Harpoon from director Rob Grant (Mon Ami, 2012) and producers Michael Peterson (Alive, 2018), Kurtis David Harder (What Keeps You Alive, 2018) and Julian Black Antelope (Knuckleball, 2018) which makes its world premiere at the 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam has been acquired by NY/LA-based arthouse genre sales company Yellow Veil Pictures.
STYX stars Susanne Wolff as Rike, a German emergency room physician, who leaves behind her everyday life to fulfill a long-held dream: a solo crossing of the Atlantic. But when she boards the Asa Gray, her gleaming white sailboat, in Gibraltar, she has no way of knowing the troubles or personal transformations that await her on the open seas.
BROWN’S CANYON, the comedy-drama about five people at turning points in their lives, will debut on VOD and will be available to rent and own on digital HD across global internet and satellite platforms through Freestyle Digital Media on January 29, 2019. Freestyle Digital Media is the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center will spotlight the amazing work of ‘the boldly iconoclastic director’ Yorgos Lanthimos with a five-film retrospective from February 1 to 5.
Here is the new trailer for Michael M. Bilandic’s Jobe’z World, starring Jason Grisell as Jobe, a roller-blading drug dealer.
As he has done each year since 2015, former President Barack Obama released his favorite movies, songs, and books of the year on Facebook and Instagram. Obama’s taste in movies ranges from the popular Black Panther to some very impressive indie films including Eighth Grade, If Beale Street Could Talk, documentary films – Minding the Gap, Won’t You Be My Neighbor; and foreign films – Roma, Shoplifters.
The Australian crime-drama West of Sunshine tells of a father who has less than a day to pay back a gambling debt, while looking after his young son.
Dark Sky Films released the trailer and poster for Mega Time Squad, the sci-fi/crime thriller/comedy about a low level thief stumbling upon an ancient time-travel device. The film which has received rave reviews will open in theaters and on VOD on February 15, 2019.
In Rust Creek, the new thriller from Kelly & Cal director Jen McGowan opening in theaters and VOD January 4th, an ordinary woman must summon extraordinary courage to survive a nightmare odyssey.
Love, faith and civil rights collide in a southern town as evangelical Christians and drag queens step into the spotlight to dismantle stereotypes in the trailer for the documentary The Gospel of Eureka. Directed by Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher; and narrated by Mx Justin Vivian Bond, Kino Lorber will release The Gospel of Eureka on February 8, 2019.
Annapurna Pictures released the official trailer and teaser poster for the comedy-drama Where’d You Go, Bernadette directed by Richard Linklater and starring Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup and Kristen Wiig. Where’d You Go, Bernadette also starring Emma Nelson, James Urbaniak, Judy Greer, Troian Bellisario, Zoe Chao and Laurence Fishburne opens in theaters on March 22, 2019.
