Fresh off the world premiere in Next at Sundance Film Festival, Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired OBEX, the black-and-white fantasy film from filmmaker Albert Birney (Strawberry Mansion), also starring Birney. The film marks the first solo, live-action directorial effort for Birney, who also wrote the script with Pete Ohs (Jethica, upcoming SXSW world premiere The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick).
Shot in 1999, but never released, Milestone Films and Kino Lorber will finally release the new 4K restoration of the long-lost comedy film, The Annihilation of Fish, starring James Earl Jones, Lynn Redgrave, and Margot Kidder.
Bleecker Street debuted the official trailer for The Friend, the dramedy film adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s bestselling 2018 novel, starring Naomi Watts, Bill Murray and a huge Great Dane.
Comedian Dave Chappelle will receive the prestigious President’s Award at the 56th NAACP Image Awards airing live on Saturday, February 22, on BET and CBS.
The Robbie Williams biopic Better Man won Best Film, and its Australian director Michael Gracey was honored with the Award for Best Direction in Film at the 14th Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) International Awards. ( see the nominations)
Magnet Releasing revealed the official trailer for Sister Midnight, the Mumbai-set oddball comedy horror film starring Radhika Apte as a woman who is trapped in an unhappy arranged marriage.
Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù (His House, Gangs Of London) is set to star in Akinola Davies Jnr’s feature directorial debut My Father’s Shadow. MUBI has pre-bought all rights for release in North America, UK, Ireland, and Turkey.
A24 revealed the official trailer for Friendship, a “laugh-until-you-cry nightmare comedy about male bonding gone awry” starring Tim Robinson, Kate Mara, Jack Dylan Grazer, and Paul Rudd.
Music Box Films debuted the official trailer for Eephus, a sports-comedy-drama film from debuting director Carson Lund. The film starring Keith William Richards, Frederick Wiseman, Cliff Blake, Ray Hryb, and Bill “Spaceman” Lee, tells the story of two amateur baseball teams coming together for one final game before their field is demolished to make way for a new school.
All We Imagine as Light emerged victorious at the 22nd International Cinephile Society Awards winning the top prize of best picture along with best director for Payal Kapadia and best ensemble cast.
Circusboy (Zirkuskind) by German film directors Julia Lemke and Anna Koch will celebrate its world premiere in the competition program of the Berlinale Generation section / Kplus at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival taking place February 13-23, 2025.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has completed the designated Oscar nominees that were yet to be determined in the Animated Feature Film, Documentary Feature Film and Best Picture categories at the time of the 97th Oscars nominations announcement on Thursday, January 23.