{"id":28316,"date":"2025-01-14T22:32:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T03:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=28316"},"modified":"2025-01-14T22:32:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T03:32:47","slug":"happyend-director-neo-sora-signs-with-cinetic-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=28316","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Happyend&#8221; Director Neo Sora Signs With Cinetic Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\">Cinetic Media has partnered with<a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s=Neo+Sora\"> Neo Sora<\/a>, the director and creator of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt29279903\/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1\"><strong>Happyend<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The deal comes after &#8220;<strong>Happyend<\/strong>&#8220;, which Sora wrote and directed, premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. The film was also shown at some of the major festivals around the world, such as the Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and Busan International Film Festival, receiving positive feedbacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The film set in a near-future Japan, the coming-of-age story follows a group of high schoolers who battle against a techno-fascist world driven by fear of the next great earthquake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Metrograph\u00a0picked up the film for North America distribution after it screened in Venice and will release the film in theaters in 2025. Magnify will handle the rest of the world. Albert Tholen, Aiko Masubuchi, Eric Nyari, Alex C. Lo, and Anthony Chen, along with Talents Tokyo, supported the production of the film.<\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<p class=\"p2\">Sora\u2019s previous feature about his father, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/ilyus.com\/?s=Ryuichi+Sakamoto+Opus\"><strong>Ryuichi Sakamoto|Opus<\/strong>,<\/a>\u201d premiered at the 2023 Venice Film Festival and 2023 New York Film Festival, and was released by Janus.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The movie has received extensive critical praise and is currently rated 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Besides Sora, Cinetic Media also represent some of well known directors\/writers\/producers, including Richard Linklater, David Gordon Green, Todd Haynes, Lana Wilson, Kevin Macdonald.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Cinetic Media provides a wide range of consulting and advisory services to private and corporate media clients active across all areas of motion picture, television, and digital content productions. 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