Sony Pictures Classics revealed the official trailer for Return to Seoul (Retour à Séoul), Cambodia’s official entry for the Best International Film category at the upcoming Academy Awards. The film stars newcomer Ji-Min Park as Freddie, a 25-year old French adoptee, who goes to South Korea to find her biological family. Oh Kwang-Rok, Guka Han and Kim Sun-Young also star.
Netflix revealed the official trailer for The Volcano: Rescue From Whakaari, the gripping documentary account of tourists caught in a tragic volcanic eruption while sightseeing on an island off New Zealand in 2019.
Considered one of the runaway hits of the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, Lionsgate set the release date for the horror-comedy film The Blackening, for June 16, 2023 – Juneteenth weekend.
The official trailer debuted for Candy Land, the horror thriller movie starring Olivia Luccardi, Sam Quartin, Eden Brolin, Owen Campbell, Guinevere Turner, Virginia Rand, and William Baldwin.
Michelle Yeoh will receive the International Star Award, Actress for Everything Everywhere All at Once at Palm Springs International Film Awards. The Film Awards will take place in-person on January 5, 2023 with the festival running through January 16, 2023.
Actor Clarence Gilyard Jr, known for starring in the Left Behind movie trilogy, Die Hard, and Top Gun, has died. He was 66. UNLV’s College of Fine Arts, where Gilyard was a film and theatre professor since 2006, announced his death in a newsletter on Monday.
A24 debuted the official trailer for When You Finish Saving the World, the coming-of-age film starring Academy-Award® winner Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard, that premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Alisha Boe, and Jay O. Sanders also star in the film featuring original music by Emile Mosseri, Finn Wolfhard, and Jesse Eisenberg.
In Pelosi In The House, her 14th documentary film for HBO, documentarian Alexandra Pelosi offers a candid, behind-the-scenes chronicle of the life of her mother and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, through her career milestones leading up to the inauguration of President Joseph Biden in January 2021.
Everything Everywhere All at Once, written and directed by (The Daniels) Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, won Best Feature at the 32nd Annual Gotham Awards. The film follows a middle-aged, overwhelmed laundromat owner who finds she can save the universe and her family unit by harnessing powers from different versions of her unexplored lives.
RIFF – Rome Independent Film Festival announced the award winners of its 21st edition, with Best International Film going to Alice by Krystin Ver Linden and the Award for Best Italian Film went to Un Mondo Fantastico (A Fantastic World) by Michele Rovini.
Singer and actress Irene Cara, known for playing the role of Coco Hernandez in the 1980 film Fame, and Sparkle Williams in the original 1976 musical drama film Sparkle has died. She was 63.
The thriller Good Guy With a Gun written and directed by John Mossman will world premiere at Dances With Films Festival (DWF).