The Opening Night Gala of this year’s 66th BFI London Film Festival will be Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical, starring Academy Award® winner Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough, Sindhu Vee and introducing Alisha Weir as the eponymous Matilda.
Music Box Films released the official trailer for Medusa, the Brazilian ‘genre-hopping’ film from writer-director Anita Rocha da Silveira, and considered a follow-up to her 2015 film Kill Me Please. In the film, a gang of young women in Brazil try to control everything around them, including other women.
The 56th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will open with Superheroes directed by Paolo Genovese and close with Three Thousand Years of Longing directed by George Miller. This year’s edition of Karlovy Vary IFF will pay tribute to Jérôme Paillard, the long-time executive director of Marché du Film. and a 1993 film The Flood produced by Paillard will be screened as a part of the tribute.
New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) unveiled more films, award honorees and guests for the fully in-theater 20th anniversary edition.
Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery will make its festival debut with a world premiere at the 47th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival.
IFC Films released the official trailer for Resurrection, the psychological thriller film starring Rebecca Hall, Tim Roth, Grace Kaufman, and Michael Esper.
Gravitas Ventures debuted the official trailer for Marcus, the indie drama starring Owen Miller, Katana Malone, Todd Bruno, Jennifer Lynn Sharp, and seven-time world wrestling champion Paul Wight.
Horror-thriller film The Retaliators from Better Noise Films, starring Michael Lombardi (“Rescue Me”), Marc Menchaca (“Ozark”), and Joseph Gatt (“Game of Thrones”) alongside Jacoby Shaddix, front man of Papa Roach, in his acting debut will be released on September 14, 2022.
The 2022 Asian Film Festival of Dallas (AFFD) announced the lineup of 16 feature films (12 Narrative, 4 Documentary), and 11 short films for the 21st edition of the film festival taking place July 21-24, 2022. Opening Night selection is Wenxiong Xing’s Too Cool to Kill, the Closing Night selection is Roshan Sethi’s 7 Days, Spotlight screenings include Park Hoon-Jung’s The Witch 2: The Other One, and Shô Miyake’s Small, Slow but Steady.
Prime Video debuted the official trailer for Thirteen Lives, the drama starring Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell on the true story of the effort to rescue a Thai soccer team who become trapped in the Tham Luang cave.
Out Film CT announced the winners of the 35th Connecticut LGBTQ Film Festival with the Jury Awards – for Feature Film going to Finlandia, and for Documentary going to Prognosis – Notes on Living. The Audience Awards for Best Feature went to Mascarpone, and for Best Documentary went to Invisible.
Vertical released the official trailer for Wrong Place, the action thriller film starring Bruce Willis, Ashley Greene (Twilight), Michael Sirow (Fortress: Sniper’s Eye) and Texas Battle (The Bold and the Beautiful).