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Steven Spielberg and Cast of The Fabelmans to be Honored at Palm Springs Intl Film Awards

Palm Springs International Film Festival

The Fabelmans directed by Steven Spielberg [credit; Merie Weismiller Wallace | Universal]

Steven Spielberg and the cast of The Fabelmans will be honored with the Vanguard Award at the Palm Springs International Film Awards. The Vanguard Award honors a film’s cast and director in recognition of their collective work on an exceptional film project. The award will be presented to director Steven Spielberg and cast members Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Gabriel LaBelle and Judd Hirsch who are all expected to attend. The Film Awards will take place in-person on January 5, 2023 with the festival running through January 16, 2023.

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Angela Bassett to Receive Montecito Award at Santa Barbara Film Festival

Santa Barbara International Film Festival

Angela Bassett in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Annette Brown | Marvel Studios)

Angela Bassett will be honored with the Montecito Award at the 38th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Bassett will receive the award on Thursday, February 9th, 2023 at an in-person conversation about her career leading up to this year’s performance in Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever directed by Ryan Coogler.

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Jamie Lee Curtis to Receive Career Achievement Honor at AARP Movies for Grownups Awards

Awards

Jamie Lee Curtis in Everything Everywhere All At Once (Allyson Riggs/A24)

Jamie Lee Curtis will receive the 2022 Movies for Grownups® Career Achievement Award at the 21st annual Movies for Grownups® (MFG) Awards ceremony on Saturday, January 28, 2023, in Beverly Hills, California hosted by actor Alan Cumming.

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HARRY & MEGHAN Teaser Trailer: Documentary Series to Premiere on Netflix

Documentary

Harry & Meghan (Netflix)

Netflix debuted the first official teaser trailer for Harry & Meghan documentary series, directed by two-time Academy Award–nominated and Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus, coming soon to Netflix.

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RETURN TO SEOUL Trailer: Korean Adoptee Searches for Her Biological Family in Cambodian Oscar Entry

Foreign Language Films

Return to Seoul directed by Davy Chou

Sony Pictures Classics revealed the official trailer for Return to Seoul (Retour à Séoul), Cambodia’s official entry for the Best International Film category at the upcoming Academy Awards. The film stars newcomer Ji-Min Park as Freddie, a 25-year old French adoptee, who goes to South Korea to find her biological family. Oh Kwang-Rok, Guka Han and Kim Sun-Young also star.

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THE VOLCANO: RESCUE FROM WHAKAARI Trailer: Rory Kennedy’s Documentary Debuts on Netflix

Documentary

The Volcano: Rescue From Whakaari (Netflix | screenshot via Youtube)

Netflix revealed the official trailer for The Volcano: Rescue From Whakaari, the gripping documentary account of tourists caught in a tragic volcanic eruption while sightseeing on an island off New Zealand in 2019.

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Tim Story’s Horror-comedy Film THE BLACKENING Gets 2023 Release Date

Horror + Scifi

The Blackening directed by Tim Story

Considered one of the runaway hits of the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, Lionsgate set the release date for the horror-comedy film The Blackening, for June 16, 2023 – Juneteenth weekend.

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CANDY LAND Trailer: Olivia Luccardi, Sam Quartin Star in John Swab’s Horror Thriller Movie

Horror + Scifi, Thriller

Candy Land directed by John Swab

The official trailer debuted for Candy Land, the horror thriller movie starring Olivia Luccardi, Sam Quartin, Eden Brolin, Owen Campbell, Guinevere Turner, Virginia Rand, and William Baldwin.

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Michelle Yeoh to be Honored at Palm Springs Intl Film Awards for Everything Everywhere All at Once

Palm Springs International Film Festival

Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once

Michelle Yeoh will receive the International Star Award, Actress for Everything Everywhere All at Once at Palm Springs International Film Awards. The Film Awards will take place in-person on January 5, 2023 with the festival running through January 16, 2023.

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RIP. Actor Clarence Gilyard, Jr, Star of Top Gun and Die Hard Dead at 66

People

Clarence Gilyard with Alan Rickman in Die Hard. ©Twentieth Century Fox

Actor Clarence Gilyard Jr, known for starring in the Left Behind movie trilogy, Die Hard, and Top Gun, has died. He was 66. UNLV’s College of Fine Arts, where Gilyard was a film and theatre professor since 2006, announced his death in a newsletter on Monday.

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WHEN YOU FINISH SAVING THE WORLD Trailer: Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard Star in Sundance Coming-of-age Drama

Independent Film

When You Finish Saving The World (A24 | screenshot via Youtube)

A24 debuted the official trailer for When You Finish Saving the World, the coming-of-age film starring Academy-Award® winner Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard, that premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Alisha Boe, and Jay O. Sanders also star in the film featuring original music by Emile Mosseri, Finn Wolfhard, and Jesse Eisenberg.

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PELOSI IN THE HOUSE, Alexandra Pelosi’s Documentary on her Mother, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Debuts on HBO

Documentary

Pelosi In The House (HBO)

In Pelosi In The House, her 14th documentary film for HBO, documentarian Alexandra Pelosi offers a candid, behind-the-scenes chronicle of the life of her mother and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, through her career milestones leading up to the inauguration of President Joseph Biden in January 2021.

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