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A24, the company founded in 2012 by Daniel Katz, David Fenkel and John Hodges, has been hitting the motherlode—for indie companies, anyway—with smart film choices and even smarter ways of bringing them to marketplace, particularly in their increasingly innovative—and, yes, disruptive—use of digital marketing. It not…

A24's comedy The Lovers starring Debra Winger and Tracy Letts as well as Janus Films' restored 1979 Soviet-era sci-fi drama Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky had top per theater averages in the first weekend of May, while The Orchard's The Dinner with Richard Gere, Laura Linney and Steve Coogan was by far the widest open…

The Lovers is an ironic but pitch-perfect title for the darkly funny and probing new comedy about a marriage on the rocks that is fortunate to have two actors at the top of their game in charge. In fact Debra Winger, who plays Mary, has not had a leading role this assured and sharp in a feature film in at least two…

Prior to its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 22, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has snapped up foreign rights to Azazel Jacobs’ The Lovers, starring Debra Winger and Tracy Letts. A24 has domestic and is releasing the romantic comedy on May 5. Jacobs also produces with Ben LeClair and Chris…

EXCLUSIVE: Debra Winger and Tracy Letts are being set to play a husband and wife in the comedy The Lovers, which A24 will be financing, producing and distributing. The project, which is expected to go before cameras next month, is about a relationship gone bitterly bad between Michael and Mary; both have lovers who…