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Angelique Jackson Hollywood studios have become more innovative in recent months, hosting drive-in launch events and virtual screening parties to celebrate new projects in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Miranda July doesn’t seem to have fair-weather fans. There are those who are obsessed.

We've been blessed, of late, with excellent movies about families of grifters. There was Hirokazu Kore-eda's gloriously heartfelt “Shoplifters,” about a makeshift clan of small-time thieves whose familial bonds run at least as deep as DNA.

Angel Olsen has shared her rendition of ‘Mr. Lonely’, as featured on the soundtrack for Miranda July’s forthcoming film Kajillionaire.The collaboration with composer Emile Mosseri is a haunting take on the Bobby Vinton classic, which was released in 1964.After Mosseri and July met and decided to collaborate on the score, Rolling Stone writes, the writer and director contacted Olsen.“Suddenly there she was,” Olsen said in a statement.

coronavirus pandemic, with a programme of 58 films from around the world — 50 of which will be premiering online.Steve McQueen’s Mangrove will be opening the festival, and the new film from God’s Own Country director Francis Lee Ammonite will be the closing night gala.Further films that are set to premiere include Spike Lee’s filmed take on David Byrne‘s smash-hit Broadway show American Utopia, as well as Miranda July’s new film Kajillionaire and Josephine Decker’s Shirley Jackson

From Christopher Nolan to Charlie Kaufman and Miranda July there is no shortage of highly anticipated films in September, following a rather slow summer season. With fall festivals pressing on, it will be interesting to see where the film discourse takes us in the coming months, especially as some films begin to tiptoe back into theaters.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorUpdate: Focus Features’ Sundance acquisition of Annapurna/Plan B’s Kajillionaire will now open on Sept. 25, a week later than anticipated in select theaters.We also hear the Miranda July directed movie will hit PVOD around Oct.

In Miranda July’s “Kajillionaire,” Evan Rachel Wood dons a gruff, monotone accent and plays a con artist who from birth has been taught by her parents to steal, swindle and scam, but not much else.She’s the anchor to July’s latest offbeat, indie gem, which Focus Features picked up out of Sundance this year and morphs into a profound and original comedy and coming of age story.“Most people want to be kajillionaires. That’s how they get you hooked.

By Anthony D'Alessandro

Miranda July's heist comedy Kajillionaire will be released in theaters in June, while the upcoming horror pic Come Play will hit the big screen in July, Focus Features said Tuesday. Kajillionaire, which debuted in January at the Sundance Film Festival and stars Evan Rachel Wood, Debra Winger, Richard Jenkins and Gina Rodriguez, is set to open June 19 in North America.

By Anthony D'Alessandro

Miranda July’s “Kajillionaire” is still in the black, but a different distributor is close to winning the project out of the Sundance Film Festival.

“Kajillionaire,” the third feature by the artist Miranda July, is about a family of grifters who deliberately lives on the margins in Los Angeles. The father, Robert (Richard Jenkins), is full of conspiracy theories and other nonsense; the mother, Theresa (Debra Winger), is mostly silent as she goes along with him; and their adult daughter, Old Dolio (Evan Rachel Wood), is the product of their abuse — half imprisoned snail, half open wound.

A24 is circling the worldwide rights forKajillionaire, a crime dramafrom writer-director Miranda July, sources close to the deal tell The Hollywood Reporter.If an agreement is reached, the movie will mark the second Sundance pickup for the indie outfit, which on Monday acquired the documentary Boys State with Apple for a record-breaking$12 million.A24 picked up Lulu Wang'sThe Farewell out of last year's Sundance Film Festival, with the comedy-drama going on to have a successful run at the

Indie powerhouse A24 is closing in on worldwide distribution rights to Miranda July’s long-awaited third feature film “Kajillionaire,” insiders close to the deal told Variety, fighting off numerous other interested parties in a competitive situation.

The world is a weird place. Miranda July knows that, but the rest of us sometimes forget.

By Joe Utichi