Menno Meyjes

A recently-widowed science fiction writer (John Cusack) considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old boy who says he's really from Mars.

After years of bloody conflict, the leaders of two rival Arab kingdoms reluctantly agree to end the fighting. But when oil is discovered between their territories, the war is re-ignited. Stars Antonio Banderas, Mark Strong (Sherlock Holmes), Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) and Tahar Rahim (The Eagle).

Director Steven Spielberg tackles Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name which tells the story of an African American woman struggling through racism and domestic abuse in the 1930s South.