Saltburn’s Ambitious Expansion, Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, Miyazaki’s The Boy And The Heron and Apple’s Spirited Reissue – Special Preview

Dark comedy by Emerald Fennell Salt burns making a big jump today from over 1,500 screens like Bradley Cooper’s masterthe latest from Hayao Miyazaki The boy and the heronanimated They shot the pianist and other holiday favorites kick off award season this special Thanksgiving weekend.

Apple, opening Napoleon broad with Sony, also made a statement about evergreen status during last year’s holiday party Sharpa musical retelling of A Christmas song with singing, dancing Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell.

master, presented by Netflix, picks up the baton today in 10 locations, including New York and LA, with plans to add more theaters weekly. The highly anticipated film premiering in Venice – see Deadline review – was directed by Bradley Cooper and stars famed conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, with Carey Mulligan as his wife of 25 years, Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. Cooper also serves as co-writer and producer with Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Fred Berner and Amy Durning. With Sarah Silverman, Maya Hawke, Sam Nivola and Matt Bomer. Stream December 20.

By Miyazaki The boy and the heron by GKIDS, the latest from Studio Ghibli, launches limited qualifiers in NY (Angelika and Lincoln Square) and LA (Burbank and Century City), starring both the subtitled and English versions with Christian Bale, Dave Bautista, Gemma Chan, Willem Dafoe and Karen Fukuhara, Mark Hamill, Robert Pattinson and Florence Pugh.

GKIDS says pre-sales are going very well and hopes to build on the good reviews and word of mouth that started with the TIFF premiere (see Deadline review). Following previews, Imax will release the film nationwide on Monday, December 4th, with additional early access screenings on Wednesday, December 6th. Officially opened on December 8.

New edition: A repetition of Sharp Apple Original Films’ modern take on the Charles Dickens classic, which hit theaters last November, quickly moved to Apple TV+, where it continues to play. Sean Anders’ film will be re-released in approximately 130 locations in the US and Canada and in over 260 cinemas in the UK/Ireland on Friday. Ryan Reynolds is Scrooge and Will Ferrell, the spooky Christmas present). “Good Afternoon,” a song from the film, was shortlisted for Best Original Song at the Oscars. Octavia Spencer, Patrick Page, Sunita Mani, Loren Woods, Joe Tippett, Marlow Barkley and Jen Tullock also star.

Extensions: Salt burns by Emerald Fennell (Promising young woman), from Amazon/MGM Studios and MRC, rises from seven screens to 1,566 nationwide. The dark comedy stars Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi as Oxford University friends who spend an eventful summer at his opulent family estate. The film grossed an impressive $315.5K last weekend and opened with a $45K per-theater average, one of the best of the year. The eccentric dark comedy debuts at Telluride, Deadline review here.

A24s Dream scenario starring Nicolas Cage expands to around 100 screens in its third week Friday (up from six at opening and 25 last weekend). Kristoffer Borgli’s comedy-drama about an ordinary middle-aged man who becomes famous by suddenly appearing in random people’s dreams hits theaters on December 1. Premiere in Toronto, see Deadline review.

Alexander Payne The survivors of Focus Features will expand slightly to 1,545 screens today (an increase of 67 theaters from last weekend) and move to 1,600 locations on Thursday. The film has been expanding week after week in a slow platform release since its October premiere. Paul Giamatti plays a grumpy boarding school professor stuck on campus over Christmas break looking after a distraught student. Premieres on Telluride, deadline review here.

Mubi Leaves that have fallen by Aki Kaurismäkis (Le Havre, the other side of hope) opened last weekend in NYC and is expanding to LA on Wednesdays and San Francisco on Fridays before expanding in December. Winner of the Cannes Jury Prize, recently five nominations for the European Film Awards, Best Film of the Year award by the International Federation of Film Critics and Finnish entry for the Academy Awards for Best International Film 2024. See Deadline overview.

Other new openings: Sony Pictures Classics releases animated film They shot the pianist for a week-long Academy run starting Friday in NY/LA at Village East and Laemmle Royal. The film comes from Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, two of the directors behind the Oscar-nominated animated film Chico and Rita, narrated by Jeff Goldblum, follows a New York music journalist in search of the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of young Brazilian piano virtuoso Tenorio Jr. period of creative freedom A turning point in Latin American history occurred in the 1960s and 1970s, shortly before the continent was overrun by totalitarian regimes. Premieres at TIFF.

Prolific Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda (Estate agents, shoplifters, like father, like son) monster by Well Go USA opens Wednesday at the IFC Center and AMC Empire. Moves to LA (Landmark NuArt, AMC Atlantic Times Square) and Chicago (Gene Siskel Film Center, AMC Streets of Woodfield) on December 1st. Premiere at Cannes, deadline review here. In the lead role, Ando Sakura plays a widowed mother who seeks answers to the question of why during difficult times at school from evasive teachers and administrators.

Greenwich Entertainment presents Doc Smoking Sauna Sisterhood by Anna Hints Friday in NYC (IFC) and LA (Royal) with a 60-day cinema exclusive. A compelling document about the medical tradition of the Estonian smoke sauna and how it served as a safe place for women to give birth and share secrets. Won the Best Director Award at Sundance, a nomination for Best Documentary at the European Film Awards and Estonia’s official selection for the Oscar for Best International Film. Greenwich is up for both Best Documentary and Best International Film awards.

Documentary by Frederik Wiseman Menu Pleisirs: Les Troisgros opens Wednesday at Zippora Films’ Directors’ Film Forum. We’re off to LA (Laemmle Royal) on Friday and Detroit and a handful of other cities in January. The history of the family restaurant Troisgros, founded in 1930 in central France, has had three Michelin stars for 55 years, i.e. for four generations, while Michel Troisgros, the third generation to run the restaurant, is responsible for the cooking entrusted to. his son Caesar. From the produce market to the cheese processing plant to a vineyard, an organic cattle farm and the backyard that supplies the restaurant, Wiseman explores the artistry, ingenuity, imagination and hard work of the employees to create, prepare and serve meals.

Abramorama offers doc Billion Dollar Babies: The True Story of the Cabbage Patch Kids by Andrew Jenks (Room 335, Bobby’s Zen), narrated and produced by Neil Patrick Harris and features interviews with Cabbage Patch Kids creator Xavier Roberts, journalist Connie Chung and Al Kahan, former marketing director at Coleco, the company that made the popular ’80s dolls. Opens Friday (“just in time for Black Friday and the 40th anniversary of Cabbage Patch dolls,” as the press puts it) for weeklong runs in a few markets, including NYC (Look Dine-In Cinema W57th) and LA (Laemmle ) Monica). . Premiere at Tribeca 2022.

Two more from Netflix: disaster thrillers Leave the world behind by Sam Esmail opens Wednesday in about 40 theaters in 20 markets. Starring Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke as a couple on a beach vacation with their children (Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans) when something very strange happens. With Mahershala Ali and Kevin Bacon. Based on the 2020 novel by Rumaan Alam. AFI Fest opened last month, see deadline overview. Stream December 8.

And documentary American Symphony by Matthew Heineman about musician, Oscar, Grammy and Golden Globe winner Jon Batiste. Opens Friday at the IFC Center in NYC and the Laemmle Monica Film Center in LA. Premiere at Telluride. Stream November 29.