‘The Outfit’ Leads Arthouse March; ‘The Guide’ For Ukraine Relief Picks Up 600 Screens – Specialty Preview
deadline.comThis is one of the best weekends for new indie releases in some time — a bit of space in theaters to run and audiences slowly, but increasingly, willing to return.Focus Features’ The Outfit – the directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriter Graham Moore (The Imitation Game) — opens nationally on over 1,200 screens with Mark Rylance starring as a bespoke British tailor from London’s Savile Row.
After a personal tragedy, he ends up running a tailor shop in a rough Chicago neighborhood making suits for the only people around who can afford them, a family of vicious gangsters.The script is by Moore and Johnathan McClain.
Also starring Zoey Deutch, Johnny Flynn, Dylan O’Brien, Nikki Amuka-Bird and Simon Russell Beale. It premiered in Berlin last month.
Deadline review here.Initially set for release Feb. 25, The Outfit occupies the slot vacated by Downtown Abbey: A New Era. In January, in the shadow of Omicron, Focus pushed that title to May 20.“I’ve always liked March as a time period for adult specialty film,” Focus Features distribution president Lisa Bunnell tells Deadline.
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