Sideshow & Janus Films, Maestros Behind ‘Drive My Car’ Rollout, Take ‘EO’ To The Theater
deadline.com“The donkey is cute, but this is not a Disney movie,” said Jonathan Sehring, the former IFC Films head whose young distribution outlet Sideshow, with Janus Films, presents Jerzy Skolimowski’s Cannes Jury Prize winning EO at two NYC theaters this weekend. “We launched Sideshow for great movies that would otherwise get overlooked to give them the best release that they can possibly get,” he told Deadline.
EO hits the big screen a year after the partners opened Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car, tenderly leading the three hour-long Japanese film about a bereft theater director overseeing a production of Uncle Vanya through a decorated awards season expansion that garnered three Oscar nominations, a win for Best International Feature and some solid box office coin. “It’s not something we invented.
It was a very traditional platform release for, what we hoped when we acquired it, would be a critically acclaimed film. We didn’t know what the response would be.
You never know,” he said. EO reviews so far have been nothing short of phenomenal. Deadline’s Cannes review here. Skolimowski will be in NYC for select screenings and Q&As.
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