“Hold Me Close” will have its world premiere in the Documentary Short Film category at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
Directed by Emmy Award-winner Aurora Brachman (2020 Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellowship) & LaTajh Simmons-Weaver, Hold Me Close is “a chronicle of the power and complexity of the relationship between Corinne and Tiana, two Queer Black womxn who experience cycles of life’s joys and pains together in the home they share”
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“Rule Breakers”, Angel Studios’s upcoming women empowerment feature film has set its theatrical release date and has unveiled its official trailer (see below).
Directed by two-time Academy Award winner Bill Guttentag, the film is set for release on March 7, 2025. It stars Nikohl Boosheri as Mahboob and Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
The film’s synopsis says: in a place where girls are told their dreams are impossible, one woman risks everything to prove otherwise. Her team of young visionaries earns worldwide recognition, inspiring hope even as danger rises. Together, they must show that determination and bravery can overcome even the darkest obstacles.
Also in “Rule Breakers” are Ali Fazal, Sami Fekkak, Mustafa Haidari, Nasser Memarzia, Christopher Goh, Christian Contreras, Fahim Fazli, and Anita Major.
Written and directed by filmmaking duo Sam and Andy Zuchero, Love Me is an upcoming post-apocalyptic romance film starring Kristen Stewart (Love Lies Bleeding) and Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead).
A new trailer has just been revealed, which giving audiences a look ahead of its theatrical debut.
The movie debuted at Sundance earlier this year, where it was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize.
Here is the film’s synopsis: In a story that spans billions of years, a buoy and a satellite meet online long after humanity’s extinction. As they learn what life was like on Earth, they discover themselves and what it means to be alive and in love.
“Love Me” is set for release later this month on January 31, 2025.
Robert De Niro is heading to Netflix for its series thriller “Zero Day,” which is set to premiere Feb. 20, and Netflix has just released a teaser.
The six-episode Netflix conspiracy thriller Robert De Niro, along with Jesse Plemons, Lizzy Caplan, Angela Bassett, Joan Allen, Matthew Modine, and Connie Britton in the upcoming miniseries “Zero Day” frm Netflix.
In “Zero Day”, a former U.S. President is called out of retirement to find the source of a deadly cyberattack, only to discover a vast web of lies and conspiracies.
It is created by Eric Newman (Narcos), Noah Oppenheim (Jackie), and Michael Schmidt, a Pulitzer Prize winner.
Watch the exciting trailer for “Zero Day” below:
Becoming Led Zeppelin, the highly-anticipated documentary about rock legends Led Zeppelin’s early years, is set for release in February.
Powered by awe-inspiring, psychedelic, never-before-seen footage, performances, and music, Bernard MacMahon’s experiential cinematic odyssey explores Led Zeppelin’s creative, musical, and personal origin story. The film is told in Led Zeppelin’s own words and is the first officially sanctioned film on the group.
Directed by Bernard MacMahon and produced by writer-producer Allison McGourty, Sony Pictures Classics is set to release the documentary on February 07, 2025 on Imax.
Bernard MacMahon and Allison McGourty wrote the screenplay.
See the trailer below for “Becoming Led Zeppelin” and find a showing near you at Imax.com.
Lionsgate premiered the official trailer for “Wish You Were Here”. The romance film is the directorial debut of Julia Stiles.
“Wish You Were Here” sees Charlotte, who finds herself in a rut, searching for a spark that seems just out of reach. After she has a whirlwind night of romance and imagining a future with a man named Adam, he ghosts her. When Charlotte finally discovers that Adam is terminally ill, she helps him spend his last days living life to the fullest.
It stars Isabelle Fuhrman, Mena Massoud, Jimmie Fails, Gabby Kono, Jennifer Grey, Kelsey Grammer
“Wish You Were Here” is set for release in theaters on January 17, and then on digital platforms after on February 4.
See the trailer below for “Wish You Were Here”.
Trailblazing Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmüller’s dark comedy SWEPT AWAY… BY AN UNUSUAL DESTINY IN THE BLUE SEA OF AUGUST, starring Mariangela Melato and Giancarlo Giannini, will run in a new 4K restoration from Friday, January 31 to Thursday, February 6 at Film Forum.
Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Mediterranean, SWEPT AWAY is Lina Wertmüller’s most famous and controversial film about sex, love and politics. On an elegant yacht cruising off the coast of Sardinia, Raffaella (Melato), a beautiful, haughty bourgeoise, enjoys tormenting Gennarino (Giannini), a Communist sailor. Fate weaves a different scenario and roles become reversed when the two find themselves stranded together on a deserted island.
Raffaella must submit to Gennarino in order to survive, which culminates in a dramatic climax when they are rescued. “A parable in which people’s sexual attitudes are governed by economics and class.” — New York Women in Film and Television`
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A24 has debuted the trailer “Warfare”, the upcoming war drama co-directed by Alex Garland and Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza.
Drawing from Mendoza’s firsthand experiences, rhe film follows a team of Navy SEALs during the Iraq War in 2006.
It follows a platoon of American Navy SEALs in the home of an Iraqi family, overwatching the movement of US forces through insurgent territory.
The film features an impressive ensemble cast including D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Charles Melton, Joseph Quinn, Kit Connor, Cosmo Jarvis, Will Poulter, Finn Bennett, Noah Centineo, Michael Gandolfini, Henrique Zaga.
A24 is set “Warfare” in 2025. See the powerful new trailer for “Warfare” below:
Dreamworks Animation “The Wild Robot” topped the nominations for the feature competition of the 52nd Annie Awards for animation. The Chris Sanders’ animated science fiction led with 10 nominations.
Disney/Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” and Aardman and Netflix’s “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,” received norminations seven apiece; while Locksmith Animation and Netflix’s “That Christmas,” followed with six.
Honoring excellence in the field of animation, the 52nd Annual Annie Awards will be presented in 37 categories including Animated Feature, Animated Feature-Independent, Television/Media Production(s), Sponsored Production, Short Subject and Student Film, as well as the Achievement and Honorary awards.
The 52nd Annual Annie Awards is set to be held on February 8, 2025 at 7:00 pm PT at UCLA’s Royce Hall.
Here are the nominees:
Best Feature
Inside Out 2 – Pixar Animation Studios
Kung Fu Panda 4 – DreamWorks Animation
That Christmas – Locksmith Animation for Netflix
The Wild Robot – DreamWorks Animation
Ultraman: Rising – Netflix Presents in association with Tsuburaya Productions
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – Aardman and Netflix
Best Feature – Independent
Chicken for Linda! – Dolce Vita Films, Miyu Productions, Palosanto Films, France 3 Cinéma.
Flow – Sacrebleu Productions, Take Five, Dream Well Studio
Kensuke’s Kingdom – Paramount Pictures
Look Back – Studio Durian
Mars Express – Everybody on Deck, Je Suis Bien Content
Memoir of a Snail – Snails Pace Films / Arenamedia
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ETCH announced today the upcoming release of their documentary series FIRST WORD ON HORROR, which will be available exclusively via Substack on February 7, 2025, featuring Stephen Graham Jones, Paul Tremblay, Elizabeth Hand, Laird Barron, and Mariana Enriquez.
This will be the first project from the independent animation and production company run by the award-winning trio of Philip Gelatt, Will Battersby and Morgan Galen King.
FIRST WORD ON HORROR is a fifteen-part documentary series that profiles five of the finest horror writers working today.
Across multiple episodes, each author discusses their life, their inspirations, their philosophies, and their writing techniques while reading one of their short stories. As fact and fiction blend, secrets are revealed and the delicate alchemy that turns human experience into creative expression begins to emerge.
The series is a love letter to writers of all ilk, to the primacy of the human experience, and to the simple act of reading a damned good story.
