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2008 film directed by Robert Luketic
Kick-Ass 2
2013 film directed by Jeff Wadlow
Bad Boys II
2003 film directed by Michael Bay
Power Rangers
2017 film directed by Dean Israelite
Lilo & Stitch (2025 film)
Lilo & Stitch is a 2025 American live-action animated science fiction comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Rideback. Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, it is a live-action animated remake of Disney's 2002 traditionally animated film Lilo & Stitch. The film stars Sydney Elizebeth Agudong, Billy Magnussen, Hannah Waddingham, Courtney B. Vance, Zach Galifianakis, and Maia Kealoha in her film debut, with original Lilo & Stitch writer-director Chris Sanders reprising his voice role as Stitch.
Death on the Nile
2022 film by Kenneth Branagh
Kubo and the Two Strings
2016 animated film directed by Travis Knight
30 Days of Night
2007 vampire horror film directed by David Slade
The Predator
2018 film directed by Shane Black
Gods of Egypt
2016 film directed by Alex Proyas
Jungle Cruise
2021 film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
Pan
2015 film directed by Joe Wright
Crazy Rich Asians
2018 film directed by Jon M. Chu
Begin Again
2014 film directed by John Carney
Hellboy
2019 film directed by Neil Marshall
Dragonball Evolution
2009 film by James Wong
Speed Racer
2008 American sports action film
Blonde
2022 film directed by Andrew Dominik
Zoolander 2
2016 film by Ben Stiller
All the Money in the World
2017 film by Ridley Scott
Michael (2026 film)
Michael is a 2026 biographical film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by John Logan. It follows the life of American singer Michael Jackson, covering his involvement in the Jackson 5 in the 1960s to the Bad tour in the late 1980s. Jackson is portrayed by his nephew Jaafar Jackson and as a child by Juliano Krue Valdi, both in their film debuts. The supporting cast includes Nia Long, KeiLyn Durrel Jones, Laura Harrier, Jessica Sula, Mike Myers, Miles Teller, and Colman Domingo.
Max Payne
2008 film by John Moore
Kill Your Darlings
2013 film directed by John Krokidas
Don't Worry Darling
2022 film directed by Olivia Wilde
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
2007 film by Dennis Dugan
blackface
right|thumbnail|280px|This reproduction of a 1900 William H. West (entertainer)|William H. West [[minstrel show poster, originally published by the Strobridge Lithographing Company, shows the transformation from a person of European descent to a caricature of a dark-skinned person of African descent.]]
The 355
2022 film directed by Simon Kinberg
The Beguiled
2017 film directed by Sofia Coppola
Aloha
2014 film by Cameron Crowe
Wuthering Heights (2026 film)
Wuthering Heights is a 2026 romantic period drama film produced, written and directed by Emerald Fennell. Loosely based on the 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, the film is a reinterpretation intended by Fennell to "recreate the feeling of a teenage girl reading this book for the first time". Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi respectively star as Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, alongside Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes, and Ewan Mitchell in supporting roles.
Victor Victoria
Victor/Victoria is a 1982 musical comedy film written and directed by Blake Edwards and starring Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras, and John Rhys-Davies. The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Tony Adams and scored by Henry Mancini, with lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning for Best Original Score.
Maestro
2023 film directed by Bradley Cooper
Son of the Mask
2005 film by Lawrence Guterman
Scream 7
Scream 7 is a 2026 American slasher film directed by Kevin Williamson and written by Williamson and Guy Busick. It is the sequel to Scream VI (2023) and the seventh installment in the Scream film series. The film stars Neve Campbell, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, David Arquette, Matthew Lillard, and Courteney Cox reprising their roles from the previous films, with Isabel May, Anna Camp, Michelle Randolph, Jimmy Tatro, Mckenna Grace, Asa Germann, Celeste O'Connor, Sam Rechner, Mark Consuelos, Tim Simons, and Joel McHale also starring. The film follows a new Ghostface killer who targets Sidney Prescott's daughter.
Manderlay
Manderlay is a 2005 avant-garde drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier, the second and most recent part of von Trier's projected USA – Land of Opportunities trilogy. Unlike von Trier's other trilogies, the films' stories are connected and it is a direct sequel to Dogville. It stars Bryce Dallas Howard, who replaces Nicole Kidman in the role of Grace Mulligan. The film co-stars Willem Dafoe, replacing James Caan. Lauren Bacall, Željko Ivanek, Jeremy Davies, and Chloë Sevigny return portraying different characters from those in Dogville. Only John Hurt, Udo Kier, and Jean-Marc Barr re
The Love Guru
2008 film directed by Marco Schnabel
Congo
1995 American film directed by Frank Marshall
Selena
1997 film directed by Gregory Nava
The Birth of a Nation
2016 film directed by Nate Parker
The Wicker Man
2006 film by Neil LaBute
The Party
1968 film directed by Blake Edwards
Talk to Me
2022 film directed by Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou
The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild
2022 film directed by John C. Donkin
The Unforgiven
1960 film directed by John Huston
The Prom
2020 film directed by Ryan Murphy
Hoffa
1992 film by Danny DeVito
Artemis Fowl
2020 film by Kenneth Branagh
In the Heights
2021 film directed by Jon M. Chu
Ferrari
2023 film directed by Michael Mann
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
2023 film directed by Sam Fell
The Conqueror
1956 film by Dick Powell
A Mighty Heart
2007 film directed by Michael Winterbottom
Being the Ricardos
2021 film directed by Aaron Sorkin
The Upside
2018 film directed by Neil Burger
The Beaver
2011 film by Jodie Foster
The Son of the Sheik
1926 film by George Fitzmaurice
Golda
2023 film directed by Guy Nattiv
On the Basis of Sex
2018 film by Mimi Leder
Mary Kom
2014 Indian Hindi-language biographical sports film
The Hate U Give
2018 film directed by George Tillman, Jr.