UPDATE MONDAY AM: Sunday went into over-drive for not just Universal’s The Odyssey, which posted a higher second frame of $90 million, but also for Bleecker Street/Crosswalk & LD Entertainment’s Broadway feature capture of Hadestown, which filed in at $10.243M. The latter bests the opening of…

Bleecker Street's Hadestown: The Musical swept to the second biggest opening for a live show capture since Hamilton, pushing $9.7 million in a terrific debut on 1,949 screens. Due to "extraordinary response and demand,” the distributor said its new event cinema label Crosswalk and partner LD…

The busiest weekend for indie film openings in weeks has a mix of wide and limited releases, narrative features and docs, genre, special engagements and festival fare from Berlin, Cannes and Venice (2025). The Odyssey has landed, and awards season is on the horizon.   Bleecker Street this frame…

WEDNESDAY AM UPDATE: Christopher Nolan scored his best Tuesday ever at the domestic B.O. as The Odyssey rang up $21.4M. That bests his previous Tuesday high, which was The Dark Knight ($20.8M, on July 22, 2008). The revised number from Universal ranks as the second best Tuesday YTD behind Toy Story 5…

“Dying is very interesting,” began Nicolas Winding Refn when asked about his mic drop moment at last night’s Cannes world premiere for his latest feature Her Private Hell. Refn told the entire Grand Theatre Lumiere audience, who gave him a 12-minute standing ovation, that he was dead for…

Memories of cinema past and present come rushing at you like 2001's Star Gate sequence in Nicolas Winding Refn's Her Private Hell, his first return to cinema since 2016's Neon Demon and his first project since dying for 20 minutes from a serious heart…

Monday night belonged to Nicolas Winding Refn at Cannes and though his trippy psychedelic female ensemble pic, Her Private Hell, is playing out of competition, it spiced up the Grand Theatre Lumiere with a 12-minute standing ovation, the second such of the night after Fjord. Those are the…

Nicolas Winding Refn has historically turned down offers for notable Hollywood films, but if he got the shot to do a DC movie, “I would love to do Batgirl” he tells Deadline. DC Studio chiefs, James Gunn and Peter Safran, take note. “Because Wonder Woman is done, that one I thought was super…

The first neon-hued trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn's Her Private Hell was released today just hours before the film’s premiere in Cannes. The cast includes Yellowjackets star Sophie Thatcher and Riverdale hunk Charles Melton. The movie has myriad storylines, but is set in a future metropolis…

Nicolas Winding Refn returns to Cannes with Her Private Hell, his first film in 10 years, his last being the Elle Fanning starrer Neon Demon. In the fashionista aspect of it all, you could say Her Private Hell is its spiritual cousin. The film begins at a swanky hotel in a futuristic LA-like city…

As Nicolas Winding Refn teams with NEON Rated for his Cannes return, the film marks an important collaboration ahead of the indie banner’s 10th anniversary. The co-writer and director of Her Private Hell, debuting May 18 at Cannes before its July 24 U.S. premiere, recently explained how his 2016…

EXCLUSIVE: Nicolas Winding Refn’s first feature directorial in ten years, NEON’s Her Private Hell, will open in theaters on July 24 in what will be a moderate release in 800 to 1,200 theaters. Refn’s Her Private Hell will make its world premiere at Cannes later this month in the…