A24’s Priscilla by Sofia Coppola catapults from four screens to 1,300, Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers from Focus Features expands to 60 from six and two new indies have wide debuts — What Happens Later from Bleecker Street, directed by and starring Meg Ryan, opens at 1,400 locations and Daisy Ridley-starring The Marsh King’s Daughter from Roadside Attractions at over 1,000. What Happens Later moved here from its original Oct.
16 perch, avoiding The Eras Tour opening crush. The rom-com debut of Meg Ryan (When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle) after a long hiatus co-stars David Duchovny.
Based on the play Shooting Star by Steven Dietz, the pic follows a chance encounter between two ex-lovers, Willa and Bill, who are snowed in at a regional airport and indefinitely delayed.
See Deadline review. The Marsh King’s Daughter stars Daisy Ridley and Ben Mendelsohn in an adaptation of a bestselling 2017 thriller by Karen Dionne, in the vein of Where The Crawdads Sing.
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