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.
British outfit Icon Film Distribution has picked up the UK home and theatre rights to acclaimed director Ken Loach’s latest Looking for Eric, currently in production in Manchester. The film is being repped by the fine folks at Wild Bunch with Sixteen Films, Canto Bros., and Why Not Productions adding to the British/French co-production.
Weekend Top 10
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Title
GROSS
% Chg.
Theaters
Weeks
AVG
Total
Distributor
1
Sex and the City
$55.7M
NEW
3,285
1
16,968
$55.7M
New Line
2
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
$46.0M
-54.1
4,264
2
10,787
$216.9M
Paramount
3
The Strangers
$20.7M
NEW
2,467
1
8,393
$20.7M
Rogue
4
Iron Man
$14.0M
-31.5
3.650
5
3,835
$276.6M
Paramount
5
The Chronicles...
It’s official: George Clooney likes his farm animals. Okay maybe not, but he has just signed on to star in the adaptation Brit journalist Jon Ronson’s 2004 non-fiction curiosity “The Men Who Stare at Goats.”