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Coraline 15th Anniversary notched a nice no. 5 at the domestic box office with $8.63 million for the three-day weekend on 1,603 screens. The cume of $11.6 million including Thursday broke its previous record for Fathom Events. Last year, the stop-motion animated feature by Henry Selick became the…

Cuckoo is looking at a $3+ million opening, not a Longlegs debut ($22 million) but on target for Neon's Alpine-set horror starring Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens.   R-rated Cuckoo by Tilman Singer opened at 1,503 theaters for 9th place at the domestic box office. Schafer is great as troubled…

The Dog Days of summer—vaguely from mid-July through mid-August, depending on who does the counting—may not seem like much of an Oscar crucible. You'd think most Academy voters would be sipping Margaritas in Malibu, or Limoncello Martinis somewhere on the Mediterranean. But as often as not in the…

The indie/arthouse market is showing some breadth as Kneecap has a great debut, CatVidoFest as well, and holdovers like Didi and Sing Sing are kind of raking it in considering how few screens they're on. As more wide releases and tentpoles show up and take flight a rising tide may be raising indie boats…

As anticipated on Friday, Nicolas Cage starring Longlegs, pushing a $6.7 million weekend on 2,730 screens — for a cume of $58.6 million in week 3 — has surpassed Parasite's $53.37 million to become the indie distributor's highest grossing film ever. Now in week 3, the Osgood Perkins pic is also the…

Independents look solid this weekend with Vertical's Widow Clicquot nice alternative programming amid summer blockbuster season, IFC Film horror Oddity off to a fine start, and Thelma, one of the year's biggest specialty hits, passing $8 million. New films and holdovers in limited release did…

A24's drama Sing Sing starring Colman Domingo turned out the third highest limited opening and per screen average of the year so far, and Touch from Focus Features by Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur has a nice opening. Indian 2 marks the third straight week with one or more Indian films in the top…

Sing Sing, the powerful, poignant prison drama starring Colman Domingo, opens NY/LA, with indie love stories Dandelion and Touch debuting on hundreds of screens as distributors continue to tinker with release patterns. Martin Scorsese, eloquent as always, narrates (and executive produced) Made In England…

EXCLUSIVE: A24 will hold a special screening Sing Sing, the Greg Kwedar film starring Colman Domingo, af the correctional facility in Ossining, New York on June 20, the distributor said, followed by a Q&A and series of additional showings for the general population inside the facility and outside…

SXSW organizers on Monday announced the Audience Award winners for the festival’s recently wrapped 31st edition. The list includes Tracie Laymon’s dramedy Bob Trevino Likes It, which prevailed in Narrative Feature Competition, and the action thriller Monkey Man marking Dev Patel’s directorial debut…

A24 has dropped the trailer for Greg Kwedar's latest film Sing Sing, which stars Colman Domingo, Clarence ‘Divine Eye’ Maclin, Sean San José, Sean "Dino" Johnson, Jon Adrian "JJ" Velazquez and Paul Raci. Story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, and John 'Divine G' Whitfield, and adapted…

EXCLUSIVE: In competitive bidding, A24 has acquired U.S. theatrical rights to Sing Sing, the Greg Kwedar-directed drama that stars Colman Domingo. The film premiered at Toronto to rapturous reviews and A24 is plotting a 2024 theatrical release. Financed and produced by Black Bear, the Marfa Peach…