UPDATED at 11:15AM PT with more numbers and analysis. Roadside Attractions opened Sally Potter's black-and-white dramedy The Party in three locations Friday, taking in $36,344 and recording the second-highest per theater average of the weekend. The feature topped a sizable number of limited-release newcomers this…

Several foreign productions lead the pack of this weekend's Specialty newcomers just as future foreign contenders take the spotlight at the Berlin International Film Festival. Berlinale '17 prize winner The Party by Sally Potter takes its bow in the U.S. via Roadside Attractions. The black and white feature, which…

EXCLUSIVE: They are on a roll. The Gotham Group has acquired yet another book, this time the film rights to Robyn Harding's coming-of-age novel The Party. This comes on the heels of recent Gotham options of bestsellers The Lying Game by Ruth Ware and Janelle Brown's Watch Me Disappear over the past two weeks. Gotham's…

The Berlin Film Festival has revealed its first 14 films selected for the Competition and Berlinale Special sections for the 67th edition of the fest next year. Ten productions and co-productions have so far been selected to get a chance of winning a Golden or Silver Bear in February, and nine of them are world…

In their first writing collaboration since creating Gossip Girl nine years ago, producing partners Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage are set to write and executive produce The Party, a drama project for ABC and ABC Studios. Like Gossip Girl, which was based on young-adult books, The Party is an adaptation of an…