Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen (“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “Polar,” “Arctic”) will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award of the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival. The Award is given for outstanding contribution to the art of film. At the festival Mikkelsen will hold a Masterclass that the festival public will be able to watch online, via ondemand.sff.ba.
Magnolia Pictures released the official trailer for the thriller Alone, the English-language remake by director John Hyams (One Dog Day, Universal Soldier: Regeneration, Dragon Eyes, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning) of Mattias Olsson’s 2011 Swedish film Gone. In the film, a recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold-blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her.
Just like the Tribeca Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival is making big changes for 2021 including plans to change the dates and shorten the event.
Magnolia Pictures will release the new documentary Zappa, directed by Alex Winter (Bill & Ted, Showbiz Kids, The Panama Papers) that will arrive in theaters and VOD on November 27.
A24 released the first look teaser trailer for Janicza Bravo’s Zola that premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. The indie comedy/drama film is based on the Twitter thread that went viral after stripper A’ziah “Zola” King posted it in October 2015.
The 20th anniversary edition of the Tribeca Film Festival, will take place in June 2021, reflecting shifting calendars and efforts to ensure the Festival moves forward in the safest environment. The Festival will return to New York City on June 9 to 20, 2021.
The official trailer debuted today for Mangrove, one of five films featured in Small Axe, the highly anticipated anthology series from Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen (Hunger, 12 Years A Slave).
Lionsgate will release the upcoming horror film Antebellum, starring Janelle Monáe and written and directed by the advocacy filmmakers Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, as a Premium On-Demand release, debuting on all platforms on September 18. The film will be released theatrically in select international markets.
ArtMattan Films has set a virtual theatrical release date of August 28 for the award winning drama film Made In Bangladesh by Rubaiyat Hossain, based on the life of Daliya Akter, a garment worker who escaped child marriage and went on to lead a trade union fighting for workers’ rights in Bangladesh capital, Dhaka.
Prominent New York sports radio personality Craig Carton is the subject of the upcoming documentary titled Wild Card: The Downfall of a Radio Loudmouth. Through a series of candid and intimate first-person interviews with Carton, the film reveals how the radio host’s secret insatiable gambling addiction, financed by an illicit ticket-broking business, brought his career to a sudden halt when he was arrested by FBI agents and charged with conspiracy, wire fraud and securities fraud on September 6, 2017. Directed and produced by Martin Dunn & Marie McGovern of StreetSmartVideo, the film debuts Wednesday, October 7 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on HBO.
The new trailer debuted today for the indie thriller Watch List, from Dark Star Pictures and Uncork’d Entertainment, ahead of the release in virtual theaters August 21 before an On Demand release September 1.
Vertical Entertainment released the official trailer for the indie period drama The 24th, directed by Oscar-winning BlacKkKlansman co-writer Kevin Willmott. The film which was originally set to premiere at now cancelled SXSW will be released on VOD/digital on August 21 by Vertical Entertainment, timed to coincide with the anniversary of the Houston Riot of 1917.