The 71st edition of Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) will open with the Australian Premiere of Noora Niasari’s Shayda, winner of the Audience Award earlier this year at Sundance Film Festival. Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story, a rollicking documentary portrait of the late, great Australian music icon will make its World Premiere in a very special Music on Film event.
The 2023 Tribeca Festival announced the Tribeca X speaker lineup along with Tribeca X Award official selections, which honor creators and brands that share a love of connecting consumers through storytelling.
A24 revealed the official trailer for Problemista, the comedy film narrated by Isabella Rosselini, and starring Julio Torres, Tilda Swinton, RZA, Greta Lee, Catalina Saaverdra, along with James Scully
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal’s upcoming Bossa Nova-themed animated film, They Shot The Piano Player. Sony Classics plans to qualify the film for year-end awards.
Sony Pictures Classics debuted the official trailer for The Miracle Club, the comedy film starring Laura Linney, Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates, and Agnes O’Casey.
Focus Features shared three official clips from Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, the sc-fi comedy drama set in a fictional American desert town circa 1955.
The 49th Seattle International Film Festival came to a close with the award ceremony and Dancing Queen directed by Aurora Gossé won the Golden Space Needle Audience Award – Best Film, and 26.2 to Life directed by Christine Yoo won for Best Documentary.
Michelle Costabile and Jacopo Costantini are two men who are in love, but face constant harassment by neo-Nazi skinheads, in The Neighbor, the Italian LGBTQ+ drama film from filmmaker Pasquale Marrazzo. Also starring in the movie are Luisa Vernelli, Lucia Vasini, Rossana Gay, and Antonio Rosti.
New movies headed to on-demand include Hi-Fear, the final film in the cult hit ‘Hi-‘ trilogy; Jurassic Shark 3 : Seavenge, the threequel in the long running, cult hit shark series; Heroes of the Golden Masks starring the late Christopher Plummer; romantic comedy Days Of Daisy; horror-mystery-thriller Country of Hotels; the Muslim drama, Unveiled; and the art-themed documentary Origami In The Garden.
Garrett Hedlund (Mudbound, Tron, Tulsa King, Triple Frontier), Stephen Lang (Avatar, Don’t Breathe franchises), Hamish Linklater (Midnight Mass, The Big Short) and Brittany Snow (Pitch Perfect, X) are set to star in Barron’s Cove, the new thriller from Mandalay Pictures and Yale Entertainment. The film will be directed by Evan Ari Kelman who also penned the script.
Jim Brown, the NFL Hall of Famer who went on to become an actor and civil rights advocate has died. He was 87.
DocLands Documentary Film Festival 2023 came to a close on Sunday, and the audience selected Immediate Family, Denny Tedesco’s follow-up to his acclaimed documentary The Wrecking Crew, as winner of the DocLands Audience Choice Award. Immediate Family chronicles the journey of a group of close friends who became the premiere studio band for the musical icons of the ‘70s and beyond, giving us a backstage tour of rock history.