This week there are seven films opening in theatres across the United States. Below is a compiled list of each movie title along with a summary for each film.
- Title: Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
- Rated: PG-13
- Category: Biography, Drama, Music
- Run Time: 2 Hours 26 Minutes
- Summary: A joyous, emotional, heartbreaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, one of the greatest female R&B pop vocalists of all time, tracking her journey from obscurity to musical superstardom.
- Director: Kasi Lemmons
- Writer: Anthony McCarten
- Stars: Naomi Ackie, Stanley Tucci, Ashton Sanders
- Title: Corsage
- Category: Biography, Drama, History
- Run Time: 1 Hour 53 Minutes
- Summary: A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.
- Director: Marie Kreutzer
- Writer: Marie Kreutzer
- Stars: Vicky Krieps, Colin Morgan, Ivana Urban
- Title: Babylon
- Category: Comedy, Drama, History
- Run Time: 3 Hours 8 Minutes
- Rated: R
- Summary: A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
- Director: Damien Chazelle
- Writer: Damien Chazelle
- Stars: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Jean Smart
- Title: Write It Back
- Category: Comedy
- Summary: Led by naive idealist Matty, a group of writers in the “Alternative Content Department” of WYTE (“Whitey”) Productions has 24 hours to come up with project ideas to submit for consideration by studio management.
- Director: Jaime Reborn
- Writer: Jaime Reborn
- Stars: Jaime Reborn, Dean Edwards, Sharmell Sullivan-Huffman
- Title: The Port
- Category: Biography, Drama
- Summary: Life of the party Joe Perez (Xavier Collazo) is trying to figure out what’s next in life as the weekend is filled with adventures, just the boys.
- Director: Joel Roman
- Writer: Joel Roman
- Stars: Joel Roman, Xavier Collazo, Cecilia Merlo
- Title: Bigfoot the Monster Within
- Category: Thriller, Horror
- Summary: A locked gate Bigfoot guards to keep the garden of Eden on lockdown and to assist the last Cherub continue to guard the entrance from any possibility that any member of mankind is left.
- Director: Geovanni Molina
- Writer: Geovanni Molina
- Stars: Geovanni Molina, Chance Molina, Victor Hernandez
- Title: Puss In Boots: The Last Wish
- Category: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 Hour 40 Minutes
- Summary: Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: he has burned through eight of his nine lives. Puss sets out on an epic journey to find the mythical Last Wish and restore his nine lives.
- Directors: Joel Crawford, Januel Mercado (co-director)
- Writers: Tommy Swerdlow (story by), Tom Wheeler (story by), Paul Fisher (screenplay by)
- Stars: Antonio Banderas (voice), Salma Hayek (voice), Harvey Guillén (voice)
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