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Trap

July 28, 2024

Trap is a 2024 mystery thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. The film is produced by Ashwin Rajan, Marc Bienstock, and M. Night Shyamalan. The executive producer is Steven Schneider. The film features performances by rising music star Saleka Shyamalan, M. Night Shyamalan’s oldest daughter.

A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they’re at the center of a dark and sinister event.

The cast includes Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Hayley Mills, and Allison Pill.

Trap is set to debut in theaters August 2nd, courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. Watch the official trailer below.

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Harold and the Purple Crayon

July 28, 2024

Harold and the Purple Crayon is a 2024 live-action hybrid family adventure/comedy directed by Carlos Saldanha. The film’s screenplay is written by David Guion & Michael Handelman, based on the 1955 children’s picture book by Crockett Johnson.

Inside of his book, adventurous Harold (Zachary Levi) can make anything come to life simply by drawing it. After he grows up and draws himself off the book’s pages and into the physical world, Harold finds he has a lot to learn about real life—and that his trusty purple crayon may set off more hilarious hijinks than he thought possible. When the power of unlimited imagination falls into the wrong hands, it will take all of Harold and his friends’ creativity to save both the real world and his own. Harold and the Purple Crayon is the first film adaptation of the beloved children’s classic that has captivated young readers for decades.

The cast includes Zachary Levi, Lil Rel Howery, Benjamin Bottani, Jemaine Clement, Tanya Reynolds, Alfred Molina, and Zooey Deschanel.

Harold and the Purple Crayon is set to debut in theaters August 2nd, courtesy of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Watch the official trailers below.

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Sing Sing

July 28, 2024

Sing Sing is a 2023 drama film directed by Greg Kwedar, who co-wrote the screenplay with Clint Bentley. Based on the real-life Rehabilitation Through the Arts program at Sing Sing maximum security prison, the film centres on a group of inmates involved in the creation of theatrical stage shows through the program. Sing Sing premiered in the Special Presentations program at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.

Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art.

The cast includes professional actors including Best Actor Nominees Colman Domingo and Paul Raci, but mainly focuses on real-life former inmates who were themselves alumni of the program during their incarceration.

Sing Sing is set to debut in limited theaters July 12th 2024, before a wide release on August 2nd, courtesy of A24. Watch the official trailer below.

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Deadpool & Wolverine

July 21, 2024

Deadpool & Wolverine is a 2024 R-rated superhero action film directed by Shawn Levy (Date Night, Free Guy). The film serves as the 3rd entry in the Deadpool film franchise.

Wolverine is recovering from his injuries when he crosses paths with the loudmouth, Deadpool. They team up to defeat a common enemy.

The cast includes Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Morena Baccarin, and Jennifer Garner.

Deadpool & Wolverine is set to debut in theaters July 26th, courtesy of Marvel Studios. Watch the official trailers below.

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The Good Half

July 21, 2024

The Good Half is a 2023 coming-of-age comedy drama film directed by Robert Schwartzman, from a screenplay by Brett Ryland. The film premiered at the Tribeca Festival on June 8th, 2024.

Renn Wheeland (Nick Jonas) returns home to Cleveland for his mother’s funeral. Once there, he forges new relationships while healing old ones, before confronting his problems and trying to face his grief.

The cast includes Nick Jonas, Brittany Snow, David Arquette, Alexandra Shipp, Matt Walsh, and Elisabeth Shue.

The Good Half is set to debut in theaters July 23rd, courtesy of Utopia. Watch the official trailer below.

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Sunny

July 21, 2024

Sunny is a 2024 black comedy television series created by Katie Robbins, based on the novel The Dark Manual by Irish writer Colin O'Sullivan.

Suzie, an American woman living in Kyoto whose husband and son vanished in a plane crash, receives a domestic robot from her husband's robotics company.

The cast includes Rashida Jones, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Joanna Sotomura, Judy Ongg, and Jun Kunimura.

Sunny is set to debut July 10th on Apple TV+. Watch the official trailer below.

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Twisters

July 14, 2024

Twisters is a 2024 disaster film directed by Lee Isaac Chung (Minari) from a screenplay by Mark L. Smith (The Revenant). Produced by Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley, the producers of the Jurassic, Bourne, and Indiana Jones series of films. It is a standalone sequel to the 1996 film Twister, written by the late Michael Crichton.

Daisy Edgar-Jones (Where the Crawdads Sing) stars as Kate Cooper, a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi (Golden Globe nominee Anthony Ramos, In the Heights) to test a groundbreaking new tracking system. There, she crosses paths with Tyler Owens (Glen Powell, Top Gun: Maverick and Anyone But You), the charming and reckless social-media superstar who thrives on posting his storm-chasing adventures with his raucous crew, the more dangerous the better.

As storm season intensifies, terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed, and Kate, Tyler and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.

Additional cast members include Brandon Perea (Nope), Sasha Lane (American Honey), Daryl McCormack (Peaky Blinders), Kiernan Shipka (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Nik Dodani (Atypical). and Golden Globe winner Maura Tierney (Beautiful Boy).

Twisters is set to debut in theaters July 19th, courtesy of Universal Pictures. Watch the official trailers below.

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My Spy The Eternal City

July 14, 2024

My Spy The Eternal City is a 2024 spy action comedy film directed by Peter Segal (Get Smart, The Longest Yard, 50 First Dates), who also directed the first film back in 2020, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jon and Erich Hoeber.

When Sophie’s (Chloe Coleman) high school choir is selected for an Italian tour culminating in a performance for the Pope in Vatican City, JJ (Dave Bautista) sees this as an opportunity to bond with his new stepdaughter, so he volunteers to help chaperone the group through the Venetian canals, across Florence’s renowned bridges and into Rome’s most historic sites. Instead he finds that he and Sophie have become unwitting pawns in a terrorist plot that could end the world as we know it.

The cast includes Dave Bautista, Chloe Coleman, Kristen Schaal, Flula Borg, Craig Robinson, Anna Faris, and Ken Jeong.

My Spy The Eternal City is set to debut July 18th only on Prime Video, courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios. Watch the official trailer below. 

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Those About to Die

July 14, 2024

Those About to Die is a 2024 epic drama series set in ancient Rome developed by Robert Rodat, and directed by Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) and Marco Kreuzpaintner.

A new series set in the corrupt world of the spectacle-driven gladiatorial competition, exploring a side of ancient Rome never before told — the dirty business of entertaining the masses, giving the mob what they want most…blood and sport. The series introduces an ensemble of characters from all corners of the Roman Empire who collide at the explosive intersection of sports, politics, and dynasties.

The cast includes Anthony Hopkins, Dimitri Leonidas, Jojo Macari, Gabriella Pession, Iwan Rheon, Sara Martins, Moe Hashim, and Tom Hughes.

Those About to Die is set to debut July 18th only on Peacock. Watch the official trailer below.

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Oddity

July 14, 2024

Oddity is a 2024 paranormal horror thriller film written and directed by Damian Mc Carthy. Mc Carthy is known to be a big fan of browsing antique stores and claims to have personally acquired several of the props used in the film. Oddity premiered at South by Southwest on March 8th, 2024, where it won the Audience Award in the Midnighter section at the festival.

After Dani is brutally murdered, her blind occultist twin sister Darcy, goes after those responsible using inherited haunted items as her tools of revenge.

The cast includes Carolyn Bracken, Gwilym Lee, Tadhg Murphy, Caroline Menton, Steve Wall, Jonathan French, and Joe Rooney

Oddity is set to debut in theaters July 19th, courtesy of IFC Films. Watch the official trailer below.

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Lady in the Lake

July 14, 2024

Lady in the Lake is a 2024 limited series based on the novel of the same name by Laura Lippman. The author said that with the book she took inspiration from two real-life murders that happened in her youth. The first was the abduction and murder of an 11-year-old girl, and the second was the death of a 33-year-old woman found in the fountain of the Druid Hill Park Reservoir.

In 1960s Baltimore, an investigative journalist working on an unsolved murder clashes with a woman working to advance the agenda of the city's black community. The protagonist ditches her doting husband and big Pikesville home to pursue a career as a newspaper reporter. She becomes obsessed with unraveling the mystery of two separate killings: eleven-year-old Tessie Fine and a bartender named Cleo Sherwood.

The cast includes Natalie Portman, Moses Ingram, Y'lan Noel, Mikey Madison, Sean Ringgold, Brett Gelman, Noah Jupe, and Mike Epps.

Lady in the Lake is set to premiere July 19th on Apple TV+. Watch the official trailer below.

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Longlegs

July 7, 2024

Longlegs is a 2024 horror thriller film written and directed by Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Gretel & Hansel).

Lee Harker, a talented new FBI agent, has been assigned to an unsolved case of a serial killer. As the investigation becomes more complicated with occult evidence uncovered, Harker realizes a personal link to the ruthless killer and must act quickly to prevent another family murder.

The cast includes Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Alicia Witt, and Blair Underwood.

Longlegs is set to debut in theaters July 12th, courtesy of Neon. Watch the official trailers below.

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Fly Me to the Moon

July 7, 2024

Fly Me to the Moon is a 2024 romantic comedy drama directed by Greg Berlanti, from a screenplay by Rose Gilroy, and a story by Bill Kirstein and Keenan Flynn.

Brought in to fix NASA’s public image, sparks fly in all directions as marketing maven Kelly Jones (Scarlett Johansson) wreaks havoc on launch director Cole Davis’s (Channing Tatum) already difficult task. When the White House deems the mission too important to fail, Jones is directed to stage a fake moon landing as back-up and the countdown truly begins…

The cast includes Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Nick Dillenburg, Anna Garcia, Jim Rash, Noah Robbins, Colin Woodell, Christian Zuber, Donald Elise Watkins, Ray Romano, and Woody Harrelson.

Fly Me to the Moon is set to debut in theaters July 12th. Watch the official trailers below.

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Receiver

July 7, 2024

Receiver is a 2024 sports docuseries that sheds light on the NFL season through the eyes of some of the leagues most elite pass catchers.

Relive the 2023 NFL season through the eyes of five of the best pass catchers in the league. Go inside the huddle and outside the lines with Davante Adams, Justin Jefferson, George Kittle, Deebo Samuel, and Amon-Ra St. Brown to see what it takes to stay always open.

With players mic'ed up for every game, Receiver promises an all-access look at the preparation, pressure, and swagger it takes to play one of the toughest jobs in sports.

Receiver is set to debut July 10th only on Netflix. Watch the official trailer below.

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Despicable Me 4

June 30, 2024

Despicable Me 4 is a 2024 animated comedy film produced by Illumination and distributed by Universal Pictures. It will serve as the sequel to Despicable Me 3 (2017), the fourth main installment, and the sixth installment overall in the Despicable Me franchise. The film is being directed by Chris Renaud, co-directed by Patrick Delage (in his feature directorial debut), produced by Chris Meledandri, and written by Mike White.

Gru faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal (Emmy winner Will Ferrell) and his femme fatale girlfriend Valentina (Emmy nominee Sofia Vergara), and the family is forced to go on the run.  

The cast of voice actors includes Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Pierre Coffin, Miranda Cosgrove, and Steve Coogan.

Despicable Me 4 is set to debut in theaters July 3rd, courtesy of Illumination. Watch the official trailer below.

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MaXXXine

June 30, 2024

MaXXXine is a 2024 horror slasher written and directed by Ti West. The film is the 3rd in the trilogy and the sequel to X (our full review here), as it follows Mia goth’s character after the events of that film.

In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. However, as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Los Angeles, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.

The cast includes Mia Goth, Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito, and Kevin Bacon.

MaXXXine is set to debut in theaters July 5th, courtesy of A24. Watch the official trailers below.

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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

June 30, 2024

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F is a 2024 action comedy film directed by Mark Molloy, written by Will Beall, Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten, from a story by Beall. The film marks the fourth installment in the Beverly Hills Cop film series, following Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), and Beverly Hills Cop III (1994). Jerry Bruckheimer, Eddie Murphy, Chad Oman, and director Mark Molloy serve as producers on the film.

Detective Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) is back on the beat in Beverly Hills. After his daughter’s life is threatened, she (Taylour Paige) and Foley team up with a new partner (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and old pals Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and John Taggart (John Ashton) to turn up the heat and uncover a conspiracy.

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F is set to debut July 3rd, only on Netflix. Watch the official trailers below.

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A Quiet Place: Day One

June 23, 2024

A Quiet Place: Day One is a 2024 post-apocalyptic horror film written and directed by Michael Sarnoski, based on an original story by John Krasinski and Sarnoski. It is intended to be a spin-off prequel, and the third overall installment of the A Quiet Place film series.

When New York City comes under attack from an alien invasion, a woman and other survivors try to find a way to safety. They soon learn that they must remain absolutely silent as the mysterious creatures are drawn to the slightest sound.

The cast includes Lupita Nyong'o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff, Djimon Hounsou, and Denis O'Hare.

A Quiet Place: Day One is set to release in theaters June 28th, courtesy of Paramount Pictures. Watch the official trailers below.

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Horizon: An American Saga

June 23, 2024

Horizon: An American Saga is a 2024 two-part American epic Western film co-written, produced, directed by, and starring Kevin Costner.

Families, friends and foes discover the lure of the Old West as the Civil War divides the country.

The cast includes Kevin Costner, Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone, Abbey Lee, Michael Rooker, Danny Huston, Luke Wilson, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jeff Fahey, Will Patton, Tatanka Means, Owen Crow Shoe, Ella Hunt, and Jamie Campbell Bower.

Described as a two-part event, Chapter 1 was released in theaters on June 28, 2024, and is now streaming on Max. Chapter 2 is currently TDB as far as a theatrical release. Watch the official trailers for Chapter 1 below.

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The Bear: Season 3

June 23, 2024

The Bear is a is a critically-acclaimed comedy drama series created by Christopher Storer, with Joanna Calo and Ramy Youssef assisting in directing duties. The first season of the series premiered on June 23rd, 2022 and became an instant hit for FX. Jeremy Allen White, best known for his role as Phillip “Lip” Gallagher in the comedy drama series Shameless, is the star of the series.

After opening their revamped fine dining restaurant, the staffers experience tension as they face the pressure of delivering excellent service and food.

The series is about food, family and the insanity of the grind. It’s a losing battle every day in the restaurant business, and as Carmy pushes himself harder than ever and demands excellence from his crew, they do their best to match his intensity. Their quest for culinary excellence propels them to new levels and stresses the bonds that hold the restaurant together.

The full cast includes Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ayo Edebiri, Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas, Abby Elliott, and Matty Matheson.

The Bear: Season 3 is set to debut June 27th only on FX. Watch the official trailers below.

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