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The Wedding Banquet : Featurette / Starring Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran

©Courtesy of Bleecker Street Bleecker Street has drop a new featurette from “The Wedding Banquet“. This featurette shares highlights from Bowen Yang, director Andrew Ahn, Lily Gladstone, Joan Chen, Kelly Marie Tran, and Han Gi-Chan about the journey and their experiences of bringing “The Wedding Banquet” to life, this amazing comedy of errors, a very gay house that they just miiiiiiiiiighhhhttttt have…

‘The Penguin Lessons’ Star Steve Coogan on Mixing Audience-Friendly Warmth and Humor with Politics  (Video Interview)

For 35 years, Steve Coogan has been one of Britain’s preeminent comic actors, mainly with his popular TV presenter character Alan Partridge, but he’s also regularly branched off into other genres, and even received two Oscar nominations for writing and producing 2014’s Philomena.  The Penguin Lessons puts Coogan in the role of Tom Michell, who…

‘The Actor’ : Exclusive Interview with Director Duke Johnson

©Courtesy of NEON Check out more of our Youtube Channel.  Adriano Ercolani : Italian Film Critic and TV Author living in New York since 2011. Critics Choice Association member. Graduated in History of Cinema in Rome, he works as a freelance correspondent for some of the most important Italian outlets like Hollywood Reporter Italy, Comingsoon.it,…

Sundance Moving to Boulder, Colorado in 2027

  After a thoughtful and thorough process to identify the future location of the Sundance Film Festival, today the nonprofit Sundance Institute’s Board of Trustees is proud to announce that Boulder, Colorado, will become the Festival’s home beginning in 2027. Boulder offers small-town charm with an engaged community, distinctive natural beauty, and a vibrant arts scene, making…

Yoko Yamanaka’s DESERT OF NAMIBIA Sets Theatrical Release Date

Kani Releasing, the premiere boutique distributor dedicated to spotlighting Asian cinema in North America, will theatrically release Japanese director Yoko Yamanaka‘s “Desert Of Namibia“ on May 16 at Metrograph (New York), May 21 at Laemmle (Los Angeles), expanding nationally in select markets. “Desert Of Namibia” follows mercurial 21-year-old Kana (Yuumi Kawai), a hair-removal technician at a…

NYICFF: ‘Moominvalley,’ New Adventures Celebrate A Special Anniversary

The 2025 New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYICFF) becomes the stage to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the world created by Swedish-speaking Finnish writer and illustrator Tove Jansson. For decades her novels, short stories, picture books, and comic strips have been animated by hippopotamus-inspired creatures and their friends who invoke Norse mythology. Moominvalley is…

Rust: First Trailer for Alec Baldwin Western Appears After On-Set Shooting

©Courtesy of 42west The trailer for Alec Baldwin’s Western film, “Rust” has been released, during the movie’s production in New Mexico in 2021, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed by a prop gun that Baldwin was holding. The trailer captures some of typical of Old West dramas, where cowboys ride horses across atmospheric landscapes,…

Barry Jenkins, Zendaya Team Up for Ronnie Spector Biopic

Photo by Niko Tavernise/Niko Tavernise – © 2024 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved. Barry Jenkins, who has directed “Moonlight” and “Mufasa: The Lion King“, will be the director of “Be My Baby“,  a biopic about legendary singer Ronnie Spector, the film will be distributed by A24 which teamed up with megastar Zendaya. Spector lived in…

Hell of a Summer: Exclusive Interview with Directors Billy Bryk, Finn Wolfhard & Actors Abby Quinn, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai and Pardis Saremi

Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel Cherishing the nostalgia and glory of adolescence is a common and essential part of many young adults’ coming-of-age journey. However, it can ultimately take a meaningful event to vitalize their maturity and growth. Not only is that the case for the arc of…

“Spider-Man” Amy Pascal & “Harry Potter” David Heyman to Produce the Next James Bond Film

According to Deadline, Amy Pascal and David Heyman are now officially involved in producing the next James Bond movie. Pascal Pictures will be responsible for production of the film, while Heyman will be responsible for Heyday Films. Last month, Amazon MGM Studios received creative control of the James Bond franchise from Barbara Broccoli and Michael…

Lilo & Stitch | Official Trailer | In Theaters May 23

Disney dropped a trailer for one of a highly anticipated film,  “Lilo & Stitch” was a huge success, after 24-hours, the trailer has become the second most viewed Disney live-action trailer of all time with 158M views, behind only 2019’s “The Lion King” teaser trailer. Within an hour of release, “Lilo & Stitch” reached the…