Comedy ‘Babes’ Opens In Limited Release Stateside With Neon On The Move In Cannes – Specialty Preview

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Babes by Pamela Adlon, co-written and starring Ilana Glazer, debuts in limited release with films by Hang Song-soo and Bertrand Bonello and docs on a controversial Venice Biennale, ground-breaking female clerics, and the Blue Angels Navy Squadron.

A trio of festival favorites expand. While eyes now are on fare at Cannes — where Neon has been making high-profile moves — each week Stateside remains a test of indie film’s theatrical boundaries in a post-Covid, streaming-centric marketplace.

There have been notable hits (Neon’s Immaculate, IFC’s Late Night With The Devil, A24’s Love Lives Bleeding and Civil War; Bleecker Street’s One Life; Sony Pictures Classics’ Wicked Little Letters).

A24’s I Saw The TV Glow by Jane Schoenbrun is having a nice run so far as is Evil Does Not Exist — Sideshow/Janus Films’ second outing with Ryusuke Hamaguchi after Oscar-winning Drive My Car. (That 2021 Japanese film about a theater director staging a production of Uncle Vanya saw a domestic box office of $2.35 million and $15.34 million worldwide.) But it’s far from clear yet where the dust will settling for the majority of indie films released each week. “The shortage of product we were told to expect is not a problem, it seems.