Boxoffice - May 2016
The Official Magazine of the National Association of Theatre Owners
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ON SCREEN > LIMITED RELEASES<br />
MAGGIE'S PLAN<br />
SONY PICTURES CLASSIC / MAY 20<br />
Novelist Rebecca Miller has quite the pedigree: she is the daughter<br />
of famed playwright Arthur Miller, the spouse of Sir (!) Daniel<br />
Day-Lewis, and the writer/director of the indie hit The Private<br />
Lives of Pippa Lee. In this outing, Miller has written a slight story<br />
about a woman who, after falling out of love with her husband,<br />
plans to get him back with his ex-wife.<br />
GRETA GERWIG AS MAGGIE<br />
WITH ETHAN HAWKE AS JOHN<br />
CAST GRETA GERWIG, JULIANNE MOORE, ETHAN HAWKE<br />
DIRECTOR REBECCA MILLER GENRE COMEDY RATING R FOR<br />
LANGUAGE AND SOME SEXUALITY RUNNING TIME 92 MIN.<br />
WEINER<br />
IFC FILMS • SUNDANCE SELECTS / MAY 20<br />
From New York congressman to co-star of Syfy’s Sharknado 3: Oh<br />
Hell No!, Anthony Weiner’s second fall from grace is the centerpiece<br />
of this documentary. This doc follows Weiner during his<br />
failed 2013 campaign for New York mayor when he, inexplicably,<br />
is discovered to have sexted more young women under the nom de<br />
internet Carlos Danger.<br />
DISGRACED FORMER NEW YORK CONGRESSMAN<br />
ANTHONY WEINER<br />
DIRECTOR JOSH KRIEGMAN, ELYSE STEINBERG GENRE<br />
DOCUMENTARY RATING R FOR LANGUAGE AND SOME SEXUAL<br />
MATERIAL RUNNING TIME 96 MIN.<br />
UNLOCKING THE CAGE<br />
FIRST RUN FEATURES / MAY 25<br />
If corporations are people (see Citizens United v FEC) then why<br />
not chimpanzees? Attorney Steven Wise has been fighting for the<br />
rights of animals for decades and this documentary follows his<br />
Nonhuman Rights Project legal team as they argue in court for<br />
the bodily liberty rights of four chimps. The larger point being:<br />
what rights do captive animals—those in zoos, circuses, and<br />
aquaria—have?<br />
MERLIN THE CHIMPANZEE,<br />
WHO PASSED AWAY IN 2013<br />
DIRECTOR CHRIS HEGEDUS, D.A. PENNEBAKER GENRE<br />
DOCUMENTARY RATING TBD RUNNING TIME 91 MIN.<br />
CHEVALIER<br />
STRAND RELEASING / MAY 27<br />
This is not a biopic about the French star of Gigi. Rather, the title<br />
refers to a ring, the Chevalier, that is the prize that will be awarded<br />
to one of the six Greek men on a luxury yacht cruising the Aegean<br />
Sea. With the testosterone freely flowing, the manly men compete<br />
in impromptu contests as trivial as they are bizarre: lipsynching,<br />
ringtone quailty, underwear style, and, yes, penis size.<br />
PANOS KORONIS (BEFORE MIDNIGHT) IS ONE OF SIX WHO<br />
COMPETE FOR THE TITLE “THE BEST IN GENERAL”<br />
CAST GIANNIS DRAKOPOULOS, KOSTAS FILIPPOGLOU DIRECTOR<br />
ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI GENRE COMEDY RATING TBD<br />
RUNNING TIME 99 MIN.<br />
80 BoxOffice ® MAY <strong>2016</strong>
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