Indian superstar Prabhas in ‘Kalki’

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The independent market is doing quite well. A great Indian film Kalki 2898 AD can destabilize RRRThe North American opening weekend of . June Squibb-starrer Thélma runs in midweek shows and is $3.75 million ahead of the second week, steady in 1,280 theaters. projector Photos Types of Kindness by Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor things) starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons jumps to 500 screens from five after the best limited opening of the year last weekend.

Annie Baker Janet Planet A24’s print run goes from 2 to 300 and a handful of interesting indies open in limited release of Catherine Breillat’s film Last summer to Jake Paltrow June zero. Things are still pretty tough, but there is room for optimism. I don’t know if it will last, but it’s nice.

New:Sci-fi epic in Telugu Kalki 2898 AD on more than 900 screens, it rivals the crossover blockbuster €€€ As stated by distributor Prathyangira Cinemas, the film has grossed $5.56 million in North America between Wednesday previews and Thursday’s opening date. Written and directed by Nag Ashwin. Starring Telugu and Hindi superstars Prabhas, Deepika Padukone and Amitabh Bachchan, the film’s trailer has reached over 43 million views in a matter of days and has grossed over $3 million in North American pre-sales. Deadline reported that it was the most expensive Indian film of all time.

Dad Writer-director Christy Hall’s directorial debut, released on 628 screens, premiered in Telluride, according to Deadline’s rave review. Sean Penn plays a seasoned New York taxi driver and Dakota Johnson plays a customer who shares her problems during a long nighttime drive through traffic at JFK Airport in Manhattan.

The verticals A Sacrifice opens on 230 screens. Adapted from Tokyo Directed by Nicholas Hogg, the film is written and directed by Jordan Scott, produced by Ridley Scott and Michael Pruss for Scott Free Productions and Augenschein Filmproduktion, and stars Eric Bana, Sadie Sink and Sylvia Hoeks.

American social psychologist Ben Monroe (Bana) investigates a local Berlin cult linked to disturbing events. As he immerses himself in his work, his rebellious teenage daughter, Mazzy (Sink), befriends a mysterious local boy who introduces her to the city’s underground party scene. As their two worlds head toward a dangerous intersection, Ben will have to race against time to save his daughter.

Limited openings: Last summerfrom Sideshow/Janus Films, is the first film in a decade from French director Catherine Breillat (Fat Girl, The Last Mistress). Premiered in Cannes, see Deadline review, in Toronto and at the NYFF. Lea Drucker plays a middle-aged woman who has an explosive affair with her teenage stepson (Leo Kircher). “Breillat shows a bourgeois family fracturing, filling the cracks with lies and ultimately repairing itself, the balms of silence and hypocrisy ensuring that nothing unpleasant is exposed and nothing changes,” Deadline wrote about from the director, who “worked with porn stars, was one of the first to show an erection in an arthouse film and earned the nickname ‘porn auteurist’. With Olivier Rabourdin, Clotilde Courau

Opens in New York (Angelika, Film at Lincoln Center) and Los Angeles (Nuart), and expands from there.

June zero by Jake Paltrow opens in New York at the Quad with Q&As from the director all weekend and moderators including Kent Jones and Stephen Whitty. Adds Los Angeles and the other top ten net markets the following week, moving to the top 50 below.

Paltrow revisits the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust, from the unique perspectives of three distinct characters: Eichmann’s Moroccan-Jewish prison guard; an Israeli police investigator who also happens to be a Holocaust survivor; and a precocious 13-year-old Libyan immigrant. Based on real-life testimony and shot entirely on 16mm film, June zero highlights the idea that shared trauma forges strong and unexpected bonds. Written by Paltrow and Tom Shoval.

The oscilloscope shows 18^th 19th century French vampire thriller The Vourdalak by Adrien Beauat at the IFC Center in New York, expanding through July. Premiered in Venice. Adapted from a short story (Tolstoy’s The Vourdalaks, 1839) that predates Bram Stoker’s Dracula by more than half a century.

When the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, is attacked and abandoned in a remote countryside, he finds refuge in a strange and isolated manor. The family who resides there, reluctant to welcome him, adopts strange behavior while waiting for the imminent return of their father, Gorcha. But what begins as a simple oddity quickly turns into a real nightmare. With Kacey Mottet Klein, Ariane Labed, Grégoire Colin, Vassili Schneider.

Cinema Guild releases Music by Angela Schanelec at Lincoln Center, the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, and the Lark Theater in Larkspur, California, with arthouse screenings throughout July. The film, which premiered in Berlin, is a modern myth loosely based on the story of Oedipus. On a stormy night in the mountains of Greece, two lost young men abandon their newborn son. Taken in by a family of farmers, Ion grows up without knowing his father or mother. Years later, after a tragic accident, he is sent to prison, where he meets Iro. The two form a bond, expressed through music, that will alternately haunt and sustain them for the rest of their lives. With Aliocha Schneider, Agathe Bonitzer, Marisha Triantafyllidou, Argyris Xafis.

Family portrait from Factory 25, the feature debut from Brooklyn-based writer-director Lucy Kerr, open at Metrograph. Premiered at the 2023 Locarno Film Festival in the Concorso Cineasti del presente section, it won the Boccalino d’Oro for Best Director. Q&A with Kerr and star Deragh Campbell (Anne at 13,000 feet, stinking paradise). The film will screen in Chicago on July 12 at the Gene Siskel Film Center and in Los Angeles on July 19 and 20 at Now Instant Image Hall, with additional cities to be announced later. The film follows a large family on the morning of a planned group photo. With Chris Galust, Katie Folger, Rachel Alig, Robert Salas and Silvana Jakich.

How to Come to Life with Norman Maileran intimate portrait of the literary giant, has its U.S. premiere at Film Forum, presented by Zeitgeist Films. The first project with full access to the Mailer family and its archives won Best Documentary at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival. It unearths a treasure trove of intimate and never-before-seen footage, never-before-seen footage, audio recordings and interviews from throughout the life of the man who was perhaps America’s last true public intellectual.

Independent distributor Hope Runs High presents the triple Indie Spirit Award nominee (Best First Feature, Best First Screenplay, Best Cinematography) Chronicles of a Wandering Saintthe feature debut of Argentine writer/director Tomás Gómez Bustillo, based in Los Angeles. It will screen for a week in New York at the IFC Center, then at the Lumiere Cinema in Los Angeles next weekend. Additional screenings will take place over the weekend at the American Cinematheque with Q&As with the filmmakers. It will then expand. It premiered at SXSW last year, where it won the Adam Yauch Hörnblowér Award.

In a small rural Argentinian village, Rita Lopez, a devout but insatiably competitive woman, decides that a miracle could lead to her sainthood. After discovering a lost statue in the back room of her chapel, she convinces her neglected but loving husband to help her organize the grand reveal that will finally establish her as the most admired woman in town.