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Netflix has officially axed Michelle Yeoh’s crime drama The Brothers Sun after airing for one season. The streaming platform explained that the viewership ratings was not enough to grant another installment despite stellar reviews.

Justin Chien, Michelle Yeoh, and Sam Song Li in The Brothers Sun

The series also dominated Netflix’s Top 10 list for five weeks, ranking No. 2 for the English-language category. The show’s cancelation has got fans questioning the platform’s motivation for axing a well-executed project.

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Michelle Yeoh’s The Brothers Sun Season 2 Officially Axed By Netflix

The Brothers Sun featured Michelle Yeoh, Justin Chien, Sam Song Li, Joon Lee, and Highdee Kuan in an eight-episode show that was released on January 4. As per Deadline, it received critical praise, especially for Oscar winner Yeoh’s groundbreaking performance.

The film won a special jury award at SXSW.

UK distributor Bulldog Film Distribution has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Kelley Kali and Angelique Molina’s US indie drama I’m Fine (Thanks For Asking) from New York-based The Film Sales Company.

Kali stars in the film as a young, widowed mother in Southern California who pretends to her daughter that their homelessness is a camping adventure.

’I’m Fine (Thanks For Asking)’: SXSW Review

The film premiered at SXSW in 2021 where it picked up the special jury award for narrative feature and has since screened at festivals across the US.

Exclusive: BET Her has acquired festival hit I’m Fine (Thanks for Asking), setting an August 7 premiere date.

The SXSW Special Jury Award winner examines the harsh reality of homelessness amid the Covid-19 epidemic.

Its protagonist is Danny (Kelly Kali), a recently widowed hairdresser who finds herself living on the streets with her eight-year-old daughter Wes (Wesley Moss). As Danny works to secure the funds that will allow her to lock down an apartment, she also aims to protect her child from the reality of their situation.

Student Oscar & DGA Award winner Kali directed the film, alongside Angelique Molina. The pair scripted the indie with Roma Kong.

Kong, Molina and Kali produced the project with Capella Fahoome and Deon Cole, who co-starred. Kali, Fahoome and Cole also served as executive producers.

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Chicago – Filmmaker Kelley Kali just scored a major award at the recent South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival, Grand Jury Recognition for Multi-Hyphenate Storytelling, for a film that she co-wrote, co-directed and acted in the lead role. “I’m Fine (Thanks for Asking)” is a vivid portrait of another America that is happening now.

Kali is Danny, a Los Angeles mother who is “camping” with her daughter and trying to negotiate a new apartment. The backstory is she is widowed, and obviously was struck down by the financial crisis of the pandemic. When she needs an extra two hundred dollars to secure the apartment, the journey she takes in trying to get the money is fraught – in one tumultuous day – with the conditions of slapdash USA. Kali co-wrote the film with Roma Kong and Angelique Molina, and co-directed with Molina. Deon Cole (“Blackish”), who is a producer of the film, makes an indelible cameo.

With most festivals moving full steam ahead, such as the recently wrapped Rotterdam and Sundance, the next two major ones on the calendar are Berlinale, which just unveiled its lineup, and South by Southwest, which has also dropped theirs.

Set to take place March 16-20, the 2021 Film Festival program has 75 features including 57 World Premieres, 3 International Premieres, 4 North American Premieres, 1 U.S. Premieres, 8 Texas Premieres and 53 films from first-time filmmakers + 84 Short Films including Music Videos, 5 Episodic Premieres, 6 Episodic Pilots, 20 Virtual Cinema projects, 14 Title Design entries, plus 30 Special Events.

“It’s been a year unlike any we’ve experienced, first marked by the cancellation of SXSW 2020,” said Janet Pierson, Director of Film. “We feel privileged to have been able to pivot to SXSW Online and present a fantastic treasure trove of programming, including a pared down and wonderful selection of films that we know will delight, entertain and move our attendees. SXSW...

Documentary music films about the careers of singer-songwriter Charli Xcx and late rock legend Tom Petty will headline this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival, as the Austin fest has unveiled its full 2021 slate.

Charli Xcx’s “Alone Together” will be the closing night film about how she made an album over the course of 40 days in quarantine, while “Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free” will be the centerpiece film that uncovers new 16mm footage of Petty at work on his 1994 album “Wildflowers.” Rounding out the headliners for SXSW is the previously announced opening night film, “Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil,” a YouTube Originals documentary about the aftermath of the actress and singer’s near-fatal overdose in 2018.

This year’s SXSW, now in its 28th year, is virtual and online after 2020’s festival was one of the first major events to be canceled as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Wes Studi, Q’orianka Kilcher and Tatanka Means will star in “Canyon Del Muerto,” the new film from writer and director Coerte Voorhees.

The movie is based on the true story of one of America’s first female archaeologists, Ann Axtell Morris, who spent years uncovering civilizations in the southwest and Mexico. Axtell Morris was married to Earl Halstead Morris, who was a primary inspiration for Indiana Jones.

The film also stars David Midthunder, alongside previously announced Abigail Lawrie (who plays Axtell Morris), Tom Felton (as Earl), Ewen Bremner, Bronson Webb, Elias Koteas and Val Kilmer.

“Canyon Del Muerto” is shooting on location across the southwest and the Yucatan thanks to special Covid-19 measures and safety protocols in place. It will also film in archaeological and cultural heritage sites throughout North America and Mexico in collaboration with the Navajo Nation, National Park Service and the government of Yucatan. The filmmakers say...