The last few weeks have seen quite a few new movie releases each week, and this week is no exception. While not as many films are premiering this weekend, there is still quite a selection of new movies to choose from. There is a new installment of the Scream movie saga, a sci-fi film about an astronaut who crash lands on a mysterious planet only to find he’s not alone, a drama about a former minor-league basketball coach charged with coaching a team of players with intellectual disabilities, a Bangaladeshi film about a real-life terror attack in a peaceful cafe, and much more!
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An astronaut crash lands on a mysterious planet only to discover he’s not alone.
Directed by Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
Starring: Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt, Chloe Coleman, Nika King, Brian Dare
Release date: March 10
Champions
A former minor-league basketball coach is ordered by the court to manage a team of players with intellectual disabilities. He soon realizes that despite his doubts, together, this team can go further than they ever imagined.
Directed by Bobby Farrelly
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Kaitlin Olson, Matt Cook, Ernie Hudson, Cheech Marin
Release date: March 10
I Got a Monster
The explosive story of America’s most corrupt police unit, the Gun Trace Task Force, which terrorized the city of Baltimore.
Release date: March 10
Luther: The Fallen Sun
Brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther breaks out of prison to hunt down a sadistic serial killer who is terrorizing London.
Directed by Jamie Payne
Starring: Idris Elba, Cynthia Erivo, Andy Serkis, Dermot Crowley, Thomas Coombes
Release date: March 10 (Netflix)
The Magic Flute
17-year-old Tim Walker as he travels from London to the Austrian Alps to attend the legendary Mozart boarding school. There, he discovers a centuries-old forgotten passageway into the fantastic world of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.”
Directed by Florian Sigl
Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Iwan Rheon, Jeanne Goursaud, Amir Wilson, Jack Wolfe
Release date: March 10
The Ritual Killer
A detective on the verge of retirement teams with a professor of African Studies to track down a serial killer who is performing the ancient black magic practice of Muti.
Directed by George Gallo
Starring: Cole Hauser, Morgan Freeman, Murielle Hilaire, Vernon Davis, Peter Stormare
Release date: March 10
Saturday Afternoon
An unprecedented terrorist attack takes place in a peaceful café in the center of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, on a nice Saturday afternoon. The terrorists use religion to divide and to kill people, while the surviving hostages, all of them also Muslims, try to defend their own humanistic values. The film unravels the clashes and contradictions of religion, ideology, and civilizations through a terror drama shot in a single take.
Directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Starring: Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Nusrat Imrose Tisha, Manoj Kumar Pramanik, Eyad Hourani, Zahid Hasan
Release date: March 10
Scream VI
In the next installment, the survivors of the Ghostface killings leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter in New York City.
Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Starring: Melissa Barrera, Courteney Cox, Jenna Ortega, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Hayden Panettiere
Release date: March 10
