Epic Pictures wraps production on LUCKY, a dark feminist thriller written by Brea Grant (THE ARRANGEMENT, Heroes) and directed by Natasha Kermani (IMITATION GIRL). Grant also stars in the feature, which shot in Los Angeles, CA and will see release in the US by Epic’s genre label, DREAD.
2-D animated horror film “To Your Last Death,” starring the voice talents of Morena Baccarin, Dani Lennon, Ray Wise, Bill Moseley, and William Shatner, will premiere at the 20th anniversary celebration of London’s Frightfest, the UK’s largest international genre festival, on Friday, August 23rd, 2019.
Buddha in Africa, directed by KwaZulu-Natal-based filmmaker, Nicole Schafer, will make its South African Premier in the International Documentary Competition at the 40th Durban International Film Festival (18 to 28 July).
The poster and trailer dropped today for Palestinian and Israeli comedy Tel Aviv on Fire, from Palestinian director Sameh Zoabi. Tel Aviv on Fire starring Kais Nashik, Lubna Azabal, Yaniv Biton, Nadim Sawalha, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Salim Daw, Yousef Sweid, Amer Hlehel, Ashraf Farah, Lattia Eido, opens on August 2nd at the Quad and Landmark 57 in New York and Laemmle Royal in LA
The new documentary, “The Other Boys of Summer,” which explores civil rights in America through the lives of the Negro Leagues baseball players, will be screened during MLB All-Star Week in Cleveland on July 6, 2019
An Audience Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival last year was a stellar start for “Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future“, the first-ever film about “The Father of Space Art,” Chesley Bonestell. Since then, however, the film has gone on to know even greater success, winning two Best Documentary awards, including one at Comic-Con 2018 and a second at the 44th Boston Science Fiction Film Festival in 2019. So who was this man credited as a quiet force behind the creation of America’s space program? On July 15th and 16th – 50 years from when Apollo XI carried two humans to the Moon – Los Angeles-area audiences will have a chance to know this nearly forgotten but influential artist a lot better.
On the eve of the world premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival, the first chilling clip was released for David Marmor’s isolation-inspired horror film 1BR. IBR will world premiere on July 18th screening during the Frontiéres Co-Production Market, in Montreal, Canada.
Bisbee, Arizona, was one of the largest copper mining centers in America until it became a virtual ghost town in 1975 when its two massive mines were closed. Forty years later, Bisbee is a community of eccentrics, immigrants, hippies, bikers and drifters, attempting to reckon with a dark and violent history of a forgotten event known as the Bisbee Deportation.
Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable from director Aaron Lieber is a stunningly shot look at surfer Bethany Hamilton’s life and her beyond inspiring journey, following her from her incredible recovery from a devastating shark attack to become a surfing world champion.
NY/LA-based arthouse genre sales company Yellow Veil Pictures has acquired world sales rights for neo-noir Blood On Her Name, the debut feature from Matthew Pope.
Greenwich Entertainment and 1091 have co-acquired the documentary Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice directed by Academy Award®-Winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice will open in theaters this September. CNN Films, a co-producer of the documentary has acquired broadcast television rights for North America.
