Flamin’ Hot, the biopic drama directed by Eva Longoria on the story of Richard Montañez, the Frito-Lay janitor who claimed to have invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos won the Audience Award in the Headliners category at the 31st SXSW Film & TV Festival. The film will stream on both Hulu and Disney+ on June 9.
Chop & Steele and the documentary A Life On The Farm, two films from Fantastic Fest 2022, will be released as a double feature in Alamo Drafthouse theaters throughout the country.
The 7th MidWest WeirdFest wrapped last week and announced the winning films, with the chilling techno-thriller Murmur from director Mark Polish (Twin Falls Idaho, The Astronaut Farmer) awarded the festival’s prestigious “Best Film” award.
The Goya Award-winning film The Beasts, directed by Goya Award-winner and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen, took the top jury prize, the $25,000 Knight MARIMBAS Award, at the 40th Miami Film Festival. The thriller about a French couple starting a new life in rural Galicia, Spain, also received the Rene Rodriguez Critics Award, and “The Beasts” composer Oliver Arson earned the Alacran Music in Film Award. The award highlights the power of music and film and celebrates the role of the film composer and was selected by the Art of Light (Composer) Award honoree Nicholas Britell.
Netflix revealed the final official trailer for Kill Boksoon, the Korean action thriller starring Jeon Do-yeon as Gil Boksoon, along with Sul Kyung-gu, Kim Si-A, and Esom, Koo Kyo-hwan that premiered in the Berlinale Special section at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival,.
“Vegetarian, gay, straight; I just wanted to bring those walls down and have a party,” proclaims David Johansen, influential ’70s glam punk lead singer of the New York Dolls.
IFC revealed the official trailer for BlackBerry, the Canadian comedy drama film that tells the true story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world’s first smartphone, starring Jay Baruchel as Mike Lazaridis and Glenn Howerton as Jim Balsillie. Also starring in the movie are Matt Johnson, Rich Sommer, Michael Ironside, Martin Donovan, Michelle Giroux, SungWon Cho, Saul Rubinek, and Cary Elwes.
Studiocanal revaled the official trailer for What’s Love Got To Do With It? described as “a delightfully charming rom-com with a modern twist,” starring Lily James (Pam & Tommy), Shazad Latif (Star Trek: Discovery), Shabana Azmi (Halo), Academy Award® and BAFTA winner Emma Thompson (Matilda), Sajal Aly (Yakeen Ka Safar), Asim Chaudhry (Black Mirror: Bandersnatch), Jeff Mirza (Eternals) and Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan as himself.
Magnolia Pictures debuted the official trailer for Little Richard: I Am Everything, Lisa Cortés’ “eye-opening” documentary on rock ‘n’ roll icon Richard Wayne Penniman aka Little Richard. Featured in the documentary are Mick Jagger, Billy Porter, John Waters, Tom Jones, and more
Raging Grace directed by Paris Zarcilla is the winner of the Grand Jury Award in the Narrative Feature Competition at the 30th SXSW Film & TV Festival. The jury commented, “The story of a Filipina house cleaner and her young daughter confronting Britain’s racial and class divides, Raging Grace is both frank and elusive, a film that subverts expectations on its way to a stirring conclusion.”
A woman organizes an annual Texas competition where contestants must keep their hand on a truck until they’re the last person standing.
Directed by Lauren Greenhall, the erotic thriller Perfectly Good Moment will have its world premiere at the 25th Sarasota Film Festival on March 29, 2023. This psychosexual thriller asks the question: what happens when the things that make your relationship passionate and exciting are the same things that make it toxic?