Writer-director John-Michael Powell’s sophomore feature film, the revenge thriller Violent Ends starring Billy Magnussen (Lilo & Stitch), Alexandra Shipp (Barbie), Nick Stahl (Sin City), James Badge Dale (The Empty Man), Emmy Award Winner Kate Burton (“Grey’s Anatomy”), and Academy Award Winner Ray McKinnon (Knox Goes Away) has been acquired by Independent Film Company.
Neon debuted the first teaser trailer for Alpha, the latest film from Julia Ducournau, the visionary director behind Raw and the Palme D’or-winning Titane. Set in the 1980s, the French drama stars Mélissa Boros as Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old girl; Golshifteh Farahani as her mother; and Tahar Rahim as her ailing uncle, Amin, who underwent a significant physical transformation for his role.
Whistle, the new horror feature film from director Corin Hardy (The Nun, “Gangs Of London”) has been acquired by the Independent Film Company and Shudder. The film is written by Owen Egerton, and adapted from his own short story, and stars Dafne Keen (Logan), Sophie Nélisse (“Yellowjackets”), Sky Yang (Rebel Moon), Percy Hynes White (My Old Ass) and Nick Frost (How to Train Your Dragon). Whistle is slated for a wide theatrical release.
Mariska Hargitay is making headlines not for her Emmy-winning role on Law & Order: SVU, but for a deeply personal revelation in her new documentary My Mom Jayne which premiered at Cannes Film Festival.
Here is the first look teaser trailer for Richard Linklater’s latest film, Nouvelle Vague, a homage to the French New Wave, recreating the behind-the-scenes making of Jean-Luc Godard’s seminal film, Breathless.
Lionsgate debuted the official trailer for Americana, the neo-western crime thriller film starring Sydney Sweeney, Paul Walter Hauser, and Halsey.
Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh, known for his films that focus on the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, will serve as jury president of the international competition (Concorso Internazionale), that will decide the winner of the Pardo d’Oro – the Golden Leopard – at the 78th Locarno Film Festival, taking place from August 6-16, 2025.
CNN has greenlit a new feature documentary titled I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, described as the authorized yet unfiltered documentary of the comedy legend, Chevy Chase. Directed by two-time Emmy Award winner Marina Zenovich, the film will premiere in 2026.
The 49th San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival (Frameline49) taking place June 18–28, 2025, unveiled the lineup featuring nearly 150 films from 40 countries..
Ahead of the world premiere at Tribeca Festival, here is the first look teaser trailer for Matter of Time, a documentary chronicling the fight to cure Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), set against the backdrop of Eddie Vedder’s 2023 benefit concerts at Seattle’s Benaroya Hall. All proceeds from these concerts went directly to EB Research Partnership (EBRP), the world’s largest organization funding research for EB, with the ambitious goal of finding a cure by 2030.
The 28th edition of Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF), themed Pause, unveiled the film lineup of 145 features and shorts from 34 countries. The full lineup includes 15 narrative features and 10 documentary features, highlighted below. The festival runs May 30th through June 8th, 2025.
The 2025 Bentonville Film Festival (BFF) set for June 16-22, 2025, Bentonville, Arkansas unveiled the narrative, documentary, homegrown, short film, and episodic selections. This year’s festival will showcase 28 feature competition films, including 9 World Premieres, with a newly launched Homegrown Competition highlighting stories from filmmakers based in or filming in Arkansas.