Red One was released internationally by Warner Bros. Pictures on November 6 and is scheduled to be released in the United States by Amazon MGM Studios through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on November 15, 2024.[7] The film received negative reviews from critics.
Plot
Callum Drift, head of Santa Claus‘s security, requests to retire after one last Christmas run, as he has become disillusioned with increased bad behavior in the world, exemplified by the growth of Santa’s Naughty List. On Christmas Eve, an infiltration team breaks into the North Pole complex and kidnaps Santa. Callum notifies Director Zoe Harlow of MORA (Mythological Oversight and Restoration Authority) about the kidnapping, and her team discovers that the North Pole’s secret location was found by Jack O’Malley, a mercenary hacker who claims to be able to find anything in the world.
Cast
Dwayne Johnson as Callum Drift, head of North Pole security for Saint Nicholas.
Chris Evans as Jack O’Malley, a hacker and bounty hunter.
All We Imagine as Light premiered at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on 23 May 2024.[2][3] It was the first film from India to compete in the main competition since 1994, and it won the Grand Prix.
Plot
Prabha and Anu are Malayali nurses living together in Mumbai. Prabha is straight-laced and upright and yearns for her husband, who migrated to Germany soon after marriage. Anu is more outgoing and has a secret affair with a Muslim man named Shiaz. A doctor, Manoj, tries to woo Prabha, but she rejects his advances, claiming her marital status. One day, Prabha and Anu receive a modern rice cooker from an unknown sender.
Prabha tries to help Parvaty, the cook at their hospital, fight against a capitalistic builder who wants to demolish Parvaty’s chawl to build a high-rise. Unable to claim ownership of land, Parvarty decides to quit her job and move back to her village in Ratnagiri. Prabha and Anu travel with her to help her relocate.
Elton John: Never Too Late is a 2024 documentary film directed by R. J. Cutler and David Furnish.[2] A co-production of Walt Disney Pictures and Rocket Entertainment, it profiles Elton John on his Farewell Yellow Brick Road concert tour and integrates historic performance footage, excerpts from his private journals, and personal footage of his family life behind the scenes.
The film’s production was announced in 2022, originally titled Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: The Final Elton John Performances and the Years That Made His Legend.[4] Disney acquired the rights for the film for reportedly $30 million.
Documentary – Songwriter/artist Allee Willis began filming her life as a kid in 1950s Detroit and never stopped. She pursued creative expression at all costs while struggling to fit established gender and sexual norms – until she found a path to love.
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is an upcoming American Christmas comedy-drama film directed by Dallas Jenkins. It is based on the 1972 novel by Barbara Robinson and centers around the Herdmans, a group of juvenile delinquent siblings who inadvertently find themselves starring in the town’s Christmas pageant. The film stars Judy Greer, Pete Holmes, Molly Belle Wright, and Lauren Graham.
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is scheduled to be released theatrically by Lionsgate on November 8, 2024.
Premise
The Herdmans are six siblings with a reputation for being the worst kids in the world. However, when they take over the local church pageant during the holidays, they just might teach a shocked community the true meaning of Christmas.[1]
Renowned Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli is celebrating his 30th anniversary with a three-day concert event in his Tuscan hometown. The event will feature duets with Ed Sheeran, Shania Twain, Will Smith, and others.
The Piano Lesson premiered at the 51st Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2024. It is scheduled to be released in select theaters in the United States on November 8, 2024, and then streamed on Netflix on November 22.
Premise
Set in 1936 Pittsburgh during the aftermath of the Great Depression, The Piano Lesson follows the lives of the Charles family in the Doaker Charles household and an heirloom, the family piano, which is decorated with designs carved by an enslaved ancestor.
The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2024, and will be released in the United States by A24 on November 8, 2024.
Here premiered at the AFI Fest[9] on October 25, 2024 before being theatrically released in the United States by TriStar Pictures through Sony Pictures Releasing on November 1, 2024. The film received generally negative reviews from critics.
Premise
The story covers the events of a single spot of land and its inhabitants, spanning from the past to well into the future.
In a futuristic cyberpunk world, Hitpig, a bounty hunter pig, sets out to capture an elephant named Pickles but finds themselves on a criss-crossing world adventure.[1]
Juror #2 had its world premiere at AFI Fest on October 27, 2024, and is scheduled to be released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on November 1, 2024.
Premise
Family man Justin Kemp, while serving as a juror in a high-profile murder trial, finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma, one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict — or free — the accused killer.[3]
Hardy revealed in August 2018 that he was signed on to appear in a third and final Venom film, and Sony Pictures began development by December 2021, after the second film was released. Marcel and Hardy were writing the script by June 2022, and Marcel was set to make her directorial debut with the film that October. New cast members, including Ejiofor and Temple, joined in mid-2023, and filming began in Spain at the end of June 2023. Production was halted the next month due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, resumed that November after the strike ended, and was completed by the end of February 2024. The title was revealed a month later.
Venom: The Last Dance premiered at the Regal Times Square Theater in New York City on October 21, 2024, and is scheduled to be released in the United States on October 25, 2024. Like its predecessor, the film received mixed reviews from critics.
Juno Temple as Dr. Teddy Payne / Agony: A scientist, paralyzed in one arm, tracking Eddie and Venom, later becoming a host of a purple-colored symbiote.[7]
Rhys Ifans as Martin: A hippie and an alien enthusiast.[3]
Peggy Lu as Mrs. Chen: A convenience store owner who befriended Eddie and Venom.[8]
Alanna Ubach as Nova Moon: Martin’s wife and a fellow hippie.[3]
Stephen Graham as Patrick Mulligan / Toxin: A former police detective who previously encountered Eddie and Venom. He has been infected with a symbiote after coming into contact with Carnage.[6]
Conclave premiered at the 51st Telluride Film Festival on 30 August 2024 and is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States by Focus Features on 25 October 2024 and in the United Kingdom by Black Bear UK on 29 November 2024. The film received critical acclaim, with Fiennes’ performance being praised.
Premise
Cardinal Lawrence, tasked with organizing the election of the successor to the deceased pope, discovers the former pope had a secret that must be uncovered concerning one or more of the candidates to succeed to the papacy.[3]
The family starring in ‘A New Kind of Wilderness’ lives on a farm in the middle of nowhere in Norway. They try to live as much as possible from what the land and nature give them. Vegetables, animals, wood for heating, and lots of fresh air. It all looks very idyllic. Four children, father and mother, and a lot of warmth and love for each other. The children are homeschooled and seem to be outside almost permanently. The reason for this way of life? Mom and Dad have chosen to spend more time with the children.
This emotional documentary was named the best foreign documentary by the jury of the Sundance Film Festival in 2024. An award that filmmaker Evensmo Jacobsen certainly deserves. She came across Maria and Nik through a blog post in which they shared their experiences with the world. Fascinated by the subject, she became acquainted with the family, and after Maria’s death, she proposed to share their story with the world through a documentary. It is impressive to see how the family lives in and with nature and for what purpose. It is also impressive to see how they end up being bigger than the challenges they are presented with.
Themes: Human Rights, Justice, Reproductive Rights, Women, women’s Rights
Year: 2024
A group of women denied abortions, even at the brink of death, banded together with a fearless attorney to sue the state of Texas in an extraordinary effort to regain their rights and reproductive futures — not only for themselves but millions of others.
Executive Producers: Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Jennifer Lawrence, Justine Ciarrocchi, Bari Lurie, Johnny Webb, Linda Himelstein, Laurie Michaels, Amy Metzler Ritter
Co-executive Producers: Lisa And Jeffrey Akin, Suzanne Lerner, Emily Liu Foy, Cristina Ljungberg, Nancy Mcgregor And Neal Manne, Gretchen Sisson, Amanda Stephens, Jacob And Terese Hershey Foundation, The Boone Family Foundation
The film premiered in Los Angeles on October 8, 2024, and is scheduled to be released in the United States by Ketchup Entertainment on October 18, 2024.
Premise
After his younger second wife leaves him and enters a 90-day rehab program, Los Angeles art dealer Andy Goodrich seeks out his adult pregnant daughter Grace for help with raising his nine-year-old twins.[1][2]
A Real Pain follows mismatched cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin), who reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the odd couple’s old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
Anora is a 2024 American romanticcomedy-drama film written, directed, and edited by Sean Baker. It stars Mikey Madison as an exotic dancer in the title role and follows her beleaguered romance with the son of a Russian oligarch. It also stars Mark Eidelstein, Yura Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, and Aleksei Serebryakov.
The film premiered on May 21, 2024, in competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d’Or, the first American film to do so since The Tree of Life in 2011. Neon is scheduled to release it on October 18, 2024. It received widespread critical acclaim, with major praise for Madison’s performance and Baker’s direction, screenplay, and editing.
Plot
Ani is a young Russian-American exotic dancer from Brighton Beach, a Russian-speaking neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City. As she is somewhat conversant in Russian, her boss fixes her up with Russian-speaking clients. She is introduced to Vanya, the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, who pays her to move into his mansion and become his girlfriend. A whirlwind romance commences, resulting in them flying to Las Vegas and eloping.
Vanya’s parents learn of this development through social media and order Toros, Vanya’s handler, to rectify the situation before they arrive in America the following day. Toros sends two henchmen, Garnick and Igor, to Vanya’s house to confront them; a struggle ensues in which Vanya runs away, and Ani injures both Garnick and Igor before being subdued. Toros arrives soon after and demands an annulment of the marriage, but Ani refuses, claiming that she and Vanya are in love.
As her firm receives more and more complaints against Canadian for-profit senior care homes, attorney Melissa Miller builds a case to sue facilities for neglect and expose a system wrought with abuse.
The film is presented in a nonlinear narrative. The following is a linear summary of the plot.
Weetabix representative Tobias Durand, while out purchasing a pen to sign divorce papers served to him by his wife, wanders into the road and is struck by a car driven by Almut Brühl, a former figure skater turned Bavarian-fusion chef. At the hospital, Almut offers to treat Tobias and his wife to a meal at the restaurant she works at, though Tobias does not disclose his divorce to her. On the night of his dinner, Tobias, now separated, goes to the restaurant alone, informing Almut about his divorce. The two have sex and begin living with each other soon after.
Months later, Tobias expresses to Almut his desire to start a family with her and that he’s begun to fall in love with her. Almut viciously rebuffs him, and Tobias leaves without saying a word. Later, at a baby shower for one of Almut’s co-workers, Tobias sneaks in and apologizes to Almut for his hastiness while criticizing the way she responded to him in front of all the guests. Tobias once again professes his love to her and they reconcile.
10 Lives is a 2024 animated comedy film directed by Chris Jenkins from a screenplay by Jenkins, Karen Wengrod and Ken Cinnamon. The film features the voices of Mo Gilligan, Simone Ashley, Sophie Okonedo, Zayn Malik, Dylan Llewellyn, Jeremy Swift, Tabitha Cross and Bill Nighy. The story follows a pampered housecat named Beckett who totally takes for granted the lucky hand he has been dealt; rescued and loved by Rose, a kind-hearted and passionate student focused on saving the world’s bee population after she looses his ninth life.
10 Lives had its world premiere on January 20, 2024, at the Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah.[1] In the United Kingdom, the film classes as a Sky Original, where it became available to watch on Sky Cinema and streaming on Sky’s streaming service NOW. Briarcliff Entertainment acquired the North American distribution rights to the film, and it is set to be released on an underdetermined date in the United States.[2]
Plot
As a kitten, Beckett is adopted by Rose, a student specialised in bees. Later, Rose receives the visit of Larry, her ex-boyfriend, who helps her find a solution to the problem of the recent death of numerous bees. Beckett is jealous and tries to make Larry leave the house but the cat loses his ninth life. Beckett pleads Grace, responsible for the afterlife of animals, to be allowed to return to his former life: the Gatekeeper allows him to return to earth with a new set of lives, but in a variety of different forms: badger, rat, cockroach, parrot, fish, dog and horse.
Cast
Mo Gilligan as Beckett, a pampered and selfish housecat. His fur is entirely gray and white and his eyes are yellow and blue with are odd-eyed. He is rescued and loved by Rose.
Simone Ashley as Rose, a kind-hearted and passionate student.
Sophie Okonedo as Grace, an ethereal, no-nonsense woman with the power to grant Beckett the cat his new lives.
Bill Nighy as Professor Craven, Rose’s superior and the main antagonist.
Dylan Llewellyn as Larry, Rose’s socially discomfited lab partner.
Zayn Malik as Kirk and Cameron, a bee pair of tough-acting twins.
The Apprentice had its world premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2024, and is scheduled to be released in the United States on October 11, 2024.[4]
Premise
Set during the early years of Trump’s business career, the film focuses on the relationship of Trump and Roy Cohn, a New York City prosecutor known for working with Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Second Red Scare.[5]
It may sound hard to believe, but John Lennon and Yoko Ono became daytime talk show hosts more than 50 years ago–For one week only.
The new documentary Daytime Revolution, directed by Erik Nelson, chronicles that pop culture moment in February 1972 when John and Yoko took over The Mike Douglas Show, producing and co-hosting the afternoon talker. Kino Lorber plans to release the film on more than 50 screens across the country on October 9 — what would have been Lennon’s 84th birthday.
“Daytime Revolution takes us back in time, as we observe John and Yoko interacting with a transfixed studio audience in revealing Q and A sessions where John Lennon was astonishingly candid about his life after the Beatles,” notes a release. “John and Yoko also got to pick the guests, some very controversial at the time, like [anti-war activist and Yippie] Jerry Rubin and Black Panther Bobby Seale, as well as Ralph Nader and George Carlin. In addition, the shows featured blazing musical performances, including an epic duet with Chuck Berry, and a poignant rendition of the now classic ‘Imagine.’ Conceptual art events and even cooking segments were woven into the crazy fabric of the format.”
Yoko Ono explained at a press conference in 1972, “We wanted to do the shows to show that we are working for peace and love, and also to change the world, not with violence, but with love. And everybody that we selected is participating in efforts to change the world.”
1972, of course, was a presidential election year (and the year of the Watergate break-in), when incumbent Pres. Richard Nixon would face off against the eventual Democratic presidential nominee, George McGovern. Fifty-two years later, we’re in another momentous presidential election cycle. The timing didn’t escape director Erik Nelson.
White Bird was released in Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia on January 4, 2024; it is scheduled to be released in the United States by Lionsgate on October 4, 2024.[3]
Plot
After the events of Wonder, Julian has left Beecher Prep for good. He is visited by his grandmother, Sara, from Paris, who, in response to Julian’s reflection about his need to be socially passive in order to fit in at his new school, tells him about her childhood as a young Jewish girl in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
In 1942, Sara evades being rounded up by the German troops and spends more than one year being hidden by her classmate Julien (one of whose legs is congenitally paralysed by poliomyelitis) in a barn of the house where he lives with his parents. She is instructed never to leave the barn so as not to be discovered by the neighbours suspected of being informants for the Germans. At night, Julien teaches Sara what he has learned at school during the day. Affection between them eventually grows into love.
In 1944 after the liberation of Monte Cassino, Julien is stopped on his way to school at a German checkpoint by the Milice and thrown into the back of a lorry for transportation to a remote camp in the mountains. During an escape attempt by the other prisoners, he is shot dead. At the end of the war, Sara is reunited with her father, but she finds out that her mother has been killed at KZ Auschwitz.
Cast
Ariella Glaser as Sara Blum, a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied France
Orlando Schwerdt as Julien Beaumier, Sara’s polio-lamed classmate, in the barn of whose family Sara hides from the Germans
Over a year, 12 diverse Christian leaders explore contentious issues and seek fellowship at retreats in Grand Rapids, Michigan. They navigate divisions while holding onto their shared belief in love, testing the bonds they build.
Blink is a 2024 American documentary film directed by Edmund Stenson and Daniel Roher. It follows a family who journey around the world prior to their children losing their vision to a rare genetic disorder, in order to experiences the world’s beauty while they still can.
A family journeys around the world prior to their children losing their vision to a rare genetic disorder, in order to experiences the world’s beauty while they still can.
Production
Edmund Stenson and Daniel Roher co-directed the film, with Stenson primarily involved in the production of the film, due to Roher’s commitments to Navalny and the birth of his child.[2]
Joker was conceived as a standalone film, although Warner Bros. intended for the film to launch a DC Black film series. Phillips expressed interest in making a sequel but confirmed that Joker was not set up to have one. The sequel entered development in June 2022, with Gaga and Beetz joining later that year. Principal photography took place in New York City, Los Angeles, and Belleville, New Jersey, from December 2022 to April 2023.
Joker: Folie à Deux premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on September 4, 2024,[6] and is scheduled to be released in the United States on October 4, 2024. It has received mixed reviews from critics.
Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck / Joker, a mentally ill, nihilistic criminal with a clown-inspired persona, formerly an impoverished party clown and aspiring stand-up comedian. Director Todd Phillips assured that while the sequel will venture further into Fleck’s psyche, he would not become the “Clown Prince of Crime”, as his “Joker” persona is an unwilling symbol to people who give him the love he always wanted.[7]
Lady Gaga as Harleen “Lee” Quinzel / Harley Quinn, a patient at Arkham State Hospital who meets Arthur; her curiosity eventually turns to obsession, and she forms a deadly romantic relationship with him.[8][9] Describing Quinzel, Phillips noted how this version of the character is manipulative, amoral and “more grounded”, with the film deliberately ignoring much of the character’s classic mannerisms and style to fit into the world created in Joker (2019).[10]
Brendan Gleeson as Jackie Sullivan, a guard at Arkham State Hospital.
Zazie Beetz as Sophie Dumond, a single mother and Arthur’s former neighbor, who Arthur imagined being in a romantic relationship with.[12]
Steve Coogan as Paddy Meyers, a popular TV personality who interviews Arthur in Arkham.[13]
Harry Lawtey as Harvey Dent, the newly elected assistant district attorney who plans to bring Arthur to justice for his crimes.[14] Lawtey developed his own backstory for the character in order to accurately play the role, with Phillips instilling in him the idea that, in the dawn of televised trials, Dent has his eyes on the prize and is cynically willing to put Arthur on trial for his own gain. To prepare for the role, Lawtey avoided watching the versions of Harvey Dent in Batman (1989), The Dark Knight (2008) and Batman vs. Two-Face (2017) portrayed by Billy Dee Williams, Aaron Eckhart and William Shatner respectively. Despite his character being a courtroom showman, Lawtey never sings in the film, being grateful at not singing in front of Gaga.[15]
In development for decades, Megalopolis came from Coppola’s desire to make a film drawing parallels between the fall of Rome and the future of the United States by setting the events of the Catilinarian conspiracy in modern New York. He conceived the idea for the film in 1977 and actively started developing it in 1983 by assembling notes for a future script. Preparations for a film based around his initial concept came together in 1989 to be shot in Rome, but it was postponed after Coppola prioritized other projects to pay his debt to Hollywood after a string of box-office disappointments. Coppola revived the project in 2001, holding table reads with prominent actors in New York. After the September 11 attacks, an event that resembled the film’s plot and themes, Megalopolis was again abandoned. Having become disheartened working for the studio system, Coppola soon after declared his intentions to self-finance the project if it ever came to fruition.
Coppola announced his return to the film in 2019 and, two years after, sold a portion of his winery in California to spend $120 million of his own money to fund it. After a delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, casting was underway by 2021. The film reunited Coppola with past collaborators, including actors Esposito, Fishburne, Remar, Shire, and Sweeney, cinematographer Mihai Mălaimare Jr., second-unit director Roman Coppola, and composer Osvaldo Golijov. Principal photography took place from November 2022 to March 2023, in Georgia.
Premise
In a decaying metropolis called New Rome, idealist architect Cesar Catilina is granted a license by the federal government to demolish and rebuild the city as a sustainable utopia using Megalon, a material that can give him the power to control space and time.[3] His nemesis, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, remains committed to a regressive status quo. Torn between them is Franklyn’s socialite daughter and Cesar’s love interest Julia, who, tired of the influence she inherited, searches for her life’s meaning.[1][4]
Cast
Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina, a futuristic architect and the Chairman of the Design Authority in New Rome, blessed with the ability to stop time[5]
Giancarlo Esposito as Mayor Franklyn Cicero, the arch-conservative mayor of New Rome[5]
Nathalie Emmanuel as Julia Cicero, Cesar’s love interest and Franklyn’s daughter[5]
Aubrey Plaza as Wow Platinum, a TV presenter specializing in financial news who loves Cesar[1]: 12 [5]
Shia LaBeouf as Clodio Pulcher, Cesar’s cousin who lusts for Julia[1]: 13 [5]
Jon Voight as Hamilton Crassus III, Cesar’s wealthy uncle and the head of Crassus National Bank[5][6]
Laurence Fishburne as Fundi Romaine (the film’s narrator), Cesar’s driver and assistant[7]
Talia Shire as Constance Crassus Catilina, Cesar’s mother[8]
The movie took eight years to make and, at one point, due to precarious funding, Kate Winslet (who also produced the movie) paid the entire cast and crew’s salaries for two weeks. The film made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2023. It was released theatrically in the United Kingdom by Sky Cinema on 13 September 2024.
DreamWorks announced an animated film adaptation of the book series The Wild Robot in September 2023, with Sanders, Hermann, and DeBlois attached. Sanders took inspiration from Disney animated classic films and the works of Hayao Miyazaki. It would be the final film to be animated entirely in-house at DreamWorks, as it was reported in October 2023 that the studio would be shifting away from producing films in-house to relying more heavily on outside studios after 2024. Kris Bowers composed the film’s score, marking his first score for an animated film.
The Wild Robot premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2024, and is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on September 27, 2024. The film received critical acclaim.
Plot
In a future Earth, a Universal Dynamics cargo ship runs aground on an uninhabited island. The only one of the ROZZUM utilitarian robots still whole, unit 7134, who calls herself “Roz” for short, is activated by the local wildlife, and after repeated misunderstandings between it and her, Roz decides to enter a learning safe mode observing nature, emerging days later fluent in all animal language. Roz decides to leave for having no assignment, but after a failed attempt to contact her manufacturer, Roz accidentally destroys a goose nest, aside from a single egg. Roz stops a fox from eating the egg and it then hatches, and the gosling imprints itself onto Roz, eventually breaking the robot’s communication module. A discussion with Pinktail, a mother opossum, ends up setting up a mission on Roz regarding raising the gosling before it needs to leave the island for its winter migration. Roz asks the help of the fox, Fink, and a conversation between them while building a shelter leads the bird to be named Brightbill.
Once Brightbill has grown, Roz tries teaching him to swim, and Brightbill meets other geese, being bullied for his short stature and awkward social manners. Once Brightbill discovers Roz caused the death of his family, making him grow alone and unadjusted, he gets resentful and decides to get away from her. After learning more about her purpose and getting another communication module from the wreckage containing the destroyed ROZZUM robots, the elder goose Longneck encourages Roz to make Brightbill learn to fly. Once he is capable and flies away with the other geese, Roz is unnerved at how she challenged her programming, became attached to the bird and is sad that he left. She activates her communication module, but as soon as the beacon shows up at the Universal Dynamics headquarters Roz shuts it off again.
Voice cast
Lupita Nyong’o as ROZZUM unit 7134 (“Roz”), an abandoned robot that was washed onto a forest island and learns to adapt to the new environment, partially by using her processing ability to learn how to communicate with the native animals, and becomes the adoptive mother of Brightbill.[3] The name of her product line, ROZZUM, and her manufacturer, Universal Dynamics, are references to Rossum’s Universal Robots, the play that created the term “robot”.[4]
Pedro Pascal as Fink, a mischievous red fox who is the first animal that Roz helps and befriends.[3]
An ordinary rideshare becomes a high-stakes game of cat and mouse when Jaq (Hayden Panettiere) and Shane (Tyler James Williams) receive an alert of a child abduction on their phones. Quickly realizing they are behind a car that matches the description of the kidnappers, Jaq and Shane desperately race against time to save the child’s life.
In March 2015, following the release of Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014), Paramount Pictures tasked Akiva Goldsman to set up a writers’ room to create ideas for potential future Transformers films. By May 2015, Barrer and Ferrari had signed on as writers, and they came up with the idea of an animated prequel set on Cybertron. The film was announced in August 2017, and by April 2020, Cooley had been hired to direct. Animation services were provided by Industrial Light & Magic.
Transformers One premiered in Sydney, Australia on September 11, 2024, and is scheduled to be released by Paramount Pictures in the United States on September 20, 2024. The film received largely positive reviews from critics.
Plot
The film depicts the origins and early relationship of Optimus Prime and Megatron and how they forever changed the fate of Cybertron, the home planet of the Transformers.[4]
Brian Tyree Henry as D-16 / Megatron: A miner, the new leader of the Decepticons and Orion/Optimus’ former best friend who transforms into a silver Cybertronian tank [5]
Scarlett Johansson as Elita-1: Orion/Optimus’ love interest who transforms into a Cybertronian motorcycle. [5]
Never Let Go is an upcoming American survivalhorror film directed by Alexandre Aja and written by Kevin Coughlin and Ryan Grassby. The film stars Halle Berry, Percy Daggs IV, Anthony B. Jenkins, Matthew Kevin Anderson, Christin Park, and Stephanie Lavigne.
Lionsgate is scheduled to release Never Let Go in the United States on September 20, 2024.
Premise
A family consisting of a mother and her twin sons has suffered from the torment of a malicious spirit for many years. However, when one of the boys starts to doubt the existence of evil, the family’s sacred bond is broken, leading to a dangerous fight for survival.[3]
The Substance is a 2024 body horror film co-produced, written, and directed by Coralie Fargeat. The film stars Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid. An international co-production between the United Kingdom and France, its plot follows a fading celebrity who decides to use a black-market drug. This cell-replicating substance temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself, unknowingly giving her horrifying side effects.
The Substance premiered on 19 May 2024 at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, and was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or in its main competition section, where Fargeat won Best Screenplay. It is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United Kingdom and the United States by Mubi on 20 September 2024 and in France by Metropolitan Filmexport on 6 November 2024.
Plot
Elisabeth Sparkle, star of a popular TV aerobics show, is fired on her 50th birthday and subsequently gets in a car accident after seeing her billboard getting taken down. At the hospital, a young nurse secretly gives her a flash drive labeled “The Substance,” which promotes a mysterious supplier’s invention: a serum that, when injected, creates a younger, beautiful, “perfect” version of the user, though the two remain connected as “one.” After some deliberation, Elisabeth orders the product and is forced to “birth” a younger version of herself from her back.
The younger form, adopting the name “Sue,” is instructed by the mysterious supplier to inject a “Stabilizer” serum extracted from Elisabeth daily. The two also have to switch bodies every seven days without exception. Sue is quickly hired back onto Elisabeth’s old show, quickly ascending to new heights of fame and admiration. When Elisabeth is forced to switch bodies with her, however, she continues to struggle with a deepening sense of inadequacy and low self-esteem.
The contrast between her and Sue becomes increasingly stark, fueling Elisabeth’s growing envy and desire to misuse the serum to extend her time as Sue. This causes one of Elisabeth’s fingers to age. Elisabeth contacts the supplier, who tells her she can keep obeying the switches or terminate the Substance, which would not revert her appearance. She reluctantly continues to switch.
Documentary journey into the heart of America’s most iconic forests, GIANTS RISING reveals the secrets and the saga of the coast redwoods–the tallest and among the oldest living beings on Earth. It’s an epic tale that explores the wonders of these silent giants and our dramatic, ever-evolving relationship with them. Living links to the past, redwoods also hold powers that may play a role in our future, including their ability to withstand fire and capture carbon, to offer clues about longevity, and even to enhance our own well-being. How do they do it –and how will redwoods keep working their magic as they’re pushed to their limits? Through the voices of biologists, artists, Native peoples and others racing to understand and safeguard these trees, GIANTS RISING reveals the scientific wonders of redwoods, our deep cultural ties to them, and efforts to help these iconic forests overcome the legacy of logging that nearly wiped them out. It’s a story that offers lessons about resilience and connection, and the promise of solutions that will help us ALL rise up from the past and face the challenges that lay ahead.
Amid political and spiritual turmoil, Reverend David Hill runs for Congress. Opponent Peter Kane aims to erase religion from policy, and the fight becomes a beacon of hope for people seeking moral leadership in a divided world.
Will & Harper is a 2024 American documentary film that follows Will Ferrell and Harper Steele on a 17-day road trip across the United States.
The film premiered at the 40th Sundance Film Festival in January 2024, with Netflix acquiring distribution rights the following month. It will receive a limited theatrical release in the United States on September 13, 2024, before streaming worldwide on Netflix on September 27.[3]
Production
“I should’ve made that decision 40 years ago. But I wouldn’t have had you guys; I wouldn’t have gotten hired [at Saturday Night Live]. I would have had a completely different life.”
Described as a darkly comedic biopic, Emilia Jones was confirmed to be portraying the whistle-blower Reality Winner from a script written by Kerry Howley based on her own 2017 New York magazine feature, “Who Is Reality Winner?,” with Susanna Fogel also on board to direct.[3] It marks the second collaboration between Fogel and Jones following Cat Person.[4]
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