‘The Good Boss’ With Javier Bardem, Cohen Media Group’s Widest Release In Years, Joins Amped Up Arthouse – Specialty Preview
26.08.2022 - 23:39
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Cohen Media Group hopes a Spanish film can dent the tough market for foreign language fare, Bleecker Street is out with a hostage drama and A24 presents Owen Kline’s directorial debut about a teenage cartoonist as the arthouse market flexes more muscle than it has in weeks.
The dearth of new releases itself nudged some distributors to grab a window now before a more crowded fall, including UAR’s supersized specialty opening of the Idris Elba, Tilda Swinton-starring Three Thousand Years Of Longing on 2,436 screens, considerably wider than originally anticipated.
George Miller’s fantasy fairytale, written by Miller and Augusta Gore, is based on the 1994 A.S. Byatt short story ‘The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye’. Swinton is a complacent academic, Elba is the Djinn (a kind of spirit genie) she encounters at a conference in Istanbul in the 2022 Cannes Film Festival out-of-competition entry. Deadline review here.
The Good Boss (El Buen Patron) with Javier Bardem will be Cohen Media Group’s biggest release since Agnès Varda and JR’s 2017 doc Faces Places, and highest-profile openings in years as well on 13 screens in five markets (NY, LA, San Francisco, Boston, Washington, D.C.) Friday, expanding nationally to up to 200 locations in top 50 markets next weekend. CMG acquired Spain’s submission for the 2021 International Feature Oscar out of San Sebastian last year. It swept a record 20 Goya nominations, and six wins including Best Picture, Best Actor for Bardem, and Best Director and Best Original screenplay for Fernando Leon de Aranoa.
Bardem plays the paternalistic owner of a company that manufactures industrial scales. Deadline review here.
CMG’s head of marketing and distribution Justin DiPietro said film is foreign language,