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Ladies”. The screenplay is written by Gene Stupnitsky & John Phillips.
The cast includes Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Feldman as Percy,
Laura Benanti, Natalie Morales, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, & Matthew
Broderick.
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tree-like buildings and waterfall skyscrapers to a tornado-shaped arena
called Cyclone Stadium. Elemental is directed by acclaimed animation
filmmaker Peter Sohn, director of the feature The Good Dinosaur.
► The Flash
One of the last movies in the original DC Extended Universe (DCEU),
re-introducing the superhero known as The Flash. Barry Allen (Ezra
Miller) travels back in time as The Flash to try to prevent his mother’s
murder, which brings unintended consequences to his timeline… The
Flash is directed by the Argentinian filmmaker Andy Muschietti (aka
Andrés Muschietti), who directed It: Chapter One and It: Chapter
Two, plus the “Locke & Key” series for Netflix. This movie about
The Flash is also about Batman (again), as well as Supergirl, filling
in for Superman who is missing in this alternate reality. Ezra Miller
returns starring as Barry Miller, with a cast including Sasha Calle as
Supergirl, Kiersey Clemons as Iris West, Maribel Verdú as Nora Allen,
Ron Livingston as Henry Allen, plus Michael Shannon, Antje Traue,
Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Rudy Mancuso, and Luke Brandon Field.
And Michael Keaton is back as Bruce Wayne / Batman
► No Hard Feelings
“A girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do.” While on the brink of
losing her family’s home, Maddie (Jennifer Lawrence) discovers
an intriguing job listing: wealthy helicopter parents looking for
someone to “date” their very introverted 19-year-old son, Percy,
before he leaves for college. To her surprise, Maddie soon discovers
the awkward Percy is no sure thing. No Hard Feelings is directed by
comedy producer / writer / filmmaker Gene Stupnitsky, director
of the film Good Boys previously, as well as some episodes of “The
Office”; he was also a writer on “The Office”, “Bad Teacher”, and “Hello
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► Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
A fifth movie in the Indiana Jones franchise, continuing the story after
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). Starring
Harrison Ford as adventurer Indiana Jones and Phoebe Waller-
Bridge as Helena. The full cast also features Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas
Kretschmann, Boyd Holbrook, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Toby Jones,
Antonio Banderas, and Olivier Richters. Indiana Jones and the Dial
of Destiny, also known as, Indiana Jones 5 is directed by acclaimed
American filmmaker James Mangold, director of the movies Heavy,
Cop Land, Girl Interrupted, Kate & Leopold, Identity, Walk the Line, 3:10
to Yuma, Knight and Day, The Wolverine, Logan, and Ford v Ferrari.
The film will be set in 1969 in the middle of the Space Race, with
Harrison Ford back as Indy. Meanwhile, Voller, a NASA member and
ex-Nazi involved with the Moon-landing program, wants to “rectify
the world and make it into a better place as he sees fit.”
► Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Sweet, awkward 16-year-old Ruby Gillman (Lana Condor) is
desperate to fit in at Oceanside High, but she mostly just feels
invisible. She’s math-tutoring her skater-boy crush (Jaboukie Young-
White), who only seems to admire her for her fractals, and she’s
prevented from hanging out with the cool kids at the beach because
her over-protective supermom (Toni Collette), has forbade Ruby
from ever getting in the water. But when she breaks her mom’s
#1 rule, Ruby will discover that she is a direct descendant of the
warrior Kraken queens and is destined to inherit the throne from
her commanding grandmother (Jane Fonda), the Warrior Queen of
the Seven Seas. The Kraken are sworn to protect the oceans of the
world against the vain, power-hungry mermaids who have been
battling with the Kraken for eons. There’s one major, and immediate,
problem with that: The school’s beautiful, popular new girl, Chelsea
(Annie Murphy) happens to be a mermaid. Ruby will ultimately need
to embrace who she is and go big to protect those she loves…Kraken
features an extraordinary cast that includes Emmy winner Colman
Domingo as Ruby’s supportive dad, Emmy nominee Sam Richardson
as Ruby’s enthusiastic uncle, and Blue Chapman as Ruby’s cool little
brother, plus Toni Collette, Jaboukie Young-White, Annie Murphy,
Will Forte, Nicole Byer, Ramona Young, and Jane Fonda.
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