EXCLUSIVE: Yellow Veil Pictures has acquired North American rights to Boorman and the Devil , a documentary about the troubled production of John Boorman ’s Exorcist II: The Heretic .” The 1977 follow up to the original Exorcist was a commercial and critical failure but has gone on to earn cult status. 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. The documentary directed and produced by David Kittredge premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2025. It enjoys a 100 percent critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes. “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.…