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Giving new life to the E. T. A. Hoffmann’s classic holiday story, Walt Disney Pictures has just released the final trailer for “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” and it looks magical.

“The legend you know has a dark side,” it says on the trailer, where the film’s young lead Clara is lead to a trip into the four realms: The Land of Snowflakes, The Land of Flowers, The Land of Sweets, and the mysterious last realm ruled over by Mother Ginger.

This latest big screen Disney adaptation is full of stars in the cast, which includes Mackenzie Foy (as the lead in the movie as Clara) Keira Knightley the Sugar Plum Fairy, and Helen Mirren as the villainous Mother Ginger. Also in the film are Matthew Macfadyen, Eugenio Derbez, Richard E. Grant, Misty Copeland, and Morgan Freeman.

There is also enormous talent behind the camera of the film, with Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park III, Captain America: The First Avenger) and academy award nominated director Lasse Hallström (The Cider House Rules, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Chocolat) co-directing.

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures is set to release “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” on November 2, 2018.

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The latest teaser trailer for “Ben Is Back” left us wondering what happens after mother and son reunites on Christmas Eve.

Julia Roberts, who’s had great success in family dramas, and especially following last year’s unexpected massive hit “Wonder,” plays Lucas Hedges’ mother Holly Burns. Hedges recently had a string of successes following Manchester by the Sea, Lady Bird and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

The film looks to be another big acting showcase for the two, and the film’s release date certainly helps its awards season potential. The film will have its world premiere in September at the Toronto Film Festival.

Ben is Back co-stars Courtney B. Vance and Kathryn Newton. Peter Hedges, Lucas’ father, wrote and directed the film. Peter’s directorial efforts include “Dan in Real Life” and “The Odd Life of Timothy Green.”

“Ben Is Back” is set to be released by LD Entertainment, Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions in theaters on December 7. Watch the trailer below.

Here’s the film’s official synopsis:

19 year-old Ben Burns (Lucas Hedges) unexpectedly returns home to his family’s suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben’s mother, Holly (Julia Roberts), is relieved and welcoming but wary of her son staying clean. Over a turbulent 24 hours, new truths are revealed, and a mother’s undying love for her son is tested as she does everything in her power to keep him safe. Ben is Back also stars Courtney B. Vance (“The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”) and Kathryn Newton (Lady Bird).”

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Amazon Studios

Directed by “Call Me by Your Name” helmer Luca Guadagnino, a clear shift of style for the director, “Suspiria” is a remake of the eponymous 1977 Italian horror classic starring Jessica Harper and directed by Dario Argento. Harper is back the new film in a secondary role.

Dakota Johnson will play Harper’s role as a student who travels to Europe to perfect her dancing in a renowned dance academy, while Swinton will play Madame Blanc, the vice-directress of the academy. Chloë Grace Moretz is the dance student who disappears. The film is scored by Thom Yorke of Radiohead.

“Suspiria” is due out on November 2. Here is the film’s official synopsis:

A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe’s artistic director (Tilda Swinton), an ambitious young dancer (Dakota Johnson), and a grieving psychotherapist (Lutz Ebersdorf). Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.

By Creative Media Times

Academy Award winning director Alfonso Cuaron is back in his first film since sci-fi epic “Gravity.” Netflix has released the first teaser trailer for “Roma,” a story which chronicles a tumultuous year in the life of a middle-class family in Mexico City in the early 1970s.

Said to be Cuaron’s most personal film yet, “Roma” is filmed in black-and-white which perfectly complement’s the film’s ’70s setting.

The much buzzed-about family drama was also written, co-edited, co-photographed, co-produced Alfonso Cuarón and stars Yalitza Aparicio, Marco Graf, Marina de Tavira, Enoc Leaño, Daniela Demesa and Daniel Valtierra.

Roma is set to have its world premiere later this month on August 30, 2018 at the Venice Film Festival, and then followed by screenings at Toronto International Film Festival before it debuts on Netflix and in select theaters this fall, though no specific date has been announced.

Here’s the official synopsis for “Roma”:

A vivid portrayal of domestic strife and social hierarchy amidst political turmoil, ROMA follows a young domestic worker Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) from Mixteco heritage descent and her co-worker Adela (Nancy García), also Mixteca, who work for a small family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma. Mother of four, Sofia (Marina de Tavira), copes with the extended absence of her husband, Cleo faces her own devastating news that threatens to distract her from caring for Sofia’s children, whom she loves as her own. While trying to construct a new sense of love and solidarity in a context of a social hierarchy where class and race are perversely intertwined, Cleo and Sofia quietly wrestle with changes infiltrating the family home in a country facing confrontation between a government-backed militia and student demonstrators.

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Peter Farrelly (known for gross-out comedies which he directed with his brother Bobby Farrelly) also wrote the screenplay with Brian Hayes Currie and Nick Vallelonga.

“Green Book” is set to have its world premiere next month at the Toronto International Film Festival and will be released theatrically by Universal Pictures on Nov. 21. Watch the trailer above.

Here is the film’s official synopsis:

When Tony Lip (Mortensen), a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Ali), a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on “The Green Book” to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger as well as unexpected humanity and humor—they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey of a lifetime.