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Ahead of its world premiere at SXSW Film Festival OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE AMC RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, and Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, have acquired the North American rights to the horror film, JAKOB’S WIFE, ahead of its world premiere at this year’s SXSW Film Festival. RLJE Films plans to release the film in theaters and on Demand on April 16, 2021 and Shudder will premiere the film on its platform in later in the year. Shudder has also acquired UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand rights. Di...

Married couple and filmmaking team on the journey to make ‘Miss Juneteenth’ MORE Channing Godfrey Peoples (right) is the writer and director of “Miss Juneteenth.” Photo by Nick Prendergast. Neil Creque Williams (left) is the movie’s producer. Personal photo courtesy of Neil Creque Williams. Peoples and Williams are a filmmaking team and married couple. The mother-daughter coming-of-age movie “Miss Juneteenth” tells the story of Turquoise Jones and her teenage daughter Kai. Born and raised on the historically Black south side of Fort Worth, TX, Turquoi...

Minari. “While 2020 was a year of much difficulty for many around the world, we are forever grateful to the filmmakers, storytellers, and studios who went above and beyond to find new ways to release their films to audiences,” HCA Founder Scott Menzel said in a statement. “The films that the members of the Hollywood Critics Association nominated were amongst some of the most diverse and inclusive stories that we’ve seen on-screen in quite some time. Our mission has always been to highlight all voices and I believe it is reflective in our winners tonight. Congrats to all.” Click ins...

Promising Young Woman was the big winner Friday night at the Fourth Annual Hollywood Critics Association Awards. The socially conscious revenge drama, about a woman who flips the tables and preys on male sexual predators, was awarded Best Picture, while Carrey Mulligan earned the Best Actress plaque and director Emerald Fennell won multiple honors. The Hollywood Critics Association Awards presented a more intimate alternative to the Oscars and the Golden Globes with a low-key virtual presentation where most winners and some presenters fired up their webcams from home. Sweep: Promising Young W...

Friday, 5 March 2021, 4:41 pm Magnolia , the new poetry collection by Wellington writer Nina Mingya Powles (27), has now been shortlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry as part of the Ockham NZ Book Awards. Last year it was shortlisted for the UK’s prestigious Forward Prize for Best First Collection. The UK edition was published by Nine Arches Press in 2020, with the New Zealand edition due to be formally launched on 13 March 2021 by Powles’s local publisher Seraph Press. “It’s been fabulous to see the excitement for Nina’s work in the UK, where she has been living ...