“Call my agent!” The star represents in US cinemas with the French comedy ‘My Donkey, My Lover & I’ – Specialty Preview

Laure Kalam, who plays Noemia, Matthias Barneville’s eccentric assistant. Call my agent! She won a César (the French equivalent of an Oscar) for best actress My ass, my lover and meCaroline Vinyall’s film opens in the US this weekend from Greenwich Entertainment. It is the distributor’s second narrative film in a year and its largest release since then. Rescue.

Broad here means 52 screens in 28 US markets, where special box offices are still pretty tough, especially for foreign language tickets. Greenwich released two films a month, mostly documentaries. my ass (Antionette Dans Les Cévennes in French) is Kalam’s first major role. She has a theatrical window until August 30th.

Netflix’s hit French series has become an American and global phenomenon for four seasons, recently spawning a British adaptation.

It’s kind of a summer vacation movie, in which Kalam is a likeable and stalker fifth grade teacher who is having an affair with the married father of one of his students and hopes to spend time with him during the summer holidays while his wife and his son are far away. But he cancels when his wife decides to take a family hiking holiday to the Cévennes, a French national park famous for donkey rides, to carry luggage. Undaunted, Antoinette also books a ride on her tank mule.

Given the current conditions of the US market, “I don’t want to overestimate. but it worked fine [other] English-speaking markets around the world, “Greenwich Co-President Ed Arenz said.

The film debuted [digital] Cannes in 2020 and there was an unexpected success of the Covid era. Especially in Australia and New Zealand, where theatrical activity remained relatively strong in 2021. It grossed over $ 1 million for Australia’s Palace Films.

It was not No, not many new openings this weekend in wide or special versions. Lately there have been some films aimed at showing older women, for example. Mrs. Harris is on her way to Paris. Y Where the Crawdads sing. They both opened well last weekend, Mrs. Harris in just 1000 screens, lobsters large.

But independent distributors have yet to solve the age-old conundrum of the central public. Some will be loyal, regardless of how widespread the covid is, and will stay at home. So we hope to receive them on August 30, “Arentz said.

my assWritten by Vignal, it also stars Benjamin Laverne and Olivia Cote.

Opening of another specialtyMagnolia Pictures presents a hybrid documentary my old schoolDirected by Jono McLeod and starring Alan Cummings. The film, which premiered at Sundance, opens at the New York Film Forum and then moves to other markets, including Los Angeles (Laemmle), Chicago, Boston and San Francisco, with 40-50 theaters booked to date.

The true story of a mysterious new student at a boarding school in Scotland. In 1993, Brandon Lee enrolled in Bearsden Academy, surprising his teachers by attempting to enter medicine and displaying a wealth of knowledge beyond his years. He made friends despite his initial embarrassment, stood up to bullied students, introduced his classmates to retro gangs, and starred in the South Pacific school play, before his incredible secret was revealed. .

Vertical Entertainment opens the premiere of Katie Holmes’ romantic comedy in Tribeca alone together limited edition. Holmes plays a New York state food critic, presumably for a temporary romantic getaway to escape the pandemic. He discovers that his room has been booked twice by Charlie, recently single. Her boyfriend will then stay in town to take care of his parents. With the arrival of spring, the couple develops an unexpected intimacy in the context of their first life of confinement. Written and produced by Holmes. In the cast also Zosia Mamet, Jim Sturgess, Derek Luke, Becky Ann Baker, Melissa Leo.

the film naniWritten by Catherine Tate e flakeBrett Goldstein is based on Tate’s Dirty Granny from the BBC comedy series Catherine Tate’s show. Limited Theatrical Release: NY, LA, Orlando, Detroit, Minneapolis-St. Paolo – and on request. With Tate, Matthew Horne, Catherine Parkinson, Parker Sawyers, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Jack Doolan, Nicky Wardley.

Yas Raj Film presents a film in Hindi shamshera by Karan Malhotra, with Ranbir Kapoor. Indian films, from Bollywood and beyond, have become an American box office specialty. It opens date and date and looks promising. A slave fights to free his warring tribe from a ruthless general. The deadline has highlighted Bollywood and the image recently.