EXCLUSIVE: Bleecker Avenue has dated their Sundance premiere title The Wedding ceremony Banquet starring Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone for April 18 whereas their Telluride acquisition, the Invoice Murray and Naomi Watts film The Pal will begin its restricted rollout on March 21.
They’re each a part of a 2025 theatrical launch slate which incorporates Mike Leigh’s Onerous Truths which is getting a large launch on Jan. 6, the Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun film Love Me on Jan. 31; the Riz Ahmed, Sam Worthington and Lily James film Relay in Q2 and the Damian Lewis and Thomasin McKenzie Feckham Corridor later within the yr.
“We’re excited to unveil our 2025 theatrical lineup, which actually embodies the various, daring, and authentic storytelling that we’re obsessed with championing at Bleecker Avenue,” stated Bleecker Avenue CEO Andrew Karpen and President Kent Sanderson. “With a star-studded roster of filmmakers and expertise, throughout a big selection of genres, these upcoming movies promise to ship unforgettable cinematic experiences for audiences. We are able to’t wait to share what else is to come back within the new yr and past.”
Bleecker Avenue celebrated its tenth anniversary earlier this yr.
Onerous Truths is cleansing up on the awards circuit with a Greatest Screenplay win and Greatest Impartial Movie rating by the Nationwide Board of Evaluate, and wins for its star Marianne Jean-Baptiste at New York Movie Critics Circle, LA Movies Critics, and noms at Critics Selection and Gotham Awards, in addition to a Movie Impartial Spirit nom for function in Worldwide Movie. The pic had a qualifying run on Dec. 6.
Sam and Andy Zuchero’s function directorial debut Love Me from ShivHans Footage premiered at Sundance earlier this yr. Within the film a buoy and a satellite tv for pc meet on-line lengthy after humanity’s extinction. As they be taught what life was like on Earth, they uncover themselves and what it means to be alive and in love. ShivHans Footage will co-release with Bleecker Avenue.
Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s The Pal follows a New York author and trainer as her life is thrown into disarray after her closest buddy and mentor dies out of the blue and bequeaths her his beloved 150 lb. Nice Dane, named Appollo. The canine instantly creates sensible issues for Iris, but as Iris finds herself unexpectedly bonding with the animal, she begins to come back to phrases along with her previous, her misplaced buddy, and her personal inventive internal life. Emmy Award-winner Ann Dowd and Constance Wu additionally star. After the pic’s March 21 restricted launch it should go large on March 28.
Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding ceremony Banquet facilities round Min who makes a proposal annoyed commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris: a green-card marriage with their finest buddy Angela in alternate for her associate Lee’s costly IVF. Elopement plans are upended, nonetheless, when Min’s grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding ceremony banquet. Additionally starring within the film is Kelly Marie Tran, Han Gi-chan, Joan Chen, and Youn Yuh-jung.
Relay, written by Justin Piasecki and directed by David Mackenzie, is a high-concept thriller a couple of reclusive intermediary for would-be whistleblowers in search of to settle with company malefactors. The title made its world premiere at TIFF this yr.
Fackham Corridor, written by comic Jimmy Carr in his screenwriting function debut with Patrick Carr and the Dawson Brothers (The Bubble), is a rapid-fire spoof of interval dramas like Downton Abbey within the spirit of Airplane! BAFTA-nominated director Jim O’Hanlon directs with a solid that additionally consists of Emma Laird, Tom Felton and Katherine Waterston.