Director: Wes Craven

Writer: Pamela Gray

Shop: USA CAN UK France Germany Austria

Drama film based on the true story of Roberta Guaspari (Streep). She introduced the violin for the children in the New York City public school system, in hope to brighten their difficult lives.

View the Trailer

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writer: Brian Aldiss (Novel), Ian Watson (Screen story), Steven Spielberg (Screenplay)—

Shop: USA CAN UK France Germany Austria

Science fiction film. Based on the short story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long.   The film takes place in the mid-21st century, and tells the story of David, boy like android programmed with the ability to love.

View the Trailer

Director: Wes Anderson

Writer: Roald Dahl (Novel), Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach (Screenplay)

—

Fantastic Mr. Fox is a stop motion animated film based on Roald Dahl’s book of the same name, it will be released on November 13, 2009.

—

The story is about a fox named Mr Fox (George Clooney). At night, he steals chickens, ducks, and turkeys from wealthy farmers to feed his family. The farmers are tiered of this and try everything to get rid of him.

—

Determined to catch him, the farmers use spades and shovels to dig their way into the foxes’ home, but Mr and Mrs Fox (Meryl Streep) and their four children dig a tunnel deeper into the ground and escape. The farmers decide to play a waiting game, keeping watch on the entrance to the fox hole with shotguns ready, while their men patrol the area to make sure the foxes don’t escape.

—

After days of starving, Mr Fox comes up with a plan. He and his children dig further on and end up in one of the farmers chicken house. There they steal some chickens and leave without any sign of them ever being there……

View the Trailer

—

Released dates

—

Russia       22 October 2009

Ukraine     22 October 2009

UK     23 October 2009

Bulgaria     6 November 2009

Malaysia     12 November 2009

Finland     13 November 2009

USA     13 November 2009

Germany     19 November 2009

Romania     20 November 2009

Italy     27 November 2009

Norway     27 November 2009

Netherlands     3 December 2009

Brazil     4 December 2009

Belgium     23 December 2009

France     23 December 2009

Argentina     7 January 2010

Australia     7 January 2010

Director: David Frankel

Writer: Susan Orlean (Novel), Charlie Kaufman (Screenplay)

—

Shop: USA CAN UK France Germany Austria

—

Comedy-drama satire film. The film is based on Susan Orlean’s book The Orchid Thief through self-referential events.  The film tells the story of Charlie Kaufman’s difficult struggle to make The Orchid Thief into a film.

View the Trailer

Director: Stephen Daldry

Writer: Michael Cunningham (Novel), David Hare (Screenplay)

—

Shop: USA CAN UK France Germany Austria

—

American/British drama film based on the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title. We follow lifes of three women of different generations whose lives are interconnected by the novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.

View the trailer

Director: Jonathan Demme

Writer: Richard Condon (Novel), Daniel Pyne (Screenplay)

—

Shop: USA CAN UK France Germany Austria

—

The story is based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Richard Condon, and a reimaking of the previous 1962 film.

View the trailer

Teaser Trailer

Director: Brad Silberling

Writer: Daniel Handler (Novel), Robert Gordon (Screenplay)

—

Shop: USA CAN UK France Germany Austria

—

A black comedy film. It is based on the first three novels, The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, and The Wide Window, in Lemony Snicket’s book series.

View the Trailer

Teaser Trailer

Cast: Uma Thurman, Meryl Streep, Bryan Greenberg

Director: Ben Younger

Writer: Ben Younger

—

Shop: USA CAN UK France Germany Austria

—

Rafi (Uma Thurman) is a divorced, career woman. David (Bryan Greenberg), a 23-year painter, falls in love with her. Rafi shares her secrets with her therapist Lisa (Meryl Streep). Not knowing Lisa is David’s mother.

View the Trailer