Night

Director Nicholas Michael Jacobs

Genre Horror

Cast Alexis Beacher, Danielle Iannucci, Gianna Jacobs, Nicholas Michael Jacobs

Rating Unrated

Release Date March 23rd, 2019 (Amazon Prime)

“A young girl is kidnapped by a strange man, who forces her to be the star of his sick and twisted live stream.”

From director Nicholas Michael Jacobs, Night is a horror film that tells the story of a young girl who is kidnapped by a strange man and forced to be the star of his sick and twisted live stream. Check out the official trailer below!!

Pacific Rim: Uprising

Director Steven S. DeKnight

Genre Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

Cast John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Charlie Day, Tian Jing

Rating PG-13

Release Date March 23rd, 2018

“Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, reunites with Mako Mori to lead a new generation of Jaeger pilots, including rival Lambert and 15-year-old hacker Amara, against a new Kaiju threat.”

The feature-film directorial debut for Steven S. DeKnight, Pacific Rim: Uprising is the sequel tio to the hit 2013 film about huge robots battling giant aliens. Sounds corny I agree, but it was actually pretty awesome so I am excited to see this new one. The cast includes John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Charlie Day, and Tian Jing. Check out the official trailers below!!

Ted Takes Fun Facts, Pacific Rim: Uprising:

• Del Toro will not direct the sequel, however he will be producing and writing the story for the movie.
• In a interview with Collider in November 2014, Guillermo del Toro talked about setting the stage for Pacific Rim 2 (2017) in stating: "It's a few years after the first one. It's not an immediate follow-up. It is the world having been freed of Kaiju, what happens to the world after - what happens to the Jaeger technology once the Kaiju are not a threat. It's quite a jump."

Isle of Dogs

Director Wes Anderson

Genre Animation | Adventure | Comedy

Cast Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum

Rating Unrated

Release Date March 23rd, 2018

“Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy’s odyssey in search of his dog.”

Written and directed by the uniquely talented Wes Anderson, the man behind The Royal Tenenbaums, Moonride Kingdom, and The Grand Budapest Hotel, amongst others, The Isle of Dogs is his latest creation and is a animation comedy about a boy in Japan and the epic search for his missing dog. The cast includes Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, and Jeff Goldblum. Check out the newly released official trailer below!!

Ted Takes Fun Facts, Isle of Dogs:

• Wes Anderson's eighth collaboration with Bill Murray.
• Wes Anderson hosted a competition for someone to be a member of the voice-cast for this film. The only requirement was that you donated $10 or more to the Film Foundation, a non-profit founded by Martin Scorsese which specialises in the preservation and restoration of film across the world.

• The movie was influenced by the work of Akira Kurosawa and Rankin-Bass stop-motion Christmas specials.

Unsane

Director Steven Soderbergh

Genre Thriller | Horror

Cast Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Juno Temple, Jay Pharoah

Rating R

Release Date March 23rd, 2018

“A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear—but is it real or is it a product of her delusion?”

From acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh (Side Effects, Logan Lucky), Unsane is a thriller about a young woman who is involuntarily committed to a mental institution and forced to face her greatest fear. The cast includes Claire Foy, Juno Temple, Aimee Mullins, and Amy Irving. Check out the official trailer below!!

Ted Takes Fun Facts, Unsane:

• Shot entirely with an iPhone camera.
• Steven Soderbergh's first horror movie.

Sherlock Gnomes

Director John Stevenson

Genre Animation | Adventure | Comedy

Cast Emily Blunt, James McAvoy, Johnny Depp, Michael Caine

Rating PG

Release Date March 23rd, 2018

“Garden gnomes, Gnomeo & Juliet, recruit renown detective, Sherlock Gnomes, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.”

From director John Stevenson (Kung Fu Panda), Sherlock Gnomes is an animated comedy that turns everyone's favorite detective into a lawn gnome. Why not right? With a stellar cast of voice actors including Emily Blunt, James McAvoy, Johnny Depp, and Michael Caine, this should be pretty good. Check out the official trailer below!!

Ted Takes Fun Facts, Sherlock Gnomes:

• This is Johnny Depp's third animated movie. The other two had been Corpse Bride (2005) and Rango (2011), that latter of which being another film that was distributed by Paramount Pictures.
• The film will release seven years after Gnomeo & Juliet (2011).

Game Over, Man!

Director Kyle Newacheck

Genre Action | Comedy

Cast Adam Devine, Anders Holm, Blake Anderson, Neal McDonough

Rating Unrated

Release Date March 23rd, 2018 (Netflix)

“Three friends are on the verge of getting their video game financed when their benefactor is taken hostage by terrorists.”

Game Over, Man! is a over-the-top comedy drama from director Kyle Newacheck. The primary cast (as pictured above) includes Adam Devine, Anders Holm, and Blake Anderson, the comedic trio from the Comedy Central show Workaholics. Newacheck, who has quite a resume including 41 episodes of Workaholics, actually stars in the show as well as everyone's favorite pot dealer Karl. As dumb as that show may be, I think it is absolutely hilarious and I can't get enough of underrated actor Adam Devine, who was great in Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates. Surprisingly I had never heard of this movie until I stumbled upon the trailer on Netflix's official YouTube channel (what a happy accident!). The trailer is HILARIOUS so consider me pretty amped up for the movie to hit Netflix on March 23rd! Check out the official trailers below!!

Ted Takes Fun Facts, Game Over, Man!:

• Adam Devine, Anders Holm and Blake Anderson were the leads of Workaholics (2011), and while it isn't explicitly a 'Workaholics' film, it does share a lot of the cast and crew.
• The title of this movie comes from an iconic line in the movie Aliens where Bill Paxton's character says that line

Midnight Sun

Director Scott Speer

Genre Drama | Romance

Cast Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Rob Riggle, Quinn Shephard

Rating PG-13

Release Date March 23rd, 2018

“17-year-old girl Katie has been sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie and they embark on a summer romance.”

From director Scott Speer, Midnight Sun is a drama romance based on the Japanese film of the same name that released in 2006. The film is about a 17-year old girl who has been sheltered and confined to her home basically her entire life due to a rare disease that makes even the slightest exposure to sunlight life-threatening. Her life changes when she meets Charlie and the two develop a special relationship that refuses to be held back by her disease. The cast includes Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Rob Riggle, and Quinn Shephard. Check out the official trailer below!!

Ted Takes Fun Facts, Midnight Sun:

• Patrick Schwarzenegger is elder son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver. A member of the Kennedy family, Schwarzenegger is also the grand nephew of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
• This is also Patrick Schwarzenegger's first lead role in a major film project.

Paul, Apostle of Christ

Director Andrew Hyatt

Genre Drama

Cast James Faulkner, Jim Caviezel, Joanne Whalley, John Lynch

Rating PG-13

Release Date March 23rd, 2018 (Limited)

“The story covers Paul, portrayed by Faulkner, going from the most infamous persecutor of Christians to Jesus Christ’s most influential apostle.”

Written and directed by Andrew Hyatt, Paul, Apostle of Christ is a drama about Paul's journey going from the most infamous persecutor of Christians to Jesus Christ's most influential apostle. The cast includes James Faulkner, Jim Caviezel, Joanne Whalley, and John Lynch. Check out the official trailer below!!

Ted Takes Fun Facts, Paul, Apostle of Christ:

• This film is the second time Jim Caviezel performs as a Biblical person. The first time was in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ (2004) where he performed as Jesus of Nazareth.
• Paul of Taron, Paul the apostle and Saul of Tarsus are one man.

I Kill Giants

Director Anders Walter

Genre Drama | Fantasy | Thriller

Cast Zoe Saldana, Imogen Poots, Jennifer Ehle, Noel Clarke

Rating Unrated

Release Date March 23rd, 2018

“Barbara Thorson struggles through life by escaping into a fantasy life of magic and monsters.”

The feature film directorial debut for Anders Walter, I Kill Giants is a fantasy drama about a girl who escapes into a fantasy world of magics and monsters to deal with real-life struggles. The cast includes Zoe Saldana, Imogen Poots, Jennifer Ehle, and Noel Clarke. Check out the official trailer below!!

Ted Takes Fun Facts, I Kill Giants:

• This will be Zoe Saldana's third appearance in a comic book adaptation following The Losers (2010) and Guardians of the Galaxy (2014).
• Adapted from Image Comics 2008 graphic novel series under the same name, by writer Joe Kelly and artist J. M. Ken Niimura.