EXCLUSIVE:Newtown, the documentary that chronicles the Connecticut community in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre, will continue to play at 100-plus Cinemark Theaters tonight despite the filmmakers’ initiative last week to pull the movie from the exhibition chain. Newtown filmmakers Kim Snyder and Maria Cuomo…
EXCLUSIVE:Newtown filmmakers Kim Snyder and Maria Cuomo Cole, whose documentary chronicles the pain and suffering of the parents of murdered children Daniel Barden, Benjamin Wheeler and Dylan Hockley in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre, have pulled their feature documentary from Cinemark…
Specialty openers had mostly a slow-go this weekend, while a second weekend holdover, Denial, had the best per theater average showing among limited release titles. The Bleecker Street release actually had the second highest PTA overall at $7,417. Among newcomers, Zeitgeist's Theo Who Lived and The Orchard's Blue Jay…
Sundance feature documentary Newtown, which focuses on the extended aftermath of the Sandy Hook tragedy, makes its bow via Abramorama in limited Los Angeles and New York runs this weekend ahead of extensive event screenings in hundreds of theaters across the country on November 2. The film will also air on Independent…
Abramorama just acquired the U.S. theatrical rights to Kim A. Snyder’s documentaryNewtown which was produced by Maria Cuomo Cole and features testimonies about the aftermath of the Dec. 14, 2012 school shooting which took the lives of 20 children and six educators. The project was produced by ITVS. The Orchard will…
EXCLUSIVE: Kim A. Snyder’s documentary Newtown revisits the residents of Newtown, CT, a community left devastated after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that took the lives of 20 children and six educators on December 14, 2012. Premiering on Sunday in the U.S. Documentary competition at Sundance, the…