While essentially a disaster film, the visually alarming and nerve-racking “Fukushima” is also a cross-cultural psychodrama, about an industry, and perhaps a society, having a meltdown all its own.

A movie based on B.K. Borison’s hit 2025 romance novel “First Time Caller” is in the works. The film rights to the book, which follows a hopeless romantic who meets a jaded radio host in a “Sleepless ...