Coming Soon - Alliance Films

Alliance Films’ list of releases from January to April.  New films include a new JANE EYRE, SCREAM 4 sand Peter Weir’s new escape film THE WAY BACK.

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BLUE VALENTINE
January 7 - Toronto
January 14 – Vancouver, Montreal
BLUE VALENTINE is the story of love found and love lost in past and present moments in time. Flooded with romantic memories of their courtship, Dean and Cindy use one night to try and save their failing marriage. Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams star in this honest portrait of a relationship on the rocks.
Director: Derek Cianfrance
Cast: Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson), Michelle Williams (Shutter Island)

SEASON OF THE WITCH
January 7 - Wide
His faith broken by years of battle as a crusader, Behmen (Nicolas Cage) returns to central Europe to find his homeland decimated by the Black Plague. While searching for food and supplies at the Palace at Marburg, Behmen and his trusted companion Felson (Ron Perlman) are apprehended and ordered by the dying Cardinal to deliver a young peasant girl, believed to be the witch responsible for the Plague to a remote abbey where her powers can be destroyed. Behmen agrees to the assignment but only if the peasant girl is granted a fair trial. As he and five others set off on this dangerous journey,
they realize with mounting dread that the cunning girl is no ordinary human, and that their mission will pit them against an evil that even in these dark times they never could have imagined.
Director: Dominic Sena (Swordfish)
Cast: Nicolas Cage (Kick-***censored***), Ron Perlman (Hellboy)

SOMEWHERE
January 7 – Toronto
January 14 – Vancouver, Montreal
From Academy Award ® winning writer/director Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation)
SOMEWHERE is a witty, moving, and empathetic look into the orbit of actor Johnny
Marco (Stephen Dorff).
You have probably seen him in the tabloids; Johnny is living at the legendary Chateau Marmont hotel in Hollywood. He has a Ferrari to drive around in, and a constant stream of girls and pills to stay in with. Comfortably numbed, Johnny drifts along. Then, his 11- year-old daughter Cleo (Elle Fanning) from his failed marriage arrives unexpectedly at the Chateau. Their encounters encourage Johnny to face up to where he is in life and confront the question that we all must: which path in life will you take?
Director: Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation)
Cast: Stephen Dorff (Public Enemies), Elle Fanning (The Curious Case
of Benjamin Button)

THE COMPANY MEN
January 21- Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal
Bobby Walker (Ben Affleck) is living the American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and co-workers Phil Woodward (Chris Cooper) and Gene McClary (Tommy Lee Jones) jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands, and fathers. Bobby soon finds himself enduring enthusiastic life coaching, a job building houses for his brother-in-law (Kevin Costner) which does not play to his executive skill set, and perhaps the realization that there is more to life than chasing the bigger, better deal. With humour, pathos, and keen observation, writer-director John Wells (the creator of “ER") introduces us to the new realities of American life.
Director: John Wells
Cast: Ben Affleck (The Town), Chris Cooper (The Town), Tommy Lee
Jones (No Country for Old Men), Kevin Costner (The Guardian)

THE WAY BACK
January 21- Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal
Inspired by Slavomir Rawicz’s acclaimed book, “The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom” as well as other real life accounts, six time Oscar® nominated director Peter Weir’s (Witness, Master And Commander, & Dead Poet’s Society) THE WAY BACK is a remarkable adventure story chronicling the escape of a small group of multinational prisoners from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and their epic life affirming journey over thousands of miles across five hostile countries. The film stars Ed Harris, Colin Farrell,
Jim Sturgess, and Saoirse Ronan.
Director: Peter Weir (Dead Poets Society)
Cast: Ed Harris (Gone Baby Gone), Colin Farrell (Crazy Heart), Jim
Sturgess (Across the Universe), Saoirse Ronan (Atonement)

THE MECHANIC
January 28 - Wide
Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham) is a ‘mechanic’ - an elite assassin with a strict code and unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. It’s a job that requires professional perfection and total detachment, and Bishop is the best in the business. But when his mentor and close friend Harry (Donald Sutherland) is murdered, Bishop is anything but detached. His next assignment is self-imposed - he wants those responsible dead. His mission grows complicated when Harry’s son Steve (Ben Foster) approaches him with the same vengeful goal and a determination to learn Bishop’s trade. Bishop has always acted alone but he can’t turn his back on Harry’s son. A methodical hit man takes an impulsive student deep into his world and a deadly partnership is born. But while in
pursuit of their ultimate mark, deceptions threaten to surface and those hired to fix problems become problems themselves.
Director: Simon West (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider)
Cast: Jason Statham (The Expendables), Ben Foster (The Messenger),
Donald Sutherland (Pride & Prejudice)

FRANKIE AND ALICE
February 4 – TBD
FRANKIE & ALICE is a moving psychological drama based on the harrowing true story of Frankie Murdoch (Halle Berry), a woman suffering with multiple personality disorder in early 1970s Los Angeles.
Director: Geoffrey Sax (White Noise)
Cast: Halle Berry (Monster’s Ball), Stellan Skarsgard (Mamma Mia!)

THE EAGLE
February 11 - Wide
A Roman epic adventure, based on the classic novel of the same name, set in the dangerous world of second-century Britain. In 140 AD, 20 years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila (Channing Tatum) arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander of the Ninth. Accompanied only by his British slave Esca (Jamie Bell) Marcus sets out across Hadrian’s Wall into the uncharted highlands of Caledonia – to confront its savage tribes, make peace with his father’s memory, and retrieve the lost legion’s golden emblem, the Eagle of the Ninth.
Director: Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland)
Cast: Channing Tatum (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Dear John), Jamie
Bell (Defiance, Jumper), Donald Sutherland (Pride & Prejudice),
Mark Strong (Sherlock Holmes)

JANE EYRE
March 11 - Limited
Based on Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel, the romantic drama stars Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender in the lead roles. In the story, Jane Eyre flees Thornfield House, where she works as a governess for wealthy Edward Rochester. The isolated and imposing residence – and Mr. Rochester’s coldness – have sorely tested the young woman’s resilience, forged years earlier when she was orphaned. As Jane reflects upon her past and recovers her natural curiosity, she will return to Mr. Rochester – and the terrible secret that he is hiding…
Director: Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre)
Cast: Mia Wasikowska (Alice In Wonderland), Michael Fassbender
(Inglourious Basterds), Jamie Bell (Defiance), Judi Dench
(Quantum of Solace)

BEASTLY
March 18 - Wide
Seventeen year old Kyle (Alex Pettyfer) is the spoiled, shallow and incredibly popular prince of his high school kingdom. Entirely captivated and empowered by his own physical appearance, Kyle foolishly chooses Kendra (Mary-Kate Olsen) as his latest target for humiliation. But things are not as they seem and the disgraced Kendra, a witch masquerading as a high school student, enacts the perfect revenge. She transforms Kyle into someone as unattractive on the outside as he is on the inside. Now he has one year to find someone to love him, or he will remain “Beastly” forever. To hope, a quiet classmate he never noticed named Lindy (Vanessa Hudgens), may be his best chance to prove that love is never ugly.
Director: Daniel Barnz (Phoebe In Wonderland)
Cast: Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical 3: Senior Year), Alex
Pettyfer (Alex Rider: Stormbreaker), Mary-Kate Olsen (The
Wackness)

LIMITLESS
March 18 - Wide
The much-anticipated LIMITLESS, starring Oscar®-winner Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, and Anna Friel. Neil Burger (The Illusionist) directs Leslie Dixon’s (Pay it Forward) script about a copywriter who discovers a top-secret drug which bestows him with super human abilities. As his usage begins to change his life, he begins to consider the drug’s shadowy origins; meanwhile, a group of killers trails his every move.
Director: Neil Burger (The Illusionist)
Cast: Bradley Cooper (The Hangover), Abbie Cornish (Stop-Loss),
Robert De Niro (Raging Bull), Anna Friel (Land of the Lost)

MIRAL
March TBD
From Julian Schnabel, director of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Before Night Falls and Basquiat, comes MIRAL, the visceral, first-person diary of a young girl growing up in East Jerusalem as she confronts the effects of occupation and war in every corner of her life. Schnabel pieces together momentary fragments of Miral’s world – how she was formed, who influenced her, all that she experiences in her tumultuous early years – to create a raw, moving, poetic portrait of a woman whose small, personal story is inextricably woven into the bigger history unfolding all around her.
Director: Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
Cast: Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire), Hiam Abbass (The Limits of
Control), Willem Dafoe (Daybreakers)

INSIDIOUS
April 1– Wide
Josh (Patrick Wilson) and Renai (Rose Byrne) have a happy family with their three young children. When tragedy strikes their young son, Josh and Renai begin to experience things that science cannot explain. James Wan and Leigh Whannell, the co-creators of Saw, join forces with the producers
of Paranormal Activity to take you on a mind-bending journey into the world of the unknown. INSIDIOUS is produced by Jason Blum, Steven Schneider, and Oren Peli and executive produced by Brian Kavanaugh-Jones.
Director: James Wan (Saw)
Cast: Patrick Wilson (The A-Team), Rose Byrne (Get Him to the Greek),
Barbara Hershey (Black Swan)

HANNA
April 8 – Wide
Award-winning director Joe Wright creates a boldly original suspense thriller with HANNA, starring Academy Award® nominee Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones, Atonement) in the title role. Raised by her father (Eric Bana of Star Trek), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna’s upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. The turning point in her adolescence is a sharp one; sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys stealthily across Europe while eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative with secrets of her own (Academy Award® winner Cate Blanchett). As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity.
Director: Joe Wright (Atonement)
Cast: Saoirse Ronan (Atonement), Eric Bana (Star Trek), Cate
Blanchett (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

SCREAM 4
April 15 – Wide
In SCREAM 4, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey (David Arquette) and Gale (Courteney Cox-Arquette), who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill (Emma Roberts) and her Aunt Kate (Mary McDonnell). Unfortunately Sidney’s appearance also brings about the return of Ghostface, putting Sidney, Gale, and Dewey, along with Jill, her friends, and the whole town of Woodsboro in danger. The newest installment in the acclaimed franchise that ushered in a new wave of horror
in the 1990s is written by series creator Kevin Williamson and directed by suspense master and director of the first trilogy, Wes Craven.
Director: Wes Craven (Scream)
Cast: Neve Campbell (Scream 3), Courteney Cox-Arquette (Scream 3),
David Arquette (Scream 3), Emma Roberts (Valentine’s Day),
Hayden Panettiere (I Love You, Beth Cooper)

REPEATERS
April 22– Toronto, Vancouver
REPEATERS, from acclaimed filmmaker Carl Bessai, is a gritty mind-bending thriller about three twenty-somethings who find themselves in an impossible time labyrinth, where each day they awaken to the same terrifying day as the preceding one. The film stars Dustin Milligan, Amanda Crew, and Richard de Klerk.
Director: Carl Bessai (Unnatural & Accidental)
Cast: Dustin Milligan (Gunless), Amanda Crew (Charlie St. Cloud),
Richard de Klerk (Cole