Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen, Candice Bergen star as four best friends who take their book club to Italy for the fun girls trip they never had, in the romantic comedy film Book Club: The Next Chapter, the follow up to the 2018 film Book Club. Also starring in the film are Craig T. Nelson, Don Johnson, Andy Garcia, Giancarlo Giannini, Hugh Quarshie, and Vincent Riotta.
Mark McKenna, who starred in Peacock’s One of Us is Lying and will next be seen in Daliland, is set to star alongside actress Lukita Maxwell (HBO MAX’s Generation and Apple TV’s Shrinking) in the coming of age romance An Autumn Summer from debut writer-director Jared Isaac.
Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber have partnered up to release the animated feature Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. The feature debut of composer Pierre Földes, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman will open theatrically at Film Forum in New York in April 2023 before expanding nationwide.
Greenwich Entertainment revealed the official trailer for The Man in the Basement, the French psychological thriller starring Jérémie Renier and Bérénice Bejo as a French Jewish couple who sells their basement to a former teacher (François Cluzet), an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist. Also starring in the film are Jonathan Zaccaï, Victoria Eber, and Denise Chalem.
Peacock revealed the official trailer for Woooooo! Becoming Ric Flair, the biopic documentary film exploring the life of the WWE hall of famer.
Filmed in evocative black and white, A Perfect Day for Caribou, starring Charlie Plummer (Lean on Pete; Looking for Alaska) and Jeb Berrier (First Cow; Shrill) will make its US premiere at Slamdance Film Festival. Also starring in the film are Rachael Perrell Fosket, Dana Millican, and Oellis Levine.
Ava DuVernay’a Array Releasing revealed the official trailer for Mars One (Marte Um), the family drama selected as Brazil’s official section for International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards. In the film starring Rejane Faria, Carlos Francisco, Camilla Damião and Cícero Lucas, a middle-class Black family in Brazil feels the strain of their new reality after a far-right politician takes power in Brazil.
Brainstorm Media debuted the official trailer for She Is Love, the intense and involving romantic drama starring Haley Bennett (Cyrano, The Girl on the Train & The Magnificent Seven) and Sam Riley (Control, Free Fire & On the Road) as a divorced couple who meet a decade after their split.
David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future, Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO, and Charlotte Wells’s Aftersun took the top spots among films released in 2022 on Film Comment’s annual end-of-year survey. Of the films that screened at festivals worldwide but have not announced stateside distribution, David Easteal’s The Plains, Bertrand Bonello’s Coma, and Laura Citarella’s Trenque Lauquen received the top rankings.
Sometimes we find hope where we least expect it.
A24 revealed the official trailer for Showing Up, Kelly Reichardt’s vibrant and captivatingly funny drama starring Michelle Williams, Hong Chau, John Magaro, André Benjamin, and Judd Hirsch.
A24 unveiled a new official trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, starring Brendan Fraser as an obese recluse in a performance for which he received numerous accolades including Best Actor nomination for the 80th Golden Globe Awards.