Coronation Street fans have been on the edge of their seats over the past few weeks after the arrival of new residents Courtney and Darren Vance.
21.07.2023 - 20:31 / deadline.com
Return To Dust, an arthouse hit in China last summer before being pulled from release, opens Stateside this weekend with Film Movement presenting on two screens – NYC’s BAM Rose Cinema and the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, expanding to LA and Seattle next Friday.
The distributor acquired the film directed by Li Ruijun after it premiered in Berlin in March, 2022 to glowing reviews, see Deadlines’s here. Hai Quing and Wu Renlin star as a middle-aged couple in a rural province encouraged to marry by their families, who see them as a burden. Love and respect slowly as they scratch out a living of extreme hardship working the land. A 95% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
First released last July in China, it played unusually well for an arthouse title there and appeared on streaming platforms in early September before disappearing later that month without explanation.
Regulators don’t often justify these decisions and can pull films to make room for new titles. But this story is not particularly sympathetic to China’s ruling class. As Deadline and others have reported, there was speculation that the subject matter may not have been considered suitable heading into the fall National Day holidays, celebrating the founding of the People’s Republic of China, and National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Elsewhere, this is a weekend with few openings as most specialty distributors stayed clear of juggernauts Barbie and Oppenheimer. A notable expansion — Theater Camp, which Searchlight Pictures is moving to 51 screens after a buzzy debut last week on six in NY and LA (updated $50.3k per screen average open). The film by Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman and starring Ben Platt adds include Austin, Boston,
Coronation Street fans have been on the edge of their seats over the past few weeks after the arrival of new residents Courtney and Darren Vance.
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