This weekend will be a little more retro and lo-fi with the release of Oscilloscope Laboratories’ forthcoming comedy VHYesfrom writer and director Jack Henry Robbins. In limited release this weekend, the pic is a new take on the found footage movie — and it’s all shot entirely on VHS.
For those of you who aren’t…
Sony’s Bad Boys for Life, a sequel 17 years in the waiting, previewed at 3,154 theaters last night making a great $6.36M. That amount for the R-rated film is bigger than American Sniper‘s $5.3M preview, which turned out to be the record opener over the 2015 MLK holiday with a 4-day of $107.2M.
Sony is seeing a $38M…
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the first trailer for Acasa, My Home, which will premiere January 26 in Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Competition.
The pic explores gentrification in Romania. For two decades, the Enache family – nine kids and their parents – lived in a shack in the wilderness of Bucharest Delta: an abandoned…
EXCLUSIVE: Haifaa Al-Mansour’s political parable The Perfect Candidate has been picked up for North America by Music Box Films ahead of the movie’s U.S. premiere at Sundance.
The Venice title is the latest film from pioneering director Haifaa al-Mansour, who made the first Saudi Arabian feature Wadjda in 2012. The…
The 70th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 20 – March 1) unveiled its Encounters program today, featuring the premieres of new works by Tim Sutton (Donnybrook, Dark Night) and Romanian director Cristi Puiu (Sieranevada, Aurora).
Also screening is Josephine Decker's Shirley with Elisabeth Moss and Michael…
EXCLUSIVE:Mike Colter (Evil, Luke Cage) has joined the cast of thriller picTill Death, which is being helmed by Big Bad Wolves director Aharon Keshales.
As we revealed back in November, Jason Sudeikis and Evangeline Lilly are top-lining the project. Ahead of shooting this month in Texas, Shea Whigham (Joker), Jeremy…
CineAsia, the exhibition conference that has been held in Hong Kong since 2009, is setting up in Thailand capital Bangkok.
Organizers Film Expo Group sent out a brief note today stating that they had decided to relocate the event to the Thai city for 2020, where it will run December 7-10. No further details were…
Keira Knightley is attached to star in an untitled Brit movie about how the British spend Christmas, we have confirmed.
Details are being kept under wraps on the project, which hails from producers Trudie Styler and Matthew Vaughn.
Casting is underway for the role of Knightley’s husband in the film. The couple's…
Jack Lowden (Dunkirk) is attached to star as WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon in writer-director Terence Davies’ upcoming biopic Benediction, we have confirmed.
Lowden, a recent BAFTA Rising Star nominee, will portray English soldier and poet Sassoon, who was decorated for bravery on the Western Front, and is best…
Here's the first image from Ali & Ava, the next project from Dark River and The Selfish Giant director Clio Barnard.
The film follows Ava (Claire Rushbrook) a respected matriarch on a predominantly white Bradford estate, and Ali (Adeel Akhtar), a charismatic son, brother, boss and landlord, an avid music and book…
Mark Jenkin, whose indie pic Bait was a breakout hit this year in the UK and is up for two BAFTAs, has set his next project, Enys Men (Cornish for “stone island”), with backing from Film4.
The horror film is planning to shoot in Cornwall in May this year. Film4 is co-financing, with senior commissioning executive…
Zinc Media Group, the UK factual producer that houses indies behind shows like Inside Europe: 10 Years Of Turmoil, has secured £3.5M ($4.6M) of investment in a City fundraising round.
Zinc raised the cash through a new share issue, which was supported by existing investors, including the company’s biggest shareholder…
Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie and an all-star ensemble take a powerful deep-dive into the downfall of Roger Ailes, with director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph.
