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Cartoon BrewStrong Word Of Mouth Helps ‘Wildwood’ Beat Projections With $9 Million Weekend, Second Sunday Up 2% Over First Week Laika’s stop-motion feature fell just 27% in its second weekend, reaching $27.4 million domestically as audience polling pointed to strong word of mouth.

Cartoon BrewAnime Is A $28 Billion Business: Here’s How Japanese Studios Are Capitalizing On Its Global Growth Nippon Animation’s Hitomi Hiratsuka and Production I.G’s Yoko Ueda discuss overseas partnerships, family audiences, and lasting fan connections.

Cartoon BrewChina’s First AI Feature Limps Through Second Weekend, Reaching Just $253,000 After 11 Days ‘Sanxingdui: Future Past’ reportedly cost $1.5 million to produce, but Chinese box office forecasts suggest it won’t gross even a third of that.

Cartoon Brew‘Jim Queen,’ ‘In Waves,’ ‘Lucy Lost’: What Do This Year’s Buzziest French Features Have In Common? Meet Studio Goa Shan Pictures Based on Réunion, the studio is expanding across borders while investing in local talent, sustainable production, and creative partnerships.

Cartoon BrewWho Gets To Judge Anime? Japanese Industry Leaders Make The Case For A New Award At TIFFCOM, executives from Studio Chizu, A-1 Pictures, and Toho discussed recognizing anime’s diversity and nurturing its next generation of creators.

Cartoon Brew‘Wildwood’ Adds Screens, Passes $20M At The Domestic Box Office A projected $7–8 million second weekend would put Travis Knight’s stop-motion fantasy roughly in line with earlier Laika releases.

Cartoon BrewTIFF 2026: Anime’s Co-Pros; Hungry Ghosts; Feature Spotlights Our second Tokyo dispatch explores financing across Asia and Europe, Ervin Han’s food-fueled ghost stories, and the craft behind four festival titles.

Cartoon BrewInternational Anime Producers Discuss Challenges And Benefits Of Co-Production At TIFFCOM Producers compare public funding in Europe with Asia’s reliance on private investment, exploring how international partnerships can bridge the gap.

Cartoon BrewThe Bears Are Cute, But The Working Conditions Are Murder: Welcome To ‘Pinkooland’ (EXCLUSIVE TRAILER) Luis Usón’s animated horror short blends sci-fi and corporate satire in an Ecuadorian-Spanish production conceived as a proof of concept for a feature.

Cartoon Brew‘Coyote Vs. Acme’ Launches Oscar Race; Halloween Horrors; Remembering Patrick Stewart This week, Coyote vs. Acme cleared another unlikely hurdle when the Academy granted it approval to compete for the animated feature Oscar.

Cartoon BrewAliens, Battle Royales, And Vampire Romance: Atsushi Nishigori Poured His All Into ‘Grotesqqque,’ A Three-Course Anime Omnibus The director discusses digital animation, contrasting visual styles, and balancing creative roles in his ambitious three-part feature.

Cartoon BrewMeTV Toons To Honor Eric Bauza With Bugs Bunny Special And Classic Shorts Program Airing October 31, “Hare’s to Bugs!” features Bauza reflecting on the beloved character, followed by a lineup of classic Warner Bros. shorts.

Festivals

映画祭 · What's on the festival calendar — Asia first, then the world — the films each region is talking about, and what its press is covering

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On screens this week the newest stills from the region's press

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About

Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo