Tokyo International Film Festival

In terms of the production, pre-production officially began March of 2014.

In October of 2014, John Lasseter revealed at the Tokyo International Film Festival that this film would be a tribute to Hayao Miyazaki's The Castle of Cagliostro in the form of a Citroen 2CV being in the film.

There was a return to the themes of the first movie, emotional core, and what's happening next to McQueen after the Piston Cup as an athlete and as an individual.

um they uh focused on nascar drivers who can't imagine doing anything else with their lives and they explored themes of rookies taking over from legends um the influences on mcqueen in addition to nascar legends included wayne gretzky and missy may trainer from beach volleyball um emotional core and character relationships were the emphasis of this film it was a sports film while exploring what mcqueen's relationship to uh doc meant to him In terms of casting, Armie Hammer and Cristela Alonso were announced in January 2017.

And my 27-year-old adult child is a, uh, young aspiring film director.

He just-- his short film won the Dublin Film Festival last year and the Tokyo Film Festival.

So they're doing things differently than me, but they're doing things that they like, and I admire that in them.

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That's not surprising because these door films don't really have any profile or didn't have much profile in the West up until a few years ago.

Back in 2022, they did a remastered, a digitally remastered version of the first film and showed it at the Tokyo International Film Festival.

And then it was screened at Fantastic Fest in 2023.

And since then, it's gotten like a Blu-ray release and it's a lot easier to find.

The whole gang is starring in the upcoming family movie that is set for release in 2027.

Variety is getting ready to publish three digital dailies out of the Tokyo Film Festival.

That festival begins October 26 and runs through November 4.

Before we go, congrats to Naomi Beluchnikov-Paul.

I guess we'll see.

Uh, the Tokyo Film Festival, [clicks tongue] uh, revealed its lineup, and, uh, some ...

Like, probably the two most, uh, uh, anticipated ones are Godzilla Minus Zero.

Oh, I've heard that one's gonna be really good.

Exactly.

Tokyo International Film Festival.

So like it makes sense that this platform would go hand in hand with the New York Times is looking to be relevant.

in the digital information scheme.

Um, so there's this thing called the Tokyo Gap Financing Market that apparently helps se- projects seek funding if they've met the original, uh, at least the minimum goal of 60% of their funding for something.

So this past Wednesday, at the recording of this episode, the TIFCOM, which I assume is the Tokyo International Film Festival Committee, and the Tokyo International Film Festival highlighted 24 film projects, um, that needed to get, I guess, gap financing, which essentially, sort of as the name implies, the last bit of financing you would need.

It does...

Essentially it means you've done at least most of it and just that last little bit you just need.