it tends to be easier for trans men, simply by undergoing hormone therapy, to meet the “appearance requirement,” while for transgender females, removal of male genitalia has generally been thought necessary to meet the same requirement.In the particular case of the trans plaintiff, the changes that her body underwent due to hormone therapy were

Three Greater Manchester restaurants have been listed in a new guide of the UK's best pizza spots.

Imax has struck a deal with Muvi Cinemas, Saudi Arabia’s biggest exhibitor, to open four new Imax With Laser locations (it’s most advanced) at some of the biggest commercial centers in the country including two in Riyadh, the capital and most populous city, and and one in Jeddah’s Mall of Arabia.

Muvi Cinemas, the largest exhibitor in Saudi Arabia, has struck a deal with Imax Corp to install four IMAX with Laser systems in its cinemas two in capital city Riyadh; one system to Jeddah’s Mall of Arabia; and the first IMAX system to Dhahran. Three of the new locations are scheduled to open by the end of 2024, with the last in 2025. Imax currently has 10 operational locations in Saudi Arabia, with another 22 slated to open, including those covered by the muvi agreement.

Helensburgh’s Gordon Reid thanked “die-hard fans” as he sealed an historic Wimbledon wheelchair doubles title with partner Alfie Hewett on Sunday.

“This isn’t what you think it is. You can’t see it yet. But you’ve been on a collision course your entire life. There is no going back. Not really. It will never…never…stop.” So begins the first trailer for Terminator Zero, Netflix‘s upcoming animated franchise reboot, with a voiceover narrated by resistance fighter Eiko (Sonoya Mizuno).

The 1975.Money joined the pop-rock band as a live guitarist and vocalist two years ago, on the ‘At Their Very Best’ tour, and penned the track during a quiet moment in production rehearsals for the American leg.Reflecting on touring arenas around the world after years of “wondering how on earth anyone bridges the gap between fan and performer,” Money said in a press release: “It felt so far away and then suddenly it was happening on a regular basis.”She’s managed to tick off bucket list venues like Madison Square Garden, the foot of the Andes Mountains (for Lollapalooza Chile), and the middle of an F1 track in São Paulo, as well as sharing a stage with Matty Healy and co.Two years in, and she found herself sharing lead vocal duties on hits like ‘A Change of Heart’ and ‘About You’, eventually conducting her own sing-along with the band’s fanbase on ‘Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America’.Her latest release touches on feeling flickers of insecurity, despite having toured the world alongside the band, with Money admitting in the chorus: “When it all comes down to it I’m just another / And I’m not even that good at it, I just got lucky / But they say that mm I deserve it / But that ain’t the way that I feel about / I feel bout anything.”The indie pop track is produced by Moa Moa’s Connor James and Chloe Kraemer, (Lava LaRue, The Japanese House, Wet Leg).

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief With scamming a topic of current news and growing concern across Asia, Netflix’s “Tokyo Swindlers” is a timely addition to its slate of Japanese live-action programming. Ayano Go and Toyokawa Etsushi head the cast of the seven-episode crime drama series that is an adaptation of a bestselling novel by Shinjo Ko, originally published by Shueisha Bunko. The protagonists are a group of cunning con artists led by Harrison Yamanaka (Toyokawa) who use forged documents and recruit imposters to pose as landowners and defraud major land developers. Their biggest target is a JPY10-billion plot of land next to a Buddhist temple.

Naman Ramachandran Multi-award-winning singer-songwriter Billie Eilish is joining the roster of celebrity readers for the CBeebies Bedtime Story slot on BBC pre-school network CBeebies. Eilish will read “This Moose Belongs to Me” by author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers. The story follows Wilfred, a young boy who believes he owns a moose named Marcel.

Refresh for latest…: Animation domination continues at the global and international box office with Universal/Illumination’s Despicable Me 4 leading the pack this frame, and Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 still positively on fire after five sessions. At the same time, we’re seeing encouraging numbers for all major titles in release. And that’s a great thing; yes, there is reason to be positive.

When Shona McGarty's fiancé David planned his romantic proposal, he never could have expected the police would show up in the middle of their cosy picnic. Former EastEnders star Shona have exclusively revealed to OK! that she's found the man of her dreams in musician David Bracken but his romantic proposal was gatecrashed by cops. The 31 year old said: "“The police turned up - they were making an announcement with a speaker and we couldn’t make out what they said.

As Illumination/Universal’s Despicable Me 4 continues global rollout, and with its Friday numbers included, the latest from Gru and the gang has helped propel the Despicable Me/Minions franchise across the $5B mark (to $5.025B through Friday) at the worldwide box office. This makes it the first animated franchise ever to reach the milestone. It was already the biggest animated franchise of all time wordwide.

Fred Again.. was recently spotted performing an intimate secret set at Rising Sun Pensford, a pub located in Brixton, Somerset, with The Japanese House.