Screenwriters:Jay Cocks, Martin Scorsese, Martin Scorsese
Starring:Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, Adam Driver, Tadanobu Asano, Issey Ogata, Ciaran Hinds, Yosuke Kubozuka, Yoshi Oida
Genre:Drama
Official website:Silencemovie.com| Facebook
Plot Summary:
Martin Scorsese’s ""Silence"" tells the story of two Christian missionaries (Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) who face the ultimate test of faith when they travel to Japan in search of their missing mentor (Liam Neeson) – at a time when Christianity was outlawed and their presence forbidden. The celebrated director's 28-year journey to bring Shusaku Endo’s 1966 acclaimed novel to life will be in theaters this Christmas.
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Studio:20th Century Fox, Ubisoft Motion Pictures, New Regency
Director:Justin Kurzel
MPAA
Rating:PG-13 (for intense sequences of violence and action, thematic elements and brief strong language)
Screenwriters:Adam Cooper, Bill Collage , Michael Lesslie
Starring:Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Khalid Abdalla, Michael K. Williams
Genre:Action, Adventure
Official website:FoxMovies.com| Facebook| Twitter
Plot Summary:
Through a revolutionary technology that unlocks his genetic memories, Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender) experiences the adventures of his ancestor, Aguilar, in 15th Century Spain. Callum discovers he is descended from a mysterious secret society, the Assassins, and amasses incredible knowledge and skills to take on the oppressive and powerful Templar organization in the present
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Official website: FocusFeatures.com| Facebook| Twitter| Instagram
Plot Summary:
A visually spectacular drama from acclaimed director Juan Antonio Bayona (“The Impossible”), based on the award-winning children’s fantasy novel. 12-year-old Conor (Lewis MacDougall) attempts to deal with his mother’s (Felicity Jones) illness and the bullying of his classmates by escaping into a fantastical world of monsters and fairy tales that explore courage, loss, and faith.
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Rating: PG-13 (for sexuality, nudity and action/peril)
Screenwriter: Jon Spaihts
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne
Genre: Adventure
Plot Summary:
On a routine journey through space to a new home, two passengers, sleeping in suspended animation, are awakened 90 years too early when their ship malfunctions. As Jim (Chris Pratt) and Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence) face living the rest of their lives on board, with every luxury they could ever ask for, they begin to fall for each other, unable to deny their intense attraction... until they discover the ship is in grave danger. With the lives of 5000 sleeping passengers at stake, only Jim and Aurora can save them all.
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Rating: R (for intense prolonged realistically graphic sequences of war violence including grisly bloody images)
Screenwriters: Robert Schenkkan, Andrew Knight
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Hugo Weaving, Rachel Griffiths, Vince Vaughn
Genre: Drama, Action
Official website: HacksawRidge.movie| Facebook| Twitter| Instagram
Plot Summary:
""Hacksaw Ridge"" is the extraordinary true story of conscientious collaborator Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield) who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He believed the war was just, but killing was nevertheless wrong; he was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon. As an army medic, Doss single-handedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. He was the first conscientious objector to ever earn the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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Official website:DreamWorks.com/Trolls| Facebook| Twitter| Instagram
Plot Summary:
From the creators of Shrek comes DreamWorks Animation's ""Trolls,"" a smart, funny, and irreverent comedy about the search for happiness, and just how far some will go to get it. This hilarious film transports audiences to a colorful, wondrous world populated by the overly optimistic Trolls, with a constant dance in their step and a song on their lips, and the comically pessimistic Bergens, who are only happy when they have trolls in their stomachs
After the Bergens invade Troll Village, Poppy (Kendrick), the happiest Troll ever born, and the overly-cautious curmudgeonly Branch (Timberlake) set off on a journey to rescue her friends. Together, this mismatched duo embark on a rescue mission full of adventure and mishaps - trying to tolerate each other long enough to get the job done.
Utilizing music to further the film's narrative, the ""Trolls"" soundtrack is produced by Justin Timberlake and features five original songs including songs by Justin Timberlake and Gwen Stefani in addition to a number of classic hits from the 60's - 80's.
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Rating: R (for violence, menace, graphic nudity, and language)
Screenwriter: Tom Ford
Starring:Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Karl Glusman, Armie Hammer, Laura Linney, Andrea Riseborough, Michael Sheen
Genre:Thriller
Plot Summary:
From writer/director Tom Ford comes a haunting romantic thriller of shocking intimacy and gripping tension that explores the thin lines between love and cruelty, and revenge and redemption. Academy Award nominees Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star as a divorced couple discovering dark truths about each other and themselves in ""Nocturnal Animals.""
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Rating:R (for violence, some sexuality/nudity, language and brief drug use)
Screenwriter:Steven Knight
Starring:Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Lizzy Caplan, Matthew Goode
Genre:Drama, Thriller, Romance
Official website:Alliedmovie.com| Facebook| Twitter| Instagram
Plot Summary:
""Allied"" is the story of intelligence officer Max Vatan (Pitt), who in 1942 North Africa encounters French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour (Cotillard) on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Reunited in London, their relationship is threatened by the extreme pressures of the war.
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"Release date: November 4, 2016
(3D/2D theaters and IMAX)
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures, Marvel Studios
Director: Scott Derrickson
MPAA
Rating: PG-13 (for sci-fi violence and action throughout, and an intense crash sequence)
Screenwriters:Joshua Oppenheimer, Thomas Dean Donnelly, Jon Spaihts
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mads Mikkelsen, Tilda Swinton, Scott Adkins, Amy Landecker, Benedict Wong
Genre:Thriller, Sci-Fi
Plot Summary:
Marvel’s ""Doctor Strange"" follows the story of the talented neurosurgeon Doctor Stephen Strange who, after a tragic car accident, must put ego aside and learn the secrets of a hidden world of mysticism and alternate dimensions. Based in New York City’s Greenwich Village, Doctor Strange must act as an intermediary between the real world and what lies beyond, utilizing a vast array of metaphysical abilities and artifacts to protect the Marvel cinematic universe.
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Starring: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Official website: Arrivalmovie.com| Facebook| Twitter| Instagram
Plot Summary:
When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team - lead by expert linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) - are brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers – and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.
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"Release date:November 18, 2016
(3D/2D theaters and IMAX)
Studio:Warner Bros. Pictures
Director:David Yates
MPAA
Rating:PG-13 (for some fantasy action violence)
Screenwriter:J.K. Rowling
Starring:Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Samantha Morton, Jon Voight, Ron Perlman, Carmen Ejogo, Jenn Murray, Faith Wood-Blagrove, Colin Farrell, Zoe Kravitz
Genre:Action, Fantasy, Adventure
Official website:FantasticBeasts.com| Facebook| Twitter| Instagram
Plot Summary:
“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” is an all-new adventure returning us to the wizarding world created by J.K. Rowling.
Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne (“The Theory of Everything”) stars in the central role of wizarding world magizoologist Newt Scamander, under the direction of David Yates, who helmed the last four “Harry Potter” blockbusters.
“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident…were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of Newt’s fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds.
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Rating: R (for crude sexual content and language throughout, drug use and graphic nudity)
Screenwriters: Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Vanessa Bayer, Jillian Bell, Jamie Chung, Rob Corddry, Abbey Lee, Kate McKinnon, T.J. Miller, Olivia Munn, Karan Soni, Courtney B. Vance, Matt Walsh
Genre: Comedy
Official website: OfficeChristmasParty.com| Facebook| Twitter| Instagram
Plot Summary:
In ""Office Christmas Party,"" when the CEO tries to close her hard-partying brother’s branch, he and his Chief Technical Officer must rally their co-workers and host an epic office Christmas party in an effort to impress a potential client and close a sale that will save their jobs.
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Plot Summary:
Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped – and no one knows why.
From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes Moana, a sweeping, CG-animated feature film about an adventurous teenager who sails out on a daring mission to save her people. During her journey, Moana (voice of Auli’i Cravalho) meets the once-mighty demigod Maui (voice of Dwayne Johnson), who guides her in her quest to become a master wayfinder. Together, they sail across the open ocean on an action-packed voyage, encountering enormous monsters and impossible odds, and along the way, Moana fulfills the ancient quest of her ancestors and discovers the one thing she’s always sought: her own identity.
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Starring:Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Lucas Hedges, Kyle Chandler, Gretchen Mol, C.J. Wilson
Genre:Drama
Official website:ManchesterbytheSeathemovie.com| Facebook| Twitter
Plot Summary:
In ""Manchester by the Sea,"" the latest film from award-winning writer and director Kenneth Lonergan, the life of a solitary Boston janitor is transformed when he returns to his hometown to take care of his teenage nephew. The story of the Chandlers, a working-class family living in a Massachusetts fishing village for generations, ""Manchester by the Sea"" is a deeply poignant, unexpectedly funny exploration of the power of familial love, community, sacrifice and hope.
After the death of his older brother Joe (Kyle Chandler), Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is shocked to learn that Joe has made him sole guardian of his nephew Patrick (Lucas Hedges). Taking leave of his job, Lee reluctantly returns to Manchester-by-the-Sea to care for Patrick, a spirited 15-year-old, and is forced to deal with a past that separated him from his wife Randi (Michelle Williams) and the community where he was born and raised. Bonded by the man who held their family together, Lee and Patrick struggle to adjust to a world without him.
In his first film since 2011’s acclaimed ""Margaret,"" Lonergan once again proves himself a powerful and visionary storyteller as he seamlessly weaves past and present together, crafting a tension-filled tale that deftly eschews sentimentality in favor of penetrating emotional insight and deeply affecting human relationships.
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Director:Denzel Washington
MPAA Rating:PG-13 (for thematic elements, language and some suggestive references)
Screenwriter:August Wilson
Starring:Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen Henderson, Jovan Adepo, Russell Hornsby, Mykelti Willimason, Saniyya Sidney
Genre:Drama
Official website:Fencesmovie.com| Facebook| Twitter| Instagram
Plot Summary:
An African American father struggles with race relations in the United States while trying to raise his family in the 1950s and coming to terms with the events of his life. Based on the play ""Fences"" which opened on Broadway in 1987, and the production won the Tony Awards for Best Play, Best Actor, James Earl Jones and Best Featured Actress, Mary Alice. A revival of ""Fences"" opened in 2010, and the production won Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play, Best Actor, Denzel Washington and Best Actress, Viola Davis.
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Rating:PG-13 (for thematic elements and brief strong language)
Screenwriter:Allan Loeb
Starring:Will Smith, Edward Norton, Keira Knightley, Michael Pena, Naomie Harris, Jacob Latimore, Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren
Genre:Drama
Plot Summary:
When a successful New York advertising executive suffers a great tragedy he retreats from life. While his concerned friends try desperately to reconnect with him, he seeks answers from the universe by writing letters to Love, Time and Death. But it’s not until his notes bring unexpected personal responses that he begins to understand how these constants interlock in a life fully lived, and how even the deepest loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.
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Release date:December 16, 2016
(3D/2D theaters and IMAX)
Studio:Walt Disney Pictures, Lucasfilm
Director:Gareth Edwards
MPAA Rating:PG-13 (for extended sequences of sci-fi violence and action)
Screenwriters:Chris Weitz, Gary Whitta
Starring:Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Jiang Wen, Forest Whitaker, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Riz Ahmed, Valene Kane
Genre:Action, Animation, Sci-Fi
Official website:StarWars.com| Facebook| Twitter| Google+
Plot Summary:
A rogue band of resistance fighters unite to steal the Death Star plans and bring new hope to the galaxy. ""Rogue One: A Star Wars Story"" takes place before the events of ""Star Wars: A New Hope"" and will be a departure from the saga films but have elements that are familiar to the Star Wars universe, exploring the galactic struggle from a ground-war perspective while maintaining that essential Star Wars feel that fans have come to know.
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