Entertainment One – January 2019 Theatrical Release Schedule

Release Date: January 24, 2019
Director: Peter Farrelly (There’s Something About Mary)
Featuring: Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic), Mahershala Ali (Moonlight) and Linda Cardellini (Bloodline)

Starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, GREEN BOOK is the uplifting true story of a friendship that defied the odds. Set in 1962, the film follows Italian-American Tony Lip (Mortensen), who is hired to chauffer African-American pianist Dr. Don Shirley (Ali) on a concert tour through the Deep South.

Three-time Golden Globe Winner:
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture (Mahershala Ali)
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture

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Release Date: February 7, 2019
Director: Mimi Leder (The Leftovers)
Featuring: Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything), Armie Hammer (Call Me By Your Name), Justin Theroux (The Leftovers), Kathy Bates (Misery), Sam Waterston (Law & Order) and Cailee Spaeny (Pacific Rim: Uprising)

Felicity Jones and Armie Hammer star in ON THE BASIS OF SEX, the inspiring origin story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a passionate young lawyer who dedicates herself to ending gender discrimination when she takes on a ground-breaking case in 1975. At the heart of Ruth’s journey is a moving romance with her husband Marty (Hammer), her greatest ally in a partnership built on love and equality. Now an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Ruth has become an international icon. See where her story began in this stirring, heartfelt drama.

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Release Date: February 14, 2019
Director: Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)
Featuring: KiKi Layne, Stephan James (Selma), Teyonah Parris (Mad Men), Regina King (The Leftovers), Colman Domingo (Fear the Walking Dead), Dave Franco (The Disaster Artist) and Diego Luna (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story)

Following his Best Picture Academy Award® winner Moonlight, writer/director Barry Jenkins adapts James Baldwin’s acclaimed novel in IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK, a love story set in 1970s Harlem, New York. After her fiancé is framed for a crime, a young woman struggles against a corrupt justice system to prove his innocence in this brilliantly crafted drama.

Golden Globe Winner:
Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (Regina King)

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Release Date: February 21, 2019
Director: Jon S. Baird (Filth)
Featuring: Steve Coogan (Philomena), John C. Reilly (Chicago), Danny Huston (American Horror Story), Shirley Henderson (Happy Valley) and Nina Arianda (Florence Foster Jenkins)

Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly star in this hilarious and touching portrait of Laurel & Hardy as they set out on their now legendary 1953 tour of Britain. From acclaimed screenwriter Jeff Pope (Philomena), STAN & OLLIE pays homage to the original kings of comedy, celebrating a unique friendship and brilliant working partnership.

Golden Globe Nominee:
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical/Comedy (John C. Reilly)

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Release Date: May 2, 2019 (was 2019)
Director: Wayne Blair (The Sapphires)
Featuring: Miranda Tapsell (The Sapphires, Love Child), Gwilym Lee (Jamestown, Midsomer Murders), Kerry Fox (Brightstar), Ursula Yovich (The Code), Shari Sebbens (The Sapphires), Huw Higginson (Janet King) and Elaine Crombie (Top of the Lake: China Girl)

From the makers of The Sapphires, TOP END WEDDING is a celebration of love, family and belonging, set against the spectacular natural beauty of the Northern Territory. This heartwarming romantic comedy tells the story of successful Sydney lawyer Lauren (Tapsell) and her fiancé Ned (Lee). Engaged and in love, they have just ten days to pull off their dream Top End Wedding. First though, they need track down Lauren’s mother, who has gone AWOL somewhere in the Northern Territory.

TOP END WEDDING will have its World Premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.

Release Date: May 2, 2019 (new addition)

Beloved preschool series PEPPA PIG returns to Australian cinemas for an all-new big screen adventure to mark the 15-year anniversary of the nation’s favourite little piggy. The hour-long theatrical release gives preschool audiences 10 never-before-broadcast episodes featuring a two-part festival special, complete with new characters and locations.

Little piggies can look forward to a whole hour of snorts and giggles with songs to sing along to and dances and movements to join in with; making it the prefect cinema outing for pre-schoolers and all the family to enjoy. Each of the ten brand-new episodes will be connected with never-before-seen interactive entertainment featuring little ones singing and playing along with their favourite onscreen characters.

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Release Date: 2019 (new addition)
Director: Richard Linklater (Boyhood, Before Midnight)
Featuring: Cate Blanchett (Carol, Blue Jasmine), Billy Crudup (Almost Famous, 20th Century Women), Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids), Emma Nelson, James Urbaniak (Difficult People), Judy Greer (Kidding), Troian Bellisario (Pretty Little Liars), Zoe Chao (Strangers) and Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix, Blackish)

WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE is based on the runaway bestseller by Maria Semple (Mad About You, Arrested Development) about Bernadette Fox, a Seattle woman who had it all – a loving husband and a brilliant daughter. When she unexpectedly disappears, her family sets off on an exciting adventure to solve the mystery of where she might have gone.

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Release Date: 2019
Director: Rachel Ward (Beautiful Kate)
Featuring: Bryan Brown (Sweet Country), Sam Neill (Hunt for the Wilderpeople), Greta Scacchi (War & Peace), Jacqueline McKenzie (Romper Stomper), Richard E. Grant (Gosford Park), Heather Mitchell (A Place to Call Home), Claire van der Boom (Hawaii Five-O), Aaron Jeffery (Wentworth), Matilda Brown (Let’s Talk About), Charlie Vickers and Frances Berry

PALM BEACH is a drama-comedy about a group of lifelong friends reuniting to celebrate a special birthday, with Palm Beach providing a stunning backdrop for the unfolding drama. The good times roll with loads of laughter, lavish meals, flowing wine and fantastic music, but slowly tensions mount and deep secrets emerge.

Release Date: 2019
Director: Tom Harper (War & Peace)
Featuring: Jessie Buckley (Beast, War & Peace), Julie Walters (Billy Elliot, Mamma Mia!) and Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda)

A young woman from Glasgow, bursting with talent and charisma, dreams of escaping her ordinary life and making it big as a country music singer in Nashville. Jessie Buckley delivers a finely tuned performance of triumph and tragedy in WILD ROSE, a beautifully crafted, heartfelt film in the style of British classics like Little Voiceand Billy Elliott.

Release Date: 2019
Director: Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes)
Featuring: John Goodman (10 Cloverfield Lane), Vera Farmiga (Bates Motel), Ashton Sanders (Moonlight), Madeline Brewer (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Jonathan Majors (Hostiles)

Starring John Goodman and Ashton Sanders (Moonlight),
society struggles to survive under the control of a powerful alien race in CAPTIVE STATE, a thrilling dystopian sci-fi from the director of Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

Release Date: 2019
Director: Kiah Roache-Turner (Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead)
Featuring: Monica Bellucci (The Passion of the Christ, The Matrix Reloaded), Ben O’Toole (Detroit, 12 Strong), Caroline Ford (Once Upon A Time), Tess Haubrich (Alien: Covenant), Epine Bob Savea (Fantail) and David Wenham (The Lord of the Rings)

Finnegan (Bellucci), the world’s greatest demon-hunting Nekromancer turned bad, is the first to discover evil spirits inside the internet, taking the mythical battle between good and evil into the digital realm. Years later, down-on-his-luck sewerage-waste worker Howard North (O’Toole) and Nekromancer sisters Molly (Ford) and Torquel (Haubrich) must destroy the plague of online demons and defeat the evil Finnegan before she can devour the souls of a million human beings addicted to their phones.

Release Date: 2019
Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson (Nowhere Boy)
Featuring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Nocturnal Animals), Billy Bob Thornton (Fargo), Odessa Young (The Daughter), Juliette Lewis (August: Osage County), Giovanni Ribisi (Avatar) and Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy)

Based on James Frey’s controversial 2003 bestseller, A MILLION LITTLE PIECES follows a young, drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent who submits to two months of agonising detox at a treatment center in Minnesota.

Release Date: 2019
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Featuring: Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel) and Adele Exarchopoulos (Blue is the Warmest Colour)

Directed by Ralph Fiennes (The Invisible Woman, Coriolanus), THE WHITE CROW centres on Russian ballet star Rudolf Nureyev’s defection to the West in 1961. A moving, provocative portrait of talent, art and ambition, Fiennes delivers a spirited film featuring an incredible turn by actor and ballet dancer, Oleg Ivenko