The weekend’s Snowmageddon on the East Coast likely had a depressing influence on the box office, though some holdovers still managed to overcome the blizzard with solid numbers even as they expanded. Sony Classics’ The Lady In The Van, Sundance Selects’ 45 Years and Paramount’s Anomalisa held their own in additional…

Brooklyn, Room and Spotlight cashed in on their Oscar Best Picture nominations over the weekend, with all three capitalizing on the Awards bump with increases in theater count and grosses over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend. Room, however, was alone in seeing an increase in its per theater average week…

UPDATE with Golden Globe nomination: Maggie Smith was nominated this morning in the Golden Globes category of Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy for The Lady In The Van. PREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE: True story: Miss Mary Shepherd parked her eyesore of a yellow van in Alan Bennett’s driveway…

Publicists and marketing execs no doubt are working overtime this week to get their films attention in what is shaping up to be a very busy first weekend of December. One film that packed quite a punch in the news this week is Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq, which is the first Amazon Studios title to make its bow. Roadside…

Behold, The Lady In The Van‘s official trailer. The film tells the true story of Mary Shepherd, an eccentric homeless woman who lived in her van and, after meeting playwright Alan Bennett in the 1970s, kept it parked in his driveway for 15 years. Over the years their relationship grew from one of grudging assistance…

Sony Pictures Classics has set the release dates for Nicholas Hytner's drama The Lady In The Van, which was just screened at the Toronto International Film Festival to critical praise. The film which stars Maggie Smith, Dominic Cooper, James Corden and Jim Broadbent, will have an Oscar qualifying run on December 4 in…

Sony Pictures Classics literally has taken the 40th Toronto International Film Festival by storm in the past 24 hours.  Not even a steady downpour could dampen the spirits of SPC as they threw their annual Saturday night dinner at Creme Brasserie here to celebrate no less than three major world premiere Oscar…

Nicholas Hytner’s drama The Lady In The Van has been taken off of its December 11, 2015 date by Sony Pictures Classics and will be rescheduled. It is, as yet, unset. The film about a man who befriends a transient woman living in her car who parks in his driveway, stars Maggie Smith, Dominic Cooper, James Corden and…

Tom Rothman‘s newly launched TriStar Productions is charging ahead with The Lady In The Van, adapted from playwright and writer Alan Bennett‘s memoir about the elderly vagrant who parked her van in his driveway one day and stayed there for the next 15 years. The project reunites Bennett with BAFTA- and Tony-winning…