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To help sift through the increasing number of new releases (independent or otherwise), the Weekly Film Guide is here! Below you’ll find basic plot, personnel and cinema information for all of this week’s fresh offerings.

For July, we’ve also put together a list for the entire month. We’ve included this week’s list below, complete with information on screening locations for films in limited release.

See More: Here Are All the Upcoming Movies in Theaters for July 2016

Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, July 29. All synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise.

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Bad Moms

Director: John Lucas and Scott Moore

Cast: Christina Applegate, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, Kathryn Hahn, Emjay Anthony, Jay Jablonski, Kesha Rose Sebert

Synopsis: A woman with a seemingly perfect life – a great marriage, overachieving kids, beautiful home, stunning looks and still holding down a career.

Documentary tells the story of three journalists who uncover child slavery in the chocolate industry.

Fortissimo Films has picked up international rights, excluding Benelux, to Benthe Forrer’s documentary The Chocolate Case.

Produced by BlazHoffski/Dahl TV, the film tells the story of three journalists (Maurice Dekkers, Teun van de Keuken, and Roland Durong) who uncovered child slavery in the chocolate industry and tried to persuade large corporations to end the practice.

When they failed, they developed the world’s first “slave-free” chocolate bar, Tony’s Chocolonely, which became one of the best-selling brands in the Netherlands.

Fortissimo has a long history of handling food-related films, most recently Ants On A Shrimp, also produced by BlazHoffski/Dahl TV. The Chocolate Case stars Forrer’s producing partner and husband, filmmaker Maurice Dekkers, who directed Ants On A Shrimp.

Forrer and Dekkers previously worked on award-winning Dutch TV series, Keuringsdienst Van Waarde, about corruption...

Exclusive: The distributor has acquired North American rights to a pair of culinary documentaries – Ants On A Shrimp and Kampai! For The Love Of Sake.

Maurice Dekkers’ Ants On A Shrimp follows chef René Redzepi as he transplants his renowned restaurant Noma from Copenhagen to the Mandarin Oriental Tokyo for five weeks.

Dan Blazer and Nelsje Musch-Elzinga produced the recent Berlinale world premiere and Dekkers served as executive producer with Marc Blazer.

Ants On A Shrimp will screen at the 2016 Hot Docs Film Festival in Special Presentations.

Mirai Konishi’s Kampai! For The Love Of Sake explores the Japanese spirit through the eyes of a British sake brewer in Japan, an American journalist and author of multiple sake guidebooks, and the reforming young president of an old Japanese sake brewery.

Konishi and Chiaki Yanagimoto produced the film, which premiered at the 2015 San Sebastián Film Festival.

Nao Komai, Soojun Bae, Fortissimo Films’ Michael J. Werner, and [link=nm...

Exclusive: In advance of the film’s Berlinale premiere, the sales company has announced multiple deals.

In advance of its Berlinale premiere, buyers are showing an appetite for new culinary feature doc, Ants On A Shrimp.

Fortissimo is handling sales and has confirmed a number of deals.

The title has now gone to Singapore/Brunei (Golden Village) Australia/New Zealand (Madman Entertainment), Hong Kong (Edko), Japan (Aya Pro) and Former Yugoslavia (2i Film.) World Air Rights are with Jaguar.

Ants On A Shrimp follows world famous chef Rene Redzepi as he sets up his world famous Noma restaurant in Tokyo for a two-month residency. It is directed by Maurice Dekkers.

The aim is intended to give the audience the illusion that they are part of Redzepi’s team as they raced against time to create 14 new dishes.

Redzepi and his close-knit kitchen crew worked punishing hours in the lead-up to the opening of the Tokyo restaurant, “testing...

Fortissimo Films has acquired international rights to Canadian filmmaker Stephen Dunn’s directorial debut Closet Monster.

Currently in post-production, the English-language coming-of-age drama follows a creative and imaginative teenager who has spent years destabilised by his dysfunctional parents, unsure of his sexuality and haunted by horrific images of a childhood trauma.

Connor Jessup (Falling Skies, Blackbird) plays the teenager. The film also features a talking hamster voiced by Isabella Rossellini.

The film was produced by Rhombus Media (The Red Violin, Blindness) and Best Boy Entertainment with the participation of Telefilm Canada, Newfoundland & Labrador Film Development Corporation and The Harold Greenberg Fund and Rogers Telefund. Canadian distribution will be handled by Elevation Pictures.

Dunn’s short films have won awards at festivals including Toronto and Tribeca. In 2015, his short film series Pop-Up Porno created a sensation at Sundance.

The deal for international rights was finalised by Fortissimo Films’ chairman Michael J. Werner and producers Fraser Ash and Kevin Krikst...