Dade Hayes Finance EditorThe stock of Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment surged more than 20% in mid-day trading Monday following the company’s release of chart-topping film The Outpost over the weekend.Rod Lurie’s Afghanistan war thriller, which Deadline’s Pete Hammond lauded as the equal of modern classics like Dunkirk or The Hurt Locker, was the No.
1 movie on iTunes on its opening day Friday. Its distributor is Screen Media, the longtime specialty outfit acquired by CSSE in 2017.Originally, Screen Media had planned to premiere The Outpost at South by Southwest and then give it a nationwide theatrical run via Fathom, but COVID-19 upended the strategy.
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