Sin Nombre News

It's been a while since there's been an Asian North American box-office hit. The Joy Luck Club, The Wedding Banquet , and Snow Falling on Cedars were all from the '90s. Indie successes like Better Luck Tomorrow and Eve and the Fire Horse have been few and far between over the past decade.

Indie distributor Revolver Entertainment has snapped U.K. rights to Heitor Dhalia's "Adrift" and Jim Jarmursh's "The Limits of Control" in double whammy deal with Focus Features.

The Spot: A neon sign that says "America" is half-submerged in floodwater. A scratchy voice recording plays in the backgrounda 'a man reciting a poem.

This is all over the news, though it seems it was Variety which first reported it: "Sin nombre" helmer Cary Fukunaga is in advanced negotiations to direct a feature adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" for Brit shingle Ruby Films.

This is a bit unexpected; there have been a lot of possible next projects in the works for Sin Nombre director Cary Fukunaga .

District 9 Movie aliens through the years have come in all shapes and sizes. There have been the good , the bad and now the ugly.

Running from angry gangsters is hard work, and opportunities to sit and think are few and far between.

Trying to pick which movie to go see can be painstaking if you simply cannot make up your mind.

"The Messenger" by first-time director Oren Moverman picked up top honors at the Deauville American Film Festival Sunday night, taking the fest's grand prize and international critics' award.

The Jake Erhardt International Film Series will show the Mexican film Sin Nombre Tuesday, Sept.

A perilous race for the border. A lot of movies have been made about the American side of the drug trade.

The young pitcher attends spring training in Arizona before being assigned to a minor league team in Iowa.

Come the middle of September comedian Joel McHale will be multi-tasking, moving between his hit E! Entertainment series The Soup with Community, a new prime time sitcom on NBC where he plays a lawyer forced to go back to community college when it is learned he never earned a Bachelor's Degree.

"State of Play": The big-screen version of the acclaimed 2003 BBC miniseries "State of Play" loses a lot of the original's nuance but still manages to offer some solid, sophisticated entertainment.

You loved the movie, what about the DVD? Find out as we examine the extras on this week's best movie DVDs.

Come the middle of September comedian Joel McHale will be multi-tasking, moving between his hit E! Entertainment series The Soup with Community, a new prime time sitcom on NBC where he plays a lawyer forced to go back to community college when it is learned he never earned a Bachelor's Degree.

Tuesday's new DVD releases include the documentary "Earth," the baseball movie "Sugar" and thrillers "State of Play" and "Sin Nombre." PREV of MASA USHIODA / COOLWATERPHOTO.COM A humpback whale mother and calf start their migration north in the film "Earth." Polar bear and elephant moms and babies are also tracked.

Paulina Gaitan and Edgar Flores ride northward in search of a better life in the Spanish-language drama 'Sin Nombre.' Sin Nombre 3A1 2 stars Two lives intertwine as a young woman from Honduras heads north in search of a better life and crosses paths with a young man from Mexico heading north to avoid a certain death.

State of Play Universal, $29.98; Blu-ray, $39.98 The big-screen version of the 2003 BBC miniseries "State of Play" loses a lot of the original's nuance but still manages to offer solid, sophisticated entertainment.

Cary Joji Fukunaga's Sundance standout "Sin Nombre" will open the Latin Horizons sidebar at the 57th San Sebastian International Film Festival and compete with 12 other Latin American films for the 35,000 prize, organizers announced Tuesday.