UPDATE: News has just gone out that Adam has just been diagnosed with cancer. We wish him all the best in a speedy recovery.

Adam Yauch x Oscilloscope. The Beastie Boys have been around long enough that they deserve what ever side-projects thrown at them. Adam Yauch has been VERY involved in the film industry for some time now filming a couple of documentaries and starting his own studio, Oscilloscope, a couple years back.

Adam’s studio just picked up North American rights to The Messenger which premiered this year at the Sundance Film Festival. The movie is slated for a November release and stars Ben Foster as a young soldier recently back from Iraq who is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification Service, which travels the country informing families that a loved one has been killed overseas.

Oscilloscope has been busy scoping out the festivals and indie circuit and has now acquired three films out of Sundance — it already bought the documentaries “No Impact Man” and “Burma VJ” as Adam Yauch continues to build his indie studio library.