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With Lee Issac Chung’s Minari and Miranda July’s Kajillionaire, composer Emile Mosseri brought to life two of the most distinctive and exciting scores in recent memory. Taking these films on back to back, Mosseri found that both had qualities that he always looks for. "They're both incredibly pure and honest works…

SUNDAY AM FINAL w/chart: The depressed state of the box office continued into its fourth weekend since the big three exhibitors reopened, with Warner Bros.’ Tenet still No. 1 with $3.4M, -26%. To date, the Christopher Nolan-directed time-twisting noir has collected $41.2M at 2,850 locations in a domestic market that’s…

With Miranda July, either you get it or you don’t. The actress also is a critically acclaimed writer-director whose third feature, Kajillionaire, had critics going to their thesaurus to find new words with which to heap praise on her adventurous quirkiness. Not everyone will get the joke, but if you are on board with…

Update: Focus Features’ Sundance acquisition of Annapurna/Plan B’s Kajillionaire will now open on Sept. 25, a week later than anticipated in select theaters. We also hear the Miranda July directed movie will hit PVOD around Oct. 16. Despite that, the pic’s marketing will be driven toward its theatrical release, and…

“Most people wanna be kajillionaires,” Dad says. “That’s the dream. That’s how they get you hooked — hooked on sugar, hooked on caffeine. Ha, ha, ha, cry, cry, cry. Me? I prefer to just skim.” His daughter looks up and says, “So do I.” Welcome to the first trailer for Kajillionaire, Miranda July’s Sundance comedy…

Focus Features has slated a pair of pics for summer release. The Miranda July-directed comedy Kajillionaire will open for business on June 19, and creepshow Come Play attacks theaters July 24. Kajillionaire stars Debra Winger and Richard Jenkins as con artists who have spent 26 years training their only daughter (Evan…

It’s Focus Features, not A24, that ultimately will acquire global on Miranda July's Kajillionaire, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Focus will handle domestic, while Universal will release it abroad. Written and directed by July, Kajillionaire follows con artists Theresa and Robert, who spent 26 years…

In Miranda July's Kajillionaire, Evan Rachel Wood found the opportunity to play a character unlike any she'd seen on screen before. "It was like opening up a box of treasure," the actress says of her first read of the script. "I was stoked from the start." Produced by Plan B and Annapurna Pictures, the offbeat drama…

It may have been nine years since Miranda July's last film, The Future, premiered at Sundance, but if there's any doubt at all about her prolific nature as a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist, the year ahead should put paid to it. Saturday night in Park City, July will premiere Kajillionaire, her third feature…