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Magnet Draws First Blood for ’13 Assassins’

Dubbed as one of Takashi Miike’s best pic in years, Magnet Releasing have made the type of pick-up that demonstrates that it’s perhaps the healthiest genre label in the U.S. market (theatrical, fantasy festivals, VOD) on the fantasy genre type film front. Magnet is setting the Venice and TIFF preemed Miike’s 13 Assassins for a first quarter of 2011 release and are placing it as the Closing Night film at this year’s Fantastic Fest in Austin.

Dubbed as one of Takashi Miike’s best pic in years, Magnet Releasing have made the type of pick-up that demonstrates that it’s perhaps the healthiest genre label in the U.S. market (theatrical, fantasy festivals, VOD) on the fantasy genre type film front. Magnet is setting the Venice and TIFF preemed Miike’s 13 Assassins for a first quarter of 2011 release and are placing it as the Closing Night film at this year’s Fantastic Fest in Austin.

Set in 1844 Japan, and based on a 1963 film of the same name, 13 ASSASSINS stars Koji Yakusho (Tokyo Sonata and Babel), and brings together the cream of Japan’s acting talent. Yakusho plays a brave samurai who assembles an elite team of thirteen killers to assassinate the brother of the Shogun, a sadistic and well protected young lord who’s above the law, raping and killing innocents with impunity.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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