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‘18 ½’ By Dan Mirvish Spins Tale Of Missing Nixon Tape On Watergate’s 50th Anniversary – Specialty Preview
"It's been the great mystery in political history of the past 50 years," said Slamdance Film Festival founder, writer and director Dan Mirvish of the 18½ minutes famously missing from the Nixon Tapes. His campy political thriller out this weekend takes a stab at what might have happened.
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Can ‘Downton Abbey: A New Era’ Swing It As The ‘Spider-Man’ Of The 45-Plus Crowd? – Specialty Preview
"I have very little to say except that I think it very charming and kind of you all to give us your Sunday night," said a disarming Julian Fellowes at the NYC premiere of Downton Abbey: A New Era last Sunday. Distributor Focus Features – and the broader industry — hopes audiences will give the film many more Sunday…
A Church Camp, Porn Shoots And Eerie Nordic Kids In Lively Indie Weekend – Specialty Preview
It's one of busiest opening weeks in some time for indie releases with Neon (Pleasure), Bleecker Street (Montana Story), IFC Midnight (The Innocents) and Roadside Attractions (Family Camp) in theaters — even as the imminent closure of the Landmark Pico underscores just how arthouses are struggling to win back core…
Helmer Audrey Diwan Says Abortion Drama ‘Happening’ Irrefutable “Reality Of One Girl” As Film Opens With Reproductive Choice At Risk – Specialty Preview
Audrey Diwan's Happening launched New Directors/New Films in April, mesmerizing viewers with the story of a brilliant literature student from a working-class background seeking an abortion to keep her life from derailing. In 1963 France the procedure was illegal. The suspense builds with each week a new chapter title…
Arthouse Fare Gets CinemaCon Cheer Amid Hopes For Rebound; ‘Anaïs In Love’, ‘Vortex’, ‘Hatching’ Open – Specialty Preview
Studio brass wowed theater owners this week with Maverick: Top Gun, Avatar: The Way of Water and Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse among other tentpoles. But they were also clear at the just-wrapped CinemaCon that a reviving box office requires a wide breadth of content.
"If we narrow what we bring to theaters, our…
‘The Duke,’ ‘Petite Maman,’ ‘Charlotte’ Open; NATO Chief Upbeat On Return Of Older Demos – Specialty Preview
Sony Pictures Classics art heist caper The Duke, Neon's tender Petite Maman, and Charlotte from Good Deed Films, an animated biopic with mature themes, open an eclectic specialty weekend ready to draw older crowds if they're ready to return.
Younger demos are back when they like the pic, as per A24s Everything Everywhe…
Celine Dion Biopic ‘Aline’ Tweaks Genre As Same Star Plays Singer From Age Five To 50 – Specialty Preview
The face of five-year-old Aline looks weirdly mature and toothy as she crawls from under a table at a family wedding to belt out a song early in the film of the same name. French comedian and actress Valérie Lemercier, 58, wrote, directed and stars in Aline and it's her head on a body altered by special effects in…
Arthouse Has A Blood Sucker Too In ‘You Won’t Be Alone’; The Contractor’ Debuts; ‘CODA’ Back On Screens – Specialty Preview
The heroine of Goran Stolevski's You Won't Be Alone is a witch, with echoes of vampire and zombie, yes, but mostly with a haunting desire for human connection in 19th century rural Macedonia.
The film’s Sundance premiere got great reviews (see Deadline's here). It’s 94% Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh with critics as…
‘The Outfit’ Leads Arthouse March; ‘The Guide’ For Ukraine Relief Picks Up 600 Screens – Specialty Preview
This is one of the best weekends for new indie releases in some time — a bit of space in theaters to run and audiences slowly, but increasingly, willing to return.
Focus Features' The Outfit – the directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriter Graham Moore (The Imitation Game) — opens nationally on over 1,200 screens…
Peter Dinklage’s Singing ‘Cyrano,’ ‘The Godfather’ 50th Anniversary & Oscar Shorts Enter Parched Market For New Releases – Specialty Preview
Joe Wright's Cyrano twirls onto 797 screens, the highest-profile specialty release in weeks (as the market awaits Focus Features The Outfit with Mark Rylance and Sony Pictures Classics Mothering Sunday). But the well reviewed period musical romance from UAR starring Peter Dinklage is landing in a tough place. Industry…
Alamo Drafthouse Film Buyer On Juggling Oscar Best Picture Noms, And Arthouses’ Turning Of The Tide – Specialty Preview
As Oscar nominees circulate in theaters, exhibitors are studying where and when to play Best Picture contenders during the long run-up from nominations February 8 through the awards March 27, juggling holdovers and new releases. (See this weekend's specialty box office offerings below).
In an interview with Deadline…
‘Drive My Car’ Hits $1M As Indies Get Box Office Bump From Oscar Noms – Specialty Preview
Films from Belfast to Drive My Car, from The Worst Person In The World to Nightmare Alley saw ticket sales pop after Academy Award nominations and as distributors kick into high gear for this weekend and beyond, juggling theater counts and ramped up media campaigns that now have a shiny new imprimatur.
For Neon’s The W…
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