Imran Jaffery

You know, I woke up this morning and thought to myself the world could use another lonewolf assassin flick, preferably of the dragged out of retirement variety. Apparently the bigwigs at Summit Entertainment were thinking the same thing, announcing today that they’ve acquired the rights to the DC Comics miniseries Red.

Screen Daily has gathered some more details on the upcoming financing slate for the Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Film Fund. The FFHSH is a film funding entity that...

Kitchen Soul is a Hamburg-set comedy that THR says “centers on a restaurant owner whose life has entered a rough patch.” Not much to go on there. We do know that Akin regular Adam Bousdoukos plays the beleaguered restaurateur with his Head-On co-star also playing a part. German superstar Moritz Bleibtreu (Das Experiment) will play an undisclosed leading role in the film.

The seminal anime classic Ghost in the Shell will be rereleased on July 12 in Japan completely remastered to bring it more inline with the 2004 sequel Innocence. Famed director Mamorou Oshii supervised the update, aptly titled Ghost in the Shell 2.0, through Production I.G.

IFC Films – who’s company slogan should be “There’s no movie we won’t buy!” – has again opened up their coffers, this time for the...