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Mortal Engines (2018) Many years after the "Sixty Minute War," cities survive a now desolate Earth by moving around on giant wheels attacking and devouring smaller towns to replenish their resources. Director : Christian Rivers Stars : Hera Hilmar, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Lang, Robert Sheehan

Ready Player One (2018) When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. Wade Watts finds the first clue and starts a race for the Egg. Director : Steven Spielberg Stars : Olivia Cooke, Hannah John-Kamen, T.J. Miller, Tye Sheridan

Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018) Young hero Thomas embarks on a mission to find a cure for a deadly disease known as the "Flare". Director : Wes Ball Stars : Rosa Salazar, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Dylan O'Brien

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) Plot : When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Director : J.A. Bayona Cast : Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeff Goldblum.

The New Mutants (2018) Plot : Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves. Director : Josh Boone. Cast : Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga,  Henry Zaga, Blu Hunt.

Pacific Rim Uprising (2018)   Plot : Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, reunites with Mako Mori to lead a new generation of Jaeger pilots, including rival Lambert and 15-year-old hacker Amara, against a new Kaiju threat.   Director : Steven S. DeKnight   Cast : John Boyega, Rinko Kikuchi, Scott Eastwood, Adria Arjona, Tian Jing.  

Justice League (2017)   Plot : Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes-Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash-it may already be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.   Director : Zack Snyder.   Cast : Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Henry Cavill, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Ray Fisher, Jesse Eisenberg.  

Tomb Raider (2018)   Plot : Lara Croft is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished when she was scarcely a teen. Now a young woman of 21 without any real focus or purpose, Lara navigates the chaotic streets of trendy East London as a bike courier, barely making the rent, and takes college courses, rarely making it to class. Determined to forge her own path, she refuses to take the reins of her father's global empire just as staunchly as she rejects the idea that he's truly gone. Advised to face the facts and move forward after seven years without him, even Lara can't understand what drives her to finally solve the puzzle of his mysterious death. Going explicitly against his final wishes, she leaves everything she knows behind in search of her dad's last-known destination: a fabled tomb on a mythical island that might be somewhere off the coast of Japan. But her mission will not be an easy one; just reaching the island will be extreme

Killing Gunther (2017) Plot : A group of eccentric assassins are fed up with Gunther, the world's greatest hitman, and decide to kill him, but their plan turns into a series of bungled encounters as Gunther seems to always be one step ahead. Director : Taran Killam. Cast : Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cobie Smulders, Hannah Simone, Taran Killam, Allison Tolman, Steve Bacic.

The Deuce Plot : A look at life in New York City during the 1970s and '80s when porn and prostitution were rampant in Manhattan. Creators : George Pelecanos, David Simon Cast : James Franco, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Carr, Margarita Levieva, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Emily Meade.

The Punisher Plot : Frank Castle is haunted and hunted after the murder of his family and becomes a vigilante known in the criminal underworld as "the Punisher", who aims to fight crime by any means necessary. Creator : Steve Lightfoot Cast : Jon Bernthal, Jason R. Moore, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Michael Nathanson, Jaime Ray Newman, Amber Rose Revah, Paul Schulze.

The Orville (2017- ) Plot : Set 300 years in the future, the show follows the adventures of the Orville, a not-so-top-of-the-line exploratory ship in Earth's interstellar Fleet. Facing cosmic challenges from without and within, this motley crew of space explorers will boldly go where no comedic drama has gone before. Creator : Seth MacFarlane Stars : Seth MacFarlane, Chad L. Coleman, Scott Grimes, Mark Jackson, Penny Johnson Jerald, Adrianne Palicki

Triple Threat (2017) Plot : A hit contract is taken out on a billionaires daughter intent on bringing down a major crime syndicate. A down and out team of mercenaries must take on a group of professional assassins and stop them before they kill their target. Director : Jesse V. Johnson Cast : Scott Adkins, Michael Jai White, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Celina Jade, JeeJa Yanin.

Comrade Detective Plot : In the thick of 1980's Cold War hysteria, the Romanian government created the country's most popular and longest-running series, Comrade Detective, a sleek and gritty police show that not only entertained its citizens but also promoted Communist ideals and inspired a deep nationalism. The action-packed and blood-soaked first season finds Detectives Gregor Anghel and Joseph Baciu investigating the murder of fellow officer Nikita Ionesco and, in the process, unraveling a subversive plot to destroy their country that is fueled by-what else-but the greatest enemy: Capitalism. Creators: Brian Gatewood, Alessandro Tanaka. Cast : Channing Tatum, Florin Piersic Jr., Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Corneliu Ulici, Jenny Slate, Olivia Nita, Jason Mantzoukas, Florin Galan.

Krypton (2018) Plot : Set two generations before the destruction of the legendary Man of Steel's home planet, KRYPTON follows Superman's grandfather - whose House of El was ostracized and shamed - as he fights to redeem his family's honor and save his beloved world from chaos. Director : Colm McCarthy Cast : Cameron Cuffe, Georgina Campbell, Ian McElhinney, Elliot Cowan, Ann Ogbomo

A Wrinkle in Time (2018) Plot : After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him. Director : Ava DuVernay Cast : Chris Pine, Reese Witherspoon, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Peña, Zach Galifianakis, Oprah Winfrey, Storm Reid, Mindy Kaling

Ready Player One (2018) Plot : Film centers on a young outcast named Wade Watts. In the near future, Watts escapes from his daily drudgery by logging onto an MMO game called 'The Oasis'. When the game's billionaire founder dies, he offers players his fortune as the prize in an easter egg hunt within The Oasis. Watts gets in on the action then after five years finds himself facing off against corporate foes who will go to any lengths to get the money -- in both the real world and in The Oasis. Director : Steven Spielberg Cast : Hannah John-Kamen, T.J. Miller, Ben Mendelsohn, Tye Sheridan, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Olivia Cooke.

Bright (2017) Plot : Set in a world where mystical creatures live side by side with humans. A human cop is forced to work with an Orc to find a weapon everyone is prepared to kill for. Director : David Ayer Cast : Will Smith, Joel Edgerton, Noomi Rapace, Kenneth Choi, Brad William Henke, Lucy Fry, Edgar Ramírez.

Megan Leavey (2017) Plot : Based on the true life story of a young Marine corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. When she is assigned to clean up the K9 unit after a disciplinary hearing, Leavey identifies with a particularly aggressive dog, Rex, and is given the chance to train him. Over the course of their service, Megan and Rex completed more than 100 missions until an IED explosion injures them, putting their fate in jeopardy. Director : Gabriela Cowperthwaite Cast : Kate Mara, Tom Felton, Bradley Whitford, Common, Edie Falco, Damson Idris.

Death Note (2017) Plot : Light Turner, a bright student, stumbles across a mystical notebook that has the power to kill any person whose name he writes in it. Light decides to launch a secret crusade to rid the streets of criminals. Soon, the student-turned-vigilante finds himself pursued by a famous detective known only by the alias L. Director : Adam Wingard Cast : Nat Wolff, Margaret Qualley, Lakeith Stanfield, Willem Dafoe, Shea Whigham.

Atomic Blonde (2017) Plot : The crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton (Theron) is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission. Sent alone into Berlin to deliver a priceless dossier out of the destabilized city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival (James McAvoy) to navigate her way through the deadliest game of spies. Director : David Leitch Cast : Charlize Theron, Sofia Boutella, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Bill Skarsgård, Toby Jones, Eddie Marsan.

Inhumans (2017– TV Series) Plot : An isolated community of superhumans fight to protect themselves. Creator: Scott Buck Cast : Sonya Balmores, Isabelle Cornish, Eme Ikwuakor, Ken Leung, Mike Moh, Anson Mount, Iwan Rheon, Serinda Swan.

Logan Lucky (2017) Plot : Two brothers attempt to pull off a heist during a NASCAR race in North Carolina. Director : Steven Soderbergh Cast : Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Daniel Craig, Katherine Waterston, Sebastian Stan, Riley Keough.

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) Plot : In a brand new Jumanji adventure, four high school kids discover an old video game console and are drawn into the game's jungle setting, literally becoming the adult avatars they chose. What they discover is that you don't just play Jumanji - you must survive it. To beat the game and return to the real world, they'll have to go on the most dangerous adventure of their lives, discover what Alan Parrish left 20 years ago, and change the way they think about themselves - or they'll be stuck in the game forever, to be played by others without break. Director : Jake Kasdan Cast : Karen Gillan, Dwayne Johnson, Missi Pyle, Kevin Hart, Jack Black.

American Assassin (2017) Plot : Twenty three-year-old Mitch lost his parents to a tragic car accident at the age of fourteen, and his girlfriend to a terrorist attack just as they were engaged. Seeking revenge, he is enlisted by CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy as a black ops recruit. Kennedy then assigns Cold War veteran Stan Hurley to train Mitch. Together they will later on investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets. The discovery of a pattern in the violence leads them to a joint mission with a lethal Turkish agent to stop a mysterious operative intent on starting a world war in the Middle East. Director : Michael Cuesta Stars : Dylan O'Brien, Taylor Kitsch, Scott Adkins, Michael Keaton, Shiva Negar.

The Foreigner (2017) Plot : The story of humble London businessman Quan (Chan), whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love - his teenage daughter - is taken from him in a senseless act of politically-motivated terrorism. In his relentless search for the identity of the terrorists, Quan is forced into a cat- and-mouse conflict with a British government official (Brosnan), whose own past may hold clues to the identities of the elusive killers. Director : Martin Campbell Stars : Jackie Chan, Pierce Brosnan, Charlie Murphy, Michael McElhatton, Ray Fearon.

Black Panther (2018) Plot:  After the events of Captain America: Civil War, King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne from factions within his own country. When two foes conspire to destroy Wakanda, the hero known as Black Panther must team up with C.I.A. agent Everett K. Ross and members of the Dora Milaje, Wakanadan special forces, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war. Director : Ryan Coogler Stars : Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Forest Whitaker, Andy Serkis.

Flatliners (2017) Plot:  Medical students experiment on "near death" experiences that involve past tragedies until the dark consequences begin to jeopardize their lives. Director:  Niels Arden Oplev Stars:  Nina Dobrev, Ellen Page, Kiersey Clemons, Diego Luna, James Norton, Kiefer Sutherland.

The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017) Plot : The world's top bodyguard gets a new client, a hit man who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial on time. Director:  Patrick Hughes Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Salma Hayek, Gary Oldman, Elodie Yung, Richard E. Grant, Joaquim de Almeida.

Star Trek: Discovery (TV Series) Plot : Ten years before the Enterprise, there was Discovery. New worlds. New villains. Discover the unknown. Star Trek Discovery streams weekly this Autumn on Netflix. Creators : Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman Stars : Jason Isaacs, Doug Jones, Shazad Latif, Sonequa Martin-Green, Michelle Yeoh.

Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Plot: Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years. Director: Denis Villeneuve Stars: Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Robin Wright, Jared Leto, Mackenzie Davis, Barkhad Abdi.

The Dark Tower (2017) Plot : The Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, roams an Old West-like landscape where "the world has moved on" in pursuit of the man in black. Also searching for the fabled Dark Tower, in the hopes that reaching it will preserve his dying world. Director : Nikolaj Arcel Stars : Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Katheryn Winnick, Abbey Lee, Nicholas Hamilton.

Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) When the Kingsman headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, their journey leads them to the discovery of an allied spy organization in the US called Statesman, dating back to the day they were both founded. In a new adventure that tests their agents' strength and wits to the limit, these two elite secret organizations band together to defeat a ruthless common enemy, in order to save the world, something that's becoming a bit of a habit for Eggsy... Director : Matthew Vaughn Cast : Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Channing Tatum, Halle Berry, Pedro Pascal, Julianne Moore, Jeff Bridges, Mark Strong, Vinnie Jones.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) Having taken her first steps into a larger world in Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015), Rey continues her epic journey with Finn, Poe and Luke Skywalker in the next chapter of the saga. Director : Rian Johnson Cast : Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Gwendoline Christie, Andy Serkis.

Thor: Ragnarök (2017) Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela. Director : Taika Waititi Stars : Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Idris Elba, Cate Blanchett, Jaimie Alexander, Karl Urban, Anthony Hopkins, Mark Ruffalo.

Alien: Covenant (2017) The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise. When they uncover a threat beyond their imagination, they must attempt a harrowing escape. Director : Ridley Scott Stars : Katherine Waterston, Michael Fassbender, James Franco, Noomi Rapace, Guy Pearce.

Game of Thrones - Season 7 The seventh season of the fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones is set to premiere on HBO on July 16, 2017 and conclude six weeks later on August 27, 2017. Unlike previous seasons that all consisted of ten episodes, the seventh season will consist of only seven episodes. Like the previous season, it will largely consist of original content currently not found in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, but also adapts material from the upcoming sixth and seventh novels The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring .

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) Captain Jack Sparrow finds the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost pirates led by his old nemesis, the terrifying Captain Salazar, escape from the Devil's Triangle, determined to kill every pirate at sea...including him. Captain Jack's only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, a powerful artifact that bestows upon its possessor total control over the seas. Directors: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg Stars: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Javier Bardem, Orlando Bloom.