#CrazyRichAsians director Jon M. Chu will direct a second Thai cave rescue film https://t.co/XVg5aCMNm8 pic.twitter.com/VWXiOWJvkK
- Variety (@Variety) July 12, 2018
The Thai cave rescue will be the subject of not one, but two competing movies ( Read more... )

Seth Rogen Remembers Nicolas Cage’s ‘Insensitive’ Idea to Play A ‘White Jamaican’ Villain For 'The Green Hornet’ https://t.co/ZEo2Ap24t9 pic.twitter.com/vTOCpzFS73
- IndieWire (@IndieWire) May 1, 2018
“The Green Hornet” was released in January 2011 ( Read more... )

Jared Leto's new yakuza thriller The Outsider is 'baffling bad' say criticshttps://t.co/G0go0x6xFA pic.twitter.com/F2IXvpP30g
- Yahoo Movies UK (@YahooMoviesUK) March 8, 2018

- Netflix's The Outsider releases on March 9th: "An American soldier imprisoned in postwar Japan enters the dark world of the yakuza, adopting their way of life in repayment ( Read more... )

Someone slipped me this recording of an acting class by an apparently well known, popular acting teacher. Please do not do what she advises here. It is not okay to pretend you are an ethnic minority if you are not. This ( plus the comment about Armenians) is completely unethical pic.twitter.com/XKYJJoFC9o
- Lexi Alexander ‎ (@Lexialex) February 25, ( Read more... )

Jared Leto is an angsty yakuza in this trailer for Netflix's The Outsider https://t.co/pTawEMXaBc pic.twitter.com/5HGfLnsQxH
- The A.V. Club (@TheAVClub) February 22, 2018

- Jared Leto stars in Netflix's The Outsider, centered around an American soldier made prisoner of war in post-WWII Japan who enters employment in the dark world of the Yakuza, ( Read more... )

Natalie Portman Wasn’t Aware Her #Annihilation Casting Was Whitewashing and Knows It ‘Sounds Problematic’: https://t.co/FTl8pdSejI pic.twitter.com/Elp0Ob8VG8
- IndieWire (@IndieWire) February 14, 2018
Advocacy groups have accused the film of whitewashing its characters ( Read more... )

'Annihilation' Criticized for "White-Washed Casting" https://t.co/uSt3tPhura pic.twitter.com/rrrCMooXFR
- Heat Vision (@HeatVisionBlog) February 12, 2018
The Biologist Lena is played by Natalie Portman, the character is of Asian descent in the books ( Read more... )

Catherine Zeta-Jones defends playing a Latina character in Cocaine Godmother https://t.co/NOyeyYUCeS
- Entertainment Weekly (@EW) January 18, 2018
Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Colombian drug lord in the new Lifetime movie Cocaine Godmother: The Griselda Blanco Story ( Read more... )

Exclusive: @VancityReynolds to star in Pokemon movie 'Detective Pikachu' https://t.co/wobjYdOHyR pic.twitter.com/PjCXGyivT0
- Hollywood Reporter (@THR) December 6, 2017

The role is supportedly motion capture. Pikachu will help a boy find his missing father. Universal is handling distribution outside of Japan, Toho - in Japan.

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Believe it or not, Hollywood wanted to whitewash the #CrazyRichAsians movie, says the author: https://t.co/tOGNMY4Nin
- Entertainment Weekly (@EW) November 3, 2017
"Crazy Rich Asians" author Kevin Kwan revealed in 2013 he met with a producer interested in adapting his hit book and was told to "reimagine" his protagonist Rachel as white. Kwan told to ( Read more... )