Ken Watanabe News

In honor of the beloved show's final week of performances, BWW is taking a look at where the original NEWSIES principal cast members and creative team have landed after carrying the banner for a final time!

Entertainment Weekly, brought a whole roundup of casting news this week, featuring big name stars, indie films, and more.

Warner Bros. Entertainment will plant its flag at Comic-Con International: San Diego this year with a huge presence, with each individual division touting its upcoming offerings, including Film, Television, Interactive and Home Entertainment

Amazon today announces a Limited Edition Gift Set Blu-ray for the action adventure film Transformers: Age of Extinction, now in theaters.

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? Today's big news: The next installment in Encores! Off-Center is FAUST: THE CONCERT, featuring Randy Newman and an all-star cast, plus The Skivvies strip down and more!

As BroadwayWorld just reported, Lincoln Center Theater has announced that Kelli O'Hara will play Anna Leonowens, and Ken Watanabe will play the King of Siam, in its new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King and I, with music by Richard Rodgers and a book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, based on the novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon. The production, to be directed by Bartlett Sher, will begin performances Thursday, March 12, 2015, and open on Thursday, April 16, 2015, at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 West 65 Street). Broadway audiences are already very familiar with the five-time Tony nominee O'Hara, but Watanabe will make his American stage debut in the production. His Japanese theatre credits include Dialogue with Horowitz, Hamlet, Shitayamannen-cho monogatari, The Lion in Winter and The Royal Hunt of the Sun.

Lincoln Center Theater has announced that Kelli O'Hara will play Anna Leonowens, and Ken Watanabe will play the King of Siam, in its new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's THE KING AND I, with music by Richard Rodgers and a book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, based on the novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon. The production, to be directed by Bartlett Sher, will begin performances Thursday, March 12, 2015, and open on Thursday, April 16, 2015, at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 West 65 Street).

Japan Society announces a new film to JAPAN CUTS' already bursting 2014 lineup. In the spirit of celebrating the versatility of guest actor Kazuki Kitamura, recipient of the festival's CUT ABOVE Award for Excellence in Film, the Society adds the horror-thriller Killers in its East Coast Premiere. Kitamura plays an eerily handsome and decadently deranged serial killer in this adrenaline-filled Indonesian-Japanese co-production, an entrancing take on the consumption of violent imagery counterposed with political violence and corruption. Showing three completely different sides of the phenomenal international star, the festival also features the Kitamura vehicle Neko Samurai ~Samurai ? Cat~ and his turn as homme fatale inMan from Reno.

North America's largest showcase of Japanese film and “One of the loopiest… and least predictable of New York's film festivals” (New York Magazine), JAPAN CUTS: The New York Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema returns for its eighth annual installment.

Riding on the tail of its enormous opening weekend, Warner Bros. Pictures' and Legendary Pictures' “Godzilla” will stomp across the $300 million mark at the worldwide box office today, Sunday, May 25th, only its tenth day in release.

Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures aren't ready to put down GODZILLA just yet.

The newest addition to the Godzilla film franchise is being released this Friday, just in time to celebrate the 60th Anniversary. The cast, led by Tony front-runner Bryan Cranston, features Oscar winner Juliette Binoche, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, and of course a giant lizard and a number of other monsters.

In an all-new television commercial for FIAT, the FIAT 500 experiences firsthand the power and size of GODZILLA.

LG Electronics the maker of the acclaimed LG G2 smartphone, LG G Pad 8.3 LTE tablet and innovative curved LG G Flex today announced it will be teaming up with Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures to bring the world's most reveredcreature back to the big screen

Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures have shared a new featurette for GODZILLA which takes fans behind-the-scenes to see how the filmmakers recreated the monster's classic roar. Check it out below!

In Summer 2014, the world's most revered monster is reborn as Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures unleash the epic action adventure 'Godzilla.' The film has released a commercial with new footage.

Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures have come up with a new poster for their upcoming GODZILLA reboot. Check it out below!

Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures have shared an extended look at their upcoming GODZILLA reboot. Check it out below!

Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures have debuted a an all-new domestic TV spot for their GODZILLA reboot.

Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures have released a new TV spot titled 'Whatever It Takes,' for their upcoming reboot of GODZILLA, hitting theaters May 16th.