WarnerMedia OneFifty and HBO Max have partnered to acquire Talia Lugacy’s independent feature This Is Not a War Story for a tentative release date in November 2021. Lugacy wrote, directed, edited, produced, and starred in the film. The film also features Sam Adegoke, Danny Ramirez, Brian Delate, and Frances Fisher.
Amazon released the official trailer for Encounter, the sci-fi thriller film starring Riz Ahmed, Octavia Spencer, Janina Gavankar, Rory Cochrane and Lucian-River Chauhan.
Focus Features released the new official trailer for Last Night in Soho, director Edgar Wright’s psychological thriller that had its world premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival.
Filmmaker Gian Cassini revealed the first look trailer for his debut documentary Comala set to World Premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. The captivating and daring true-crime odyssey follows the director on his personal journey in search for his absent father, discovering the ghosts of Mexico’s failed war on drugs along the way.
IFC Films released the first look clip from Huda’s Salon, the “feminist thriller” film written and directed by Academy Award-Nominee Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now, Omar) and premiering at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.
IFC Midnight shared a new clip from first-time filmmaker Ruth Paxton’s new film, A Banquet set to make its World Premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival this Friday. The slow-burning psychological horror film starring Sienna Guillory, Jessica Alexander, Ruby Stokes and Lindsay Duncan CBE, explores the complicated bonds between three generations of mothers and daughters.
Following its world premiere at Telluride Film Festival, A24 released the official trailer for C’mon, C’mon, Mike Mills’ deeply moving moving black and white film starring Academy Award winner Joaquin Phoenix as an artist left to take care of his precocious young nephew after his mother’s death.
Netflix has released the official trailer for A Cop Movie (Una película de policías), filmmaker Alonso Ruizpalacios’ genre-bending film which won the Silver Bear, Outstanding Artistic Contribution, 2021 Berlin International Film Festival.
Netflix released the official trailer for The Guilty, the thriller film starring Jake Gyllenhaal along with Ethan Hawke, Riley Keough, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Eli Goree, Da’vine Joy Randolph, David Castañeda with Paul Dano and Peter Sarsgaard.
Directed by Mobolaji Olambiwonnu the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival audience award winner Ferguson Rises goes deep into the aftermath and protests following the killing of unarmed Black teen Michael Brown Jr. by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. The documentary produced by David Oyelewo and Jessica Oyelowo, opens September 17th at the Laemmle Monica Film Center.
Ahead of the release in theaters starting September 10, the official trailer dropped for Fire Music, filmmaker Tom Surgal’s documentary tribute to the Free Jazz Movement.
