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…

At the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, a small and personal comedy titled Dean slayed the competition and won a top prize for its writer-director-star Demetri Martin. CBS Films wisely picked it up and is now opening it right in the heart of summer blockbuster season. If you are looking for a little respite from the…

“I want to stop talking about how I’m not grieving right.” Here is the first trailer for Dean, which scooped the top narrative award at Tribeca last year. Written, directed by and starring Demetri Martin, it follows a son and father as they come to terms with the recent loss of the family matriarch — in diametrically…

Dean, written and directed by Demetri Martin, tells the bittersweet story of a Brooklyn illustrator (Martin) coping with his mother’s recent death. Single after having dumped his fiancee, he spends most of his time drawing very dark cartoons about death, until he travels to Los Angeles for possible new work. While…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS Films has acquired U.S. rights to Dean, the comedy written by, directed and starring Demetri Martin that just bowed at the Tribeca Film Festival and took the award for Best Narrative Feature. Kevin Kline, Gillian Jacobs, Mary Steenburgen and Reid Scott co-star and the film was produced by Giles Andrew…

The Tribeca Film Festival announced the winners of its competition categories this afternoon, with top honors in this 15th edition of the event going to Dean, Junction 48 and Do Not Resist.

For the first time, there were separate U.S. and International narrative competition categories. In addition, the Festival announc…