Tribeca Festival announced its lineup of Talks with Wes Anderson, Alec Baldwin, Robert De Niro, John Legend, Frances McDormand, Gwyneth Paltrow, Amy Schumer, Martin Scorsese plus more; and reunion screenings of Fargo, The Five Heartbeats and The Royal Tenenbaums.
After expressing some earlier doubts, Berlinale has confirmed that the Summer Special set for June 9-20, 2021 will take place as an outdoor open-air cinema experience at 16 venues.
POV documentary series returns to PBS in July with its 34th season, kicking off with writer and comedian CJ Hunt’s directorial debut, The Neutral Ground, on July 5.
Sony Pictures Classics will release the Edson Oda’s ‘supernatural and metaphysical’ drama film Nine Days starring Winston Duke in New York and Los Angeles on July 30, with a wider release throughout the rest of the country on August 6.
Nantucket Film Festival (NFF) announced its lineup for the 26th annual edition, which will run from June 17-28 in a hybrid format with both online and open air screenings and conversations.
After having had its planned world premiere at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Stateless (Apátrida), the latest documentary by Emmy-nominated and Sundance-winning director Michèle Stephenson (American Promise) will screen as part of the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival taking place June 9 to 20, followed by its national broadcast premiere on PBS’ acclaimed documentary series POV, on July 19.
Sundance Film Festival: London will return to Picturehouse Central for its sixth year from July 29 to August 1, 2021, as an in-person event. The Festival opens with the UK premiere of Edgar Wright’s debut documentary The Sparks Brothers, a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron and Russell Mael. In partnership with Universal, consecutive screenings of the film will take place in multiple cinemas across the UK with a filmmaker Q+A simultaneously broadcast from Picturehouse Central on July 29, 2021. Universal will release the film in the UK on July 30, 2021.
Actress Gabourey Sidibe will make her feature film directorial debut with Pale Horse, a thriller focused on a reclusive African-American YA book author living with MS.
Check out the official trailer for the video game comedy film Hero Mode, starring Chris Carpenter, Mira Sorvino, Sean Astin and Indiana Massara, opening in theaters on June 4th, and available on VOD on June 11th.
IFC Films will release the psychological coming-of-age thriller John and the Hole, directed by visual artist Pascual Sisto – one of Variety’s ‘10 Directors to Watch’ in 2021 – in his feature debut, on August 6th, 2021.
Ahead of its world premiere at this year’s TriBeCa Film Festival, RLJE Films, acquired the North American rights to the dramatic thriller, No Man of God. The film based on real transcripts and conversations between serial killer Ted Bundy and FBI Agent Bill Hagmaier, No Man of God will be released in theaters in August 2021.
The documentary “Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In” will exclusively premiere in the U.S. on Paramount+ on May 29. The film examines the most important moments in the life of soccer legend and iconic Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson both in and out of the game.