Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider has been selected as Denmark’s contender in the International Feature Film category for the 2023 Academy Awards. The film world premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival where Zar Amir Ebrahimi won the Best Actress award for her performance.
The Spanish black comedy film La Pietà directed by Eduardo Casanova is the winner of the top prize in the Main Competition Feature section at the 2022 Fantastic Fest. The film stars Ángela Molina and Manel Llunell as Libertad and Mateo in a mother-son toxic relationship.
Spector is a four-part documentary series about enigmatic, legendary music producer Phil Spector and what happened on the fateful night of February 3, 2003 when actress Lana Clarkson was shot dead in his mansion.
Vertical debuted the official trailer for Game of Love, the romantic drama film starring Bella Thorne and Benjamin Mascolo.
The 35th edition of International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) running from November 9 to 20 in Amsterdam announced its first competition lineups: the IDFA Competition for Short Documentary and the IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary, in addition to the Masters and Best of Fests selections.
IFC Films revealed the official trailer for Bad Axe, the award-winning documentary directed by David Siev. The film is a real-time portrait of 2020 and unfolds as an Asian/Mexican-American family in Trump’s rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, Neo-Nazis, and generational scars from the Cambodian Killing Fields.
Brendan Fraser, star of The Whale, will be honored with the American Riviera Award at the 38th Santa Barbara International Film Festival at an in-person conversation about his career.
A24 debuted the official trailer for Aftersun, the debut film from writer and director Charlotte Wells, starring Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio and Celia Rowlson-Hall.
Chris Smith’s (Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, American Movie) documentary “Sr.”, a tribute to maverick filmmaker Robert Downey Sr., will be released on Netflix later this year.
RLJE Films revealed the first look – teaser trailer for Kids VS Aliens, the sci-fi movie starring Dominic Mariche, Phoebe Rex, Calem MacDonald, Asher Grayson Percival, Ben Tector, that had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest 2022.
Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) will kick off its eight-day run on Thursday, October 13, with WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story starring Daniel Radcliffe, Evan Rachel Wood, Rainn Wilson, Toby Huss, Julianne Nicholson and Quinta Brunson. fresh from the Toronto International Film Festival, where it generated huge buzz and won the People’s Choice Award in the Midnight Madness category, WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story. WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story is directed by Eric Appel and stars Daniel Radcliffe as “Weird Al” Yankovic in the unexaggerated true story about the greatest musician of our time. From a conventional upbringing where playing the accordion was a sin, Al rebelled and made his dream of changing the words to world-renowned songs come true. An instant success and sex symbol, Al lives an excessive lifestyle and pursues an infamous romance that nearly destroys him.
The official trailer is here for Memories of My Father, previously titled “Forgotten We’ll Be (El olvido que seremos)”, the drama selected as the Colombian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards. The film starring Javier Cámara, Nicolás Reyes Cano, Juan Pablo Urrego, Patricia Tamayo, Maria Tereza Barreto, and Laura Londoño, is based on the true story of Héctor Abad Gómez, a Colombian university professor who fought against oppression and social equality, and the circumstances of his death by Colombian paramilitaries.