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Kinema Citrus has confirmed two new and original anime series at the Anime Central 2024 convention. One of the projects is the Ninja Skooler anime, which also unveiled its first promo video highlighting key staff members.

Ninja Skooler Anime Announces Studio and Staff Members

The promo video introduces the main characters and the staff of Ninja Skooler.

Here are the confirmed staff members working on Ninja Skooler:

Director and Supervisor: Shunsuke Takarai (One Piece)Character Design: HamiKey Animators: Yuka Kuroda (Amagami SS), Shunsuke Takarai (Shangri-La Frontier), Franziska van Wulfen (Bocchi the Rock!)In-between Checker: Aoi Higuchi (Chainsaw Man)In-between Checker Assistance: Studio Bus, Min Kyung-aeColor Designer, Checker, Coordinator: Hiroaki Kaguchi (Classroom of the Elite)Background Art: Hami, Shunsuke TakaraiFinishing: Anitus-Kobe, Hiroaki Kaguchi, Yoshiki Eri, Studio BUSSystem Management: Takanori Sunaga, Shigeo MiyagiCreative Department Management: Kensuke Aoshima,...

Manuel de Coco was born in Athens, Greece on the 24th of December, 1975. He is a film director and writer, best known for his poetic and transcendental style. He is also renowned for traveling to extreme places to explore humanity's relationship with spirituality. 11 years after his previous film, the banned “Unknown Land” he returns to the big screen with his 2nd feature film, “Invisible World” (2023) filmed over a 17-year period in 10 countries. As a result of Manuel's choice at the editing, scenes in Nepal and India were cut completely.

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The film follows a particular motif in the way it unfolds, through a number of different chapters. Each one focuses on one of the aforementioned countries, initially highlighting the most major blights it faces, through voices on the radio, text on screen and/or narration. For Greece, for example,...

There must be 50 ways to escape a Nazi. Over the 2 hours and 22 minutes of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, we see Indy and his ragtag entourage drive planes, trains and automobiles through the streets of New York, Tangiers and somewhere picturesque in Sicily, hijack two getaway tuk-tuks, ride a horse at full pelt through the New York subway tunnels, and fly a vintage plane through a “time fissure” to land right in the middle of – well, we can’t say too much, but the kind of place and time that would be Indy’s idea of Shangri-la. “Too many Nazis!” growls Indy, just before he leaps from a speeding train hundreds of yards down into a churning river. Sometimes, the essence of being an adventuring hero is to know when to put the bullwhip down and get out of Dodge.

Dial of Destiny is the first installment in...

Exclusive: Vinnie Malhotra, who previously headed up documentaries at Showtime, is joining President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground.

Malhotra becomes President of Higher Ground Productions, the company behind Crip Camp and Descendant.

It comes two months after Malhotra, who was EVP, Nonfiction Programming at Showtime, left the company amid a major restructure under Nina Diaz after it merged with MTV Entertainment Studios and became Paramount+ with Showtime.

Malhotra will report to President and Mrs. Obama and will lead the company’s film and TV division.

As part of the move, Tonia Davis, who was head of film and TV at the company, has been named Head of Motion Pictures and will oversee the company’s film development and production, including Netflix’s upcoming Rustin and Leave The World Behind.

Malhotra was widely considered one of the top documentary execs in the business, having joined Showtime in 2015. He...

Beyonce has won 23 Grammys over the course of her career. The all-time record for female artists is 27 — that’s how many country/bluegrass star Alison Krauss has accumulated. It just so happens that Beyonce has four nominations this year, which is exactly what she needs to tie that record, assuming she wins all of them. That’s easier said than done, though. According to our readers, she’ll win at least one of her categories when prizes are handed out in January, but she won’t win all of them. Scroll down for our complete poll results.

Queen Bey is nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance and Best Visual Media Song for “Spirit,” Best Pop Album for “The Lion King: The Gift” and Best Music Film for “Homecoming.” Less than a quarter of our respondents (24%) are expecting a clean sweep. More than half (56%) say that she’ll win something, but not everything.

Since its inception 14 years ago, Laika has become perhaps the greatest innovator in the medium of stop-motion. Led by President and CEO Travis Knight, the team at the Oregon-based animation studio has worked tirelessly to push creative boundaries with each of its five films, taking on one of its biggest challenges to date with writer/director Chris Butler’s Missing Link.

Starring Hugh Jackman and Zach Galifianakis, Missing Link centers on Sir Lionel Frost, a self-centered investigator of myths and monsters who encounters a Sasquatch in the Pacific Northwest. Learning of the solitary creature’s desire for familial connection, the explorer accompanies him on a journey to the fabled Shangri-La that proves life changing for them both.

With his second feature, following 2012’s ParaNorman, Butler’s goal was to bring the energy of an epic, live-action adventure film into the medium of stop-motion. With its large cast of memorable characters,...

Austin O’Malia has been promoted to vice president of awards and corporate affairs for Showtime Networks Inc.

O’Malia oversees Showtime’s marketing and communications awards efforts across all original scripted series, documentary, and unscripted projects. He serves as the main liaison between the network and guilds and awards organizations worldwide. He also manages the network’s corporate giving initiatives, in coordination with CBS.

During O’Malia’s time at Showtime, it has received 54 total Emmy nominations. That includes the limited series “Escape at Dannemora,” which broke the network’s record for most nominations for one program in a single year with 12. Showtime received 11 Golden Globe nominations in that time for shows like “Smilf,” “Escape at Dannemora,” and “Kidding.” Patricia Arquette ultimately won a Golden Globe, SAG Award, and Critics Choice Award for her work on “Escape at Dannemora,” with O’Malia leading her awards campaign.

Showtime has also...

Exclusive: Elizabeth Gabler’s Sony-based production label 3000 Pictures has acquired feature rights to the bestselling book Lost In Shangri La. Author Mitch Zuckoff will team with Richard Abate to adapt the book into a movie script. 3 Arts Entertainment’s Abate & Will Rowbotham will produce along with Zuckoff.

The book is the true story of the World War II mission to rescue Corporal Margaret Hastings, one of three U.S. military survivors of a plane crash in an isolated corner of the South Pacific, and the ancient indigenous tribe members that aided those stranded on the ground in this Shangri-La. The book spent more than 20 weeks on The New York Times’ bestseller list and was named a “best book of the year” by The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Amazon, Apple, Salon, Men’s Journal, Seattle Times, Kirkus Reviews and Goodreads. It won the Winship/Pen New England Award for Nonfiction.

Scores for movies including Alan Silvestri’s Avengers: Endgame, Hans Zimmer’s The Lion King and Marc Shaiman’s Mary Poppins Returns and Emmy-winning TV series Game of Thrones (Ramin Djawadi) and Chernobyl (Hildur Guðnadóttir) were nominated in the Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media category Wednesday when nominations were unveiled for the 62nd annual Grammy Awards.

The Lion King also scored noms for its soundtrack that featured Beyoncé, whose haul also included the song “Spirit” from the Disney adaptation of the animated classic. She also landed a nom for Netflix’s Coachella documentary Homecoming in the Best Music Film category, a list that includes bio-docs on Miles Davis (Birth of the Cool), Rick Rubin (Shangri-La) and David Crosby (Remember My Name).

Joining Beyoncé best song list for a visual media is Randy Newman’s “The Ballad of the Lonesome Cowboy” from Toy Story 4, Dolly Parton’s “Girl in...

One of the strongest ways that time has become a malleable force that’s untethered us from our own sense of reality is the sheer number of TV shows released in a given year. There are some series that feel like they last aired new episodes in 2015, while others have completely disappeared from the public consciousness despite existing for mere months.

Such is the way of modern television. As a result, we’ve decided to keep track of all the 174 seasons of TV we’ve reviewed so far this year. Some shows have fared better than others, but a majority of these are recommendations.

Each review is organized by the letter grade (A+ to F) that accompanies each of them. Some series have prompted follow-ups after pivotal episodes or finales, but the links below will take you to initial season reviews of all the shows listed.

It’s worth noting...

Platform acquires worldwide rights to Little Shop Of Horrors lyricist Howard Ashman.

Morgan Neville will produce and Jeff Malmberg will direct Untitled Mickey Mouse Documentary for Disney+ as the streaming platform offered a peek at its non-fiction line-up on Friday (19) in a presentation with International Documentary Association.

Neville won the Oscar in 2014 for 20 Feet From Stardom and also directed Fred Rogers film Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Malmberg’s credits include Marwencol and Shangri-la.

The film will attempt to understand the deeper significance of arguably the most recognizable cartoon character in history, and explore his cultural impact. From Tremolo Productions...

Showtime is bolstering its unscripted slate, acquiring rights to the Emmy-winning newsmagazine Vice, following its cancellation by HBO. The premium cabler has ordered a 13-episode season to premiere in the spring of 2020.

The series, which features a diverse group of award-winning journalists, has been nominated for 12 Primetime Emmy awards across its previous six seasons, with two wins including Outstanding Informational Series or Special. It’s known for its on-the-ground reportage from the front lines of global conflicts and civil uprisings in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and beyond, to critical issues such as Lgbtq rights and the climate crisis, immigration and gun control.

“As so much of television news has moved in a direction of partisan coverage and talking heads, the team behind Vice continues to delve deep into the global issues, conflicts and newsmakers affecting our everyday lives,” said Vinnie Malhotra, Executive Vice President, Nonfiction Programming, Showtime Networks. “They also do...

One of the earliest films that proved Miike’s ability for diversity, “Shangri-La” is one of his lesser-known films, since it was never released on DVD in the United States.

Shangri-La is the name given to a narrow piece of land by the sea by the homeless and altruistic people that live there. Their leader is a peculiar individual everyone calls The Mayor, who has an afro and constantly wears sunglasses. Gangs of criminals attack the homeless because they aspire to use their area to dump garbage. However, a passerby saves the homeless by pretending to be a cop, showing them a badge that is actually his postal booklet. He subsequently becomes a resident of Shangri-La, under the nickname “the Deputy”.

The next day, the Mayor and the Deputy prevent Umemoto, an owner of a printing house from committing suicide, due to the bankruptcy of the company that chiefly financed him,...

Mac Miller and Rick Rubin discuss the difficulties of getting personal on record, but also the potential rewards that come with that vulnerability, in a poignant clip from the next episode of Shangri-La.

The segment was filmed while Miller was working on what would become his final album, Swimming, which was released just a month before he died in September 2018. In the clip, Rubin compliments Miller on his turn to more “song-y, personal” tracks, prompting Miller to reply, “It’s been an interesting journey for me to realize that the...

Showtime’s documentary series “Shangri-La” insists it is not a biographical documentary on uber-producer Rick Rubin, and it’s not meant as a four-hour advertisement for Rubin’s legendary Malibu studio, after which the four-part series is named … but it feels like a little bit of both those things. “Shangri-La” is primarily filmed at the studio where the viewer follows the barefooted Rubin around the property, eavesdropping on conversations he has with both likely characters — in the form of musicians such as Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig and LL Cool J — to unlikely characters such as surfer Laird Hamilton, magician David Blaine and entrepreneur Seth Godin. Here are a few unexpected things we learned watching each hour-long episode.

Shangri-La is entirely devoid of any decoration.

The default look for most professional recording studios is walls covered with platinum records and glass cases littered with awards, plus personalized items from...

In another benevolent look at an aging legend, Morgan Neville’s latest documentary boils down Rick Rubin’s atypical path to greatness into a universal message of inspiration, using the variety of musicians who visit his mythic Southern California recording studio as avenues into the record producer’s guiding ethos, as well as a resource of widely applicable words for the audience at home. Tyler the Creator, Ezra Koenig, Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, LL Cool J, as well as non-musicians like David Lynch, David Blaine, and Jerrod Carmichael all stop by “Shangri-La” to shoot the shit with the bearded, barefoot Rubin, his long white hair and white-walled retreat lending added calm to the therapeutic vibes — he’s there to help with whatever’s blocking their creativity, and Neville’s four-part docuseries is here to do the same for viewers.

The biopic elements of “Shangri-La” are pretty fun,...

We like to think the IndieWire Review Roundup is always essential reading, but this one is particularly packed. A lot of festival hits are rearing their heads this week, as Sundance breakout “The Farewell” and SXSW favorite “The Art of Self Defense” are both being released. And if you had money riding on “Stuber” being our best-reviewed studio film of the week, congratulations! For all of that and more, keep reading for a roundup of all of our film and television reviews.

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