Shudder acquires feminist revenge fable ‘Violation’ ahead of Sundance
Shudder, AMC Networks’ premiere streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, has announced the acquisition of Violation, the debut feature written, produced and directed by... Read More
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Focus Features picks up Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Belfast’ with Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan and Caitriona Balfe
Focus Features has acquired the worldwide rights to Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast. Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Branagh, Belfast is the humorous, tender and intensely personal story of... Read More
Sundance 2021 lineup low on high-profile films but increases representation and accessibility of festival
Award-winning actresses Robin Wright and Rebecca Hall will world premiere their debut feature films; women and BIPOC filmmakers make up 50% of the lineup of... Read More
Netflix announces production on new animated feature ‘The Magician’s Elephant’
Netflix announced today a new animated feature film currently in production, The Magician’s Elephant, based on two-time Newbery Award winner Kate DiCamillo’s novel of the... Read More
Focus Features to give Robin Wright’s ‘Land’ an Oscar-qualifying release in February
In a surprise announcement today, Focus Features will release Land, the directorial debut from award-winning actress Robin Wright (House of Cards) n theaters domestically on... Read More
Trailer: ‘Bridgerton’ is full of gossip, girl
All is fair in love and war. Today, Netflix debuted the official trailer for Bridgerton, the first series from Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland at Netflix. The... Read More
Trailer: Frances McDormand discovers the American West and herself in ‘Nomadland’
Searchlight Pictures has revealed the first full trailer for Nomadland, which just earned the first top critics wins of the season on Sunday from the... Read More
‘American Murderer’ adds Paul Schneider, Shantel VanSanten, Kevin Corrigan and Moises Arias
The Traveling Picture Show Company and GiGi Films announced today that Paul Schneider (Lars and the Real Girl, “Tales from the Loop”), Shantel VanSanten (“The... Read More
Neon’s SUPER LTD nabs North American rights to Italy Oscar submission ‘Notturno’
SUPER LTD, the boutique division and incubator from NEON, announced today that they have acquired North American rights to master director Gianfranco Rosi’s Notturno, which... Read More
Red Band Trailer: Bob Odenkirk is a big old ‘Nobody’
In Nobody, Emmy winner Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul, The Post, Nebraska) stars as Hutch Mansell, an underestimated and overlooked dad and husband, taking life’s indignities on the chin and... Read More
Seattle Film Critics Society (SFCS) Nominations: ‘Sinners’ Leads with Record-Tying 14 
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Michigan Movie Critics Guild Nominations: ‘One Battle After Another’ Leads with 12