Yume Entertainment<\/a>, which will look to bridge the Hollywood and Asian film industries. <\/p>\n\n\tYume\u00a0(\u7531\u5922), meaning \u201cborn from a dream\u201d in Japanese, will look to champion emerging creators such as Yumiko Fujiwara, whose drama\u00a0The Fire Outside<\/em>\u00a0was featured on the 2021 Black List.\u00a0The company\u00a0is making its debut by developing and producing Fujiwara\u2019s next film\u00a0The Red Room,<\/em>\u00a0inspired by the notorious Japanese urban legend of early internet culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\tThe Red Room\u00a0<\/em>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\u2014and into the heart of Japan\u2019s most chilling digital myth. CAA Media Finance will handle North American rights to the film.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\tYume\u00a0also has an upcoming project with U.S. publisher Dark Horse Comics, whose franchises have included Hellboy<\/em> and The<\/em> Umbrella Academy<\/em>, and is in development on Japanese IPs in partnership with companies including Shogakukan and Gentosha.<\/p>\n\n\tU.S. producer Bucko, whose credits as producer include Gus Van Sant\u2019s Deadman\u2019s Wire<\/em>, starry comedy-sci fi\u00a0Alpha Gang<\/em>, and Werner Herzog\u2019s upcoming\u00a0Bucking Fastard<\/em>, was an exec producer on box office hit Longlegs<\/em>. 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.<\/p>\n\n\tMotoko Kimura is a film, TV, and theater producer as well as a published author. Her work spans 15 mini-series and 16 features including\u00a0A Moment to Remember<\/em>\u00a0(South Korea),\u00a0LDK<\/em>, and\u00a0Ushijima the Loan Shark<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cYume\u00a0is where dreams, instinct, and fearless imagination meet the rigor of world-class financing and production,\u201d said Andrea Bucko. \u201cUtilizing 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cAs a Japanese producer working internationally, I want\u00a0Yume\u00a0to be a home for bold voices, especially those bridging Asia and Hollywood,\u201d said Motoko Kimura. \u201cWe are thrilled to be working with Yumiko Fujiwara for our debut film,\u00a0The Red Room<\/em>, as this is the type of project that defines\u00a0Yume\u00a0\u2013 one of international reach stemming from a talented emerging creator.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source deadline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Producers Andrea Bucko (Deadman\u2019s 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\u00a0(\u7531\u5922), meaning \u201cborn from a dream\u201d in Japanese, will look to champion emerging creators such as Yumiko Fujiwara, whose drama\u00a0The Fire Outside\u00a0was featured […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2187006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[421922],"class_list":["post-2187005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-yume-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Andrea-Bucko-Motoko-Kimura-Launch-Production-Firm-Yume-Entertainment.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2187007,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187005\/revisions\/2187007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2187006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}