Neon opened its sixth consecutive Cannes Palme d'Or winner It Was Just An Accident by Iranian director Jafar Panahi to a $68k weekend on three screens. That’s $115k over five days following it’s Wednesday debut at Film at Lincoln Center and Film Forum in NYC, and AMC Century City in LA. The…

Awards contenders and festival standouts with great reviews from Cannes Palme d'Or winner It Was Just An Accident to Blue Moon, The Mastermind and Frankenstein join a pair of family films, one featuring the new Harry Potter (Dominic McLaughlin) and Hagrid (Nick Frost) on the big screen ahead of the…

EXCLUSIVE: The 37th edition of NewFest kicks off next month, bringing some cinematic rebellion to the New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival. Running Oct. 9-21 in Manhattan and Brooklyn, the hybrid festival will feature 130 films from 29 countries, bookended with Richard Linklater‘s Blue Moon as the…

Sony Pictures Classics has debuted the first trailer for Blue Moon, its songwriter drama marking the ninth collaboration between filmmaker Richard Linklater and actor Ethan Hawke, which is slated to hit theaters in Los Angeles and New York on October 17, before expanding nationwide on October…

Sony Pictures Classics has dated Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon about Rodgers & Harts tunesmith Lorenz Hart for Oct. 17, with an expansion on Oct. 24. The news comes in a week when Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague is making its world premiere at Cannes. The movie stars Ethan Hawke as Hart, as…

At a time when California is looking up its tax credits to $750M annually, there’s some serious competition from across the pond, and that’s Ireland. The Taoiseach of Ireland/Prime Minister of Ireland Michael Martin was here in Austin, TX on Monday along with Cinetic CEO John Sloss, The Astronau…

Few filmmakers have as varied a CV as Richard Linklater's. From the box office hit School of Rock to his experiments with rotoscope, he is indefatigably curious and surprisingly consistent — with style and substance. This time around, he is testing himself with a chamber piece: a drama set almost…

"They gave up on me a long time ago," filmmaker Richard Linklater joked this afternoon during a press conference in Berlin for his latest flick, Blue Moon.  The veteran Golden Bear winner was referring to the Hollywood film industry, and what he believes they have given up on is his ability to…

The Berlin Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled the full list of titles set for its official competition alongside perspective and specials sidebars.  A total of 19 films have been selected for the international competition. It's a buzzy selection with multiple titles that have been anticipated…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Classics has acquired worldwide rights to Blue Moon, the new film from Academy Award nominee Richard Linklater (Hit Man), on which we were first to report, and which will be his next effort after all, with production commencing in Dublin, Ireland this summer. Ethan Hawke…

EXCLUSIVE: As his acclaimed comedic thriller Hit Man approaches its June 7 release on Netflix, filmmaker Richard Linklater may have identified his next project, as sources tell Deadline that he’s in development on a film called Blue Moon. Taking its name from the 1934 ballad written by Richard…

Blue Moon (Crai Nou) by Romanian director Alina Grigore won the Golden Shell at the 69th San Sebastian Film Festival whose top awards were swept by female filmmakers and actors. For the first time, the film festival a gender neutral acting award. The Best Leading Performance prize was shared. Jessica Chastain was…