“The Good Boss” starring Javier Bardem, Cohen Media Group’s largest release in years, joins Amped Up Arthouse – Special preview

Cohen Media Group hopes a Spanish-language film can break through the tough foreign-language box office market, hostage drama Bleecker Street is out, and A24 presents Owen Cline’s directorial debut about a teenage cartoonist as the art market and the process show more strength than in weeks.

The lack of new releases prompted some distributors to close the window ahead of a now more frenetic fall, including a special UAR inauguration in Idris Elba with Tilda Swinton. Three thousand years of desire 2436 on the screen, significantly larger than expected.

George Miller’s fantasy short story, written by Miller and Augusta Gore, based on AS Byatt’s 1994 short story “Gingy in the Nightingale’s Eye”. Swinton is a presumptuous academic, Elba is a genius (a kind of spiritual genius) he meets at an out-of-competition conference at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival in Istanbul. You check the deadlines here.

Good boss (Patron of the Good) with Javier Bardem will be Cohen Media Group’s biggest release since Agnès Varda and JR’s 2017 doc. types of places, and its highest-profile opening in years, also on 13 screens in five markets (NY, LA, San Francisco, Boston, Washington, DC) on Friday, will expand nationwide to 200 locations in the top 50 markets on Friday. next weekend. . CMG acquired the Spanish nomination for the San Sebastian 2021 International Feature Film Oscar last year. It earned a record 20 Goya nominations and six wins, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Bardem and Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Fernando León de Araño.

Bardem plays the condescending owner of a company that makes industrial scales. He checks the deadlines here.

Justin DiPietro, CMG’s marketing and distribution manager, said the film is in a foreign language, but not out loud. He hopes the story, which includes a selfish boss, an attractive intern, and an angry, fired worker, will “fit everyone” in a tough market for niche films, especially with subtitles. Good boss kicks off its exclusive 45-day theatrical run after a week-long Bardem retrospective (Boundless Bardem) at New York’s Quad Cinema. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor the presence of Riccardo currently in the process of filming Dune: the awakening in Jordan.

CMG, which also owns Landmark Theaters and British film group Curzon, recently acquired London-based international sales company HanWay Films, expanding the Charles S. Umbrella of the Cohen art house. HanWay has a dozen features released or coming soon and eight titles in production or slated for release this year.

The Bleecker Street thriller RIP It opens on 902 screens, with John Boyega and the late Michael Williams. The world premiere of Abby Damar Corbin’s first feature film at Sundance won a Special Jury Award for Ensemble Performance at the US Drama Competition.

RIP Based on the true story of former US Marine Brian Brown-Isley (Boyega), who takes a bank and several employees hostage when they refuse to support the veterans’ cause, sparking a tense confrontation with the police. Written by Corbin and Kwame Kwei-Armah, based on the 2018 article “They Didn’t Have to Kill Him” ​​from the online military publication Task & Purpose. With Nicole Behrry, Selenis Leyva, Connie Britton and Jeffrey Donovan.

A24 presents Owen Klein’s debut funny pages In approximately 30 theaters (including Alamo Drafthouse in downtown Los Angeles and New York Films in Lincoln Center and Angelica Film Center) and on request. Produced by the Safdie brothers. Cannes’ Directors Fortnight is an adult comedy that captures the headlines of a misguided teenage cartoonist who rejects the comforts of his suburban life, starring Daniel Zolgadri, Matthew Maher, Miles Emanuel, Maria Dizia and Josh Pais. Written by Klein. Check the deadlines here.

Faretra Distribution presents an erotic thriller written and directed by Neil LaBute nowhere At the cinema and on request. With Diane Kruger, Ray Nicholson, Hank Azaria and Chase Sue Wonders, it opens in five markets (LA, New York, Atlanta, Houston and Orlando). Ex-con Connor (Nicholson) falls in love with mysterious beauty Marilyn (Kruger) and becomes involved in an adulterous relationship that quickly turns into the murder of her abusive husband.

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Well Go USA, action / genre expert, opens AlienoidFrom Korea, screenwriter-director Choi Dong-hoon, on 110 screens. With Kim Tae-ri, Kim Woo-bin, Ryu Jun-yeol. The story of Watch and the Thunder, a duo that rules alien prisoners locked up in the human brain. Travel back in time with witches chasing a legendary divine sword in 1391.

Blue Fox Entertainment presents Giovanna on 31 screens (including AMC Empire in New York and Laemmle NoHo in Los Angeles). Writer and director Sabrina Yaglom. With Madeleine Petsch, Melissa Leo. When Olivia (Petch) is rejected from her dream college, she starts a spiral and starts a social media war against them. Giovanna There is a partnership with the new Creator + streaming service.

Greenwich Entertainment presents the documentary youth governor to Laemmle Monica. In the halls of the California Capitol, 4,000 teenagers run a fully functioning fake government, complete with legislators, party leaders and elections. Three candidates will appear in the 72nd junior governor election in four months. With their peers hanging from every word, these young candidates discover ambition, confidence, shamelessness and the will to win. Directed by brothers Yaron and Matthew Halm. Blumhouse Television is behind the documentary, with Jason Blum serving as executive producer.

Photo of slang Let the little light shine Adds a perspective of the IFC Film Center in New York. Kevin Shaw’s documentary was released last week at Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center. Parents, students and educators struggle to save the best elementary school in an African American neighborhood, the National Academy of Teachers in Chicago, threatened by the proposal for a new school that favors the wealthiest population in the community.

Kino Lorber opens Ali Muritiba private desertPresenting Brazil at the 94th Academy Awards at Quad Cinema. With Antonio Saboia, Luthero Almeida, Pedro Fasanaro. Written by Henrique dos Santos and Muritiba. Daniel is a police academy instructor on forced leave after a violent accident. The only thing holding him together is an online romance with genderfluid Sara, whom he has never met in person. When she suddenly disappears, he travels across the country to find her. It debuted in Venice last year. Opens in Los Angeles at Laemmle Theaters and will be added to more markets in September.

Saban Entertainment will release a thriller about the shark attack Men eater 18 on screen and on request. Written and directed by Justin Lee. with Nicky Whelan, Trace Adkins, Jeff Fahey, Shane West. A group of friends’ idyllic island vacation turns into a terrifying nightmare when they are attacked by the relentless Great White.