August was a great month for Netflix and Disney + Hotstar’s push towards Bollywood premieres, thanks to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Between the two, we have Sadak 2, starring Alia Bhatt and Sanjay Dutt, Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl, directed by Janhvi Kapoor, and Khuda Haafiz with Vidyut Jammwal. There was also the Class of 83 produced by Shah Rukh Khan in August, although it was always intended for broadcast. Netflix and Disney + Hotstar will have more in September, along with Amazon Prime Video, which had a relatively quiet August.
Also coming in September are a slew of new international series and movies, including the return of The Boys and The Simpsons, a new Charlie Kaufman movie, an Indian indie sci-fi movie, and an Iran spy drama. Others involve Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson, Sherlock Holmes and his equally capable younger sister, and Donald Trump, well, an actor playing him anyway. With that, here is our September 2020 guide to Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney + Hotstar, Apple TV +, and Voot Select.
See you soon
When: September 1
Where: Amazon Prime Video
Completely shot during the lockdown on screens and mobiles, Mahesh Narayanan’s latest feature film (director, writer, cinematographer and editor) is about Jimmy (Roshan Mathew), a Malayali software engineer in Dubai who is rushing to find a woman Missing Anu (Darshana Rajendran) falls in love with video calls, whom she suspects may have committed suicide. Fahadh Faasil co-stars and produces.
Far
When: September 4
Where: Netflix
Hilary Swank plays an astronaut on the first manned mission to Mars in this sci-fi series produced by Jason Katims (Friday Night Lights), Matt Reeves (The Batman), and creator Andrew Hinderaker (Penny Dreadful). While she’s gone, her husband and NASA engineer (Josh Charles) takes care of their teenage daughter. Loosely based on the Esquire story by Chris Jones.
Boys
When: September 4
Where: Amazon Prime Video
The second season of Amazon’s anti-superhero show is taking a different launch approach: the first three episodes on the release date, followed by one each week through October 9. This season, the titular group without superpowers – Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) and the crew – are at the center of a nationwide chase after the events of the first season. Aya Cash (You’re the worst) joins the cast I knew as Stormfront.
The Boys is now renewed for a third season, with Supernatural star Jensen Ackles set to join the show.
I’m thinking about ending things
When: September 4
Where: Netflix
Charlie Kaufman’s first film in five years, after the stop-motion Anomalisa, is an adaptation of Iain Reid’s 2016 novel of the same name about a woman (Jessie Buckley) who seeks to end her weeks-long relationship with her boyfriend (Jesse Plemons). but you agree anyway. to see her parents (Toni Collette and David Thewlis) on a remote farm, where she begins to question everything.
V
When: September 5
Where: Amazon Prime Video
A serial killer (Nani) challenges a renowned cop (Sudheer Babu) to catch him if he can in this Telugu-language action thriller written and directed by Mohan Krishna Indraganti (Grahanam), which was supposed to be released in the cinemas, but now it’s coming out. directly to transmission. Nivetha Thomas, Aditi Rao Hydari, Vennela Kishore and Tanikella Bharani co-star.
Load
When: September 9
Where: Netflix
In this sci-fi film from India, Vikrant Massey plays a rakshasa, a demon who guides the dead through the underworld. He has grown bored with his drudgery and aimless life, having been at work for 75 years. That changes after his enthusiastic assistant (Shweta Tripathi) comes up with a bunch of new ideas. Debut in the feature film by screenwriter and director Arati Kadav. Anurag Kashyap produces.
The third day
When: September 15
Where: Disney + Hotstar
Jude Law and Naomie Harris lead this miniseries that is divided into two parts: “Summer” and “Winter” and will be broadcast as such, about a man (Law) attracted by a mysterious British island whose inhabitants will preserve their traditions no matter what. and a woman (Harris) whose arrival on that island puts a question mark about his future.
But that is not all. There will also be a third part, “Autumn”, which will take place live in London between the launch of the other two. Emily Watson, Katherine Waterston and Paddy Considine also star. Dennis Kelly (Utopia) and Felix Barrett are the creators.
The devil all the time
When: September 16
Where: Netflix
Set in post-WWII southern Ohio, USA, it tells the stories of a false preacher (Robert Pattinson), a serial killer couple (Jason Clarke and Riley Keough), and a corrupt sheriff (Sebastian Stan) , whose lives converge in unexpected ways to surround a young man (Tom Holland). Bill Skarsgård, Haley Bennett, Eliza Scanlen, and Mia Wasikowska are co-stars.
Antonio Campos (Christine) directs a screenplay he co-wrote with his brother Paulo Campos, based on the 2011 Southern Gothic novel of the same name by Donald Ray Pollock.
Ratched
When: September 18
Where: Netflix
In this psychological horror series that serves as a prequel to Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and its 1975 film adaptation, Sarah Paulson plays asylum nurse Mildred Ratched, the original role rehearsed by Louise Fletcher in the movie. This is basically your origin story. Cynthia Nixon, Judy Davis, Sharon Stone, Corey Stoll, Finn Wittrock, and Vincent D’Onofrio are co-stars.
Prolific creator Ryan Murphy is an executive producer. Newcomer Evan Romansky is the creator. Already renewed for season 2.
Enola Holmes
When: September 23
Where: Netflix
Sherlock Holmes’ (Millie Bobby Brown) younger teenage sister is the star of this vehicle as she sets out to find her mother (Helena Bonham Carter) after she disappears on the morning of Enola’s sixteenth birthday. Henry Cavill and Sam Claflin play their older brothers Sherlock and Mycroft. Directed by Harry Bradbeer (Fleabag) and adapted by Jack Thorne (His Dark Materials) from Nancy Springer’s books.
Watch the trailer for Netflix’s Enola Holmes
Tehran
When: September 25
Where: Apple TV +
Fauda writer Moshe Zonder is the co-creator of this multilingual spy series that follows a Mossad agent and hacker (Niv Sultan) who infiltrates the titular Iranian capital to end the country’s nuclear program. Zonder and Omri Shenhar (Magpie) wrote the series. Directed by Daniel Syrkin (Out of Sight).
Shaun Toub (Homeland), Navid Negahban (Legion), Shervin Alenabi (Baghdad in My Shadow), Liraz Charhi (A Late Quartet) and Menashe Noy (Big Bad Wolves) co-stars. The first non-English series for Apple, premiered in June in Israel. Apple TV + will release the first three episodes on the release date, with the remaining episodes running weekly through October 30.
Utopia
When: September 25
Where: Amazon Prime Video
Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn is the showrunner for this reimagining of the 2013 British series, which once had David Fincher attached to the project. It’s about a group of comic book fans who discover that everything in the titular comic – a massive government conspiracy involving biological warfare and the possible end of the world – is possibly real.
John Cusack, Sasha Lane, Rainn Wilson, Dan Byrd, Desmin Borges and Jessica Rothe star.
Comey’s rule
When: September 27
Where: Voot Select
Jeff Daniels and Brendan Gleeson play former FBI Chief James Comey and Donald Trump in this two-part, four-hour miniseries, set before and after the 2016 U.S. presidential election and based on best-selling memoirs. Comey’s 2018, “A Higher Loyalty,” After Trump Fired Him. Billy Ray (Captain Phillips) writes and directs. Two parts air on two consecutive days.
Other current figures include Peter Coyote as former Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Michael Kelly as former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, Holly Hunter as former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, William Sadler as former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, Jonathan Banks as former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and Joe Lo Truglio as former Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
The Simpsons
When: September 28
Where: Disney + Hotstar
Having dropped in its entirety in April, the longest-running American sitcom will now air as a weekly fixture in India with all new seasons. Production on the thirty-second season of The Simpsons was carried out entirely from the creators’ homes thanks to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. And in the wake of protests surrounding police killings of black Americans, The Simpsons will not have white actors voicing any non-white characters, a long-awaited move for a show that remains deaf elsewhere.
Olivia Colman, David Harbor, Ben Platt, Hannibal Buress and Michael Palin have been announced as guest stars for season 32 of The Simpsons.
Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare
When: September TBA
Where: Netflix
Bhumi Pednekar and Konkona Sensharma lead the upcoming film by Lipstick Under My Burkha writer and director Alankrita Shrivastava, which follows the smoking cessation transgressions and the quest for freedom of two cousins (Pednekar and Sensharma) who live on the outskirts from New Delhi. Vikrant Massey, Amol Parashar, and Aamir Bashir are co-stars. Ekta Kapoor produces.
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