Phase 4, Samuel Goldwyn Partner to Play 'Short Game'
Distributors Phase 4 Films and Samuel Goldwyn Films have teamed up to acquire North American rights to Josh Greenbaum's doc “The Short Game,” skedding the film for a theatrical release next month…
SXSW Film Festival
SXSW Serves Film Fanatics with Movies About Movies
Working on the reasonable assumption that people who attend film festivals are receptive to films about other films, SXSW programmers sprinkled the 2013 lineup with a number of biographical…
Oscilloscope Nabs SXSW Doc '12 O'Clock Boys'
Oscilloscope Laboratories has nabbed all North American rights to Lotfy Nathan's feature bow "12 O'Clock Boys" after its world preem in the SXSW film festival's docu competish earlier this month.
SXSW Review: 'The Retrieval'
Equal parts suspenseful road movie, persuasively detailed period drama and emotionally resonant coming-of-age story, "The Retrieval" is an outstanding example of regional indie filmmaking…
Film Review: 'Cheap Thrills'
"Cheap Thrills" is a thoroughly nasty piece of work, which doubtless will be the strongest selling point for this worst-case scenario about steadily escalating dares and degradations. Playing like…
Review: 'SXSW Bites: Snap Judgments on 11 Fest Pics'
With 78 features world premiering at SXSW this year, Variety couldn't possibly get to everything. Here are quick takes from senior film critic Peter Debruge on a handful of deserving films that…
Film Review: 'The Network'
The power of television to reflect and effect change in a society during an epochal period of transition is vividly examined in "The Network," Eva Orner's illuminating documentary about the founding…
Film Review: 'Haunter'
Imagine "Groundhog Day" as a haunted-house thriller, and you're ready for "Haunter," a modestly inventive variation on genre conventions that could attract a respectable audience in limited…
SXSW Review: '12 O'Clock Boys'
To Baltimore locals, they are hooligans, illegally roaring down city streets on dirt bikes and four-wheelers, performing stunts that endanger themselves and nearby pedestrians. To 13-year-old Pug…
SXSW Review: 'These Birds Walk'
Documentary subjects don't come much more shy than Pakistani humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi, though the same could hardly be said for the attention-starved Karachi street children his world-renown…
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Domestic Film DAILY
PROVIDED BY: Box Office
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
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Frozen
Frozen
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Daily: $1.7M Cumulative: $140.5M Disney -30.18% -
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Out of the Furnace
Out of the Furnace
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Daily: $437,117 Cumulative: $6.8M Relativity Media -25.73%
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