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All profits are pledged to WHERE Grand Cinemas ABC Dbayeh the autism program at SESOBEL. 6 GRAND CINEMAS NOV 2019 – JAN 2020 grandcinemasme.com 7 GRAND GRANDEVENTS Advocates celebrate Beirut Marathon unning is a culture. Beirut Marathon organisers recently Rhosted a special event to celebrate the important role of their advocates, who help them in reaching out to a support network of people and entities from all walks of life. The event, held at Grand Cinemas ABC Achrafieh on September 17, created awareness of the organisation’s mission with the screening of inspirational social impact movies. GRANDPREMIERE DAY SIX MAKES A GRAND DEBUT Director Layal Rajha held a one- time special screening of her short film Day Six (Wa Fil Yawm Al Sadiss) at Grand Cinemas ABC Achrafieh in attendance of a host of artists and the media. Taken from a true story set in 1982, the film depicts the three monotheistic religions that stand face to face in the struggle over land, faith and ideology. The drama stars Khitam Al Laham and Abdo Chahine. 8 GRAND CINEMAS NOV 2019 – JAN 2020 grandcinemasme.com 9 S AV E READY YOUR ENGINES THEMOVIE FOR THE MOST HOTLY ANTICIPATED DATE UPCOMING RELEASES 2020 MUST FEB BIRDS OF 06 PREY LIST Margot Robbie returns as the fantabulous Harley Quinn. After splitting with the Joker, Harley joins superheroes Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya to save a young HISTORY MAKER girl from an evil crime lord. Marie Curie is the first woman to have won the Nobel Prize, and the only woman to win more than one. JAN BAD BOYS 16 FOR LIFE Q1 2020 RADIOACTIVE Seventeen years after Bad Boys II, Witness a ferociously original take on the life of Nobel Will Smith and Martin Lawrence Prize winner Marie Curie (Rosamund Pike) and her are still cleaning up crime. But with extraordinary scientific discoveries through the prism of Marcus now a police inspector and her marriage to husband Pierre and the seismic effects Mike in a midlife crisis, are they still their discovery of radium had on the 20th century. the bad boys of their youth? 10 GRAND CINEMAS NOV 2019 – JAN 2020 grandcinemasme.com 11 2020 MUST LIST RICHARD JAN DARING 09 JEWELL TALENT Clint Eastwood directs the true story of the security guard who saved thousands at the 1996 Olympics, only to be vilified. FEB ARAB BLUES Iranian born 13 Golshifteh Farahani has taken Hollywood Selma, a psychoanalyst, deals with a cast of colourful by storm, starring new patients after returning home to Tunisia to open a in such stand-out films as Paterson, practice. The touching comedy recently premiered at Pirates of the the Venice Film Festival to much acclaim. Golshifteh Caribbean 5 and Farahani, Majd Mastoura and Aïsha Ben Miled star. Body of Lies. JAN THE GRUDGE 02 A house is cursed by a vengeful ghost in the new chapter of the horror franchise, taking place between the events of 2004’s The Grudge and The Grudge 2. ALSO SHOWING IN JAN DOLITTLE JAN LITTLE 16 09 WOMEN A BEAUTIFUL Robert Downey Jr stars in the new JAN DAY IN THE adaptation of the children’s book A stupendous line-up of female 30 NEIGHBORHOOD by Hugh Lofting about a doctor who talent, lead by Saoirse Ronan and discovers that he can talk to animals. Emma Watson, herald the big- Tom Hanks portrays Mister The terrific voice cast features Tom screen return of Louisa May Alcott’s Rogers in a timely story of kind- Holland, Emma Thompson, Rami classic novel about four sisters com- ness triumphing over cynicism. Malek and Marion Cotillard. ing of age in the aftermath of war. 12 GRAND CINEMAS NOV 2019 – JAN 2020 2020 MUST LIST JAN LIKE A BOSS 09 Two female friends with very different ideals start a beauty company together in the comedy starring Rose Byrne, APR Salma Hayek and Tiffany Haddish. THE SECRET 2020 GARDEN Colin Firth and Julie Waters lead a brilliant new take on the venerated classic children’s novel about a prickly and unloved 10-year-old girl who loses her parents and is sent back to England to live with her uncle.