The Absence of Eden, directed by Marco Perego and starring Zoe Saldaña, will open the 2023 Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF)on Thursday October 12 at the Edwards Big Newport. The festival will close with Focus Features’ The Holdovers, directed by Alexander Payne, on Thursday, October 19 at the Port Theatre.
Actress Dame Vanessa Redgrave will be honored at this year’s 36th European Film Awards with the European Lifetime Achievement award for her outstanding body of work.
Abramorama revealed the official trailer for Deep Rising, narrated by Jason Momoa, the documentary illuminates the relationship between the deep ocean and sustaining life on Earth.
Saban Films unveiled the official trailer for Butcher’s Crossing, the Western drama film based on the novel of the same name by John Williams, starring Nicolas Cage as a buffalo hunter who lures a naïve young man into an ambitious expedition in the Colorado Rockies.
Vertical debuted the official trailer for Miranda’s Victim, the true crime drama film featuring a star studded cast including Abigail Breslin, Ryan Phillippe, Luke Wilson, Emily VanCamp, Mireille Enos, Enrique Murciano, Josh Bowman, Brent Sexton, Sebastian Quinn, Taryn Manning, Nolan Gould, Dan Lauria, Michael Mulheren, Kyle MacLachlan with Andy Garcia and Donald Sutherland.
Matthew Heineman’s American Symphony, a documentary about musician Jon Batiste, Robert Kolodny’s The Featherweight and Brooke Berman’s Ramona at Midlife have been added to the main slate of the 24th Woodstock Film Festival taking place September 27 to October 1, 2023.
HBO unveiled the official trailer for Last Stop Larrimah, the true crime documentary delves into the mystery of a missing man and his dog in the Australian Outback.
Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story an intimate portrait of the writer, actor, filmmaker, studio head and media mogul, will World Premiere as the Centerpiece Screening of AFI FEST 2023.
A24 shared the official trailer for Dream Scenario, a ‘razor-sharp comedy’ film starring Nicolas Cage as a hapless professor who becomes an overnight celebrity after appearing in everyone’s dreams and is showered with the attention he has long been denied.
Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, known for 007 Adventure Casino Royale, Rogue One: a Star Wars Story, Fantastic Beasts: the Secrets of Dumbledore, will receive the Golden Eye award at Zurich Film Festival and present his new film The Promised Land by Nikolaj Arcel.
The 32nd Heartland International Film Festival (HIFF), taking place October 5-15, 2023, will showcase more than 120 feature films under the theme “You Can’t Look Away.”
American Fiction directed by Cord Jefferson took the TIFF 2023 People’s Choice Award at the 48th Toronto International Film Festival which concluded on Saturday with the Closing Night screening of Thom Zimny’s Sly. Starring Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction is both a wickedly smart satire about the commodification of marginalized voices and a bittersweet portrait of an artist forced to re-examine the terms of his integrity.