| JULY 2022 NEW ON PARAMOUNT+ CANADA |
| JULY 5, 2022 |
| ALMOST FAMOUS |
| A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies it on their concert tour. |
| DOUBLE JEOPARDY |
| In an insurance scam, a man fakes his death and sets his wife up to take the blame for his apparent murder. After serving 10 years in prison, she sets out to get revenge, immune from the law due to double jeopardy. |
| FIRST WIVES CLUB |
| Stung by their anguished friend’s suicide and devastated when their powerful CEO husbands who leave them for younger women, three wealthy New York high-society women form the ‘First Wives Club’ to exact revenge. Using ingenious and comically clever tactics, the women force their husbands into bankruptcy and public embarrassment. In the process, they recover their self-esteem, become best friends, and also find deep personal and professional happiness. |
| FORCES OF NATURE |
| New York writer Ben Holmes, is getting married in two days in Savannah when an unexpected incident at the airport hinders his flight departure and he finds himself sharing a rental car with the eccentric but attractive Sarah. This initiates a succession of misadventures that force Ben to question his love for his fiance while he finds himself falling for Sarah. |
| INDECENT PROPOSAL |
| An idyllic marriage is thrown into turmoil when a wealthy financier offers a million dollars to a couple if the wife agrees to spend just one night with him. An intriguing look at love and the things money can and cannot buy. |
| LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER |
| A live action version of the highly successful Eidos’ interactive video game, starring cyber-explorer Lara Croft. Lara Croft (Jolie) is a sexy publishing magnate who travels to exotic locations to uncover & preserve ancient artifacts. |
| LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER: THE CRADLE OF LIFE |
| In this sequel to Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Lara must retrieve a stolen treasure to prevent it falling into the hands of Chen Lo, a villainous syndicate boss. While looking for antiquities in a sunken temple, Lara Croft finds a sphere that holds the location of ‘Pandora’s Box’. Before she can reach the surface with her find, though, Chen Lo steals the sphere and Croft must embark on a round the world quest to get it back and save the world from the biological weapon the syndicate wants to create with the contents of the Box. |
| THE GOOD FIGHT SEASON 5 PARAMOUNT+ ORIGINAL SERIES |
| In the fifth season, Diane (Christine Baranski) is forced to question whether it’s appropriate for her to help run an African American law firm with Liz (Audra McDonald) when the firm loses two top lawyers. Meanwhile, Marissa (Sarah Steele) and the firm become entangled with Hal Wackner (Mandy Patinkin), a regular Chicagoan who decides to open his own courtroom in the back of a copy shop. |
| THE GOOD WIFE |
| The Good Wife has been named one of AFI’s Top Television Shows, won the Television Critics Award for Outstanding Achievement in Drama and garnered five Emmy nominations and three Golden Globe nominations. The drama stars Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick, a disgraced wife who returns to work as a lawyer after her husband, Peter Florrick, is imprisoned following a scandal. After starting her own firm and finding success as a litigator alongside her colleagues Diane Lockhart and Cary Agos, Peter’s trusted advisor, Eli Gold, convinces Alicia to run for State’s Attorney, the position once infamously held by her husband. Following a win at the polls after a hard-fought campaign, Alicia is forced to step down from office when voter fraud threatens the Democratic Party in the state of Illinois. Now, with her political career over before it began and without a law firm to call her own, she cautiously begins to practice law, with only the assistance of Jason Crouse, a calm, experienced hourly investigator whom she hires. Alicia must find a way to reinvent herself, all while Peter, now Governor of Illinois, contemplates a bid for the Presidency that may thrust her into the spotlight once again. |
| ROMANTIC REWRITE PARAMOUNT+ ORIGINAL MOVIE |
| Ivy is a talented up-and-coming romance book editor, up for a promotion at work but tasked with helping a stubborn mystery writer incorporate romance more successfully into the next book in his best-selling series. When he volunteers to be Ivy’s faux date for her best friend’s beach wedding in return for Ivy’s editing skills, will they be able to rewrite their fake romance into a real one? |
| MADAM SECRETARY |
| Madam Secretary stars Téa Leoni as Elizabeth McCord, the shrewd, determined secretary of state who drives international diplomacy and circumvents protocol as she negotiates global and domestic issues, both at the White House and at home. A college professor and a brilliant former CIA analyst who left for ethical reasons, Elizabeth returned to public life at the request of President Conrad Dalton, who values McCord’s apolitical leanings, deep knowledge of the Middle East, a flair for languages and ability to not just think outside the box, but not even acknowledge there is a box. McCord’s team includes her chief of staff, Jay Whitman; policy advisor, Kat Sandoval; speechwriter, Matt Mahoney; press coordinator, Daisy Grant; and charming assistant, Blake Moran. As McCord debates third-world problems, confronts issues related to her decision to run for president, finesses foreign dignitaries at work and does battle with the president’s combative chief of staff, Russell Jackson, that’s just a warm-up for when she goes home to her supportive husband, theology-professor-turned-intelligence-operative Henry, and their three children, where “politics” and “compromise” take on new meaning. |
| MELROSE PLACE |
| Series being released from the vault! A nighttime soap opera about the lives, careers, trials and tribulations of a group of young people living in an apartment building in the trendy neighbourhood of Melrose Place. The show was a spin-off of Beverly Hills 90210 and starred Heather Locklear as the scheming Amanda Woodward, head of her own advertising agency and owner of the apartment building. |
| WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT |
| Tina Fey portrays journalist Kim Barker in the adaptation of Barker’s memoir The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan, which details her years as a reporter in Pakistan and Afghanistan beginning in 2002. |
| YOUR BOYFRIEND IS MINE PARAMOUNT+ ORIGINAL MOVIE A man agrees to take a job as the “live-in” manservant to a wealthy businesswoman. He then realizes he has made a deal with the devil. |
| JULY 10, 2022 |
| TERMINATOR: DARK FATE More than two decades after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Sarah Connor sets out to protect a young woman named Dani Ramos and her friends, as a liquid metal Terminator, sent from the future, attempts to terminate them. |
| JULY 12, 2022 |
| LOVE UNDER THE LEMON TREE PARAMOUNT+ ORIGINAL MOVIE |
| When aspiring travel photographer Beck Waterford decides to enter a prestigious photography competition, she heads to sunny Serenity island. Staying at the town’s charming Lemon Tree Farm, Beck meets gruff but handsome owner, Joshua Sweeting, and the pair strike a deal: he’ll help her discover the town’s hidden gems if she helps with the farm’s PR. Working together is no walk in the park to begin, but sparks soon fly when they discover they have more in common than they first thought… Could love be in the air, or will one big secret ruin the fledgling romance? |
| NIGHTMARE NEIGHBORHOOD MOMS PARAMOUNT+ ORIGINAL MOVIE After moving into a new home, Charlotte meets competitive neighbour Bonnie, who views her as a threat when discovering they work for the same company. When Charlotte and her daughter Jordan discover another neighbour was killed not long ago in a robbery gone wrong, Jordan suggests they start a neighbourhood watch, not realizing it was Bonnie who secretly murdered the neighbour after discovering she was having an affair with her husband. Believing her husband now has an eye for Charlotte, Bonnie sets out to destroy her, but underestimates the intelligence of Charlotte’s daughter – who is already onto Bonnie’s deadly intentions. |
| ROE V. WADE |
| TAMMY’S ALWAYS DYING |
| JULY 19, 2022 |
| CENTENNIAL OF LOVE PARAMOUNT+ ORIGINAL MOVIE When unlucky-in-love Isabella and filmmaker Blake find themselves planning a huge celebration in a mansion where the most famous romance of all time blossomed, neither knew what they’d find. But as Isabella designs the signature dress and Blake films the story of the anniversary gala, they’re paired together to live and learn first-hand about the legendary, rich love story around them…they unexpectedly find a love and adventure they never knew could be true. |
PEARL
| PLAYING WITH FIRE |
| A crew of rugged fighters meet their match when attempting to rescue three rambunctious kids. |
| THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED: THE STORY OF DON MCLEAN’S ‘AMERICAN PIE’ PARAMOUNT+ ORIGINAL MOVIE |
| With a narrative running deeper than a catchy tune and cryptic verses, “American Pie” is a musical phenomenon woven deep into the history of American culture, entertaining audiences around the world for over 50 years. In THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED: THE STORY OF DON MCLEAN’S “AMERICAN PIE,” McLean will, for the first time, powerfully reveal and share the secrets behind his iconic song. In addition, the documentary highlights cultural moments in America’s history that are as relevant now as they were in 1971, when the song was released. The film tells stories of the people who were a part of this moment from the beginning and shows the point of view of a new generation of artists who are motivated by the same values and ideas that inspired the song’s creation. |
| THE STRANGER SHE BROUGHT HOME PARAMOUNT+ ORIGINAL MOVIE |
| A 911 Operator, who likes to secretly insert herself into the lives of her callers, pretends to be the fiancé of an injured man who has fallen into a coma. When he wakes with no memory, she decides to keep the ruse going, and takes him home with her; but as her life intertwines with his, she learns that he is a man with a dark secret — he’s a killer on the run. |
| TORN HEARTS Blumhouse Television and EPIX present the cautionary tale of a rise to stardom set in the iconic Nashville Country Music scene. Two friends, rising artists on the brink of a big break, will do just about anything to realize their dream – including a pilgrimage to the legendary and reclusive Harper Dutch’s (Golden Globe winner Katey Sagal) mansion in the hopes she’ll record a song with them. While their life-long idol seems intent to help, the visit devolves into a twisted series of mental and physical torment as the pair discover Harper – and each other – may have other motives. With no other choice and desperate to record a song, the duo must go to dangerous lengths to prove their dedication to their dream of becoming Nashville’s next country music stars. |
| JULY 26, 2022 |
| HERE KILLS THE BRIDE PARAMOUNT+ ORIGINAL MOVIE A young woman, Jessica, is convinced something is off with her brother’s new fiancée, Bridget. Little does Jessica know that Bridget, the upcoming bride, has a destructive past and isn’t afraid to eliminate anyone she thinks is a threat to her happiness. |
JULY 29, 2022
| HONOR SOCIETY PARAMOUNT+ ORIGINAL MOVIE |
| Produced by Awesomeness Films, Honor Society follows Honor (Angourie Rice), an ambitious high school senior whose sole focus is getting into Harvard, assuming she can first score the coveted recommendation from her guidance counsellor, Mr. Calvin (Christopher Mintz-Plasse). Willing to do whatever it takes, Honor concocts a Machiavellian plan to take down her top three student competitors, until things take a turn when she unexpectedly falls for her biggest competition, Michael (Gaten Matarazzo). |
