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Jan. 15, 2023

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Set in the 1950s, a young book editor grows troubled by the social trappings of her time and slowly descends into mental illness.

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A young woman is accused of murder in Iceland in 1829 and faces becoming the last woman to be publicly executed in the country. The film will tell the story of a tragic romance set against the odds during an endless Icelandic summer.

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In addition to being a wife and mother, a woman is a Blackhawk pilot in the National Guard who is called to serve a tour of duty in Iraq.

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The story of Lillian Leitzel, a trapeze artist who in the early 20th century was one of the biggest stars in the world as she performed for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

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The story centers on the showman Dr. William Key and his performing horse, Beautiful Jim Key. His promoters claimed the horse could read, write and do math. Key, a former slave, was relegated to carnivals so he recruited a one-time promoter for P.T. Barnum to be his front man — leading to the horse becoming a national sensation at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition.

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Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus bond at boyhood and grow into warriors who become politically ambitious and powerful enough to be regarded as threats by the establishment. Political and romantic entanglements culminate in a fatal encounter on the floor of the Roman Senate. Revenge is taken on Caesar's murderers by Octavius and Mark Antony.

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Set in a Victorian-era alternate universe in which mankind has been exploring the solar system since the time of Isaac Newton, a brother and sister team with a band of renegade space pirates to save the world from destruction at the hands of a madman.

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A feared theater critic, a newspaper owner and an actress are all caught in a web of blackmail, deceit and murder.

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The brilliant but inexperienced engineer Washington Roebling is left to oversee the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge when his father dies. Besieged by calamity, danger and doubt, Washington's obsession threatens his health and risks driving his family apart until he discovers he has an improbable ally in his charming and shrewd wife Emily.

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Story of one of the most complicated military leaders-turned politicians in American history, Ulysses S. Grant.

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Helen Duncan, a famous Scottish medium, is to put to the test and eventually becomes the last woman ever legally tried for witchcraft in 1933 in London.

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Jane Steele, a fresh and determined Victorian orphan (unlike her idol Jane Eyre) does not accept her place in life without a fight. Fiercely intelligent and resourceful, Steele is forced to resort to extreme measures to make sure that life turns out the way she needs.

Development Drama Romance

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Weeks after Hitler’s suicide but before the German surrender, American Captain Jack Lee must find a way to free prisoners they learn have been sentenced to be killed by the Nazi soldiers to prevent them from providing damning war crimes testimony. About 200 hardened Waffen SS troops are right behind the Americans, with orders to murder the prisoners, and the badly outnumbered Americans must turn to the German castle guards who just surrendered to them, to help move the French POWs to safety.

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A down-and-out, young George Washington — desperate to join the British Army — accepts a dangerous mission to conquer a French fort and save the American colonies.

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During the Gold Rush, a young man befriends a wolf-dog and sets off on a number of adventures through Alaska involving starving wolves, Aboriginal peoples, grizzly bears and dogfighters.

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A young man with a death sentence on his head is saved when his skills with the bow catch the attention of King Henry V, who is preparing to lead his outnumbered English troops against the French in the Battle Of Agincourt. The archer develops into a warrior and falls in love with a young woman whose virtue he saves from a lecherous priest.

Development Drama War

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Responding to a meat shortage in the U.S. in 1910, two bitter enemies, Frederick Russell Burnham and Fritz Duquesne, join forces to try and import hippopotamuses to the swamps of Louisiana and convince Americans to eat them.

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A young woman who, after waking up in a strange town, realizes that she has been transported into a 1940s musical. She meets new friends along the way who help her figure out what happened and how she can find her way home.

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The unease between Bostonians and British troops turns violent after the Boston Tea Party, when violent sieges erupt in Lexington and Concord and a British blockade leads to outright war in the Battle of Bunker Hill, a bloody clash that unites the colonies and starts the war for independence. A group of participants, including a 33-year-old physician named Joseph Warren, who becomes a leader of the Patriot cause; Paul Revere, George Washington, British General Thomas Gage, and others.

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Sophia Augusta is trapped in an abusive marriage with the heir to the Russian throne. But, when her inept husband proves incapable of ruling, she utilizes her intelligence, fortitude, and passion to rise to power, becoming Catherine the Great.

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