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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…

Bleecker Street opened Hotel Mumbai in four theaters Friday and appears to have caught some attention from audiences not heading to Us. Overall, the specialties were mostly light. Hotel Mumbai, starring Oscar-nominee Dev Patel and Armie Hammer, grossed $86,492 in four theaters, averaging $21,623, by far the…

It may have echoes of some of those all-star disaster movies so popular in the ’70s like The Towering Inferno, but don’t kid yourself, this one really happened. The new film Hotel Mumbai  recounts the events of November 2008 in Mumbai, the vibrant center of India’s entertainment and financial world, where a group of…

Two historic dramas headline a comparatively slow weekend for new Specialty roll outs vs. last weekend's heavy roster. Bleecker Street/ShivHans Pictures' Hotel Mumbai with Oscar-nominee Dev Patel and Golden Globe-nominee Armie Hammer will have a minimal start in New York and Los Angeles ahead of a fairly wide release…

It’s been a circuitious road to theaters for Hotel Mumbai, but now we have the first trailer for the film about the 2008 terrorist attack in India’s largest city. Check it out above. Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Anupam Kher, and Jason Isaacs star in the film from director Anthony…

Netflix used the second night of its See What’s Next: Asia content gathering in Singapore to unveil eight new original films for its India market, including a regional release for Bleecker Street and ShivHans Pictures’ long-gestating Hotel Mumbai, which the streaming giant has rights to in the South and Southeast…

Most people remember the 2008 terror attacks on Mumbai, which ended with a bloody siege at the city's exclusive Taj Hotel. But what many may not realize is that some of the hotel staff deliberately put themselves at risk in order to protect the hotel's residents, adding new poignancy to their mantra, "The guest is…

EXCLUSIVE: Following Weinstein Co.’s Kevin Hart-Bryan Cranston movie The Upside going to STX in a distribution deal, another former TWC title is being rescued. Bleecker Street and ShivHans Pictures are co-acquiring domestic rights to Australian director Anthony Maras’ Hotel Mumbai prior to the pic’s world premiere at…

If and when Lantern Capital's acquisition of The Weinstein Company is totally complete in the next few weeks, one thing the private-equity firm will not own is Hotel Mumbai. Just under two months after producers of the Dev Patel and Armie Hammer starring film about the 2008 attacks on the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel went af…

The Weinstein Co., which tumbled into bankruptcy after failing to close an eleventh-hour sale to rescue the troubled company, is suddenly a hot property on the auction block. An attorney representing the studio told the U.S. bankruptcy court judge today that some 60 potential buyers have emerged for the Weinstein…

The backers of Hotel Mumbai are asking the judge overseeing The Weinstein Co.’s bankruptcy proceedings to remove the independent film from the assets to be sold at auction. Hotel Mumbai’s backers say they rescinded their distribution and marketing agreement with The Weinstein Co. in February, following damaging news…

UPDATED with more details: The bankruptcy auction for the sale of The Weinstein Company has been moved to May 4 from an original date of May 2, and creditors want stalking horse bidder Lantern Capital to explain how it values separate pieces of the company’s assets in its $425 million bid. The news came Friday morning…