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Oscilloscope Rounds Out Growing Documentary Slate with ‘Night School’ and ‘Santoalla’ — Exclusive
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Oscilloscope Laboratories has rounded out their ever-growing documentary slate with the recent purchase of Andrew Cohn’s “Night School” and Andrew Becker and Daniel Mehrer’s “Santoalla,” and the indie distributor is planning summer releases for both features.
Cohn’s latest documentary outing premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. Set in Indianapolis, which has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country, the doc follows “victims of circumstance and a broken system, Greg, Melissa, and Shynika are optimistic that they don’t need to be on the wrong side of statistics.” The film “observes their individual pursuits, fraught with the challenges of daily life and the broader systemic roadblocks faced by many Americans as they strive to improve their lives in the face of adversity.”
Oscilloscope will open the film theatrically on June 9 at the IFC Center in New York, with national expansion in the following weeks. »
- Kate Erbland
Amazon Studios Banks on Indie Auteurs at CinemaCon Preview
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What a difference a year makes: Amazon Studios’ lunch at CinemaCon 2017 was packed. Not like last year. “We were a new studio brand who had released one movie and bought five at Sundance,” said Jason Ropell, Amazon’s worldwide head of Motion Pictures. “We were planning to release 15 movies. It was ambitious and pretty damned scary.”
It turned out exhibitors did fine with Amazon’s movies, especially Oscar-winning $47-million-grosser “Manchester By the Sea,” which was released by Roadside Attractions and is winding up its 19th week in theaters. Other hits included Whit Stillman’s Jane Austen comedy “Love & Friendship” (19 weeks) and Woody Allen’s “Cafe Society” (12 weeks), along with arthouse entries “The Handmaiden” (18 weeks), documentary “Gleason” and Asghar Farhadi’s “The Salesman,” which collected the Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
Ropell and head of movie marketing and distribution Bob Berney, who is well known by exhibitors, scored rousing applause whenever »
- Anne Thompson
Dylan O’Brien Seeks Revenge In ‘American Assassin’ And ‘Wonder’ Seems Too Sweet [CinemaCon]
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Las Vegas – Lionsgate was the 10th and final studio to present its upcoming slate to the world’s theater owners today and they ended their event with an early screening of the upcoming Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson action comedy “The Hitman’s Bodyguard.” Any written reaction is embargoed at the moment, but one of its stars, Salma Hayek, predicted a sequel. That being said, the mini-major did push some of its other notable releases and was surprisingly quiet on others.
Continue reading Dylan O’Brien Seeks Revenge In ‘American Assassin’ And ‘Wonder’ Seems Too Sweet [CinemaCon] at The Playlist. »
- Gregory Ellwood
Jennifer Lawrence Is A ‘Red Sparrow’ And Channing Tatum Steals ‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’ [CinemaCon]
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Las Vegas – Some quick thoughts on a number of other 20th Century Fox sneaks from their CinemaCon presentation earlier today.
This Cold War era spy thriller from director Francis Lawrence finds Jennifer Lawrence as a Russian ballet star who injures herself during a performance (it’s hinted at that it might not have been an accident). Unable to dance again she’s recruited by Soviet intelligence to be an undercover spy, a “red sparrow” that charms targets and leads them to their deaths.
Continue reading Jennifer Lawrence Is A ‘Red Sparrow’ And Channing Tatum Steals ‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’ [CinemaCon] at The Playlist. »
- Gregory Ellwood
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