Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin reunite in Moving On – Specialty Preview

Two icons are back in action this weekend as Roadside Attractions presents the comedy Continue starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin on nearly 800 screens in the hope that it will appeal to female audiences.
Focus Features also opens with Willem Dafoe in the lead role Within by Vasilis Katsoupis on more than 350 screens.

It has been relatively quiet on the specialty front. “There’s not as much for that audience right now,” said Howard Cohen, co-president of Roadside Attractions. “I think that’s the opportunity we felt — it’s after the Oscars and before the Sundance movies and summer movies.”

Fonda and Tomlin have great alchemy. They played together in the 80s 9 to 5They starred together in the Netflix sitcom for seven years Grace and Frankiee and co-heads of the last 80 for Brady. The cast of her was directed by Paul Weitz Continue, which started in Toronto, also features Malcolm McDowell and Richard Roundtree. Appointment overview here. That’s wide for Specialty , and Cohen said it’s a good sign that the trailer has been viewed more than 7 million times. Fonda and Tomlin promoted the film on social media and television appearances The view Unpleasant The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. It dragged quite badly 80 for Brady.

Wide releases and franchises are coming in with greater regularity, but specialty films have picked up the pace of new releases more slowly. “We don’t have that kind of flow in the indie world. There hasn’t been much for a special audience since the fall,” Cohen said. “Part of it is if you build it, they will come. You need a pretty constant diet of those movies [people] want to see it It gets that habit back.

“We’ll be patient,” he said, echoing other indie distributors.

Fonda and Tomlin play estranged friends who reunite to avenge their recently deceased best friend’s husband and make peace with the past and with each other.

psychological thriller Within is the directorial debut of filmmaker Katsoupis. Dafoe is Nemo, an art thief trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist doesn’t go as planned. Trapped with nothing but precious works of art, he must use all his cunning and ingenuity to survive. It premiered in Berlin. Appointment overview here.

Janus Films presents The innocent at the IFC Center in NYC. The comedy, directed by Louis Garrel, won the César for best original screenplay for directors and co-writers Tanguy Viel and Naïla Guiguet, and best supporting actress for Tár star Noemie Merlant. It also topped the nominations with 11. Garrel, Roschdy Zem and Anouk Grinberg also star in the film, about a suspicious young man who tries to derail his mother’s new relationship with the recently released convict. Premiere in Cannes. term evaluation.

Also in the special field: Niu Vision Media/Beyond Events opens Chinese blockbuster Full river red by Yimou Zhang in more than 150 cinemas in more than 50 markets. In 12th-century China, an ambassador is murdered and a letter destined for the emperor is stolen. As the search for the letter unfolds, alliances are formed, mysteries are revealed, and no one can stop the truth destined to shape history.