Yellow Veil Pictures has secured North American distribution rights to Boorman and the Devil, a documentary exploring the chaotic production behind John Boorman’s Exorcist II: The Heretic, according to a report on Deadline.
The documentary directed and produced by David Kittredge. Yellow Veil Pictures plans to open Boorman and the Devil in New York City at the Quad Cinema on August 28, before a theatrical expansion in Los Angeles and nationwide on September 4.
“I am beyond thrilled that Yellow Veil has come on board to help us share this story with a larger audience,” Kittredge said in a statement. “Like myself and the rest of our team, they’re huge cinema-lovers. It’s so exciting that a film which is not only a love letter to John Boorman, but also to ambitious filmmaking, will be handled by people who share the same passions that our team shares.”
Kittredge added, “I miss big, ambitious filmmaking that takes huge risks. In 1977, John Boorman took an enormous creative and commercial swing with The Heretic which didn’t connect with almost anybody at the time—but now we can look back and appreciate how big creative swings are what going to the movies is all about. Boorman is one of the greatest filmmakers that has ever stepped behind a camera, and I’m so happy to be telling the story of the one film that not only nearly destroyed him, but forever changed the way he made films.”
“I first saw the film at an early festival screening and the post-screening buzz was just electric. Everyone was loving Boorman and the Devil,” commented Yellow Veil Pictures Co-Founder Justin Timms. “To be able to team up with David and the filmmaking team on this release is incredibly exciting and we can’t wait to spread that post-screening electricity with audiences across the country.”
Exorcist II: The Heretic was released on June 17, 1977, and quickly received generally negative reviews from critics. Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film zero stars out of four and declared it “the worst major motion picture I’ve seen in almost eight years on the job.”
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