![]() Peter Von Kant (Denis Ménochet), a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl (Stefan Crepon), whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. The comedy by François Ozon opened Berlin Deadline review here. ![]() Strand Releasing presents Peter von Kant at 10 locations including the IFC in NY and Laemmle Theatres and American Cinematheque in LA. Full houses are a good place to showcase trailers for strong upcoming fall films. Looking at presales, it’s possible the theater will end up selling every seat at every show Saturday, he said. They take refuge at a coastal holiday camp, but Chaka has brought them there for a reason, with devastating consequences.īurial and Saloun are both opening at IFC Center, which GM Vanco said is pleased to participate in National Cinema Day with $3 tickets (“We’re also offering popcorn and sodas for $3 too, just to make our lives a little more complicated”). Shot down after fleeing a coup and extracting a drug lord from Guinea-Bissau, legendary mercenaries known as the Bangui Hyenas – Chaka (Yann Gael), Rafa (Roger Sallah) and Midnight (Mentor Ba) - must stash their stolen gold bounty, repair and refuel their plane and escape back to Dakar, Senegal. Jean Luc Herbulot’s Toronto Film Festival Midnight Madness selection was written by Herbulot and Pamela Diop, and produced by Diop. IFC Midnight’s horror-thriller Saloum opens on two screens - the IFC Center and Alamo Drafthouse in downtown LA as well as on streamer Shudder. An intrepid female intelligence officer (Vega) leads her surviving comrades in a last stand to ensure their cargo doesn’t fall into the hands of those who would hide the truth forever. En route, the unit is attacked by German “Werewolf” partisans and picked off one by one. Set in the waning days of the war as a small band of Russian soldiers is tasked with delivering the crated remains of Hitler back to Stalin in Russia. Starring Charlotte Vega, Tom Felton and Harriet Walter. Specialty openings: IFC Films presents WWII thriller Burial written and directed by Ben Parker on 24 screens. ![]() Stories and word of mouth on these can sometimes neutralize critics (who are giving the film a 23% on Rotten Tomatoes). Roadside has done a number of films in what Cohen calls the “feel good” space, appealing to a large swathe of the country. Moving forward seems impossible until he meets his unlikely service animal and emotional savior, Gigi, a capuchin monkey (the big-screen debut of Allie as Gigi). “We are still in pandemic recovery mode.” The film by Nick Hamm is written by David Hudgins and stars Charlie Rowe, Marcia Gay Harden and Jim Belushi.īased on the true story of Nate Gibson, a young man who suffers a near-fatal illness and is left a quadriplegic. The movie is really for a broad audience and that is a price-sensitive audience,” said Howard Cohen, the distributor’s co-president. It had initially planned for 1,000 but boosted the screen count to make up for the $3 Saturday tickets. Roadside Attractions presents family drama Gigi & Nate on 1,185 screens. Produced by Daniel Kaluuya, Rowan Riley, Amandla Crichlow, filmmaker sibling due Adanne Ebo and Adamma Ebo, Kara Durrett, Jessamine Burgum, Matthew Cooper, Hall and Brown. The couple looks to rebuild their congregation and reconcile their faith by any means necessary. Hall plays Trinitie Childs, the proud first lady of a Southern Baptist megachurch forced to close suddenly over a scandal involving her husband, Pastor Lee-Curtis Childs (Brown). The comedy-satire written and directed by Adamma Ebo was executive produced by Jordan Peele and stars Regina Hall and Sterling K. at 1,879 locations (and on sister streaming service Peacock). Specialty-plus openings (over 1,000 screens) are led by Focus Features’ Honk For Jesus. Event distributor Fathom is showing Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan at 985 theaters, Sunday only, for its 40th anniversary. ![]() With no big releases skedded, Sony is offering a Spider Man: No Way Home redux. Universal and Imax are presenting Jaws on 285 screens. Meanwhile, the informal end of summer, Labor Day weekend, features a hastily organized promotion by NATO that will see theaters across the country, including many arthouses, offer $3 movie tickets for all shows and discounted concessions in a bid to thank moviegoers and jolt moviegoing. A steadier flow of content alongside a just-approved Covid vaccine offers this slice of the market another shot for red carpet festival fanfare to translate into noise and dollars in theaters, instead of feeling like these are two different planets. The arthouse market was already challenged pre-Covid but the trickle of new films, with many fast-tracked to digital, and scattershot marketing, heightened woes. ‘Fire Of Love’ To Pass $1 Million At Global Box Office, Becoming Year's Top-Grossing Documentary
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