‘Kneecap’, the title of the Irish hip hop group, and the music biopic about — and starring — the groundbreaking trio, opens immediately on 700+ screens, following up a U.S. tour final fall and main into one other one.
The hybrid documentary, which was a buzzy Sundance title when Sony Photos Classics nabbed it, just lately swept the Galway Movie Fleadh and was named Eire’s Oscar Worldwide Function submission.
Written and directed by Wealthy Peppiatt, it options group members — Naoise Ó Cairealláin “Móglaí Bap”; Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh “Mo Chara”; and JJ Ó Dochartaigh “Dj Provaí” as themselves, however it’s scripted, and actors, together with Michael Fassbender, play their youthful selves and relations. With Josie Walker, Fionnuala Flaherty, Jessica Reynolds, Adam Finest and Simone Kirby.
The movie follows Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed “low-life scum” Naoise and Liam Og. Once they come collectively as three, the needle drops on a hip-hop act like no different. Rapping of their native Irish language, Kneecap quick turn into the unlikely figureheads of a civil rights motion to avoid wasting their mom tongue. The trio needed to overcome police, paramilitaries and politicians making an attempt to silence their defiant sound and their anarchic lifestyle usually makes them their very own worst enemies as they lay down a worldwide rallying cry for the protection of native cultures.
Sony sees Kneecap, which is taking part in each arthouses and multiplexes throughout high markets, as a terrific word-of-mouth film to succeed in youthful demos and music scene afficcionados in addition to older indie filmgoers. The social media-heavy advertising push is without doubt one of the distributor’s greatest, concentrating on “a large swathe of teams and tastes,” stated SPC co-president Michael Barker.
The trio has been doing Q&As at massive screenings across the nation which have seen “an incredible optimistic response,” he stated. “It’s a type of films that jogs my memory what A Laborious Day’s Evening (a day and half in lifetime of the Beatles) will need to have felt like in 1964 — a mix of actual life, however it’s a fictional story, with quite a lot of vitality. An unique contemporary vitality.”
Produced by Trevor Birney, Jack Tarling, Patrick O’Neill.
Greenwich Leisure opens Venice-premiering satire Coup! by Austin Stark and Joseph Schuman in 250+ theaters. Starring Peter Sarsgaard, Billy Magnussen, Sarah Gadon, Skye P. Marshall, Faran Tahir, Kristine Nielsen and Fisher Stevens. At an remoted seaside property through the 1918 Spanish Flu, an entitled journalist (Magnussen) and his socialite spouse (Gadon) soak up a mysterious grifter as a personal cook dinner (Sarsgaard). When the plague descends, so does class warfare because the newcomer rouses his fellow workers to insurgent and take over the mansion.
Produced by Phiphen’s Molly Conners.
Restricted releases: Battle Recreation from Submarie Deluxe, a scary close to real-life take a look at America’s doable political future, debuts in restricted launch at Movie Discussion board, including LA, Chicago and different markets subsequent week. The Sundance-premiering thriller doc by Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss sweeps audiences into an elaborate future-set simulation that dramatically escalates the menace posed by the January 6 rebellion. The movie follows a bipartisan group of U.S. protection, intelligence, and elected policymakers spanning 5 presidential administrations as they take part in an unscripted role-play train. Portraying a fictional U.S. President and his advisors, they confront a political coup backed by rogue members of the navy within the wake of a contested 2024 presidential election. Like actors in a thriller, however with profound real-world stakes, the gamers have solely six hours to avoid wasting American democracy.
Gothic horror Physician Jekyll starring Eddie Izzard opens day and date in restricted launch, the primary U.S. debut of a relaunched Hammer Movie. The campy new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella is directed by Joe Stephenson. Additionally stars Scott Chambers, Simon Callow, Lindsay Duncan, Jonathan Hyde, Morgan Watkins and Robyn Cara.
Chuck Chuck Child from Darkish Star Photos, written and directed by Janis Pugh, opens in restricted launch. Premiered at TIFF and Edinburgh. The musical comedy set in present-day industrial North Wales follows a working-class friendship between a put-upon housewife and the newly returned object of her secret teenage ardour. Stars Louise Brealey, Annabel Scholey, Sorcha Cusack, Celyn Jones and Emily Fairn.
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