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As Halloween is fast approaching, here's your New Movie Alert guide for the best flicks hitting each streamer this week from October 28 to November 3!

Keep in mind that most of the streaming services will also soon be including more classic Christmas movies to celebrate and encourage the holiday spirit ahead of December.

New Movies Hitting Netflix This Week

From October 28 to November 3, Netflix's roster offers time traveling, romance, horror, drama, and a bunch of animation flicks kids can enjoy! For now, here are a couple of standouts worth binge-watching:

October 30-31Time Cut (2024)Martha (2024)Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024)

Time Cut tells the story of a teenage girl who travels back to stop a killer from murdering her sister.

Martha is a documentary flick about Martha Stewart's journey to becoming the US's "first self-made,...

10. The Social Network (2010)

While not following the exact events of Facebook’s creation, The Social Network gives a great idea of how it came to be. There once was a student whose girlfriend dumped him, and in spite of her, he created a website where guys could rate girls based on their looks. The site became popular, and things started spiraling up…

You can watch The Social Network on Hulu, Netflix, Apple TV, and Prime Video.

9. The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)

Most of us can’t truly comprehend the ethereal world of mathematics, but some people know infinity — almost literally. This movie follows the life and relationships of a brilliant Indian mathematician whose friendship and collaboration with his teacher resulted in a series of breakthroughs but who suffered an unjustly grim fate.

You can watch The Man Who Knew Infinity on Apple TV and Prime Video.

8. The Martian (2015)

The Martian...

Pluto TV, Paramount’s free streaming service, has revealed its May highlights. The Pluto TV May 2024 schedule includes Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month programming, more anime content, new channels, and new film additions.

Pluto TV is the leading free streaming television service, delivering hundreds of live linear channels and thousands of titles on-demand to a global audience.

The Emmy Award-winning service curates a diverse lineup of channels in partnership with hundreds of international media companies. It offers a wide array of genres, languages, and categories featuring movies, television series, sports, news, lifestyle, kids, and much more.

Pluto TV can be easily accessed and streamed across mobile, web, and connected TV devices. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Pluto TV’s growing international footprint extends across three continents and over 35 markets.

Pluto TV May 2024 Programming

Asian American, Native Hawaiian, And Pacific Islander Heritage Month

To pay tribute, Pluto TV...

This Spring, Witness How One Small Ember Can Burn Down Everything. From Producer Jordan Peele, Universal Pictures Presents Dev Patel In His Tour-de-force Directing Debut, Monkey Man. Rated R.

Only In Theaters April 5th.

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The St. Louis advance screening is 7Pm. Wednesday April 3rd at Marcus Ronnie’s Cine (6Pm Suggested Arrival)

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Oscar® nominee Dev Patel achieves an astonishing, tour-de-force feature directing debut with an action thriller about one man’s quest for vengeance against the corrupt leaders who murdered his mother and continue to systemically victimize the poor and powerless.

Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, an icon embodying strength and courage, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where,...

Dev Patel’s feature directorial debut is picking up steam on the hype train. Monkey Man recently premiered to great raves at the SXSW Festival, and the screening earned Patel a lengthy standing ovation, which moved him to tears. Universal has released a final trailer for the Jordan Peele-produced film just before it hits theaters (and faces) on April 5. Joining Patel in the cast is a slate of actors that include international talents such as Sharlto Copley (District 9), Pitobash (Million Dollar Arm), Vipin Sharma (Hotel Mumbai), Sikandar Kher (Aarya), Adithi Kalkunte (Hotel Mumbai), Sobhita Dhulipala (Made in Heaven), Ashwini Kalsekar (Ek Tha Hero), Makarand Deshpande (Rrr), Jatin Malik in his film debut, and Zakir Hussain (Duranga).

The official synopsis reads,

“Oscar® nominee Dev Patel achieves an astonishing, tour-de-force feature directing debut with an action thriller about one man’s quest for vengeance against the corrupt leaders who murdered...

Universal Pictures has released the new trailer for Monkey Man, which was directed by Dev Patel and produced by Jordan Peele. The film opens in theaters on April 5.

Monkey Man is rated R for strong bloody violence throughout, rape, language throughout, sexual content/nudity, and drug use.

Oscar nominee Dev Patel achieves an astonishing, tour-de-force feature directing debut with an action thriller about one man’s quest for vengeance against the corrupt leaders who murdered his mother and continue to victimize the poor and powerless systemically.

Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, an icon embodying strength and courage, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash.

After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave...

Universal and Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions are getting set to unleash director Dev Patel’s Monkey Man, which has been earning rave reviews on the festival scene.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her SXSW review for Bloody Disgusting, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”

“Patel’s assured, audacious vision delivers an epic crowd-pleaser of mythic proportions,” Meagan’s 4.5 star rave review continues. “Run, don’t walk, to theaters for this one.”

Monkey Man will release only in theaters April 5. Watch the new trailer below.

The official press release previews, “Oscar® nominee Dev Patel (Lion, Slumdog Millionaire) achieves an astonishing, tour-de-force feature directing debut with an action thriller about one man’s...

BAFTA-nominated Irish actor Robert Sheehan (The Umbrella Academy) has signed on to lead a stage adaptation of Bruce Robinson’s 1987 cult tragi-comedy Withnail and I at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre alongside actors Adonis Siddique and Malcolm Sinclair.

Directed by the double Olivier Award-winning Sean Foley, Artistic Director of Birmingham Rep, and designed by Alice Power, the show will premiere at Birmingham Repertory Theatre, with performances from 3 May until 25 May 2024.

The adaption was written by Robinson. The original film was based on an unpublished novel by Robinson and was produced by Handmade Films, with Richard E Grant, Paul McGann, and Richard Griffiths leading. On stage, Sheehan will star as Withnail while Siddique is Marwood, and Malcolm Sinclair is Uncle Monty.

Sheehan made his acting debut in Aisling Walsh’s acclaimed feature Song For A Raggy Boy. Since then, his screen credits include Season of the Witch, Cherrybomb, Killing Bono, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones,...

Titled Monkey Man, a new exciting film has premiered its trailer and we are intrigued! Making his directing debut is Oscar® nominee Dev Patel and with this project he brings an astonishing, tour-de-force feature action thriller about one man’s quest for vengeance against the corrupt leaders who murdered his mother and continue to systemically victimize the poor and powerless.

Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, an icon embodying strength and courage, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash.

After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score...

“One small ember can burn down everything.” The trailer for Monkey Man has been released. The film is directed by Dev Patel and is only in theaters on April 5, 2024! Check out the new trailer right here on CinemaNerdz!

Oscar® nominee Dev Patel achieves an astonishing, tour-de-force feature directing debut with an action thriller about one man’s quest for vengeance against the corrupt leaders who murdered his mother and continue to systemically victimize the poor and powerless.

Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, an icon embodying strength and courage, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash.

After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over,...

A project that hadn’t been on our radar but damn sure is now, Universal and Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions have delivered a stellar trailer for the film Monkey Man today.

Monkey Man will release only in theaters April 5, and while it’s not a horror movie, it looks to be a violent action-thriller that will surely appeal to horror fans. Watch the trailer below!

This one had originally been set up at Netflix, but from what we gather, Peele was so thrilled with Patel’s vision that he pushed for the film to get a theatrical release from Universal.

Based on what we’re seeing here, it looks like all parties involved made the right call!

The official press release previews, “Oscar® nominee Dev Patel achieves an astonishing, tour-de-force feature directing debut with an action thriller about one man’s quest for vengeance against the corrupt leaders who...

Bigger and longer are not always better. Case in point: Freud’s Last Session, the lavish film based on a modest off-Broadway play that captivated theater audiences a decade ago. Playwright Mark St. Germain worked with director Matthew Brown (The Man Who Knew Infinity) to reshape his two-character drama about an imaginary conversation between Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis as they debate the existence of God. That provocative exchange is still in the movie, and it sometimes crackles, thanks to the performances of Matthew Goode as Lewis and, especially, Anthony Hopkins as Freud. But the heart of the story is constantly undermined by a surfeit of asides about Lewis’ experiences in the First World War, Freud’s highly charged relationship with his daughter Anna, and several other subplots.

The main culprit here may be the current fashion for time-fractured, nonlinear narratives. It is rare these days to see a movie...

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And sometimes it’s a loaded symbol in an imagined conversation between world-famous “sex doc” Sigmund Freud and converted atheist C.S. Lewis.

In the stage play turned only-slightly-less-stagy film, “Freud’s Last Session,” these two titans of 20th-century thought meet at the psychoanalyst’s London home in early September 1939 to discuss God, father figures (both spiritual and biological) and, of course, sex. Freud famously had a way of making everything about sex, and once he lights his cigar — a prop that Freud treats every bit as portentously as one might Chekhov’s proverbial gun — the subject effectively chases out their more gripping disagreement over faith.

Expanding only slightly on the stuffiness of his tweedy 2015 biopic, “The Man Who Knew Infinity,” director Matthew Brown has taken the play by Mark St. Germain and whittled away a bit of the talk (thereby making room for formative...

Hollywood has tried for decades to make psychoanalysis compelling for the layman, whether that’s David Cronenberg’s “A Dangerous Method” to Bill Condon’s “Kinsey.” Director Matthew Brown (“The Man Who Knew Infinity”) is the latest to look at the density of psychology, philosophy and existentialism with his quasi-historical drama “Freud’s Last Session.”

The film tells the story of a fictional meeting between Sigmund Freud (Anthony Hopkins) and author C.S. Lewis (Matthew Goode). Freud is suffering from oral cancer while Lewis has embraced a newfound love for Christianity. The pair meet in the hopes of crafting some type of relationship and spend the day going back and forth on the everything from God to the meaning of life.

It’s a fairly simple premise that holds promise: what would the greatest psychoanalyst and the most pronounced theologian have to talk about? The answer is enough to fill a two...

On the heels of the wonderful 2019 The Two Popes, in which Anthony Hopkins starred as Pope Benedict XVI in an imagined conversation with Jonathan Pryce’s future Pope Francis, Hopkins is once again involved in the same kind of cinematic historical fictional meeting as founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, who is engaged in a private debate with The Chronicles of Narnia author and theologian C.S. Lewis (played by Matthew Goode) on the existence of God. As with The Two Popes, there is no proof whatsoever that any meeting ever took place, but it clearly provides lots of material to wrap your head around. That is exactly what Mark St. Germain did in creating his 2009 play Freud’s Last Session, which was built on the 1967 Harvard lectures of Dr. Armond M. Nicholi Jr in his presentation “The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life.

Sigmund Freud squares off against C.S. Lewis over nothing less than the existence of God in the first trailer for “Freud’s Last Session.”

The Sony Pictures Classics acquisition will debut in theaters on Dec. 22, positioning the Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode vehicle as a year-end awards season contender.

The official plot synopsis for “Freud’s Last Session” reads: “On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds of the 20th Century, Sigmund Freud (Hopkins) and C.S. Lewis (Goode), converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God.” The movie “interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present and through fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic journey.”

Matt Brown (“The Man Who Knew Infinity”) directed while Mark St. Germain (“The God Committee”) adapted his play of the same name.

The trailer positions the feature as a dialogue-driven two-hander,...

Updated, 11:34 a.m.: Sony Pictures Classics has firmed up release plans for its drama Freud’s Last Session, starring Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode, which charts the relationship between psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and author C.S. Lewis. Based on the stage play by Mark St. Germain, who wrote the script, the film opens in theaters in New York and L.A. December 22, with an expansion to follow in January.

The move positions the pic to open opposite A24’s wrestling drama The Iron Claw, Searchlight’s romantic drama All of Us Strangers, MGM’s buzzy festival title American Fiction, and Uni and Illumination’s original animated pic Migration.

Matt Brown (The Man Who Knew Infinity) served as the film’s director. In addition to North America, SPC is distributing in the Middle East, India, Eastern Europe (excluding Russia) and Turkey, and on airlines worldwide. Read more about the project below.

“Freud’s Last Session,” which stars Anthony Hopkins as Sigmund Freud and Matthew Goode as author C. S. Lewis, is in its final stages of filming in Ireland.

“Freud’s Last Session” is set on the eve of the Second World War, when at the end of his life, Freud (Hopkins) invites “The Chronicles of Narnia” author C.S. Lewis (Goode) to debate the existence of God. Interweaving past, present and fantasy, the film explores Freud’s unique relationship with his daughter Anna (Liv Lisa Fries), and Lewis’ unconventional relationship with his best friend’s mother.

Sony Pictures Classics last year snapped up all rights for North America, the Middle East, Turkey, India, Eastern Europe (excluding Cis), Asia and Latin America and worldwide airlines. WestEnd Films, which is selling the film, has also struck deals across Australia (Sharmill Films), Scandinavia (Scanbox), Italy (Adler), Benelux (Just Entertainment), Portugal (Nos), Israel (United King) and Greece...

WestEnd Films and CAA Media Finance are selling the film.

Babylon Berlin star Liv Lisa Fries has joined Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode in the cast of Freud’s Last Session, which is in its final stages of filming in Ireland.

A first look at the film, in which Oscar-winner Hopkins plays Sigmund Freud and Goode plays author C.S. Lewis, has been released by WestEnd Films, which handles sales alongside US-based CAA Media Finance.

German actress Fries plays Freud’s daughter in the film, which is set on the eve of the Second World War and sees the founder of...

Westend Films has released the first image of Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode in Freud’s Last Session, as the legendary psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and writer and academic C.S. Lewis, prior to his Chronicles Of Narnia fame.

Filming is in its final stages in Ireland.

Set on the eve of the Second World War, the film revolves around a meeting between Freud and Lewis, at the psychoanalyst’s London home, during which they debate the existence of God.

The film also explores Freud’s unique relationship with his daughter Anna, played by Liv Lisa Fries and Lewis’ unconventional relationship with his best friend’s mother.

The film is directed by Matthew Brown (The Man Who Knew Infinity) and was written by Mark St. Germain (The God Committee) with revisions by Brown, based on the play of the same name.

Producers are Alan Greisman (The Bucket List...

Dan Lauria and Alley Mills in ‘Fantasy Island’ season 2 episode 10 (Photo by Laura Magruder © 2023 Fox Media LLC)

The Wonder Years stars Alley Mills and Dan Lauria guest star on Fox’s Fantasy Island season two episode 10. “War Of The Roses (And The Hutchinsons) will air on Monday, April 17, 2023 at 9pm Et/Pt.

Roselyn Sanchez leads the cast as Elena Roarke, a descendant of the iconic Mr. Roarke played by Ricardo Montalban in the original ’70s series. Kiara Barnes (The Bold and the Beautiful) plays Ruby Akuda and John Gabriel Rodriguez (Rosewood) stars as Javier.

Episode 10’s guest stars also include Brandon Scott (Grey’s Anatomy) and Devika Bhise (The Man Who Knew Infinity).

“War Of The Roses (And The Hutchinsons)” Plot: A middle-aged couple and a younger couple arrive separately with their own unique fantasies. All is going well until the couples discover they’re sharing the island; turns out they’re feuding neighbors.

If you’ve seen the British satire “Toast of London,” chances are that voiceover engineer Clem Fandango’s name still rings in your ears. Now Shazad Latif, the man behind Fandango, Ash Tyler on “Star Trek: Discovery” and Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde on “Penny Dreadful,” has nabbed his first romantic lead in “What’s Love Got to Do With It?”

The Shekhar Kapur-helmed acquisition title, which has a Gala world premiere Sept. 10 in Toronto, “has slightly more depth than a normal rom-com because it tackles arranged marriage,” Latif said. Lily James plays his character’s childhood friend, and complications ensue when she decides to make a documentary about the nuptials.

“Lily is one of my closest friends,” Latif said. “She’s like a sister to me.” They met when she did a play with his old roommate, and co-starred in the 2021 BBC miniseries “The Pursuit of Love.” “I read [“What’s Love”] a while back,...

Exclusive: Erin Moriarty (The Boys), Jai Courtney (Suicide Squad), Dina Shihabi (Archive 81) and Ryan Corr (House of the Dragon) have signed on to star in Catching Dust—an upcoming Texas noir marking the feature debut of writer-director Stuart Gatt, which will enter production in the Canary Islands this month.

The drama is set in the isolation of Texas’ Big Bend, where a lone trailer on an abandoned commune has become the reluctant hideout for Geena (Moriarty), at the behest of her criminal husband, Clyde (Courtney). Geena’s lust for life and desire for interaction with the outside world are quashed by Clyde’s insistence they remain hidden from the law and his former cohorts looking to settle old scores. Exhausted by Clyde’s controlling ways, Geena decides to leave. But then a trailer arrives carrying Amaya (Shihabi) and Andy (Corr), a couple from New York seeking a respite from the city.

Matthew Brown to direct.

UK sales outfit WestEnd Films and US-based CAA Media Finance have launched worldwide sales at Cannes on Matthew Brown’s Freud’s Last Session, starring Anthony Hopkins.

Hopkins will play the founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, on the eve of the Second World War as he approaches the end of his life and invites author Cs Lewis over to debate the existence of God.

The drama explores Freud’s relationship with his daughter, and that of Lewis’ romance with his best friend’s mother.

Hopkins has also previously played Lewis, in 1993 film Shadowlands.

The script is...

Exclusive: Sarena Khan and Andra Gordon’s Athena Pictures and Starlings Television, led by Chris Philip, have teamed with Propagate Content’s Ben Silverman to co-produce Shadowland, a female-driven wildlife crime thriller series, from Jacqui Barcos, director Darnell Martin and executive producer Peter Elkoff.

Shadowland is based on the real-life experiences of two wildlife crime operatives, both former U.S. special operations counter-terrorism specialists with decades of combined experience working in some of the most dangerous places in the world, now dedicated to uncovering the real drivers behind Africa’s wildlife crime crisis.

After Khan, Gordon and Barcos landed the story rights in a highly competitive bidding process, Barcos and Khan embarked on an undercover trip to South Africa with the operatives to research the project firsthand. In the vein of The Wire, Shadowland delves into both the socio- economic...

Denmark-born, New York-based director is nomated for short ’The Letter Room’, starring Oscar Isaac.

Danish filmmaker Elvira Lind, who is Oscar nominated for her short The Letter Room, is now readying her debut fiction feature to shoot later this year in New York.

The Denmark-born, New York-based director is collaborating with playwright Amy Herzog on the film. It will be produced by Sofia Sondervan, who also produced The Letter Room and whose credits include Cadillac Records and The Man Who Knew Infinity.

Details about the feature are under wraps but Lind told Screen it is inspired by elements from one...

IFC Films Unlimited, the streaming arm of IFC, has expanded to Canada.

It will be made available on Amazon Prime beginning Wednesday. Customers can subscribe directly to IFC Films Unlimited for $5.99 Cad per month. The subscription service also offers access to movies from IFC’s other labels Sundance Selects and genre label IFC Midnight.

The expansion of IFC Films Unlimited in Canada will debut with the release of “The Wretched,” a supernatural horror film written and directed by the Pierce Brothers.

“IFC Films Unlimited has consistently outperformed our expectations since launching just over a year ago. The programming has attracted specialty film fans who are looking for high-quality independent film across a variety of genres. We are thrilled to continue our expansion in Canada with Amazon,” said Lisa Schwartz, co-president of IFC Films.

IFC Films Unlimited’s library includes such previous releases as “Frances Ha,” “The Man Who Knew Infinity,...

Experience an epic tale of heroism, leadership, and female empowerment when The Warrior Queen of Jhansi arrives on Digital and DVD May 19 from Lionsgate.

Experience an epic tale of heroism, leadership, and female empowerment when The Warrior Queen of Jhansi arrives on Digital and DVD May 19 from Lionsgate. This film is based on the true story of Rani of Jhansi, the Indian Queen who was a leading figure and symbol of resistance in the 1857 Indian rebellion against the British Empire. Directed by Swati Bhise (one of the producers of The Man Who Knew Infinity) and co-written by Swati, her daughter Devika Bhise (Mosaic), who also stars as “Rani Lashkmi Bai,” and Olivia Emden (Hero), The Warrior Queen of Jhansi features Nathaniel Parker, Golden Globe® nominee Rupert Everett, Ben Lamb, Jodhi May, and Primetime Emmy® winner Derek Jacobi. The Warrior Queen of Jhansi will be available on Digital for the suggested...

In an aim to help now-shuttered independent theaters, IFC Films will allow cinemas to screen 200 of its library titles for free once they open back up. The distributor hopes that favorites like “Frances Ha,” “Y Tu Mamá También,” and even “The Human Centipede” will help drive audiences back to theaters in the coming months, a time when fewer and fewer new releases are being scheduled.

The Indie Theater Revival Project‘s offerings will be available to theaters beginning May 29, with traditional rental fees for library titles waived for theaters in the first 30 days that they’re open, starting from whatever date they reopen their doors. That means more money in the pockets in the form of ticket sales for local theater owners who have been faced with a near-zero revenue stream after closing their doors last month.

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Curated retrospectives include Cannes winners, genre, family documentaries.

IFC Films has launched The Indie Theater Revival Project and curated 20 retrospective programmes for Us theatres when they emerge from lockdown, offering library titles for free during the first month they open.

The selections comprise approximately 200 films spanning IFC Films’ 20-year history – the company celebrates its anniversary this year – and IFC Films said on Tuesday (21) it will make them available to cinemas starting on May 29.

Theatres will be able to book any number of the retrospective programmes, in part or in total, any time through the first month after they reopen. No...

Curated retrospectives to be made available for participating theatres.

IFC Films announced on Tuesday (21) The Indie Theater Revival Project and has curated 20 retrospective programmes for Us theatres to screen when they reopen in the weeks and months ahead.

The selections comprise approximately 200 films spanning IFC Films’ 20-year history – the company celebrates its anniversary this year – and will make them available to cinemas starting on May 29.

Theatres will be able to book any number of the retrospective programmes, in part or in total, any time through the first month after they reopen. No film rental will be due for any of...

In an effort to help independently-owned movie theaters recover from the coronavirus pandemic, IFC Films announced on Tuesday that it will offer over 200 of its films to those theaters without any rental fees. This will help give those theaters some classic films to screen when they reopen while they wait for new films to be released.

“Independent theaters across the country have been essential partners for us at IFC Films, and we would not be where we are today without their support,” the distributor announced in a statement. “We wanted to take the first step and let theaters know that we are committed to helping them reopen their doors by providing a selection of films to program while the new release landscape gets back to normal.”

Dubbed “The Indie Revival Project,” the program will offer selections from IFC’s catalog in various curated packs, including a “Yes We Cannes!” program...

IFC Films is offering embattled indie theaters hundreds of films from its library to screen when they re-open from their mass Covid-19 related shutdown.

The movies, which include such IFC classics as “Y Tu Mama Tambien” and “Boyhood,” will be made available to cinemas without any rental fees. The retrospective program boasts roughly 200 films. Theaters will not be charged any film rental.

“We are honoring the partnership we’ve had with theaters over the last 20 years and we’re sending them a message of solidarity and gratefulness,” said Lisa Schwartz, co-president of IFC Films. “They’ve been with us since beginning and when they come back, we want to be there with them.”

The indie studio is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary and had been putting together programming to honor the occasion. After coronavirus closed most theaters in March, IFC began to rethink its plans.

“This was a positive way...

Ivan and Beth Hodge.

In 1961 New Zealand couple Beth and Ivan Hodge set off in their newly acquired Vw Beetle on an extended honeymoon, driving from London to Calcutta.

In 1996 the couple, who moved to Australia in the 1960s, embarked on that same journey in that same car, this time ending in Mumbai.

That’s the inspiration for The Road Less Travelled, the first Australian script to emerge from Imagine Entertainment’s inaugural global content accelerator in Hollywood in late 2018.

Faraway Films Entertainment’s Steve Turnbull and Lynda Heys, who met the Hodges – Beth is a retired teacher and Ivan is a former insurance executive – at a film screening in 2015, wrote the screenplay and Heys will direct, her feature directing debut.

The duo optioned Beth and Ivan’s life rights and then spent two years interviewing the Hodges and their family and sifting through their archival material including photos, diaries and audio tape.

Directed by Swati Bhise and starring Devika Bhise, The Warrior Queen of Jhansi tells the true story of the legendary Rani of Jhansi, a feminist icon in India and a fearless freedom fighter. In 1857 India, this 24-year old General led her people into battle against the British Empire earning the reputation as the Joan of Arc of the East. This real-life Wonder Woman’s insurrection shifted the balance of power in the region and set in motion the demise of the notorious British East India Company and the beginning of the British Raj under Queen Victoria.

The film, which opens in North America on November 15th, boasts an incredible cast including Rupert Everett, Nathaniel Parker, Ben Lamb with Jodhi May and Derek Jacobi.

To set the scene let’s take a look at the trailer!

I was able to catch Director Swati Bhise and star of the film Devika Bhise...

From the makers of 'The Man Who Knew Infinity', comes another riveting story: The Warrior Queen of Jhansi.

An iconic film based on the true story Rani Lakshmibai, the story for the world to still discover in its entirety.

The film brings to life the story of one of the most poignant queens of the country, one that broke all barriers to fight for the freedom of her country.?

It is a historical story of the Rani of Jhansi, a feminist icon in India and a fearless, freedom fighter. A Woman who earned a reputation as the Joan of Arc of the East when in 1857 India, as a 24-year old General, she led her people into battle against the British Empire.

Her insurrection shifted the balance of power in the region and set in motion the demise of the British East India Company and the beginning of the British Raj under Queen Victoria.

Exclusive: IFC Films is always a player at the Toronto Film Festival in acquiring films and launching awards-season entries — the Hirokazu Kore-eda-directed The Truth makes its North American debut here — but the company is making news of another kind. IFC has solidified its new streaming channel, IFC Films Unlimited, by expanding to Apple TV channels, both in the U.S. and Canada. The service launched in the U.S. last May, and today marks the debut of IFC Films Unlimited in Canada.

The Apple deal gives the IFC Films Ott service an important platform where customers can subscribe directly through the Apple TV app, for $5.99 per month. The streaming service launched with just over 400 films available in the U.S.

The subscription video on demand streaming channel is comprised of theatrically released titles from distribution labels IFC Films, Sundance Selects and genre label IFC Midnight. The Truth, which premiered at Venice,...

Avatar actor Joel David Moore is launching feature development fund Balcony 9 Productions, with an eye towards projects that tackle ethical and political subject matters.

Partnering with investment manager Rishi Bajaj, Moore will option material, hire writers and package films for production. 

Balcony 9 has already set up its first project with an adaptation of Conor Grennan's New York Times best-selling memoir Little Princes. Matt Brown, the writer-director of historical drama The Man Who Knew Infinity, will adapt the book for the screen.

The book chronicles Grennan's search for the lost children of Nepal. While visiting as a tourist to hike ...

Avatar actor Joel David Moore is launching feature development fund Balcony 9 Productions, with an eye towards projects that tackle ethical and political subject matters.

Partnering with investment manager Rishi Bajaj, Moore will option material, hire writers and package films for production. 

Balcony 9 has already set up its first project with an adaptation of Conor Grennan's New York Times best-selling memoir Little Princes. Matt Brown, the writer-director of historical drama The Man Who Knew Infinity, will adapt the book for the screen.

The book chronicles Grennan's search for the lost children of Nepal. While visiting as a tourist to hike ...

Roadside Attractions has acquired U.S. distribution rights to The Warrior Queen of Jhansi, an historical epic that tells the true story of a young provincial queen in British-ruled 1850s India who became a symbol of resistance, leading her people into a battle that would ultimately change the shape of history.

A fall release is in the works for the pic, which was was directed, produced and co-written by Swati Bhise, a British and Indian history scholar who produced 2015’s The Man Who Knew Infinity starring Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons. The international cast of The Warrior Queen is led by The Man Who Knew Infinity‘s Devika Bhise along with Rupert Everett, Derek Jacobi, Ben Lamb, Jodhi May and Hindi actors Yatin Karyekar, Milind Gunaji, Ajinkya Deo and Arif Zakaria.

Devika Bhise plays the Rani (translation: queen), who earned a reputation as the Joan of Arc of the East when in 1857 India,...

Dev Patel has been set to make his feature directing debut with action revenge pic Monkey Man. The Oscar nominee will also star in the film, with Endeavor Content launching sales at this week’s American Film Market. Thunder Road’s Basil Iwanyk is producing with Xeitgeist’s Joe Thomas, Samarth Sahni (Hotel Mumbai) and Patel. Production is set to start in spring 2019 in Mumbai.

The script is by Patel, Paul Angunawela and John Collee and was developed with the assistance of S’ya Concept.

Set in contemporary India, Monkey Man follows the Kid (Patel) who emerges from prison to take on a world enmeshed in corporate greed and eroding spiritual values. Iwanyk calls it a “vibrant, thrilling and above all entertaining story.”

Action sequences will be choreographed and designed by 87Eleven. It and Old Boy‘s Chung-hoon Chung will serve as director of photography

Slumdog Millionaire breakout Patel won a BAFTA for 2016’s Lion, also scoring Oscar and Golden Globe nominations. He recently completed filming The Personal History of David Copperfield starring Tilda Swinton and Hugh Laurie, and will next be seen in Hotel Mumbai and The Wedding Guest, both releasing in 2019. He’s repped by Wme, Magnolia, Curtis Brown Group and Jamie Feldman.

Cayenne Pepper Productions released today the first look image of Devika Bhise as Rani Lakshmibai from Swati Bhise’s forthcoming feature Swords and Sceptres, which follows the true story of the historic Queen of Jhansi who fiercely led her army against the British East India Company in the infamous Sepoy Mutiny of 1857.

Revealing one of Rani’s looks, this first image exposes the incredible detail and work which Swati Bhise and her team have put into portraying an authentic version of the historical queen. The intricate costumes with original designs that existed during the period, all custom and individually handmade 14 months in the making, have been created by costume designers Vidhi Singhania, Riyaz Ali Merchant and Swati Bhise with make-up by national award winning make-up supervisor Vikram Gaikwad. The jewellery has been loaned by Gadgil Jewellers known for their heritage jewellery from this period, with uncut diamond jewellery made by Shri Hari of Delhi.

Rupert Everett and Derek Jacobi also star.

Screen can reveal a first look at Devika Bhise in Cayenne Pepper Productions’ historical epic Swords And Sceptres, which has now wrapped after filming in the UK, India and Morocco.

Source: Cayenne Pepper Productions

Swords And Sceptres

Rupert Everett, Derek Jacobi, Ben Lamb and Jodhi May also star in the film alongside a host of established Indian actors including Nagesh Bhonsle, Yatin Karyekar, Milind Gunaji, Arif Zakaria, and Ajinkya Deo.

Cayenne Pepper Productions CEO Swati Bhise, producer of The Man Who Knew Infinity, makes her feature debut as a director on the film. She is also producing and Charles Salmon is co-producing.

Swords And Sceptres tells the true story of Rani Lakshmibai, the historic Queen of Jhansi who fiercely led her army against the British East India Company in the infamous Indian Rebellion of 1857.

Swati Bhise commented on the project: “I wanted to make this film to tell an inspirational...

Germany's Oldenburg Film Festival will honor producing legend Edward R. Pressman for his contributions to international cinema.

Pressman, 74, is a giant on the independent scene. The cinematic résumé from his decades-long career includes such genre classics as Conan the Destroyer, Bad Lieutenant, The Crow and American Psycho.

More recently, Pressman produced Matt Brown's The Man Who Knew Infinity, starring Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons.

The Oldenburg Festival, which runs Sept. 13-17, will honor Pressman with a retrospective of his work. The German fest, which styles itself as “Germany's Sundance,” specializes in independent cinema, particularly U.S. genre fare.

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Exclusive: Jakub Gierszal already confirmed to play math genius Stanislaw Ulam.

Mongrel International has come on board to handle world sales on Thor Klein’s Adventures Of A Mathematician.

Lead producer Lena Vurma of Dragonfly Films confirmed Mongrel’s involvement in the project, which recently became the first project with a German director to receive support from the Tfi/Sloan Filmmaker Fund. (The production received an initial $75,000 toward production and pre-production.)

“We are very excited to be going on this adventure with our friends, the producers Lena Vurma and Mary Young Leckie. We loved the script immediately. It’s so smart and compassionate, filled with both great joy and stunning gravitas. We are convinced that Thorsten Klein will make an extraordinary movie with enormous contemporary relevance,” Charlotte Mickie, president of Mongrel International, told Screen Daily.

The film is a Germany-Poland-Canada co-production. It tells the story of Polish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, who will be...

04.27.17: This list is now final. While I may in the future see additional films that were released in the awards year of 2016, no more films will be added to this list. (I may add links to reviews of films listed here.)

This ranking includes only new theatrical releases viewed for the awards year of 2016 (for eligibility for the Academy Awards and the Ofcs and Awfj awards); some films released in the UK without Us releases (and so ineligible for those awards this year) may also be included, for my own bookkeeping purposes. Links go to my review. Numbers after each entry are Date First Viewed/NYC Release Date/London Release Date; year is 2016 unless otherwise noted.

worth paying multiplex prices for

[5 stars]

Arrival (10.10/11.11/11.10)

La La Land (10.07/12.09/01.13.17)

A Monster Calls (10.06/12.23/01.01.17)

The Lobster (07.16.15/05.13/10.16.15)

Zootropolis (aka Zootopia) (02.22/03.04/03.25)

A Bigger Splash (10.08.15/05.04/02.12)

Miss Sloane (11.20/11.25/05.12.17)

London Road (06.03.15/09.09/06.12.15)

The Girl with All the Gifts (07.26/02.24.17/09.23)

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The star of Slumdog Millionaire on his journey from star-struck wannabe to playing Nicole Kidman’s son in his new film, Lion

After appearing in the TV series Skins, aged 16, Dev Patel, has not looked back. He starred in the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire, The Second Best Marigold Hotel (as a super-keen hotel manager) and The Man Who Knew Infinity (as the great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan). Now he stars in Lion, based on the true story of Saroo Brierley, an Indian street boy who got lost 1,000 miles from home, was put in an orphanage and sent to Australia for adoption. Twenty-five years on, Saroo started to search for his mother, using Google maps.

Congratulations on your Golden Globe nomination for Lion. Is Saroo the most demanding role you’ve played?

I’m 26 and, like most actors my age, hungry to show emotional range. This role enabled me to play a character suffering real pain,...

“Lion” is designed as a crowdpleaser that will tug at filmgoers’ tear ducts and heartstrings. Crafted by a largely Australian crew of Hollywood outsiders led by Garth Davis in his feature debut, the decently reviewed Weinstein Co. release (November 25) is Harvey Weinstein’s Oscar mission. So far it’s landed six Critics Choice, four Golden Globe, and two SAG nominations; all include supporting players Nicole Kidman and Dev Patel. The movie is holding well in limited release, heading into national expansion over the holidays.

What did they do right?

1. Find a riveting true story.

Back in 2013 when Sundance Channel series “Top of the Lake” debuted at the Sundance Festival, See Saw Films producers Iain Canning and Emile Sherman (Oscar-winner “The King’s Speech”) discovered an article about Australian emigre Saroo Brierley, who had lost his family at the age of five in Calcutta and, 20 years later, found them again via Google Earth.

“Lion” is designed as a crowdpleaser that will tug at filmgoers’ tear ducts and heartstrings. Crafted by a largely Australian crew of Hollywood outsiders led by Garth Davis in his feature debut, the decently reviewed Weinstein Co. release (November 25) is Harvey Weinstein’s Oscar mission. So far it’s landed six Critics Choice, four Golden Globe, and two SAG nominations; all include supporting players Nicole Kidman and Dev Patel. The movie is holding well in limited release, heading into national expansion over the holidays.

What did they do right?

1. Find a riveting true story.

Back in 2013 when Sundance Channel series “Top of the Lake” debuted at the Sundance Festival, See Saw Films producers Iain Canning and Emile Sherman (Oscar-winner “The King’s Speech”) discovered an article about Australian emigre Saroo Brierley, who had lost his family at the age of five in Calcutta and, 20 years later, found them again via Google Earth.

Lost and Found: An interview with the star of Lion, Dev PatelLost and Found: An interview with the star of Lion, Dev PatelMarni Weisz - Editor, Cineplex Magazine12/7/2016 12:54:00 Pm

In Dev Patel’s career there will be pre-Lion movies, and post-Lion movies.

Pre-Lion, the British-born actor of Indian heritage seemed to play clean-cut, skinny, cute, but slightly nerdy guys. Think of him as well-meaning romantic Sonny Kapoor in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Chappie’s bespectacled robot designer Deon Wilson, and even as unlikely trivia champ Jamal in 2008’s Best Picture-winning Slumdog Millionaire, Patel’s breakthrough film.

But Lion, which finished second only to La La Land in the battle for the Toronto International Film Festival’s prestigious People’s Choice Award, proves he can be something much different. Burly, masculine, quiet, sexy…and Australian.

“A script like this demands that you go there,...