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Two Indian films flexed at the domestic box office — and when they hit they really do hit, buoying exhibitors through good times and bad — with Kinds Of Kindness hitting no. 10 in a major expansion and Thelma not far behind. Kalki 2898 AD, a Telugu sci-fi epic from Prathyangira Cinemas, is looking…

The indie market is feeling pretty good. A big film from India Kalki 2898 AD may unseat RRR's North American opening weekend. June Squibb-starrer Thelma is blowing through midweek shows and stands at $3.75 million heading into week 2 steady at 1,280 theaters. Searchlight Pictures Kinds Of Kindness by…

The indie box office roared to life this weekend as Thelma from Magnolia Pictures saw a hefty $2.2 million on 1,280 screens and Searchlight Pictures' Kinds of Kindness booked a stellar $75k per screen average at five theaters in LA and NY — the year's highest per screen average and best overall limited…

After knocking it out of the park with Poor Things last year, director Yorgos Lanthimos and star Emma Stone are back at the box office with Kinds Of Kindness from Searchlight, which looks set to shake up a sluggish arthouse market with the best limited opening this year. The best PTA in 2024 so far…

Malta's Mediterrane Film Festival has set the full competition and industry lineup for its second edition, which runs June 22 to 30 in the country's capital, Valletta.  The programme includes 15 films in competition, seven out-of-competition, and seven films competing in the environment-themed Mare…

Read all of Deadline’s Cannes Film Festival reviews below, including Palme d’Or winner Anora. The New York-set romantic dramedy charts the story of a stripper from Brooklyn who transforms into a modern Cinderella when she meets the son of a Russian oligarch. The film, playing in the official…

Everyone wanted to know about the nudity and bawdy sex scenes in Searchlight’s Kinds of Kindness at the pic’s riotous Cannes Film Festival press conference Saturday but politely referred to it as “physicality.” Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest, an anthology of three short films, covers plenty of off-kilter…

Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness premiered on Friday at Cannes, and earlier that day, in an interview at the Deadline studio, the director explained his vision for his new anthology film, written with his The Favourite collaborator, Efthimis Filippou: “We told each other, should we try a different…

Following four Oscar wins just a few months ago for his Emma Stone-starrer Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos unveiled his latest feature at Cannes’ Grand Theatre Lumiere this evening. His three-hour absurdist anthology Kinds of Kindness, also starring Stone as well as Willem Dafoe and Jesse Plemons, reaped a…

Who is RMF? We never do find out. Yorgos Lanthimos' trio of stories in Kinds of Kindness are titled The Death of RMF, RMF is Flying and RMF Eats a Sandwich.  RMF is a silent, bearded man identified by the monogram on his shirt. In the first story, he arrives at a Georgian mansion to take delivery of…

Director Yorgos Lanthimos presents the world premiere of Kinds of Kindness reuniting with past collaborators Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, and Margaret Qualley from Poor Things. Lanthimos was joined on the carpet by cast members Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Mamoudou Athie, Joe…

Element Pictures is coming off the back of yet another buzzy awards season with its absurdist comedy Poor Things, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, notching 11 Oscar nominations and coming home with four wins, including Best Actress for Emma Stone. But just when it feels like the company's trajectory can't…