Sideshow and Janus Movies have picked up all North American rights to Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s newest flick Cloud.
Cloud debuted ultimately yr’s Venice Movie Competition earlier than enjoying Tokyo and Past Fest. Sideshow and Janus Movies have set the movie for a summer season 2025 theatrical launch.
Starring Masaki Suda, the movie is a thriller that follows a younger man named Yoshii who resells items on-line and finally ends up triggering a collection of mysterious occasions, blurring the boundaries between the web and offline worlds.
The deal was negotiated by Sideshow and Janus Movies with the Nikkatsu Company. Producers are Yumi Arakawa, Yuki Nishimiya, and Nobuhiro Iizuka. The movie was produced by Nikkatsu and Django Movie Company.
“Cloud is a wildly entertaining movie about our nameless digital existence that transforms itself right into a vengeance-driven motion flick that solely Kiyoshi Kurosawa may have dreamed up,” Sideshow and Janus Movies stated in an announcement. “We’re proud to work with Nikkatsu to convey what we think about certainly one of Kurosawa’s finest movies to American audiences this summer season.”
Sideshow and Janus Movies at present have three movies out on launch: Payal Kapadia’s awards frontrunner All We Think about As Mild, Gints Zilbalodis’ Circulation, and Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio.
Kapadia’s All We Think about As Mild was the primary Indian movie in Cannes Competitors in 30 years the place it gained the Grand Prix. Since then it gained the NYFCC, LAFCA, and NSFC awards for Finest Worldwide Movie. The movie was nominated for that very same prize by the Golden Globes, Unbiased Spirit Awards, and Critics Selection. Kapadia additionally made historical past as the primary Indian director nominated for Finest Director on the Golden Globes, an award she gained from the Nationwide Society of Movie Critics. She’s additionally nominated for Finest First-Time Director by the DGA.
