1) The Darkest Minds
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release date: August 3, 2018
Superhero movies are not a rare occurrence at the box office, but the female directed ones are. The Darkest Minds directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson is based on Alexandra Bracken's young adult novel of the same name. The story takes place in a world where most American’s children are killed by a plague, and the ones left possess special abilities. Ruby Daly, a sixteen-year-old runs away from a government internment camp with other teenagers and form a rebellion to avenge those who locked them up.
2) Crazy Rich Asians
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date: August 15, 2018
The Upcoming romantic comedy-drama movie is based on Kevin Kawan’s novel ‘Crazy Rich Asians’. When a Chinese-American professor Rachel Chu travels to Singapore and meets her boyfriend’s parents, she finds herself thrust into the lives of her boyfriend’s wealthy family and Asia’s rich and famous. The film is directed by Jon M. Chu, and stars Constance Wu, Henry Golding, and Gemma Chan,
3) Christopher Robin
Distributed by: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Release date: August 3, 2018 (United States)
Disney’s upcoming movie centers around the little boy in Winnie the Pooh stories, Christopher Robin played by Ewan McGregor, who grew up and lost all sense of imagination. In an effort to help him find his imagination again, Pooh and his friends enter his life again. The movie is inspired by A.A. Milne and E.H Shepard’s book and directed by Marc Forster.
4) The Little Stranger
Distributed by: Focus Features (United States) / Pathé (United Kingdom)
Release date: 31 August 2018 (US)
From the Room director Lenny Abrahamson comes a gothic drama horror film starring Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, and Will Poulter. The film is based on Sarah Waters best-selling novel of the same name. The story centers around Gleeson’s character Dr. Fraday who tends to a patient in the same house his mother once worked as a housemaid. While the decline of the house is obvious to him, his connection with the residing family, the Ayres, is yet to be revealed.
5) Slender Man
Distributed by: Screen Gems
Release date: August 10, 2018 (US)
The famous Slender Man meme, a creepypasta fictional supernatural character, is getting his own horror movie directed by Sylvain White. After their friend goes missing, a group of teenage girls investigate the mystery of the Slender Man, in turn, they become hunted by him themselves.
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