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Neon’s Horror Flick ‘In The Earth’ Strongest New Performer At Specialty Box Office; Academy Award Holdovers Make Meager Gains Heading Toward Oscars

(Interactive chart with estimates below) This week, Neon released its COVID-inspired horror film In The Earth, directed by Ben Wheatley (Down Terrace, Kill List). Written across 15 days last August, the movie follows a scientist and a park scout in the midst of a pandemic. Their journey into a forest becomes imperiled…

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Neon’s Oscar-Shortlisted ‘Gunda’ And ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ To Premiere On Letterboxd In Rare Deal

Neon said Thursday that it is partnering with film-centric social media platform Letterboxd to make six of the distributor’s Oscar-shortlisted pics available exclusively on the service for a week beginning Monday. Those titles include Victor Kossakovsky’s documentary Gunda and Jasmila Žbanić's Quo Vadis, Aida?, the…

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‘Gunda’ Director Victor Kossakovsky On Empathy For Farm Animals And Finding His Porcine “Meryl Streep”

Imagine a mother raising a large family, nurturing her children from birth, tending to their every need, only to have them plucked from her, not knowing where they've been taken. Imagine the mother's panic and worry. This is the scenario of Gunda, the Oscar-shortlisted documentary by Victor Kossakovsky. Does it matter…

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Director Viktor Kossakovsky Raves About ‘Gunda’s Porcine Star: She’s “Like Meryl Streep” – Contenders Documentary

UPDATED with video: Russian-born director Viktor Kossakovsky says it was a monumental struggle to make his documentary Gunda, starring the title character: a sow raising her litter of piglets on a farm in Norway. "I spent 20 years to find a producer," Kossakovsky reveals during the panel for the Neon film at…

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Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards Nominations: ‘Mr. Soul’, ‘Gunda’, ‘Crip Camp’ And ‘Totally Under Control’ Top List

In what is signaling a very good year for documentaries, the Critics’ Choice Association on Monday announced its list of nominations for the fifth annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards, and if the past is any clue it could be an indicator of what to expect from the Oscars next spring. With an inclusive list, to…

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‘Parasite’ Distributor NEON Buys Well-Received Berlin Title ‘Gunda’, Doc Is Exec-Produced By Joaquin Phoenix – EFM

Parasite distributor NEON has picked up North American rights to well-reviewed Berlin Film Festival documentary Gunda, which is executive-produced by Joaquin Phoenix. Victor Kossakovsky’s film, which had its world premiere in the German capital, is a dialogue-free black and white film which looks at the daily life of…

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