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Neon on Monday morning dropped the first trailer for Anora, its romantic dramedy from filmmaker Sean Baker (The Florida Project), which brought the company its fifth Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Starring Better Things‘ Mikey Madison, the awards contender centers on her character…

UPDATED, Sunday AM: Illumination/Universal’s Despicable Me 4 won the weekend with $44.6 million, but Neon’s Nicolas Cage-Maika Monroe starrer Longlegs stole the headlines, delivering the best original horror opening year-to-date and the best-ever start for the Tom Quinn-run 7-year old distribution company…

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains plot details for the film Longlegs Oz Perkins didn’t mean to scare you. Despite creating one of the year’s most jarring atmospheric horror thrillers, Perkins swears his cinematic concoction was cool and (allegedly) accidental. Longlegs, written and directed…

NEON has dated their fifth Cannes Palme D’Or winner Anora for Oct. 18 per Comscore in what will be a limited release. October is the traditional launch pad for NEON with their Palme D’Or winning fare including 2019’s ultimate Oscar Best Picture winner Parasite (Oct. 11), 2021’s Titane (Oct 1)…

As Neon was justly feted this weekend for a fifth consecutive Cannes Palme d'Or winner (Anora), it also had a nice showing at home with a terrific expansion for indie Babes. The feature directorial debut of Pamela Adlon jumped from a 12-screen opening last week to 590 and hit no. 9 at the domestic…

It just had to be, didn’t it. U.S. distributor Neon only had two movies in the Competition: Anora and The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Neither could have fared any better with the critics and both won prizes tonight. It was Sean Baker’s Anora that stormed to the top prize on the Riviera, making it a…

MGM/Imax's The Blue Angels lands a hefty $1.3 million on just 255 domestic Imax screens from limited showtimes in the large format exhibitor's exclusive theatrical engagement. The Paul Crowder film, with Glen Powell and Bad Robot as producers, follows the Navy's famed demonstration flying squadron. It…

Neon has grabbed North American rights to The Seed of the Sacred Fig, the latest film from Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof (There Is No Evil, Manuscripts Don't Burn).  The thriller is set to debut in competition in Cannes on May 24 and marks Rasoulof's first return to Cannes after being barred…

EXCLUSIVE: Following a multi-buyer tug of war, horror movie The Monkey, the adaptation of the Stephen King short story, is heading to Neon for domestic here at the Cannes market. Theo James (The White Lotus) stars in the movie with Tatiana Maslany (She–Hulk: Attorney at Law), Elijah Wood (The Lord Of…

Babes by Pamela Adlon, co-written and starring Ilana Glazer, debuts in limited release with films by Hang Song-soo and Bertrand Bonello and docs on a controversial Venice Biennale, ground-breaking female clerics, and the Blue Angels Navy Squadron. A trio of festival favorites expand. While eyes now are on…

Women are humanities original 3-D printers! We can grow humans inside our bodies. However, that’s just the beginning of the journey of motherhood as things get much more difficult from there. Who better then to portray the ups and downs of raising children than Better Things creator Pamela Adlon, director…

Neon has made some key promotions within its team, upping Elissa Federoff from President of Distribution to Chief Distribution Officer and Ryan Friscia from EVP, Finance and Business Development to Chief Financial Officer.  Federoff has been with Neon since its inception in 2017. In her new role, she…