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Music Box Films is a distributor of foreign and independent film in theatrical, DVD/Blu-ray, and video-on-demand markets in the United States. Based in Chicago, Music Box Films is independently owned and operated by the Southport Music Box Corporation, which also owns and operates the Music Box Theatre .
- 2021 in Film
2021 in film is an overview of events, including the...
- Music (2021 film)
Music is a 2021 American musical drama film directed by...
- Black Box (2021 film)
Black Box (French: Boîte noire) is a 2021 French-Belgian...
- 2021 in Film
2021 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, and movie programming.
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Estranged from her family, Kazu "Zu" Gamble is a newly-sober drug dealer, who is left as the sole guardian of her younger, nonverbal autistic half-sister, Music, following the death of their grandmother, Millie, who raised Music. Zu deals drugs with the help of her friend Rudy but is unable to pay him back as she is unemployed. One morning, Music h...
Sia announced the film, her directorial debut, at the 2015 Venice Film Festival, to star Maddie Ziegler, who starred in a series of music videos that Sia co-directed with Daniel Askill and who has danced in many of Sia's live performances. After creating the music video for "Chandelier" in 2014, Sia had decided that she was "pretty good" at directi...
Sia wrote 10 original songs for the soundtrack of Music. The performances of the songs in the film are shared by the three principal cast members (Hudson, Odom Jr. and Ziegler). A full cast version of the soundtrack was originally expected to be released through Atlantic,but it was never released. Some of the songs written for the film, but sung by...
Sia stated in May 2019 that the film was set for release in October of that year. As of July 2020, it was expected to be released by IMAX after Tenet, later in 2020, but was further delayed to early 2021. In October 2020, the film's producers announced that HanWay Films were to handle global sales, distribution and marketing. A teaser trailer was r...
Box office
In Australia, Music grossed $286,000 through its first weekend of release,and $446,000 in its first full week. Upon its video on demand release in the United States, IndieWirereported that the film was "showing little initial interest despite its $6.99 price."
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Music has an approval rating of 7% based on 55 reviews, with an average rating of 3.5/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Offensive in its depiction of autism—and painfully misguided in essentially every respect—Music is a vanity project that begs to be turned down." According to Metacritic, which assigned the film a weighted average score of 23 out of 100 based on 18 critics, Musicreceived "generally unfavorable reviews". Tom Breihan...
Autism criticism
Several months before the film was released, after the teaser trailer was released, Sia received criticism for casting Ziegler (who is neurotypical) as an autistic girl in Music. In February 2021, Sia acknowledged criticism of the film from some members of the autistic community and issued an apology on Twitter. In response to criticism that the film's depiction of a physical restraint is potentially dangerous, Sia announced that future screenings would be preceded by a warning and would have...
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Black Box (French: Boîte noire) is a 2021 French-Belgian mystery thriller film directed by Yann Gozlan. It is a co-production between France and Belgium. The film stars Pierre Niney as a talented young black box analyst at the Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety who is tasked with investigating a mysterious fatal plane crash.
