Category: Upcoming Films

Release Date:  1/20/23; In Theaters

Genre:  Thriller

Rating:  PG-13

Directors:  Nicholas D. Johnson, Will Merrick

Studio(s):  Sony Pictures Releasing, Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA), Stage 6 Films.

Cast:  Storm Reid (June Allen), Nia Long (Grace Allen), Ken Leung (Kevin Lin), Joaquim de Almeida (Javier Ramos), Daniel Henney (Elijah Park).

Story:  When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.  Standalone sequel to the 2018 film Searching, which was set entirely on computer screens and smartphones and followed a father trying to find his missing 16-year-old daughter  Source:  Wikipedia. Photo Source:  Jakalefilm.com.

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Release Date:  2023 (TBA); Netflix

Genre:  Sci-Fi/Mystery/Comedy

Rating:  R

Director:  Juel Taylor

Studio(s):  Federal Films, MACRO, Made With Love Media, Netflix.

Cast:  John Boyega (Fontaine), Teyonah Parris (Yo-Yo), Jamie Foxx (Slick Charles), J. Alphonse Nicholson (Isaac), David Alan Grier, Kiefer Sutherland.

Story:  They Cloned Tyrone tells the story of Yo-Yo, Slick, and Fontaine, three unlikely friends who are brought together by their shared discovery of a massive, secret governmental surveillance plan to monitor the lives of Black people before disappearing them and replacing them with clones.  Source:  theverge.com.  Photos Sources:  IMDB, thetealmango.com.

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Release Date:  12/9/22; Apple TV+
Genre:  Drama/Historical
Rating:  R
Director:  Antoine Fuqua
Studio(s):  Apple TV+, CAA Media Finance, Escape Artists, McFarland Entertainment

Cast:  Will Smith (Peter), Ben Foster (Fassel), Steven Ogg (Sergeant Howard), Charmaine Bingwa (Dodienne), Gilbert Owuor (Gordon), Mustafa Shakir (Andre Cailloux), Grant Harvey (Leeds), Ronnie Gene Blevins (Harrington), Timothy Hutton (Senator John Lyons).

Story:  After being whipped nearly to death, an enslaved man named Peter escapes from a Louisiana plantation, outwitting cold-blooded hunters, as he makes his way North, where he joins the Union Army. The film is based on the true story of Gordon or “Whipped Peter” an escaped American slave who was the subject of photographs documenting extensive keloid scarring on his back as a result of whippings he received while he was a slave. The “scourged back” photo became one of the most widely circulated photos of the abolitionist movement during the American Civil War.  Source:  Wikipedia.

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Release Date:  4/7/23
Genre:  Drama/Biography
Rating:   PG-13
Director:  Stephen Williams
Studio(s):  Element Pictures, Searchlight Pictures, Stillking Films

Cast:  Kelvin Harrison, Jr. (Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges), Samara Weaving (Marie-Josephine), Ronke Adekoluejo (Nanon), Lucy Boynton (Marie Antoinette), Marton Csokas (Montalembert), Alex Fitzalan (Philippe), Minnie Driver (La Guimard).

Story:  Based on the incredible true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Bologne rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with an ill-fated love affair and a falling out with Marie Antoinette and her court.  Source:  Searchlightpictures.com.  Photos Source:  IMDB.

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Genre:  Drama
Rating:   PG-13
Director:  J.D. Dillard
Studio(s):  Black Label Media, STX Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), Stage 6 Films, STX Entertainment

Cast:  Jonathan Majors (Jesse Brown), Glen Powell (Tom Hudner), Christina Jackson (Daisy Brown), Joe Jonas (Marty Goode), Thomas Sadoski (Dick Cevoli), Serinda Swan  (Elizabeth Taylor).

Story:  Devotion, an aerial war epic based on the bestselling book of the same name, tells the harrowing true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. Their heroic sacrifices would ultimately make them the Navy’s most celebrated wingmen.  Sources:  Official site, devotion.movie.  Photo source:  Sony Pictures.

Release Date:  11/25/22; Paramout+
Genre:  Comedy; Family
Rating:  NR
Director:  Anton Cropper
Studio(s):  Awesomeness Films, Genius Productions (II), NFL Films, Nickelodeon Movies, Nickelodeon Network, The SpringHill Company, Nickelodeon Network, Paramount+.

Cast:  Marsai Martin (Callie Coleman), Kelly Rowland (Keisha Coleman), Omari Hardwick (Bobby Coleman), Rome Flynn (Anderson Fisher), Tony Gonzalez (Coach Lance Evans).

Story:  Everything changes when Callie A. Coleman discovers she can magically control her father’s performance on the football field. When Callie plays as her dad, Bobby Coleman, a running back for the Atlanta Falcons, in the videogame “Madden NFL 23,” Bobby is transformed from a fumbling journeyman to a star running back bound for superstardom alongside his daughter and wife Keisha. With the NFL Playoffs looming and the pressures of Callie’s new commitment to her friends on the robotics team mounting, the two must forge ahead to keep the magic a secret as they juggle the highs and lows of their newfound success, all as they rediscover what it really means to be a family.  Source:  IMDB.  Photo Source:  Just Jared Jr.

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