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Holiday Preview: Anywhere But a Movie Theater

4 November 2009 11:14 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

More Holiday Preview: [Theatrical Calendar]

[Repertory Calendar] [Anywhere But a Movie Theater]

On Demand

IFC Films (with whom, full disclosure, we obviously share a parent company) will be delivering new films all holiday season to homes across the country through their Festival Direct and Sundance Selects labels. These include the cross-cultural romantic dramedy "I'll Come Running" (Nov. 4), Josiane Balasko's farce "A French Gigolo" (Nov. 6), the Inuit tribal drama "Necessities of Life" (Nov. 11), the Brit crime thriller "Adulthood" (Nov. 18), the Indian love story "Return to Rajapur" (Nov. 25), the Christopher Masterson-Bijou Phillips celibacy satire "Made for Each Other" (Dec. 2), "Harry Potter" helmer David Yates' gritty two-part drama "Sex Traffic" (Dec. 2 and 9), the Korean comedy "Night and Day" (Dec. 23) and "The Ghost" (Dec. 30).

Meanwhile, in the newly launched Sundance Selects series, there's a pair of harrowing documentaries VOD premieres: Kief Davidson's coming-of-age boxing doc "Kassim the Dream" (Nov. 27) and the unvarnished biopic "Nick Nolte: No Exit" (Dec. »

- Stephen Saito

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Takashi Miike to remake Eiichi Kudo’s 1963 film ‘Thirteen Assassins’!

12 May 2009 4:35 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

The ever diligent Japanese director is lacing up his sandals and brandishing a katana sword for an upcoming remake of Eiichi Kudo’s 1963 film Thirteen Assassins

The two producers behind this project are based in Japan and the UK. Japan’s Toshiaki Nakazawa picked up this year’s foreign-language Oscar for Departures, you might have heard of it, and has worked with Miike on Sukiyaki Western Django and The Bird People in China. The UK’s Jeremy Thomas has a extensive experience with Asian cinema. He made Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence and brought Takeshi Kitano’s Brother to the international marketplace. Having a western based producer behind the production should mean a greater chance of Miike’s film traveling outside of Japan. Toho Studios has already bought the rights for the Japanese theatrical release.

Receiving a confidential order from a senior executive of the Tokugawa Sshogunate, 13 samurai »

- Mack

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Thirteen Assassins gets the green light

12 May 2009 5:14 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »

Oscar winning producers Toshiaki Nakazawa and Jeremy Thomas have teamed up to produce a remake of the 1963 classic martial arts film Thirteen Assassins.

Director Takashi Miike will be helming the picture, due to begin shooting in Japan in July this year.

I've never seen the original movie it has to be said, but I'm liking the sound of it without a doubt. The Hollywood Reporter had more to say on the picture, stating:

The Japanese director is sharpening up plans to helm the shogun-era tale about 13 assassins, an evil lord and their secret mission to take him out. But unbeknownst to them, the assassins are outnumbered 10 to one by the lord's team of crack bodyguards. Swords, sandals and blood fly.

Thomas' sales and finance arm HanWay Films is handling international sales here in Cannes. Toho has prebought rights for a theatrical rollout in Japan. The slash fest will be produced »

- info@originalsharpsays.com (Craig Sharp)

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