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A reimagining of the 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis that will be set in a present day Manhattan.

A young woman is accused of murder in Iceland in 1829 and faces becoming the last woman to be publicly executed in the country. The film will tell the story of a tragic romance set against the odds during an endless Icelandic summer.

In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers bond in the Russian Ural Mountains before they mysteriously die on an elevation known as "Dead Mountain."

Director Neill Blomkamp told EW, “I would do anything to go back to the world of 'District 9' again. Or 'District 10'.”

A penniless girl (Claire Danes) in the 1930's is taken in by a circus freak (Ewan McGregor), and even as he falls in love with her, she begins to launch a career in the circus herself.

A wealthy real estate mogul is shown a path to redemption by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

The story centers on the internecine plots and counterplots surrounding Claudius, the fourth emperor of Rome who ruled from 41-54 A.D. The stuttering and handicapped Claudius, born into a murderous, imperial family, used his cunning mind and rivals' misjudgment to not only survive but eventually become one of Rome's greatest emperors.

Set in modern day, an orphan boy moves from a life as an exploited child laborer to being under the wings of Fagin, a leader of a gang. Hardship, murders and secrets waiting to be revealed follow the boy.

The small town of Paradise, CA, is ravaged by the Camp Fire of 2018 but finds hope in its high school football team and longtime coach, Rick Prinz.

Details the struggle between the “Mother Company,” a conspiracy of energy companies that secretly controls much of the Western world, and a highly skilled assassin named Nicholaï Hel.

Balthazar B is a shy and elegant young man who is victim of a bizarre series of misadventures -- from his birth into his mid-20s.

A scandal ensues after an auctioned cache of wine bottles purported to have been owned by Thomas Jefferson are called fakes.

Rebecca Nichols Alonzo loses her parents when they stand up against evil within their church — a man obsessed with controlling the church who is determined to get rid of anyone who stands in his way.

A worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion will reduce civilization to ashes unless it can be stopped by an improbable group of heroes led by an enigmatic man known as The Fireman. It's no simple blaze: the condition starts as an inky stripe on a bodypart, looking like a tattoo. It's a highly contagious deadly spore that eventually causes the sufferer to burst into flames. Millions are infected; among them is a nurse who treated numerous sufferers until they eventually perished, with the hospital burned to the ground. Pregnant, she finds herself infected with the spore. Knowing infected mothers have birthed healthy babies, she too is in a race against time.

A young man makes a deal with Death to sculpt anything he can imagine with his bare hands. Complications arise when he meets the love of his life with 200 days to live.

Set in 1935 Ethiopia with the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid in Kidane & his wife Aster's household. Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilize his strongest men before the Italians invade. His initial kindness to Hirut shifts into a flinty cruelty when she resists his advances, and Hirut finds herself tumbling into a new world of thefts and violations, of betrayals and overwhelming rage. As the war begins in earnest, Hirut, Aster, and the other women long to do more than care for the wounded and bury the dead. When Emperor Haile Selassie goes into exile and Ethiopia quickly loses hope, it is Hirut who offers a plan to maintain morale. She helps disguise a gentle peasant as the emperor and soon becomes his guard, inspiring other women to take up arms against the Italians.

A destitute and pregnant seventeen year old must make an impossible choice between love and honor.