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Crowded Indie Market Ratchets Up Competition For An Uncertain Audience – Specialty Preview


'Lee', Saturday Night', 'Azrael', 'Megalopolis' and more duke it out at the crowded indie film box office.

Meanwhile, it’s become cheaper to distribute films, which may be why new firms keep popping up to test the waters and in some cases open their movies on hundreds of screens, perhaps without a commensurate marketing effort. The story of Andy Singer, a struggling New York City realtor, who finds his world crashing down around him when his estranged 10-year-old daughter, Anna, shows up unannounced on his doorstep in the middle of his eviction. Magnolia’s Magnet Releasing opens Cannes-premiering horror Sleep, the directorial debut of South Korean writer-director Jason Yu in 25 theaters and on digital.

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