The Mainichi News Quiz: What's luring people to take shady jobs smuggling drugs into Japan?

The Mainichi - Oct 8, 2026

How closely have you been following events in Japan? Try The Mainichi News Quiz for Oct. 8 to test your news knowledge. Ready?What do authorities beli

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Fontaines D.C. Feels Its Way Out of the Darkness

After losing a beloved manager, and ahead of releasing the most anticipated album of its career, the Irish band works its way through despair.

Dark Retellings of Classic Books Like ‘Jane Eyre,’ ‘Frankenstein’ and More

Oct 8, 2026

Dark Retellings of Classic Books Like ‘Jane Eyre,’ ‘Frankenstein’ and More

The best-selling author Kat Dunn recommends some of her favorite modern retellings, of “Jane Eyre,” “Frankenstein” and more.

Alfonso Cuaron Revisits ‘Gravity’ With Son Jonas at Busan: ‘Life as an Experience Is What I Now Care About the Most’

Oct 8, 2026

Alfonso Cuaron Revisits ‘Gravity’ With Son Jonas at Busan: ‘Life as an Experience Is What I Now Care About the Most’

When he was younger, film came first for Alfonso Cuarón. These days, the Oscar-winning director says, life does. He made the remark at his Busan International Film Festival masterclass on Thursday, a day after he and his son Jonas Cuaron, his co-writer on 2013 space survival drama “Gravity,” revisited the film following an Imax screening. […]

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Oct 8, 2026

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France TV Distribution is launching mystery thriller “The Island of Lies” (“Sans Retour”) at this year’s Mipcom TV market in Cannes. Produced by Fontaram Productions and Ramona Productions for France Télévisions, the six-part series centers on Emma, whose life is starting over at the age of 33. Convicted as a teenager for a double murder […]

Alternativa Distribution Takes ‘No Good Men’ & ‘Four Daughters’ To MIPCOM

Oct 8, 2026

Alternativa Distribution Takes ‘No Good Men’ & ‘Four Daughters’ To MIPCOM

EXCLUSIVE: Alternativa Distribution has acquired selected rights to features including Berlin Film Festival opener No Good Men ahead of making its debut at the MIPCOM market in Cannes. The fledgling distributor has acquired several other festival and award-nominated movies ahead of MIPCOM. It will present Akio Fujimoto’s Lost Land to buyers, as well as Abinash […]

Lightdox Acquires Sales Rights To ‘Nostalgia For The Future,’ Documentary On Enigmatic Filmmaker Chris Marker Narrated By Charlotte Rampling

Oct 8, 2026

Lightdox Acquires Sales Rights To ‘Nostalgia For The Future,’ Documentary On Enigmatic Filmmaker Chris Marker Narrated By Charlotte Rampling

EXCLUSIVE: Lightdox has acquired international sales rights to Nostalgia for the Future leading into Film Fest Gent in Belgium where the documentary screens on Sunday. The film narrated by Oscar-nominated actress Charlotte Rampling examines the enigmatic filmmaker Chris Marker (1921-2012), one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. The Belgium–Netherlands–Italy co-production, directed […]

Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Doc ‘You Can See Everything’ Sets November U.K. Release Date

Oct 8, 2026

Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Doc ‘You Can See Everything’ Sets November U.K. Release Date

“You Can See Everything,” Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s highly anticipated documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, has set a release date in the U.K. and Ireland. The doc, which offers an intimate look at the Theranos founder’s life a month before she began an 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors, will hit cinemas in the U.K. […]

‘World War Z’ Director Marc Forster Adapting Jamie Scallion’s Revenge Thriller ‘Nines’ For TV With Renée Wolfe, Me+You Productions & Fremantle

Oct 8, 2026

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EXCLUSIVE: World War Z and Quantum of Solace director Marc Forster is turning his hand to TV by directing an adaptation of Jamie Scallion’s buzzy upcoming thriller Nines. Nines, which follows a man in jail intent on revenge, was snapped up by Forster and Renée Wolfe’s indie 2DUX² along with I Am… producer Me+You Productions […]

BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours

Oct 8, 2026

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The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.

Brad Bird On The 30-Year Journey To Bring ‘Ray Gunn’ To The Big Screen — London Film Festival

Oct 8, 2026

Brad Bird On The 30-Year Journey To Bring ‘Ray Gunn’ To The Big Screen — London Film Festival

This week, animation auteur Brad Bird debuts his latest feature, Ray Gunn, at the London Film Festival, ending what the veteran filmmaker describes as a three-decade journey to bring the animated feature to life. “I wish I could dress it up in some more reasonable-sounding way, but it actually took that long,” Bird jokes, speaking […]

Russia warns of 'false' information as second plague case reported

Oct 8, 2026

Russia warns of 'false' information as second plague case reported

MOSCOW — Russia warned Wednesday against "false" information as reports emerged of a second suspected case of plague in Siberia, with Washington and Brussels calling for transparency and neighbouring Mongolia tightening health surveillance. Russian news outlet People of Baikal reported last Friday that a 28-year-old woman employed at a plague research institute in Siberia's Irkutsk region had died of the disease, possibly after contracting it from a broken test tube. International concern has meanwhile grown over the death and suspicions that a second employee at the institute fell ill. The United States, the European Union and the World Health Organization have all called on Russia to be transparent about the situation. Mongolia's government said Wednesday that "health surveillance and monitoring measures (were) being implemented at the border" with Russia. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also urged Moscow to clarify "media reports of a second employee with pneumonia of undetermined cause" at the Irkutsk institute. Russian authorities have played down the reports, determining the w

Vance points to S. Korea's 'political dynamics' amid uncertainty over Alaska LNG project

Oct 8, 2026

Vance points to S. Korea's 'political dynamics' amid uncertainty over Alaska LNG project

WASHINGTON — U.S. Vice President JD Vance has pointed to "political dynamics" in South Korea amid uncertainty over Seoul's participation in a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Alaska, according to a U.S. media report Wednesday. "I think you have some political dynamics, frankly, in South Korea, but we're going to get this done, whether the current government or the next government in South Korea, or frankly, whether we have to work with the Japanese and other nations, to get it done," Vance told Alaska's News Source in an interview on Tuesday while traveling the state. Vance did not elaborate on what he meant by "political dynamics" in South Korea. "People are desperate for the gas that comes out of the state. It's cheaper, it's higher quality, it's more reliable because it's coming from Alaska as opposed to some tin-pot dictatorship," he said. U.S. President Donald Trump last week announced South Korea's U.S. investment projects under last year's bilateral trade agreement: the construction of a gas-fired power plant in Texas, eight large-scale nuclear power plants and th

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