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Ready to be Transported to the Geisha Houses in Kyoto? Master Director Hirokazu Kore-eda to Debut on Netflix with "From the Maiko House" Series

Palme d'Or winner and Japanese master filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda has decided on his first Netflix project! After teasing TV and film projects with the streaming giant late last year, he finally revealed his intent to adapt "Maiko in Kyoto: From the Maiko House," a popular comic that originally ran in 2016, into a eight-part limited series called "From the Maiko House."

Sidney Poitier, The First Black Man To Ever Win An Oscar, Has Died at 94

It's been a dark year so far in Hollywood. It's been a dark year so far in Hollywood. Just over a week after losing Golden-Era icon Betty White, today the Bahamian Minister of Foreign Affairs confirmed that actor Sidney Poitier, known best as the first Black man to ever win an Academy Award, has died at the age of 94.