Luck《祝你好运》

 

In the first full-length film from Skydance Animation¹, Tony Award-nominee Eva Noblezada provides the voice of Sam, "the unluckiest person in the world". Having grown up in the care system, she hopes to nab some extra good luck for a fellow foster child, and finds her way to a realm where magical creatures – including a black cat voiced by Simon Pegg and a dragon voiced by Jane Fonda – manipulate the human race's fortunes. It may sound faintly sinister², but the director, Peggy Holmes, promises that Luck is full of "positivity and inspiration". Talking to Jackson Murphy at Animation Now, she says, "We've all been through a really hard time together in the world. People really want to sit back, relax, and really be inspired to just keep going. When those bad luck days come, just keep going because there are some good luck ones coming, too."

在Skydance动画公司制作的第一部长片《祝你好运》中，曾获托尼奖提名的伊娃·诺布勒札达将为“全世界最倒霉的人”山姆配音。山姆从小在寄养家庭长大，她希望能为一个同为寄养儿童的伙伴搞到一些好运气，于是她就找到了能够操纵人类运气的神奇生物，其中包括一只由西蒙·佩吉配音的黑猫和一条由简·方达配音的龙。这也许听上去有点邪恶，但是导演佩吉·霍姆斯承诺这部电影充满了“正能量和启迪”。在与《Animation Now》杂志的杰克逊·墨菲交谈时她讲道：“我们共同经历了这个世界很艰难的一段时光。人们真的很想坐下来放松一下，在大受鼓舞之后继续往前走。当厄运降临时，要坚持下去，因为好运总有一天也会到来。”

 

Released on 5 August on Apple TV+ worldwide

该片将于8月5日在Apple TV+平台全球同步上线。

 

Mack & Rita《麦克和丽塔》

 

From Freaky Friday to Big, 13 Going on 30 to 17 Again, lots of comedies have imagined young minds zapping into older bodies, and vice³ versa. But the new film from Katie Aselton (The Freebie, Black Rock) puts a fresh spin on the formula, by ageing up, rather than using teens and adults. Mack & Rita features a 30-year-old author (Elizabeth Lail) who has always felt that she was a 70-year-old woman on the inside. After going to a new-age workshop in Palm Springs, she is magically transformed into a 70-year-old woman on the outside, too. In her new identity (Diane Keaton), she is a happy, relaxed "glammy granny" social-media influencer, but can that make up for losing 40 years of her life?

从《疯狂星期五》到《长大》，从《女孩梦三十》到《重返17岁》，很多喜剧片都将小孩变成大人，或将大人变成小孩。但是凯蒂·阿赛尔顿（代表作有《免费赠品》和《黑岩》）导演的这部新片给这一配方加了点新料，让成年人变老，而不是让少年与成年人角色互换。 在新片《麦克和丽塔》中，伊丽莎白·莱尔饰演的30岁作家总是觉得自己内心是个70岁的老太太。从棕榈泉的一家“新年龄”工作室出来后，她神奇地变成了一个70岁老妇的模样。用这一新身份生活的她成了一个快乐、自在的社交媒体网红，人称“魅力奶奶”（黛安·基顿饰演），但是这能够弥补她失去的40年时光吗？

 

Released on 12 August in the US, Canada and Spain

该片将于8月12日在美国、加拿大和西班牙上映。

 

Bullet Train《杀手疾风号》

 

David Leitch was Brad Pitt's stunt⁴ double on Troy, Fight Club and Mr and Mrs Smith, and has since become the director of such ridiculously-fun action movies as Hobbs & Shaw, Atomic Blonde and Deadpool 2. And now the two old buddies⁵ have teamed up for Leitch's latest shooting-and-punching-fest: Bullet Train. Pitt plays an assassin who is sent by his handler (Sandra Bullock) to grab a briefcase⁶ from one of the passengers on a Japanese train, but little does he know that the train is full of other shady characters (Brian Tyree Henry, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Zazie Beetz, Michael Shannon).

大卫·雷奇曾是布拉德·皮特在《特洛伊》、《搏击俱乐部》和《史密斯夫妇》中的特技替身，后来导演了一系列超级搞笑的动作片，如《速度与激情：特别行动》、《极寒之城》、《死侍2》等。如今这两位老搭档在雷奇的劲爆枪战打斗新片《杀手疾风号》中再度联手。皮特饰演一名杀手，他的幕后主使（桑德拉·布洛克饰演）让他在日本的一趟列车上从一名乘客那里取走一只手提箱，但是他不知情的是，这趟列车上坐的都是一些阴暗人物（布莱恩·泰里·亨利、亚伦·泰勒-约翰逊、莎姬·贝兹、迈克尔·珊农饰演）。

 

Released on 3 August in the UK and 5 August in the US

该片将于8月3日在英国上映，8月5日在美国上映。

 

Three Thousand Years of Longing⁷《三千年的思念》

 

Seven years on from Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller⁸ is back at last with another film – a romantic fantasy, and the contrast could hardly be greater. This time we have a demure⁹ English academic (Tilda Swinton) at a literature conference in Istanbul. A djinn (Idris Elba) materialises in her hotel room and offers her three wishes, but the academic has read enough myths to know that wishes tend to backfire, so the djinn tries to charm her with fabulous¹⁰ tales from his past.

在拍完《疯狂的麦克斯4：狂暴之路》七年后，乔治·米勒终于带着新作品归来，但这部浪漫奇幻片可谓是风格大逆转。在这部新片中，蒂尔达·斯文顿饰演的端庄文静的英国学者在伊斯坦布尔参加一个文学研讨会。一个精灵（伊德里斯·艾尔巴饰演）在她的酒店房间现身，并提出可以实现她的三个愿望。但是这位饱读神话的学者知道这种许愿通常都没有好结果，于是精灵试图讲述自己辉煌的过往来引诱她。

 

Released on 31 August in the US and Canada

该片将于8月31日在美国和加拿大上映。

 

I Came By《我曾来过》

 

Playing a rather different character from the ones he's known for in Downton Abbey and Paddington, Hugh Bonneville co-stars in I Came By as a snooty high-court judge named Sir Hector Blake. Starring alongside him is George MacKay, who plays a Banksy-like graffiti artist whose speciality is to sneak¹¹ into the homes of Britain's wealthiest aristocrats¹² and do some unauthorised redecorating. But when he is in Sir Hector's London town house, he uncovers a dark secret that puts his life in danger. Directed and co-written by the Bafta-winning Babak Anvari, this Netflix crime thriller¹³ promises "classic Hitchcockian suspense¹⁴ via contemporary themes of establishment privilege and corruption¹⁵".

休·博纳维尔在这部新片中饰演的角色与他在《唐顿庄园》和《帕丁顿熊》中令人熟知的角色截然不同，是一个名为赫克托·布莱克爵士的目中无人的高等法院法官。和他一起领衔主演本片的还有乔治·麦凯，他饰演一个类似班克西的涂鸦艺术家，最擅长溜进英国最富有的贵族家中，不经允许就随意作画。但是当他潜入赫克托爵士在伦敦城里的家时，他发现了一个黑暗秘密，自己的生命也因此受到了威胁。奈飞出品的这部犯罪惊悚片由获得英国电影学院奖的巴巴克·安瓦里担任导演和编剧，承诺将“通过既得特权和腐败的当代主题营造出经典的希区柯克式悬念”。

 

Released on 19 August in cinemas in the UK and Ireland, and 31 August on Netflix internationally

该片将于8月19日在英国和爱尔兰的影院上映，8月31日在奈飞平台全球同步上线。

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