Prime Video Dates Fall Movie Slate
Many of those may be having splashy global premieres on the Toronto International Film Festival, i.e. My Policeman, Lena Dunham’s Catherine Called Birdy, with the Ryan White documentary Good Night Oppy receiving an global choicest within the Great White North. Two of these titles already made their global premieres at Sundance, i.e. Nikyatu Jusu’s Nanny from this past yr, and Shana Feste’s Run Sweetheart Run which made its debut in Park City in the course of the pre-pandemic 2020 edition.
A choose quantity of titles are receiving a limited theatrical launch earlier than their streaming drop date as referred to under.
Said Julie Rapaport, head of films, Amazon Studios tells Deadline, “This slate displays our commitment to imparting clients a extensive sort of pleasing, nice films to experience each at domestic and in theaters. We’re proud to paintings with extremely good filmmakers and skills to carry those various movies to lifestyles and are excited to share them with our global audience.”
Here’s Prime Video’s lineup:
Samaritan (Aug. 26)
Synopsis: Thirteen-year-antique Sam Cleary (Javon “Wanna” Walton) suspects that his mysterious and reclusive neighbor Mr. Smith (Sylvester Stallone) is absolutely a legend hiding in plain sight. Twenty-five years ago, Granite City’s extraordinary-powered vigilante, Samaritan, turned into pronounced dead after a fiery warehouse war together with his rival, Nemesis. Most accept as true with Samaritan perished in the fireplace, but a few within the city, like Sam, have desire that he is still alive. With crime at the upward thrust and the metropolis on the point of chaos, Sam makes it his mission to coax his neighbor out of hiding to store the city from smash.
CAST: Sylvester Stallone, Javon “Wanna” Walton, Pilou Asbæk, Dascha Polanco, Moises Arias
DIRECTOR: Julius Avery
PRODUCERS: Sylvester Stallone, p.g.a., Braden Aftergood, p.g.a.
GENRE: Action Thriller
RATED: PG-thirteen
Flight/Risk (Sept. 9)
Synopsis: Flight / Risk follows regular folks that find themselves in the midst of a international tragedy while two Boeing 737 Max planes crashed only 5 months aside in 2018 and 2019. This powerful documentary is advised through the perspective of affected circle of relatives contributors, their felony teams, whistleblowers, and Pulitzer-prevailing Seattle Times journalist Dominic Gates.
DIRECTORS: Karim Amer, Omar Mullick
PRODUCERS: Karim Amer, Paul McGuire, Jia, Leen Karadsheh, Mike Lerner
GENRE: Documentary
RATED: PG
Goodnight Mommy (Sept. 16)
Synopsis: When dual brothers arrive home to discover their mother’s demeanor altered and face included in surgical bandages, they start to suspect the female underneath the gauze won't be their mom.
CAST: Naomi Watts, Cameron Crovetti, Nicholas Crovetti, Peter Hermann
DIRECTOR: Matt Sobel
WRITER: Kyle Warren
PRODUCERS: V.J. Guibal, p.g.a., Nicolas Brigaud-Robert, p.g.a., Joshua Astrachan, p.g.a., David Kaplan
GENRE: Thriller RATED: R
My Best Friend’s Exorcism (Sept. 30)
Synopsis: The yr is 1988. High college sophomores Abby and Gretchen had been best buddies on account that fourth grade. But after an night of skinny-dipping goes disastrously incorrect, Gretchen begins to act…one of a kind. She’s moody. She’s irritable. And weird incidents hold taking place every time she’s nearby. Abby’s investigation leads her to some startling discoveries—and by the time their tale reaches its terrifying end, the destiny of Abby and Gretchen might be determined by using a single query: Is their friendship effective sufficient to conquer the devil?
CAST: Elsie Fisher, Amiah Miller, Cathey Ang, Rachel Ogechi, Christopher Lowell
DIRECTOR: Damon Thomas
WRITER: Jenna Lamia
BASED ON THE BOOK BY: Grady Hendrix
PRODUCERS: Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jennifer Semler
GENRE: Horror RATED: R
Catherine Called Birdy (In theaters Sept. 23, Prime Video Oct. 7)
Synopsis: The yr? 1290. In the Medieval English village of Stonebridge, Lady Catherine (known as Birdy) is the youngest toddler of Lord Rollo and the Lady Aislinn. Her playground is Stonebridge Manor, a residence that, just like the circle of relatives, has seen better days. Financially destitute and thoroughly greedy, Rollo sees his daughter as his route out of financial spoil with the aid of marrying her off to a wealthy man for money and land. But Birdy, like all of the splendid teen heroines, is lively, clever and adventurous –and geared up to cast off any suitor that comes in increasingly imaginitive approaches. Her creativeness, defiance and deep notion in her own proper to independence placed her on a collision route with her mother and father. When the most vile suitor of all arrives, they are presented with the remaining take a look at of affection for his or her daughter.
CAST: Bella Ramsey, Andrew Scott, Billie Piper, Paul Kaye, Joe Alwyn
DIRECTOR: Lena Dunham
WRITER: Lena Dunham
BASED ON THE BOOK BY: Karen Cushman
PRODUCERS: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jo Wallett
GENRE: Comedy
RATED: PG-thirteen
Argentina, 1985 (In theaters, Sept. 30, Prime Video Oct. 21)
Synopsis: Argentina, 1985 is stimulated by using the actual tale of Julio Strassera, Luis Moreno Ocampo, and their young prison group of not likely heroes in their David-vs-Goliath conflict, wherein, under constant chance, they dared to prosecute Argentina’s bloodiest army dictatorship towards all odds and in a race towards time to deliver justice to the victims of the Military Junta.
CAST: Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani
DIRECTOR: Santiago Mitre
WRITER: Santiago Mitre, Mariano Llinás
PRODUCERS: Axel Kuschevatzky, p.g.a., Federico Posternak, Agustina Llambi-Campbell, Ricardo Darín, Santiago Mitre, Santiago Carabante, Chino Darín, Victoria Alonso, p.g.a.
GENRE: Drama
RATED: N/A
Run Sweetheart Run (Oct. 28)
Synopsis: After what starts as dinner with a customer, a single mom (Ella Balinska) finds herself hunted by way of a significant and reputedly unstoppable assailant (Pilou Asbæk) on this terrifying darkish thriller.
CAST: Ella Balinska, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Pilou Asbæk, Clark Gregg, Aml Ameen, Dayo Okeniyi, Betsy Brandt
DIRECTOR: Shana Feste
WRITERS: Shana Feste, Keith Josef Adkins, Kellee Terrell
PRODUCERS: Shana Feste, p.g.a., Effie T. Brown, p.g.a., Jason Blum, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, p.g.a.
GENRE: Thriller
RATED: R
My Policeman (In theaters Oct. 21, Prime Video Nov. 4)
Synopsis: A tale of forbidden romance and converting social conventions, My Policeman follows the relationships between 3 humans—policeman Tom (Harry Styles/Linus Roache), trainer Marion (Emma Corrin/Gina McKee) and museum curator Patrick (David Dawson/Rupert Everett)—and their emotional journey spanning a long time.
CAST: Harry Styles, Emma Corrin, Gina McKee, Linus Roache, David Dawson, Rupert Everett
DIRECTOR: Michael Grandage
WRITER: Ron Nyswaner
BASED ON THE BOOK BY: Bethan Roberts
PRODUCERS: Greg Berlanti, p.g.a., Sarah Schechter, p.g.a., Robbie Rogers, p.g.a., Cora Palfrey, p.g.a., Philip Herd, p.g.a.
GENRE: Drama
RATED: R
The People We Hate on the Wedding (Nov. 18)
Synopsis: The film follows suffering American siblings Alice (Kristen Bell) and Paul (Ben Platt), who reluctantly agree to wait the wedding in their estranged, rich half of-sister (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) within the English geographical region along their mother, Donna (Allison Janney). Over the route of the wedding week, the family’s many skeletons are wrenched from the closet, and the not likely reunion gives anyone the incentive to move their personal lives forward. A modern-day wedding ceremony comedy for all and sundry with a barely dysfunctional own family (anyone), or everyone who’s been forced to attend a marriage they attempted to keep away from (additionally everybody).
CAST: Allison Janney, Kristen Bell, Ben Platt, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Karan Soni, Dustin Milligan, Tony Goldwyn, Isaach De Bankolé, Jorma Taccone, Julian Ovenden
DIRECTOR: Claire Scanlon
WRITER: Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin, Wendy Molyneux
BASED ON THE BOOK BY: Grant Ginder
PRODUCERS: Margot Hand, Ashley Fox
GENRE: Comedy
RATED: N/A
Good Night Oppy (In theaters Nov. 4, Prime Video Nov. 23)
Synopsis: Good Night Oppy tells the inspirational actual story of Opportunity, a rover that became despatched to Mars for a 90-day project but ended up surviving for 15 years. The film follows Opportunity’s groundbreaking adventure on Mars and the great bond forged among a robot and her humans hundreds of thousands of miles away.
DIRECTOR: Ryan White
PRODUCERS: Jessica Hargrave, Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, Brandon Carroll, Matthew Goldberg
GENRE: Documentary
RATED: PG