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Vortex — which opened this weekend to a full house at NYC’s IFC Center — has an unusual star, Dario Argento. Here’s how the film’s helmer Gaspar Noe convinced the iconic Italian horror movie director into his first lead acting role. "There were three reasons" he said yes, Noe told Deadline. "The first one, he said…

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…

"I see nothing happening on a major scale to try to get the older audiences back to theaters," griped Sony Pictures Classics' co-president Tom Bernard. Ideally, Bernard wants NATO to trumpet cinema safety in a big public campaign. (A NATO rep says not in the cards.) He’d like that campaign alongside a creative…

Angelika Film Center and Sony Pictures Classics unveiled a “Bring A Friend Back To The Movies” initiative timed to the April 22 release of dramatic comedy The Duke. The arthouse cinema and specialty distributor are offering a complimentary second ticket to anyone who buys a first directly from the Angelika’s website…

Sony Pictures Classics has pushed back the release for Roger Michell’s film The Duke, starring Academy Award winners Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren, by a month—from March 25 to April 22, 2022. It will be released in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on the latter date before expanding to additional cities over the…

Sony Pictures Classics has set a March 25 theatrical release date for The Duke, directed by the late Roger Michell. The film starring Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren will open in theaters in New York and Los Angeles before expanding in the following weeks. The dramedy is currently playing at the Laemmle Royal in Los…

The 33rd annual Palm Springs Film Festival will open January 7 with the documentary Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over and close January 16 with Roger Michell’s final film The Duke, organizers said Tuesday. Overall, the desert festival, which has become an annual stop on the awards-season tour thanks in part to its…

Pathé and Warner Bros. Entertainment have struck a deal that will see WB release all Pathe titles in the UK and Ireland. The agreement begins with The Duke, Roger Michell's pic starring Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren. Under the terms of the deal, Pathe will continue to devise and fund the marketing and publicity…

Sony Classics has taken Venice Film Festival movie The Duke for the U.S., Latin America and Scandinavia.  Directed by Roger Michell from a script by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman, the comedy drama stars Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren in the story of a 60 year-old taxi driver who steals Goya’s portrait of the Duke of…

Here's a first look at Oscar-winning duo Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren in Roger Michell's art heist comedy The Duke. As we revealed back in October, the heavyweight Brit acting duo are leading the cast of the film based on the true story of 60-year-old taxi driver Kempton Bunton who, in 1961, stole a Goya painting…

Dunkirk star Fionn Whitehead has joined the cast of Roger Michell's The Duke ahead of the film's shoot in January 2020. As I revealed last week, Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren will lead the cast of the art heist comedy movie that is being produced by Nicky Bentham (Moon) for her UK banner Neon Films with Pathé. Pathé…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning duo Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren will play husband and wife in Roger Michell's art heist comedy movie The Duke for Pathé. I can reveal that the film is officially greenlighted and will shoot in January 2020. The script by Richard Bean (One Man, Two Guvnors) and Clive Coleman is based on the…