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Chinese comedy drama YOLO from Sony Pictures International had a yodeling good domestic debut, grossing $840k on 200 screens, making no. 9 on the weekend top 10. Directed and produced by and starring China's top grossing female helmer, Jia Ling, it’s earned close to $482 million in China since opening…

Julio Torres's directorial debut Problemista from A24 posted the highest per-screen average of the weekend with a solid limited opening, grossing $140.9k on five screens in New York and LA with multiple sold out Q&As. The film starring Torres and Tilda Swinton saw a PSA of $28k and strong exits at…

The German filmmaker Wim Wenders is up for an Oscar for his gorgeously shot Perfect Days, a film about a fastidious man (Koji Yakusho) who cleans toilets in Tokyo who finds happiness and solace in his mundane life. The film is a touching meditation on happiness in simplicity, and how routine sometimes…

The Avenue release Land of Bad, powered by Variance, grossed $1.8 million on 1,120 screens, landing in the top ten for the weekend as Variance noted strong word of mouth with Saturday grosses jumping 37% from Friday' (not including Thursday sneaks). The estimate for the four days is $2.07…

The Taste Of Things, a meditation on turn-of-the-century French cooking — no chicken wings or nachos in sight — is stirring up a nice weekend for IFC Films with $126k and the best per-theater opening of the year so far on Super Bowl weekend. Wim Wenders' Perfect Days from Neon is looking at $100k on…

It's a weekend of well-reviewed indie openings with Bleecker Street's Out Of Darkness, The Monk And The Gun (from the directors of Lunana: A Yak In The Classroom) and limited openings for The Taste Of Things, Perfect Days (Best International Feature nominated), Anthony Chen’s Drift, Bas Devos’ Here and Enn…

While in England, German director Wim Wenders was sandwiched between a press tour and a brief lunch when a member of his team walked into the restaurant to secretly signal across the room that he was nominated for his first feature film Oscar with Japan’s Best International Feature Film, Perfect Days…

EXCLUSIVE: German director Wim Wenders has scored his best box office performance in 15 years with Japan-set, comeback feature Perfect Days, according to collated figures released by sales agent The Match Factory. Related Stories …

As awards season switches up a gear, with the handing out of the Golden Globes and the publication of the Bafta shortlists, one major title stands out in the International categories of both: Justine Triet's Palme d’Or winning courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall. It would be a reasonable bet for the Oscar…

Since 1979, Kōji Yakusho has played stressed accountants (Shall We Dance?), avenging samurai (13 Assassins), and convicted killers (The Third Murder). Now, in Wim Wenders' Tokyo-set film Perfect Days, the Cannes best actor winner gets to find a bit of peace and quiet, embracing the life of a toilet…

Japan has selected Perfect Days, the Tokyo-based fiction feature from German filmmaker Wim Wenders, as its entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 2024 Oscars. The pic, which debuted in competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival, was picked by the Motion Picture Producers…

Wim Wenders' Tokyo-based Cannes Competition title Perfect Days has been set as the opening film of this year's Tokyo Film Festival while Godzilla Minus One, written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki, will close proceedings. Starring Koji Yakusho (Babel), who picked up the best actor gong at Cannes for…