EXCLUSIVE: MGM Television is cementing its move into premium factual programming with a new partnership with Imax documentary producer and distributor K2 Studios. The Hollywood studio will co-produce ...

Former Toei producer Muneyuki Kim has launched K2 Pictures, which will work with major directors such as Hirokazu Kore-eda and aim to create a new funding ecosystem for Japanese animated and ...

AMMAN — The power of arts and culture to speak about the human condition is a primary motivation for director Iara Lee, who has recently finished her sixth film, tackling subjects as diverse as human ...

The Development Bank of Japan’s investment in the Tokyo-based startup — launched at Cannes with backing from auteurs like Hirokazu Kore-eda and Takashi Miike — signals growing institutional support ...

K2 Pictures, the Japanese film venture founded by veteran producer Muneyuki Kii, has landed some sizable institutional support. Japanese megabank MUFG, part of the country’s largest financial ...

The new venture, which is launching a fund, is set to back an ambitious slate of movies from leading Japanese directors including Hirokazu Kore-eda, Takashi Miike, Shunji Iwai, Miwa Nishikawa and ...

The Summit, a feature-length documentary shot by an Irish film crew chronicling one of the deadliest days in modern mountain history when 11 climbers, including Limerick man Ger McDonnell, lost their ...

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EXCLUSIVE: MGM Television is cementing its move into premium factual programming with a new partnership with Imax documentary producer and distributor K2 Studios. The Hollywood studio will co-produce ...

The Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) has become the latest major investor to back Tokyo-based K2 Pictures’ pioneering new film production fund, signaling growing institutional confidence in the company ...