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EXCLUSIVE: We have just learned about this manga feature adaptation which is in early works at Columba Pictures, and that’s the Akihito Tsukushi Made in Abyss which Kevin McMullin is adapting. Roy Lee’s Vertigo Entertainment is producing, along with Bullet Train and Heroes actor Masi Oka. Made in Abyss has spawned a…

EXCLUSIVE: Heroes star Masi Oka is set to join the ensemble of Sony's action thriller Bullet Train starring Brad Pitt. Joey King, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Zazie Beetz and Andrew Koji are also on board. Hobbs & Shaw director David Leitch will direct and also supervise the script, which will be written…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS is developing Repeat, a drama series executive produced by Masi Oka and Sabrina Wind, from ABC Studios. Written and executive produced by David Zabel (Mercy Street, ER) Repeat is based on the award-winning book of the same name by Kurumi Inui and the 2018 TV series, which aired on Yomiuri Television in…

Hit Japanese manga Promised Neverland is being adapted into a live-action series for Amazon by Heroes' Masi Oka, Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse writer and director Rodney Rothman and Vertigo Entertainment. Fox 21 and Amazon Studios are producing the English-language adaptation with Rothman set to direct and exec…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures is developing an English-language feature adaptation, If Cats Disappeared from the World, based on Genki Kawamura’s bestselling Japanese book and 2016 Japanese film of the same name. Kit Steinkellner, creator of the Facebook Watch series, Sorry for Your Loss, will pen the screenplay with…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS is developing Repeat, a drama series executive produced by Masi Oka and Sabrina Wind, from ABC Studios. Written and executive produced by David Hayter (X-Men, X-Men 2: X-Men United, Watchmen) Repeat is based on the award-winning book of the same name by Kurumi Inui and the 2018 TV series, which aired on…

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Mendelsohn (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), Karen Gillan (Doctor Who), Rashida Jones (Parks and Recreation), DJ and music producer DJ Khaled and Masi Oka (Hawaii Five-0) have joined Will Smith and Tom Holland in the voice cast of Fox’s animated film Spies In Disguise. Directed by Epic animator Nick Bruno…

Masi Oka, who has been with CBS procedural Hawaii Five-O since the first season as a recurring, then as a series regular from Season 2 on, is exiting the show. The upcoming 13th episode will be his last, as his character Dr. Max Bergman, moves to Africa with his new bride Sabrina (Rumer Willis). Oka tells EW, which…

Masi Oka knows a thing or two about learning English as a second language having been born in Tokyo and moving to the U.S. at age 6. The Heroes and Hawaii Five-0 star would be able to share his and his family’s experience in ESL, a comedy project that has been set up at Fox with Oka and A To Z creator Ben Queen…

Another Heroes fan favorite character will return for the upcoming Heroes Reborn event series. Masi Oka, who played wide-eyed time/space jumper Hiro Nakamura on the original series, is set to reprise his role in a guest-starring arc on Heroes Reborn, which is now slated for NBC’s fall schedule. (Will it return to…