‘Alcarràs’ And ‘Candy Land’ At The Arthouse As ‘Tom Hanks-Starring ‘A Man Called Otto’, ‘Women Talking’, ‘Corsage’ Expand – Specialty Preview
deadline.comAlcarràs, winner of the Golden Bear in Berlin, opens on five screens in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, presented by Mubi; Quiver Distribution releases Candy Land in nine theaters; and Sony’s Tom Hanks-starring A Man Called Otto, UAR’s Women Talking and IFC Films’ Corsage move into moderate expansions as the broader specialty market barrels into Oscar nominations and a new year of reckoning with adult audiences.
The conversation about what ails the arthouse market is still treading water. Some major arthouses (ArcLight, Landmark LA) are MIA in a key market.
With rare exceptions, audiences are failing to embrace indie titles with the gusto they’ve shown in the past. Everything Everywhere All At Once cleaned up but that’s feelgood, versus downbeat, which an emotionally exhausted moviegoing public may be avoiding.
It’s not clear awards kudos will change that. “The marketplace needs to listen to what the people are telling them,” said one distribution executive.
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