Takeo Hisamatsu will be the new head of Tokyo International Film Festival , succeeding Yasushi Shiina on Mar. 10, the fest announced Friday. Hisamatsu, a 40-year veteran of the industry, has served as an executive managing director of studio Shochiku and deputy general manager of Warner Bros.
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‘Tango & Cash’ Maker Andrei Konchalovsky: “Hollywood Offers a Russian Director Nothing”
He says he has “no desire” to go back and his Holocaust drama ‘Paradise,’ which made the shortlist for the foreign-language Oscar, but failed to get nominated, could not have been made the same way in Tinseltown. Andrei Konchalovsky, the director of Warner Bros.’
Russian Hill Gothic Tudor formerly owned by Nicolas Cage asks…
Right next to the cable car track in Russian Hill sits 898 Francisco St., a 1914 Gothic Tudor formerly owned by Face/Off and Con Air star Nicolas Cage. As Curbed explains , the actor paid $9.4 million for the house and an adjacent vacant lot in 2006, though it’s unclear if he ever actually lived in it.