GameStop: Rise of the Players, Adrian Brody passion project Clean, Cannes winner Compartment No.
9, Danish upscale restaurant drama A Taste of Hunger and Woody Allen’s latest Rifkin’s Festival hit theatres crowded by Oscar contenders in a specialty market consumed by awards season (and as a major storm looks set to pummel the Northeast).There’s more new content than the market has seen in many weeks, although these can be hard frames for indie distributors to find available screens. (Belfast, for instance, which did well this week as the DGA, PGA, WGA and ACE unveiled nominations, is adding 130 runs, as per Focus Features.
Nightmare Alley is back up to 1,100 screens as Searchlight Pictures rolls out the black-and-white version.) But it’s easier now than it will be after Feb.
8 and a crush of actual Oscar nominees, said one distribution executive. “We’re going in, trying to get a couple of weeks, get some space.” Sony’s move to push the release of Morbius from today to April 1 created some space in theaters, another exec noted.GameStop: Rise of the Players, from Neon’s Super LTD label, opens on 267 screens.
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