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Sony Pictures Classics is set to release awards contender The Father in select New York and Los Angeles theaters today before expanding nationwide March 12 before landing on PVOD on March 26. That’s quite a theater-to-digital journey for the Florian Zeller-directed drama starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman. The…

The Father has steadily been on the festival circuit since Sundance 2020, but only now is Sony Pictures Classics finally putting it in release for North American consumption. Audiences are about to find out why this has been one of the most critically acclaimed films of the past 14 months as it slips in just under the…

Florian Zeller's film directing debut, The Father, adapted from his Tony-nominated and Molière winning play Le Père, takes the inside perspective of Anthony (Anthony Hopkins)'s slow slide into dementia, as his daughter (Olivia Colman) attempts to care for him. We find ourselves in the hellish hall of mirrors of…

EXCLUSIVE: In 2014, French playwright Florian Zeller won the Molière Award for Le Pere, a play about an aging man’s bout with dementia. Seven years, a TV series and a French film adaptation later, Zeller brings his words to the big screen and to the Oscar-season awards race. Starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman…

Sony Pictures Classics has made some tweaks to its release schedule for four upcoming pics and one that’s already in theaters. The distributor run by co-presidents Michael Barker and Tom Bernard said that Dror Moreh’s documentary The Human Factor, which opened last month in Los Angeles and New York, will go nationwide…

Bulgaria, a small Eastern European country of 7 million, is having a moment. For only the second time, Bulgarian is a main spoken language in a big Hollywood film. Joining 2004's The Terminal is Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, with Bulgarian the language spoken by Borat's daughter Tutar, played by Maria Bakalova in one of…

Tragedy is punctured by comedy from the start of The Father. At a funeral in rural Bulgaria, mourners prepare to say goodbye to Valentina as the priest delivers an elegy over her grave. Suddenly, a cellphone starts ringing with the sound of a beeping frog — it belongs to Valentina's son, Pavel (Ivan Barnev)…

In a wide-open year for Best Actor nominations, the buzz has been consistent around one performance in particular: Anthony Hopkins' turn in Sony Pictures Classics’ The Father as an elderly man whose confused descent into dementia has heart-rending consequences for himself and his daughter. Co-starring Olivia Colman…

On The Father, editor Yorgos Lamprinos went deep into the mind of an aging Welshman, working to represent an experience of dementia, and how it agonizingly distorts one's worldview. The first feature from Florian Zeller, based on his acclaimed 2012 play, Le Père, centers on Anthony (Anthony Hopkins), a man who lives…

AGC International inked key territory deals during the virtual TIFF market on Donnie Yen action pic The Father. Pacts have gone down with Leonine in Germany and Switzerland; Metropolitan in France; DeAPlaneta in Spain; Nordisk in Scandinavia; Rialto Distribution & Vertigo Releasing in Australia & New Zealand; and…

The 34th annual AFI Fest said Monday that Showtime’s Errol Morris-directed documentary My Psychedelic Love Story will close the festival next month. The movie follows LSD high priest Timothy Leary and how he became a narc in 1974 and abandoned the millions he urged to turn on, tune in and drop out. Was his "perfect…

Sony Pictures Classics will release Florian Zeller's The Father in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on December 18, with a rollout in major markets on Christmas Day. Written by Zeller and Christopher Hampton, Oscar winners Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman play a father-daughter duo—one mischievous, the other…