
Described as part film, part baptism, Khalik Allah’s Black Mother brings us on a spiritual journey through Jamaica. Beginning Friday March 8, Black Mother will begin its exclusive NY theatrical run at Metrograph.

Described as part film, part baptism, Khalik Allah’s Black Mother brings us on a spiritual journey through Jamaica. Beginning Friday March 8, Black Mother will begin its exclusive NY theatrical run at Metrograph.

EPIX will produce the upcoming documentary Laurel Canyon, that promises to pull back the curtain on a mythical world and provide an up-close look at the lives of the musicians who inhabited it. Through a wealth of rare and newly unearthed footage and audio recordings, the documentary will feature an intimate portrait of the artists who created a music revolution that would change popular culture. Alison Ellwood (History of the Eagles) will direct the feature-length film, which will premiere in late 2019 on EPIX.

Claire Simon’s The Competition (Le Concours), the thrilling observational portrait of French film school La Fémis, will be the first theatrical release by Metrograph Pictures and the U.S. theatrical debut of the veteran filmmaker. The film opens Friday, February 22nd in New York at Metrograph, with a nationwide expansion to follow.

A24 dropped the U.S. trailer for High Life, a mind-shattering astral epic from the master Claire Denis in her English language debut, starring Juliette Binoche as a mad scientist specializing in bodily fluids, and Robert Pattinson, Mia Goth, and André 3000 (née Benjamin) as inmates condemned to life in an intergalactic space prison.

Hulu released their own documentary on the controversial Fyre music festival, just days before Netflix was scheduled to release their much hyped version. Titled “Fyre Fraud,” the film features an exclusive interview with Billy McFarland, the convicted con-man behind the festival and is now streaming on Hulu.

GVN Releasing has released the official poster and trailer for crime thriller A VIOLENT MAN written and directed by Matthew Berkowitz; and starring former NFL RB Pro-Bowler Thomas Q. Jones, UFC Hall of Famer Chuck Liddell, Isaach De Bankolé, Bruce Davison and Denise Richards. A VIOLENT MAN will be released in theaters and on digital platforms February 8, 2019.

Harpoon from director Rob Grant (Mon Ami, 2012) and producers Michael Peterson (Alive, 2018), Kurtis David Harder (What Keeps You Alive, 2018) and Julian Black Antelope (Knuckleball, 2018) which makes its world premiere at the 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam has been acquired by NY/LA-based arthouse genre sales company Yellow Veil Pictures.

At the 2019 edition of Berlinale Shorts at the Berlin International Film Festival, 24 films from 17 countries will be competing for the Golden and Silver Bear, the Audi Short Film Award, endowed with 20,000 euros, v

Remember the much overhyped Fyre Music Festival that never was? Netflix has released the trailer for the appropriate titled documentary “Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened” promising an exclusive behind the scenes look at the infamous unraveling of the Fyre music festival. FYRE launches globally on Netflix on January 18.

STYX stars Susanne Wolff as Rike, a German emergency room physician, who leaves behind her everyday life to fulfill a long-held dream: a solo crossing of the Atlantic. But when she boards the Asa Gray, her gleaming white sailboat, in Gibraltar, she has no way of knowing the troubles or personal transformations that await her on the open seas.