Anime News

Tekkon Kinkreet Distribution Expected In 50+ Nations
Date: 2/3/2007
Director Michael Arias' Japanese animated film Tekkon Kinkreet will be released in North American via Sony Pictures. Screening in 50 countries is planned and the wide international theatrical push will start sometime after May of this year following screenings at both the Berlin and Cannes film festivals. SP's US-based staff apparantly "fell in love" with the title, taking it immediately underneath the corportation's massive distribution wing. Such a major, mainstream film studio picking up the title is being looked at in the Japanese press as being akin to Ghibli and Disney's agreement several years back. Negotiations with other international distributors began at the Tokyo International Film Festival in October, 2006.
Source: Anime News Service