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The modern romance faces many trials, but few are as peculiar as the one presented in Eugene Kotlyarenko’s The Code. The film introduces us to Celine and Jay, a couple whose intimacy has evaporated, leaving a void they decide to fill with a creative project. Celine, an aspiring filmmaker, proposes a documentary about relationships navigating the pandemic, positioning their own troubled connection as the primary case study.

Their trip to a Joshua Tree rental is meant to be both a therapeutic retreat and a film set. The narrative finds its engine when Jay’s paranoia takes hold. Haunted by a past online cancellation, he fears Celine will weaponize the documentary against him.

His solution is not communication, but counter-surveillance. He rigs their temporary home with a web of hidden spy cameras, determined to seize control of the story. What begins as a documentary project quickly devolves into an all-out technological war,...

The Max Original documentary film Bama Rush, directed and executive produced by verité documentary filmmaker Rachel Fleit, debuts Tuesday, May 23 on Max. The documentary follows four young women during sorority recruitment at the University of Alabama in the fall semester of 2022.

Synopsis: In August 2021, the long-held tradition of sorority recruitment at the University of Alabama, also known as rush, went viral on TikTok. Becoming a viral sensation and cultural phenomenon using the hash tag “Bama Rush,” to date more than 2 billion people have watched. In the upcoming feature documentary Bama Rush, Fleit follows four young women as they prepare to rush at the university in 2022. In this nuanced and revealing documentary, Fleit explores the emotional complexities and stakes of belonging in this crucial window into womanhood.

Credits: Max presents a Vice Studios production. Bama Rush is directed and executive produced by Rachel Fleit; executive produced by Lizzie Fox, Casey Meurer,...

Max has shared the trailer for its upcoming documentary “Bama Rush,” which follows the social media phenomenon that grew out of University of Alabama students documenting their sorority recruitment experience.

The feature length documentary will premiere on Warner Bros. Discovery’s merged HBO Max-Discovery+ streaming platform Max on May 23.

In August of 2021, thousands of young women embarked on the long-held tradition of sorority recruitment (a.k.a rush week), but at the University of Alabama, the incoming students filmed a variety of TikTok videos with the hashtag “Bama Rush.”

Prospective sorority sisters posed for their “Get Ready With Me” videos, “Fit-checks” and updates on whether or not they made it to the next round, while sorority sisters documented the behind the scenes, showing how the 19 houses prepare for over 2,500 girls to walk through their doors that week. Their footage provided — both those familiar and unfamiliar — a peek into the week-long...

Exclusive: Principal photography has wrapped on the psychological drama Canvas, starring Bridget Regan alongside Joanne Kelly (City on a Hill), Samuel Roukin (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Alain Uy, and Bethany Anne Lind (Ozark).

Co-directed by debut feature filmmakers Kimberly Stuckwisch and Melora Donoghue, the flick follows sisters Eve (Kelly) and Marissa Hale (Regan). The film’s synopsis reads: Pitted against each other since youth and raised to believe true artists are only formed through suffering, the sisters reunite after years of estrangement. One sister learns authenticity, the other regret, but neither escapes the sins of their father.

Canvas is produced by John H Lang (Spree), A.J. Del Cueto (Spree), and Geeta Bajaj (Golden Arm) for The Ranch Productions, with Russell Wayne Groves and Randy Wooten serving as executive producers. Casting is by Kate Geller, CSA, and regional casting is by Erica Arvold.

In today’s film news roundup, “Summertime Dropouts” starts shooing and “Tawaii — A Voice from the Forrest” and “Wobble Palace” get distribution.

Production Start

Shooting has started on the music drama “Summertime Dropouts,” centered on three best friends who are inspired to form a pop-punk band to play at the Vans Warped Tour.

Rock band Simple Plan is aboard to appear in the film and recently wrapped their work on location in Minnesota. The band played at the 2010 Winter Olympics closing ceremony and performed at the Vans Warped Tour every year from 1999 to 2005, and again in 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2018.

Cast of “Summertime Dropouts” consists of up-and-coming performers Nicholas Podany, Crystal Lake Evans, Caleb Donahoe, Melanie Brook, Takaya Abdou Lloyd, and Serena Laurel. Jhene Chase is directing from a script she co-wrote with Wesley Johnson, Hannah Maslinski and Hamid Torabpour. The story focuses on the band members discovering that the road to fame...