May 7, 2013 - New York, New York - One of the year's most talked about independent films since its award-winning premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, UPSTREAM COLOR is director Shane Carruth's much anticipated follow-up to his 2004 award-winning cult classic, Primer.
On the heels of a very successful theatrical run that started on April 5th, where the film played to rave reviews and is currently expanding in theaters, erbp Film's UPSTREAM COLOR will be released on cable VOD, digital and DVD/Blu-ray on May 7th through Cinedigm (NASDAQ:CIDM). Prior to the theatrical opening, the film had a strong festival run, in addition to Sundance, at the Berlin International Film Festival, SXSW, and Film Society of Lincoln Center's New Directors/New Films series.
In UPSTREAM COLOR, a man and woman (Shane Carruth and Amy Seimetz) are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
The film won the Special Jury Prize for Sound Design at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was also nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.Carruth's first film, Primer, won the Grand Jury Prize in 2004.
In an interview with IndieWire, Carruth said about the film: "I was worried that everything would descend into minutiae about the plot. Overall, I'm very pleasantly surprised that people seem to be keying into the fact that that's not the way into this film."
UPSTREAM COLOR stars Amy Siemetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig (I Love you Phillip Morris, W) and Thiago Martins. The film is written, directed, produced and edited by Carruth, who also composed the original score, and is produced by Casey Gooden, Ben LeClair and Meredith Burke.
Meitantei Conan Private Eye 2013 increased its take by 6% over its
third weekend in release to gross $4.6 million and unseat Iron Man
3 from the top spot
in the Japanese box office. Japan is the first major market to have Iron
Man 3 fall out of the top spot. Iron
Man 3 was unseated by a film that's already
been in release for three weeks and screening in nearly 200 less theaters. The
super hero film slipped down to second place in only its second weekend,
conceding the #1 spot despite only falling 13% and grossing $3.6 million.
Iron Man 3 opened strong in Germany with an $8.9 million debut
weekend. The superhero film was well above second place Scary
Movie 5, which
grossed $1.2 million over the weekend for a cume of $4.7 million in Germany. Oblivion tumbled 54% to fifth place in its
fourth week, averaging just north of a thousand dollars per screen. Oblivion has grossed $7.6 million in Germany and the $10
million benchmark is looking less likely as the weeks pass. 
A strong weekend in France saw nine of the ten films on the
chart gross over a million dollars. Iron Man 3 led the way with a $7.8 million
gross after falling 48% from its premiere weekend. Les Profs continued its domestic success
with a $4.2 million gross in its third weekend in release. Les Profs has a $20.7 million cumulative gross in France. 
