Film Festivals: Festival favorite finds distributor — Regent Releasing has nabbed North American rights to Yojiro Takita’s drama “Departures.” Pic follows an unemployed cellist who takes a job as a Japanese “nokanshi,” preparing dead bodies for the afterlife.
Exclusives: New production co. to make ‘Raven,’ ‘Bull Rush’ — FilmNation Entertainment, launched by Glen Basner as a foreign sales company, has established a production arm and set Aaron Ryder to run it.
Michael Gambon, Leslie Bibb, Colm Meaney and Theresa Randle have come aboard the Film Department thriller “Law Abiding Citizen.”
Jimmy Hayward, who directed the animated “Horton Hears a Who!” will make his live-action debut with “Jonah Hex,” which is based on the DC Comics character.
Fresh off the success of his fairy tale hit “Bedtime Stories,” Adam Shankman is giving a boost to a Birdie.
Yes, yes, I know that the “Da Vinci Code” movie made a gazillion dollars or thereabouts, and I know that a gazillion people have read Dan Brown’s novels, from which that movie and its sequel/prequel, “Angels and Demons” are based, but I gotta tell you, there’s still not a whole lot here that I’m getting […]
Although summer has long been the traditional time for horror films in Korea, the 2008 season only saw one major release in the form of debut director Chang’s “Death Bell”. As such, the fact that the film proved to be a massive success, attracting over a million viewers and ranking as one of the country’s […]
So, okay, so she’s a high school girl (I’m guessing by the plaid skirt and school girl uniform) and she’s, like, kinda into karate and stuff, and get this, she can kick really, really high, and really, really fast. Or at least that’s what I gather from this short teaser video showing a scene from […]
Music for Screens: Despite waning sales, confab stays highbrow — The economic downturn has meant serious reprioritizing for classical and jazz labels. According to the Recording Industry Assn. of America, classical’s U.S. market share dropped to 1.9% from 3.2% between 2001 and 2006, while jazz plunged to 2% from 3.9% during the same period.
Music for Screens: Fest boasts healthy collection of rock docs — Music matters at Sundance. Both the Sundance Institute and Sundance Film Festival have long supported the cross-pollination between music and film.