Oscar voting starts next week.
Justin DiPietro, the longtime distribution executive who joined MPI last summer as EVP, is overseeing the launch.
Opening weekend locations are in New York, L.A. and communities with large Palestinian populations like Chicago and Detroit.
(Clockwise from left) ‘From Ground Zero’, ‘The Damned’ and ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’Everett Collection
The film played TIFF and Palm Springs among other festivals.
From Ground Zerois at 93% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes (13 reviews).
Vertical acquired the film in advance of its Tribeca 2024 world premiere.
Its at 84% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes (31 reviews).
AI on your mind?
Runs today through January 23.
Programmed by Film Forum Repertory Artistic Director Bruce Goldstein, who said hed been inundated by AI ads.
These commercials are everywhere.
You cant avoid them, he tells Deadline.
I dont really know much about AI.
I really believe that AI is creating how great its going to be for all of us.
Five years later, Robby the Robot ofForbidden Planetdefined what a robot looked like for generations.
But then I realized that is not the message these movies have been promoting over the years.
The message is the malevolence of AI for the most part.
In fact, its always surprising when the AI is not malevolent.
The 1964 Stanley Kubrick fi;m was followed four years later by2001: A Space Odyssey.
