‘Superboys of Malegaon’ sets Amazon Prime Release Date
After completing a successful run at film festivals, including a Gala Presentation premiere at the 49th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the 68th BFI London Film Festival, and the 36th Palm Springs International Film Festival, Superboys of Malegaon will be available to stream globally on Prime Video Thursday, April 24th.
Superboys of Malegaon is an ode to Indian Cinema, taking inspiration from the life and journey of Nasir Sheikh, an amateur filmmaker from Malegaon who, along with his passionate group of friends, brings a cinematic spotlight on the small town of Malegaon, India.
Directed by Reema Kagti, it stars Adarsh Gourav, Shashank Arora, Vineet Singh Kumar, Anuj Singh Duhan, and Muskkaan Jaferi.
Superboys of Malegaon is a film based on the life of Nasir Shaikh, an amateur filmmaker from the town of Malegaon. The residents of the town look to Bollywood cinema for a much-needed escape from daily drudgery. Nasir gets inspired to make a film for the people of Malegaon, by the people of Malegaon. He bands together his ragtag group of friends to bring his vision to life, thereby bringing a fresh lease of life into the town. The film is a poignant yet uplifting take on both filmmaking and friendship – and what happens when those two worlds collide.
‘The Judd Family: Truth Be Told’ Documentary will debut on Mother’s Day Weekend on Lifetime.
Profiling one of the greatest country music families of our time, the four-part documentary event The Judd Family: Truth Be Told will debut on Mother’s Day Weekend from May 10 – 11 at 8pm ET/PT on Lifetime.
The documentary examines Naomi Judd’s complicated bond with her daughters, Wynonna and Ashley, that both tied them together and drove them apart. Directed by Alexandra Dean (Secrets of Playboy, This is Paris, Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story), the documentary explores the complex mother-daughter dynamics and intergenerational trauma as seen through the eyes of The Judd Family. In addition to exclusive interviews with Ashley, Wynonna, close family members and those who knew Naomi best, the documentary features never-before-seen photos, home videos, unreleased songs, and audio. The Judd Family: Truth Be Told reveals the complex story of the Judds’ including their triumphs and tragedies across several decades. From Naomi’s beginnings in Kentucky as a young teen mom, then known as Dianna, struggling to survive with her young daughters, the doc illustrates how the famous country music mother-daughter duo of Naomi and Wynonna Judd came to be and where Ashley stood at the height of Naomi and Wynonna’s fame. Untold truths emerge, illustrating what tied them together, and what also drove them a part.
Featuring intimate interviews with many Judd family members, including Wynonna, Ashley, and Naomi’s widower Larry Strickland, the doc also speaks to Naomi’s closest friends and colleagues including Reba McEntire and Don Potter. Exclusive access to rare family footage and photos, unreleased songs, and voicemails that the Judd women left for one another further illustrate the unique relationship between mothers and daughters, the cyclical nature of generational trauma and the strength of familial bonds.
Watch the official trailer for The Judd Family: Truth Be Told.
Netflix Documentary ‘Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror’ Revisits 1995 Domestic Terrorism
Netflix released the official trailer for Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror, a documentary revisiting the 1995 bombing of an Oklahoma City federal building, the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in US history.
The documentary debuts on Netflix on April 18th, 2025.
Filmmaker Greg Tillman delves into the harrowing events of April 19, 1995, when a bomb devastated the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The film features crime scene recreations, firsthand accounts from survivors, first responders, law enforcement, and audio-recorded interviews with domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh, the man responsible for the bombing — all shedding new light on the tragedy that claimed 168 lives. Probing how the FBI collaborated with local authorities, the documentary takes a detailed look into the investigative methods — and strokes of pure luck — used to bring McVeigh and his co-conspirators to justice, while also exploring the personal demons driving McVeigh’s radical, far-right, insurrectionist agenda.
Watch the official trailer for Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror
4K Restoration of René Clément’s ‘Forbidden Games’ Opens at Film Forum in New York City
Forbidden Games (Jeux Interdits), the 1952 French war drama by René Clément based on François Boyer’s novel Les Jeux Interdits, will run in a new 4K restoration at Film Forum in New York City from Friday, May 9 to Thursday, May 15, 2025.
Starring in the classic film are Brigitte Fossey, Georges Poujouly, and Lucien Hubert
“Michel! Michel! Michel!” France 1940, as a refugee column trudges along a country road, a dog makes a break for it, with its tiny blonde mistress in pursuit — and then the German fighters strike. But if 5-year-old Brigitte Fossey’s understanding of death is limited as she strokes her mother’s cold face, at least she can bury the dog discarded by her peasant rescuers, aided by 11-year-old farm boy Georges Poujouly. As they build a special, secret friendship, their pet cemetery steadily grows, topped by crosses stolen from graveyards, even as the adults play their own games of grotesque peasant feuds… And then Fossey shouts his name again.
A masterpiece of French post-war cinema by director René Clément (who would make the classic thriller Purple Noon, starring Alain Delon, eight years later), adapted by the legendary team of Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost from Boyer’s successful novel, with a haunting hit score played by guitar virtuoso Narciso Yepes, it initially did so-so box office and screened only on the fringes of the Cannes Festival, then nearly got shut out of Venice — where it won its top prize, the Golden Lion — and then became a worldwide art house smash and Clément’s second Best Foreign Film Oscar winner (following the previous year’s The Walls of Malapaga).
Watch the trailer for Forbidden Games
Academy Establishes Stunt Design Award for 100th Oscars
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the creation of an annual competitive Academy Award or Achievement in Stunt Design, beginning with the 100th Academy Awards for films released in 2027.
“Since the early days of cinema, stunt design has been an integral part of filmmaking,” said Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang. “We are proud to honor the innovative work of these technical and creative artists, and we congratulate them for their commitment and dedication in reaching this momentous occasion.”
Category rules for eligibility and voting for the inaugural award will be announced in 2027 with the complete 100th Academy Awards Rules. The specifics of the award’s presentation will be determined by the Academy’s Board of Governors and executive leadership at a future date.
More than 100 stunt professionals are members of the Academy’s Production and Technology Branch.
The last new award category created was Achievement in Casting, established in 2024 and beginning with the 98th Academy Awards for films released in 2025
David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds Opens April 25 in Bay Area
The body horror drama film The Shrouds directed by David Cronenberg and starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce along with Sandrine Holt opens on April 25 in theaters in the Bay Area.
The film will play in the following cinemas: Roxie Theater, San Francisco AMC Mercado 20, Santa Clara Rialto Cinemas, Sebastopol Tower Theater, Sacramento
Set in an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Vincent Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth. While Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife (Diane Kruger) from cancer—and falling into a peculiar sexual relationship with his wife’s sister (also Kruger)—a spate of vandalized graves utilizing his “shroud” technology begins to put his enterprise at risk, leading him to uncover a potentially vast conspiracy. Written following the death of the director’s wife, the new film from David Cronenberg is both a profoundly personal reckoning with grief and a descent into noir-tinged dystopia, set in an ominous world of self-driving cars, data theft, and A.I. personal assistants. Offering Cronenberg’s customary balance of malevolence and wit, The Shrouds is a sly and thought-provoking consideration of the corporeal and the digital, the mortal and the infinite. 2024 / France, Canada / 119 minutes.
Watch the Official Trailer for The Shrouds.
Rebel Wilson and Jason Isaacs Star in the Pop Musical Drama Juliet & Romeo
From writer-director Timothy Scott Bogart (Spinning Gold / Last Full Measure), Juliet & Romeo is a reimagining of one of the iconic love story
This innovative twist on the Shakespearean classic stars Rebel Wilson (Pitch Perfect / JoJo Rabbit), Jason Isaacs (The White Lotus / Harry Potter franchise / Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris), Rupert Everett (My Best Friend’s Wedding / the Shrek franchise), Rupert Graves (Sherlock / Emma), Tony Award-winner, Dan Fogler (A Complete Unknown / Fantastic Beasts franchise / The Walking Dead), and Derek Jacobi (Gladiator II / The King’s Speech).
Also featured in the film are Clara Rugaard (Love Gets A Room / Black Mirror) and Jamie Ward (The Last Supper / His Dark Materials / Tyrant), bring the Star-Crossed Lovers to life, with Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (Coda/ Vikings), Nicholas Podany (Saturday Night Live / Hello, Tomorrow!) and GRAMMY Award-winners, Tayla Parx and Ledisi, rounding out the all-star cast.
Juliet & Romeo opens in UK cinemas nationwide for a special one-night event on 11th June, 2025
Juliet & Romeo will be the first film in an exciting movie-musical trilogy based around the real-life 1301 story that inspired Shakespeare’s greatest tale, with the world’s most famous lovers finding themselves central figures in an epic journey of battles and betrayal, the iconic duo turning the tides on history as we know it.
Speaking about the challenges of bringing one of Shakespeare’s most renowned tales to the big screen, Writer/Director Timothy Scott Bogart said “Romeo & Juliet is one of the most romantic stories ever told. And the challenge for any storyteller is to find a different colour that they can add. To work from a different palette. To me, what Shakespeare did was to express the poetry of his time. So, in searching for the poetry of our time, we turn to music… Original Pop Music, as a way to truly dive into our character’s journeys – which I believe makes our film different than any other version that’s ever been done before. The greatest love story of all time, set to the greatest music of our time.”
Added Bogart, “The key to all of this was finding a cast that could bring all these wonderful themes and relationships to life. Casting the remarkable Rebel Wilson as Juliet’s mom, Lady Capulet, we are able to explore that mother and daughter relationship like never before. Rebel’s extraordinary portrayal—whose own complex experience of motherhood profoundly shapes the lives of history’s most legendary lovers, just elevated everything!”
Excited about bringing her Lady Capulet to the big screen Rebel Wilson said “It was a really interesting and creative opportunity to play Lady Capulet in this film. I was playing a famous mother after just becoming a mother myself. But overall I was attracted to this project because of the excellent music and the chance to play really against type as an actress. Filming on location in ancient castles in Italy was very special as well – not to mention the stellar cast: Rupert, Jason, Sir Derek and the young talented cast who I just love and know they have an amazing future ahead of them.”
Three-time Oscar-Winning Production Designer, Dante Ferretti (Hugo / The Aviator / Gangs Of New York), and original songs and music from GRAMMY-Winner, Evan Kidd Bogart (Beyonce’s “Halo” / Rihanna’s “SOS”) and Justin Gray (Oz The Great And Powerful / The Lego Movie), all breathe new life into the theatrical classic.
Watch the trailer for Juliet & Romeo.
New Prime Video Documentary Series to Follow Birmingham City Football Club’s Promotion in Defining Season
Cameras follow the players, staff and owners of Birmingham City Football Club (“Birmingham City”) as the club fights to instill a winning culture and climb the football pyramid in a new untitled documentary series to launch Summer 2025 on Prime Video worldwide in over 200 countries
Embedded camera crews have followed the First-Team players, coaching staff and key ownership figures from pre-season to promotion, including Birmingham City’s Chairman Tom Wagner, Co-Founder and Co-Managing Member of Knighthead Capital Management, LLC (“Knighthead”), and American football legend, Tom Brady, as the club fights to instil a winning culture and climb the English football pyramid. Beyond the day-to-day football operations, the documentary will also explore the unique cultural heritage of Birmingham City and a supporter base who have remained loyal despite a sustained period without success or silverware. The documentary will shine a spotlight on this community’s resurgence, illustrating how the football club plans to drive its transformation.
The journey of Birmingham City will be executive produced by Steven Knight, the creator of Peaky Blinders and a lifelong Blues fan. Knight will bring his deep connection to the Club and storytelling expertise to the project, ensuring a genuine portrayal of Birmingham City’s transformation. Matt Alvarez (Straight Outta Compton, Are We There Yet?, Straight Outta LA, the Friday franchise) of Knighthead and Board member of the Club will serve as an executive producer. The documentary will be produced by Religion of Sports (Rodgers: Enigma, In the Arena: Serena Williams, Kobe Bryant’s Muse) and Whisper (Sven, Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the Ashes). The project was conceived by Tom Brady and Religion of Sports co-founder, Gotham Chopra, following Brady joining as minority owner of Birmingham City in 2023.
The series will be co-directed by Chopra and Claudia Corbisiero (Sven), bringing a cinematic and in-depth perspective to Birmingham City’s story.