Coming off his recent Best Actor nomination for “American Fiction,” Jeffrey Wright has landed a high-profile part opposite Denzel Washington and Ilfenesh Hadera (“Billions“) in Spike Lee‘s (“Da 5 Bloods“) “High & Low,” according to a report from THR. The ransom thriller is a remake of the acclaimed Akira Kurosawa film from 1963.

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Director Zack Snyder is truly moving from the DCEU as there is a report of his next feature film that will see him stick with the streaming giant, Netflix, after working with them on the hit zombie actioner “Army of The Dead.”  

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We finally have some official word about Snyder’s next big project, and it will see the filmmaker turn his attention back to science fiction with the Netflix film “Rebel Moon.” The news coming from The Hollywood Reporter adds that the project will be directly inspired by things like “Star Wars” and the films of legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. 

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Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Your latest new release round-up includes a big winner at yesterday’s Oscar nominations, a 4K upgrade for a dopey ‘80s favorite [Editor’s note: How dare you, Jason Bailey?

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Movies about the making of 'Chinatown' and 'The Godfather'? Series adaptations of 'Scenes from a Marriage' and 'Rashomon'? What's going on here?

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Though the original film is 70 years old, Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon” remains one of the most influential films ever to be released. To this day, you still hear descriptions of new films and TV projects as “Rashomon”-esque, as the style used to tell the mystery at the heart of the film has inspired so many copycats. Well, decades after the film (and two years after it was announced as a possible project), apparently HBO Max is ready to bring back “Rashomon” as a new TV series, though it’s going to look very different than the Kurosawa original.

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Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment has made a deal with the estate of legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa to adapt the classic film “Rashomon” as a anthology TV series.

According to the studio, the TV series would be a 10-episode thriller, where each of the episodes shows a unique point of view of an incident from another character. Only after watching all 10 episodes, and experiencing the different point of views of all the characters, would viewers be able to piece together the truth of the mystery.

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Big screen spectacles rarely come as awe inspiring as Akira Kurosawa‘s “Ran.” The legendary director’s 1985 masterpiece deserves to be seen on the big screen (like nearly all of his movies), but there’s no better time, as it’s been giving a fresh, 4K restoration.

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Kurosawa’s take on Shakespeare‘s “King Lear,” which sets the story during Japan’s 16th century civil wars, is simply epic, with the director employing a massive cast of extras, live horses, and beautiful location work to pull it all together.

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Watch: Akira Kurosawa Directs Martin Scorsese Playing Vincent Van Gogh In 10-Minute Segment From 'Dreams'

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Watch: Trailer For Akira Kurosawa’s Newly Restored Classic ‘Ran’

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Watch: Video Essay 'Akira Kurosawa — Composing Movement'

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Watch: Fascinating Video Essay 'The Geometry Of A Scene' Explores The Technique Of Akira Kurosawa

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Watch: Trailers For Martin Scorsese’s List Of The 39 Foreign Films You Should See Before You Die

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The 15 Best Palme d'Or Winners From The Cannes Film Festival

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Watch: George Lucas Talks The Mastery Of Akira Kurosawa For The Criterion Collection

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20 Films About Doubles And Doppelgangers

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Watch: 80-Minute Documentary 'A Message From Akira Kurosawa: For Beautiful Movies'

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Big in Japan: 10 Movies To Watch Before 'The Wolverine'

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Watch: Alex Cox's 1999 Documentary 'Kurosawa: The Last Emperor' With Francis Ford Coppola, Paul Verhoeven & More

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5 Things You May Not Know About Akira Kurosawa's 'Seven Samurai'

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