Six travelers have died from suspected methanol poisoning after visiting the tourist town of Vang Vieng, Laos, this month. The travelers — two from Australia, two from Denmark, one from United Kingdom and one from United States — are believed to have consumed alcohol tainted with methanol, which is sometimes illegally added to regular or […]
Michael Learns to Rock hoped for success west of their native Denmark. But for 30 years, they’ve had a devoted following on the other side of the world.
As part of the Asia Society Summit, Variety‘s Senior Artisans Editor Jazz Tangcay sat down with the president of distribution at Universal Pictures Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, global co-president and CMO of TaP Music Wendy Ong and COO of 100 Thieves Julie Van for the AWE Champions Panel to discuss how the trio navigates their respective […]
Netflix‘s wildly popular Australian teen series Heartbreak High is getting ready for graduation. The show’s producers revealed last week that shooting has officially begun on the third and final season of the hit high school comedy-drama. To mark the occasion, The Hollywood Reporter visited the show’s Australian sets earlier this month to chat with the […]
Samurai stories, an essential genre of Japan’s film industry since its inception, have been enjoying a global resurgence lately. FX and Disney’s smash-hit period series Shogunproduced by and starring veteran Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada, became the most honored drama in Emmys history last month, winning in more categories in a single year than any show […]
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In its deliberate pacing and thoughtfulness, Daihachi Yoshida’s new film Teki Cometh is characteristic of the Japanese filmmaker’s career. The feature, which has its world premiere at the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival, and is competing in the festival’s main competition, is yet another literary adaptation from a director who is an avid reader. “Right […]
Japan has been baseball-obsessed for generations, but Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani‘s first World Series is powering the game to unseen levels of popularity in the country. The second game of the World Series between the Dodgers and the New York Yankees attracted an average of 15.9 million viewers in Japan, around 12 percent of […]
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As global temperatures continue to rise, countries in South Asia have experienced increasingly severe heat waves that pose unique challenges to workers—both indoors and outdoors—in the tropical belt. As early as April this year, many cities in India, including its capital, New Delhi, set record-breaking temperatures above 115 degrees Fahrenheit. Heat […]
If there were an AI prompt behind Indonesian action maestro Timo Tjahjanto’s latest Netflix movie The Shadow Straysit would probably go something like this: “Give me John Wick but make it Indonesian women with uzis and samurai swords — and more brutal.” Not that anything feels remotely artificial about the viscerally kinetic setpieces that explode […]
