Godzilla Minus Zero Gets a 500-Day Making-Of Documentary

Evening News · Saturday 14 November 2026

Takashi Yamazaki’s record-breaking Godzilla Minus Zero is getting a fly-on-the-wall documentary filmed over 500 days of production. Also tonight: Panem comes to Mexico City as The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping ends its world tour, Johnny Depp’s Ebenezer tops the US box office, Re:ZERO gets a fifth season and the Yellowjackets creators explain their missing bonus episode.

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Godzilla Minus Zero gets a 500-day making-of documentary on Prime Video in Japan

• What’s new: Prime Video Japan will stream a Prime Original documentary, Kanzen Micchaku Documentary “Godzilla -0.0”: Yamazaki Takashi, Sekai wo Odorokaseta Sono Saki e (roughly “The Complete Inside Story of Godzilla Minus Zero: Takashi Yamazaki, Beyond Astonishing the World”), from Friday 27 November. Cameras followed the production for 500 days
• What it shows: Ryunosuke Kamiki and Minami Hamabe returning as Koichi and Noriko Shikishima, newcomer Min Tanaka working take after take with Yamazaki, and the Shirogumi VFX team, with Yamazaki himself supervising the effects. Yamazaki likens the set to a school club, with deadlines, pressure and real arguments along the way
• Yamazaki on a third film: Toho has not announced one, but he told SFX Magazine: “If Toho came to me with another offer to explore this world even further, I’d probably say yes.” He added that if this turned out to be his last Godzilla film, he “would be quite satisfied”
• The numbers: Toho says the film passed ¥10 billion worldwide in its first seven days, the fastest Japanese film to do so. In North America it took $2.1m on Friday in its second weekend, according to Variety, which expects about $7.5m for the weekend and a $48.1m total
• UK availability: The documentary is confirmed for Prime Video in Japan only; UK date not yet confirmed. Godzilla Minus Zero is in UK cinemas now

Yamazaki’s team made two of the best-looking monster films of the decade on a fraction of a Hollywood budget, so a proper look behind the curtain is very welcome. Fingers crossed Prime Video brings it to the UK. Read our Godzilla Minus Zero Super Review and how it ruled the global box office on its opening weekend.

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping ends its world tour with 1,600 fans in Mexico City

• What’s new: Joseph Zada and Mckenna Grace closed the film’s international tour at a fan event at Cinépolis Mitikah in Mexico City, Lionsgate announced. About 1,600 fans gathered at the Mitikah shopping centre, and more than 10,000 entered a ticket giveaway to be there
• Three stages of Panem: The event ran across three live stages: a Flickerman-style Capitol broadcast, a main-stage Q&A and photo moment, and a more interactive finale. Zada and Grace signed for fans and met 50 competition winners, partners and creators from across Latin America before introducing the screening
• The film: Francis Lawrence directs. Zada plays a 16-year-old Haymitch Abernathy in the Second Quarter Quell, with Grace as his ally Maysilee Donner, Ralph Fiennes as President Snow and Jesse Plemons, Glenn Close, Kieran Culkin, Elle Fanning and Maya Hawke
• UK availability: In UK cinemas and IMAX from Friday 20 November, rated 12A

Six days to go. Haymitch’s Games are the darkest in the books, and the scale of this tour shows how big Lionsgate expects the film to be. Catch up with our Sunrise on the Reaping preview and the news that Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss returns.

Johnny Depp’s Ebenezer leads the US box office on opening day

• What’s new: Ti West’s Gothic take on A Christmas Carol took $6.7m on Friday, including Thursday previews, from 3,535 North American cinemas, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter reported. It is heading for about $18m–$20m over the weekend, with around $20m more overseas
• Audiences: It earned an A- CinemaScore. Paramount made it for $38m. It is Depp’s first major studio film since 2018’s Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
• The rest of the weekend: Amazon MGM’s heist comedy How to Rob a Bank, with Nicholas Hoult and Zoë Kravitz, took just $2.2m on Friday and is pacing for about $4.75m
• UK availability: In UK cinemas now, rated 12A

A solid start for a $38m film, and a clear sign that audiences were ready to see Depp back in a big role. Ian McKellen, Daisy Ridley and Rupert Grint co-star. Catch up on its Leicester Square world premiere, and this week’s Weekly Cinema Pack has every new UK release.

Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- anime gets a fifth season

• What’s new: Kadokawa announced a fifth season at the anime’s 10th anniversary event at Tachikawa Stage Garden in Tokyo on Saturday, and revealed an early teaser visual of Subaru and Rem setting off on a journey, with the line “For you, as many times as it takes”
• What we know: No date, staff or studio details yet. The fourth season ran for 19 episodes across two arcs this year
• The story: Based on Tappei Nagatsuki’s light novels, it follows Subaru Natsuki, who is pulled into a fantasy world and finds that dying sends him back in time
• UK availability: UK date not yet confirmed. The first four seasons stream on Crunchyroll in the UK

Ten years on, Subaru’s loops are still among the most gruelling in fantasy anime. More from our new Anime section.

Yellowjackets creators say the unseen bonus episode is not part of the story

• What’s new: Speaking to Deadline ahead of the final season, co-creator Bart Nickerson said: “Ultimately, the canon of the show is sort of what’s aired, and for us, the fourth season is like the final installment of a complete story.” He said many paths were explored along the way
• Background: Co-creator Ashley Lyle promised a bonus episode between seasons in June 2023. It never aired, leaving season two with nine episodes, and photos of Jason Ritter on set had fans guessing he was the mysterious “Cabin Guy”
• UK availability: The fourth and final season starts on Paramount+ in the UK on Friday 20 November, the same day as the US

So the Cabin Guy mystery may never be fully solved, at least on screen. Watch the final season trailer before it arrives next week.

Tom Hopper and Rita Ora chase an impossible signal in sci-fi thriller The Signalers

• What’s new: Tom Hopper (The Umbrella Academy), Rita Ora and Mila Harris (No Exit) are leading The Signalers, now filming, Variety reported. Missi Pyle (Galaxy Quest) and Nolan North (Uncharted) co-star
• The story: A remote air traffic controller (Hopper) and his estranged niece (Harris) detect an impossible signal deep in the Canadian wilderness. Searching for its source with two research scientists (Ora and Pyle), they uncover a buried, unearthly force that is waking up
• Behind it: Gille Klabin (The Wave) directs from a script by Cate Carson, a former detective and military intelligence specialist. Financier Peachtree Media Partners calls it a “classic Spielberg-inspired film”
• UK availability: UK date not yet confirmed

A British lead, a mystery in the woods and a nod to Close Encounters is a promising mix for a mid-budget sci-fi film.

Red Ink is a 1940s vampire film shot to look like a single take

• What’s new: Filmmakers Benjamin J. Murray and Michael Christensen told The Hollywood Reporter that Red Ink unfolds in real time in the newsroom of a fictional 1940s newspaper, using the same camera equipment as Netflix’s Adolescence. It is actually made of nearly a dozen shots of 8–10 minutes each
• The story: With the paper’s deadline approaching, Hoover (Toby Leonard Moore) must decide how a story will be framed, and with it the national narrative, while his publisher (D.B. Sweeney) is under pressure from a senator (Mike Doyle) who wants to use public fear to justify a crackdown
• How it happened: It is a prequel to Blood Bank, which the pair planned to make first until the Los Angeles fires forced a rethink. They had three days of preparation and an eight-day shoot, and a post-credits scene sets up Blood Bank
• UK availability: UK date not yet confirmed

Vampires, a ticking deadline and political fear-mongering in one room: this could be a clever little chiller.

Aaron Pierre stars in Fairytale in New York, a Christmas Eve revenge thriller from the director of Sisu

• What’s new: Netflix will distribute Fairytale in New York, with Lionsgate producing, after a competitive auction, Deadline reported. Jalmari Helander (Sisu) directs and Aaron Pierre (Lanterns, Rebel Ridge) stars
• The story: On Christmas Eve in New York, an unassuming cabbie sets out on a relentless night of vengeance after his estranged son’s priceless gift is stolen
• Behind it: Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani wrote the original script; they also wrote Helander’s John Rambo, out on 4 June 2027. Lionsgate first set the project up in 2024 with Ke Huy Quan attached
• UK availability: Coming to Netflix, which is available in the UK. Release date not yet confirmed

Pierre is having quite a run, with Star Wars: Starfighter and DC’s Man of Tomorrow both due next year. For the latest on his Green Lantern, see today’s Superhero News.

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