Animated ‘My Year Of Dicks’ Unveiled With Oscar-Bound Shorts In Four-Week Theatrical Run – Specialty Preview
18.02.2023 - 01:01
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The title that saw Riz Ahmed stifle laughter, the press room crack up and Allison Williams murmur “no comment” at Oscar nominations last month hits theaters today as ShortsTV presents Oscar Nominated Short Films at circa 380 locations in 75 markets.
The program, three feature-length presentations of the five nominees for Live Action, Animated and Documentary short films, will expand to 500-600 screens by Academy Awards week. Exhibitors can play any or all of the trio. Some are splitting the doc shorts, at 160 minutes, in two. “We leave that up to theaters,” said ShortsTV founder-CEO Carter Pilcher. My Year Of Dicks is an animation entry.
ShortsTV has been releasing these theatrically for 18 years and they do pretty well, hitting $3.5 million in box office pre-Covid. That fell to $1.8 million in 2021 but Pilcher is hoping for a rebound, calling this year’s crop “absolutely some of the best and most audience-friendly films we’ve seen” and “some of the year’s best films in any category.”
The Animation program is popular with this year’s lyrical The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse by Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy, based on the children’s book, considered a draw. The other nominees, include Flying Sailor by Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby; Ice Merchants by João Gonzalez; An Ostrich Told Me The World Is Fake And I Think I Believe It by Lachlan Pendragon and Sara Gunnarsdóttir’s My Year of Dicks about a fifteen year old determined to lose her virginity despite pathetic pickings in the outskirts of Houston in the early 90s. Ahmed’s pause after reading the title aloud at the Jan. 24 nominations went viral.
As a package, “The first four are shown and then there’s an [advisory] that comes up on the screen, and a pause of
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