The Counselor

Genre:

Thriller

Director:

Ridley Scott

Starring:

Michael Fassbender, Javier Bardem, Brad Pitt, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, John Leguizamo

Release Date:

Friday 25 October

       The Counselor is a drama / thriller film directed by Ridley Scott, from an original screenplay by Cormac McCarthy. The Counselor is set to be released in the United States on October 25, 2013 by 20th Century Fox. The film is rated R for grisly images, graphic violence, strong sexual content, and language and will be dedicated to the memory of the director's brother Tony Scott, who committed suicide during production. The script written by Pulitzer Prize winner McCarthy will also be released as a book. The Counselor will be the closing night film at the 2013 Morelia Film Festival. 

Plot

      The film tells the story of a greedy lawyer (Michael Fassbender) who finds himself in over his head when he decides to delve into the dark world of drug trafficking. Along the way we meet his naive girlfriend Laura (Penelope Cruz), Westray (Brad Pitt), a seedy middleman, Reiner and Malkina (Javier Bardem and Cameron Diaz), a mysterious and dangerous couple, and Ruth (Rosie Pérez), a prison inmate represented by the lawyer.

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Jackass Presents Bad Grandpa

Genre:

Comedy, Documentary

Director:

Jeff Tremaine

Starring:

Johnny Knoxville, Jackson Nicoll

Release Date:

Friday 25 October

      Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa is an American comedy film directed by Jeff Tremaine and written by Jeff Tremaine, Johnny Knoxville, and Spike Jonze.       The film will star Johnny Knoxville and Jackson Nicoll. It will be produced by MTV Films and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is scheduled to be released on October 25, 2013. Bad Grandpa has a loose plot that connects the stunts and pranks together as opposed to the three original Jackass films which had no plot.

Plot

      86-year-old Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville) and Billy (Jackson Nicoll) are on a road trip across the United States. Irving is tasked with taking his grandson to live with his father after his mother is jailed. Interspersed with the brief story segments are hidden camera pranks and stunts.

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The Fifth Estate

Genre:

Drama, Biography

Director:

Bill Condon

Starring:

Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Alicia Vikander, Peter Capaldi, Carice van Houten, Dan Stevens, Stanley Tucci, Laura Linney

Release Date:

Friday 18 October

      The Fifth Estate is a 2013 thriller film about the news-leaking website WikiLeaks starring Benedict Cumberbatch as its editor-in-chief and founder Julian Assange, and Daniel Brühl as its former spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg. It is directed by Bill Condon with a screenplay by Josh Singer based in-part on Domscheit-Berg's book Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange and the World's Most Dangerous Website, as well as WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy by British journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding.

      The film is co-produced by DreamWorks and Participant Media and opened at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. The film will be released theatrically in the United States on October 18, 2013 through Disney's Touchstone Pictures distribution label, and in international territories by Mister Smith Entertainment.

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Paradise

Genre:

Comedy, Drama

Director:

Diablo Cody

Starring:

Julianne Hough, Russell Brand, Octavia Spencer, Nick Offerman, Holly Hunter

Release Date:

Friday 18 October

      Paradise (also known as Lamb of God) is an American comedy-drama film written and directed by Diablo Cody, in her directorial debut. It stars Julianne Hough, Russell Brand, Octavia Spencer, Holly Hunter and Iliza Shlesinger and is set to be released on October 18, 2013.

Plot

      After surviving a plane crash 21-year-old Lamb Mannerhelm heads to Las Vegas to indulge in life she's been missing out on and meets new friends William and Loray along the way.

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Escape Plan

Genre:

Action, Science-Fiction, Thriller

Director:

Mikael Hafstrom

Starring:

Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Caviezel, Vinnie Jones, Curtis Jackson, Amy Ryan, Sam Neil

Release Date:

Friday 18 October

      Escape Plan (formerly known as Exit Plan and The Tomb) is an upcoming action thriller film starring Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Caviezel, 50 Cent, Vinnie Jones, Vincent D'Onofrio and Amy Ryan. Escape Plan is being directed by Swedish filmmaker Mikael Håfström, and is written by Miles Chapman (screenplay) and Jason Keller (rewrite). The film will follow Stallone's character Ray Breslin, a structural engineer who is wrongly convicted of a crime, and is incarcerated in a prison of his own design, aided in his escape by his cellmate Rottmayer (Schwarzenegger).

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Carrie

Genre:

Horror

Director:

Kimberly Peirce

Starring:

Chloe Moretz, Julianne Moore, Judy Greer, Alex Russell, Gabriella Wilde, Portia Doubleday, Ansel Elgort

Release Date:

Friday 18 October

      Carrie is a 2013 American supernatural horror film. It is the third film adaptation of Stephen King's 1974 novel of the same name, though MGM and Screen Gems, who are producing the film, employed a script that is reportedly more faithful to King's original novel. The film stars Chloë Grace Moretz as the titular Carrie White, and Julianne Moore as Carrie's mother, Margaret White.         Following the initial announcement of March 15, 2013 as the release date, the film's public launch was later postponed to October 18, 2013.

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All Is Lost

Genre:

Action

Director:

J.C. Chandor

Starring:

Robert Redford

Release Date:

Friday 18 October

       All Is Lost is a 2013 American survival film written and directed by J. C. Chandor. The film stars Robert Redford as a man lost at sea. Redford is the only cast member, and the film has almost no dialogue. All Is Lost is Chandor's second feature film, following his 2011 debut Margin Call. It screened out of competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival in May. The soundtrack features ten original compositions and one new song all written, composed, and produced by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros’ frontman Alexander Ebert.

Premise

      A man is lost at sea and struggles to survive.

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12 Years A Slave

Genre:

Drama, Biography

Director:

Steve McQueen

Starring:

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Sarah Paulson, Alfre Woodard, Paul Giamatti, Lupita Nyongo

Release Date:

Friday 18 October

      12 Years a Slave is a 2013 historical drama based on the 1853 autobiography Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. after being lured from Saratoga Springs, New York in 1841 and sold into slavery. He worked on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before his release. The first scholarly edition of Northup’s memoir, co-edited by Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon in 1968, carefully retraced and validated his account, finding it to be remarkably accurate. The film is directed by Steve McQueen and written by John Ridley. Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Solomon Northup. 12 Years a Slave premiered at the       Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2013. The film is scheduled to be commercially released on October 18, 2013.

Plot

      12 Years a Slave is based on the 1853 autobiography of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., after being lured from Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1841 and sold into slavery. He worked on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before his release.

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Machete Kills

Genre:

Action, Comedy, Thriller

Director:

Robert Rodriguez

Starring:

Danny Trejo

Release Date:

Friday 11 October

       Machete Kills is a 2013 American exploitation action film written and directed by Robert Rodriguez. The film will be the third based on Grindhouse fake trailers; the first were Machete and Hobo with a Shotgun. Danny Trejo, Jessica Alba, Tom Savini and Michelle Rodriguez will be reprising their roles from the first film, and are joined by series newcomers Demián Bichir, Sofía Vergara, Amber Heard, Lady Gaga, Antonio Banderas, Zoe Saldana, Vanessa Hudgens, Cuba Gooding Jr., Alexa Vega, William Sadler, Marko Zaror, Mel Gibson, and Charlie Sheen.

       The film will follow the titular ex-federale (Trejo) as he is recruited by the U.S. President (Sheen) to stop an arms dealer (Gibson) and a revolutionary (Bichir). The film is set to be released on October 11, 2013.

Plot

       Danny Trejo returns as former Mexican Police detective-turned-spy Machete, who is recruited by U.S. President Rathcock (Charlie Sheen) to stop madman revolutionary Mendez (Demián Bichir) from launching a deadly missile aimed at Washington, D.C. However, Machete soon learns the real threat is an international criminal organization led by eccentric billionaire arms dealing terrorist named Luther Voz (Mel Gibson), who has launched a conspiracy to start riots in every country.

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Captain Phillips

Genre:

Drama

Director:

Paul Greengrass

Starring:

Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener, Max Martini, Yul Vazquez, Michael Chernus, Chris Mulkey, Corey Johnson, David Warshofsky, John Magaro, Angus MacInnes

Release Date:

Friday 11 October

      Captain Phillips is a 2013 American action thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Tom Hanks. The film is a biopic of Captain Richard Phillips who was taken hostage by Somali Pirates during the Maersk Alabama hijacking in 2009.

      The film is directed by Greengrass, from a screenplay by Billy Ray based upon the book, A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea, by Richard Phillips with Stephan Talty. The film is produced by Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, and Michael De Luca. It is scheduled to be released on October 11, 2013 and will have its premiere showing at the 2013 New York Film Festival.

      This movie was filmed in Malta.

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Runner Runner

Genre:

Crime, Drama, Thriller

Director:

Brad Furman

Starring:

Justin Timberlake, Ben Affleck

Release Date:

Friday 27 September

     Runner, Runner is a crime drama thriller film directed by Brad Furman, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, Brian Koppelman and David Levien. It stars Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake. The film is scheduled to be released in the United States on September 27, 2013.

Plot

      Richie Furst (Timberlake), is a Princeton student who is cheated out of his tuition money by playing online poker. When he learns that the site is hosted from a remote island location, he goes to confront the site's corrupt owner, Ivan Block (Affleck), but is lured into becoming Ivan's protégé and right-hand man. Their relationship starts to reach a boiling point all while an FBI agent (Mackie), tries to use Richie to bring Ivan down.

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Parkland

Genre:

Drama

Director:

Peter Landesman

Starring:

Zac Efron, Paul Giamatti, Marcia Gay Harden, Billy Bob Thornton, Jacki Weaver, James Badge Dale, Jackie Earle Haley, Ron Livingston, Colin Hanks, Tom Welling, Jeremy Strong, David Harbour

Release Date:

Friday 20 September

     Parkland is a drama film directed by Peter Landesman, and produced by Guy East, Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, and Nigel Sinclair. It will star Zac Efron in the lead role, Tom Welling, James Badge Dale, Paul Giamatti, Jacki Weaver, Jackie Earle Haley, Billy Bob Thornton, Marcia Gay Harden and Bitsie Tulloch. It will follow the events that occurred at Parkland Memorial Hospital after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. It is scheduled to be shown in the main competition section of the 70th Venice International Film Festival and at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

Plot

    Parkland weaves together the perspectives of a handful of ordinary individuals suddenly thrust into extraordinary circumstances: the young doctors and nurses at Parkland Hospital; Dallas’ chief of the Secret Service; an unwitting cameraman who captured what became the most watched and examined film in history; the FBI agents who nearly had the gunman within their grasp; the brother of Lee Harvey Oswald, left to deal with his shattered family; and JFK’s security team, witnesses to both the president’s death and Vice President Lyndon Johnson’s rise to power over a nation whose innocence was forever altered.

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