#FIRSTLOOK: UPCOMING NETFLIX THEATRICAL RELEASE SLATE

Netflix Canada have announced their upcoming theatrical release slate ahead. Some upcoming release dates for some awards season contenders.

POSSIBLE LOVE

IN SELECT THEATRES
TORONTO, MONTREAL, VANCOUVER – OCTOBER 23
EXPANDING – OCTOBER 30

ON NETFLIX NOVEMBER 6

ABOUT | Possible Love follows the intertwined relationship of two married couples facing different paths and hidden desires. Mi-ok (Jeon Do-yeon) lives quietly with her laid-off husband Ho-seok (Sul Kyung-gu) and their young son Cheol until a funeral brings them into the orbit of Ye-ji (Cho Yeo-jeong), a documentary filmmaker chronicling laid-off workers, and her husband Sang-woo (Zo In-sung) — a couple whose affluent lifestyle stands in sharp contrast to their own. When Mi-ok agrees to be filmed, she grows close to Ye-ji, and finds herself uneasily drawn to the unreadable Sang-woo. As their worlds collide, fractures begin to appear in their daily existence. Marking his first release in eight years, highly acclaimed director Lee Chang-dong (Burning, Poetry, Secret Sunshine) brings his signature nuance to Possible Love, capturing shifting emotions, conflicts, and contrasting outlooks that shape these relationships.

Possible Love is South Korea’s Official Selection at the 99th Academy Awards.

DIRECTOR: Lee Chang-dong
WRITERS: Lee Chang-dong, Oh Jung-mi
CAST: Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-gu, Zo In-sung, Cho Yeo-jeong

LA BOLA NEGRA

IN SELECT THEATRES
TORONTO – OCTOBER 23
VANCOUVER & MONTREAL – OCTOBER 30
EXPANDING – NOVEMBER 6

ON NETFLIX DECEMBER 2

ABOUT | A bold tapestry spanning nearly a century of Spanish history, La Bola Negra tells the story of three generations of men whose lives are intimately connected through desire, pain, and love in this celebrated film from Cannes-winning directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi.

La Bola Negra is Spain’s Official Selection at the 99th Academy Awards and Winner of the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.

DIRECTORS: Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi (“Los Javis”)
WRITERS: Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi, Alberto Conejero
CAST: Guitarricadelafuente, Miguel Bernardeau, Carlos González, Milo Quifes, Lola Dueñas, Julio Torres, Penélope Cruz, Glenn Close

GENTLE MONSTER

IN SELECT THEATRES OCTOBER 30
TORONTO, VANCOUVER, MONTREAL, OTTAWA

ON NETFLIX NOVEMBER 18

ABOUT | When a police raid shatters her life, concert pianist Lucy (Léa Seydoux) must protect her son and confront how little she knows of her husband after he is accused of an unspeakable crime in this tense thriller about trust and survival.

DIRECTOR: Marie Kreutzer
WRITER: Marie Kreutzer
PRODUCERS: Alexander Glehr, Johanna Scherz, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Jean-Christophe Reymond, and Marie Kjellson
MUSIC BY: Camille
CAST: Léa Seydoux, Jella Haase, Laurence Rupp, Malo Blanchet, Anton Rubtsov, Nils Strunk, Sylvester Groth, Patrycja Ziółkowska, Regina Fritsch, and Catherine Deneuve

THE MOSQUITO BOWL

IN SELECT THEATRES NOVEMBER 11
TORONTO, VANCOUVER, MONTREAL, CALGARY, EDMONTON, WINNIPEG, OTTAWA, VICTORIA, HALIFAX

ON NETFLIX NOVEMBER 25

ABOUT | Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, four of America’s top college football stars set their fame aside to enlist in the Marines. As they prepare for the brutal invasion of Okinawa, they’ll play in a legendary game featuring some of the greatest players in history — a game that, for many, will be the last they ever play.

The Mosquito Bowl is adapted from Pulitzer Prize winner Buzz Bissinger’s bestselling nonfiction book The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II.

DIRECTOR: Peter Berg
CAST: Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgård, Ray Nicholson, Tom Francis, Brent Comer, and Dominic Bogart

THE FURTHER MISADVENTURES
OF CLIFF BOOTH

EXCLUSIVE IMAX RELEASE
IN SELECT THEATRES NOVEMBER 25
TORONTO, VANCOUVER, MONTREAL, CALGARY, EDMONTON, WINNIPEG, OTTAWA, VICTORIA, HALIFAX

ON NETFLIX DECEMBER 23

ABOUT | Brad Pitt returns to his Academy Award-winning role as Cliff Booth, only this time it’s 1977 and it’s a very different Hollywood. Directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, the film also stars Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Carla Gugino, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Peter Weller.

Director: David Fincher
Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Brad Pitt, Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Carla Gugino, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Matt Groove and JB Tadena

IN WAVES

IN SELECT THEATRES NOVEMBER 27
TORONTO, VANCOUVER, MONTREAL

ON NETFLIX DECEMBER 11

ABOUT | Set against the sun-soaked surf culture of Southern California, IN WAVES, based on a true story, explores the joy of finding your soulmate, the courage it takes to live life to the fullest, and the enduring power of love to shape who we become and what we leave behind.

Director: Phuong Mai Nguyen
Cast: Will Sharpe, Stephanie Hsu

14TH

EXCLUSIVE TORONTO ENGAGEMENT NOVEMBER 27

ON NETFLIX DECEMBER 4

ABOUT | Written in the wreckage of the Civil War, the 14th Amendment was meant to close the door on the hierarchy of human worth. Instead, it has become a permanent argument. Ava DuVernay’s 14th pulls this constitutional fight out of the footnotes and into the present, chronicling the vicious battle over the amendment that has raged for over 150 years. Threading deep archival scholarship with piercing headlines of today, 14th brings together legal minds, politicians, historians and cultural voices in direct conversation with a question America still hasn’t settled: Who gets to belong?

14th is the Closing Night selection of the 64th New York Film Festival.

Director: Ava DuVernay
Producers: Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick, Tammy Garnes, and Paul Garnes

RAY GUNN

IN THEATRES DECEMBER 4

ON NETFLIX DECEMBER 18

ABOUT | In Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future as seen from 1939, private eye Raymond Gunn is drawn into a case involving aliens, murder and a multimedia star named Venus Nova.

Director: Brad Bird
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Tom Waits, Scarlett Johansson

#FIRSTLOOK: AVA DUVERNAY’S “14TH” COMING LATE 2026 TO NETFLIX

About 14th: Written in the wreckage of the Civil War, the 14th amendment was meant to close the door on the hierarchy of human worth. Instead, it has become a permanent argument. Ava DuVernay’s 14th pulls this constitutional fight out of the footnotes and into the present, chronicling the vicious battle over the amendment that has raged for over 150 years. Threading deep archival scholarship with piercing headlines of today, 14th brings together legal minds, politicians, historians and cultural voices in direct conversation with a question America still hasn’t settled: Who gets to belong?

14th calls on an array of historians, lawyers, scholars, curators, cultural workers and politicians – from Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) and Anna Paulina Luna (R) to former Senator Jeff Flake (R) and current Senator Alex Padilla (D), from legal minds Sherrilyn Ifill, Robert Chang and Stacey Abrams to social commentators like conservative author Donald T. Critchlow and cultural critic Hasan Piker. Pulitzer Prize winners Eric Foner and David Blight round out more than 50 expert interviews conducted by DuVernay for the film.

Credits: From ARRAY, 14th is directed by Ava DuVernay and produced by Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick, Tammy Garnes and Paul Garnes.

Quote from Director Ava DuVernay: “If 13th asked who gets caged, then 14th asks who gets counted. This is not a film about the past tense of freedom. I’m not interested in asking you to look back. The film asks what kind of country is being written beneath our feet now… while we’re busy believing the stories we’ve all been told.” Headshot HERE (photo credit: Atsushi ‘Jima’ Nishijima)

Quote from Adam Del Deo, Vice President of Documentary Film and Series at Netflix: “Ava’s remarkable ability to bring history into conversation with the present made her last documentary, the seminal BAFTA-winning and Academy Award®-nominated 13th, a cultural touchstone of the last quarter century. With 14th, she delivers another ambitious and thought-provoking documentary with the depth, artistry, and humanity that have come to define her work. We’re proud to continue our creative partnership with Ava and bring this powerful film to audiences around the world.”

About Director Ava DuVernay: Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is an Academy Award®- nominee and winner of Emmy, BAFTA, Sundance, Image and Peabody Awards. Her films include Selma, 13th, Middle of Nowhere, A Wrinkle in Time and Origin. She has created seven television series, including the acclaimed When They See Us and history-making Queen Sugar. Founder of the narrative change collective ARRAY, DuVernay holds honorary doctorates from Yale University and Morehouse College, along with the Great Americans Medal from the Smithsonian Institution. Following multiple terms on the boards of the Sundance Institute and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, she currently serves on the American Film Institute Advisory Board in her third term.

About ARRAY Filmworks: Founded in 2010, ARRAY Filmworks develops films, television, documentary, brand and installation projects that explore history, identity and the human condition through distinctive cinematic storytelling. The company’s work has earned Academy Award, BAFTA, Emmy and Peabody recognition. ARRAY Filmworks has produced seven feature films, including the Oscar-nominated documentary 13th and the most recent feature film Origin. The company has produced ten television series, including the Emmy Award-winning When They See Us and the acclaimed drama Queen Sugar. In addition, ARRAY Filmworks creates commissioned films and special projects for leading cultural institutions and global brands, from Prada to The Smithsonian.