The BFI London Film Festival today confirmed the dates for the Festival’s 63rd edition which will take place from October 2nd to 13th, 2019, led by Festival Director Tricia Tuttle in her second year leading the team after serving as Artistic Director in 2018.
The Wedding Guest, the globetrotting thriller from acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom is described as a breathless tour through the shadowy underworlds and hidden realms of Pakistan and India. The film starring Dev Patel, Radhika Apte and Jim Sarbh will open in theaters on Friday, March 1st, 2019 in New York and Los Angeles.
In a statement released today, the Berlin International Film Festival announced that due to technical difficulties encountered during post-production, Yi miao zhong (One Second) by Zhang Yimou unfortunately will not be presented on February 15 in the scope of the Competition section of the Berlinale. The competition will thus feature a total of 16 films vying for the coveted Bear awards.
Kasper Torsting’s In Love and War (I krig & kærlighed) was voted winner of the Audience Choice Award at the 2019 Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The film also won the Valhalla Award for Best Nordic Film. 1917: A Danish soldier fighting under the German regime fakes his own death to escape the horrors in the trenches and return to his wife and son-only to find that everything has changed.
The award-winning, satiric comic fantasy “2050” starring Dean Cain, will kick off its theatrical release, beginning on Valentine’s Day, at “home” in New York City, where the film was shot. The film will open in NYC on February 14th, before heading to several other cities thereafter.
The Favourite won seven BAFTAs at the EE British Academy Film Awards including the award for Outstanding British Film, with Olivia Colman receiving the BAFTA for Leading Actress, Rachel Weisz taking Supporting Actress and Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara winning Original Screenplay. Sandy Powell won Costume Design, Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton won Production Design and Nadia Stacey won Make Up & Hair.
Drawing on extraordinary access to never-before-seen footage, Oscar winner Alex Gibney (HBO’s Emmy-winning “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief“) directs the riveting documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, which reveals what happened and explores the psychology of deception behind Silicon Valley’s ”fake it till you make it” mindset. The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley debuts Monday, March 18, exclusively on HBO.
THE GO-GO’S, a feature documentary about the most successful female rock band of all time, directed by Alison Ellwood (HISTORY OF THE EAGLES, American Jihad), will premiere later this year on SHOWTIME. The band granted full access for this textured biography featuring candid interviews and archival footage to tell the real story of their meteoric rise to fame and the journeys, triumphs, laughter and struggles along the way.
David Modigliani’s behind-the-scenes documentary RUNNING WITH BETO, following Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke’s rise from virtual unknown to national political sensation, will debut exclusively on HBO after its world premiere in March at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival.
After making a splash at Sundance, EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL AND VILE starring Zac Efron as Ted Bundy, along with Lily Collins, Haley Joel Osment, Kaya Scodelario, John Malkovich, and Jim Parsons, will have its California premiere at the 2nd Annual Mammoth Film Festival.
The controversial documentary LEAVING NEVERLAND recently had its world premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival where among the early critical raves for the documentary, Rolling Stone described it as “hard to watch, tougher to ignore, impossible to forget… a portrait of bravery,” and the Hollywood Reporter called it “harrowing, complicated and heartbreaking,” while Variety hailed the documentary’s “devastatingly powerful and convincing testimony.”
The winners of the 44th Annual HUMANITAS Prize were announced on Friday with prizes going to ON THE BASIS OF SEX for Drama Feature Film, LOVE, SIMON for Comedy Feature Film, STOLEN DAUGHTERS: KIDNAPPED BY BOKO HARAM for Documentary, and BRIAN BANKS for Independent Feature Film.