UPDATED at 5:20PM PT with more numbers and analysis. Paul Schrader's dramatic thriller First Reformed, starring Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried, handily outpaced all new limited release titles over the weekend with a per-theater average of $25,067. The A24 newcomer played four locations Friday to Sunday, grossing…

Focus Features is confident that crowds will know the man at the center of its weekend documentary release, Pope Francis: A Man of His Word. The film by Wim Wenders will have a fairly wide bow by nonfiction standards, in about 300 locations in North America this weekend. Bleecker Street is going with a more…

Just one week after the opening of the excellent indie The Seagull, in which Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle play star-crossed lovers, they are back at it again. But this time it’s in a much more serious drama, On Chesil Beach. Awkward timing most likely is responsible for the dueling releases starring the young pair…

“Marry that girl!” the young man is told. “What does his father do?” the woman’s dad asks her later. “You mean is he working class or one of us?” she asks back. “That’s more or less what I mean,” he admits. Here is the first trailer for On Chesil Beach, Oscar nominee Soairse Ronan’s follow-up to Lady Bird that…

Bleecker Street has set its first five film releases for 2018. The lineup includes What They Had, Elizabeth Chomko's debut film, based on her Nicholl-winning screenplay, starring Hilary Swank and Michael Shannon, which will bow in theaters March 16. Also dated are two Jon Hamm-starring films, Beirut and Nostalgia, as…

EXCLUSIVE: Bleecker Street has a deal for U.S. rights to On Chesil Beach, the Dominic Cooke-directed drama that stars Brooklyn‘s Saoirse Ronan and Dunkirk‘s Billy Howle, with Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff, Samuel West and Adrian Scarborough also starring. Adapted by Ian McEwan from his bestselling novel, the 1960s-set…

British cinema has been well represented at this year's TIFF, with some 30 UK productions spread across the lineup. At the prestige end of the spectrum, we find On Chesil Beach, an adaptation of Ian McEwan's novella written by the author himself. McEwan – doing double duty at the festival with Richard Eyre's film The C…

The Toronto Film Festival continues to round out its slate for next month. Today the fest named six more gala premieres and 32 special presentations, bringing the roster to 48 world premieres, 10 international premieres, 19 North American premieres and 10 Canadian premieres to run September 7-17. Here are the…

Former Hanway Films managing director Thorsten Schumacher has launched a new production, finance, sales and distribution venture dubbed Rocket Science. The company, which will be based in London and plans to expand to Los Angeles in early 2017, is backed by a consortium of investors across Europe, the Middle East and…

EXCLUSIVE: Billy Howle has been cast opposite Saoirse Ronan in On Chesil Beach for Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley's Number 9 Films. The British newcomer, whose upcoming credits include The Sense Of An Ending with Emily Mortimer and Charlotte Rampling and The Seagull also with Ronan and Annette Bening, has…

BBC Films announced today it has set Morgan Matthews to direct Gypsy Boy. Based on the bestselling memoir by Mikey Walsh and adapted by James Graham, Gypsy Boy follows Mikey, born into a family famed for its boxing prowess. When he realises he is gay, he is faced with an impossible choice: to stay with a community…