Kandoo Films, the Los Angeles based full-service production and distribution company that focuses on emerging new artists will release two new indie films for first-time film directors – Michael Leoni (American Street Kid) and Drew Hale (Cut and Chop), as part of his Emerging Artist program.
The South Korean coming-of-age drama House of Hummingbird directed by Bora Kim which won the award for Best International Narrative Feature at Tribeca Film Festival will open nationwide in Virtual Cinemas on Friday June 26. The film will open in NYC at Film at Lincoln Center; and in LA at Laemmle Theatres and CGV Cinemas.
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)
Four Japanese orphans team up to form a rock band in We Are Little Zombies directed by Makoto Nagahisa that World Premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, and won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Originality. The film which also won a Crystal Bear – Special Mention at Berlin International Film Festival hits virtual cinemas and live cinemas and VOD July 10th. We Are Little Zombies stars Keita Ninomiya, Mondo Okumura, Satoshi Mizuno, and Sena Nakajima.
Arena Cinelounge Sunset, Hollywood’s acclaimed home for arthouse, genre, and independent cinema, announced today that it will be the first physical movie theater in Los Angeles to re-open on Friday, June 19, 2020 with special engagements of classic BAFTA and Independent Spirit Award winner The Unbearable Lightness of Being and the 2020 festival winner Babyteeth starring Ben Mendelsohn.
Not to be confused with the Netflix documentary of the same name, the Australian drama Disclosure from writer/director Michael Bentham, hammers home the notion that “there are two sides to every story, and then there is the truth.”
Dark Sky Films has acquired the timely new pandemic thriller Before the Fire, the debut feature from director Charlie Buhler and written by and starring Jenna Lyng Adams of The Kominsky Method. Dark Sky plans to release the film in theaters and on digital platforms by mid-summer 2020.
Breaking Glass Pictures will release the indie thriller This Teacher, from multi-award-winning director Mark Jackson (“Without”, “War Story”, which premiered as the Closing Night film at Slamdance Film Festival. This Teacher stars Hafsia Herzi as a French Muslim woman who travels to New York City to visit her childhood best friend but when their reunion turns disastrous, she escapes to a cabin upstate. However, she soon finds she is not alone, and her peaceful getaway devolves into a nightmare.
Ahead of the film’s release in July, Utopia dropped the teaser trailer for award-winning filmmakers Bill and Turner Ross’s Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, an official selection of this year’s Sundance Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival.
Vertical Entertainment released the trailer for writer-director Channing Godfrey Peoples’ Miss Juneteenth, which world premiered earlier this year at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and won the Louis Black “Lone Star” Award at the SXSW in March.
The dark comedy “Mope” starring David Arquette, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and Max Adler released a new trailer ahead of its release online on June 16. The film is the darkly hilarious and tragic true story of best friends Steve Driver and Tom Dong as they struggle to make it as porn stars, but end up getting hired as “mopes,” the porn equivalent of movie extras.
IFC Midnight released a new teaser trailer for Relic, the feature film debut of writer/director Natalie Erika James and starring Emily Mortimer. Relic had its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and is scheduled to open July 10, 2020 in theaters and On Demand / Digital Rental.