Michael Covino’s The Climb, which had an original release date in March, will premiere in Los Angeles and New York theaters on October 9, 2020, with additional cities to follow. Written by Covino and Kyle Marvin, The Climb stars Covino, Marvin, Gayle Rankin, Talia Balsam, George Wendt, and Judith Godrèche.
British comedian Simon Amstell’s debut feature Benjamin will be available on VOD on August 25th. The romantic comedy is a charming, laugh-out-loud look at one man’s land mined road to success and love.
Onur Tukel’s provocative new film Black Magic for White Boys comes to VOD/digital on July 3. The film stars Ronald Guttman (The Hunt for Red October), Onur Tukel (Catfight, Applesauce), Lou Jay Taylor, Charlie LaRose (7 Chinese Brothers), Eva Dorrepaal (Catfight), Leah Shore, Brendan Miller (TNT’s Animal Kingdom), Brian W. Smith (Shwabby Run)
The new trailer dropped this week for the weird French comedy Deerskin (Le Daim) from Quentin Dupieux (Rubber, Wrong, Wrong Cops) which opened the 2019 Directors’ Fortnight, the independent sidebar running parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. The film stars Academy Award-winner Jean Dujardin as a man so obsessed with his designer deerskin jacket that it causes him to blow his life savings and turn to crime. Deerskin which also starts Adèle Haenel, Albert Delpy, Coralie Russier, Laurent Nicolas, and Pierre Gommé will open in theaters on March 20th, 2020.
Jon Stewart is back, and he has something to say.
The Ukrainian romantic comedy Just Sex, Nothing Personal from director Olga Ryashina, and starring Roman Lutskiy, Angelika Nikolaeva, Natalya Mazur, Sergey Pritula, and Andrey Danilko, comes to North America this October. The Artist Rights Distribution release makes out with L.A theater screens on October 23.
Global Digital Releasing has acquired the worldwide rights to writer / director Anderson Cowan’s feature film debut, “GROUPERS”.
3 Days With Dad directed by Larry Clarke is a comedy about the trials and tribulations dealing with parents at the end of life and dealing with the hangups they created.
Here is the first video clip from the UK comedy The Bromley Boys set around football from Steve Kelly, and starring Brenock O’Connor of Game of Thrones, in theaters this August.
Samuel Goldwyn Films will release Joseph Cross’ Summer Night in theaters beginning July 12, 2019. Summer Night follows, a young, tight-knit group of friends who fall in and out of love over the course of one intoxicating, music-filled summer night.
Comedian Jeremy Saville is causing a big stir online with his new comedy Loqueesha about a white bartender who ‘becomes’ a larger-than-life black female personality named Loqueesha in order to snag a job at a radio station. Loqueesha lands in theaters on July 12.
Dark Star Pictures will premiere the Spanish Civil War whimsical comedy The Bastards Fig Tree in theaters this May. The theatrical season kicks off with a Los Angeles run on May 10, with the title to expand to other markets in the weeks following.