NEON Sets Home Entertainment Launch Date for Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or Winning ANORA

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Dec 16, 2024 Posted by Kyle Nolan in DVD/Blu-ray, Press Releases | Comments

NEON SETS HOME ENTERTAINMENT LAUNCH DATE FOR SEAN BAKER’S PALME D’OR WINNING ANORA

ANORA TO RECEIVE ITS PREMIUM DIGITAL RELEASE ON DECEMBER 17TH

Los Angeles, CA — December 16, 2024 — Award-winning film studio NEON announced today that Anora, the Palme d’Or-winning film from acclaimed writer and director Sean Baker, will be available for digital purchase starting tomorrow, December 17th. This launch comes on the heels of Anora’s record-breaking theatrical success, earning the highest opening weekend per-screen average of 2024, and the second highest PSA post-pandemic behind only Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City.

Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner ANORA is an audacious, thrilling, and comedic variation on a modern day Cinderella story. Mikey Madison (ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD) captivates as Ani, a young sex worker from Brooklyn whose life takes an unexpected turn when she meets and impulsively marries Vanya, the impetuous son of a Russian billionaire. However, when Vanya’s parents catch wind of the union, they send their henchmen to annul the marriage, setting off a wild chase through the streets of New York.

Following its sensational debut at Cannes, and subsequent theatrical release, Anora has garnered multiple nominations across various voting bodies, including: four at the Gotham Awards, six from the Film Independent Spirit Awards, seven from Critics Choice Awards, and five Golden Globe nominations including for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor. The film was awarded Best Picture of the year by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Best Screenplay by the New York Film Critics Association and Best Actress for Mikey Madison by the National Board of Review. The film currently sits as Verified Hot and Certified Fresh with a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes.

About NEON:
In only six years, NEON has garnered 32 Academy Award^® nominations (7 this year), 6 wins, including Best Picture, and has grossed over $200M at the box office. The company continues to push boundaries and take creative risks on bold cinema such as Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite, which made history winning four Academy Awards®, becoming the first non-English-language film to claim Best Picture. The film also unanimously won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and grossed over $54M at the domestic box office.

The current NEON slate includes: 2023 Palme d’Or winner and five-time Academy Award®-nominee Anatomy of a Fall; Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days, which was nominated for the Academy Award® for Best International Film; and Academy Award®-nominee for Best Animated Feature Robot Dreams from Pablo Berger. Recent and upcoming releases include: Michael Mann’s Ferrari, NEON Production, Cuckoo, Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera; Immaculate starring Sydney Sweeney and Babes from Pamela Adlon, both set to premiere at 2024 SXSW; and Longlegs with Nicolas Cage and Maika Monroe.

As a burgeoning leader in the production space, NEON’s recent and upcoming in-house productions include: Tilman Singer’s Cuckoo starring Hunter Schafer, set to world premiere in the Berlinale Special section; David Robert Mitchell’s They Follow starring Maika Monroe; Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool; Bishal Dutta’s It Lives Inside; and Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End, a golden-age musical starring Academy Award® winner Tilda Swinton.

NEON launched its international sales outfit ahead of the Venice Film Festival in 2023, handling titles including: Kogonada’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey starring Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell; Ben Shirinian’s The Housewife starring Naomi Watts, Tye Sheridan, Michael Imperioli, and Norman Reedus; and Steven Soderbergh’s Presence, which made its world premiere in Sundance, where NEON picked up the worldwide rights.

NEON has amassed a library of over 80 films, with noteworthy releases including: the Oscar®-nominated documentaries All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and Fire of Love; 2022’s highest grossing documentary, Moonage Daydream; and three-time Academy Award® nominee Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness. It also includes Flee, which made history becoming the first film to score an impressive trifecta of Oscar® nominations; The Worst Person in The World, which was nominated for Original Screenplay and International Feature Film; Spencer, which earned Kristen Stewart an Academy Award® nomination for Best Actress; the record-breaking Honeyland, which is the first non-fiction feature to land Academy Award® nominations for Best Documentary and Best International Feature Film in the same year; Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or winner, Titane; and Craig Gillespie’s I, Tonya, which garnered multiple Academy Award® nominations, one win for Allison Janney and amassed over $30M in domestic box office.