Titles from last year's Premieres selection included "Manchester By the Sea," "Certain Women," "Hunt for the Wilderpeople," "Indignation," "Little Men," "Love & Friendship" and "Sing Street".
BBC Radio will premiere a selection of the exclusives in the days leading up to the event; and on Friday 20 April, Lauren Laverne will broadcast her 6 Music show from a record store (details to be announced nearer the time).
The American premiere of selections from Shostakovich's "Front Ways Songs," performed by the mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, the baritone Kelly Markgraf, the violinist Laurie Smukler and the cellist Julia Lichten, promised a major event but delivered a curiosity.
TED and and The Huffington Post are excited to co-premiere a selection of the latest talks from TEDGlobal 2013.
It may also include some original content – the BBC already premieres a small selection of comedies, drama and documentaries on the iPlayer – but the bulk of the material would already have been shown on the BBC.
The film made its world premiere at the Vanguard selection of the Toronto International Film Festival last week.
Hemingway & Gellhorn is having a world premiere in the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival before its HBO broadcast May 28.
The new film has its upcoming world premiere as the opening-night selection of the AFI Fest film festival, premiering at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, as did Hughes' 1930 film "Hell's Angels," before opening later in the month.
Its centerpiece selection, making its premiere on Oct. 6, is "Not Fade Away," directed by the "Sopranos" creator David Chase; and its closing night film is "Flight," directed by Robert Zemeckis.
Those descriptions all apply to "Captain Phillips," a new motion picture with Tom Hanks that will make its premiere as the opening-night selection of this year's New York Film Festival, its organizers said Monday.
