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It's been over a year since viewers said goodbye to The Owl House and its inhabitants with Season 3. The animated Disney series, created by Dana Terrace, opened up a rich world of magic as it followed self-assured teenager Luz's journey to become a witch under the guidance of the rebellious Eda. Beloved by critics and audiences alike, it also featured one of the most diverse, colorful, and fleshed-out cast of characters ever brought to life under the House of Mouse, from Luz's enemy turned girlfriend Amity to the demon King who lives with Eda, and the fearsome Emperor Belos. Funko is now bringing back the main crew with a new set of Pop! figures that Collider can exclusively preview. The collectibles are all available to pre-order now.

Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia, who was awarded the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes film festival for her debut narrative feature All We Imagine As Light, talked about the challenges facing indie filmmakers in India during a conversation with Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda at Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF).

She also touched on how she felt about the fact that All We Imagine As Light was not selected by India’s Oscars committee as its submission for the Best International feature category, but was gracious about the snub.

Kore-eda was on the Cannes competition jury that awarded Kapadia’s film, and said he was impressed by her work, but due to the restraints of jury duty, had not been able to talk to her and find out more about her career. The Japanese director is a Cannes regular, winning the Palme d’Or for Shoplifters in 2018, while Yuji Sakamoto...

Black Lagoon characters have been brought to life in stunning cosplay by the popular Aoi Takamura.

Boasting 120k followers on X (formerly Twitter), Takamura has long been known to the Black Lagoon and wider anime and manga community for her striking cosplays, bringing characters from the page and screen to real life with careful attention. In a post dated Jan. 17, she compiled her various past cosplays from Black Lagoon, featuring fan-favorite characters such as Revy, Eda, Shenhua Balalaika, and Roberta, seen below.

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The Owl House intentionally references aspects of the Harry Potter series, deconstructing tropes and making fun of specific plot elements. The show features humorous references to the Sorting Hat, a school of magic, and destructive plant magic, which differ from Harry Potter's portrayal. The Owl House rejects the concept of the Chosen One, emphasizing the importance of choosing oneself rather than the idea of a single person with a destiny to save the world.

Dana Terrace's animated TV show The Owl House intentionally avoids the biases and plot holes of the Harry Potter series, moving the fantasy genre forward. The Owl House follows human teenager Luz Noceda who falls through a portal into a magic world, where she befriends and learns magic from Eda the witch and King the demon. The show shares some recognizable plot elements with Harry Potter, namely the education of young people with magical powers.

In 2020, Dana Terrace's The Owl House premiered on Disney+, and it became one of the best animated TV shows. The series follows 14-year-old Luz Noceda, who accidentally stumbles into the Demon Realm instead of going to a Reality Check summer camp. While there, she befriends Eda The Owl Lady and King. Luz decides to live with them in the titular Owl House to study magic, and antics quickly ensue.

The Owl House is very much a dramedy-horror tale, and it boasts plenty of expertly-written jokes, good dialogue, interesting character arcs, and high stakes to keep viewers of all ages interested. These elements are often channeled through great quotes and hilarious one-liners. Even though The Owl House released the series finale on April 2023, fans of the show love to remember some of its most iconic quotes.

Updated on July 2023, by Andrea Sandoval: Since Disney+ released the third and last...

Exclusive: Netflix has signed a five-year deal with Japanese screenwriter Yuji Sakamoto, winner of the Best Screenplay award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for Hirokazu Kore-eda’s competition title Monster.

Sakamoto has already scripted his first Netflix project, previously announced romantic murder mystery film In Love And Deep Water, set to be released later this year.

Netflix is now entering into a broader collaboration with Sakamoto through which he will develop a range of titles to premiere exclusively on the streamer’s platform worldwide.

Directed by Taki Yusuke, In Love And Deep Water takes place on board a luxury cruise ship where a devoted ship butler encounters a female passenger, who claims their respective partners are on the verge of cheating on them. Ryo Yoshizawa (Gintama franchise) and Aoi Miyazaki head the cast.

Monster marked the first time that Korea-eda has directed a film...

Find out where you can watch the fantastical, animated show The Owl House, which follows a teenage girl navigating coming of age while also learning to survive in a magical world.

Being a teenager can certainly be complicated. Add in accidentally stumbling upon a portal to a magical realm that leaves you in a place called the Boiling Isles and things become pure chaos. You can watch this chaos unfold for yourself on The Owl House, a show that follows teenager Luz Noceda as she navigates this reality.

Luz Noceda (Sarah-Nichole Robles) is your average, quirky teenage girl. She enjoys fantasy novels, utters phrases in Spanish, and is a little bit geeky. Her mother Camila (Elizabeth Grullon) wants her to become a little more “typical” and sends her to a camp in hopes the experience will help. Along the way, Luz finds herself in a portal that takes her to the Boiling Isles,...

While it's lucky that The Owl House can produce a season 3 after its cancellation, the differing format is wasting the show's best characters. This is especially noticeable given that season 3 only has three episodes. Instead of the typical 19-21, to wrap up character and narrative arcs, it took two full seasons to prepare for. As a result, the show had to condense much of its story and characters, which may very well limit The Owl House and its characters from living up to their full potential.

The imbalance between seasons 1 and 2 and the time season 3 has available is particularly strained, considering that the later season has so much ground to cover. The first two seasons introduced Luz Noceda (Sarah-Nicole Robles) to the Demon Realm and The Owl House's eclectic cast. She began her quest to become a witch under the tutelage of Eda the Owl Lady (Wendie Malick) while...

Upcoming feature by the Palme d’Or-winning director set for release in June 2023.

Oscar-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and Shoplifters star Ando Sakura have joined Monster, the upcoming feature from Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda.

It marks the first collaboration between Sakamoto, known for scoring Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, The Revenant and The Last Emperor, and Kore-eda, who won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2018 with Shoplifters.

Monster also reunites the Japanese director with his Shoplifters star Sakura, who is also known for roles in Sion Son’s Love Exposure and Kei Ishikawa’s A Man, which played at last year’s Venice Film Festival.

Neon has acquired North American and UK rights to the horror-drama Handling the Undead, marking the narrative feature debut of Thea Hvistendahl, who previously directed the documentary Adjø Montebello and several short films, including the SXSW Grand Jury Award-nominated Virgins4lyfe. The project reteams the distributor with Renate Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie, who starred in its Oscar-nominated romantic drama The Worst Person in the World, directed by Joachim Trier.

Handling the Undead picks up on an abnormally hot summer day in Oslo, as a strange electric field surrounds the city, with a collective migraine spreading across town. TVs, lightbulbs and electronics go haywire, the chaos reaching a debilitating crescendo when suddenly, it’s over.

The film currently in production is based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, the renowned writer of bestselling horror novels and the screenplays Border and Let the Right One In, who co-wrote the script with Hvistendahl.

As customary, Telluride Film Festival has unveiled its lineup on the eve of its kickoff. For its 49th edition, taking place from September 2-5, the festival features new work by James Gray, Luca Guadagnino, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Hlynur Pálmason, Todd Field, the Dardennes, Sarah Polley, Mia Hansen-Løve, Werner Herzog, and more, as well as a robust section of classics and filmmaker-related docs.

The 49th Telluride Film Festival is proud to present the following new feature films to play in its main program, the Show:

• Armageddon Time (d. James Gray, U.S., 2022) In person: James Gray, Jeremy Strong, Anne Hathaway

• Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths (d. Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexico-u.S., 2022) In person: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Íker Sánchez Solano

• Bobi Wine, Ghetto President (d. Christopher Sharp and Moses Bwayo, Uganda-u.K., 2022) In person: Christopher Sharp, Moses Bwayo, Bobi Wine, Barbie Kyagulanyi

• Bones And All (d.

Kore-eda Hirokazu will be the star turn at Emerging Japanese Films, a Los Angeles showcase organized by Japan’s Visual Industry Promotion Organization.

The event, running Sept. 27 – Oct. 1, 2022, at the Harmony Gold Preview House, consists of four newly-released, dramatic and awards-worthy Japanese feature films and a retrospective night that honors Kore-eda, whose “Shoplifters” won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2018.

Kore-eda will take part in a live video conversation after the screening of his “Like Father, Like Son,” a child-swap drama film that Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks previously optioned for remake.

The four newer films to be screened include: Katayama Shinzo’s “Missing,” which recently took Fantasia 2022 by storm; Miyake Sho’s sensitive “Small, Slow But Steady,” which played at the Berlin festival earlier this year; “Riverside Mukolitta,” an emotional journey directed by Ogigami Naoko which has played at major Asian festivals including Busan, Tokyo and Taipei...

Choi Min-sik stars as man out for revenge.

Neon has acquired US rights to Park Chan-wook’s modern classic Oldboy and will release it in theatres to commemorate the revenge thriller’s 20th anniversary.

Park’s ground-breaking South Korean film won the 2004 Cannes grand prix and stars Choi Min-sik as a man who is released from mysterious captivity after 15 years and has five days to find his captor.

Yoo Ji-tae, and Kang Hye-jung also star in the 2003 film marking the second instalment in Park’s The Vengeance Trilogy. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance came out in 2002 and Lady Vengeance opened in...

The hit movie Ghostbusters had just opened when I did the first of several interview sessions with Bill Murray in early June. The week before, entertainment reporters from all over the country had been flown into New York, and Murray had done his conscientious bit to publicize the picture, giving at least seventy-five interviews in two days. He was exhausted.

He was also very happy. The film had opened to generally enthusiastic reviews, grossing over $13 million in its first weekend. The critics had consistently singled out his performance as the film’s strongest asset.