The company released filmmaker Jen McGowan’s first feature, Kelly & Cal. IFC Films first caught drama-thriller Rust Creek at a private screening in the summer. State Like Sleep opens 10 cities this weekend in a day-and-date rollout.Ĭast: Hermione Corfield, Jay Paulson, Micah Hauptman, Sean O’Bryan, Daniel R. Looking ahead to the year, Davidson said, the Orchard is expecting to release 10-12 traditional theatrical titles as well as 10-15 day-and-date films in 2019, which is consistent with recent years. “Putting State Like Sleep after the crowded awards release season and into January before Sundance felt like a good way to get to audiences who had seen the movies they’d been desperate to over the holidays and were now looking for new, entertaining films in the new year.”ĭavidson said the company has been concentrating on the “sexy noir, thriller” aspect of the film in its overall marketing. “The calendar gets more and more crowded with each year and each new entrant into the content distribution space - theatrical, transactional, streaming or otherwise,” offered Davidson. The call turns her world upside down and forces her to revisit the past. State Like Sleep follows a young widow (Waterston) who receives an unsettling phone call one year after her husband’s untimely death. “The film harkened back to some of the best noir films from the ‘90s and 2000s, and we felt like it had been sometime since a filmmaker had successfully delivered a film like that.” “We were taken by the classic noir tone of the film and the female protagonist and impressed by Meredith as this was her first feature film as a director,” said Paul Davidson, EVP Film and Television at the Orchard.
State Like Sleep debuted at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, where distributor the Orchard first saw the film, though the company had been aware of the feature via their relationship with Sight Unseen, which produced the title by Meredith Danluck. 2018 Domestic Box Office Postmortem: What Went Right & Wrong For The Majors In A Record $11.9B+ YearĬast: Katherine Waterston, Michiel Huisman, Michael Shannon, Luke Evans