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Roll the Dice: ON SWIFT HORSES Director Daniel Minahan on Redefining the American Dream

Chad Kennerk — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 08:18:00 +0000

For two decades Daniel Minahan has quietly shaped the modern television landscape, lending a sharp eye and fearless storytelling to HBO series such as Six Feet Under, Deadwood, Big Love, True Blood, and Game of Thrones, as well as FX’s American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace—for which he won an Emmy—and the Netflix […]

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Bird’s Eye View: Director Peter Cattaneo and Actor Steve Coogan Examine THE PENGUIN LESSONS

Chad Kennerk — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 20:09:46 +0000

The Penguin Lessons takes inspiration from Tom Michell’s memoir of the same name to tell the remarkable story of a disillusioned Englishman who rescues an oil-slicked penguin and gains an unlikely feathered friend. Set against the political turmoil of 1976 Argentina, Tom (Steve Coogan) arrives in Buenos Aires to teach at a prestigious boarding school. […]

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Sony Pictures Classics to Re-Release BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN Exclusively in IMAX on April

Boxoffice Staff — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:12:56 +0000

Originally released in theaters in February, Becoming Led Zeppelin has grossed nearly $10 million domestically. The film explores the origins of the iconic group and their meteoric rise in just one year against all the odds. Powered by psychedelic, never-before-seen footage, performances and music, Bernard MacMahon’s experiential cinematic odyssey explores Led Zeppelin’s creative, musical, and […]

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BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN Has Biggest Opening Weekend Ever For An IMAX-Exclusive Music Release

Boxoffice Staff — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:51:38 +0000

Sony Pictures Classics’ Becoming Led Zeppelin, the first-ever sanctioned film on notoriously private band, gave a record-breaking performance for its first weekend at the box office as it opened to an impressive $3M IMAX debut across 16 countries and territories. Domestically, the film’s $2.6M start ($7K per screen average) represents the biggest opening weekend ever […]

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Becoming Shades: Cinematographer Edu Grau Translates the Almodóvar Aesthetic for THE ROOM NEXT DOOR

Chad Kennerk — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Cinematographer Edu Grau had his first big break at 27, when fashion icon Tom Ford brought Grau to the United States to shoot Ford’s directorial debut, A Single Man. The experience catapulted Grau into a career of impressive breadth, spanning films such as Buried, The Awakening, A Single Shot, Suite Française, The Gift, Suffragette, Boy […]

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Sony Pictures Classics’ BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN to be Released Nationwide on February 14th

Boxoffice Staff — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 22:41:48 +0000

Sony Pictures Classics announced today that Becoming Led Zeppelin will be released nationwide on 1,000 screens on February 14th, 2025. This follows a previously announced IMAX exclusive release on February 7th, 2025, and one night only early access screenings in eighteen markets on February 5th, 2025. Becoming Led Zeppelin explores the origins of this iconic […]

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Sony Pictures Classics Announces Updated Winter Release Dates for THE ROOM NEXT DOOR and I’M STILL HERE

Boxoffice Staff — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 19:26:04 +0000

Sony Pictures Classics announced today updated release dates for Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door and Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here. The Room Next Door will be released in theaters on December 20th in New York and Los Angeles and expand to select cities on January 10th before opening nationwide on January 17th. The film […]

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Ripe for Reinvention: Benjamin Millepied Reimagines CARMEN as a Big-Screen Spectacle

Daniel Loria — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 13:41:00 +0000

The tragic yet gripping story of Carmen, first written as a novella in 1845, has been reimagined by countless artists in many mediums, including opera, ballet, and orchestral suite. Its most famous version, Georges Bizet’s Carmen (1875), remains one of the most popular and widely performed in the opera canon. Now, ballet choreographer Benjamin Millepied […]

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Like Father, Like Son: Florian Zeller, Writer/Director of THE FATHER, Returns with THE SON

Boxoffice Staff — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000

French playwright Florian Zeller won critical praise for the feature-film adaptation of his own play, The Father, in 2020. It was a dream cinematic debut for the writer-director, who won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The Father also delivered a Best Actor Oscar for its lead actor, Anthony Hopkins and nominations for Best […]

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Sony Pictures Classics Moves The Son to January 20th Wide Theatrical Release

Boxoffice Staff — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 17:42:38 +0000

Sony Pictures Classics announced that they will turn their original November 25th release date for The Son into a one-week only awards qualifying run in New York and Los Angeles and will release the film in theaters nationwide on January 20th. The Son is directed by Florian Zeller, written by the Oscar-winning team of Zeller […]

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Sony Pictures Classics Announces Updated Fall Release Schedule

Boxoffice Staff — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 19:19:19 +0000

Sony Pictures Classics has announced updated release information for The Return of Tanya Tucker, Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams, The Son, Living, Turn Every Page, One Fine Morning, and Return to Seoul. Kathlyn Horan’s documentary The Return Of Tanya Tucker follows Tanya’s richly creative ride back to the top and features singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile, who encourages […]

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Angelika Film Center Partners with Sony Pictures Classics to Launch the ‘Bring A Friend Back To The Movies’ Initiative for The Duke

Boxoffice Staff — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 17:21:45 +0000

Angelika Film Center and Sony Pictures Classics have announced an initiative to ‘Bring A Friend Back To The Movies’, timed to the April 22 release of the upcoming dramatic comedy, The Duke, starring Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren. The ‘Bring A Friend Back To The Movies’ initiative will provide one complimentary ticket to the upcoming […]

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