Daisy Ridley Stars in ‘The Marsh King’s Daughter,’ Meg Ryan’s Rom-Com Return, ‘Priscilla’ Expands – Special Preview

A24s Priscilla by Sofia Coppola catapults from four screens to 1,300, that of Alexander Payne The survivors of Focus Features expands from six to 60 and two new indies make wide debuts – What happens later? “From Bleecker Street,” directed by and starring Meg Ryan, opens in 1,400 locations and stars Daisy Ridley The Swamp King’s Daughter of more than 1,000 attractions along the way.

What happens later? moved here from the original seat on October 16, avoidance The Eras Tour open love Meg Ryan’s romantic comedy debut (When Harry met Sally Sleepless in Seattle) after a long hiatus with David Duchovny. Based on the play shooting star Steven Dietz’s film follows a chance encounter between two ex-lovers, Willa and Bill, who are snowed in at a regional airport and delayed indefinitely. See deadline evaluation.

The Swamp King’s Daughter Daisy Ridley and Ben Mendelsohn star in an adaptation of Karen Dionne’s 2017 best-selling thriller Where the crawdads sing. This film, which is also based on a popular book, educates women Swamp KingThe merchant hopes he will do the same. director: Neil Burger (Miscellaneous, the illusionistic, the positive side), see deadline evaluation. Ridley is Helena, a woman whose seemingly everyday life hides a dark and dangerous truth: her estranged father (Mendelsohn) is the infamous Swamp King, the man who imprisoned her and her mother in the wilderness for years. When he escapes from prison, Helena must face her past, knowing that he will hunt her and her family.

This weekend also stars in Roadside Attractions, an exciting documentary Beyond utopia is back for an extended Oscar-eligible run on 11 screens in six major markets (following two screenings from Fathom Events in October). Madeline Gavin’s documentary combines interviews and secretly recorded footage that shows the hardships of North Korean defectors and reveals a brutal way of life unknown to most of the world. Premiere at Telluride.

More special openings: IFC Films Presents Sci-Fi Anime Romance The tunnel to summer, the exit of farewell on 167 screens. Directed by Tomohisa Taguchi and Kanji Miyake. The Urashima Tunnel can grant every wish, but at a price. A high school student, Kaoru, haunted by a troubled past, teams up with Anzu to investigate the tunnel in a summer story about nostalgia, young love, and time itself. Won the Paul Grimault Prize in Annecy.

HBO Documentary Films presents Heading to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project at the Film Forum in New York and at the Laemmle Royal in LA. Director: Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson (American Promise). The winner of the US Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance travels through time to reveal the lasting influence of Nikki Giovanni, one of America’s greatest living artists and social commentators. Giovanni reckons with the inevitable passage of time in intimate vérité, revealing archival footage interwoven with moments from American history, live readings and visually innovative treatments of her poetry.

At the gates, a psychological drama from Picturehouse directed by Augustus Meleo Bernstein, opens in LA (AMC Burbank) and expands to New York next week (Look 57th and The Quad). With Miranda Otto, Noah Wyle, Ezekiel Pacheco, Vanessa Benavente, Sadie Stanley, Jack Eyman. When immigration agents arrive at a wealthy family’s home looking for their housekeeper and son, their employers convince them to hide in the family’s basement closet. What unfolds is a gripping thriller about two families who, as the days pass, begin to question each other’s true intentions. Date overview here.

Greenwich Entertainment presents Theme with three runs in NYC (IFC), LA (Laemmle Glendale) and Chicago (Music Box). Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall produced and directed the film, which premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Festival. He examines non-fiction films and the sometimes thin line between documentation and exploitation that goes on behind the scenes. The film looks at documents Hope dreams to CConquest of the Friedmans, The Wolf Pack, The Square And The stairsIt explores the often unclear ethical dilemmas and complex relationships that can exist between documentary filmmakers and their real-life participants.