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India’s Impact Films Lines Up Theatrical Releases For ‘The Whale’, ‘Broker’ & ‘Triangle Of Sadness’; Indie Distributor Is Growing Specialist Audiences In Tough Market – IFFI Goa
24.11.2022 - 17:29 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Mumbai-based Impact Films is planning theatrical releases in India for Brendan Fraser starrer The Whale, Cannes Palme d’Or winner Triangle Of Sadness and Cannes best actor winner Broker, emboldened by its recent success with indie global breakout hit Everything Everywhere All At Once.
The company is releasing Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale on December 30, three weeks after its release in the U.S. through A24. Ruben Ostlund’s Triangle Of Sadness is being lined up for release in January 2023, around the same time that the Oscar nominations are announced. Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Broker will go out theatrically around the same time, following its U.S. release through Neon on December 26.
Impact Films founder Ashwani Sharma says he got the confidence to take these films theatrical after Everything Everywhere All At Once clicked with Indian audiences and grossed more than $200,000, despite releasing in September, six months after its U.S. release.
“People had already seen the film through pirated copies, but came to watch it again in cinemas because it was a big screen experience,” says Sharma, who is attending the on-going International Film Festival of India (IFFI) and its industry platform Film Bazaar. “They loved this concept of action mixed with the multiverse, which is something they’d seen in Marvel movies, but not in an indie film.”
India has always been a notoriously tough market for independent and foreign-language films, with even Hollywood movies only accounting for a 10-15% market share. That situation has only deteriorated during the pandemic, when Indian audiences started to expect most films to pop up on streaming platforms, and became much choosier about what they’d step out of the front door to
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