After a couple of slow weekends, the specialty box office perked up with the release of a couple of anticipated titles, though not all of the luster was concentrated in films with marquis names attached. Doc An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power, which returns former Vice President Al Gore to the big screen over ten…

Former Vice President Al Gore was on hand at the 2007 Oscars, where his An Inconvenient Truth won Best Documentary Feature. Bringing climate change to center stage, it was one of the biggest nonfiction films at the box office ever. Now, the former veep is back with An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, which…

A24, the company founded in 2012 by Daniel Katz, David Fenkel and John Hodges, has been hitting the motherlode—for indie companies, anyway—with smart film choices and even smarter ways of bringing them to marketplace, particularly in their increasingly innovative—and, yes, disruptive—use of digital marketing. It not…

EXCLUSIVE: In its first acquisition of a foreign language film, A24 has acquired U.S. and Chinese Distribution rights to the Joshua Z. Weinstein-directed father/son drama Menashe. The film, one of the first to be performed almost entirely in Yiddish in nearly 70 years, premiered last Monday at Sundance, and it is now…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Columbus has come aboard as executive producer of Menashe, the Yiddish-language drama from Joshua Z. Weinstein that is having its world premiere in the NEXT section of the Sundance Film Festival which kicks off this week. Columbus and Eleanor Columbus will now EP executive produce the film under their…