Vertical Entertainment will release Measure of Revenge, a psychological thriller that marks an international directorial debut by Malaysian director Peyfa about an actress whose famous son dies suddenly from a supposed overdose, causing her to conduct her own investigation with the help of a drug dealer in pursuit of answers, justice, and revenge by any means necessary. Vertical is planning a day-and-date release on March 18, 2022.
Here is the official trailer for Alice, the indie drama starring KeKe Palmer as an enslaved woman who escapes a plantation in Georgia, to learn that it is actually 1973. Also starring in the film that premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival are Common, Jonny Lee Miller, Gaius Charles, Alicia Witt and NaTasha Yvette Williams. Directed by Krystin Ver Linden, the film opens in theaters on March 18, 2022.
The Japanese film The Cherry Bushido, directed by Hiroshi Akabane, debuted the official trailer ahead of the release in theaters on March 11, 2022.
Girl Picture, Alli Haapasalo’s spirited coming-of-age drama will open the 36th edition of BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival set to run March 16th – 27, 2022. The festival will close with Tramps!, directed by documentary filmmaker Kevin Hegge, whose previous film She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column screened at BFI Flare in 2013.
IFC Films debuted the official trailer for Nitram starring Caleb Landry Jones as a disturbed young man called Nitram and the events leading to his involvement in the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, Australia.
Directed by Teemu Nikki, the Finnish film The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic is an intense thriller shot from a blind man’s perspective, starring Petri Poikolainen, a blind and wheelchair-bound actor in a gripping debut performance.
Oscar-nominated documentary Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) will make its broadcast television premiere on ABC on Sunday, February 20, 2022 (8:00-10:31 p.m. EST).
IFC Midnight will release Rubikon, a science-fiction disaster film directed by Magdalena Lauritsch, that brings social commentary and an acute moral dilemma into heart-pounding realization.
Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over, the critically-acclaimed, award-winning, documentary on singer Dionne Warwick will be among the first films to premiere on CNN+, CNN’s streaming service debuting this spring. Produced, directed, and written by Dave Wooley, and directed by David Heilbroner, DIONNE WARWICK: Don’t Make Me Over is a deeply personal, intimate portrait of the velvet-voiced songstress. The film yields insights into Warwick’s rise to music superstardom from singing in her grandfather’s church, to her life beyond the lights standing up to discrimination in America and around the world.
A24 released the teaser trailer for Men, the horror film starring Academy Award® nominee Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear, and Paapa Essiedu.
Academy Award®-nominee Michael Mann (Collateral, Public Enemies, Heat) has cast Academy Award® nominee Adam Driver (Marriage Story, Star Wars) and Academy Award® winner Penélope Cruz (Parallel Mothers, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) as Enzo and Laura Ferrari and Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies, The Descendants) as Lina Lardi in his upcoming film Ferrari.
Check out the official trailer for Superior, the thriller starring Alessandra Mesa, Ani Mesa, Pico Alexander, Jake Hoffman and Stanley Simons that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Erin Vassilopoulos, the film will open in New York City on March 25th at BAM Cinematheque along with other theaters across the country including Laemmle Theaters in Los Angeles.