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After a stellar limited opening last weekend, A24’s Friendship jumps from 6 to 60 screens in top ten markets plus Detroit, the hometown of star Tim Robinson. The comedy bromance with Robinson and Paul Rudd soared to $451k on screens in New York and L.A., the top limited opening of 2025, with a per screen average of over $75k. Written and directed by Andrew DeYoung. With Kate Mara, Jack Dylan Grazer. Robinson, the former SNL performer and writer is the face of his popular Netflix sketch comedy I Think You Should Leave.

Magnolia Pictures/Magnet Releasing opens Sister Midnight, the debut feature of London-based Indian artist and writer-director Karan Kandhari starring Radhika Apte, Ashok Pathak, Chhaya Kadam and Smita Tambe, at the Angelika Film Center in NYC. A rebellious small-town misfit Uma (acclaimed Indian actress Apte) arrives in Mumbai to find herself totally unsuited to life as a housewife.

The Old Woman With The Knife (original title Pa-gwa) unfolds as a striking South Korean action-drama from director Min Kyu-dong, adapted from Gu Byeong-mo’s novel. At its center is Hornclaw, a 65-year-old veteran “pest control” operative whose lethal precision once made her a whisper in the shadows—now challenged by the passage of time and a hidden health scare.

Echoing the moral complexity of parallel cinema, Hornclaw’s solitary code is disrupted by Bullfight, a brash young recruit whose street-smart tactics recall the apprentice-mentor duos of classic Bollywood thrillers, and by the unintentional warmth of a widowed veterinarian and his daughter.

The film’s dual timeline weaves her gritty origin—in 1975’s snowy alleyways where survival and justice first fused—into a present marked by subway hits, corporate hits, and derelict amusement-park showdowns. Lengthy flashbacks mirror the melodramatic reversals of Indian cinema, layering Hornclaw’s loneliness and resolve against...

“In Another Country,” “Claire’s Camera,” and now “A Traveler’s Needs” — Isabelle Huppert and Hong Sang-soo are three for three in conjuring one of contemporary cinema’s most psychically in-sync pairings. Hong, who has directed more than 30 films dating back to his 1996 debut “The Day a Pig Fell into the Well,” is a tireless achiever and one could say workaholic at the level of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, often releasing two films a year. While the sun-dappled and deceptively light “A Traveler’s Needs,” his loveliest and funniest film in years, debuted at the Berlinale in February, Hong already had “By the Stream” heading for Locarno this past summer.

In “A Traveler’s Needs,” which shot in under two weeks on location in Seoul, Huppert plays a drifting tourist named Iris who funds her walkabout by teaching French and piano lessons to locals. She gets by on the largesse of others — including a younger man she’s staying with,...

Just when you thought you knew what to expect from Hong Sang-soo, South Korea’s most prolific auteur has crafted his funniest film in years with his 31st feature, “A Traveler’s Needs.”

This delightfully mischievous comedy, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Berlin back in February, marks Hong’s third collaboration with Isabelle Huppert following 2012’s “In Another Country” and “Claire’s Camera” both released in 2017. To round off that unlikely triptych, the pair embark on an adventure without purpose, or so it would seem as we follow a French woman named Iris as she wanders adrift through Seoul in search of who knows what. For long stretches of time, Iris practices the recorder (badly) in community parks or sits alone, savoring her beloved Korean rice wine, aka Makgeolli, in between bites of bibimbap. Of the titular needs this traveler requires, money ends up being one of them, so she turns to teaching French,...

Looking for fresh horror heading into holiday break? Jeong Ji-yeon‘s psychological horror The Anchor, another phenomenal hidden gem that hails out of South Korea, has just landed on the Bloody Disgusting-powered Screambox!

In the film…

“When anchorwoman Sera receives a tip that the tipster is about to get killed, she goes out to report it, only to find the tipster and her daughter’s bodies!

“With an exclusive report on this case, she solidifies her position at the station. However, she begins suffering from hallucinations and makes errors on live television, and her role as the main anchorwoman is threatened.”

It stars Chun Woo-hee, Shin Ha-kyun, and Lee Hye-young.

The Anchor joins Screambox’s growing library of unique horror content, including Terrifier 2, Deep Fear, Pennywise: The Story of It, All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, Masters of Horror, 13 Nights of Elvira, PussyCake, When the Screaming Starts, Toxic Crusaders,...

This week is not only the first week of winter, officially beginning on December 21st, but the week is also capped off by Christmas Day on Sunday, December 25th. As you might imagine, it’s not exactly going to be a big week for new movie releases, with James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water likely dominating any and all movie conversations these next several days.

And don’t forget that Tommy Wirkola’s Christmas genre movie Violent Night is also still playing in theaters through Christmas, the film thus far slaying its way to 55 million worldwide!

What about New genre movies for the week, you ask? Well, there are only four new ones remaining for the entire rest of the year, so let’s take a look at those in one fell swoop.

Here’s all the new horror arriving December 19 – December 31, 2022!

First up, Cinedigm, Bloody Disgusting, and...

Screambox has revealed the new films that will be joining the horror streaming service this December, including exclusive titles History of the Occult and The Anchor, and cult favorites like Tobe Hooper’s Night Terrors, American Mary, and the shocker Housebound.

Letterboxd’s highest-rated horror movie of 2021, History of the Occult, streams exclusively on Screambox on December 6. From Argentinian writer-director Cristian Ponce, the Lovecraftian faux documentary pulls viewers deep into a world of conspiracy and witchcraft. This is easily one of the best films of the year.

Bring the year to a close with South Korean mystery-thriller The Anchor beginning December 27. Writer-director Jung Ji-yeon‘s feature debut stars Chun Woo-hee (The Wailing), Shin Ha-kyun (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance), and Lee Hye-young (Boys Over Flowers).

From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist director Tobe Hooper, Night Terrors is streaming on Screambox today. The 1993 horror film stars A Nightmare on Elm Street...

Cinedigm, Bloody Disgusting, and Screambox are excited to announce they have picked up yet another horror title out of the American Film Market, Jeong Ji-yeon‘s psychological horror The Anchor, another phenomenal hidden gem that hails out of South Korea.

The Anchor will be reporting live from Screambox on December 27th.

In the film…

“When anchorwoman Sera receives a tip that the tipster is about to get killed, she goes out to report it, only to find the tipster and her daughter’s bodies. With an exclusive report on this case, she solidifies her position at the station. However, she begins suffering from hallucinations and makes errors on live television and her role as the main anchorwoman is threatened.”

It stars Chun Woo-hee, Shin Ha-kyun, and Lee Hye-young.

Screambox also acquired the Child’s Play franchise doc Living With Chucky, the haunting Dawning, and Vietnamese Horror Story, an awesome new horror...

When filmmakers make movies about filmmaking or the lives of those in the business, there is usually either a sense of self-aggrandizement or self-loathing. Some see the need to bolster their chosen art form to reinforce the notion that the work they do is important, and some feel guilty about living their lives for their own creative, selfish pursuits. Much rarer are the works about artists where making films, writing poetry, or acting is all just a part of their lives. That is the world they know — the world they exist in day after day — and maneuver through the ups and downs of normal life like everyone else.

South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo has built a career on the lives of such people, crafting small-scale realist portraits of artists often stuck in a rut and wanting to carve out a new path for themselves. His latest picture "The Novelist's Film,...

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Cinema Guild has acquired North American distribution rights to prolific Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo’s latest feature Walk Up. The film is set to world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and will also play in competition at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. Cinema Guild says it plans to release Walk Up in theaters in 2023 — following the company’s release of Hong’s other 2022 title, The Novelist’s Film, this fall.

Walk Up stars Kwon Haehyo — making his ninth appearance in a film by Hong — as a film director who goes with his daughter Jeongsu (Park Miso) to a building owned by an old friend (Lee Hyeyoung). After an involving tour of the structure, the director steps outside for a work call, only to return to the same place, albeit set in a different time.

With Walk Up, Hong returns to an interest in structure,...

Hong Sangsoo’s film Walk Up has been acquired by Cinema Guild, the distributor confirmed today. The movie will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month and will also play in competition at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. Cinema Guild will open the film in theaters next year following its release of Hong’s other 2022 title, The Novelist’s Film.

“With each new film, Hong Sangsoo continues to find new ways to surprise and delight us,” said Cinema Guild President Peter Kelly. “We can’t wait to see audiences react to Walk Up, a film strikingly original and strikingly Hong.”

In Walk Up, Sangsoo’s ninth film, Kwon Haehyo plays Byungsoo, a film director who goes with his daughter Jeongsu (Park Miso), an aspiring interior designer, to a building owned by an old friend (Lee Hyeyoung) already established in the design field. She gives them a tour of the property,...

Theatrical release coming in 2023.

Cinema Guild has acquired North American rights from Finecut to Hong Sang-Soo’s Walk Up ahead of its world premiere net month at TIFF.

The prolific South Korean filmmaker’s latest stars Kwon Haehyo as a film director who goes with his daughter Jeongsu (Park Miso) to a building owned by an old friend (Lee Hyeyoung).

The director steps outside for a work call, only to return to the same place, albeit set in a different time.

Walk Up will also play in competition at San Sebastián. Cinema Guild will open the film theatrically next year...