Oscilloscope pushes up Theatrical Release Date for TILDA SWINTON STARRER 'WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN'

Awards momentum and STRONG oscar qualifying run built demand for the

January 13^th and JANUARY 20^TH release

New York, NY (December 21, 2011) - New York-based distributor Oscilloscope Laboratories announced today that the company has pushed up the New York theatrical release for the Tilda Swinton starrer WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN. Set to play at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas and Angelika Film Center, the picture will now open in New York on Friday, January 13^th, 2012 and at the Arclight Hollywood Theater in Los Angeles on Friday, January 20^th, 2012.

A suspenseful and gripping psychological thriller, Lynne Ramsay's WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN explores the factious relationship between a mother and her son. Swinton, in a bracing, tour-de-force performance, plays the mother, Eva, as she contends for 15 years with the increasing malevolence of her first-born child, Kevin (Ezra Miller). Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, the film explores nature vs. nurture on a whole new level as Eva's own culpability is measured against Kevin's innate evilness.

"We had an amazing one-week qualifying run in December where the film's attendance exceeded even our highest expectations. The reviews were stellar and the word of mouth is only growing. It's an intense psychological thriller that audiences feel the need to talk about afterwards. By definition this is an ideal 'Word of Mouth' film," said David Fenkel, President of Oscilloscope Laboratories. "Theaters are excited to have a quality arthouse genre film to bring in younger audiences"

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN has already garnered several accolades and nominations this awards season, including numerous BEST ACTRESS recognitions for its lead star Tilda Swinton:

National Board of Review (WINNER - BEST ACTRESS)

Golden Globes (NOMINEE - BEST ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA)

Screen Actors Guild (BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE)

European Film Awards (WINNER - BEST ACTRESS)

British Independent Film Awards (WINNER - BEST DIRECTOR)

San Francisco Film Critics (WINNER - BEST ACTRESS)

Women Film Critics Circle (WINNER - BEST FILM BY A WOMAN)

Houston Film Critics (WINNER - BEST ACTRESS)

Broadcast Film Critics Awards (NOMINEE - BEST ACTRESS)

British Independent Film Awards (NOMINEE - BEST ACTRESS)

British Independent Film Awards (NOMINEE - BEST FILM)

British Independent Film Awards (NOMINEE - BEST SCREENPLAY)

London Film Critics Circle (NOMINEE - BRITISH FILM OF THE YEAR)

London Film Critics Circle (NOMINEE - ACTRESS OF THE YEAR)

London Film Critics CIRCLE (NOMINEE - DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR)

Washington DC Film Critics (NOMINEE - BEST ACTRESS)

San Diego Film Critics (NOMINEE - BEST ACTRESS)

Indiana Film Critics (NOMINEE - BEST ACTRESS)

About Oscilloscope Laboratories:

Oscilloscope Laboratories is a film production and theatrical distribution entity launched in 2008 by Adam Yauch of Beastie Boys. Yauch modeled the company after the indie record labels he grew up around, selecting and marketing films with the same artistic integrity with which they were made.  The company, which is an extension of Yauch's recording studio of the same name, has an in-house DVD distribution and production arm, and its paper packaging is reminiscent of the heyday of LP record jackets. All of the company's plastic-free DVD packaging is printed on FSC Certified 80% post-consumer waste paper and produced in a carbon-neutral hydroelectric plant.  

Other Oscilloscope theatrical releases include Yauch's GUNNIN' FOR THAT #1 SPOT, Irena Salina's FLOW, Kelly Reichardt's WENDY AND LUCY starring Michelle Williams, So Yong Kim's TREELESS MOUNTAIN, the Academy Award®-nominated THE GARDEN from Scott Hamilton Kennedy, Anders Østergaard's Academy Award®-nominated BURMA VJ, Nati Baratz's UNMISTAKEN CHILD, Oren Moverman's Academy Award®-nominated THE MESSENGER starring Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, and Samantha Morton, Henrik Ruben Genz's Danish thriller TERRIBLY HAPPY, Michel Gondry's personal family documentary THE THORN IN THE HEART, Jules Dassin's classic THE LAW, Yael Hersonski's award-winning WWII documentary A FILM UNFINISHED, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's HOWL starring James Franco as Allen Ginsberg, Jalmari Helander's Christmas fantasy RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE, Academy Award®-nominated director Dana Adam Shapiro's MONOGAMY starring Chris Messina and Rashida Jones, Kelly Reichardt's Western drama MEEK'S CUTOFF starring Michelle Williams, Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Marshall Curry's IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT, and Andrea Nevins' punk rock dad doc THE OTHER F WORD. Upcoming releases include Lynne Ramsay's WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN starring Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, and Ezra Miller, and Andrea Arnold's WUTHERING HEIGHTS.