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‘Árru’, Eco Drama, Gets North America & International Deals
EXCLUSIVE: Obscured Releasing has acquired North American distribution rights to Árru, the musical drama following a Sàmi family’s fight to protect their land from looming environmental threat.
The film from writer-director Elle Sofe Sara will get a theatrical release in early 2027 before launching on digital platforms later next year.
The film follows “a family of Sàmi reindeer herders as their way of life and Indigenous land face threat from an encroaching mining project. As protests and conflict continue, single mother Maia (Sara Marielle Gaup Beaska) turns to a long lost family member (Mikkel Gaup), giving rise to long buried family wounds and secrets.”
The feature uses traditional Sàmi song and dance “to portray familial catharsis and the connections between communities and their lands”.
Following its world premiere at Berlin, the movie went on to play Sydney and the Nordic Film Festival, and made its North American premiere at this year’s Tribeca film festival.
The project was produced by Elisa Fernanda Pirir, Mimmi Spång, Elle Sofe Sara and Jani Pösö. Executive producers include Jim Stark, Kristine Ann Skaret, Gary Cranner, and Axel Helgeland.
The deal was negotiated by Steven Bestwick of The Yellow Affair and Bill Guentzler and RJ Millard on behalf of Obscured Releasing.
The Yellow Affair has also sold Árru to international territories including Angel Distribution (Denmark), Bíó Paradís (Iceland), Filmwelt (Germany, Austria), Fivia (Ex-Yugoslavia), Otaku Mtü (Baltics), Palace (Australia / New Zealand). Theatrical distribution in Norway will be handled by Norsk Filmdistribusjon. The movie is a co-production with Garagefilm International (Sweden) and It’s Alive (Finland).
“I look forward to sharing our subtle musical family drama, Árru, with audiences in the U.S. in collaboration with Obscured Releasing,” said director Elle Sofe Sara. “With Árru, I wanted to tell a story about the resilience of women, the complexities of family bonds, and the power of finding one’s voice in the face of silence. I’m so pleased to have found a partner in Obscured who believes in the film and its journey to audiences.”
“Elle Sofe’s intimate and elegiac film showcases the passion of a family as they protect their way of life through beautiful and emotional ways,” added RJ Millard and Bill Guentzler. “Her originality of voice and storytelling are exemplified by the combination of dance, song and protest in creating something truly riveting.”
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Pulitzer Finalist ‘Here There Are Blueberries’ Sets Fall Broadway Debut
Here There Are Blueberries, the acclaimed play and Pulitzer finalist by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich, will open on Broadway this fall for a strictly limited engagement, producers announced today.
Conceived and directed by Kaufman, Here There Are Blueberries will begin previews on Monday, November 2 at the Barrymore Theatre in a co-production with La Jolla Playhouse. Opening night is set for Monday, November 9.
Additional information, including casting, will be announced shortly. Today’s announcement was made by Kaufman’s Tectonic Theater Project, Brian & Dayna Lee, Bruce Roberts, Sue Vaccaro, & Ricky Stevens.
The remarkable work, which had an Off Broadway premiere in 2024 at New York Theatre Workshop, tells the real-life story, in a sort of forensic detective-fashion, about the discovery in a Virginia home of a German photo album full of rare Nazi-era photographs unlike any seen before. In particular, the photos depict the daily and privileged lives of Nazi concentration camp guards stationed in special housing near the horrors of the camps themselves.
The synopsis: “In 2007, an album of Nazi-era photographs arrived at the desk of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum archivist. The photographs weren’t like any that had been seen before. As curators unraveled the truth behind the images, the album soon made headlines and ignited a debate that reverberated far beyond the museum walls. Based on real events, Here There Are Blueberries tells the story of these historical photographs—what they reveal about the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and our own humanity.”
A finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and winner of the 2025 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, Here There Are Blueberries will feature a creative team including scenic design by Derek McLane, costume design by Dede Ayite, lighting design by David Lander, sound design by Bobby McElver, and projection design by David Bengali.
In a statement, Tectonic’s Kaufman and Matt Joslyn said, “For Tectonic Theater Project, bringing Here There Are Blueberries to Broadway is the culmination of a remarkable journey. These photographs hold a mirror up to our humanity in the most intimate and unsettling way. We have to look at them – not to understand the people in the pictures, but to better understand ourselves.”
Added producers Brian and Dayna Lee, “We are thrilled to bring this extraordinary new play to the Barrymore Theatre,. This is a story rooted in history, but it is not a story safely confined to the past. At a moment when history itself is increasingly denied, distorted, or erased, Here There Are Blueberries reveals how ordinary people become complicit, and why remembering history is a vital responsibility.”
Prior to the Off Broadway engagement, Here There Are Blueberries had its first workshop production at Miami New Drama and received its world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse in 2022.
Here There Are Blueberries is produced by Tectonic Theater Project (Moisés Kaufman, Founder & Artistic Director; Matt Joslyn, Executive Director), Brian & Dayna Lee, Bruce Roberts, Sue Vaccaro, & Ricky Stevens, and Executive Producer 101 Productions, Ltd. Here There Are Blueberries is a co-production with La Jolla Playhouse and is produced in association with Michael Hormel and Midnight Theatricals. The play was devised by Scott Barrow, Amy Marie Seidel, Frances Uku, Grant James Varjas, and the members of Tectonic Theater Project.
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Broadway Musical ‘Six’ To Close In January
Six, the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical that uses modern pop styles to retell the stories of Henry VIII’s wives from the women’s point of view, will close on January 3, 2027, after nearly six years and 2,178 performances.
The closing was announced today by producers Kenny Wax, Wendy & Andy Barnes, George Stiles, and Kevin McCollum.
The musical by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, co-directed by Lucy Moss and Jamie Armitage with choreography by Carrie-Anne Ingrouille, was the first new musical to open on Broadway following the 2020 Covid shutdown. With previews that began on September 17, 2021, and an opening night on Sunday, October 3, 2021, Six has become the longest running show to ever have played the Lena Horne Theatre (formerly the Brooks Atkinson Theatre).
Capitalized at an initial $5 million, Six recouped the investment in December 2021, a quick turnaround due to the relatively low capitalization, moderate weekly operating costs of an estimated and approximate $469,000 and ticket-buyers enthusiasm for a critically lauded – and decided buoyant – musical loaded with fine, fun songs and clever premise extremely well executed. (Read Deadline’s original review here.)
In recent months, though, the Broadway show’s box office has been dwindling. For the week ending August 23, the show grossed $463,638, a big drop from the $600,000-$700,000+ range of its peak last year. During that August week attendance was at just 60% of the Horne’s capacity.
After premiering at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017, Six opened in the West End in January 2019, then began performances on Broadway in February 2020 before its interruption by the shutdown. The musical returned to the then-Atkinson after the closings lifted in the fall of 2021.
The London production continues to run, as do tours in the U.S., the UK and Australia. Having previously completed runs in Amsterdam, Auckland, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Groningen, Las Vegas, Manila, Munich, Nagoya, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, Toronto, Trieste and Zurich, Six returns to China later this year on a 12-week tour. A new Spanish-language production opens in Madrid this September.
A live capture film titled Six The Musical Live!, recorded at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, with the original West End cast reprising their roles, was released by Universal Pictures Content Group in the UK and Ireland last April and in the United States and Canada on August 14.
The Broadway production currently features Khaila Wilcoxon as Catherine of Aragon, Chloe Tucker Caine as Anne Boleyn, Natalie Paris as Jane Seymour, Olivia Donalson as Anna of Cleves, Aimie Atkinson as Katherine Howard, and Stephanie Jae Park as Catherine Parr.
An original Broadway cast recording was released in 2022 and earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Musical Theatre Album.
The Broadway production was nominated for eight 2022 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Original Score, Best Direction of a Musical, Best Choreography, Best Orchestrations, Best Costume Design/Musical, Best Lighting Design/Musical and Best Sound Design/Musical. The show won in the score and costume categories.
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StudioCanal Classics Label Launch Features Largest Library Outside US
Canal Plus’ StudioCanal on Thursday unveiled the global launch of catalogue label StudioCanal Classics to further bolster “its ambitious editorial strategy across the StudioCanal catalogue, which is one of the most prestigious film libraries in the world.”
It boasts more than 18,000 titles, making it “the largest library outside the U.S., spanning 100 years of film history,” StudioCanal highlighted. “Over the past seven years, StudioCanal has invested close to 25 million euros ($29 million) into the 4K restoration of nearly 1,000 classic feature films. StudioCanal’s restoration strategy gives both longtime cinephiles and the Letterboxd generation the opportunity to experience classics as they were meant to be seen – on the big screen.”
StudioCanal also noted that its territory footprint spans the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Benelux, Poland, Australia and New Zealand, with the company also distributing via partners in Scandinavia and South Africa.
“StudioCanal continues to unlock the full value of its world-class catalogue through a dynamic and diversified exploitation strategy,” the studio explained. “An ambitious slate of prestige restorations brings iconic films to new audiences and is regularly showcased at leading international festivals, including Cannes Classics and Il Cinema Ritrovato. Supported by a dedicated international library sales team, every title benefits from tailored distribution and commercial opportunities across all media and markets.”
Among the theatrical releases from StudioCanal Classics has been Michael Mann’s Manhunter to mark the 40th anniversary with the release of a 4k restoration, Michael Mann’s Manhunter: The Final Cut. Developed in partnership with StudioCanal, the new restoration opened in U.S. cinemas on July 24. Following its debut at The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in the U.S. last month. The restoration opens in U.K. cinemas on Sept. 25 September.
Similarly, to mark the 35th anniversary of James Cameron’s landmark sci-fi action classic, Terminator 2: Judgment Day will return to the big screen in 2D, 3D, 4DX and D-BOX, opening in theaters worldwide beginning on Thursday, Aug. 27.
Other StudioCanal Classics titles include the likes of Apocalypse Now, Basic Instinct, Paddington, Rambo, The Graduate and The Third Man.
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