UPDATED with additional distributors and adjustments. As blockbusters battled it out at the box office, the specialty space hit high notes with Judy, flew with The Peanut Butter Falcon, shined with Uncut Gems, gave us one helluva Farewell and took us back to Downton Abbey. Major box office strides were made in 2019…
Following its well-received premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September, the Safdie brothers' Uncut Gems, their sixth film, proved just as successful on release, grossing a record per-venue average of $105,099 for distributor A24 before going wide Christmas Day.
Set in 2012, it stars Adam Sandler as Howard…
When Lulu Wang's The Farewell debuted at Sundance, it immediately became the talk of Hollywood. The dramedy based on Wang's own story about her family keeping her grandmother's cancer diagnosis a secret goes beyond family issues. It's also an immigration story that explores cultural identity through Awkwafina's…
After debuting at Sundance earlier this year, The Farewell has maintained a grasp on Hollywood, garnering critically acclaim, breaking box office records and, most of all, leaving many in tears with the need to call their grandmother right after the movie — or Nai Nai as they say in the A24 drama. During an Awardsline…
As we enter the holidays Lionsgate and Bron Studios are looking to explode with the nationwide release of the Jay Roach-directed Bombshell starring Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie. The Fox News sexual harassment drama had a stellar limited opening last weekend, earning an estimated $312,000, with a…
The just-released trailer for A24’s Saint Maud is a holy terror. The eerily intense and dangerously devout Maud (Welsh actress Morfydd Clark) is a hospice care worker who is out to save souls but may take some lives in the process.
The film is the debut effort by writer-director Rose Glass and the trailer’s unsettling…
For sound designer Damian Volpe, The Lighthouse was impossible to resist. Centered on two 19th century lighthouse keepers driven to madness, while stranded on a remote Atlantic isle, the latest from Volpe’s frequent collaborator Robert Eggers was simply rife with sonic opportunity.
Working with a limited set of…
Following a frustrating experience with 2017's It Comes At Night, writer/director Trey Edward Shults found a "therapeutic and cathartic" experience in mounting his third feature, Waves.
Feeling the pressure that comes when one's work is falsely framed, or misunderstood, Shults channeled it into Waves protagonist Tyler…
Adam Sandler has made a boatload of comedies that don’t really challenge him as an actor, but after seeing his remarkably audacious and riveting turn as a New York diamond district merchant and compulsive sports bettor, you will know he is an extraordinary performer in ways you can’t imagine. Wait until you get a load…
It all started in 2009 when Benny and Josh Safdie had the inspiration to make a movie based on their father’s mentor in the 47th Street NYC diamond district. But Uncut Gems‘ delay has been worth the wait.
The A24 pic which opens limited on Dec. 13 follows Adam Sandler as a diamond district jeweler who comes in…
Director-writer Lulu Wang and star Awkwafina shared stories of the making of The Farewell, their indie hit for A24, when they participated in Deadline’s ninth annual The Contenders Los Angeles all-day event at the DGA Theater in Hollywood last month.
In front of a packed house of Academy and key guild voters, Wang…
UPDATED with final winners: Netflix had a dominant night at the IFP Gotham Awards on Monday, notching four wins for Marriage Story and one apiece for American Factory and When They See Us.
With the book closed on Thanksgiving, the Gothams represented one of the film industry’s first dips into the awards season pool…
