Neon unveiled the official trailer for Broker (브로커), the South Korean drama starring Song Kang-ho and Gang Dong-won, as friends running an illegal business stealing babies from the church’s baby box – boxes for people to anonymously drop off their unwanted babies -and selling the babies on the adoption black market. Also starring in the film are Bae Doona, Lee Ji-eun, and Lee Joo-young.
Steven Spielberg and the cast of The Fabelmans will be honored with the Vanguard Award at the Palm Springs International Film Awards. The Vanguard Award honors a film’s cast and director in recognition of their collective work on an exceptional film project. The award will be presented to director Steven Spielberg and cast members Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Gabriel LaBelle and Judd Hirsch who are all expected to attend. The Film Awards will take place in-person on January 5, 2023 with the festival running through January 16, 2023.
Angela Bassett will be honored with the Montecito Award at the 38th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Bassett will receive the award on Thursday, February 9th, 2023 at an in-person conversation about her career leading up to this year’s performance in Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever directed by Ryan Coogler.
Jamie Lee Curtis will receive the 2022 Movies for Grownups® Career Achievement Award at the 21st annual Movies for Grownups® (MFG) Awards ceremony on Saturday, January 28, 2023, in Beverly Hills, California hosted by actor Alan Cumming.
Netflix debuted the first official teaser trailer for Harry & Meghan documentary series, directed by two-time Academy Award–nominated and Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus, coming soon to Netflix.
Sony Pictures Classics revealed the official trailer for Return to Seoul (Retour à Séoul), Cambodia’s official entry for the Best International Film category at the upcoming Academy Awards. The film stars newcomer Ji-Min Park as Freddie, a 25-year old French adoptee, who goes to South Korea to find her biological family. Oh Kwang-Rok, Guka Han and Kim Sun-Young also star.
Netflix revealed the official trailer for The Volcano: Rescue From Whakaari, the gripping documentary account of tourists caught in a tragic volcanic eruption while sightseeing on an island off New Zealand in 2019.
Considered one of the runaway hits of the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, Lionsgate set the release date for the horror-comedy film The Blackening, for June 16, 2023 – Juneteenth weekend.
The official trailer debuted for Candy Land, the horror thriller movie starring Olivia Luccardi, Sam Quartin, Eden Brolin, Owen Campbell, Guinevere Turner, Virginia Rand, and William Baldwin.
Michelle Yeoh will receive the International Star Award, Actress for Everything Everywhere All at Once at Palm Springs International Film Awards. The Film Awards will take place in-person on January 5, 2023 with the festival running through January 16, 2023.
Actor Clarence Gilyard Jr, known for starring in the Left Behind movie trilogy, Die Hard, and Top Gun, has died. He was 66. UNLV’s College of Fine Arts, where Gilyard was a film and theatre professor since 2006, announced his death in a newsletter on Monday.
A24 debuted the official trailer for When You Finish Saving the World, the coming-of-age film starring Academy-Award® winner Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard, that premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Alisha Boe, and Jay O. Sanders also star in the film featuring original music by Emile Mosseri, Finn Wolfhard, and Jesse Eisenberg.