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AnimationXpressIndiaRobert Downey Jr’s Doctor Doom set to unleash chaos in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ The man who once helped save the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is now set to threaten it. Robert Downey Jr is returning to the MCU, but he has traded Iron…

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AnimationXpressIndia‘Mashle: Magic and Muscles’ brings muscle to the magic world Magic meets muscle as Japanese-American actor Mackenyu Maeda steps into the shoes of Mash Burnedead in the live-action film Mashle: Magic and Muscles, a Japanese adventure-comedy fantasy manga and…

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AnimationXpressIndiaSnoopy races to escape Santa’s naughty list in new Apple TV special Snoopy has landed on Santa’s naughty list, but the beloved beagle still has 12 days to make things right.

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AnimationXpressIndia‘The Angry Birds Movie 3’ brings fatherhood chaos and a Sonic surprise to the big screen Red has faced green pigs, wild adventures and plenty of airborne chaos. But his next challenge may be his toughest yet: fatherhood.

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AnimationXpressIndia‘The Angry Birds Movie 3’ gets festive with Jisoo’s ‘Sun Showers’ Red (the main protagonist of The Angry Birds movie) has a new role to tackle, and this one comes with parental duties.

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AnimationXpressIndia‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ eyes 10 billion yen after record opening Godzilla is on the rampage at Japan’s box office. Godzilla Minus Zero has grossed 910 million yen (US$5.75 million) and drawn 590,000 admissions on its opening day, setting a record… The post…

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AnimationXpressIndia‘Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen’ teams up with ‘Delicious in Dungeon’ for a monster-sized crossover Dungeon-crawling just got tastier. Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen is joining forces with anime series Delicious in Dungeon for a crossover that brings two of its fan-favourite characters into the… The…

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AnimationXpressIndia‘Kingara Kavyam: Poem of the Enslaved’ wins India Gold at 28th DigiCon6 Awards The 28th DigiCon6 Awards, organised by Tokyo Broadcastig System Television, shine the spotlight on bold, original storytelling and creative talent from across Asia, giving Indian filmmakers a chance…

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AnimationXpressIndia‘BGMI Air’ locks in 10 December launch after crossing 14 million pre-registrations Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) Air is cleared for take-off. Krafton India has set 10 December 2026 as the launch date for its lighter mobile gaming experience, which has already crossed… The post…

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AnimationXpressIndiaAI, creativity and the orange economy: building India’s next generation of creative-tech talent AI can speed up a production, help artists explore new ideas and bring digital worlds to life. But can it create the next big Indian animation franchise?

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo