Empire of Light

Empire of Light is a 2022 romantic drama film written and directed by Sam Mendes. It premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September 3rd, 2022.

A romance develops in a beautiful old cinema on the south coast of England in the 1980s.

The cast includes Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Tom Brooke, Tanya Moodie, Hannah Onslow, Crystal Clarke, Toby Jones, and Colin Firth.

Empire of Light is set to debut in theaters on December 9th, courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. Watch the official trailer below.

Empire of Light

Empire of Light is a 2022 romantic drama film written and directed by Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall, 1917). The film stars Olivia Colman (The Favourite, The Crown), Micheal Ward (The Old Guard), Tom Brooke (The Death of Stalin), Tanya Moodie (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker), Hannah Onslow (Ridley Road), Crystal Clarke (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Toby Jones (Captain America: The Winter Solider), and Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, Kingsman: The Secret Service).

The film follows a love story that takes place in an English coastal cinema during the 1980s.

Empire of Light premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September 3, 2022, and is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on December 9, 2022, and in the United Kingdom on January 13, 2023, by Searchlight Pictures. Watch the official teaser trailer below.

The Whale

The Whale is a 2022 psychological drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky, from a screenplay by Samuel D. Hunter, based on Hunter's 2012 play of the same name. The film had its world premiere at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on September 4, 2022.

A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

The film stars Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Ty Simpkins, and Samantha Morton.

The Whale and is scheduled to be released in theaters on December 9th, courtesy of A24. Watch the official trailer below.

Emancipation

Emancipation is a 2022 historical action drama directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by William N. Collage. It is based on the true story of Gordon (named "Peter" in the film), a former slave, and the photographs of his bare back, heavily scourged from an overseer's whippings, that were published worldwide in 1863, giving the abolitionist movement proof of the cruelty of American slavery.

Peter, a slave, flees a plantation in Louisiana after he was whipped within an inch of his life. He has to outwit cold-blooded hunters and the unforgiving swamps of Louisiana on a torturous journey north.

The film stars Will Smith, Ben Foster, Charmaine Bingwa, Gilbert Owuor, Mustafa Shakir, and Steven Ogg.

Emancipation had its first screening in Washington, D.C. on October 1, 2022, and is scheduled to be released in limited theaters on December 2nd, before its streaming release on December 9th on Apple TV+. Watch the official trailer below.

Spoiler Alert

Spoiler Alert is a 2022 biographical romantic drama from director Michael Showalter (The Big Sick), from a screenplay written by David Marshall Grant and Dan Savage, based on the memoir Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies by Michael Ausiello.

Writer Michael Ausiello embarks on a roller-coaster ride of emotions when his partner gets diagnosed with terminal cancer.

The cast includes Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory), Ben Aldridge, Sally Field, Bill Irwin, Jeffery Self, and Nikki M. James.

Spoiler Alert is set to debut in theaters December 9th, courtesy of Focus Features. Watch the official trailer below.

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, or simply Pinocchio, is a 2022 stop-motion animated musical fantasy film directed by Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, The Shape of Water) and Mark Gustafson, based on Grim Grimly’s design from his 2002 edition of the 1883 Italian novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. It marks the animated feature film directorial debut of del Toro. The film was written by del Toro and Patrick McHale (Adventure Time) and stars the voices of Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan Kenobi, Trainspotting), David Bradley (Game of Thrones), Gregory Mann, Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things), Cate Blanchett (Thor: Ragnarok), John Turturro (The Big Lebowski), Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Tim Blake Nelson (O’Brother Where Art Thou?), Burn Gorman (Pacific Rim), Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) and Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton).

Produced by Netflix Animation, The Jim Henson Company, and ShadowMachine in co-production with El Taller del Chucho and Necropia Entertainment, Pinocchio was announced by del Toro in 2008 and originally scheduled to be released in 2013 or 2014, but the project went into development hell. In January 2017, McHale was announced to co-write the script, but in November 2017, the production was suspended as no studios were willing to provide financing. The production was revived the following year after being acquired by Netflix.

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio will serve as a darker version of the classic children’s fairy tale of a wooden puppet that transforms into a real living boy and is scheduled to be released in select theaters in November 2022, followed by its streaming release on Netflix December 9th, 2022. Watch the official trailers below.

And Just Like That...

And Just Like That... (marketed as And Just Like That… - A New Chapter of Sex and the City) is a 2021 comedy-drama television series. It is a 10-episode revival of Sex and the City.

If you have good friends in your corner, anything is possible. After all the years, and all the changes, a new chapter of Sex and the City begins. The series will follow Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte as they navigate the journey from the complicated reality of life and friendship in their 30s to the even more complicated reality of life and friendship in their 50s.

Starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Nicole Ari Parker, Sarita Choudhury, Karen Pittman, Sara Ramirez, and Isaac Cole Powell.

And Just Like That… streaming December 9th only on HBO Max. Watch the official trailer below.