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Indie Film’s Breakout Year Amid Strikes, Superhero Fatigue – Deadline

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[ The indie box office busted out this year, hitting is stride post-Covid with an eclectic string of releases that made a splash artistically and financially. Independents and mini-majors saw $1.47 billion in box office receipts as of Dec. 27, up from $811.7 million in 2022, according to Comscore. Focus Features had the biggest limited … Read more

Stream It or Skip It?

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[ One of 2023’s very best films is also a Christmas movie: The Holdovers (now streaming on Peacock), a deeply poignant, deeply funny comedy-drama from director Alexander Payne and longtime TV writer David Hemingson, penning his first screenplay. And that screenplay seems fashioned explicitly for Paul Giamatti, reuniting with Payne 19 years after Sideways to … Read more