Neon

There's already various cities set up, theaters that it's going to be at.

So people can refer to Neon Rated on our distributor's website.

If you refer to the film there, you can enter your... your zip code and see where it's playing near you, but it'll be launching October 16th.

So we, and we would love people to see it in the theaters.

You know, how many nominations you generally need to be con-competitive for Best Picture, and so on, right? Kind of like these conventions.

So one of the things I'm thinking, and, and, and, and part of that, right, going back to studio distribution is, you know, looking at Warner Brothers, right? And, you know, I have like this larger overarching theory about how the Oscars are a, a macro or a snapshot of the state of the industry, right? And obviously, with the Skydance deal, the industry is change-- is gonna be changing a lot, right? Like, the reason I categorize, you know, A24 and Neon, even though they're growing, as separate from major studios is because, frankly, they just don't have the resources that other major studios do.

Like Neon, like I was looking it up earlier today, A24 in 2025 had just about 200 million in the US domestic box office.

Disney had ov-over two billion.

So, like, that's just an order of magnitude more, uh, than, than what A24 does, and thus the resources they're going to have is just very different, right? Um, same thing, you know, App and then, you know, Netflix and Amazon, just by being tech companies are just inherently different in the way they are structured.

Um, but at the very least, Tom Cruise and Makeup and Hair and maybe one more somewhere.

I could very see that-- well see that happening.

Um, the last two in this category, right, Be- Best Picture nom possible, are both Neon films, and they're both international Neon films.

So it was a big deal that Mike Flanagan was signing on as executive producer.

And on top of that, Neon, the studio Neon was distributing the film.

So it had a lot riding on it, or it had a lot behind it, so to speak.

So when this film was announced, it was a pretty big deal.

Yeah.

Yeah, 'cause, uh, Neon, the dis- uh, distributors, they buy a lot of international features and smaller movies.

Mm-hmm.

They bought the film and then put it in theaters, which was pretty cool.

I love Soderbergh.

This is him working with Neon and the Christophers.

Includes a conversation with screenwriter Ed Solomon and Charlie Kaufman.

So very, very curious to see that.

i know you wouldn't remember memory but it's just literally a game of like little cardboard pieces and you had to remember where they were on the ground and find them and flip them over anyway just remembering details from the previous iteration of an event or a series of events and then being asked to go through it again and yeah it's it's just my kind of vibe so this is one that i'm very excited to check out Q&A with writer-director Genki Kawamura and the making of Exit 8 are included here.

So that's very cool.

This is another one from Neon and Toho Studios.

Yeah, this is high on my list.

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Just a reminder, coming on December 22nd on Blu-ray in the US from Neon Rated and Dekaw Lissing releasing, It Ends.

"A group of recent grads head out on a drive when they accidentally end up on a never-ending..." Truth in advertising, huh?

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