Tuesday Releases: Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch, The Girl In The Spider’s Web, & Widows

Official Synopsis: Illumination and Universal Pictures present The Grinch, based on Dr. Seuss’ beloved classic. The Grinch tells the story of a cynical grump who goes on a mission to steal Christmas, only to have his heart changed by a young girl’s generous spirit. Funny, heartwarming and visually stunning, The Grinch is fun for the whole family!

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• Mini-Movie: Yellow is the New Black
• Mini-Movie: The Dog Days of Winter
• Mini-Movie: Santa’s Little Helpers
• The Making of the Mini-Movies
• From Green to Screen
• Illuminating the Grinch
• Who’s Who in Who-ville (Interactive Map)
• My Earliest Grinch Memories
• Grinchy Gadgets
• “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch” Lyric Video
• “I Am the Grinch” Lyric Video
• Songs From His Little Heart
• Any Who Can Draw
• X-mas Around the World
• Cindy-Lou’s Yule Log
• Production Babies

Official Synopsis: It’s the late 1970s, when punk, disco and porn reigns and New York City never sleeps. Welcome to Season 2 of this dark, gritty series that follows the interconnected stories of barkeeps, prostitutes, pimps, police, actors, producers and mobsters. Five years after Season 1, the Deuce’s backroom massage parlors and SRO hotels have exploded into sprawling emporiums, featuring live sex shows and peep booths for every imaginable fetish. Among the large ensemble of characters, Vincent Martino (James Franco) now presides over a range of mob-backed nightspots while his twin, Frankie (Franco), despite his remaining a loose cannon, is managing a profitable sex establishment; and Candy (Maggie Gyllenhaal) has become a rising director of ambitious adult films.

Official Synopsis: Directed by Ingmar Bergman, Shame (Skammen) is at once an examination of the violent legacy of World War II and a scathing response to the escalation of the conflict in Vietnam. Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann star as musicians living in quiet retreat on a remote island farm, until the civil war that drove them from the city catches up with them there. Amid the chaos of the military struggle, vividly evoked by pyrotechnics and by cinematographer Sven Nykvist’s handheld camera work, the two are faced with impossible moral choices that tear at the fabric of their relationship. This film, which contains some of the most devastating scenes in Bergman’s oeuvre, shows the impact of war on individual lives.

• New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Interviews with director Ingmar Bergman and a brief excerpt from a press conference for the film, recorded in 1967 and ’68 for Swedish television
• New interview with actor Liv Ullmann
• An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman, a 1968 documentary made during the film’s production, featuring an extensive interview with Bergman
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Sragow

New cover by Anthony Gerace

Official Synopsis: Producer J.J. Abrams takes you deeper into the Cloverfield universe than ever before with this mysterious sci-fi thriller. Orbiting Earth on the brink of a devastating energy war, scientists prepare to test a device that could provide unlimited power or trap them in a terrifying alternate reality. Starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Oyelowo, Daniel Brühl and Chris O’Dowd, The Cloverfield Paradox is the ultimate journey into the unknown.

• Things Are Not as They Appear: The Making of The Cloverfield Paradox
• Shepard Team: The Cast

Official Synopsis: Claire Foy (“The Crown”) stars in a new Dragon Tattoo story as Lisbeth Salander, the highly-skilled vigilante from the acclaimed Millennium book series. Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials, as they race to rescue a dangerous program capable of global destruction held by shadowy figures linked to Lisbeth’s past.

• Feature and Deleted Scenes Audio Commentaries with Director Fede Álvarez and Screenwriter Jay Basu
• “Claire Foy: Becoming Lisbeth”
• “All About the Stunts”
• “Secrets of the Salander Sisters”
• “Creating the World: The Making Of”
• 8 Deleted Scenes

Official Synopsis: In world where journalism is under attack, Marie Colvin (Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike) is one of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time. Her mission is to show the true cost of war, driving her, along with renowned war photographer Paul Conroy (Jamie Dornan), to embark on the most dangerous assignments of their lives as they journey to the front line of conflicts across the globe.

• Becoming Marie Colvin
• Women in the World Summit Q&A
• Requiem for A Private War

Official Synopsis: Acclaimed French director Jacques Audiard’s English-language debut is western dark comedy based on Patrick deWitt’s 2011 historical novel of the same name. In 1850s Oregon, a notorious assassin duo named the Sisters Brothers (John C Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix) decide to travel to San Francisco to hunt down a gold prospector (Riz Ahmed) with the help of a detective (Jake Gyllenhaal).

• Striking Gold: Making a “Modern Day” Western
• Q&A Panel
• Promotional Featurettes:
  • Brothers Forever
  • Wanted Dead or Alive
• Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer

Official Synopsis: After the death of her criminal husband (Liam Neeson), Veronica (Viola Davis) is threatened by the Chicago gangsters he was indebted to. Veronica recruits the widows of her late husband’s fallen accomplices (Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki and Cynthia Erivo) to pull off a heist in order to pay the rival gang and get revenge for their husbands’ killings. Directed by Steve McQueen. Co-written by McQueen and Gillian Flynn. Based upon the 1983 British TV series of the same name.

• Widows Unmasked: A Chicago Story
• Plotting The Heist: The Story
• Assembling The Crew: Production
• The Scene Of The Crime: Locations
• Gallery