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Monster Hunter
Behind our world, there is another: a world of dangerous and powerful monsters that rule their domain with deadly ferocity. When Lt. Artemis (Milla Jovovich) and her elite unit are transported through a portal from our world to a new world, they are in for the shock of their lives. In her desperate attempt to get home, the brave lieutenant encounters a mysterious hunter (Tony Jaa), whose unique skills have allowed him to survive in this hostile land. Faced with relentless and terrifying attacks from the monsters, the warriors team up to fight back and find a way home.
Meagan Good, Paul W.S. Anderson, Robert Kulzer, Martin Moszkowicz, Milla Jovovich, Tony Jaa, Jeremy Bolt, Dennis Berardi
PG-13
Modern Persuasion
A modern telling of Jane Austen’s “Persuasion.” Wren Cosgrove is a happy, single, and self-confessed workaholic who, after rising to the top of the corporate ladder, finds herself coming home every night to her cat. When her firm is hired by Owen Jasper, “the man who got away,” long-lost feelings are stirred, giving Wren a second chance at true love.
Dominic Rains, Alex Appel, Jonathan Lisecki, Barbara Radecki, Alicia Witt, Bebe Neuwirth, Daniella Pineda, Liza Lapira
News of the World
Five years after the end of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Hanks), a veteran of three wars, now moves from town to town as a non-fiction storyteller, sharing the news of presidents and queens, glorious feuds, devastating catastrophes, and gripping adventures from the far reaches of the globe.
Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, Paul Greengrass, Luke Davies, Michael Covino, Steve Boyles, Helena Zengel, Tom Astor
PG-13
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Let Him Go
Following the loss of their son, retired sheriff George Blackledge (Costner) and his wife Margaret (Lane) leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas, headed by matriarch Blanche Weboy. When they discover the Weboys have no intention of letting the child go, George and Margaret are left with no choice but to fight for their family.
Kevin Costner, BooBoo Stewart, Kimi Armstrong Stein, Thomas Bezucha, Paula Mazur, Mitchell Kaplan, Diane Lane, Lesley Manville
R
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Jiu Jitsu
An ancient order of Jiu Jitsu fighters faces a vicious race of alien invaders in an epic battle for the survival of Earth.
Nicolas Cage, Frank Grillo, Alain Moussi, Marie Avgeropoulos, Tony Jaa, Martin Barab, Rick Yune, Juju Chan
R
Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance (Gabriel Basso), a former Marine from southern Ohio and current Yale Law student, is on the verge of landing his dream job when a family crisis forces him to return to the home he’s tried to forget. J.D. must navigate the complex dynamics of his Appalachian family, including his volatile relationship with his mother Bev (Amy Adams), who’s struggling with addiction. Fueled by memories of his grandmother Mamaw (Glenn Close), the resilient and whip-smart woman who raised him, J.D. comes to embrace his family’s indelible imprint on his own personal journey.
Amy Adams, Brian Grazer, Vanessa Taylor, Freida Pinto, Haley Bennett, Ron Howard, Erica Huggins, Karen Lunder
R
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Black Beauty
In this modern day reimagining of Anna Sewell’s timeless classic, we follow Black Beauty, a wild horse born free in the American West. Rounded up and taken away from her family, Beauty is brought to Birtwick Stables where she meets a spirited teenage girl, Jo Green. Beauty and Jo forge an unbreakable bond that carries Beauty through the different chapters, challenges, and adventures of her life.
Mackenzie Foy, Robert Kulzer, Ashley Avis, Jeremy Bolt, Kate Winslet, Claire Forlani, Iain Glen, Fern Deacon
Spontaneous
When students in their high school begin inexplicably exploding (literally…), seniors Mara (Katherine Langford) and Dylan (Charlie Plummer) struggle to survive in a world where each moment may be their last. As an unexpected romance blossoms between them, Mara and Dylan discover that when tomorrow is no longer promised, they can finally start living for today!
Brian Duffield, Charlie Plummer, Hayley Law, Brian Robbins, Matt Kaplan, Nicki Cortese, Katherine Langford, Yvonne Orji
R
Spontaneous
When students in their high school begin inexplicably exploding (literally…), seniors Mara (Katherine Langford) and Dylan (Charlie Plummer) struggle to survive in a world where each moment may be their last. As an unexpected romance blossoms between them, Mara and Dylan discover that when tomorrow is no longer promised, they can finally start living for today!
Brian Duffield, Charlie Plummer, Hayley Law, Brian Robbins, Matt Kaplan, Nicki Cortese, Katherine Langford, Yvonne Orji
R
The War with Grandpa
Sixth-grader Peter (Oakes Fegley) is pretty much your average kid-he likes gaming, hanging with his friends and his beloved pair of Air Jordans. But when his recently widowed grandfather Ed (Robert De Niro) moves in with Peter's family, the boy is forced to give up his most prized possession of all, his bedroom. Unwilling to let such an injustice stand, Peter devises a series of increasingly elaborate pranks to drive out the interloper, but Grandpa Ed won't go without a fight. Soon, the friendly combatants are engaged in an all-out war with side-splitting consequences.
Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Uma Thurman, Tim Hill, Tom Astle, Jane Seymour, Phillip Glasser, Marvin Peart
PG
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The Trial of the Chicago 7
What was intended to be a peaceful protest at the 1968 Democratic National Convention turned into a violent clash with police and the National Guard. The organizers of the protest—including Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and Bobby Seale—were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot and the trial that followed was one of the most notorious in history.
Marc Platt, Eddie Redmayne, Steven Spielberg, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, William Hurt, J.C. MacKenzie, Michael Keaton, Jeremy Strong
R
The Witches
From the mind of Roald Dahl and as reimagined by acclaimed filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, The Witches is a wickedly fun adventure as a young boy stumbles onto a secret coven of child-hating witches as they plot to turn the world’s children into mice. A fresh Halloween classic for this generation, in a story that celebrates courage, teamwork, and unlikely heroes, offering a completely distinct kids proposition with a quirky, delightfully twisted tone in classic Dahl style.
Octavia Spencer, Chris Rock, Robert Zemeckis, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, Alfonso Cuarón, Jack Rapke, Guillermo del Toro
PG
Enola Holmes
England, 1884 – a world on the brink of change. On the morning of her 16th birthday, Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) wakes to find that her mother (Helena Bonham Carter) has disappeared, leaving behind an odd assortment of gifts but no apparent clue as to where she’s gone or why. After a free-spirited childhood, Enola suddenly finds herself under the care of her brothers Sherlock (Henry Cavill) and Mycroft (Sam Claflin), both set on sending her away to a finishing school for “proper” young ladies. Refusing to follow their wishes, Enola escapes to search for her mother in London. But when her journey finds her entangled in a mystery surrounding a young runaway Lord (Louis Partridge), Enola becomes a super-sleuth in her own right, outwitting her famous brother as she unravels a conspiracy that threatens to set back the course of history.
Henry Cavill, Millie Bobby Brown, Helena Bonham Carter, Harry Bradbeer, Jack Thorne
Children of the Sea
When Ruka was younger, she saw a ghost in the water at the aquarium where her dad works. Now she feels drawn toward the aquarium and the two mysterious boys she meets there, Umi and Sora. They were raised by dugongs and hear the same strange calls from the sea as she does. Ruka's dad and the other adults who work at the aquarium are only distantly aware of what the children are experiencing as they get caught up in the mystery of the worldwide disappearance of the oceans' fish.
Ayumu Watanabe, Mana Ashida, Hiiro Ishibashi, Seishû Uragami, Win Morisaki
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Despite second thoughts about their relationship, a young woman (Jessie Buckley) takes a road trip with her new boyfriend (Jesse Plemons) to his family farm. Trapped at the farm during a snowstorm with Jake’s mother (Toni Collette) and father (David Thewlis), the young woman begins to question the nature of everything she knew or understood about her boyfriend, herself, and the world.
Brie Larson, Jessie Buckley, Charlie Kaufman, Anthony Bregman, Stefanie Azpiazu, Jesse Plemons, Toni Collette, David Thewlis
R
The Devil All the Time
In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters — an unholy preacher (Robert Pattinson), twisted couple (Jason Clarke and Riley Keough), and crooked sheriff (Sebastian Stan) — converge around young Arvin Russell (Tom Holland) as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.
Bill Skarsgard, Mia Wasikowska, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Haley Bennett, Eliza Scanlen, Sebastian Stan, Riley Keough
The Glorias
The Glorias (Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Lulu Wilson, Ryan Keira Armstrong) traces Steinem’s influential journey to prominence—from her time in India as a young woman, to the founding of Ms. magazine in New York, to her role in the rise of the women’s rights movement in the 1960s, to the historic 1977 National Women’s Conference and beyond.
Bette Midler, Janelle Monae, Julie Taymor, Sarah Ruhl, Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Lulu Wilson, Monica Sanchez
R
The Secret Garden
Tells the story of Mary Lennox (Dixie Egerickx, Genius, The Little Stranger and A Royal Winter), a prickly and unloved 10-year-old girl, born in India to wealthy British parents. When they suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven (Academy Award® and BAFTA-winner Colin Firth – A Single Man, The King’s Speech, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Bridget Jones’s Baby) on his remote country estate deep in the Yorkshire moors. There, she begins to uncover many family secrets, particularly after meeting her sickly cousin Colin (Edan Hayhurst – Genius, There She Goes), who has been shut away in a wing of the house. Together, these two damaged, slightly misfit children heal each other through their discovery of a wondrous secret garden, lost in the grounds of Misselthwaite Manor. A magical place of adventure that will change their lives forever.
David Heyman, Colin Firth, Julie Walters, Marc Munden, Rosie Alison, Jane Robertson, Jack Thorne, Dixie Egerickx
PG
The One and Only Ivan
Ivan is a 400-pound silverback gorilla who shares a communal habitat in a suburban shopping mall with Stella the elephant, Bob the dog, and various other animals. He has few memories of the jungle where he was captured, but when a baby elephant named Ruby arrives, it touches something deep within him. Ruby is recently separated from her family in the wild, which causes him to question his life, where he comes from and where he ultimately wants to be.
Angelina Jolie, Brooklynn Prince, Ariana Greenblatt, Danny DeVito, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Thea Sharrock, Allison Shearmur
PG
Chemical Hearts
Seventeen-year-old Henry Page (Austin Abrams) has never been in love. He fancies himself a romantic, but the kind of once-in-a-lifetime love he’s been hoping for just hasn’t happened yet. Then, on the first day of senior year, he meets transfer student Grace Town (Lili Reinhart) and it seems all that is about to change. When Grace and Henry are chosen to co-edit the school paper, he is immediately drawn to the mysterious newcomer. As he learns the heartbreaking secret that has changed her life, he finds himself falling in love with her — or at least the person he thinks she is.
Coral Pena, Richard Tanne, Austin Abrams, C.J. Hoff, Alex Saks, Sarah Jones, Adhir Kalyan, Kara Young
R
All Together Now
Story of a teenage girl who, despite her difficult circumstances, is preternaturally optimistic about the world. She often helps those around her, resulting in strong bonds with a disparate group of outsiders in her community, until she faces a devastating loss and must confront her own challenges.
Lou Taylor Pucci, Justina Machado, Judy Reyes, Brett Haley, Daniel Dubiecki, Michael Younesi, Leah Fong, Wyck Godfrey
The Personal History of David Co...
From birth to infancy, from adolescence to adulthood, the good-hearted David Copperfield is surrounded by kindness, wickedness, poverty and wealth, as he meets an array of remarkable characters in Victorian England. As David sets out to be a writer, in his quest for family, friendship, romance and status, the story of his life is the most seductive tale of all.
Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie, Ben Whishaw, Morfydd Clark, Peter Capaldi, Paul Whitehouse, Armando Iannucci, Simon Blackwell
The Old Guard
Led by a warrior named Andy (Charlize Theron), a covert group of tight-knit mercenaries with a mysterious inability to die have fought to protect the mortal world for centuries. But when the team is recruited to take on an emergency mission and their extraordinary abilities are suddenly exposed, it’s up to Andy and Nile (Kiki Layne), the newest soldier to join their ranks, to help the group eliminate the threat of those who seek to replicate and monetize their power by any means necessary.
Dana Goldberg, Charlize Theron, David Ellison, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Gina Prince-Bythewood, KiKi Layne, Marwan Kenzari, Matthias Schoenaerts
R
Shirley
Renowned horror writer Shirley Jackson is on the precipice of writing her masterpiece when the arrival of newlyweds upends her meticulous routine and heightens tensions in her already tempestuous relationship with her philandering husband. The middle-aged couple, prone to ruthless barbs and copious afternoon cocktails, begins to toy mercilessly with the naïve young couple at their door.
Christine Vachon, Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Josephine Decker, Jeffrey Soros, Simon Horsman, David Hinojosa, Elizabeth Moss
R
Radioactive
RADIOACTIVE is the incredible, true-story of Marie Skłodowska Curie and her ground-breaking scientific achievements that revolutionized medicine with her discovery of radium and polonium, ultimately changing the face of science forever. Marie was the first female to win the Nobel Prize and the first person in history to win the esteemed award twice.
Anya Taylor-Joy, Eric Fellner, Rosamund Pike, Marjane Satrapi, Tim Bevan, Paul Webster, Jack Thorne, Sam Riley
NR
The Secret: Dare to Dream
The Secret: Dare to Dream centers around Miranda Wells (Katie Holmes), a hard-working young widow struggling to raise three children on her own. A powerful storm brings a devastating challenge and a mysterious man, Bray Johnson (Josh Lucas), into her life. In just a few short days, Bray’s presence re-ignites the family’s spirit, but he also carries a secret—and it’s a secret that could change everything.
Josh Lucas, Katie Holmes, Celia Weston, Andy Tennant, Bekah Brunstetter, Rick Parks, Jerry O’Connell, Sarah Hoffmeister
PG
Shirley
Renowned horror writer Shirley Jackson is on the precipice of writing her masterpiece when the arrival of newlyweds upends her meticulous routine and heightens tensions in her already tempestuous relationship with her philandering husband. The middle-aged couple, prone to ruthless barbs and copious afternoon cocktails, begins to toy mercilessly with the naïve young couple at their door.
Christine Vachon, Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Josephine Decker, Jeffrey Soros, Simon Horsman, David Hinojosa, Elizabeth Moss
R
You Should Have Left
Theo Conroy (Bacon) is a successful middle-aged man whose marriage to his much younger actress wife, Susanna (Seyfried) is shredding at the seams, frayed by her secretiveness, his jealousy, and the shadow of his past. In an effort to repair their relationship, Theo and Susanna book a vacation at a stunning, remote modern home in the Welsh countryside for themselves and their six-year-old daughter, Ella (Avery Essex). What at first seems like a perfect retreat distorts into a perfect nightmare when Theo’s grasp on reality begins to unravel and he suspects that a sinister force within the house knows more than he or Susanna have revealed, even to each other.
Amanda Seyfried, Jason Blum, Kevin Bacon, David Koepp, Avery Essex
Wasp Network
Follows Cuban spies in American territory during the 1990s - revealing the tentacles of a Florida-based terrorist network.
Pedro Pascal, Adria Arjona, Penelope Cruz, Olivier Assayas, Edgar Ramirez
Arkansas
In Clark Duke’s directorial debut, Kyle (Liam Hemsworth) and Swin (Clark Duke) live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog (Vince Vaughn), whom they’ve never met. Posing as junior park rangers by day, they operate as low-level drug couriers by night under the watchful eye of Frog’s proxies (John Malkovich and Vivica A. Fox). Swin then settles into his day job by taking up a relationship with Johnna (Eden Brolin) against orders to blend in while Kyle continues to question his night job by trying to figure out who Frog really is. Their world is then upended after one too many inept decisions, and Kyle, Swin, and Johnna find themselves directly in Frog’s crosshairs, who mistakenly sees them as a threat to his empire.
John Malkovich, Vivica A. Fox, Clark Duke, Patrick Hibler, Jeff Rice, Martin Sprock, Vince Vaughn, Liam Hemsworth
R
The Willoughbys
The four Willoughby children -- Timothy; his twin brothers, Barnaby A and Barnaby B; and their little sister, Jane -- are abandoned by their oblivious parents and must learn how to adapt their old-fashioned values to the contemporary world in order to create something new: The Modern Family.
Maya Rudolph, Sean Cullen, Alessia Cara, Cory Evans, Luke Carroll, Kris Pearn, Ricky Gervais, Martin Short
PG
First Cow
A cook joins a group of fur trappers in Oregon Territory and befriends a Chinese immigrant.
Toby Jones, Ewen Bremner, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Reichardt, Anish Savjani, Neil Kopp, Vincent Savino, Jonathan Raymond
Escape From Pretoria
Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, Escape From Pretoria is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa.
Daniel Radcliffe, Francis Annan, David Barron, Mark Blaney, Jackie Sheppard, LH Adams, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart
PG-13
The Informer
Reformed criminal and former special ops soldier Pete Koslow (Kinnaman), in order to free himself from jail and return to his wife (de Armas) and daughter, has been working undercover for crooked FBI handlers (Pike, Common and Owen) to infiltrate the Polish mob’s drug trade in New York. In a final step towards freedom, Koslow must return to the one place he’s fought so hard to leave, Bale Hill Prison, where his mission becomes a race against time when a drug deal goes wrong and threatens to identify him as a mole.
Ana de Armas, Basil Iwanyk, Mark Lane, James Harris, Rosamund Pike, Clive Owen, Erica Lee, Ollie Madden
The Postcard Killings
In The Postcard Killings, based on the James Patterson and Liza Marklund #1 New York Times bestselling novel, NY Detective Jacob Kanon’s (Jeffery Dean Morgan) world is destroyed when his daughter and son-in-law are brutally murdered in London. Unable to sit idly by and do nothing, Jacob travels to London get the answers he needs. As he learns of similar heinous murders happening across Europe - each preceded by a postcard sent to a local journalist - Jacob is in a race against time to stop the killings and find justice for his little girl.
Danis Tanovic, Andrew Stern, Naomi Battrick, Liza Marklund, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Connie Nielsen, Cush Jumbo, Denis O’Hare
NR
Stargirl
A homeschooled teenage girl enrolls in an Arizona high school, altering the ecosystem of the student body with her nonconformity.
Giancarlo Esposito, Jordan Horowitz, Grace VanderWaal, Julia Hart, Kristin Hahn, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Graham Verchere, Karan Brar
PG
Emma
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.
Callum Turner, Anya Taylor-Joy, Mia Goth, Eric Fellner, Rupert Graves, Miranda Hart, Amber Anderson, Autumn de Wilde
PG
Human Capital
As perspectives shift between parents and children, an impulsive business deal brings together two families from across the social divide, with tragic consequences. A real estate agent puts his livelihood at stake with a desperate gamble, a wealthy housewife is confronted with the profound void in her life, and a teenage girl falls deeply in love for the first time
Fred Hechinger, Alex Wolff, Maya Hawke, Peter Sarsgaard, Betty Gabriel, Marc Meyers, Oren Moverman, Liev Schreiber
Emma
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.
Callum Turner, Anya Taylor-Joy, Mia Goth, Eric Fellner, Rupert Graves, Miranda Hart, Amber Anderson, Autumn de Wilde
PG
The Call of the Wild
The story of Buck, a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team--and later its leader--Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in the world and becoming his own master.
Michael Green, Harrison Ford, Dan Stevens, Omar Sy, Colin Woodell, Bradley Whitford, Chris Sanders, Erwin Stoff
Dolittle
A vivid reimagining of the classic tale of the man who could talk to animals.
Octavia Spencer, John Cena, Craig Robinson, Kumail Nanjiani, Antonio Banderas, Tom Holland, Ralph Fiennes, Robert Downey Jr.
PG
The Turning
The Turning takes us to a mysterious estate in the Maine countryside, where newly appointed nanny Kate is charged with the care of two disturbed orphans, Flora and Miles. Quickly, she discovers that both the children and the house are harboring dark secrets and things may not be as they appear.
Brooklynn Prince, Finn Wolfhard, Roy Lee, Scott Bernstein, Chad Hayes, Carey Hayes, Rose Leslie, Alfre Woodard
PG-13
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Extremely Unique Dynamic
changed the US film release date from January 3, 2025 to January 10, 2025
Left At Wall
changed the US film release date from TBA to January 24, 2025
Cunk on Life
changed the US film release date from TBA to January 2, 2025
Into the Deep
changed the US film release date from TBA to January 24, 2025
Presence
changed the US film release date from January 24, 2024 to January 24, 2025
Hell of a Summer
changed the US film release date from TBA to April 18, 2025
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