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EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of its world premiere at SXSW on Saturday (March 9), feature doc Plastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics has found an international distributor in the UK’s Rainmaker Content. The 90-minute film from Canada’s White Pine Pictures investigates the global addiction to plastic…

Freediver Jessea Lu can hold her breath for the entire time it would take an ordinary to read this article. And then some. She can go without drawing breath for over six minutes at a time, part of what makes her a champion in the world of competitive freediving. It's a sport with inherent risk – in…

EXCLUSIVE: Who is Sam Cox, and why is his house covered in doodles? Acme Studios and Lightbox set out to answer these questions in the upcoming documentary feature The Trouble with Mr Doodle. The documentary tells the story of Cox, a 25-year-old British artist known as Mr Doodle, who bought a…

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the SXSW premiere of My Dead Friend Zoe, the buzzy, dark dramedy marking his feature debut, writer-director Kyle Hausmann-Stokes has signed with Grandview for management. Set to premiere at the Austin, TX-based festival on Saturday March 9, My Dead Friend Zoe is based on…

Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, otherwise known as Meghan Markle, will headline a keynote panel alongside Katie Couric and Brooke Shields at South By Southwest’s 38th edition kicking off later this week. Sociologist and DEI author Nancy Wang Yuen also joins Breaking Barriers, Shaping Narratives: How Wo…

Truth be told, I'm not crazy about Oscar night. The shoes pinch. Security's a bother. All the red-carpet nattering unnerves me. And watching at home isn't much better. Who really wants to turn on the television at 5 — oops, make that 4 — o'clock on an…

Searchlight movie The Greatest Hits following its March 14 world premiere at SXSW will hit select theaters on April 5 and stream on Hulu on April 12. The Ned Benson written and directed title follows Harriet (Lucy Boynton) who finds art imitating life when she discovers certain songs can transport…

"I want you to be nice until it’s time to not be nice," Patrick Swayze's James Dalton says in the original Road House from 1989. That line from the screenplay co-written by David Lee Henry may have taken on a new significance for Amazon Studios, MGM Studios and United Artists on Tuesday with a new…

And the big pics keep on comin’ to SXSW. This afternoon the festival made it known that the Alex Garland directed Civil War from A24 is making its world premiere on March 14 at the Paramount Theater in Austin, TX. This ahead of the movie’s wide release on April 12. Civil War reps Garland's return to…

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of its world premiere at SXSW, the Nicolas Cage thriller Arcadian has been acquired by RLJE Films, in a deal for North America, UK, Australia and Ireland rights. Also starring Jaeden Martell (It), Maxwell Jenkins (Lost in Space), and Sadie Soverall (Saltburn), the film will be released in…

South by Southwest’s 2024 edition just added some more star-studded movies in its second wave of programming including the highly anticipated Jordan Peele Monkeypaw production, Monkey Man, starring and directed by Dev Patel, the Sydney Sweeney nun movie Immaculate, the new Nicolas Cage horror movie Arcadia…

Ahead of its world premiere in competition at SXSW 2024, An Army of Women has been acquired by Together Films in a deal for worldwide rights. Directed by Julie Lunde Lillesæter, the documentary is about a group of women in Austin, Texas who join forces and help build a movement of plaintiffs…