Tag: Focus
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Zurich Film Festival awards top prizes to ‘Hesitation Wound’, ‘Hollywoodgate’ and ‘In The Rearview’
Each of the winners takes home festival’s Golden Eye trophy and a Chf 20,000 cash prize.Turkish drama Hesitation Wound by Selman Nacar has won the Feature Film Competition prize at the 19th Zurich Film Festival.Hesitiation Wound, which world premiered last month in Venice’s Horizons section, is the story of a female Turkish lawyer fighting both…
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This Weekend at the Box Office: Critical Darlings and a Raunchy Comedy Must Answer Some Key Questions
Last weekend was a critical test of the summer box office, with results more negative than positive. This weekend has the opportunity to change that course.This late June weekend is normally a high point. The last five years pre-pandemic, it saw an average gross of around $200 million (and at lower ticket prices). This year…
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‘Asteroid City’ scores highest per-site average since ‘La La Land’ in 2016
Cannes premiere to expand wide this week.Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City has debuted to the highest per-site average in North America since La La Land in 2016, opening through Focus Features on an estimated $790,000 over Friday to Sunday in six cinemas for a $132,211 average.‘Asteroid City’: Cannes ReviewIn encouraging news for the arthouse sector, which…
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‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Wins Again on VOD for Biggest Oscar Nomination Boost
Just-released “M3GAN” and previous #1 “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” (both 19.99) took the top two spots on the revenue-based Vudu chart as well as on the transaction-based iTunes and Google Play.As for the top Oscar nominees, some got the chance to make up for weaker grosses in theaters But for “Everything Everywhere All…
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At Long Last, Specialized Cinema Is Poised for Its Comeback. Right?
If the specialized theatrical market is to make a comeback, it will never get a better opportunity than right now.This month will see a glut of critically embraced theatrical debuts — more than we’ve seen in three years. These include “TÁR” (Focus), “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight), “Aftersun” (A24), “Triangle of Sadness” (Neon), “Till” (United…
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American French Film Festival to honour Charles Gillibert (exclusive)
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin to be posthumously honoured with special screenings.The American French Film Festival (formerly Colcoa, will honour producer and CG Cinéma founder Charles Gillibert at its 2022 edition.Gillibert, the former mk2 executive, who has worked with Olivier Assayas, Xavier Dolan and Abbas Kiarostami, is part of the festival’s Focus On The Producer strand.He…
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From ‘The Bad Guys’ to ‘The Northman,’ Younger Audiences Lead a Box-Office Comeback
As exhibitors gather in Las Vegas for their annual CinemaCon convention this week, this weekend’s box office will provide their rallies with optimism. It fell short of 100 million, but there’s a few talking points to battle the concern that theaters are too franchise dependent.It also provided a case study in balance: Four films grossed…
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The Northman Is On Track To Pillage 12.5 Million At The Box Office In Its Opening Weekend
Alexander Skarsgård is bravely hacking his way into the box office this weekend, as Variety reports that Viking epic “The Northman” is on track to make 12.5 million. Though that will only land it at the #4 spot, the highly-anticipated Robert Eggers film is holding its own in a crowded, interesting movie weekend.The Focus Features film…
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H.E.R. to Make Acting Debut in ‘The Color Purple’ Movie Musical (Exclusive)
H.E.R. — the Oscar-winning singer-songwriter behind hits like “Best Part” and “Focus” — is in final negotiations to make her feature film acting debut in The Color Purple movie musical.Warner Bros. is behind the feature adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical, itself an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel by Alice Walker, on which…