Paramount debuted the official trailer for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, the action adventure film based on the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, starring Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Chloe Coleman, Daisy Head, and Hugh Grant,
The Pod Generation directed by Sophie Barthes has been awarded the 2023 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize and received a $20,000 cash award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. The Prize is selected by a jury of film and science professionals and presented to an outstanding feature film focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character.
Berlinale revealed the 18 films competing for the Golden and Silver Bears; and 16 films, all of which are world premieres, competing in Encounters section, at the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival.
Everything Everywhere All at Once is the top winner of the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) 2022 awards, with a total of six wins, including Best Picture, Best Director for Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh and Best Supporting Actor for Ke Huy Quan.
Gravitas Ventures has revealed the official trailer and release date for Who Are You People, the indie drama starring Ema Horvath (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, What Lies Below), Devon Sawa (Gasoline Alley, Final Destination), Yeardley Smith (The Simpsons, Maximum Overdrive), Peter Parros (Real Genius, Knight Rider), Siddharth Dhananjay (Bloodshot, Undone), Reid Miller (Joe Bell, You), with John Ales (Euphoria, True Story), and Alyssa Milano (Brazen, Charmed).
Here is the first official trailer for Under G-d, the documentary short film on the national Jewish response challenging Florida’s abortion ban on the basis of religious freedom.
After taking a pause in 2022, the San Pedro International Film Festival (SPIFF) returns February 2 – 5, 2023, for screenings, panels, and events. The film festival kicks off with Christopher HK Lee’s Korean War documentary, Forgotten Victory, followed by a lineup of curated shorts programs, episodic projects, a special environmentally focused documentaries, a screenwriters panel, and a screenplay competition.
XYZ Films dropped the official trailer for Huesera: The Bone Woman, the supernatural Mexican horror film starring Natalia Solián (Carlos Eichelmann Kaiser’s Venice selection Zapatos Rojos) in a star-turning performance as Valeria, a young woman expecting her first child who becomes cursed by a sinister entity. Plunged into a terrifying and dangerous world, a group of witches emerge as her only hope for safety and salvation, but not without grave risk. The film also stars Alfonso Dosal (Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico), Mayra Batalla (Prayers for the Stolen), Mercedes Hernández (Identifying Features), Aída López (Capadocia), and Martha Claudia Moreno.
Ahead of the world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, Prime Video has acquired In My Mother’s Skin, the horror fairy tale written and directed by Kenneth Dagatan (Ma).
Director Doug Liman’s first documentary feature Justice will have its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival in the Special Screenings section. Justice presents never-before-seen evidence and key interviews with those closely involved in the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh.
All Quiet on the Western Front leads the nominations for the 2023 EE BAFTA Film Awards, with 14 nominations including Best Film. The film ties with Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2001) as the non-English language film with the most nominations in BAFTA’s history.
Samuel Goldwyn Films debuted the official trailer for Cairo Conspiracy, the political thriller selected as Sweden’s Oscar entry for Best International Feature Film.