Neon debuted the official teaser trailer for Crimes of the Future, the horror film directed by David Cronenberg and starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, along with Kristen Stewart. Crimes of the Future will world premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
Focus Features released a new official trailer for The Northman, the historical action-filled epic film starring Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke, Björk, and Willem Dafoe.
The 11th Annual Richmond International Film Festival (RIFF), kicks off Tuesday, June 7th and concludes Sunday, June 12th, 2022, showcasing 171 award-winning film premieres from the U.S. and 22 countries.
Filmmaker Kelly Reichardt, described as “one of the most original and independent voices in contemporary American filmmaking” will receive the Pardo d’onore Manor award at the Locarno Film Festival on Friday August 12 in Piazza Grande. On Saturday August 13, she will be at the center of a panel conversation with the audience, who will also have a chance to see two films from her career during Locarno75: Meek’s Cutoff (2010) and Night Moves (2013).
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 33rd year, will present a full edition of 10 groundbreaking new films, available both in-person and online nationwide in the U.S., from May 20 to 26, 2022. For the first time in two years, the New York festival will be back with a full program of in-person screenings at Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Center, with in-depth discussions with filmmakers, film participants, activists and Human Rights Watch researchers. The festival will continue to offer the opportunity to watch all 10 new films online across the U.S. with a full digital edition of the film festival.
The new official trailer debuted for Benediction, the biopic starring Jack Lowden as WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon. Also starring the film are Peter Capaldi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeremy Irvine, Calem Lynch, Tom Blyth, Kate Phillips, Geraldine James, Anton Lesser, Suzanne Bertish, Matthew Tennyson, and Julian Sands.
The 2022 Tribeca Festival will kick off with the world premiere of Halftime, a new Netflix documentary film by director and Tribeca Alum Amanda Micheli that follows global superstar Jennifer Lopez, as she reflects on her milestones and evolution as an artist, and navigates the second half of her career continuing to entertain, empower, and inspire.
The 23rd annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival welcomes artists and audiences back to Toronto/Tkaronto for IN-PERSON screenings and events October 18 – 23, 2022. imagineNATIVE will also present the Festival ONLINE from October 24 – 30, 2022.
Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF) celebrates its 25th edition, themed Unthinkable, from June 3-12, 2022, online via the festival website, as well as in-person at Windmill Studios in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, with select programs also showing at Union Docs in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Gilbert Gottfried, actor and comedian died today after a long illness, his family announced on Twitter. He was 67.
Dark Star Pictures and Uncork’d Entertainment will release LGBTQ romantic comedy Mascarpone starring Sarah T. Cohen, Alistair Stoneman, Jamila Martin-Wingett, Ray Whelan, Ricardo Freitas, Nicola Wright, and Tony Goodall.
Here is the new official trailer for Frank & Penelope, the horror thriller film starring Kevin Dillon, Billy Budinich, Caylee Cowan, Donna D’Errico, Johnathon Schaech, and Lin Shaye.