HBO Max debuted the official trailer for the Sundance Award-Winning film, Charm City Kings, set to premiere on the streaming platform on Thursday, October 8th. Charm City Kings won the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting at this year’s Sundance Film Festival for its cast that includes Jahi Di’Allo Winston, Meek Mill, Will Catlett, Donielle Hansley, Kezii Curtis, Chino, Lakeyria “Wheelie Queen” Doughty and Teyonah Parris.
Ahead of its premiere at Venice, Toronto, Telluride, and New York Film Festivals in the Fall, Searchlight Pictures released the first official teaser trailer for Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland starring Oscar-winning actress Frances McDormand. Nomadland will be released in theaters this Fall.
Cinedigm in partnership with Glass House Distribution released the award-winning independent film Saviors, winner of the Jury Award at the Madrid International Film Festival and the Beverly Hills Film Festival Audience Choice Award. Saviors starring Megan Johnson, Nathaniel Stroud, and Joe Cadiff is now available on Digital and DVD.
Sony Pictures released the trailer for the award winning film Yellow Rose which opens in theaters on October 9, 2020. Yellow Rose is the timely story of a Filipina teen from a small Texas town who fights to pursue her dreams as a country music performer while having to decide between staying with her family or leaving the only home she has known.
“My Brothers’ Crossing” is a spiritually uplifting film that depicts a true story about a black pastor that unintentionally has a head on collision with his car into a motorcycle killing a white couple shortly after the Missouri riots in August 2014. The movie will play in select Regal and AMC theaters throughout the US starting Thursday September 3rd.
Gravitas Ventures debuted the official trailer for the award-winning sci-fi comedy Alien Addiction directed by Shae Sterling.
Directed by Arthur Egeli (Murder on the Cape), The Black Emperor of Broadway is the story of the first African-American leading man on Broadway, Charles Gilpin. Gilpin was cast by playwright, Eugene O’Neill to be the lead in his play “The Emperor Jones” in 1920, a time when “blackface” was the norm on stage. O’Neill and Gilpin clashed numerous times over the cultural representation of Gilpin’s Emperor Jones, and while O’Neill’s name became celebrated, Gilpin’s was tragically lost to history.
IFC Films debuted the first trailer for Shithouse, written, directed, and starring Cooper Raiff, in his feature debut. Shithouse won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature at the virtual 2020 SXSW Film Festival, where the film made its World Premiere in the Narrative Feature Competition section. Shithouse will open in in theaters and VOD on October 16.
Roadside Attractions revealed the first trailer for The Glorias, directed by Julie Taymor and based on the book ‘My Life on the Road’ by Gloria Steinem. The Glorias stars Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Bette Midler, Janelle Monáe, Lorraine Toussaint, Lulu Wilson, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, and Kimberly Guerrero will be released on September 30th, 2020.
Secrets, carnality, violence, revenge and the merciless spell of the natural world all hover over an ostensibly carefree family get-together in Violation, part of the Midnight Madness program at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.
Paramount released the trailer for Brian Duffield’s Spontaneous, an outrageous coming-of-age love story set in a high school where students are inexplicably blowing up. Starring Katherine Langford (“Cursed,” “13 Reasons Why”), Charlie Plummer (“Looking for Alaska,” Words on Bathroom Walls), Yvonne Orji (“Insecure,” Night School), and Hayley Law (“Riverdale”), with Rob Huebel (“Transparent”) and Piper Perabo (“Penny Dreadful: City of Angels”), this satirical comedy will be available for Premium Video-On-Demand and for Digital purchase on October 6.
