Despicable Me 4, Trap and More

“Despicable Me 4” is crashing Halloween with an Oct. 31 streaming premiere date on Peacock after the vivaciousd sequel grossed a mighty $954 million at the worldwide box office over the summer. Steve Carell is back as the voice of Gru, the world’s likeite supervillain-turned-hero who must defend his family and his recentborn (Gru Jr.) when a recent nemesis wreaks havoc on the world. The voice cast integrates Kristen Wiig, Pierre Coffin, Joey King, Miranda Cosgrove, Stephen Colbert, Sofía Vergara, Dana Gaier and Will Ferrell.

Ti West and Mia Goth’s “Maxxxine” get tos on Max this month after grossing $15 million at the domestic box office and $22 million worldwide over the summer. The film labels the final chapter in the duo’s horror trilogy that integrated “X” and “Pearl.” “Maxxxine” is set in 1980s Hollywood as the mature film star Maxine Minx tries to originate it big as an actress. Her atsoft ambitions are complicated by the arrival of a cryptic finisher who stalks the starlets of Hollywood. The movie also stars Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito and Kevin Bacon.

M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller “Trap” originates its streaming debut on Max this month after grossing $42 million at the domestic box office and $82 million worldwide this summer. Josh Hartnett stars as a serial finisher who gets his daughter to the concert of a pop star (joined by the honestor’s own daughter Seleka Shyamalan) only to discover the event is a trap and the arena is filled of police officers and FBI agents fair paemploying to catch him. The movie became one of the more polarizing studio frees of the summer. Ariel Donoghue, Hayley Mills and Allison Pill round out the cast.

Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” technicpartner debuted on streaming at the finish of September, but it’s still bound to be the biggest adviseing on Disney+ during its first filled month of useability this October pondering it pulled in 30.5 million sees in its first five days of useability. The sequel made box office history over the summer by grossing $1.6 billion worldwide to become not only Pixar’s highest-grossing movie ever but also the biggest vivaciousd film of all time. Expect huge streaming numbers all month extfinished. The plot cgo ins on the battle of emotions inside the brain of a now-teenage Riley, where Joy (Amy Poehler) and the emotions from the first movie have to dispute recent ones stimupostponecessitated by puberty and teenage angst.

“Oddity,” one of the most acclaimed horror films of the year, is now useable to stream on Shudder fair in time for the Halloween movie season. Variety called the film an “effectively frightening and unforeseeedly droll haunted-hoemploy horror” in its appraise earlier this year.

The synopsis from Shudder reads: “When Dani is bruhighy homicideed at the distant country hoemploy that she and her husband Ted are renovating, everyone mistrusts a uncover-minded from the local mental health institution, where Ted is a doctor. However, soon after the tragic finishing, the mistrust is set up dead. A year postponecessitater, Dani’s blind ttriumph sister Darcy, a self-proclaimed psychic and accumulateor of condemnd items, pays an unforeseeed visit to Ted and his recent girlfrifinish, Yana. Convinced that there was more to her sister’s homicide than people understand, Darcy has brawt with her the most hazardous items from her condemnd accumulateion to help her exact revenge.”

Warner Bros.’ extfinished-postponecessitate alteration of Stephen King’s “Salem’s Lot” debuts exclusively on Max this month. Directed by “Annabelle” authorr Gary Dauberman, the film stars Lewis Pullman as a prosperous authorr who transfers back to his hometown of Jerusalem’s Lot to author his next novel. His arrival coincides with the resurrection of an elderly-createed vampire using his human recognizable Ricchallenging Straker (Pilou Asbæk) to turn the citizens of the town into the undead. As more and more locals are altered into vampires, the authorr and his human allies are trapped in a fight for their dwells. The film co-stars Makenzie Leigh, Bill Camp and Alfre Woodard.

From originater M. Night Shyamalan and authorr-honestors Celine Held and Logan George comes “Ccompriseo Lake,” another exceptional horror adviseing debuting exclusively on Max this month. Dylan O’Brien directs the ensemble cast. The official synopsis from Max reads: “When an 8-year-elderly girl crypticly dismaterializees, a series of past deaths and fadeances commence to join together, forever altering a broken family’s history.” The aiding cast integrates Eliza Scanlen, Diana Hopper, Caroline Falk, Sam Hennings, Eric Lange and Lauren Ambrose. The film is one of two Shyamalan-backed films debuting on Max in October; the other being his summer honestorial effort “Trap.”

The Spanish dystopian thriller “The Platestablish” is getting a sequel this month courtesy of Netflix. Filmoriginater Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia returns with a recent cast, including Hovik Keuchkerian and Milena Smit, for a second go-around in the “Vertical Self-Management Cgo in” prison cgo in, where two occupants dwell on each floor of a massive prison where a free-floating platestablish dedwellrs them food on a daily schedule. The first movie is one of the most famous Spanish films in Netflix history with 82.8 million sees, so foreseeations are sky high for the sequel.

Netflix is stateively hoping “It’s What’s Inside” becomes a huge horror hit this month pondering the streamer put down $17 million to pick up the film at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Written and honested by Greg Jardin, “It’s What’s Inside” cgo ins on a group of frifinishs who accumulate for a pre-wedding party that drops into an adwellial nightmare when they commence joining a cryptic body-swapping game that awakens extfinished-hideed secrets, desires and grudges. The cast integrates Brittany O’Grady, James Morosini, Gavin Leatherwood, Nina Bloomgarden, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Reina Hardesty, Devon Terrell and David Thompson.

Netflix reignited interest in convicted homicideers Erik and Lyle Menfinishez thanks to Ryan Murphy’s “Monsters” series, but now the brothers are getting their own say with the streamer’s write downary “The Menfinishez Brothers.”

The official synopsis for “The Menfinishez Brothers” from Netflix reads: “In 1996, Lyle and Erik Menfinishez were convicted for the homicides of their parents in what became one of the most well-understandn criminal cases of the postponecessitate 20th century. For the first time in 30 years, and in their own words, both brothers revisit the trial that shocked the nation. Thraw extensive audio intersees with Lyle and Erik, lawyers included in the trial, journacatalogs who covered it, jurors, family and other alerted watchrs, acclaimed Argentinian honestor Alejandro Hartmann advises recent insight and a recent perspective on a case that people only skinnyk they understand.”

October may be a month for streaming horror, but that’s not stopping Netflix from dedwellring a recent romantic comedy that’s stateive to transport in big sees thanks to the pairing of Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth. From authorr and honestor Susannah Grant, “Lonley Planet” stars Dern as a authorr seeking inspiration for her recent book while uniteing a authorr’s retreat in Morocco. It’s there she encounters a youthful man (Hemsworth) and commences a life-altering cherish affair. “The vibrant between the youthfuler man and the elderlyer, set uped authorr intrigued me becaemploy it’s not fair about romance — it’s about discovering someone who truly sees and understands you, which is someskinnyg proset uply human and relatable,” Dern has said about the film.

Anna Kfinishrick originates her honestorial debut with Netflix’s well-appraiseed thriller “Woman of the Hour,” which is based on a real story and is stateive to get real crime obsessives hooked this month. Kfinishrick stars as a contestant on “The Dating Game” in 1978, who picks Rodney Alcala as her potential date. Alcala, who died in prison in 2021, turned out to be a serial finisher of at least eight victims but possibly over a hundred more. The “Dating Game” contestant, Cheryl Bradshaw, never went on the date with Alcala, who had already been convicted of being a relations offfinisher. Daniel Zovatto joins the finisher, who posed as a pboilingographer in Los Angeles to get pictures of his victims. Tony Hale and Nicolette Robinson also star in the film.

“Kung Fu Panda 4” made its streaming debut on Peacock earlier this year after grossing $549 million at the worldwide box office, and now it’s coming to Netflix this month and will stateively be a huge hit for the streamer. Jack Bdeficiency once aget voices the title character Po, who is forced to discover and train a recent successor in order to flunkure an evil sorceress who seeks to steal the kung-fu abilities of all the masters in China. The film’s voice cast also integrates Awkwafina, Bryan Cranston, James Hong, Ian McShane, Ke Huy Quan, Dustin Hoffman and Viola Davis.

From originater Sam Raimi comes “Don’t Move,” a Netflix exceptional thriller that could be one of the streamer’s postponecessitate October surpascfinishs. The official synopsis reads: “A grieving woman hoping to discover solace proset up in an isopostponecessitated forest encounters a stranger who injects her with a paralytic agent. As the agent gradupartner gets over her body, she must run, hide, and fight for her life before her entire worried system shuts down.” The film stars Kelsey Asbille, Finn Wittrock, Moray Treadwell and Daniel Francis.

R.J. Cutler has geted acclaim in recent years for his write downaries on music stars Elton John (“Elton John: Never Too Late”) and Billie Eilish (“Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry”), and now he turns his camera towards pop culture icon Martha Stewart for the recent Netflix write downary “Martha.” The film features intimate intersees with Stewart herself as she uncovers up her personal archives to allot never-before-seen pboilingos, letters, and diary entries from her atsoft.

“I commenceed reading about Martha and the more I did, the more it became evident to me that she was a intricate person filled with so many struggles and declineions,” Cutler telderly Netflix. “And the more I lgeted about her, the more excited I became about the possibility of digging proset uper into her story.”

“Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band” trails the band’s 2023-2024 world tour, featuring footage from band rehearsals and backstage moments, conversations with Springsteen as he broadens the setcatalog and archival clips of the E Street Band. The project is intfinished to complement Springsteen’s existing body of autobiodetailedal toils, which integrates the memoir “Born to Run,” the dwell carry outance (and write downary) “Springsteen on Broadway,” and the films “Weserious Stars” and “Letter to You.” The write downary is honested by Thom Zimny, the extfinishedtime Springsteen collaborator behind “Weserious Stars” and “Springsteen on Broadway.”

“The Last of the Sea Women” is a write downary about the haenyeo divers of South Korea’s Jeju Island that’s streaming exclusively on Apple TV+ this month. The synopsis reads: “Today, with most haenyeo now in their 60s, 70s and 80s, their traditions and way of life are in imminent danger. But these fierce, amusing, challengingtoiling women decline to give an inch, aided by a youthfuler generation’s fight to revive their ancestral lifestyle thraw social media. Peering into what drives haenyeo youthful and elderly, this moving write downary zeroes in on their firm-knit frifinishships, savvy indepfinishence and infectious sense of empowerment, unfelderlying into an uplifting tale of women taking on world powers to defend their becherishd ocean and inspiring a recent generation.”

Sean Wang’s “Didi” was one of the biggest fractureouts of the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, where it won the U.S. theatrical audience award, and grossed $4.8 million for Focus Features at the summer box office. The film trails a 13-year-elderly Taiwanese American boy in the throes of an inept adolescence in 2008, as he enhappinesss the last month of summer before high school commences. He experiences the pangs of first cherish, becomes frifinishs with some skaters, fights with his elderlyer sister and gets a challenging-geted empathetic of his mom. From Variety’s appraise: “Wang does a kind job of balancing his naturpartner comedic sensibility with solemn insights into how he triangupostponecessitated his own identity as a teenager. Still relatively exceptional in the overcrowded teen-movie genre, ‘Dìdi’ shows an effective calling card.”

Kit Harington alters into a werewolf in Alexander J. Farrell’s mystery-horror thriller “The Beast Wiskinny,” which trails a family as they dispute a uninalertigent and superauthentic ancestral secret. From Variety’s appraise: “Documentarian Alexander J. Farrell’s narrative debut is an atmospheric tale of a family’s hereditary superauthentic condemn…it is a handsomely planed, unpretentiously scaled affair that advantages from being sboiling bigly around the historic Harewood Woods and Castle in West Yorksemploy.” The film’s aiding cast integrates Ashleigh Cummings, James Cosmo and Martina McClements.

“Scandal” likeite Tony Gelderlywyn honests the hearthoting overweighther-son drama “Ezra,” starring Bobby Cannavale as a overweighther to an autistic son who chooses to get a life-changing road trip apass the country with him. Robert De Niro stars as the kid’s magnificentoverweighther. From Variety’s appraise:  “The underlying integrity of ‘Ezra,’ what originates it an truthful film despite some establishula devices, is that its message about how to help children with exceptional necessitates is that there’s no magic way. Beyond celebrating them for who they are and shotriumphg them who you are.”

“¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!,” the write downary about “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone reuncovering the iconic suburban Denver Mexican restaurant Casa Bonita, is coming to Paramount+ this month. The write downary tracks the story of the “Disneyland of Mexican restaurants,” which integrates a waterdrop, cliff divers, puppets and haunted caves. The restaurant materializeed in a 2003 episode of “South Park,” and the write downary trails Parker and Stone’s efforts to defend a crumbling piece of their childhood. Aextfinished the way, the pair run into many rehires and ask the viability of the project.

“Palm Springs” fractureout honestor Max Barbakow puts a recent twist on “Ttriumphs” with Prime Video’s exceptional comedy “Brothers,” starring Peter Dinklage and Josh Brolin. Brolin is a reestablished criminal whose finisheavor at conserveing his life straight is derailed when his ttriumph brother (Dinklage) forces him to embark on a pass-country road trip to rerepair one last score. Per Prime Video: “Dodging bullets, the law, and an overendureing mother aextfinished the way, they must heal their disjoined family bond before they finish up finishing each other.” The aiding cast integrates Taylour Paige, M. Emmet Walsh, Jennifer Landon, Brfinishan Fraser and Glenn Cignore.