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The 4K restoration of 1974 semi-fictionalized documentary A Bigger Splash edged out with the top per theater average among the specialties this weekend, playing an exclusive run at the Metrograph Theater in Manhattan. Directed by Jack Hazan, the Metrograph Pictures release grossed $18K. This is the second…

Three years after successfully redrawing the cinema map of Manhattan with the opening of an influential arthouse theater on the Lower East Side, Metrograph is launching a distribution company. Metrograph Pictures will put out both new releases and restored classics. It will be led by Head of Distribution George…

Fox Searchlight's A Bigger Splash made just that this weekend, with sizable crowds on both coasts for its debut weekend in a family-crowded market. Starring Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts and Ralph Fiennes, the Venice debut grossed $110K in five theaters. Ahead of the coming week's start of the Cannes Film…

Seeing the sexy and gorgeously shot new film A Bigger Splash is like taking a vacation to Italy — that is if your idea of a vacation involves a little rock ‘n’ roll, steamy couplings and murder mixed in with the scenery. It also helps to have an A-list cast of superb actors along for the trip. And as I say in my video…

Summer starts on Thursday night at 7 PM with Disney’s Captain America: Civil War set to send seismic waves through the box office. This is a Marvel superhero clash that fanboys and crowds have been waiting for, and unlike Warner Bros.’ Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice, Disney already has critics and audiences on…

In Fox Searchlight’s A Bigger Splash, Tilda Swinton stars as rock legend Marianne Lane, recuperating from throat surgery on the volcanic island of Pantelleria with her partner Paul (Matthias Schoenaerts). Who should show up but ex-flame and producer Harry (Ralph Fiennes), with his fetching daughter Penelope (Dakota Joh…

The first few days of the Venice Film Festival offered up a series of starry U.S. titles as the long march into awards season officially kicked off last Wednesday. Two of the best received — Spotlight and Black Mass — hightailed it out of town after their world premieres, headed for Telluride where the reception was ju…

If Fox Searchlight or Studiocanal ever choose to release the Bigger Splash clip of a completely let-loose Ralph Fiennes dancing and singing his way through the Rolling Stones’ “Emotional Rescue,” it’s a fair bet it will go viral — instantly. Fiennes was here in Venice today in support of the competition film that’s…

Fox Searchlight Pictures Presidents Stephen Gilula and Nancy Utley announced today that Fox Searchlight has acquired U.S. rights to the Studiocanal-financed A Bigger Splash, directed by Luca Guadagino. The film stars Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts and Dakota Johnson and was written by David…