Strike the documentary Sundance Prime minister Starts an exclusive race in AMC theaters. Samuel L. Jackson and Pierce Brosnan test a western The impious trilogy. Israeli-Irani-Iranian sports drama in Venice TatamiThe second part of a Norwegian trilogy and a doc on simple minds launched during the North American tour of the group populate an animated specialty box office. Neon takes a big jump with the Stephen King adaptation of Mike Flanagan Life of Chuck With Tom Hiddleston from 16 screens at 1,075 during week 2.
Magnolia Pictures start documentary Prime ministerWinner of the Public Sundance Award in the Documentary Competition for World Cinema this year, in 56 AMC theaters in an exclusive race of a week, extending to Laemmle and a handful of arthouses in the coming weeks.
Directed by Michelle Walshe and Lindsay Utz, the Doc follows the former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as she directed her nation through the pandemic, balancing the staff and the professional in the highest seat of power. This has become a national conversation when Aernonn discovered that she and her husband Clarke Gayford were pregnant with their first child shortly after her arrival at the post at the age of 37, becoming only the second woman national leader to give birth to work.
Ardern managed to defend a ban on semi-automatic weapons after a devastating massacre, supervised the decriminalization of abortion and faced difficult choices when Covid closed the world. She is now a climate rights activist (author (Another type of power) and a main member of the program of women and public policies in Harvard.
The AMC organized special preview projections of the film in nearly 100 theaters which included a live question session live with the former PM Ardern and Abby Phillip of CNN. Magnolia acquired Prime minister Excluding Sundance with HBO documentary films and CNN films.
The largest new opening is the roadside attractions with Western The Impie Trinity In moderate version on 771 screens focusing strongly on the Midwest, the South and the Southwest. Directed by Richard Gray (Murder in Yellowstone City), written by Lee Zachariah, the actuator features Pierce Brosnan (Golden eye) and Samuel L. Jackson (The eight hateful) alongside Brandon Lessard (Classified). In the turbulent context of Montana of the 1870s, the film resumed in the moments before the execution of Isaac Broadway, while he gives his distant son, Henry (Lessard) an impossible task: murdering the man who framed him for a crime he did not commit. Henry goes to the remote city of Trinity, where an unexpected turn of the events The trap in town and leaves it between Gabriel Dove (Brosnan), the new honest sheriff of the city, and a mysterious figure named Saint-Christopher (Jackson).
Other new openings are limited. Brin’s release has come out with SexThe second film of the 2024 trio of the Norwegian novelist / filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud Love – Sex – Dreams: Oslo trilogy Open to the FORUM film in New York. Love Open there in mid-May and is currently in a limited national release. Strand will come out Dreams This fall, no defined date. The three films are linked but not consecutive. Love Focus on two colleagues from a hospital in Oslo – Marianne, a hetero (and Detroit) doctor, and Tor, a gay nurse. The two singles, they meet by chance after the hours and are satisfied with the other. Sex Follows two swings of the Oslo fireplace, men in heterosexual marriages whose unexpected experiences question their perceptions of sexuality, sex and identity.
Strand also went out with Rithy Panh’s documentary Meet Pol Pot At the Film Film. Created in Cannes last year.
Xyz Films opens a premirian sports drama Tatami Directed by Iranian and Israeli filmmakers, the Oscar winnerHoly spider), in the IFC center. Add Lammle Royal next week. The story is based on the real experiences of Iranian athletes like Sadaf Khadem, Elnaz Rekabi and Kimia Alizadeh, who have risked everything to follow their dreams and resist oppressive systems. It takes place during the judo world championships, when Irana Leila and her coach Maryam receive an ultimatum from the Islamic Republic ordering Leila to simulate an injury and to lose, for fear that she will not qualify as a state traitor. With her own freedom and her family at stake, Leila is faced with an impossible choice: to comply with the Iranian regime or fight for gold. Stars Arian Mandi, Zar Amir, Jaime Ray Newman and Ash Goldeh.
Greenwich Entertainment opens Simple spirit: everything is possible At the IFC center in New York. The documentary produced by Joss Crowley is timed at the North American tour by the Scottish group on the verge of making the success “Don’t You (forgets Me)”. Simple Minds sold more than 60 million albums worldwide, translating two dozen singles in the United Kingdom only, notably “Don’t You”, which recently made the Spotify Billions Club, “Alive and Kicking”, “Let There Be Love”, “She’s a River” and “Sanctify Yourself”.
The singer-musician Jim Kerr and the guitarist Charlie Burchill are the only two members to have been with the group since he was trained in Glasgow in 1977. “From the working class of children in post-industrial Glasgow to rock stars playing live help”, notes the logline, “is the unlikely story of an extraordinary group that continues to visit the world.” “.”.
Abramorama opens Abraham house At Look Cinema in New York. Directed by Lisa Belcher, written by Lukas Hassel and with Natasha Henstridge and Lin Shaye. A woman in search of an end of suffering, goes to the house of Abraham, which houses a mysterious worship which promises a way out. She soon discovers that everything is not what it seems and must plan an escape before it is too late.
