UPDATED: Openers were mixed on the specialty side this weekend with a couple of titles showing some performance, while others went slow. A24 debuted Claire Denis' High Life with Robert Pattinson to a solid $100K start in four theaters, averaging $25K. It;s the first English-language feature for the veteran French…
SUNDAY AM UPDATE: New Line/DC’s Shazam! posted a solid hold on Saturday of $19.75M, -4%, putting its opening weekend at $53.45M. Add those Fandango $3.3M paid previews from March 23 and the DC superhero who was originally known as Captain Marvel (really, he was) has a running total of $56.7M. Shazam! flew in ahead of…
Celebrated French filmmaker Claire Denis will have her English-language feature debut withHigh Life, starring Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche, opening this weekend via A24. Specialty distributors continue to ramp up spring releases, though with a somewhat less-packed slate of newcomers compared with last weekend…
When he came by the Deadline studio with High Lifedirector Claire Denis and his co-star Mia Goth, Robert Pattinson found it hard to articulate how much he enjoyed working with the acclaimed French director. Praising her for risk-taking as well as her humor—the movie drew gasps for its explicit nude scenes—Pattinson…
EXCLUSIVE: A24 has acquired North American distribution rights to the provocative sci-fi drama High Life, which made its Toronto Film Festival debut Sunday night at Roy Thomson Hall. The film marks French filmmaker Claire Denis' long-anticipated English-language debut, and stars Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Mia…
Claire Denis’ sci-fi High Life is one of the most anticipated world premieres at Toronto.
The French auteur makes her English-language debut on the story about a group of criminals sent into deep space. Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Mia Goth, André Benjamin and Lars Eidinger lead cast.
The ambitious…
EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Lauren and producing partner DJ Gugenheim are behind two of this autumn’s most anticipated movies: Natalie Portman starrer Vox Lux, which debuts in Venice next week, and Claire Denis’ Toronto-bound sci-fi High Life, starring Robert Pattinson.
In writer-director Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux, Portman plays a…
EXCLUSIVE: Vox Lux and The Spectacular Now outfit Andrew Lauren Productions is lining up R-rated comedy movie Lucky Strikes, based on the racially charged 1945 G.I. World Series which took place in Germany just after the fall of the Nazis.
Chuck MacLean, writer of Showtime’s upcoming City On A Hill series, is writing…
Robert Pattinson has never been uninteresting. Easily written off as, "The Guy From Twilight", his work since that teen vampire series ended has refused to follow the path of least resistance for a young star. Instead of bankable familiarity, he turned to David Cronenberg, David Michôd and Werner Herzog for roles that…
EXCLUSIVE:Mia Goth is set to star opposite Robert Pattinson in High Life, the English-language debut film from director Claire Denis. The movie is about a group of criminals who accept a mission in space to become the subjects of a human reproduction experiment. They find themselves in the most unimaginable situation…