Before setting off on a big adventure with Illumination’s “Migration,” get to know the film’s new original characters and the talented cast that voiced them.    “We tried to find actors that were somewhat like their roles,” shares director Benjamin Renner. “That was great because we could ask them to share experiences and adlib with their performances.”   Watch the trailer:    Mack (Kumail Nanjiani) Mack is the overly cautious patriarch of the Mallard family. Mack harbors irrational fears of the outside world and insists the family stay in the safe confines of their pond. His anxieties and worldview are...

  Leading another action-packed live adaptation is Takumi Kitamura, who’s playing as the driven Takemichi Hanagaki in Tokyo Revengers 2: Bloody Halloween- Destiny, based on the best-selling manga series by Ken Wakui. After failing to save Hinata Tachibana from her fate, Takemichi travels back in time once more to unravel the mysteries of his violent past.   Fans are in for a star-studded ensemble as along with Takumi Kitamura, the cast includes Yuki Yamada (D-Boys, Godzilla Minus One) as one of Toman’s founding members, Draken. Ryo Yoshizawa (Kamen Rider Fourze) plays the Tomen gang leader with a tragic past, Mikey. ...

In 2020, with the world in lockdown, visionary filmmaker Matthew Vaughn – the director and producer of “The Kingsman” films, “Kick-Ass” and “Stardust” – sat down at his home outside London and decided to stage a film-appreciation class for his wife, Claudia Vaughn (née Schiffer), and their two daughters, who were around 10 and 15 years old at the time.    “Because it was lockdown, it gave me license to keep screening movies for them to watch,” Vaughn says. He showed them movie after movie, including Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 classic “North by Northwest,” in which an ordinary man (albeit one...

Marry My Husband January 1, 2024     Marry My Husband, based on a web novel, tells the revenge story of a terminally ill woman who witnesses her husband and best friend having an affair. Renowned rom-com queen Park Min Young, who recently delighted in Love in Contract—which is also available on Prime Video [SEA only]—portrays betrayed protagonist Kang Ji-won. Following the discovery of her best friend Jung Su-min (Song Ha Yoon) and husband Park Min-hwan (Lee Yi Kyung)’s illicit affair, Min-hwan kills Ji-won. In a twist of events, Ji-won travels back 10 years into the past and plans to reset her destiny with her colleague Yoo Ji-hyuk (Na Inwoo).   Kang Ji-won is...

Celebrate the new year with a delightful musical time-travel experience! Spotify’s Playlist in a Bottle is back, and listeners can now go on a nostalgic journey by revisiting the tunes that captured their hearts a year ago.   Back in January 2023, Spotify invited listeners to create their musical time capsules by choosing songs that resonated with them at that moment in time. And starting today, January 4, fans will get those long-awaited capsules to look back on the music they loved and reflect on how their listening evolved through the year. Here’s how it works:   Visit spotify.com/playlistinabottle on...