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The sizzle remains firmly with the major studios this weekend, but it’s that time of year. Bleecker Street generated a little pizzazz with I’ll See You In My Dreams, which had the weekend’s second best per screen average. Other specialty newcomers managed OK to tepid debuts. Janus Films’ packaged restoration release…

Last weekend was mostly a dud in the specialty box office, but some of this week’s limited-release newcomers could breathe some fresh air in an Avengers-dominated late spring. A few distributors are looking to the silent but potentially lucrative mature crowd for success, in a time of the year that historically has…

Period crime thriller The Connection (released in France as La French) stars Oscar-winner Jean Dujardin in the true story of the judge who tried to stop the French Connection, one of the most powerful drug organizations of its day. Directed by Cédric Jimenez and entirely shot on 35mm, it’s billed as the European…

Gaumont Film Company and Drafthouse Films have just released an international teaser for Cédric Jimenez’s 1975-set crime thriller The Connection, starring The Artist Oscar winner Jean Dujardin. Inspired by true events and shot on 35mm, the film follows Dujardin as Pierre Michel, a young magistrate with a wife and kids…