Killers of the Flower Moon to Khufiya: The 9 Biggest Movies in October

What are a number of the greatest films releasing in October 2023? Akshay Kumar headlines essentially the most distinguished Bollywood launch this month with Mission Raniganj: The Nice Bharat Rescue, a biopic that sees him attempt to rescue a bunch of 65 miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine. The movie reunites him with Rustom director Tinu Suresh Desai and is slated to launch October 6 in cinemas. A day earlier than that, prime your self for an exhilarating story of espionage, as Tabu is assigned a top-secret mission to trace down an company mole in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Khufiya. Starring Ali Fazal (Mirzapur) as her reverse, the spy-thriller shall be out there to stream October 5 on Netflix.

Coming to Hollywood fare, Martin Scorsese’s twenty-eighth characteristic movie, Killers of the Flower Moon, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, releases in Indian theatres on October 27. Based mostly on David Grann’s eponymous ebook, the Western crime drama tells a sprawling story of American greed and the ensuing collection of murders within the Twenties that shook the foundations of the nation. The movie is later anticipated to reach to Apple TV+. Paul Dano (The Batman) and a bunch of normal individuals ship the billionaires at Wall Avenue right into a frenzy by betting on GameStop inventory on this David v Goliath dramedy primarily based on the real-life YouTuber Keith Gill. Remember when everybody was putting in the Robinhood app on their telephone in early 2021? Yep, that is the seismic occasion being chronicled in Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Cash, out October 6 in theatres.

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Different notable releases this month embrace 5 Nights at Freddy’s, an adaptation of the eponymous horror video game franchise that saved ‘Let’s Play’ YouTubers related for longer than it ought to have. Produced by veterans within the style, Blumhouse, the movie drops October 27 in theatres. In your comfort, now we have curated the largest October 2023 releases coming to theatres, Amazon Prime Video, and Netflix, which you’ll take a look at beneath. Additionally, be at liberty to browse our Entertainment hub to maintain monitor of some other releases which may curiosity you.

Khufiya

When: October 5
The place: Netflix

Krishna Mehra (Tabu), a hard-nosed R&AW operative, is thrust into an espionage mission when the company will get a hunch that there is a mole inside its ranks. The prime suspect is Ravi Mohan (Ali Fazal), an officer who’s been discovered photocopying India’s defence secrets and techniques and different paperwork — not pertaining to his work — and taking them again dwelling, presumably to feed intel to enemy nations to make some additional money. Consequently, his home is put into 24/7 surveillance, with brokers stepping in day and evening to eavesdrop on his household’s conversations and take a peek into their day-to-day lives, which exhibits that Ravi has been shopping for some costly items for his spouse Mohini (Wamiqa Gabbi), impulsively.

His masked cockiness typically shines by conversations, but it surely’s arduous for the company to pin down whether or not he is being critical or not. Panic units in as Ravi’s cowl begins to blow, forcing his spouse to query his intentions and name him a traitor to the nation — an accusation he outright rejects, claiming that he is merely considering forward. Grappling together with her twin identification as a spy and a lover, Agent KM should now monitor him down, hopping throughout international locations whereas guaranteeing that Ravi’s spouse and little one — who bought forcefully tugged round — stay secure. Based on Amar Bhushan’s 2012 novel ‘Escape to Nowhere,’ Khufiya marks Tabu’s third collaboration with filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj. The movie additionally stars Ashish Vidyarthi (Kuttey) as senior officer Viraj Surve and Azmeri Haque Badhon as a ghost from Mehra’s previous.

Watch the Trailer for Tabu-Led Khufiya, Starring Tabu as an R&AW Operative

Ali Fazal and Wamiqa Gabbi in a nonetheless from Khufiya
Picture Credit score: Netflix

Dumb Cash

When: October 6
The place: Theatres

After his stint because the Riddler, Paul Dano is as soon as once more rallying individuals on social media to topple the elites of the society in Dumb Money. In it, he performs Keith Gill aka RoaringKitty, a YouTuber who used his monetary information to wager on brick-and-mortar retailer GameStop inventory and encourage his viewers to do the identical, as a method to spice up the worth of the corporate and disrupt the system. Wall Avenue is the first pressure working towards them, betting that the enterprise would fail, and in flip, make hundreds of thousands of revenue for a bunch of hedge-fund managers. We give attention to three such shorters right here: Gabe Plotkin (Seth Rogen), Ken Griffin (Nick Offerman), and Steve Cohen (Vincent D’Onofrio), all of whom begin seeing losses of their funding, whereas common individuals begin making large financial institution.

Keith and his spouse Caroline (Shailene Woodley) begin residing the wealthy life, his brother Kevin (Pete Davidson) splurges on a Ferrari, and each morning in his entrance yard, he is cheerfully greeted by grateful civilians who’ve managed to show their lives upside-down. Every part goes positive till Wall Avenue decides to combat again and regain management over its monetary empire, with Vlad Tenev (Sebastian Stan), CEO of buying and selling app Robinhood stopping customers from shopping for any extra GameStop shares. The true-life market manipulation was the topic of widespread criticism, which is one thing I am anticipating Dumb Money to the touch upon, because the act merely helps wealthy individuals keep wealthy.

Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya) directs the movie, roping in an ensemble forged together with Anthony Ramos (In the Heights) as a GameStop clerk, America Ferrera (Barbie) as a viewer of Keith Gill, and Dane DeHaan (The Amazing Spider-Man 2).

Watch the Trailer for Dumb Money, the Reddit v GameStop Biopic

Paul Dano in a nonetheless from Dumb Cash
Picture Credit score: Sony Photos

Mission Raniganj: The Nice Bharat Rescue

When: October 6
The place: Theatres

Within the yr 1989, the partitions of the Raniganj coal mines in West Bengal cracked beneath stress and gave out, immediately flooding the caverns with water and trapping 65 miners down beneath. With water ranges progressively rising and depleting the oxygen provide, saving the unlucky survivors appeared like an not possible activity to the dismay of the villagers. Enter, Jaswant Singh Gill (Akshay Kumar), a former extra chief mining engineer, who kickstarted a rescue operation regardless of his co-workers’ insistence that the miners may’ve gotten swept away and died. Bearing by the cries and anger from onlookers, the group dedicates the following 48 hours to devising distinctive strategies to tug out the survivors, whereas guaranteeing the partitions do not collapse as a result of vibrations of heavy equipment.

The Mission Raniganj: The Great Bharat Rescue trailer would not absolutely clarify the rescue plan, but it surely seems as if the group descended a life-size tube by a slender gap and extracted the survivors one after the other. Just one drawback, although: how are they alleged to know the place the outlet is? And so, Jaswant heads proper in with barely any protecting gear and helps them navigate by the darkish and hopefully save all of them. And it isn’t like he hasn’t bought a lot at stake right here, contemplating his spouse Nirdosh Gill (Parineeti Chopra) additionally makes it to the location, with the utmost religion that her husband, who’s a miner at coronary heart, will persevere. Frequent Kumar collaborator Tinu Suresh Desai helms this biopic, which additionally enlists Kumud Mishra (Mission Majnu), Dibyendu Bhattacharya (Rocket Boys), and Rajesh Sharma (Darlings).

The Exorcist: Believer

When: October 6
The place: Theatres

With Halloween season comes a fair proportion of horror films, and this yr, it is being led by The Exorcist: Believer, a sequel to the boundary-pushing 1973 movie from William Friedkin. Victor Fielding (Leslie Odom Jr.) is a religious single father who’s managed to boost his daughter Angela (Lidya Jewett) following his pregnant spouse’s demise 12 years in the past. However sooner or later, she disappears into the wilderness together with her good friend Katherine (Olivia Marcum), solely to return three days later, bearing scars, an general dishevelled look, and no reminiscence of what occurred. As each households resume their on a regular basis lives, some sudden occasions come to the floor, starting from flickering lights to a possessed and bloodied Catherine marching into the native church.

Determined to avoid wasting the children, Victor seeks out assist from a well-recognized face who as soon as confronted the same spirit first-hand — Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn), who needed to cope with her daughter’s exorcism within the unique The Exorcist film. Nonetheless, the spirit in query is stronger than ever earlier than, forcing our heroes to carry out each form of ritual identified to mankind, no matter tradition or faith. What’s weirder is that each women appear to have been possessed by the identical demon, with their heartbeats syncing up and an unpleasant, yellow tint on their eyeballs. David Gordon Inexperienced, finest identified for Stronger directs The Exorcist: Believer, bringing Ann Dowd (Hereditary) into the combo because the household physician.

The Burial

When: October 13
The place: Amazon Prime Video

Academy Award-winner Jamie Foxx stars on this courtroom drama because the real-life Willie E. Gary, an unconventional however charming lawyer with a powerful monitor file — typically hailed as a legend, of types, among the many black authorized group. However in 1995, he is thrown into one of many riskiest circumstances of his profession when a funeral dwelling proprietor Jerry O’Keefe (Tommy Lee Jones) on the verge of going bankrupt, reaches out for assist. Seems, he signed off on a improper cope with Raymond Loewen (Invoice Camp) of the notorious Loewen Group, a mortgage dealer firm that started placing an finish to Jerry’s funeral companies.

The latter has by no means set foot in court docket earlier than and is solely seeking to sue for $8 million. However his quirky lawyer calls for him to dream larger and intention for $100 million in compensation. Whereas the stakes are extremely critical, The Burial easily ties in Foxx’s comedic experience to create a hilarious and interesting back-and-forth together with his opposing lawyer Mame Downes (Jurnee Smollett), whereas concurrently forming an unlikely bond together with his consumer. Within the path of exposing company corruption, he should cope with themes of racial injustice, pre-courtroom superstitious rituals, household drama, and a prejudiced however goofy lawyer performed by Alan Ruck of Succession fame.

Tejas

When: October 20
The place: Theatres

Kangana Ranaut (Queen) is thrown into aerial fight on this upcoming movie from debutant Sarvesh Mewara, which chronicles the life and journey of the Indian Air Power (IAF) pilot Tejas Gill. That is on no account a biopic however is considerably impressed by the nation’s historic determination to enlist its first feminine fighter pilot in 2016 and thru that, represents the valiant efforts put ahead by the defenders of the nation. There is not any Tejas trailer to collect extra data from, however the movie reportedly sees Varun Mitra (Saas, Bahu Aur Flamingo) play Tejas’ love curiosity and a musician.

Killers of the Flower Moon

When: October 27
The place: Theatres

Acclaimed filmmaker Martin Scorsese is tackling the Western style for the primary time in his profession, exploring the grim murders of the oil-wealthy Osage tribe in Oklahoma within the early Twenties. We largely comply with the story by the eyes of the struggle hero Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), who returns to a lifetime of peace and reconciles together with his uncle William Hale (Robert De Niro), the villainous cattle rancher who introduced a military of caucasian settlers to ‘help’ the natives with controlling the oil’s gross sales and distribution. As greed takes over the ‘nice white father,’ he even coaxes Ernest into marrying an area Osage lady Mollie (Lily Gladstone) as a method to additional his declare on the land.

However when useless our bodies of Osage natives begin showing in random areas, it kickstarts a large-scale homicide investigation, led by FBI agent Tom White (Jesse Plemons), who believes there is a conspiracy at play — suspecting William of issuing these contract hits. If you have not caught on by now, Killers of the Flower Moon is basically a story about some grasping wolves who used their powers of manipulation to conduct merciless, racially motivated genocide, and revenue from enormous oil deposits beneath the land. All of the whereas, Ernest struggles with conflicting loyalties on whether or not to aspect together with his loving spouse or to cower and conceal in worry behind his uncle’s killing rampage.

Killers of the Flower Moon additionally appears to be half courtroom drama, with lawyer W. S. Hamilton (Brendan Fraser) representing the crafty William, and John Lithgow (Interstellar) because the prosecutor Leaward, on a mission to convict him of the killings. Scorsese additionally co-wrote the script with Eric Roth (Dune), which itself relies on David Grann’s eponymous 2017 non-fiction novel. Following its theatrical run — due to Paramount Pictures — the movie is anticipated to later find yourself on Apple TV+ for streaming.

Watch the Trailer for Killers of the Flower Moon, Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio in a nonetheless from Killers of the Flower Moon
Picture Credit score: Apple TV

Ache Hustlers

When: October 27
The place: Netflix

Single mom Liza Drake (Emily Blunt) goes by a troublesome time, from shedding her job to watching her daughter Phoebe’s (Chloe Coleman) medical situation progressively worsen. However luck appears to have discovered its method when she stumbles right into a skeezy pharmaceutical gross sales rep Pete Brenner (Chris Evans), who provides her a job at a failing drug start-up. Subsequent factor , Liza is assembly with a number of the slimiest medical doctors within the nation, together with one performed by Brian d’Arcy James (Highlight), hoping to promote painkillers for most cancers sufferers. However with in a single day success comes greed, and the corporate begins recommending these medication for functions which might be far meek.

Beneath her unhinged boss Jack Neel’s (Andy García) management that goals for revenue, Liza begins to see the difficulty with their advertising and marketing technique and the devastation it is inflicting to the clueless sufferers consuming these medication — ultimately, forcing her to take a stand towards the monstrous empire she helped create. BAFTA-winner David Yates, who rose to prominence with the later Harry Potter movies, directs Pain Hustlers, which was acquired by Netflix for a sum of roughly $50 million (about Rs. 416 crore). It additionally stars Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek) as Liza’s mom and Jay Duplass (The Mindy Challenge).

5 Nights at Freddy’s

When: October 27
The place: Theatres

Mike Schmidt (Josh Hutcherson), who just lately bought fired from his job, desperately accepts the place of a nighttime safety guard on the deserted Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria, an eatery adjoining to an indoor amusement park. As he settles into his first shift, with 10-year-old sister Abby (Piper Rubio) by his aspect, he realises that there are some darker forces at play as soon as the clock strikes midnight. By consistently observing safety feeds and with some historical past classes from the native police officer Vanessa (Elizabeth Lail), he discovers that the group of creepy animatronic mascots — Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie, Chica, and Cunning — are all in actual fact alive and keen to kill something that strikes.

Identical to the video video games, Mike’s bought restricted assets and 6 lengthy, horrifying hours till the break of daybreak to outlive and reunite together with his misplaced sister, all of the whereas coping with some inside demons from his previous. A Five Nights at Freddy’s film has been in improvement since 2015, leaping between main producers till Jason Blum picked it up and labored with sport creator Scott Cawthon to match the latter’s imaginative and prescient. As a part of it, he employed Emma Tammi (Into the Darkish) to direct the variation and Jim Henson’s Creature Shop to handcraft the animatronics. I would not be stunned in the event that they had been later utilized in some precise theme park that immortalises Blumhouse Productions’ most iconic work.

Five Nights at Freddy’s is out October 27, concurrently in each theatres and the Peacock streaming service within the US. Presently, it is unclear whether or not the movie shall be out there to stream on JioCinema in India.