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Brett Morgen's Moonage Daydream swept up a cool $922,000 at the domestic box office this weekend, while an impressive array of top industry players took Saturday to mull the global future of arthouse film. The real test — of specialty’s core adult audience willingness to return to cinemas — starts this fall, according…

Brett Morgen's kaleidoscopic ode to David Bowie landed at no 10 in North America this weekend, singing up $1.225 million on 170 screens – exclusively Imax (159 U.S. locations, 11 in Canada). The $7,207 PSA for the Neon distributed Moonage Daydream – expanding to about 600 screens next week — was the best of the ten…

Neon has locked down North American rights to the thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline — a Toronto Film Festival breakout which had its world premiere as part of the 2022 festival’s Platform category — following a competitive situation. The film, billed as part high-stakes heist, part radical exploration of direct…

Neon, Double Agent and Film4 are partnering to co-finance and exec produce 2073, a new documentary from Academy Award and BAFTA-winning director Asif Kapadia (Amy). 2073 is billed as a genre-bending thriller set in a dystopian future, which will tackle some of the biggest challenges imperiling our future. The project…

Neon has acquired North American and UK rights to the horror-drama Handling the Undead, marking the narrative feature debut of Thea Hvistendahl, who previously directed the documentary Adjø Montebello and several short films, including the SXSW Grand Jury Award-nominated Virgins4lyfe. The project reteams the…

Neon in association with National Geographic Documentary Films said director Sara Dosa's Fire of Love will cross $1 million at the box office this weekend, becoming the biggest documentary release of the year for combined domestic and international gross. The film opened this summer and is entering its ninth week in…

Neon has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to Park Chan-wook's award-winning title Oldboy. Neon is planning a theatrical release in celebration of the pic’s 20th anniversary. The movie follows Oh Dae-Su (Choi Min-sik), who after being kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, is released, only to find that he must…

Neon has acquired rights to the Participant Laura Poitras docu All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, which will hit theaters this fall followed by an ancillary and digital release. The pic, which is receiving its world premiere at Venice, is the Centerpiece selection at the 60th New York Film Festival and also is playing T…

Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace, which tells the story of the singer's 1972 gospel album, is subject of more legal issues. The film, which was mired in limbo for 46 years as a result of various legal battles, is now the subject of a suit from producer Alan Elliott, against distributor Neon and CEO Tom…

Neon, the independent film distributor founded by Tom Quinn and Tim League and which broke through at the 2020 Oscars with Parasite, the first foreign-language title to win Best Picture, is looking to be sold, Deadline has confirmed from sources. The company is hoping to branch out more into television and streaming…

The Locarno Film Festival has unveiled the selection of emerging film industry executives, filmmakers and critics selected for its long-running Locarno Academy program aimed at nurturing the next generation of cinema professionals. The academy program, which will take place within the framework of the festival's 75th…

UPDATED, 8:22 a.m.: Neon and Universal Pictures Content Group today announced that Brett Morgen’s David Bowie doc Moonage Daydream will hit theaters globally on September 16 outside of Japan, where it unspools in March. Neon will distribute the film in the U.S., with UPCG handling international. The first feature doc…