It’s an energized indie weekend with a high potential crop of new specialty releases from wide to limited, original, and based off a hit video game, a cult horror and Shakespeare. BTS is back in concert with a global livestream and a documentary on Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman has strong presales on one screen in NYC. The overall box office is at its liveliest in years with theater owners and distributors — including an indie contingent — set to gather at CinemaCon in Las Vegas next week.
Independent Film Company’s reimagining of 1978 cult horror Faces Of Death starring Barbie Ferreira and Dacre Montgomery debuts on 1,600 screens. Directed by Daniel Goldhaber, it’s not a reboot but explores the original’s infamous “Is it real or not?” conceit as a young woman (Ferreira), working as a content moderator for a TikTok-like video platform, discovers what appears to be re-enactments of
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