Haruka Ayase and Suzu Hirose are getting married? What’s up with the struggling entertainment agencies! 2024 Entertainment Industry Anonymous Roundtable Discussion
Downtown,” which boldly stated that it would “focus on the trial” until it suspended its activities. Hitoshi Matsumoto (61), who had boldly stated that he would “focus on the lawsuit” until he suspended his activities, and Shinji Saito of “Jungle Pocket” fame Shinji Saito (42), and a string of closures and bankruptcies of entertainment production companies.
FRIDAY invited Mr. A, a major agency executive, Mr. B, a producer at a key station, and Mr. C, a desk clerk at a sports newspaper, to participate in a roundtable discussion. We asked these three people who know the entertainment world inside and out to talk about “behind the news” and their secret predictions for 2013.
In the first part, they talked about the possibility of Hitoshi Matsumoto’s return, behind-the-scenes troubles related to comedians, and the backstory of “Arashi,” which is expected to be restarted…
As reported on Friday, Fuka Koshiba transferred
Mr. B. It is the K-POP group that has emerged to replace the old Janis. This time, “ILLIT,” which debuted less than a year ago, has decided to participate for the first time. The number of K-POP artists will increase even more in 2013 and beyond.
Mr. A. “LE SSERAFIM” and “ILLIT,” which have participated in the competition three times in a row since 2010 before their debut in Japan, are both members of a subsidiary of HYBE. However, many people involved with the label still complain, “How can LE SSERAFIM, who has not debuted in Japan, compete?
Mr. C Contrary to Korea, which is doing very well, Japanese entertainment agencies have closed or gone bankrupt one after another.
Mr. B. The closure of A-Team with Riho Yoshioka (31) was a shock. Medium-sized production companies that depend on a handful of stars are in a tough spot. when Friday reported that Oscar Promotion’s ace Fuka Koshiba (27), who had starred in and been the heroine of four consecutive dramas and was set to appear in a major TV drama in 2013, would be leaving the company by the end of the year, there was an outcry within the Oscar company, with comments such as ” 事実無根」「信用するな」と大騒ぎ。 They were desperate to put out the fire. Even so, she was transferred after all, wasn’t she? Japan’s entertainment agencies are entering a “winter period.
