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James Wan (born 26 February 1977) is an Australian filmmaker. He has primarily worked in the horror genre as the co-creator of the Saw and Insidious franchises and the creator of The Conjuring Universe. The lattermost is the highest-grossing horror franchise at over $2 billion. Wan is also the founder of the film and television production company Atomic Monster. Beginning his career with the Saw franchise, Wan made his feature directorial debut with his first film in 2004. The franchise became commercially successful and grossed more than $1 billion globally. Following a period of setbacks, Wan found new success with the Insidious series, in which he directed the first film in 2010 and its 2013 sequel. The same year as the second Insidious, Wan directed the first Conjuring film to critical and commercial success. He served as the director of the second installment in 2016 and produced subsequent films in the franchise. Outside of horror, Wan directed Furious 7 (2015), the seventh installment of the Fast & Furious franchise, and the DC Extended Universe superhero films Aquaman (2018) and its sequel Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023). Both Furious 7 and Aquaman grossed over $1 billion, making Wan the eighth director with two films to reach the milestone. He is the 16th highest-grossing director of all time as of 2021, with his films having grossed over $3.7 billion worldwide. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Wan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
In August 2025, just before the 80th anniversary of VJ Day at the end of World War II. The new horror film Hiroshima (Japanese: 広島, Hepburn: Hiroshima) has shared some thematic similarities with 28 Days Later (2002) and Overlord (2018), such as a viral outbreak and a post-apocalyptic setting in Japan during World War II before the unconditional surrender in August 1945. As the Japanese portray the devastating consequences of the bombing, including the immense loss of life and the long-lasting effects of radiation which will be sold to America with $ million to purchase for the American film company like Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures to feature the very first non-English language film since Drive My Car and Parasite, which will set in Hiroshima, Japan nearing the end of the Second World War with the Atomic Bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" dropped on the city, killing 140,000 people.
