It's Halloweek, which means it's the end of the month, as we get closer to the start of the holiday season. October has seen the arrival of some major titles on streaming, including Deadpool & Wolverine,Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and Alien: Romulus. Now this week looks like it will end the month and begin November with a bang. You can check out the list below to find out which movies are arriving on streaming this week.
The body-horror/Hollywood satire follows Elizabeth Sparkle, a former A-list actress and Oscar winner whose star is fading, and her entire career comes crumbling down on her 50th birthday when she is fired from her job as the host of a fitness show. After getting into a car accident, Elizabeth is introduced to a mysterious new drug known only as "The Substance," which has a younger and more glamorous version of herself hatched from her back every seven days, leaving her older body unconscious on the bathroom floor. The younger Elizabeth, who goes by Sue, thrives off stardom, but when she starts abusing "The Substance," it proves to have severe consequences on Elizabeth's older self.
Coralie Fargeat (Revenge) directs the film, which stars Demi Moore (Ghost), Margaret Qualley (Once Upon a Time in Holywood), and Dennis Quaid (The Day After Tomorrow).
A fading celebrity, Elisabeth Sparkle, turns to a mysterious drug that promises to restore her youth. The drug temporarily creates a younger version of herself, named Sue, who quickly ascends to the fame Elisabeth once craved.
IMDb ID tt17526714
Release Date September 20, 2024
TMDB User Rating 0 .0
Director Coralie Fargeat
CastDemi Moore , Margaret Qualley , Dennis Quaid , Gore Abrams , Hugo Diego Garcia , Olivier Raynal , Tiffany Hofstetter , Tom Morton , Jiselle Burkhalter , Axel Baille , Oscar Lesage , Matthew Géczy , Philip Schurer
Runtime 140 Minutes
Writers Coralie Fargeat
Studio(s) Working Title Films , A Good Story
Character(s) Elisabeth Sparkle , Sue , Harvey , Oliver , Diego , Alan , The Stylist , The Doctor , Girl , The Photographer , Troy , Bob Haswell , Mr. Scream
Ali Abbasi's latest film presents a man dead set on remaking New York City in his image.
In case you somehow forgot, the 2024 Presidential Election is next week, which sees the embattled former President Donald Trump vying for the Oval Office against current Vice-President Kamala Harris. So it makes a lot of sense that Ali Abassi's (Holy Spider) controversial Trump biopic, The Apprentice, is making its way to VOD this week.
The film takes place in 1970s New York, long before Trump entered the White House, and sees him forming a toxic relationship with attorney Roy Cohn. Cohn sees a lot of potential in Trump and helps shape him into the polarizing figure that he is now.
Sebastian Stan (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) stars as Trump, alongside a cast that also includes Jeremy Strong (Succession), Academy Award nominee Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm), and Martin Donovan (Tenet).
In 1970s New York, a young Donald Trump, an ambitious heir of a wealthy family, is mentored by Roy Cohn, a ruthless attorney. Under Cohn's influence, Trump navigates the complexities of power and ambition, shaping his future persona through a relentless pursuit of success and dominance.
Release Date October 11, 2024
Director Ali Abbasi
CastSebastian Stan , Jeremy Strong , Maria Bakalova , Emily Mitchell , Martin Donovan , Patch Darragh , Stuart Hughes , Eoin Duffy , Chloe Madison , Ben Sullivan , Mark Rendall , Joe Pingue , Catherine McNally , Charlie Carrick , Jim Monaco , Bruce Beaton , Ian D. Clark , Valerie O'Connor , James Madge , Ron Lea , Edie Inksetter , Michael Hough , Robert J. Tavenor , Raechel Fisher , Stefanie Martino , Randy Thomas , Myron Ron Reider , Sharon Wilcox
Runtime 123 Minutes
Main Genre Drama
Writers Gabriel Sherman
Studio(s) Fabula Pictures
Character(s) Donald Trump , Roy Cohn , Ivana Trump , Ivanka Trump , Fred Trump , Daniel Sullivan , Mike Wallace , Tony Schwartz , Fancy , Russell Eldridge , Roger Stone , Fat Tony Salerno , Mary Anne Trump , Freddy Trump , Al Formicola , Andy Warhol , Ed Koch , Rona Barret , Tom Bolan , Victor Palmieri , Barbara Katz , Kinney (Reporter #1) , Reporter #2 , Reporter (#3) , Reporter #4 , Reporter #5 , Atlantic City Gambler #1 , Atlantic City Gambler #2
'Joker: Folie à Deux'
Available on: Tuesday, October 29
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While Todd Phillips' Joker was initially billed as a stand-alone film when it first debuted in 2019, it makes sense as to why Warner Bros wanted a sequel to the film. After all, the crime-thriller not only became the first R-rated movie to make a billion dollars at the box office, but it also went on to win several Oscars, including one for Joaquin Phoenix. Yet when the sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux, hit theaters a few weeks ago, not only was it panned by both critics and audiences, but it was a box office disaster. So if you were one of the many who skipped the sequel in theaters, you'll have the chance to watch it at home this week.
Set two years after the events of the first film, Folie à Deux sees Arthur Fleck in custody at Arkham State Hospital, awaiting trial for his crimes. While attending a musical therapy class, he meets Lee, a mysterious woman who idolizes the Joker and encourages Arthur to embrace his dangerous persona. One of the sequel's biggest distinctions from the original is the fact that this film is a jukebox musical, with several musical numbers taking place within the heads of both Arthur and Lee.
Phillips returns to direct the sequel with Phoenix reprising his Oscar-winning role alongside a cast that also includes Academy Award winner Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born), Academy Award nominee Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin), Academy Award nominee Catherine Keener (Get Out), Zazie Beetz (Atlanta), Academy Award nominee Steve Coogan (Philomena), Harry Lawtey (Industry), and Leigh Gill (Game of Thrones).
Joker: Folie à Deux explores Arthur Fleck's ongoing struggle with his dual identity as he unexpectedly discovers love and unleashes his hidden musical talent. Set against a backdrop of societal unrest, Arthur's journey intertwines personal transformation with chaotic encounters, leading to profound shifts in his life and the world around him.
WritersTodd Phillips , Scott Silver , Bob Kane , Paul Dini , Bill Finger , bruce timm , Jerry Robinson
Studio(s) Warner Bros. Pictures
Distributor(s) Warner Bros. Pictures
prequel(s) Joker
Franchise(s) Joker
Character(s) Arthur Fleck , Lee Quinzel , Jackie , Maryanne Stewart , Sophie Dumond , Paddy Meyers , Harvey Dent , Gary Puddles , The Jokester , Social Worker , E Ward Inmate (Troy Larkins) , Judge Herman Rothwax , Arkham Guard
Rock docs are nothing new, but Piece by Piece, the new film by Academy Award winner Morgan Neville (Won't You Be My Neighbor) and Grammy Award winner Pharrell Williams, dares to be different.
Told entirely through Lego animation, Piece by Piece has Williams reflecting on his youth, his rise to fame in the music industry, his partnerships with some of the biggest artists working today, and how he manages all of his successes.
Williams and Neville are joined by a Legofied cast that also includes Grammy Award winner Gwen Stefani, Grammy Award winner Kendrick Lamar, Grammy Award winner Timbaland, Grammy Award winner Justin Timberlake, Grammy Award nominee Busta Rhymes, Grammy Award winner Jay-Z, Grammy Award nominee Snoop Dogg, Grammy Award nominee Pusha T, Grammy Award winner Missy Elliott, Grammy Award winner Teddy Riley, and Nigo.
This innovative film uses LEGO® animation to tell the life story of music icon Pharrell Williams, charting his journey from childhood dreams to becoming one of the most influential figures in the music industry.
Based on RJ Palacio's novel, this film relays an important message about humanity in divisive times.
Serving as a spin-off to the 2017 Academy Award-nominated film Wonder, White Bird begins in the present day as Julian Albans is struggling to adjust to his new school. That is until his grandmother Sara visits him. From there, the movie goes back in time to 1942, as Sara tells him the story of how she attempted to escape Nazi-occupied France as a young Jewish girl.
Marc Forster (A Man Called Otto) directs the film, which stars Ariella Glaser (Radioactive), Orlando Schwerdt (True History of the Kelly Gang), Bryce Gheisar (Wonder), Gillian Anderson (The Crown), and Academy Award winner Helen Mirren (The Queen).
White Bird
White Bird follows the journey of Julian, a boy expelled from school for bullying, as he struggles to fit in at a new institution. His transformation begins when his grandmother shares her compelling story of courage during her youth in Nazi-occupied France, where a classmate offered her shelter.
Release Date October 4, 2024
Cast Ariella Glaser , Orlando Schwerdt , Bryce Gheisar , Gillian Anderson , Helen Mirren , Jo Stone-Fewings , Patsy Ferran , Stuart McQuarrie , Olivia Ross , Ishai Golan , Nadine Leon Gobet , John Bubniak , Jim High , Philip Lenkowsky , James Beaumont , Teagan Stark , Priya Ghotane , Yelisey Kazakevich , Jem Matthews , Sam Talacko , Timon McLean , Selma Kaymakci , Lily Huong Mac , Adam Bakule , Anise Napoleao dos Reis , Jordan Cramond , Laura Hudečková
Runtime 121 Minutes
Main Genre Drama
Writers Mark Bomback
Studio(s) Participant , Lionsgate , Mandeville Films
Distributor(s) Lionsgate
Character(s) Sara (Young Grandmére) , Julien Beaumier , Julián , Vivienne Beaumier , Grandmére , Jean-Claude Beaumier , Mille. Petitjean , Pastor Luc , Rose Blum , Max Blum , Robyn , Gendarme Marc , Milice Commander , Rabbi Bernstein , Pastor Robert , Dillon , Rhamiya , Henri , Vincent , Claude , Sean , Mariann , Phoebe , Arlo , Lucy , Jerome , Sara Blum (5yo / 8yo)
Despicable Me 4 marks the latest installment in Universal and Illumination's massively successful animated franchise, hot off the heels of the success of Minions: The Rise of Gru.
The new movie finds ex-villain Gru, his wife Agent Lucy Wilde, his three adopted daughters Margo, Edith, and Agnes, and his newborn son Gru Jr, being forced to go into hiding when his former rival Maxime Le Mal returns, seeking revenge alongside his girlfriend Valentina. However, the hijinks don't end there, as the family's new neighbor, Poppy Prescott, is an aspiring young supervillain who has always looked up to Gru. Meanwhile, Gru and Lucy's workplace, the Anti-Villain League, has recruited several of Gru's minions to become a superhero team known as the Megaminions.
Directed once more by Academy Award nominee Chris Renaud, Despicable Me 4 sees the return of much of the voice-cast from the previous movies, including Academy Award nominee Steve Carell as Gru, Academy Award nominee Kristen Wigg as Lucy, Pierre Coffin as the Minions, Miranda Cosgrove as Margo, Dana Gaier as Edith, and Academy Award nominee Steve Coogan as Silas Ramsbottom. New cast members include Will Ferrell (Elf) as Maxime, Joey King (The Kissing Booth) as Poppy, Sofía Vergara (Modern Family) as Valentina, Stephen Colbert (The Late Show) as Perry, Chloe Fineman (Saturday Night Live) as Patsy, and Madison Polan as Agnes.
Gru and his family are back, welcoming a new member, Gru Jr., who causes chaos at home. Facing a new nemesis, Maxime Le Mal, and his partner Valentina, Gru and his family go on the run.
Based on the beloved 1955 children's book of the same name by Crockett Johnson, Harold and the Purple Crayon isn't a direct adaptation of its source material, and instead serves as a sequel.
Harold has now grown up, and after his narrator suddenly vanishes, he decides to take matters into his own hands by drawing a portal to the real world to look for him alongside his two best friends, Moose and Porcupine. However, the real world is much more complicated than Harold could ever imagine, and he must learn the harsh truth: not everything can be solved with a magical purple crayon. Harold and his friends aren't alone for very long, and they quickly befriend a young boy named Mel and his mother Terri. When an evil librarian gets ahold of Harold's magic, the friends must work together to get Harold home.
A young boy named Harold embarks on a magical mission with the help of his purple crayon
Release Date August 2, 2024
Director Carlos Saldanha
Runtime 92 Minutes
Writers David Guion , Michael Handelman
Studio Columbia Pictures, Davis Entertainment
Cinematographer Gabriel Beristain
Studio(s) Columbia Pictures , Davis Entertainment
Distributor(s) Sony
'Time Cut'
Available on: Wednesday, October 30
Madison Bailey (Outer Banks) and Antonia Gentry (Ginny & Georgia) star in the time-traveling slasher Time Cut. The movie follows Lucy Field, a high school senior, who travels back in time to 2003, to stop her older sister from being murdered.
Hannah Macpherson (School Spirits) directs the movie, which also stars Michael Shanks (Stargate SG-1), Griffin Gluck (American Vandal), and Rachael Crawford (Possessor).
A teenage girl goes back in time to the early 2000s to save her sister from a dangerous killer.
Release Date October 30, 2024
Director Hannah Macpherson
Cast Madison Bailey , Megan Best , Michael Shanks , Antonia Gentry , Griffin Gluck
Julianne Nicholson (Mare of Easttown) stars as an acupuncturist hippie named Janet in Janet Planet. The movie marks the feature directorial debut of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker and follows the titular character as she spends the summer at home in rural Massachusetts alongside Lacy, her 11-year-old daughter. Janet decides to open up her life even more, introducing her daughter to her boyfriend Wayne, her friend Regina, and local theatre group leader Avi. Lacy starts to become weary of her mother's social life and begins to become even more clingy, which frustrates Janet.
Janet Planet also stars newcomer Zoe Ziegler, Elias Koteas (Chicago P.D.), Will Patton (Yellowstone), and Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda).
In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass, three visitors enter their orbit, all captivated by Janet.
Last year, Academy Award winner Russell Crowe performed an exorcism in The Pope's Exorcist, but now he's the one being exorcised. In The Exorcism, Crowe plays Anthony Miller, an actor on the set of a supernatural horror movie titled "The Georgetown Project." When he begins exhibiting increasingly erratic and strange behavior, his daughter Lee starts to expect that he has been possessed by a demonic force.
Joshua John Miller (The Final Girls) directed the movie, which also stars Ryan Simpkins (Fear Street), Sam Worthington (Avatar: The Way of Water), Chloe Bailey (Swarm), Adam Goldberg (A Beautiful Mind), Adrian Pasdar (Carlito's Way), and David Hyde Pierce (Frasier).
A troubled actor begins to exhibit a disruptive behavior while shooting a horror film. His estranged daughter wonders if he's slipping back into his past addictions or if there's something more sinister at play.
Release Date June 7, 2024
Director Joshua John Miller , M.A. Fortin
Runtime 93 Minutes
Writers Joshua John Miller , M.A. Fortin
Studio(s) MiraMax , Outerbanks Entertainment
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'The Dead Don't Hurt'
Available on: Friday, November 1 (through Paramount+ with Showtime)
While this Western is made up of some standard elements, a subtle yet shattering central performance from Krieps is what makes it into something more.
Academy Award nominee Viggo Mortensen (A History of Violence) tackles the West in his second directorial outing: The Dead Don't Hurt. The movie focuses on Vivienne Le Coudy, a Franco-Canadian woman living in San Francisco in the 1860s, who is being courted by an art collector. Looking for an exit, Vivienne soon falls in love with Holger Olsen, a Danish immigrant who takes her to his remote cabin in Nevada. When the Civil War causes strife across the nation, Olsen makes the difficult decision to go fight for the Union, leaving Vivienne behind. Upon Olsen's return, Vivienne comes to the heartbreaking revelation that Olsen is no longer the man she initially fell in love with.
Mortensen also stars in the movie alongside a cast that includes Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread), Solly McLeod (Tom Jones), Garret Dillahunt (Deadwood), Colin Morgan (Belfast), Ray McKinnon (Sons of Anarchy), W. Earl Brown (Deadwood), Nadia Litz (Crimes of the Future), John Getz (The Social Network), and Danny Huston (The Aviator).
Set in the 1860s, the fiercely independent French Canadian Vivienne Le Coudy embarks on a relationship with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen.
Tony Goldwyn's latest directorial features a career-best performance from Bobby Cannavale and a career-making performance from William Fitzgerald.
Ezra is an R-rated dramedy that tells the story of on-the-rise stand-up comic Max Brandel, who is struggling to raise his autistic son, Ezra. Newly divorced, Max is back living with his father, Stan, and is constantly bickering with his ex-wife Jenna over how to properly raise Ezra. After a series of incidents, Max is given a three-month restraining order from seeing his son. When he gets a once-a-lifetime opportunity in Los Angeles, Max and Ezra hit the road and go on a cross-country road trip.
Tony Goldwyn (Scandal) directs the movie, which stars Bobby Cannavale (The Irishman), Rose Bryne (Neighbors), Academy Award winner Robert De Niro (Raging Bull), Academy Award nominee Vera Farmiga (The Conjuring), Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost), Rainn Wilson (The Office), Goldwyn, and newcomer William Fitzgerald.
Ezra centers on comedian Max co-parenting autistic son Ezra with ex-wife Jenna. Faced with crucial decisions about Ezra's future, Max and Ezra go on a life-changing cross-country road trip.
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