Napoleon: The Director’s Cut stars Joaquin Phoenix as the French emperor and military leader. The film is a fresh and personal look at Napoleon’s origins and swift, ruthless climb to the emperor, viewed through the prism of his addictive and often volatile relationship with his wife and one true love, Josephine, played by Vanessa Kirby.
The director’s cut delves deeper into Josephine’s origin story and features more extravagant costumes, new larger-than-life sets, and the previously unreleased Battle of Marengo scene.
The audience is also given more details about Napoleon’s demise, from his attempted assassination to his failed invasion of Russia.
Apartment 7A is a psychological thriller directed by Natalie Erika James. It stars Julia Garner and premieres on September 27. It will be available to stream exclusively on Paramount+ in the US and select international markets. Set in 1965 New York City, the film tells the story before the legendary horror classic Rosemary’s Baby, exploring what happened in the Bramford building before Rosemary moved in.
An ambitious young dancer, Terry Gionoffrio, played by Garner, dreams of fame and fortune in New York City. However, after suffering a devastating injury, an older, wealthy couple, played by Dianne Wiest and Kevin McNally, welcomes her into their home in the luxury apartment building Bramford.
The horror film delves into the uncertainties of pregnancy problems. When fellow resident and influential Broadway producer, played by Jim Sturgess, offers her another chance at fame, all her dreams are finally coming true.
While Rosemary’s Baby is considered a classic horror film dealing with adult sexuality and occult themes, Apartmet 7A follows the same path. The story taps into paranoia, oven, betrayal and rape.
However, after an evening she can’t fully remember, disturbing circumstances soon have her second-guessing the sacrifices she’s willing to make for her career as she realizes that something evil is living not only in Apartment 7A but in Bramford itself.
The additional supporting cast includes Marli Siu, Andrew Buchan, Rosy McEwen and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith.
Directed by Kenji Kamiyama, The Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim follows the life and conflict of Helm Hammerhand’s time. Hammerhand is a King of Rohan.
Phoebe Gittins, Arty Papageorgiou and Jeffrey Addiss wrote the screenplay. According to Warner Bros, surprisingly, Helm Hammerhand is attacked by Wuff, an intelligent and ruthless Dunlending lord who seeks vengeance for his father’s death.
Helm and his people are forced to take a daring stand in the ancient stronghold of Hornburg, a mighty fortress that will later be known as Helm’s Deep.
Finding herself more and more in a desperate situation, Hera, the daughter of Helm, is summoned to lead the resistance against a deadly enemy intent on the destruction of Helm and his people.
The voice actors include Miranda Otto, Brian Cox, Gaia Wise and Luke Pasqualino.
Directed by Titus Kaphar, Exhibiting Forgiveness follows Andre Holland as Tarrell, an admired American painter who lives with his wife, singer Aisha, played by Andra Day, and their young son, Jermaine.
Tarrell’s artwork excavates beauty from the anguish of his youth, keeping past wounds at bay. His path to success is derailed by an unexpected visit from his estranged father, La’Ron, played by John Earl Jelks, a conscience-stricken man desperate to reconcile.
Tarrell’s mother, Joyce, played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, a pious woman with a profound and joyful spirituality, hopes that Tarrell can open his heart to forgiveness, giving them all another chance at being a family. In this raw and profoundly moving film, Tarrell and La’Ron learn that forgetting might be a more significant challenge than forgiving.
From Kaphar’s website:
Titus Kaphar is an artist whose paintings, sculptures, and installations examine the history of representation by transforming its styles and mediums with formal innovations to emphasize the physicality and dimensionality of the canvas and materials themselves. His practice seeks to dislodge history from its status as the “past” in order to unearth its contemporary relevance. He cuts, crumples, shrouds, shreds, stitches, tars, twists, binds, erases, breaks, tears, and turns the paintings and sculptures he creates, reconfiguring them into works that reveal unspoken truths about the nature of history.
Coppola’s film explores love, power, greed, change, destiny and hope. It focuses on the obsession with perfection in a world far from flawless. The storyline follows Shakespeare’s themes, the political history of Catiline and Robert Moses’s biography of Robert Caro.
Megalopolis taps literary and historical references such as Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the spiritual journey of Siddhartha and Greek poet Sappho.
Francis Ford Coppola wrote and directed Metropolis, a science fiction drama. Adam Driver plays Cesar Catilina, an artist whose ingenuity leaps him into a utopian, idealistic future. A genius student, he develops an innovative material called Magalon. He has plans to use it to build a utopian city called Megalopolis. But his ambitions do not go unnoticed with his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, played by Giancarlo Esposito.
Giancarlo Esposito as Mayor Cicero in Megalopolis. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lionsgate
Cicero is committed to a regressive status quo that perpetuates special interests, greed and partisan warfare. As new mayor, Cicero inherits a bankrupt administration and plans to orchestrate a casino complex to boost revenue and rectify modern New York City.
Nathalie Emmanuel as Julia Cicero in Megalopolis. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lionsgate
Nathalie Emmanuel plays Julia Cicero. She is romantically involved with Cesar, tearing her loyalty between her father’s scheme and Cesar’s hope for a better world. Such a rip causes a conflicting chasm, though her independent thinking may help her resolve their differences.
Nathalie Emmanuel as Julia Cicero and Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina in Megalopolis. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lionsgate
Principle photography took place in Georgia. Yet one scene showing an entrance to Ciero’s home looks like the front of Huntington Gardens Mansion.
However, the story is about a hierarchical society divided between achieving a better society and maintaining the status quo. Coppola compares the Catilinarian conspiracy to today’s America, which is at the beginning of the end.
The rest of the supporting cast includes Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman, Kathryn Hunter, Grace VanderWaal, Chloe Fineman, James Remar, D.B. Sweeney and Dustin Hoffman.
Writer/Director Francis Ford Coppola and Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina in Megalopolis. Photo Credit: Phil Caruso
Inspired by the award-winning documentary of the same name, “Midnight Family” follows Marigaby Tamayo, an ambitious and gifted medical student by day.
She spends her nights saving lives aboard her family’s privately owned ambulance in sprawling, contrasted, and fascinating Mexico City.
Along with her father, Ramón, and her siblings, Marcus and Julito, Marigaby serves a population of millions by tackling extreme medical emergencies to make a living.
Directed by Kerry Bellesa and co-written by Bellesa and Joshua Oram, Amber Alert follows a rideshare driver and ride play cat and mouse with a kidnapping.
It appears as an ordinary rideshare but quickly becomes a high-stakes game of cat and mouse when Jaq, played by Hayden Panettiere, and Shane, played by Tyler James Williams, receive an alert of a child abduction on their phones.
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. Kevin Dunn plays the cop who looks angst when Jaq and Shane take matters into their own hands.
Bellessa cut his teeth working on the TV series Yo Gabba Gabba!
Slow Horses is a darkly humorous espionage drama that follows a dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 known un-affectionately as Slough House. Season four opens with a bombing that detonates personal secrets, rocking the already unstable foundations of Slough House.
Gary Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, the brilliant but misanthropic leader of the spies. The spies end up in Slough House due to their career-ending mistakes, as they frequently find themselves blundering around the smoke and mirrors of the espionage world.
The returning ensemble cast includes Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Kadiff Kirwan and Jonathan Pryce.
Marc Webb directed Snow White from a screenplay by Greta Gerwig and Erin Cressida Wilson. The American musical follows Snow White, played by Rachel Zegler, and her confrontational with the evil Queen, played by Gal Gadot.
“Mirror, Mirror on the wall…” The seven dwarfs arrived, finding the beloved Snow White in their home.
The live-action film is a remake of the Walt Disney classic, the first animated, full-length motion picture.
The upcoming second season of Pachinko is the award-winning and globally acclaimed sweeping drama series by creator/executive producer Soo Hugh. The eight-episode series plays to the audience in three languages—Korean, Japanese, and English.
The trailer debuts a new moving cover of Coldplay’s Viva La Vida by global superstar Rosé of the record-breaking K-pop group BlackPink. In addition to debuting as the series’ trailer anthem, Rosé’s cover is also featured in the Pachinko season two finale.
Based on The New York Times bestselling novel of the same name, Pachinko is a sweeping and deeply moving story of love and survival across four generations, told through the eyes of a remarkable matriarch, Sunja.
In season two, the parallel stories pick up in Osaka in 1945, where Sunja is forced to make dangerous decisions for her family’s survival during World War II, and in Tokyo in 1989, which finds Solomon exploring new, humble beginnings.
The first season received 11 international awards, including a Peabody Award, an American Film Institute Award, a Critics Choice Award and a Gotham Independent Film Award. Season two stars Lee Minho, Yuh-Jung Youn, Minha Kim, Jin Ha, Anna Sawai, Eunchae Jung, Soji Arai, Junwoo Han, and Sungkyu Kim.
