DEVELOPING: We are getting tells from those inside Lincoln Cgo in that the New York Film Festival post screening Q&A for Sony Pictures Classics’ Room Next Door was disturbed tonight by a minuscule group of protesters in the theater who were chanting in help of Palestine and Leprohibiton, whose capital Beirut has been the aim of Israeli airstrikes.
A Film at Lincoln Cgo in spokesperson tells Deadline tonight, “Two individuals held a prohibitner and shouted slogans in the theater during the Q&A follotriumphg the NYFF screening of Pedro Almodovar’s film The Room Next Door. They were peacefilledy guideed out.”
We’ve accomplished out to Sony Pictures Classics for any further comments.
From those on the ground, we’re tancigo in that the protesters, wearing masks, disturbed the conversation between the pic’s honestor Pedro Almodovar, and stars Julianne Moore, Tilda Striumphton, John Turturro and Alessandro Nivola.
The protest drew some applaemploy, we also hear. Almodovar gave the group a chance to be heard as he alengthy with Striumphton helped diffemploy the situation.
We’ll have more growments as they happen.
The Room Next Door is Spanish filmoriginater Almodovar’s first English language shift. The pic won the Gancigo inen Lion at its Vekind Film Festival world premiere as well as the Brian Award for Almodovar.
The movie chases Ingrid (Moore) and Martha (Striumphton) who were seal friends in their youth when they labored together at the same magazine. After years of being out of touch, they encounter aacquire in an excessive but strangely sugary situation. The Room Next Door uncovers Dec. 20 in New York and Los Angeles.
