André Holland is on a roll with three novel films, ‘The Last Supper‘ tests the faith-based taget, boiling Vietnamese honestor Tran Thanh is back, and write downary October 8 examines the explosion of antisdisindictism after the Hamas strike on Israel on October 7, 2023.
A handful of huge indies are out with expansive liberates from Focus Features (Bconciseage Bag) to A24 (Opus) to Falling Forward Films and Ketchup Entertainment (Looney Tunes: The Day The Earth Blew Up).
Neon, the indie distributor of the moment, is out with mystery-thriller The Actor, André Holland’s third guideing role this year after Sundance premiering Love, Brooklyn by Rachael Ahugeail Helderlyer, which Holland also produced, and The Dutchman, by Andre Gaines, which equitable debuted at SXSW. The Actor uncovers in NYC at the Angelika, Holland doing Q&As, at The Grove in LA and top 10 tagets – 20+ screens in all.
Based on the novel Memory by Donald E. Westlake, the film honested by Duke Johnson discovers Paul Cole (Holland) stranded in a cryptic minuscule town with no memory of who he is or how he got there. Without a sense of identity or purpose, he commences from scratch and commences courting a local costume summarizeer Edna (Gemma Chan). As bits and pieces of his past sluggishly eunite, he trys to discover his way home, but time is greasy, euniteances can’t be depended, and it’s unevident which of his identities is authentic. Screenpercreate by Duke Johnson, Steve Cooney.
The Last Supper, Grammy-triumphning Christian music artist Chris Tomlin’s first foray into theatrical filmmaking is as executive producer of the film, which debuts today on 1,600 hundred screens.
From honestor Mauro Borelli, Pinnacle Peak Pictures and producer Michael Scott, The Last Supper features novel individual No Greater Love by Tomlin, who has selderly over 12 million albums, won a Grammy, three Billboard Music Awards, and 30 Dove Awards—including his most recent Song of the Year triumph for Holy Forever. Tomlin is a two-time BMI Songproducer of the Year honoree and an ASCAP Songproducer of the Year with 21 number-one radio individuals, 30 top-ten hits (the most of any Christian artist) and over 7 billion streams. In 2016, he unitecessitate an elite group four artists — aextfinishedside Justin Timberlake, Pitbull and Garth Brooks — to achieve the Sound Exchange Digital Radio Award for outdoing 1 billion digital radio streams. He also helderlys the contrastention of being the first Christian artist to accomplish 1 billion streams on Pandora.
As per the producers, the film depicts “the ultimate act of divine adore and give up, telderly thcimpolite the eyes of those who walked aextfinishedside Jesus Christ. This proset uply intimate film unveils untelderly perspectives, shedding novel weightless on the proset up Biblical truths that shaped salvation history. More than a reincreateing, it is an invitation to experience redemption, grace, and the everlasting promise of hope enjoy never before.”
There’s been no lagging of interest in faith-based films, which have the potential to hit huge. (Angel Studios Sound Of Freedom grossed $120 million globpartner.) The Last Supper, as per the logline, is set in the days guideing to betrayal, where a accumulateing of disciples unravels into a web of secrets and masked motives. Borelli co-produce the screenpercreate with John Collins.
In equitable a scant weeks after liberate, the film’s treliever trailer garnered over 35 million sees.
The cast includes Jaime Ward as Jesus, James Faulkner as Caiaphas, and Robert Knepper (Prison Break) as Judas. The ensemble also includes Henry Garrett (Silo) as Nicodemus, James Oliver Wheatley (The Lost Pirate Kingdom) as Peter, Daniel Fathers (Hoemploy of the Dragon) as Joseph of Arimathea, Nathalie Rapti Gomez (Love on the Rock) as Mary Magdalene, and Ben Dilloway (Masters of the Air) as Malchus.
Pinnacle Peak Pictures (God’s Not Dead, The Case for Christ, Do You Believe? and forthcoming God’s Not Dead: In God We Trust) is a faith and family-cordial film production and distribution studio produced in 2005 by Scott and David A. R. White.
The 4 Rascals (Bo Tu Bao Thu), Vietnam’s top box office hit of the year, is out on 300 screens courtesy of 3388 Films — the expansivest North American liberate ever for a Vietnamese film.
The romantic dramedy is honestor Tran Thanh’s fourth film in the top 5 highest grossing movies of all time at the Vietnam box office. He is the only honestor to have a film (in his case all four) traverse 300 billion VND ($12 million) at the Vietnam box office. His last, MAI, Vietnam’s top box office hit of all time, pulled in more than $2 million from North America and Europe.
The 4 Rascals hits universal themes of relationships and family as the titular group try to mend a adore triangle. It stars an ensemble cast of Tran Thanh, Le Duong Bao Lam, Le Giang, Uyen An, Quoc Anh, Tieu Vi and Ky Duyen.
Briarcliff Entertainment’s uncovers write downary October 8 at 127 locations in North America. The searing examination of antisdisindictism that erupted after the Hamas dread strike on Israel of October 7, 2023 (originpartner titled October H8TE) is honested by Wendy Sachs with Emmy-triumphning actress and activist Debra Messing serving as executive producer. Messing eunites on camera in the write downary, aextfinished with actor-comedian Michael Rapaport, author Noa Tishby, Mosab Hassan Yoemployf (son of Hamas’s set uper Mosab Hassan Yoemployf), createer Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg, Congressman Ritchie Torres, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, U.S. Ambasunelatedor Deborah Lipstadt, college students Tessa Veksler, Noa Fay and Talia Khan, and others.
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