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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…

EXCLUSIVE: Thriving U.S. indie producer-distributor Neon is no stranger to the Cannes Film Festival with the Tom Quinn-founded banner having acquired a historic four consecutive Palme d'Or wins (last year's Anatomy of a Fall, 2022's Triangle of Sadness, 2021's Titane and 2019's Parasite), thus earning…

After serving as the U.S. distributor for Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or-winning 2021 body horror Titane, Neon is getting back into business with the filmmaker as the North American distributor for her next genre-bending feature, Alpha. Golshifteh Farahani (Paterson) and Tahar Rahim (The Mauritanian)…

EXCLUSIVE: Neon has hired marketing and publicity veteran Joey Monteiro as EVP, International Marketing and Ashley Hirsch as Manager of International Sales and Marketing. The move further expands the company's global footprint as it grows its international sales arm headed up by seasoned sales executive…

Neon revealed the trailer for Pablo Berger’s Oscar nominated feature, Robot Dreams. Written by Berger and Sara Varon, the film stars Ivan Labanda, Albert Trifol Segarra, and Rafa Calvo. Based on the graphic novel of the same name, the film follows DOG, who lives in Manhattan and he’s tired of being…

Neon has dropped a trailer for Pamela Adlon’s (Better Things) feature directorial debut comedy Babes. From co-writers Ilana Glazer (Broad City) and Josh Rabinowitz and starring Glazer, Michelle Buteau and Hasan Minhaj, Babes centers on the bonds of friendship and the messy, unpredictable challenges…

Neon has formed a strategic financial partnership with Ken Kao's Waypoint Entertainment, the ​​full-service production company behind The Favourite and The Nice Guys, to deliver a slate "of bold, genre-spanning films for savvy theatrical audiences," the distributor said. The partners will focus on larger…

In the realm of religious horror, one filled with tales of divine terror, Immaculate emerges as the latest contender. Yet despite its promising setup within the shadowy confines of an Italian nunnery and a cast led by Sydney Sweeney, the film struggles to…

Neon announced on Tuesday that it will bring Academy Award nominee Ava DuVernay’s acclaimed drama Origin back to 500 U.S. theaters on February 28, for a one-night-only special screening event, featuring an exclusive pre-recorded introduction and post-screening Q&A with DuVernay. Released wide on…

When real-life couple Justine Triet and Arthur Harari set out to write Anatomy of a Fall, about a woman on trial for the murder of her husband, they built the story on relationships first and foremost. "The first embryo was the relationship between the son and the mother and the idea of the son…

Everyone knows that hotels — preferably isolated, ideally with very few guests — make the best settings for horror films. All that sad anonymity, all that provisional space ready to be filled with something really nasty. In Cuckoo, Alpenplatz, run by the excessively friendly Mr. Konig (Dan Stevens)…

While Justine Triet’s legal thriller Anatomy of a Fall has maintained a great deal of heat since its Palme d’Or win last summer as one of the buzziest big screen titles in recent memory, the filmmaker at one point contemplated reshaping her material into a TV series, at least for a moment. In…