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S.S. Rajamouli's RRR, a huge hit when it opened in March, is dipping back into the U.S. market in a novel and, so far, successful bid by distributors to expand the reach of the Telugu period drama beyond the traditional audience for Indian film. Originally out March 24 on 1,000 screens, wide for an Indian release…

Chloe Okuno's feature debut Watcher recorded the biggest opening weekend grosses ever for IFC Films and its IFC Midnight/Shudder label on 764 U.S. screens — also one of the distributor's widest ever releases. The genre thriller that world premiered at Sundance then SXSW reported an estimated weekend gross of $815,000…

Indie distributors, grabbing a frame between Top Gun: Maverick and Jurassic World Dominion, are out with a handful of decently wide releases for the specialty space including Neon's Cannes title Crimes of the Future (773 screes), IFC Midnight thriller Watcher (764) and Roadside Attractions' WWI period piece Benediction…

UPDATED, 4:12 PM: Following IFC Midnight and Shudder’s acquisition of North American rights to Chloe Okuno-directed Watcher, AGC International has closed a worldwide rights outside North America with Focus Features. AGC took the unusual step of moving its EFM screening forward to last week to accommodate extensive…

“I was really intrigued by a story that was actually very simple,” says director Chloe Okuno at Deadline’s Virtual Studio at Sundance. “Watcher is almost minimalist in its approach to narrative.” Okuno was joined by the stars of the film Maika Monroe and Karl Glusman to discuss their film, Watcher. Watcher follows…

The shadow of Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 murder mystery Rear Window looms large over Chloe Okuno's nail-biting Sundance U.S. Dramatic Competition entry, Watcher — but this debut feature is much more than homage. In fact, quite a few other suspense classics get the nod in the film's trim 95-minute running time. Still, Wat…

Cast has been set for Chloe Okuno's Watcher, with Maika Monroe (It Follows), Karl Glusman (Nocturnal Animals) and Burn Gorman (Enola Holmes) signing on for the phycological thriller. The movie will begin shooting this month in Romania. It follows a young married couple Julia (Monroe) and Francis (Glusman) as they move…