Indie Bonanza! ‘Priscilla’ (And Its A24 Eye Makeup Kit), ‘The Holdovers’, Doc ‘Four Daughters’, Animated ‘Inspector Sun’ – Specialty Preview
deadline.comIndependents are out in force with high-profile fall festival fare from Pricilla to The Holdovers, a big Viva Pictures push with Inspector Sun (voiced by Ronny Chieng), Cannes documentary winner Four Daughters and Waikiki, the debut feature by Hawaiian filmmaker Christopher Kahunahana.
the first homegrown feature to be shown there. Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla from A24 is playing New York (Angelika, Lincoln Square) and Los Angeles (Century City, the Grove) this weekend including sold out Q&A’s with the director and star Cailee Spaeny, Best Actress winner at the Venice Film Festival where Priscilla premiered, see Deadline review.
Jacob Elordi stars as Elvis. The story of the singer’s romantic partner and only wife told from her perspective is based on the book Elvis And Me by Priscilla Presley following her early years as a teenage army brat stationed in West Germany to her surreal arrival at Graceland.
Rolls out nationwide next week. In conjunction with the film, A24, which dabbles in merch as well as beauty through its makeup venture Half Magic, is seeing brisk business in eye kits ahead of Halloween inspired by Priscilla’s iconic look, before the film even opens.
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