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Dino-Ray Ramos editorNeon’s Possessor Uncut brought the sci-fi thrills this weekend to select theaters around the country as the specialty box office continues to find signs of life during the pandemic. Written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg, the pic starring Andrea Riseborough and Christopher Abbott played on 320 screens in its debut and earned an estimated $227,500, with Saturday netting the most coin with $110,000.

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Vanessa Kirby wears a plunging black suit for the premiere of her new movie The World to Come on Sunday (September 6) in Venice, Italy.

Over a year after Adèle Haenel and Noémie Merlant loosed each other’s corsets and fell in love in a French Cannes film, and less than a week before Saoirse Ronan and Kate Winslet are due to do the same in coastal England at TIFF, Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby play American, mid-19th century secret lesbian lovers in Mona Fastvold‘s Venice competition title “The World to Come,” a beautiful and quiet, seasons-spanning tale of poetry and pining pioneerwomen.

For a while, it seemed like the primary legacy of Trey Edward Shults’ “It Comes at Night” would be its CinemaScore rating – one of the notorious handful of D’s handed out by the survey organization, which polls opening weekend audiences for their reactions to new releases.

By Dino-Ray Ramos

Momentum Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to the suspense thrillerBlack Bear starring Aubrey Plaza.

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By Dave McNary

Neon has nabbed the U.S. rights to Brandon Cronenberg’s sci-fi thriller Possessor, which stars Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott and Tuppence Middleton.

Neon has acquired U.S. rights to Brandon Cronenberg’s “Possessor,” a science-fiction thriller starring Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Tuppence Middleton, Sean Bean, and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

By Anthony D'Alessandro

Writer-director Lawrence Michael Levine deviously screws with our heads in Black Bear while at the same time messing with those of his principal characters, a trio played with a succession of intriguing shifts by Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott and Sarah Gadon, all in fine form.

Actor-writer Lawrence Michael Levine’s first two directorial features, “Gabi on the Roof in July” and “Wild Canaries,” were idiosyncratic indie hipster comedies of a familiar stripe. His third, “Black Bear,” is a much trickier proposition, a kind of narrative puzzle box in which one might be hard-pressed to find a solution, or even determine there is one.