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Space Thriller ‘Slingshot’, Little League Drama ‘You Gotta Believe’, Docs ‘Merchant Ivory’, ‘Finding Mavis Beacon’ Topline Indie Weekend – Specialty Preview
A pair of moderate releases with a handful of docs and titles in limited release topline an end-of-summer specialty market. Labor Day weekend can be slow and indie openings are up against few new wide releases (Afraid, Reagan) and holdovers from Deadpool & Wolverine to Inside Out 2. Meanwhile, the Venice film festival with Telluride, and TIFF soon is generating indie headlines and the new crop of arthouse films.