Will ‘Stop Making Sense’ Draw A24’s Young Fans To A Great, 40-Year-Old Concert Film? – Specialty Preview
22.09.2023 - 20:57
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Stop Making Sense, the remastered concert film that sowed delight at TIFF, opens on 300 Imax screens in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Ireland. Locations Stateside number 260 ahead of a nationwide release next week.
The 1984 Talking Heads extravaganza from Jonathan Demme is presented in its new iteration by A24 — meaning the decades-old movie can now extend its reach to a new, younger audience that is A24’s core fan base. Opening numbers are hard to gauge since there aren’t many comps but there are parties, discos, stars and sellouts with film looking at about $1.5 million, including Thursday previews.
A 40th anniversary large-format special premiere screening at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this month had people dancing in the aisles and broke Imax records. It was the company’s highest grossing live event, earning $640.8k and selling out 25 screens across 165 Imax locations in North America and the BFI Imax in London. The film opens into a surprisingly crowded weekend for specialty fare.
Neon presents It Lives Inside, a horror/thriller from first-time feature director Bishal Dutta, opens on 1,985 screens. Written by Dutta and Ashish Mehta, it follows Sam (Megan Suri), a culturally insecure Indian-American teen and her estranged friend, Tamira (Mohana Krishnan), who carries a mysterious, empty mason jar with her at all times. In a moment of anger, Sam breaks Tamira’s jar and unleashes an ancient Indian demonic force.
IFC Films presents The Origin of Evil on 206 screens. By Sébastien Marnier and starring Suzanne Clément, Laure Calamy, Doria Tiller, Jacques Weber, Dominique Blanque. A woman is sucked into a world of secrets and betrayal as the battle over her estranged father’s massive estate reveals him to be