Octavia Spencer
Wisecracking, gum-chewing 12-year-old Gilly is well known in the foster system. Totally unmanageable, she has stayed with more families than she can remember and has outwitted them all. After all, how can she settle down when her real mother, the beautiful and glamourous Courtney, might be out there waiting for her? When Gilly is sent to live with the Trotters, the weirdest family yet, she isn’t planning to stick around. But cheerful, affectionate Maime Trotter isn’t giving up on Gilly just yet...
Director: Stephen Herek
Actors: Sophie Nélisse, Kathy Bates, Glenn Close, Bill Cobbs, Octavia Spencer
Believe Everything. And we mean everything. That's what down-on-his luck journalist Tucker Burns learns when he takes a career detour to join the staff of one of the world's least reputable tabloids The World Chronicle. Tucker soon discovers that everything The Chronicle writes about, under the guidance of his mysterious boss Donald Stern, is 100% true. Teamed up with photographer Wes, and occasionally aided by fellow reporter and alien-abductee Grace Hall, Tucker investigates strange but true stories of ghosts, dragons, rejuvenation clinics, mermaids, and more.
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Actors: Reno Wilson, Rena Sofer, Sharon Sachs, Chad Willett, Curtis Armstrong
Some of Hollywood’s biggest stars reveal their journeys to game-changing leading roles. In candid interviews, they shine a light on the highs and lows of their craft, breakthrough moments, blueprints for success, and the next generation’s huge potential.
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Actors: Angela Bassett, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, John Boyega, Cynthia Erivo
Recently paroled criminals must find a way to live together in the 'Halfway Home.' Crenshaw House is where the LA Bureau of Prisons houses some of its most notorious (though not always tough) prisoners on their road to re-integration into 'normal' society.
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Actors: Regan Burns, Jordan Black, Octavia Spencer, Kevin Ruf, Jessica Makinson
Atticus (James Coburn) goes to the small Mexican town where his estranged son (Paul Kersey) was a resident to discover how he died.
Director: Carl Schenkel
Actors: James Coburn, Lisa Zane, Paul Kersey, Finn Carter, William R. Moses
When legendary African-American entrepreneur and philanthropist Madam C.J. Walker, aka Sarah Breedlove, rises up from the ashes of slavery to become a black hair care pioneer and mogul, she becomes America’s first African-American, female self-made millionaire.
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Actors: Octavia Spencer, Tiffany Haddish, Carmen Ejogo, Blair Underwood, Garrett Morris
Alex, Justin and Max Russo are not your ordinary kids - they're wizards in training! While their parents run the Waverly Sub Station, the siblings struggle to balance their ordinary lives while learning to master their extraordinary powers. But when they turn 18, only one will be deemed worthy enough to become the family wizard.
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Actors: Jake T. Austin, Selena Gomez, Jennifer Stone, Maria Canals-Barrera, David DeLuise
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
Director: Tate Taylor
Actors: Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Dan Aykroyd, Viola Davis, Lennie James
A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.
Director: Marcos Siega
Actors: Evan Rachel Wood, Selma Blair, Jane Krakowski, Stark Sands, Elisabeth Harnois
Mike Kendall, a disgraced ex-cop, is fighting a losing battle with the bottle. When he finds a woman left for dead at the side of a road, Kendall turns private eye to track down her killers, taking one last shot at redemption.
Director: Eshom Nelms
Actors: John Hawkes, Octavia Spencer, Anthony Anderson, Robert Forster, Clifton Collins Jr.
After passionately auditioning for a role in a local community theater production, Judy is cast aside by a pretentious theater director. Lucky for her, she gets another unbelievable chance.
Director: Kirsten Smith
Actors: Anna Faris, Larry Miller, Octavia Spencer, Ron Livingston, Mason Vale Cotton
A decorated Marine goes on a rescue mission to save his two young sons from an unhuman threat. As their journey takes them in increasingly dangerous directions, the boys will need to leave their childhoods behind.
Director: Michael Pearce
Actors: Riz Ahmed, Octavia Spencer, Lucian-River Mirage Chauhan, Rory Cochrane, Aditya Geddada
When Papa Smurf is mysteriously taken by evil wizards, Razamel and Gargamel, Smurfette leads the Smurfs on a mission into the real world to save him. With the help of new friends, the Smurfs must discover what defines their destiny to save the universe.
Director: Chris Miller
Actors: Rihanna, James Corden, Nick Offerman, JP Karliak, Dan Levy
Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter… and getting smashed. When Kate’s partying spirals into hard-core asocial behavior, compromising her job as an elementary schoolteacher, something’s got to give. But change isn’t exactly a cakewalk. Sobriety means she will have to confront the lies she’s been spinning at work, her troubling relationship with her mother, and the nature of her bond with Charlie.
Director: James Ponsoldt
Actors: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Octavia Spencer, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally
A comedic look at crime, love, tolerance and fried chicken.
Director: Tate Taylor
Actors: Octavia Spencer, Allison Janney, Tate Taylor, Melissa McCarthy, John Wesley
Writer-director Randall Miller's heart-achingly sweet drama centers on the unsatisfying personal life of protagonist Frank Keane, a sensitive baker who remains deeply despondent over his late wife's untimely death. When Frank helps a stranger who's sidelined by a fatal accident on his way to a fateful reunion, he decides to show up for the rendezvous in the man's place. In the process, he finds hope and redemption.
Director: Randall Miller
Actors: Robert Carlyle, John Goodman, Marisa Tomei, Mary Steenburgen, Octavia Spencer
This intimate, in-depth look at Beyoncé's celebrated 2018 Coachella performance reveals the emotional road from creative concept to cultural movement.
Director: Beyoncé Knowles
Actors: Beyoncé Knowles, Jay-Z, Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams, Solange Knowles
When Alex is caught using magic to clean her room she is forced to go to wizard school with Justin. Max and Jerry camp out on the terrace to prove their manhood.
Director: Mark Cendrowski
Actors: Selena Gomez, David Henrie, Jake T. Austin, David DeLuise, Maria Canals-Barrera
A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Actors: Amanda Seyfried, Russell Crowe, Aaron Paul, Diane Kruger, Quvenzhané Wallis
Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fate on the platform at Fruitvale Station, in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009.
Director: Ryan Coogler
Actors: Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer, Kevin Durand, Chad Michael Murray
A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid, and the security boss discovers the plot.
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly, Bernie Mac, John Ritter
A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.
Director: Julius Onah
Actors: Kelvin Harrison Jr., Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Tim Roth, Norbert Leo Butz
Inspired by his fiancée (who dumped him), a man publishes a break-up handbook for men, becoming a bestselling author in the process.
Director: Daniel Taplitz
Actors: Jamie Foxx, Morris Chestnut, Jennifer Esposito, Gabrielle Union, Peter MacNicol
With the help of their mentor Felix, a group of the best friends and first-time thieves steal a valuable statuette for a ruthless black market art dealer. After the amateurs botch the delivery of the objet d'art, the dealer kills Felix and forces the remaining four to "find" $1 million within a week's time or face certain death.
Director: Paul Rachman
Actors: Tim Curry, Balthazar Getty, Olivia Williams, Stacy Edwards, Daniel London
A social outcast with a facial birthmark finds his world flipped upside down after he posts videos of his quirky life onto the Internet and becomes an unwilling cyber-celebrity.
Director: Nathaniel Atcheson
Actors: Byron Lane, Ahna O'Reilly, Beth Grant, Zack Silva, Julianna McCarthy
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Director: Laura Dern
Actors: Brittany Snow, Jennifer Hudson, Melissa Leo, Mitch Rouse, Sarah Hyland
Organized crime boss Meyer Lansky remembers his life as he is moving about the world looking for some country that will take him in since the USA have put out an extradition order for him.
Director: John McNaughton
Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Illeana Douglas, Anthony LaPaglia, Eric Roberts, Beverly D'Angelo
In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Jahzir Bruno, Chris Rock
A young woman, struggling to become a novelist, has her life go into a tailspin. Her first novel is rejected, her non-committal boy friend decides to take a powder, her best friend moves to Mexico for an acting job, and her mother announces that her long presumed dead father is actually a hippie photographer who has come to town to meet her. Sinking into a depression at being a total failure at 28, she starts fantasizing about suicide. In her depths of despair she meets various eccentric characters including a chain-smoking Santa Claus and an obnoxious literary agent. But her belief in herself is only restored when she meets a patient in a hospital where she does volunteer work.
Director: Florrie Laurence
Actors: Dedee Pfeiffer, Laura Leighton, Teri Garr, Howard Hesseman, Bert Remsen
Each Christmas Eve, the Ghost of Christmas Present selects one dark soul to be reformed by a visit from three spirits. But this season, he picked the wrong Scrooge. Clint Briggs turns the tables on his ghostly host until Present finds himself reexamining his own past, present and future.
Director: Sean Anders
Actors: Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, Octavia Spencer, Patrick Page, Sunita Mani