The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 487 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to motion pictures to join the organization. There are 71 Oscar® nominees, including 19 winners, among the invitees.
A new documentary on Barbara Walters from ABC News Studios and Imagine Documentaries is coming to Hulu in 2025. Directed by Emmy-winning filmmaker and journalist Jackie Jesko, the film will feature unaired footage from ABC’s extensive archives and interviews with people who knew and worked with the broadcast legend who paved a path in journalism unlike any other.
A24 debuted the official trailer for Heretic, a spine-chilling psychological horror film starring Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East as two young Mormon missionaries who visit a sinister man played by Hugh Grant who ends up putting them through a horrifying series of psychological games.
Film Movement is teaming up with Memory to release ‘Mother, Couch!‘, the chaotic family drama film starring Ewan McGregor, Rhys Ifans, Lara Flynn Boyle as estranged siblings who come together when their mother played by Ellen Burstyn refuses to move from a couch in a furniture store.
In the wake of the 50th anniversary of the best-selling book by Peter Benchley that went on to become a record-breaking box office hit by Steven Spielberg, National Geographic greenlight the documentary centering on the creation of ‘Jaws’. With a working title of ‘Jaws @ 50’ the documentary is set to air Summer 2025 on National Geographics and Stream on Disney+ and Hulu.
Ben Burtt, legendary sound designer, editor, and voice actor behind the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and winner of four Academy Awards will be honored with the Vision Award Ticinomoda, at the 77th Locarno Film Festival.
Focus Features shared the official trailer for Nosferatu, the supernatural gothic horror film starring Bill Skarsgård as vampire Count Orlok obsessed with a woman played by Lily-Rose Depp.
The 2024 Palm Springs International ShortFest presented Awards and cash prizes worth $25,000 to the Festival juried and audience award winners including five Academy Award® qualifying awards selected from the 310 short films that were part of the Official Selection.
Itandehui Jansen’s Itu Ninu (Where the Cornfields Are) won Best Narrative Feature, and Juan Mejía Botero’s Igualada took the award for Best Documentary Feature at the 26th Anniversary edition of the Cine Las Americas International Film Festival (CLAIFF).
The 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) will open with Vigo Mortensen’s film The Dead Don’t Hurt and honor Mortensen with this year’s President’s Award at the opening ceremony.
Well Go USA debuted the official trailer for Before Dawn, the war drama starring Levi Miller as a young man who leaves his family’s sheep farm in the Australian outback, to join his countrymen on the western front of World War I.
Maverick Film and Complex Corp revealed the official trailer for Murder Company, the WWII action thriller film starring Geoff Stults, Kelsey Grammer, Pooch Hall, and William Moseley.