Bleecker Street is teaming with Fox Entertainment Studios on the U.S. release of Amy Wang’s directorial debut “Slanted,” which premiered at SXSW and took home the Grand Jury Prize in the Narrative Feature Competition. The film is set for an early 2026 theatrical release.
Blending sharp satire, sci-fi, and body horror, the acclaimed film follows a Chinese-American teenager, who, feeling insecure about her race, takes a drastic step that causes a chain reaction throughout her own and her family’s lives.
“Slanted” is produced by Fox Entertainment Studios’ Tideline and Mountain Top Pictures with producers including Mark Ankner for Mountain Top, Trevor Wall, Adel “Future” Nur and Wang. Executive producers include Fox Entertainment Studios’ Hannah Pillemer and Fernando Szew. The film stars Shirley Chen, McKenna Grace, Vivian Wu, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Amelie Zilber, Fang Du, Elaine Hendrix, and R. Keith Harris.
“There is no film even a little bit like Slanted,” said Bleecker Street CEO Kent Sanderson in a statement. “We’re thrilled to be partnered with our friends at Fox and Mountain Top on this film that is not only wildly entertaining, but will also be a real conversation starter.”
“We are excited to partner with Bleecker Street who has a history of backing some of the boldest voices in our business,” said Hannah Pillemer, Head of Scripted Entertainment, Fox Entertainment Studios. “The team shares our passion for stories that connect deeply with audiences and we could not imagine a more perfect partner to bring Amy’s singular vision to screens everywhere.”
The deal was negotiated by Bleecker Street’s Miranda King and Avy Eschenasy.
Bleecker Street recently re-released the 1984 cult classic “This Is Spinal Tap,” created by Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer, and will release Rob Reiner’s “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues” September 12th. Bleecker has built an eclectic and exciting slate as it heads into the end of 2025, including horror-thriller “Bone Lake” on October 3rd; Max Walker-Silverman’s Sundance favorite “Rebuilding” starring Josh O’Connor, Lily Latorre, Meghann Fahy, Kali Reis, and Amy Madigan on November 14th; and “Fackham Hall,” a biting spoof of British period dramas starring Damian Lewis, Thomasin McKenzie, and Katherine Waterston, on December 5th. The 2026 slate includes a recently announced untitled action-comedy feature starring multi-Emmy winner and entertainment icon RuPaul and directed by Adam Shankman; Oscar-winner Guy Nattiv’s “Harmonia” starring Bella Ramsey, Odessa Young, Carrie Coon and Lily James; “The Third Parent” starring Rob Lowe, Crispin Glover and Roselyn Sanchez; “Victorian Psycho,” a horror-thriller adapted from the acclaimed novel and starring Maika Monroe, Thomasin McKenzie, and Jason Isaacs; Academy Award-winner Alex Gibney’s “Musk,” centered on the world’s most controversial tech-entrepreneur, and the next, still-untitled feature from auteur Mike Leigh, with whom Bleecker partnered on the release of award-winning “Hard Truths” in 2024.
About Bleecker Street
Bleecker Street is an independent studio founded in 2014 by Andrew Karpen and is now led by CEO Kent Sanderson. Bleecker has released almost 100 films, all theatrically, and has established itself as a trusted label and champion of both commercial and filmmaker-driven cinema, curating an impressive and lauded slate that extends across all genres. Its releases have included films from auteurs like Steven Soderbergh (“Logan Lucky,” “Unsane”) and Debra Granik (“Leave No Trace”); Oscar-nominated films including “Captain Fantastic” and “Trumbo;” and works to bring brilliant new voices in cinema like Academy Award-winner Guy Nattiv (2024 Oscar-nominee “Golda”), Kitty Green (“The Assistant”), Fran Kranz (Spirit Award-winner for “Mass”), and Laurel Parmet (Spirit Award-nominee for “The Starling Girl”) to the big screen.