Jay Baruchel’s sophomore feature Random Acts of Violence will stream exclusively on AMC’s Shudder on August 20th. The stylish slasher starring Jesse Williams and Jordana Brewster asks audience what are the real consequences when life beings to imitate art?
Kôji Fukada’s A Girl Missing will premiere on Film Movement’s virtual cinema starting July 31st.
Ryan Brookhart’s Two Ways To Go West will be available on video on demand starting July 17th.
A two-part documentary series illuminating in sweeping scope and vast detail the rise, fall, and epic comeback of global icon Tiger Woods is in production and set to air on HBO in December. Alex Gibney (Academy Award winner for “Taxi to the Dark Side,” nominee for “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” and Emmy-winner for HBO’s “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief”) are among the executive producers with Academy Award nominee and Emmy-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman (“Cartel Land,” “A Private War”) and Emmy nominee Matthew Hamachek (“Amanda Knox”) serving as directors of the two-part television presentation. Part one of Tiger will debut Sunday, December 13, with part two airing Sunday, December 20, exclusively on HBO.
Shine Your Eyes, the richly textured feature fiction debut of Brazilian filmmaker Matias Mariani, will launch worldwide of Netflix on July 29th.
The highly anticipated documentary feature Pretending I’m A Superman – The Tony Hawk Video Game Story will have a digital/VOD release on August 18th. The definitive documentary from director Ludvig Gür tells the story of skater turned video game mogul Tony Hawk, and the near extinction of skateboarding culture before exploding back into the mainstream in the early 2000s.
HBO Max has ordered a 12-episode season of the all-new, 2D animated series, Young Love, based on the characters in the Academy Award-winning short film, Hair Love from Oscar winner Matthew A. Cherry and Sony Pictures Animation.
Showtime announced a new feature documentary from Academy Award Winning director Martin Scorsese that profiles David Johansen, the celebrated frontman of the New York Dolls. Emmy nominee David Tedeschi will co-direct with Scorsese.
The new documentary Stockton on My Mind, directed by Emmy(R) winner Marc Levin (HBO’s “Class Divide,” “Thug Life in D.C.”) is the multi-layered story of millennial mayor Michael Tubbs, whose own experience growing up amid poverty and violence inspired him to create innovative change in his beleaguered hometown of Stockton, California.
Over the weekend, Halle Berry angered the transgender community and its allies after announcing she was being considered to play a transgender man in an upcoming film. In attempts to educate the actress, Netflix’s Disclosure team politely asked Berry to watch the film and learn about the possible dangers of her taking on the role, and she listened.
