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Woodlawn Grandma

Directors: Andrew Erwin & Jon Erwin

Director: Paul Weitz

Walk in the Woods Coming Home

Director: Ken Kwapis

Director: Zhang Yimou

Labyrinth of Lies

Director: Giulio Ricciarelli

The Diary of a Teenage Girl Spotlight

Writer & Director: Marielle Heller

Director: Tom McCarthy

Crimson Peak Suffragette

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Director: Sarah Gavron

Pawn Sacrifice

Director: Ed Zwick

Bridge of Spies

Director: Steven Spielberg

Everest

Director: Baltasar Kormรกkur

Film Previews

Labyrinth of Lies

A look at 30 upcoming releases

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oodlawn is a film based on an inspiring real-life story about love and unity in a school torn by racism and

hate in the 1970s. In 1973, Woodlawn High School implemented racial integration creating hate and terror among the community.

A spiritual awakening captured the heart of nearly every player of the Woodlawn High School football team, including its coach Tandy Gerelds. Their dedication to love and unity in a school filled with racial division leads to the largest high school football game ever played in the torn city of Birmingham, Alabama, and the rise of its first African-American superstar Tony Nathan.

Opening in theatres October 16, 2015.

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Grandma written & directed by Pa u l Weit z

do you say to some criticism you might get for making a film that focuses on such a divided women’s issue?

PW: The film is female-driven. According to the Guttmacher Institute, as of 2008, 30% of women had had an abortion by the age of 45. So it's unlikely that most people don't at least know someone who has faced the question of whether or not to end an unintended pregnancy. The film doesn’t make light of the issue. It puts it in the context of the characters who all have their own perspectives towards the issue.

FG: Are you trying to make a statement on your personal thoughts on the subject?

PW: I am not trying to make a statement in the film. In my personal life I am a feminist, and I would have said that even before Emma Watson’s lovely speech to the UN.

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lle Reid (Lily Tomlin) has just come through a breakup with her girlfriend when her granddaughter Sage unexpectedly arrives needing six-hundred bucks before sundown. Temporarily broke, Grandma Elle and Sage spend the day trying to get their hands on the cash as their unannounced visits to old friends and flames end up rattling skeletons and digging up secrets.

Behind the scenes with director Paul Weitz Film Guide: You have made big studio comedies and smaller character-driven films. What do you like best about each?

Paul Weitz: I think comedy is pretty depressing unless it’s character-driven. I’m drawn to making smaller films, and when my studio films have been successful, it’s been because they felt smaller and more intimate. Happily there is no connection between how funny and emotional a film is and what its budget is.

FG: Where did the idea for the film come from? Were any of the characters inspired by people in your life?

PW: I had had the idea in different forms, but it clicked only when I worked with Lily on the film Admission.

I didn’t know her that well, but her intelligence rang like a clear bell. It made me think of a character and how much that character would have to offer a young woman under duress. I really don’t know though where it all came from. But I returned to the same dingy cafe every day to write it in a small white notebook.

FG: The film is very female-driven and centers around a young woman needing money for an abortion. What

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FG: Can you tell us more about the casting process for the film and the characters? This part seems tailormade for Lily Tomlin. Did you have her in mind when you wrote the script?

PW: I wrote the script hearing Lily’s voice. Then I asked her to lunch and told her I had written a script for her and told her the story and gave it to her.

I’m sure that was a bit nerve-wracking for her.

FG: How long did it take you to write the script?

PW: I thought about it in some form or other for a few years, and then wrote the first draft in about a month. Then I messed with it for a few more months.

FG: Can you tell us about a scene that turned out better on set than you imagined when writing the script?

PW: A number of scenes turned out better than I imagined because I was fortunate in casting. That’s what I hope for and it’s probably why I write plays and movies as opposed to fiction.

FG: What do you hope the audience will take away from Grandma?

PW: The film is largely about moving on from loss through wit and empathy and the ability to say “screw you.”

I just hope a splinter of it will lodge in their memories.

Opening in select theatres August 21, 2015.

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u Yanshi and Feng Wanyu are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor

camp as a political prisoner. Released during the last days of the Cultural Revolution, Lu finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife has suffered an accident, is battling amnesia and remembers little of her past. A stranger alone in the heart of his broken family, Lu determines to resurrect their past together and reawaken his wife’s memory.

Adapted from the Chinese novel The Criminal Lu Yanshi and written by Geling Yan. Opening 9/9/15.

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LABYRINTH OF LIES directed by Gi uli o Ri cci a r e lli

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ermany 1958: reconstruction, an economic miracle.

Johann Radmann (Alexander Fehling) has just recently been appointed Public Prosecutor and, like all beginners, he has to content himself with boring traffic offenses.

When the journalist Thomas Gnielka (André Szymanski) causes a ruckus in the courthouse, Radmann pricks up his ears. A friend of Gnielka’s identified a teacher as a former Auschwitz guard, but no one is interested in prosecuting him. Against the will of his immediate superior, Radmann begins to examine the case­and lands in a web of repression and denial, but also of idealization. In those years “Auschwitz” was a word that some people had never heard of and others wanted to forget as quickly as possible. Only Prosecutor General Fritz Bauer (Gert Voss) encourages Radmann's curiosity; he himself has long wanted to bring the crimes committed in Auschwitz to the public's attention but lacks the legal means for a prosecution. When Johann Radmann and Thomas Gnielka find documents that lead to the perpetrators, Bauer

immediately recognizes how explosive they are and officially entrusts all further investigations to Radmann.

The young prosecutor devotes himself with utmost commitment to his new task and is resolved to find out what really happened back then. He questions witnesses, combs through files, secures evidence and allows himself to be drawn into the case to such an extent that he is blind to everything else—even to Marlene Wondrak (Friederike Becht) with whom he has fallen hopelessly in love. Radmann oversteps boundaries, falls out with friends, colleagues and allies, and is sucked deeper and deeper into a labyrinth of lies and guilt in his search for the truth.

But what he ultimately brings to light will change the country forever....

Interview With Director Giulio Ricciarelli Film Guide: How did you react when you were confronted with the theme for the first time?

Giulio Riccaiarelli: I thought the story was incredible. I was particularly unable to believe that many Germans in the late 1950s had never heard about Auschwitz. It was only in the course of my research that I concluded that this was indeed so. As a young person, I had always been under the impression that the Nazi period had been amply studied and treated in Germany after 1945 through history lessons, a variety of films and visits to concentration camp memorials.

But the truth is that after the end of WWII, just about nothing was treated comprehensively for several years; instead, there was an attempt to silence the dark past. This

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was a chapter one simply did not talk about—or about the perpetrators—or about the victims. Of course there were people who knew about Auschwitz, but the majority of the Germans did not. This topic would have continued to be suppressed if four courageous people, a prosecutor general and three young public prosecutors, had not overcome all obstacles to push through their vision of the Frankfurt Trial—four heroes who changed Germany forever.

that Fritz Bauer and his comrades-in-arms had to knock down. And the question posed by Senior Public Prosecutor Friedberg to Johann Radmann reduces it to one point: “Do you want every young person to wonder whether his father was a murderer or not?”

FG: How would you characterize your main character, the young public prosecutor Johann Radmann?

GR: Many statements by Fritz Bauer have been preserved, mainly through the work of the Fritz Bauer Institute. Of course we were also able to base ourselves on witnesses' statements from the trial. And Attorney Lichter’s perfidious argumentation that the “selection” was an act of humanity intended to save human lives really does stem from a lawyer’s defense strategy in the Frankfurt Trials. As to the historical facts, we are as correct and precise as possible.

Only in conjunction with the inner life of the characters did we allow ourselves narrative liberties. We don’t want to give viewers a history lesson, but an emotional cinematic experience. That is why we’ve tried again and again to loosen up the action though humor, not through artificial slapstick elements, but through a gentle humor that arises from the characters. I feel it is wrong to say: “Oh my God, it’s a serious theme, you're not supposed to laugh!”

GR: Johann is a self-assured, very Germanic, rather formalist jurist with a humanistic education and clear moral values. His Achilles’ heel is his rigid black-and-white way of viewing things. At the beginning he thinks he knows what's right and what’s wrong. Only in the course of events does he realize that it's not up to him to judge other people. He can only conduct this trial with humility.

FG: In your film, you also provide a forum for the opposite side.

GR: Yes, this meant a lot to us. Of course we feel that we should absolutely confront our past. But the opposite position can also claim some good arguments for itself. The German Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had set up the doctrine that one had to draw the line and spread the cloak of silence over the past. This was the official stance

FG: To what extent were you able to borrow original quotes when writing the dialogues?

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ike most teenage girls, Mi nnie Goetze (Bel Powley ) is longing for love, accepta nce and a sense of purpo se in the world. Minnie begin s a complex love affair wi th her mother’s (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend, “the handsome st man in the world,” Monroe Ru therford (Alexander Skars gård).

What follows is a sharp, funny and provocative ac count of one girl’s sexual and art istic awakening, without judgment.

The Diary Of A Teenag e Girl is based on Phoe be Gloeckner’s novel of the same name, hailed by Sa lon as “one of the most brutal ly honest, shocking, ten de r and beautiful portrayals of gro wing up female in Ameri ca .”

Writer/Director Marielle Heller unlocks this diary with a richly comedic and deep ly personal vision. In her feature-film directorial debut, Heller brings Glo eckner’s book to life with fearless perfo rmances, a stirring score, inventiv e graphic novel-like animation sequ ences, imagination, humor and heart. It is a coming-of-age story that is as poignant as it is unse ttling.

Opening in select theatr es 8/7/15.

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potlight is the true story of how The Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core. The Boston Globe’s “Spotlight Team” of reporters and editors, including then-Globe editor Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber), Spotlight Team editor Walter “Robby” Robinson (Michael Keaton) and reporters Michael Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams) and Matt Carroll (Brian d'Arcy James), spent a year interviewing victims and reviewing thousands of pages of documents and discovered years of cover-up by Catholic Church leadership. Their reporting eventually led to the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law, who had hidden years of serial abuse by other priests, and opened the floodgates to other revelations of molestation and cover-ups around the world, which still reverberate today. For their efforts, the Globe team won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2003. Stanley Tucci portrays attorney Mitchell Garabedian, who achieved national acclaim representing the families of abuse victims.

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G E N R E : Supernatural Mystery C A S T : Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam and Jim Beaver D I R E C T E D B Y : Guillermo del Toro W R I T T E N B Y : Guillermo del Toro & Matthew Robbins P R O D U C E D B Y : Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, Guillermo del Toro, Callum Greene E X E C U T I V E P R O D U C E R : Jillian Share A B O U T T H E F I L M: When her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, a young woman is swept away to a house atop a mountain of blood-red clay: a place filled with secrets that will haunt her forever. Between desire and darkness, between mystery and madness, lies the truth behind Crimson Peak.

From the imagination of director Guillermo del Toro comes a supernatural mystery starring Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska and Charlie Hunnam.

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cademy Award® nominees Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter and three-time Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep lead the cast of a powerful drama about the women who were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality in early-20th-century Britain. The stirring story centers on Maud (played by Carey Mulligan), a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.’s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep), Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all walks of life. When increasingly aggressive police action forces Maud and her dedicated fellow suffragettes

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underground, they engage in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the authorities who are shocked as the women’s civil disobedience escalates and sparks debate across the nation.

Inspired by true events, Suffragette is a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of those who risked all they had for women’s right to vote—their jobs, their homes, their children, and even their lives. The film also stars Ben Whishaw, Anne-Marie Duff, Brendan Gleeson, Romola Garai and Natalie Press. Suffragette is directed by BAFTA Award winner Sarah Gavron from an original screenplay by Abi Morgan.

In theatres this October.

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etting exceptional characters against the backdrop of history has defined the career of the filmmaker behind Glory, Courage Under Fire and The Last Samurai. Director Ed Zwick continues this exploration with Pawn Sacrifice, the story of Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire), a chess superstar who rode the line between madness and genius when he became a Cold War symbol for American power in the “match of the century” against Russian Boris Spassky.

Film Guide: What made the match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky something that captured the world’s imagination?

Ed Zwick: You need to remember this was a time when everything was politicized––the Olympics, the Vietnam War, everything. So as a kid from the Midwest watching this young guy taking on the Soviet Union, I was fascinated. Also, celebrity culture was just beginning. Because of this game, Bobby was suddenly world-famous. He was a source of curiosity and pride, even though there was something inappropriate about him. He wanted to make his own rules. He was unpredictable.

FG: In addition to being a suspenseful sports story, Pawn Sacrifice has the intrigue of a Cold War thriller.

EZ: At the time of the match, the Cold War was actually quite hot. Here was an opportunity for these two great ideologies to send out their two gladiators against one another. For the Soviet Union, chess was a great source of pride. They were quite confident that this would show their intellectual superiority over us.

But there was this American kid going up against them.

FG: Bobby Fischer was a very complex figure, a genius who was also a bit unstable.

EZ: The collision of genius and madness is something that we as a culture have always been interested in, whether in Amadeus or A Beautiful Mind. We are fascinated by people who have these extraordinary abilities but must pay a price for having them.

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FG: Tobey Maguire does a remarkable job bringing out all these different layers of Fischer’s character.

FG: And his opponent Boris Spassky is played by Liev Schreiber.

EZ: You always want an actor to be playing at least two things at once, but Tobey was doing three and four. There was the intellectual part of the game.

Then there was the mind game, his need to dominate the other player. And there was his desire to have fun and be a person. But I think the part that most moved me was his isolation, how his gift inhibited him from having anything like a normal life. Tobey is a research fanatic. He read everything about Bobby Fischer, saw every piece of film, and listened to every utterance. It was amazing to see him immerse himself and be subsumed by this other person.

EZ: I think Liev is one of the greatest actors of his generation. In playing Spassky, Liev understood something very deeply about him––how he was a man who loved the game. In truth, Spassky was a generous and kind man. But he was a man caught the way that Fischer was caught. They were both pawns of their systems. They were the least likely avatars of their systems that anyone could imagine; yet there they were, facing each other.

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dramatic thriller set against the backdrop of a series of historic events, DreamWorks Pictures/Fox 2000 Pictures’ Bridge of Spies is the story of James Donovan, a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.

In the 1950s during the early stages of the Cold War, tensions are rife between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., so when the FBI arrests Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance), a Soviet agent living in New York, the fear and paranoia only escalate. Charged with sending coded messages back to Russia, Abel is questioned by the FBI but refuses to cooperate, declining their offer to turn on his country, and is detained in federal prison pending trial.

The government, in need of an independent attorney to take on Abel’s defense, approaches James Donovan (Tom Hanks), an insurance lawyer from Brooklyn. While highly regarded within the legal community for his profound skills as a negotiator, Donovan has little experience with allegations of this nature and magnitude and isn’t eager to get involved.

Donovan eventually agrees to represent Abel, as he is committed to the principles of justice and the protection of basic human rights and wants to ensure Abel receives a fair trial, regardless of his citizenship. As he prepares his defense strategy, a bond begins to develop between the two men, one built on mutual respect and understanding.

Sometime later, an American U-2 spy plane is shot down over Soviet airspace while on a reconnaissance mission, and the pilot, Francis Gary Powers (Austin Stowell), is convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison in the U.S.S.R. The CIA, while categorically denying any knowledge of the mission, is fearful that Powers may be coerced into revealing classified

information. Having witnessed Donovan’s impressive skills in the courtroom, CIA operative Hoffman (Scott Shepherd) secretly reaches out to recruit him for a national security mission of great importance. Fueled by a love for his country, unwavering belief in his convictions and a tremendous amount of courage, Donovan is soon on a plane to Berlin to negotiate a prisoner exchange between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction and with Bridge of Spies, the incredible story of an ordinary man placed in extraordinary circumstances is all the more compelling because it actually happened. Navigating the unfamiliar waters of high-stakes international intrigue, James Donovan rose to the occasion with a modesty befitting the heroic acts which he performs, becoming an unsung civilian hero and, in the process, the inspiration for an incredibly powerful story and film.

Directed by three-time Academy Award®-winning director Steven Spielberg, Bridge of Spies stars two-time Academy Award® winner Tom Hanks as James Donovan; three-time Tony Award® winner Mark Rylance as Rudolf Abel, a KGB agent defended by Donovan; Scott Shepherd as CIA operative Hoffman; Academy Award® nominee Amy Ryan as James’ wife Mary; Sebastian Koch as East German lawyer Vogel; and Academy Award® nominee Alan Alda as Thomas Watters, a partner at Donovan’s law firm. The film is produced by Spielberg, Marc Platt and Kristie Macosko Krieger with Adam Somner, Daniel Lupi, Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King serving as executive producers. The screenplay is by Matt Charman and three-time Academy Award® winners Ethan Coen & Joel Coen.

Fox 2000 Pictures co-financed Bridge of Spies with DreamWorks in association with Participant Media, and will distribute internationally. Touchstone Pictures handles domestic distribution.

Opening in theatres nationwide on October 16, 2015.

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99 HOMES

Director: Ramin Bahrani Starring: Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon, Laura Dern, Clancy Brown and Noah Lomax Directed by Ramin Bahrani and written by Bahrani and Amir Naderi, 99 Homes tells the story of a father's struggle to regain the home his family was evicted from by working for the greedy real estate broker who’s the source of his frustration. In theatres starting September 25, 2015.

BRIDGE OF SPIES

Director: Steven Spielberg Starring: Tom Hanks, Alan Alda and Amy Ryan Bridge of Spies is directed by Steven Spielberg. It is based on a 1960 U-2 incident and the non-fiction book of the same name by Giles Whittell. Lawyer James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks) is thrust into the center of the Cold War when he is given a mission to negotiate the release of Francis Gary Powers, a pilot whose plane was shot down in the Soviet Union. In theatres starting October 16, 2015.

CAROL

Director: Todd Haynes Starring: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, John Magaro Carol is directed by Todd Haynes, with a screenplay by Phyllis Nagy based on the novel The Price of Salt (also known as Carol) by Patricia Highsmith. The film stars Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson and Kyle Chandler. Set in 1952 New York City, Carol tells the story of a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life and falls for an older, married woman. In theatres starting December 18, 2015.

CRIMSON PEAK

Director: Guillermo del Toro Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Jessica Chastain and Tom Hiddleston This film is set in 19th century Cumbria, a largely rural and mountainous region of northern England. Young author Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) falls in love and marries Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston) but then discovers that her charming new husband is not who he appears to be. She is swept away to a house filled with secrets that will haunt her forever. In theatres starting October 16, 2015.

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Director: Yimou Zhang Starring: Li Gong, Daoming Chen and Huiwen Zhang Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. Eventually Lu returns home only to find that his beloved wife has suffered an accident, has amnesia and is no longer able to remember him. In theatres starting September 9, 2015.

THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL

Director: Marielle Heller Starring: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård and Kristen Wiig The Diary of a Teenage Girl is the story of a teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco who enters into an affair with her mother’s boyfriend. The movie is written and directed by Marielle Heller and based on the graphic novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures by Phoebe Gloeckner. The film stars Kristen Wiig, Alexander Skarsgård, Bel Powley, Christopher Meloni, Quinn Nagle and Austin Lyon. In theatres starting August 7, 2015.

EVEREST

Director: Baltasar Kormákur Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Keira Knightley and Robin Wright Baltasar Kormákur directs Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Jason Clarke and John Hawkes in this adventure docudrama set in 1996 when a number of simultaneous expeditions up Mount Everest resulted in the deaths of eight climbers. Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain, Everest documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits. In theatres starting September 25, 2015.

GRANDMA

Director: Paul Weitz Starring: Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner and Marcia Gay Harden Ellie is a lesbian poet coping with the recent death of her long-term life partner.

When she discovers that her 18-year-old granddaughter Sage is pregnant, the two embark on a road trip, a day-long journey that causes troubles and forces Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to confront her future. In theatres starting August 21, 2015.

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Director: Giulio Ricciarelli Starring: Alexander Fehling, André Szymanski, Friederike Becht Frankfurt 1958: Nobody wants to look back to the time of the National Socialist regime. Young public prosecutor Johann Radmann comes across various documents that help initiate the trial against some members of the SS. The story exposes the conspiracy of prominent German institutions and government branches to cover up the crimes of Nazis during World War II. In theatres starting November 6, 2015.

LEARNING TO DRIVE

Director: Isabel Coixet Starring: Ben Kingsley, Grace Gummer and Patricia Clarkson Based on a New Yorker article by Katha Pollitt and written by Sarah Kernochan, Learning To Drive stars Patricia Clarkson as Wendy, a successful book editor taking driving lessons with instructor Darwan (Ben Kingsley) after the breakup of her marriage to Ted (Jake Weber) forces her to become more self-sufficient.

This is the second collaboration between Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson and Isabel Coixet. In theatres starting August 21, 2015.

MY ALL AMERICAN

Director: Angelo Pizzo Starring: Finn Wittrock, Aaron Eckhart, Sarah Bolger, Robin Tunney, Michael Reilly Burke, Rett Terrell and Juston Street What Freddie Steinmark wants most in the world is to play football. Deemed too small by the usual athletic standards, his father trains him hard, and Freddie brings a fight to the game that ultimately gets him noticed by none other than legendary University of Texas coach Darrell Royal. Awarded a scholarship and a chance to play for the Longhorns, he sets off to Austin with his high-school sweetheart Linda, determined to make the team. In theatres starting October 9, 2015.

NO ESCAPE

Director: John Erick Dowdle Stars: Lake Bell, Pierce Brosnan and Owen Wilson Director John Erick Dowdle co-wrote the screenplay of No Escape with his brother Drew Dowdle. In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed. The film stars Owen Wilson, Pierce Brosnan and Lake Bell. In theatres starting September 2, 2015.

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FIL M PREVIEWS PAWN SACRIFICE

Director: Edward Zwick Starring: Lily Rabe, Tobey Maguire and Liev Schreiber In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. Also starring Liev Schreiber and Peter Sarsgaard, Pawn Sacrifice chronicles Fischer’s terrifying struggles with genius and madness and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world. In theatres starting September 18, 2015.

REGRESSION

Director: Alejandro Amenábar Starring: Emma Watson, Aaron Ashmore and Ethan Hawke Minnesota, 1990: Detective Bruce Kenner (Ethan Hawke) investigates the case of young Angela (Emma Watson) who accuses her father John Gray (David Dencik) of an unspeakable crime. When John unexpectedly and without recollection admits guilt, renowned psychologist Dr. Raines (David Thewlis) is brought in to help him relive his memories. What they discover unmasks a horrifying nationwide mystery.

In theatres starting August 28, 2015.

ROCK THE KASBAH

Director: Barry Levinson Starring: Bill Murray, Zooey Deschanel, Bruce Willis and Kate Hudson Richie Lanz (Bill Murray), a has-been rock manager, takes his last remaining client on a USO tour of Afghanistan. When Richie finds himself in Kabul, abandoned, penniless and without his passport, he discovers a young teenage girl with an extraordinary voice. Richie manages her through Afghanistan’s version of American Idol, a popular television show in Kabul called Afghan Star. In theatres starting August 23, 2015.

ROSENWALD

Director: Aviva Kempner Documentary: Interviews with Julian Bond, George C. Wolfe and Maya Angelou Inspired by the Jewish ideals of tzedakah (charity) and tikkun olam, the social justice teachings of his rabbi Emil Hirsch and a deep concern over racial inequality in America, Julius Rosenwald used the wealth he built as part-owner of Sears and Roebuck to build 5,400 schools across the segregated American South, providing 660,000 black children with access to education. In theatres starting August 28, 2015.

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Director: Billy Ray Starring: Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts and Chiwetel Ejiofor A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, Ray (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Jess (Julia Roberts) and their District Attorney supervisor Claire (Nicole Kidman), are torn apart when they discover that Jess’s teenage daughter has been brutally and inexplicably murdered. Thirteen years later, Ray returns to Los Angeles after uncovering a new lead that he feels can permanently resolve the case. In theatres starting October 23, 2015.

SICARIO

Director: Denis Villeneuve Starring: Emily Blunt, Jon Bernthal and Josh Brolin In Mexico “sicario” means hitman. In the lawless border area stretching between the U.S. and Mexico, an idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elite government task-force official to aid in the escalating war against drugs. Led by an enigmatic consultant with a questionable past, the team sets out on a clandestine journey forcing Kate (Emily Blunt) to question everything she believes in order to survive.

In theatres starting September 18, 2015.

SINISTER 2

Director: Ciarán Foy Starring: James Ransone, Shannyn Sossamon, Lea Coco, Robert and Dartanian Sloan Sinister 2, a sequel to the 2012 sleeper-hit horror movie, stars James Ransone, Shannyn Sossamon, Lea Coco and Robert and Dartanian Sloan. In the aftermath of the shocking events in Sinister, a protective mother (Shannyn Sossamon of Wayward Pines) and her 9-year-old twin sons (real-life twins Robert and Dartanian Sloan) find themselves in a rural house marked for death as the evil spirit of Bughuul continues to spread with frightening intensity. In theatres starting August 21, 2015.

SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE Director: Leslye Headland Starring: Natasha Lyonne, Alison Brie and Adam Scott

Sleeping with Other People is directed and written by Leslye Headland. The film tells the story of a good-natured womanizer and serial cheater who forms a platonic relationship with an unlikely woman, which helps reform him. Meanwhile a mutual attraction sets in. In theatres starting September 11, 2015.

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FIL M PREVIEWS SPOTLIGHT

Director: Thomas McCarthy Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Brian d’Arcy James, Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci, Liev Schreiber and Billy Crudup Directed by Thomas McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer, Spotlight is a true story that made headlines. The Boston Globe’s “Spotlight” team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative unit in the United States, publicized extensive coverage regarding the Massachusetts Catholic Archdiocese sex-abuse scandal for which The Globe won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. In theatres starting November 6, 2015.

STONEWALL

Director: Roland Emmerich Starring: Jeremy Irvine, Ron Perlman, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Joey King, Caleb Landry Jones, Matt Craven, Atticus Mitchell and Mark Camacho An inspiring story about a young man's political awakening and coming-of-age during the days and weeks leading up to the Stonewall Riots. The 1969 Greenwich Village riot began when police raided an illegal bar launching the start of the gaypride movement. Directed by Roland Emmerich and written by Jon Robin Baitz.

In theatres starting September 9, 2015.

SUFFRAGETTE

Director: Sarah Gavron Starring: Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Whishaw, Romola Garai, Natalie Press and Meryl Streep Academy Award® nominees Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter and threetime Academy Award winner Meryl Streep lead the cast of a powerful drama about the women who were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality in early20th-century Britain. The stirring narrative centers on Maud, a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.’s growing suffragette movement. In theatres starting October 23, 2015.

The 33

Director: Patricia Riggen Starring: Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro and Juliette Binoche This heartrending film is based on the real-life event of a gold-and-copper mine collapse that trapped 33 miners underground for 69 days. In theatres starting November 13, 2015.

THE ARMOR OF LIGHT

Director: Abigail Disney Starring: Rev. Rob Schenck and Lucy McBath What is the price of a conscience? Abigail Disney’s directorial debut, The Armor Of Light, follows the journey of an Evangelical minister trying to find the courage to preach about the growing toll of gun violence in America. The film tracks Reverend Rob Schenck, anti-abortion activist and fixture on the political far right, who breaks with orthodoxy by questioning whether being pro-gun is consistent with being prolife.In theatres starting October 30, 2015.

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FIL M PREVIEWS THE DANISH GIRL

Director: Tom Hooper Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ben Whishaw and Amber Heard Academy Award® winner Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech, Les Misérables) directs the remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Einar and Gerda Wegener (Academy Award® winner Eddie Redmayne [The Theory of Everything, Les Misérables] and Alicia Vikander [Ex Machina, Anna Karenina]), whose marriage and work are cast into the unknown when Einar begins a groundbreaking journey to become one of the world’s first transgender women, Lili Elbe. In theatres starting November 27, 2015.

THE GREEN INFERNO

Director: Eli Roth Starring: Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Daryl Sabara, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Sky Ferreira, Magda Apanowicz, Nicolás Martínez, Aaron Burns, Ignacia Allmand, Ramón Llao and Richard Burgi

New York college student Justine, a lawyer’s daughter, meets a student activist named Alejandro when he goes on a hunger strike on behalf of underpaid janitors.

Smitten, Justine agrees to help Alejandro undertake his next project: to save the Amazon. She soon learns to regret her decision when their plane crashes in the Peruvian jungle and she and the rest of their group are taken captive by a tribe of hungry cannibals. In theatres starting September 25, 2015.

TRUMBO

Director: Jay Roach Starring: Bryan Cranston, Elle Fanning and Diane Lane Trumbo is based on the biography Dalton Trumbo by Bruce Alexander Cook. The film chronicles the successful career of Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, which comes to an end when he is blacklisted in the 1940s for being a communist.

Trumbo also stars Louis C.K., Helen Mirren and John Goodman. In theatres starting November 6, 2015.

WALK IN THE WOODS

Director: Ken Kwapis Starring: Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Mary Steenburgen, Nick Offerman and Kristen Schaal After spending two decades in Britain, celebrated travel humorist Bill Bryson (Redford) returns to his native United States. In an effort to reconnect with his country, he decides to hike the 2,200 stunning miles of the Appalachian Trail.

But while he had envisioned it as a trek of relaxation and tranquility, it becomes something entirely different when his philandering, former friend Stephen Katz (Nolte) joins him on the trip. In theatres starting September 2, 2015.

WOODLAWN

Directors: Andrew Erwin, Jon Erwin Starring: Sean Astin, C. Thomas Howell, Jon Voight, Virginia Williams and Brando Eaton In 1973, a spiritual awakening captures the hearts of the Woodlawn High School football team. Fueled by the team’s dedication to love and unity in a school filled with racism and hate, the team makes an astounding run at the playoffs and brings love and unity to a school torn by division. This film is based on a true story. In theatres starting October 16, 2015. fall 2015

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