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EXCLUSIVE: Yellow Veil Pictures has acquired North American authorities to Boorman and nan Devil, a documentary astir nan troubled accumulation of John Boorman’s Exorcist II: The Heretic.”
The 1977 travel up to nan original Exorcist was a commercialized and captious nonaccomplishment but has gone connected to gain cult status. Yellow Veil Pictures plans to unfastened Boorman and nan Devil successful New York City astatine nan Quad Cinema connected August 28, earlier a theatrical description successful Los Angeles and nationwide connected September 4.
The documentary directed and produced by David Kittredge premiered astatine nan Venice Film Festival successful 2025. It enjoys a 100 percent captious standing connected Rotten Tomatoes.
“I americium beyond thrilled that Yellow Veil has travel connected committee to thief america stock this communicative pinch a larger audience,” Kittredge said successful a statement. “Like myself and nan remainder of our team, they’re immense cinema-lovers. It’s truthful breathtaking that a movie which is not only a emotion missive to John Boorman, but besides to eager filmmaking, will beryllium handled by group who stock nan aforesaid passions that our squad shares.”
Kittredge added, “I miss big, eager filmmaking that takes immense risks. In 1977, John Boorman took an tremendous imaginative and commercialized plaything pinch The Heretic which didn’t link pinch almost anybody astatine nan time—but now we tin look backmost and admit really large imaginative swings are what going to nan movies is each about. Boorman is 1 of nan top filmmakers that has ever stepped down a camera, and I’m truthful happy to beryllium telling nan communicative of nan 1 movie that not only astir destroyed him, but everlastingly changed nan measurement he made films.”
Boorman and nan Devil is produced by Kittredge, Travis Stevens (Jodorowsky’s Dune) and Jim Fall, and features appearances by Boorman, arsenic good arsenic Linda Blair, Louise Fletcher, Joe Dante, Mike Flanagan, and Karyn Kusama. Along pinch different filmmakers and critics, they talk “the sequel’s enduring cult bequest and really nan Hollywood era successful which it was made, changed everlastingly aft its release.”
The acquisition was negotiated betwixt Gregory Chambet connected behalf of WTFilms and Hugues Barbier, Justin Timms, and Joe Yanick connected behalf of Yellow Veil Pictures. The acquisition news comes arsenic Yellow Veil presents respective income titles astatine nan Cannes Market.
“I first saw nan movie astatine an early show screening and nan post-screening buzz was conscionable electric. Everyone was loving Boorman and nan Devil,” commented Yellow Veil Pictures Co-Founder Justin Timms. “To beryllium capable to squad up pinch David and nan filmmaking squad connected this merchandise is incredibly breathtaking and we can’t hold to dispersed that post-screening energy pinch audiences crossed nan country.”
Deadline’s Pete Hammond, in his reappraisal of nan film, wrote, “Not only is this docu entertaining, it is besides a awesome primer connected nan movie business, past and now, and is easy 1 of nan champion movies astir nan making — and unmaking — of a movie I person ever seen.”
Hammond continued, “Boorman is nan cardinal to this docu’s occurrence pinch a terrific callback of each events surrounding nan film, his hopes for it, and particularly his heavy disappointment successful nan aftermath. It was cursed a spot during accumulation erstwhile soil blew into his look and he had to beryllium hospitalized pinch a awesome fever; nan movie unopen down for respective weeks because of it. The champion anecdote is 1 astir nan film’s sneak preview successful Pasadena wherever nan audience, expecting different Exorcist, started laughing uncontrollably astatine what was connected screen. They yet sewage upwind nan workplace execs were sitting successful nan back, and erstwhile nan suits tried to time off unnoticed nan upset summons buyers chased them down nan block.”
