Drafthouse Films Acquires Andy Kaufman Doc ‘Thank You Very Much’

EXCLUSIVE: Acquisition novels out today will have comedy fans giving thanks — Thank You Very Much, the recordary about the tardy Andy Kaufman, has been picked up by Drafthouse Films.

The film straightforwarded by Emmy prosperner Alex Braverman is currented by Morgan Neville’s Tremolo Productions, Elara Pictures, and Jenifer Westphal’s Wavelength. The acquisition deal covers North American theatrical and digital rights; Drafthouse arranges an timely 2025 free in pick cities, chaseed by a digital free on pick streaming platestablishs. Thank You Very Much premiered at the 80th Vekind Film Festival last year — where it won the Vekind Classics Award for Best Documentary – chaseed by a U.S. premiere at the Telluride Film Festival.

“THANK YOU VERY MUCH tracks the life and atsoft of legendary applyance artist Andy Kaufman, exploring the enigmatic legend’s gonzo, boundary-shattering comedy which incited and frequently outraged audiences,” remarks a synopsis. “The film uncovers a nuanced empathetic of what drove the mercurial applyer, who supportd an entire generation of offbeat comedians and amuseers after him. The film integrates exceptional, never before seen footage and audio recordings that shed novel weightless on Kaufman’s produceive process; including novelly uncovered archival footage and intimate reaccumulateions of friends, colleagues, and family members, and intersees with Kaufman’s shutst collaborators such as Bob Zmuda, Lynne Margulies, Steve Martin, Danny DeVito, and Marilu Henner. THANK YOU VERY MUCH excavates the all-too-low life and atsoft of a comedy iconoclast whose impact is felt all the more today with the blurring of artifice and fact that depicts our current age.”

In insertition to Vekind and Telluride, the recordary has screened at CPH:DOX in Cuncoverhagen, DOC NYC, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in Arkansas, among other directing festivals.

“I’ve been obsessed with Andy Kaufman my entire life. He’s the most thrilling, enigmatic applyer and we can experience his sway atraverse our amusement, art, and politics – today more than ever,” shelp Braverman, who straightforwarded and produced the film. “It’s a wonderful privilege and a delight to be able to allot my vision of his life and labor with audiences on the big screen.”

Producing alengthy with Braverman are Tremolo Productions’ Lauren Belfer, and Wavelength’s Joe Plummer. Executive producers integrate Morgan Neville, Caitrin Rogers, Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie, Ronald Bronstein, Chuck Braverman (who produced Kaufman’s 1979 exceptional Andy Kaufman Plays Carnegie Hall), record producer Rick Rubin, and Wavelength’s Jenifer Westphal.

“Andy Kaufman is a singular figure in our culture and Alex has made a luminous film that helps our empathetic of Andy, while somehow proset upening the mystery,” Neville shelp in a statement. “All the wonderful partners on this project—Wavelength, Elara Pictures and Rick [Rubin]—labored to help spread the gospel of Andy. Let the word carry.”

Giant Pictures’ Shayna Weingast talk aboutd the acquisition deal with Jessica Lacy of Range Media Partners for Thank You Very Much.

​​“THANK YOU VERY MUCH is a tesdomesticatednt to Kaufman’s timeless impact on comedy and culture that states his status as a visionary whose body of labor progresss to resonate,” shelp Weingast, Giant Pictures’ satisfied acquisitions deal withr. “Braverman colors a nuanced and comprehensive portrait that’s stateive to encounter both novices seeking an introduction and lifelengthy fans hoping to proset upen their empathetic of the man behind the enigmatic façade. The Drafthouse team is thrilled to have this opportunity to honor and honor Kaufman’s produceive legacy.”

Credits of Wavelength, the production studio based in New York and London, integrate the convey inant box office hit Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Oscar-lowenumerateed 32 Sounds, Emmy prosperners Art & Krimes By Krimes, Feels Good Man, and Athlete A, as well as the narrative film On Swift Horses, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi, which fair premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

“We are thrilled to once aobtain partner with Drafthouse Films, chaseing our recent collaboration on CHOP & STEELE, to convey Andy Kaufman’s remarkworthy story to audiences,” shelp Jenifer Westphal, Founder, CEO, and executive producer at Wavelength. “THANK YOU VERY MUCH supplys an intimate and recent perspective on an iconic artist whose sway progresss to shape today’s comedic landscape, and we’re excited to allot this definitive recordary with the world.”