After two seasons since it first aired in 2022, it has been announced that Toyko Vice has been cancelled on Max. This comes after it was reported two months ago that the show could begin filming this year if the streaming service decides to renew the show. Unfortunately, it seems like the crime drama isn’t returning and it’s currently unknown if the show’s creator, J.T. … Continue reading ‘Tokyo Vice’ Canceled After Two Seasons!!
Jake Adelstein (Ansel Elgort) is chasing another story and things aren’t looking great! The new trailer for Tokyo Vice Season 2 is here, and it gives us another peak into the underbelly of its namesake city. Created by J.T. Rogers based on the 2009 book of the same name by journalist Jake Adelstein, the series is back for another run and fans are all here … Continue reading ‘Tokyo Vice’ Season 2 Trailer Sees Ansel Elgort Chasing Another Story!! Check It Out!!
HBO is ready to enter 2024 in full force, with a new video giving audiences a sneak peek of what the studio will be releasing next year. The second season of House of the Dragon, the premiere of The Penguin and the return of True Detective are some of the most anticipated events from the network in the next twelve months, setting the stage for … Continue reading HBO 2024 Preview Video Reveals Footage of ‘The Penguin,’ ‘Welcome to Derry,’ and More!! Check It Out!!
After almost two years since its first season, Tokyo Vice is back. The Max crime drama will return in February 2024. Entertainment Weekly has a first look at the new season of the series, as well as an interview with creator J.T. Rogers and director Alan Poul. The images show off the returning cast – Ansel Elgort as expatriate American reporter Jake Adelstein. Other returning … Continue reading ‘Tokyo Vice’ Season 2 Reveals First Images!! Check It Out!!
Tokyo Vice‘s long-awaited second season is in the can. The Michael Mann-produced series completed filming prior to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes that currently have productions on hold. Variety reports that principal filming on the season has finished in an interview with Tokyo Vice producer Alex Boden. However, fans of the series shouldn’t plan to watch it any time soon. Boden notes that the series … Continue reading ‘Tokyo Vice’ Season 2 Apparently Wrapped Filming Before the Strikes!!
2022 has been quite the year of ups and downs for television shows, from many series being cancelled, others getting renewed, and a whole slew of upcoming ones to look forward to. As we prepare to head into 2023, HBO Max has shared a preview video for their current 2023 slate. The video features HBO and HBO Max originals, including the highly-anticipated The Last of … Continue reading New HBO Max 2023 Preview Video Teases ‘Barry’, ‘The Last of Us,’ ‘The Idol’ and More!! Check It Out!!
Tokyo Vice an HBO Max Original drama series has been renewed for a second season. The series is loosely inspired by American journalist Jake Adelstein‘s non-fiction, a first-hand memoir of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat. Series creator JT Rogers shared this statement with the news of renewal: “Writing and then making the first season of Tokyo Vice with this remarkable group of artists was a … Continue reading ‘Tokyo Vice’ Renewed for Season 2!!
Tokyo Vice may have brought the sort of prestige one would normally associate with HBO to its streaming subsidiary, HBO Max, but a new article at The Hollywood Reporter suggests that the non-fiction source material for the show might not be entirely factual. Sources cited in the report claim that some of journalist Jake Adelstein’s stories in his 2009 memoir, “Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter … Continue reading ‘Tokyo Vice’: HBO Max Series Source Material Under Scrutiny for Misrepresenting Facts!!
Following the first-look image unveiled back in February, HBO Max released today the first trailer for Tokyo Vice, an upcoming action-thriller series that is set to premiere in early April. Inspired by a true story, the series starring Ansel Elgort follows a young American journalist who is sent to chronicle the everyday activities from of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and ends up uncovering shocking … Continue reading ‘Tokyo Vice’: First Trailer Teases Michael Mann’s True Crime HBO Max Series!! Check It Out!!
HBO Max and WOWOW have revealed a new image and release date for their upcoming action-thriller series Tokyo Vice. Based on a true story, the series starring Ansel Elgort follows a young American journalist who is sent to chronicle the everyday activities from of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, and ends up uncovering shocking evidence of corruption in the Vice squad. The series premieres exclusively on … Continue reading ‘Tokyo Vice’: First Image Teases Michael Mann’s True Crime HBO Max Series!! Check It Out!!
Tokyo Vice, the HBO Max crime series directed by Michael Mann (Collateral), has added more actors to its cast. Ansel Elgort (Baby Driver) was already confirmed as the series main protagonist, along with other previously announced members of the cast like Ken Watanabe (Inception), Rachel Keller (Legion), Ella Rumpf (Raw), and Rinko Kikuchi (Babel). Now, new additions to the cast include the Japanese actors Hideaki … Continue reading ‘Tokyo Vice’: Michael Mann’s HBO Max Series Adds Hideaki Ito, Show Kasamatsu, and Tomohisa Tamashita to Cast!!
It appears as though filmmaker Michael Mann is finally getting ready to make his Enzo Ferrari movie a reality. We hope. It was announced this past weekend that Hugh Jackman will be taking on the lead role in Mann’s long-in-the-works biopic, which is titled Ferrari and is aiming to start filming in Spring 2021. The Heat filmmaker has been trying to get this one off … Continue reading Hugh Jackman Set as Enzo Ferrari in Michael Mann Helmed Biopic!!
Director Joe Cornish has set up his next project: A return to television directing with an adaptation of the sci-fi novel Snow Crash. Although Cornish is best known for his work on Attack the Block and the more recent adventure flick The Kid Who Would Be King, the director did get his start directing the UK TV series The Adam and Joe Show, which ran from 1996 to 2001. Now, according … Continue reading ‘Snow Crash’ TV Series Adaptation in Works at HBO Max by Joe Cornish!!!
Michael Mann will be directing the pilot episode of Tokyo Vice, the crime drama series set to premiere on HBO’s forthcoming streaming platform HBO Max. In addition to serving as executive producer, Mann will also potentially direct further episodes of the show starring Ken Watanabe and Ansel Elgort, which is set to begin filming in February of 2020. Tokyo Vice seems like familiar territory for … Continue reading ‘Tokyo Vice’: Michael Mann to Direct HBO Max Pilot!!!
Oscar-nominated actor Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai) has signed on to join Ansel Elgort in the HBO Max crime series Tokyo Vice, which he’ll also executive produce, Collider has learned. Based on Jake Adelstein’s first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat, Tokyo Vice follows Jake’s daily descent into the neon-soaked underbelly of Tokyo, where nothing, and no one, is truly what or who they seem. Watanabe will … Continue reading ‘Tokyo Vice’: Ken Watanabe Joins the HBO Max Crime Series!!!
We’ve known that WarnerMedia has had its own streaming service brewing for a while now, and today they’ve announced that the service will be dubbed “HBO Max”. Warner has already had success with the HBO brand and spinning it out into streaming services HBO Go and HBO Now, so calling the new service “HBO Max” makes sense since it will include HBO as well as … Continue reading WarnerMedia’s Streaming Service Dubbed ‘HBO Max’!!!
The Fault in Our Stars and Baby Driver star Ansel Elgort will make his series acting debut in WarnerMedia’s Tokyo Vice. The drama has received a straight-to-series 10-episode order from WarnerMedia’s upcoming, still to be titled streaming platform. Based on Jake Adelstein’s memoir Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat, the series adaptation has Tony Award-winning playwright J.T. Rogers (Oslo) writing with Short Term 12 and … Continue reading ‘Tokyo Vice’: WarnerMedia Sets First Series with Ansel Elgort!!!
