Our preview of the new film releases focusing on the business aspects of each plot.
THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER’S WAR – Two colleagues fall in love against the wishes of their boss who has banned workplace romances. The punishment for anyone caught canoodling on the job is to be frozen in ice. But the love-struck duo doesn’t think she’ll find out. Big mistake. Fairytale drama starring Emily Blunt.
A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING – Tom Hanks stars as an under pressure executive at a communications company who tries to save his job by closing the deal of a lifetime. He ventures to Saudi Arabia hoping to sell interactive holographic conferencing technology to the country’s monarchy. But culture clashes prove a challenge to his mission.
ELVIS & NIXON – Showbiz meets politics in this dramatization of a 1970 White House meeting that occurred when superstar Elvis Presley decided he wanted to become an undercover narcotics agent and tried to sell President Richard Nixon on the idea. But the meeting between the most powerful man in the country and the most popular cultural icon becomes a bizarre battle for control. One memorable moment involves Elvis refusing to remove his sunglasses and helping himself to all of the president’s M&Ms.