Animated “My Year Of Dicks” Featuring Oscar-Winning Short Films In Four-Week Theatrical Release – Specialty Preview

The title that had Riz Ahmed laughing, the press room erupting in laughter and Allison Williams muttering “No Comment” at last month’s Oscar nominations hits theaters today, when ShortsTV Oscar-nominated shorts in approximately 380 locations around the world broadcast.

The program, three feature-length presentations from the five nominees for live-action shorts, animated shorts and documentaries, will expand to 500-600 screens during Academy Awards week. Exhibitors may play one or more of the trios. Some split the 160-minute documentaries in half. “We’ll leave that up to theaters,” said Carter Pilcher, founder and CEO of ShortsTV. My year of roosters is an animation element.

ShortsTV has been bringing it to theaters for 18 years and they’ve done pretty well, earning $3.5 million at the box office before Covid. It fell to $1.8 million in 2021, but Pilcher hopes for a rebound, calling this year’s crop “definitely some of the best and most audience-friendly movies we’ve seen” and “some of the best movies of the year in every category .” “.

The animation program is popular with this year’s text The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse by Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy, based on the children’s book, is considered a draw. Including the other nominees flying sailor by Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby; ice cream seller by Joao Gonzalez; An ostrich told me the world is wrong and I think I believe it by Lachlan Pendragon and Sara Gunnarsdottir My year of roosters About fifteen years old, determined to lose her virginity despite pitiful cliques in suburban Houston in the early 90s. Ahmed’s break after reading the title aloud at the nominations on January 24 went viral.

As a package: “The first four are shown and then one comes [advisory] that comes up on the screen and a three or four minute break when the parents want to leave,” Pilcher said. “We’ve had to do that a few times because the show isn’t rated.”

Dubbed live-action shorts include the student by Alice Rohrwacher, produced by Alfonso Cuarón; The red bag by Cyrus Neshvad; An Irish farewell by Tom Berkeley and Ross White; night drive by Eirik Tveiten and Value by Anders Walter.

are documentary nominees transport by Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev; How do you measure a year? by Jay Rosenblatt; The Martha Mitchell Effect by Anne Alvergue and Debra McClutchy; And stranger at the gate by Joshua Septel.

Other notable special openings: Bleecker Street presents historical drama Emily on five screens in New York (Angelika, Cinemas 1, 2, 3 and Lincoln Square) and LA (Grove and Century City), up to about 500 next week. Written and directed by Frances O’Connor in her feature film debut, it features Emily Brontë’s own Gothic tale that inspired her seminal novel Wuthering Heights.

Haunted by the death of her mother, Emily (Emma Mackey) struggles within the confines of her family life and longs for artistic and personal freedom as her sheltered life and that of her sisters Charlotte (Alexandra Dowling) and Anne (Amelia Gething) are enlivened by the Arrival of a new pastor (Oliver Jackson-Cohen).

Premiere in Toronto, Deadline Review here. At Rotten Tomatoes, it’s 91% critics.

Focus features presented Of an age at 289 household locations. Written and directed by Goran Stolevski and his second film. Focus released his feature film debut You will not be alone last year

Of an age, which opened the Melbourne International Film Festival and won the CinefestOZ Film Awards, starring Elias Anton, Thom Green and Hattie Hook. The story of an 18-year-old Serbian-born Australian amateur ballroom dancer who experiences an unexpected and intense 24-hour romance with a friend’s older brother has an RT rating of 90%.

Stolevskis You will not be alone which debuted at Sundance last year, stars Noomi Rapace as a witch fighting for human connection in rural 19th-century Macedonia.

Grasshopper Movie and Gratitude Movies available pacification by Alberto Serra in New York’s Lincoln Center, as well as in Chicago, Seattle and a few other markets. Arrived in LA on March 3rd. A tropical epic about a well-behaved French government official (Benoît Magimel) who struggles to maintain his tenuous colonial hold over the natives of Tahiti while dispelling rumors of the French military resuming nuclear testing.

Premiere in Cannes. Named best film of the year by Cahiers du Cinéma, winner of the Louis Delluc prize (shared with Alice Diop’s Holy Omer) and several nominations at this year’s Lumières and César awards. A 91% with critics on RT. Appointment overview here.

motion picture presented a radiant girl written and directed by Sandrine Kiberlain and starring Rebecca Marder in New York (Quad Cinema). National publication to follow. An official selection at Cannes Critics Week in 2021. Marder received a César nomination for Best Female Newcomer in 2023 for her role as a vivacious, carefree 19-year-old aspiring actress practicing for the prestigious conservatory entrance exam as the running out of time Nazi-occupied France.

Samuel Goldwyn Films presents political thrillers 88, written and directed by Eromose, in 16 theaters including NY and LA. Premiere at the Tribeca Festival. Brandon Victor Dixon plays Femi Jackson, the finance director of a Democratic super PAC to vote for the presidential nominee (Orlando Jones) who uncovers a conspiracy while tracking fundraising with the help of an investment blogger (Thomas Sadoski). Charlamagne Tha God exec produces.

Screen Media presents mystery thrillers Devil’s Spike by Ben Young with Billy Bob Thornton, Robin Wright and (her son) Hopper Penn in a limited edition. Deep in the Appalachians, Charlie (Thornton) rules his family and drug business with his fists. Based on the novel Where All Light Tends to Go by David Joy.