Heavy-hitting holdovers Foxcatcher, The Theory Of Everything and Birdman were robust in expansion in the specialty release side of the box office this weekend. Meanwhile, a pair of limited-release newcomers, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night and doc Monk With A Camera – both Kino Lorber releases – bowed with solid numbers.
A Girl, Ana Lily Amirpour’s self-described “Iranian vampire Western” that debuted at Sundance, opened in two theaters in New York and L.A., grossing $26K, for a $13K average.
Kino Lorber also opened Monk With A Camera, Guido Santi and Tina Mascara’s documentary, with an exclusive run at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in an 85-seat theater that had sell-out showings. The film grossed $10K Friday to Sunday.
“We’ve been waiting for this dual break all year,” said Kino Lorber president Richard Lorber Sunday. “Both a girl and monk connect with core audiences for our … releasing labels.
A Girl, Ana Lily Amirpour’s self-described “Iranian vampire Western” that debuted at Sundance, opened in two theaters in New York and L.A., grossing $26K, for a $13K average.
Kino Lorber also opened Monk With A Camera, Guido Santi and Tina Mascara’s documentary, with an exclusive run at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in an 85-seat theater that had sell-out showings. The film grossed $10K Friday to Sunday.
“We’ve been waiting for this dual break all year,” said Kino Lorber president Richard Lorber Sunday. “Both a girl and monk connect with core audiences for our … releasing labels.
- 11/23/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
A long time in the making, Reach Me, from filmmaker/actor John Herzfeld brings ‘positive thinking’ and ‘self-help’ to the big screen. It stars a bevy of Herzfeld’s actor friends and friends of friends, including Sylvester Stallone, Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Connolly.
The title is one of a dozen or so newcomers opening in limited release this weekend. Music Box’s Happy Valley and Kino Lorber’s Monk With A Camera are among Friday’s debuting documentaries.
Happy Valley, named after the area where Pennsylvania State University is located, dives into the child sexual-abuse scandal that rocked Penn State, while Monk looks at an unlikely ascetic who gave up life in the fast lane.
Kino Lorber also is launching Iranian Western Vampire pic A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, which it is releasing with Vice Films. The title, which was born out of a previous short film, debuted at Sundance in January.
The title is one of a dozen or so newcomers opening in limited release this weekend. Music Box’s Happy Valley and Kino Lorber’s Monk With A Camera are among Friday’s debuting documentaries.
Happy Valley, named after the area where Pennsylvania State University is located, dives into the child sexual-abuse scandal that rocked Penn State, while Monk looks at an unlikely ascetic who gave up life in the fast lane.
Kino Lorber also is launching Iranian Western Vampire pic A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, which it is releasing with Vice Films. The title, which was born out of a previous short film, debuted at Sundance in January.
- 11/21/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
Exclusive: Andrew Herwitz’s The Film Sales Company has come on to represent three documentaries in the run-up to the Santa Monica market.
Daniel Junge is in post-production on Fight Church, which explores the confluence of Christianity and Mixed Martial arts at ministries that train fighters.
Tina Mascara and Guido Santi’s Monk With A Camera follows Diana Vreeland’s grandson Nicholas as he evolves from jetsetter to reportedly the first Westerner to become a Buddhist abbot. Herwitz (pictured) also serves as executive producer.
The third project is Jody Lee Lipes’ work in progress about the New York City Ballet.
Herwitz served as executive producer on Let The Fire Burn, recipient this week of three Ida nominations, and was associate producer on the box office hit and awards contender Lee Daniels’ The Butler.
Daniel Junge is in post-production on Fight Church, which explores the confluence of Christianity and Mixed Martial arts at ministries that train fighters.
Tina Mascara and Guido Santi’s Monk With A Camera follows Diana Vreeland’s grandson Nicholas as he evolves from jetsetter to reportedly the first Westerner to become a Buddhist abbot. Herwitz (pictured) also serves as executive producer.
The third project is Jody Lee Lipes’ work in progress about the New York City Ballet.
Herwitz served as executive producer on Let The Fire Burn, recipient this week of three Ida nominations, and was associate producer on the box office hit and awards contender Lee Daniels’ The Butler.
- 10/30/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Christopher Isherwood lived in Berlin during the Weimar Republic era and later wrote about that time in a bestselling short-story collection adapted into the plays and films I Am A Camera and Cabaret. Isherwood considered his Berlin years one of the few times that he felt "free" as gay man in a gay-unfriendly era. He left Germany before Hitler took full command, and found his way to Hollywood, where he worked on scripts, socialized with movie stars, and immersed himself in Los Angeles' nascent—and still largely secret—gay culture. And then he met Don Bachardy, a slight, handsome teenage beach bum who charmed Isherwood with his naïveté and boyish enthusiasm. They become instant companions, and Isherwood was so comfortable having Bachardy around that he once again found the freedom of Berlin in this new community of two. Tina Mascara and Guido Santi's documentary Chris & Don. A Love Story recounts.
- 6/19/2008
- by Noel Murray
- avclub.com
By Neil Pedley
On offer this week is a veritable gallery of the eclectic and the eccentric as M. Night Shyamalan goes R-rated, Edward Norton goes green, Werner Herzog goes to the Antarctic, and two of Herzog's fellow countrymen go to California to climb a big rock very, very quickly.
"Beauty in Trouble"
Czech director Jan Hrebejk and writer Petr Jarchovský continue their longtime collaborative partnership with this dense ensemble drama loosely inspired by Robert Graves's poem of the same name. This time, the duo who balanced humor with drama in the Oscar-nominated Holocaust-set "Divided We Fall," turn to the devastating series of floods that swept Prague in 2002, and tell the story of Marcela (Anna Geislerová), an overworked mother of two living in squalor. When her ne'er do well husband is taken in by the police, she's courted by a well-to-do businessman (Josef Abrhám) and Marcela is forced to...
On offer this week is a veritable gallery of the eclectic and the eccentric as M. Night Shyamalan goes R-rated, Edward Norton goes green, Werner Herzog goes to the Antarctic, and two of Herzog's fellow countrymen go to California to climb a big rock very, very quickly.
"Beauty in Trouble"
Czech director Jan Hrebejk and writer Petr Jarchovský continue their longtime collaborative partnership with this dense ensemble drama loosely inspired by Robert Graves's poem of the same name. This time, the duo who balanced humor with drama in the Oscar-nominated Holocaust-set "Divided We Fall," turn to the devastating series of floods that swept Prague in 2002, and tell the story of Marcela (Anna Geislerová), an overworked mother of two living in squalor. When her ne'er do well husband is taken in by the police, she's courted by a well-to-do businessman (Josef Abrhám) and Marcela is forced to...
- 6/9/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
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