Support the Girls

Director Andrew Bujalski

Genre Comedy

Cast Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson, Dylan Gelula, AJ Michalka

Rating R

Release Date August 24th, 2018

“The general manager at a highway-side ‘’sports bar with curves” has her incurable optimism and faith, in her girls, her customers, and herself, tested over the course of a long, strange day.”

Written and directed by Andrew Bujalski, Support the Girls is a comedy about a general manager at a highway-side sports bar featuring beautiful girls who has her incurable optimism and faith in her girls and her customers tested over the course of a long and strange day. The cast includes Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson, Dylan Gelula, and AJ Michalka. Check out the official trailer below!!

Replicas

Director Jeffrey Nachmanoff

Genre Crime | Mystery | Sci-Fi

Cast Keanu Reeves, Alice Eve, Thomas Middleditch, Emily Alyn Lind

Rating PG-13

Release Date August 24th, 2018

“A scientist becomes obsessed with bringing back his family members who died in a traffic accident.”

From director Jeffrey Nachmanoff (Traitor), Replicas is a sci-fi thriller about a scientist who becomes obsessed with bringing his family back after they are tragically lost in a car accident. The cast includes Keanu Reeves, Alice Eve, Thomas Middleditch, and Emily Alyn Lind. Check out the official trailer below!!

Ted Takes Fun Facts, Replicas:

• The story and screenplay for REPLICAS was developed at Keanu Reeves and Stephen Hamel's production company Company Films. Hamel writes the majority of all the stories produced there.

Papillon

Director Michael Noer

Genre Drama

Cast Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek, Tommy Flanagan, Eve Hewson

Rating R

Release Date August 24th, 2018 (Limited)

“A prisoner detained on a remote island plots his escape. A remake of the 1973 film ‘Papillon’.”

From Denmark born directer Michael Noer, Papillon is a remake of the 1973 film about a prisoner detained on a remote island who plots his escape. The cast includes Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek, Tommy Flanagan, and Eve Hewson. Check out the official trailer below!!

Ted Takes Fun Facts, Papillon:

• Based on a true story, Papillon was adapted from a memoir written by Charrière and first released in France back in 1969.
• Reunites Sons of Anarchy (2008) co-stars Tommy Flanagan and Charlie Hunnam.

The Bookshop

Director Isabel Coixet

Genre Drama

Cast Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson, Hunter Tremayne

Rating PG

Release Date August 24th, 2018 (Limited)

“Set in England 1959, a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.”

From director Isabel Coixet, The Bookshop is a drama about a woman that decides to go against the opposition in 1959 and open a bookshop. The cast includes Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson, and Hunter Tremayne. Check out the official trailer below!!

Ted Takes Fun Facts, The Bookshop:

• Based on the novel by Penelope Fitzgerald.
• Isabel Coixet's screenplay won the Frankfurt Book Fair prize for Best International Literary Adaptation 2017.

Mile 22

Director Peter Berg

Genre Action | Thriller

Cast Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan, John Malkovich, Ronda Rousey

Rating R

Release Date August 17th, 2018

“An elite American intelligence officer, aided by a top-secret tactical command unit, tries to smuggle a mysterious police officer with sensitive information out of the country.”

From talented director Peter Berg, the man who brought us Friday Night Lights, The Kingdom, Lone Survivor, and Patriots Day, Mile 22 is an action thriller about an elite American intelligence officer who is tasked with smuggling a mysterious police officer with sensitive information out of the country. Berg has built up quite the reputation with star Mark Wahlberg, so this is yet another opportunity for the two to show what they are capable of. The cast includes Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan, John Malkovich, and Ronda Rousey. Check out the official trailers below!!

Ted Takes Fun Facts, Mile 22:

• This is the fourth time actor Mark Wahlberg and director Peter Berg have worked together, and the script was written with Wahlberg envisioned in the lead role.
• Mark Wahlberg was originally cast as Linus Caldwell in Ocean's Eleven (2001) but dropped out. The role went to Matt Damon.

Alpha

Director Albert Hughes

Genre Action | Drama | Thriller

Cast Kodi Smit-McPhee, Natassia Malthe, Leonor Varela, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson

Rating PG-13

Release Date August 17th, 2018

“A story of survival set 20,000 years ago during the last Ice Age.”

Alpha is directed and co-written by Albert Hughes, the man who co-directed Menace II Society, Dead Presidents, and The Book of Eli, alongside his brother. The film is a survival story that takes place 20,000 years ago during the last Ice Age. I will be honest and say that this is actually the first I have heard of this movie but the trailer looks pretty damn good! The cast includes Kodi Smit-McPhee, Natassia Malthe, Leonor Varela, and Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson. Check out the official trailers below!!

Ted Takes Film Facts, Alpha:

• Film cannot bear a "no animals were harmed in the making of this film" tag, as 4 bison were slaughtered for use on a skinning/hide-removal scene. The bison were dispatched humanely by staff from Longview Beef Jerky.
• It was filmed near East Coulee, Alberta, Canada, at Dinosaur Provincial Park.

Blue Iguana

Director Hadi Hajaig

Genre Comedy

Cast Sam Rockwell, Ben Schwartz, Phoebe Fox, Amanda Donohoe

Rating Unrated

Release Date August 24th, 2018

“Ex-jailbirds Eddie and Paul are on parole and working in a New York diner. Their lives are a dead end. That is, until English lawyer Katherine Rookwood walks into the diner with an offer they can’t refuse.”

Written and directed by Hadi Hajaig, Blue Iguana is a comedy about two ex-jailbirds who are on parole and working in a diner realizing their lives have reached a dead end, until an English lawyer walks into their diner with an offer they cannot refuse. The cast includes Sam Rockwell, Ben Schwartz, Phoebe Fox, Amanda Donohoe, and Frances Barber. Check out the official trailer below!!

Ted Takes Fun Facts, Blue Iguana:

• Actor Sam Rockwell Had a minor appearance in Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) but his part was removed from the final cut. The scene was the one of the "lover's lane" of sorts, when the Terenzi brothers drive up in their ice cream truck.
• A blue iguana is a breed of iguana that is indigenous to the Cayman Islands.