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TIFF According to Neon Non-Fiction Head Dan O’Meara
Dan O’Meara heads up non-fiction at indie powerhouse Neon, where he has recently worked on films like Andrew McCarthy’s Brat Pack title Brats and GameStop stock doc Rise of the Players. He will be on the ground at the Toronto Film Festival with the documentary Men of War. Described by TIFF programmers as “Rambo meets […]
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Behind Neon’s Banner Year and Rivalry With A24
It is virtually unheard-of for top filmmakers and talent to get back to a journalist almost immediately without going through armies of publicists. Not so when it comes to talking about Neon founder and CEO Tom Quinn, the savvy and innovative indie executive whose company is enjoying its best year in history thanks to nurturing […]
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Nicolas Cage’s ‘Longlegs’ Horror Pic Crosses $100M in Global Box Office
Neon’s Longlegs, from director Osgood Perkins and starring Nicolas Cage and Maika Monroe, has crossed the $100 million global box office mark since launching on July 12. The serial killer chiller has become the highest grossing film for Tom Quinn’s Oscar-winning specialty production and distribution outfit, home of Parasite, for 2024. Longlegs, which has to date […]
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Theo James Gets Bloody in Neon’s ‘The Monkey’ Teaser From ‘Longlegs’ Director Osgood Perkins
Neon is taking advantage of its Longlegs momentum with a first glimpse at director Osgood Perkins’ next project. Neon shared the first teaser trailer for The Monkey Monday, ahead of the horror movie’s Feb. 21, 2025 debut in theaters. The spot features Theo James, who stars in the film alongside Tatiana Maslany, Elijah Wood, Christian […]
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Box Office: ‘Despicable Me 4’ Easily Wins With $44.7M as ‘Longlegs’ Stuns With Record $22.6M Launch
Animation continue to the be hero of the summer office thanks to Despicable Me 4 and Inside Out 2, but Neon’s Longlegs can rightly take a bow after scoring the biggest opening for an independent horror pic in a decade with $22.6 million in ticket sales. From Illumination and Universal, DM4 easily stayed atop the […]
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‘Longlegs’ Review: Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage in a Mesmerizing Serial Killer Chiller That Burns With Satanic Power
Writer-director Osgood Perkins spins a tense FBI procedural steeped in occult horror and nightmarish visions, also starring Blair Underwood and Alicia Witt.
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‘Anora’ Review: Mikey Madison is a Delightfully Scrappy Force in Sean Baker’s Cracked Cinderella Story
A young sex worker’s romantic entanglement with the son of a Russian oligarch gets very messy in this screwball comedy set in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.
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Neon Buys Joachim Trier’s and Renate Reinsve’s ‘Sentimental Value’
Neon has picked up the North American rights to Sentimental Value, the upcoming film from Norwegian director Joachim Trier that reteams him with Renate Reinsve, star of Trier’s 2021 hit The Worst Person in the World. Trier and Worst Person in the World co-writer Eskil Vogt penned the screenplay to Sentimental Value, a family drama […]
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Cannes: Léa Seydoux Starrer ‘The Unknown’ Lands at Neon
Neon is plunging into the great unknown with Léa Seydoux and filmmaker Arthur Harari. The indie outfit has landed North American rights to The Unknown, and appropriate for its title, its logline is currently unknown. But Harari’s pedigree may offer some clues. Harari earned acclaim as the screenwriter of Anatomy of a Fall, which Neon landed out of Cannes before it went on […]
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Neon Acquires North American Rights to Palme d’Or Winner Julia Ducournau’s ‘Alpha’
Neon has acquired the North American rights to award-winning filmmaker Julia Ducournau’s (Titane, Raw) genre-defying film Alpha. Leading the cast are Golshifteh Farahani (The Patience Stone, Paterson) and Tahar Rahim (The Mauritanian, A Prophet), with principal photography on the film commencing next fall. Producers are Jean des Forêts and Amelie Jacquis of Petit Film and Eric & Nicolas […]
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Hunter Schafer Faces Horrors at German Resort in Neon’s ‘Cuckoo’ Trailer
Hunter Schafer learns that not all European getaways are particularly relaxing in the first trailer for horror flick Cuckoo. Neon releases Tilman Singer’s feature in theaters Aug. 9. Cuckoo stars Schafer as Gretchen, a teen who gets more than she bargained for after accepting a job from Herr König (Dan Stevens) at a resort in […]
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Neon Promotes Sydney Sweeney’s ‘Immaculate’ Using Reactions From Christians
Say what you want about the newly released horror shocker Immaculate, but it seems the studio promoting the film knows its audience. The Sydney Sweeney-led and produced nun-sploitation movie takes place in a dreary and disgusting convent, where Sweeney’s character soon finds herself pregnant despite never having had sex. With a premise like that, naturally, […]
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