Indie bonanza! Priscilla (and his A24 Eye Makeup Kit), The Holdovers, Doc Four Daughters, Animated Inspector Sun – Special Preview

Independents are on the rise with high-profile fall festival awards Pricilla Unpleasant The survivorsa big Viva Pictures print with Inspector Sun (voiced by Ronny Chieng), Cannes Documentary winner Four daughters And Waikiki, the feature debut of Hawaiian filmmaker Christopher Kahunahana. the first self-developed feature shown there.

Sofia Coppola Priscilla at A24 is playing this weekend in New York (Angelika, Lincoln Square) and Los Angeles (Century City, The Grove), including a sold-out Q&A with director and lead actress Cailee Spaeny, winner of the Best Actress category at the Venice Film Festival, where Priscilla Premiere, see Deadline review. Jacob Elordi plays Elvis.

The story of the singer’s romantic partner and only wife, told from her perspective, is based on Priscilla Presley’s book “Elvis And Me,” which follows her early years as a teenage soldier stationed in West Germany through her surreal arrival at Graceland. Will be rolled out nationwide next week.

Related to the film, A24, which deals in merchandise and beauty products through its makeup company Half Magic, continues to see strong business with pre-Halloween eye sets inspired by Priscilla’s iconic look even before the film begins. It stems from a collaboration with euphoria Makeup artist Donni Davy on a line based on the HBO series.

Focus Features presents the comedy from Alexander Payne The survivors is in six theaters in NYC and LA, is released next week and available everywhere on November 10th. Premiere at the Telluride Film Festival – see Deadline review – and screening at TIFF.

Written by David Hemingson. Paul Giamatti plays a grumpy high school teacher in New England who must stay on campus over Christmas break to look after a handful of students who have nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them: a damaged, wisecracking troublemaker (newbie Dominic Sessa) and the school’s head chef (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), who has just lost a son in Vietnam.

This weekend’s biggest special release, Inspector Sun from Viva Pictures, is running on nearly 1,000 screens, a huge pick for the distributor.

Director: Julio Soto Gúrpide, screenplay: Rocco Pucillo, with Ronny Chieng, Emily Kleimo, Jennifer Childs Greer, Rich Orlow and Iain Batchelor. After a mission goes wrong, Inspector Sun is fired as a detective and boards a seemingly normal plane for a much-needed vacation. But when a mysterious millionaire receives death threats, Sun gets back on the case and finds himself caught in a web of lies that he must untangle before it’s too late.

Viva kicked off 2023 with its biggest release ever, The wonderful Maurits, which played at Sundance, opened to $1.4 million in about 1,700 theaters in February and earned $4.3 million domestically ($21 million worldwide). “We have been waiting for a film like this Mauricesays Mayank Jhalani, vice president of theatrical sales at Viva. However, there weren’t that many new animated openings Five Nights at Freddy’s from Universal/Blumhouse is on fire this weekend. Jhalani told Deadline that the film will focus on the crime aspect of the story, with Inspector Sun costumes and mysterious gift boxes that must be solved and sent to and promoted by key mother and child influencers.

Kino Lorber opens award-winning documentary in Cannes Four daughters by Kaouther Ben Hania at the IFC Center. An exploration of rebellion, memory and sisterhood, reconstructing the story of Olfa Hamrouni and her four daughters, uncovering a complex family history through intimate interviews and performances to examine how the Tunisian woman’s two elders were radicalized by Islamic extremists.

The film stars professional actresses as missing daughters and Egyptian-Tunisian actress Hend Sabri as Olfa. The director reconstructs decisive moments from family life, interwoven with confessions and reflections. Winner of four awards, including L’Oeil d’Or (Best Documentary), when screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, see Deadline review. The director is available for questions and answers. Will be expanded nationwide in the coming weeks.

Waikiki originated from Christopher Kahunahana’s Sundance Native Lab project Karaoke Kings, won the Grand Jury Award at the 2020 LA Asian Pacific Film Festival and has since received widespread acclaim at festivals. The film opens this weekend in New York and LA with Q&As at Regal Union Square and Laemmle Noho and opens next weekend in select theaters in Hawaii – the first local film to be screened there. The first two Sunday shows at Regal Maui Mall come courtesy of distributor Level 33.

After devastating fires, “our distributor wanted to do something for Maui,” Kahunahana tells Deadline.

The raw look at the realities of life in paradise from the perspective of a hula dancer who works three jobs and lives in her van may not be “the feel-good film of the year,” he said, but “I thought, maybe. “People would get a chance to take a break and give them some insight into some of the things they’re going through.

Hawaii has “always been marketed as this paradise … It’s like, ‘Come here and forget your life.’ But people actually live here” and the tourism sector often does not provide a living wage. It’s not uncommon to “have three jobs and still not be able to afford a house.”

With Danielle Zalopany, Peter Shinkoda and Jason Quinn.

Netflix opens the latest version of David Fincher The killer in approximately 100 locations. On the streamer on November 10th. The film, which opened in Venice (see Deadline review), stars Michael Fassbender, Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard, Sophie Charlotte and Tilda Swinton. After a fateful nickname, an assassin finds himself fighting his employers and himself in an international manhunt he believes is nothing personal. Written by Andrew Kevin Walker, based on the graphic novel series of the same name by Alexis Nolent (aka Matz). ).