In a busy weekend of new Specialty releases, A24 and DirecTV’s The Exception and IFC Films' Band Aid topped out with the highest per theater averages, while documentary Letters From Baghdad followed fairly closely behind. Nothing proved spectacular, even though about a dozen new limited release titles gave audiences…

A24 heads out with period drama The Exception starring Lily James, Jai Courtney, Janet McTeer and Christopher Plummer this weekend. There are a fair number of new specialties opening Friday, including Zoe Lister-Jones’ directorial debut Band Aid, in which she also stars alongside Adam Pally. IFC Films is opening the…

Women in Film is accepting applications for its annual Film Finishing Fund program, which for a 32nd year will award grants for films by and/or about women in documentary, fiction, animated and/or experimental, shorts or feature-length films. The submission period runs through June 30, and winners will be announced in…

IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Band Aid, the debut feature from Zoe Lister-Jones that just played in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions meanwhile snagged rights outside of North America as part of the pickup. Jones wrote, helmed and stars with Adam Pally in…

EXCLUSIVE: “Let’s make a list of our top 10 fights of all time.” So begins a clip of Band Aid, dropped ahead of its world premiere Tuesday at the Sundance Film Festival. Directed, written by and starring Zoe Lister-Jones, Band Aid is the story of a couple, Anna (Lister-Jones) and Ben (Adam Pally), who can’t stop…