EXCLUSIVE: Producers Andrea Bucko (Deadman’s Wire) and Motoko Kimura (LDK) have launched film and TV production and finance company Yume Entertainment, which will look to bridge the Hollywood and Asian film industries.
Yume (由夢), meaning “born from a dream” in Japanese, will look to champion emerging creators such as Yumiko Fujiwara, whose drama The Fire Outside was featured on the 2021 Black List. The company is making its debut by developing and producing Fujiwara’s next film The Red Room, inspired by the notorious Japanese urban legend of early internet culture.
The Red Room follows a mysterious disappearance in the late 1990s after a cursed computer pop-up appears at a teenage sleepover. Two decades later, the past reawakens when an email from the missing girl triggers the same sinister pop-up, pulling her childhood friends into a corrupted corner of the internet—and into the heart of Japan’s most chilling digital myth. CAA Media Finance will handle North American rights to the film.
Yume also has an upcoming project with U.S. publisher Dark Horse Comics, whose franchises have included Hellboy and The Umbrella Academy, and is in development on Japanese IPs in partnership with companies including Shogakukan and Gentosha.
U.S. producer Bucko, whose credits as producer include Gus Van Sant’s Deadman’s Wire, starry comedy-sci fi Alpha Gang, and Werner Herzog’s upcoming Bucking Fastard, was an exec producer on box office hit Longlegs. She produces under her own banner, Sugar Rush Pictures, and is also the co-founder of Raised by Wolves, a development fund and finance company from herself and Jordan Claire Robbins.
Motoko Kimura is a film, TV, and theater producer as well as a published author. Her work spans 15 mini-series and 16 features including A Moment to Remember (South Korea), LDK, and Ushijima the Loan Shark.
“Yume is where dreams, instinct, and fearless imagination meet the rigor of world-class financing and production,” said Andrea Bucko. “Utilizing our unique dual foundation in Hollywood and Japan, we aim to champion storytellers who push against the familiar and speak directly to the visceral human experience.”
“As a Japanese producer working internationally, I want Yume to be a home for bold voices, especially those bridging Asia and Hollywood,” said Motoko Kimura. “We are thrilled to be working with Yumiko Fujiwara for our debut film, The Red Room, as this is the type of project that defines Yume – one of international reach stemming from a talented emerging creator.”
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