continues as the first book in author Richelle Mead's bestselling Young Adult.
NON-STOP .... novel All You Need is Kill, this sci-fi stars Cruise as a futuristic.
COMING ATTRACTIONS
Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt star in Edge of Tomorrow, a summer blockbuster hitting theatres in June
January SEVENTH SON
inspired by Mary Shelley’s
DIRECTOR: Sergei Bodrov
gothic horror tale. Eckhart
STARRING: Ben Barnes,
stars as Adam Frankenstein,
Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore
the reanimated creation of
The grizzled John Gregory
Dr. Frankenstein.
(Bridges) is a Spook — a man
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tasked with battling demons. Centuries ago he imprisoned
SABOTAGE
powerful witch Mother Malkin
DIRECTOR: David Ayer
(Moore), but she’s escaped
STARRING: Sam Worthington,
and Gregory must train the
Arnold Schwarzenegger,
seventh son of a seventh son
Mireille Enos
(Barnes) to help him take down
Corrupt DEA officer
“Mommie Dearest”.
John “Breacher” Wharton
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(Schwarzenegger) and his
I, FRANKENSTEIN
Julianne Moore in Seventh Son
8
team raid a drug cartel’s safe house to steal millions of
DIRECTOR: Stuart Beattie
dollars. They think they got
STARRING: Aaron Eckhart,
away with it — until an assassin
Yvonne Strahovski, Bill Nighy
starts picking off the team
Based on the graphic novel of
members one by one.
the same name, which in turn is
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February THE LEGO MOVIE
series Vampire Academy hits
DIRECTORS: Phil Lord,
screens. Former Disney TV star
Chris Miller and Chris McKay
Deutch plays Rose Hathaway,
VOICES: Channing Tatum,
a half-human, half-vampire
Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell
who serves as the bodyguard
Warner Brothers and LEGO
and BFF of vampire princess
join forces to create their
Lissa (Kozlovsky). The
very own Toy Story. This
supernatural babes attend
animated/stop-motion pic
St. Vladimir’s Academy — a
finds an everyday LEGO
supposed safe haven for
building block named Emmet
vamps — that’s actually
(Pratt) joining LEGO’s master
teeming with danger.
builders — including Superman
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(Tatum), Batman (Will Arnett) and Wonder Woman (Cobie
NON-STOP
Smulders) — to help stop
DIRECTOR: Jaume Collet-Serra
Lord Business (Ferrell) from
STARRING: Liam Neeson,
destroying the LEGO universe.
Julianne Moore, Corey Stoll
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Neeson reteams with his
VAMPIRE ACADEMY: BLOOD SISTERS
Unknown director Collet-Serra for this action/thriller set on a transatlantic flight heading from New York to London.
Muppets Most Wanted star Ricky Gervais with Miss Piggy and Kermit
DIRECTOR: Mark Waters
The chilling twist this time?
STARRING: Zoe Deutch,
Neeson is a U.S. air marshal
Danila Kozlovsky,
who receives texts stating
Olga Kurylenko
that one passenger will
Hollywood’s love affair with
be killed every 20 minutes
young, good-looking vampires
unless $150-million is
continues as the first book
transferred into an
in author Richelle Mead’s
untraceable bank account.
MUPPETS MOST WANTED
bestselling Young Adult
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DIRECTOR: James Bobin
the smart, brave and curious
STARRING: The Muppets,
Tris Prior (Woodley) doesn’t fall
Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey
into a single group, and upsets
The success of 2011’s The Muppets
the social apple cart when she
proved people still love the
moves between affliations.
furry felt puppets more than
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March
40 years after they debuted on
personality traits. However,
TV’s Sesame Street. This sequel
NOAH
finds the gang embarking on a
DIRECTOR: Darren Aronofsky
European tour that turns into a
STARRING: Russell Crowe,
disaster when Kermit is confused
Jennifer Connelly,
for look-a-like Constantine,
Emma Watson
a notorious criminal involved
When Noah’s (Crowe) warning
in a jewel heist.
that God will bring forth a great
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flood to punish humanity for
DIVERGENT
The LEGO Movie
of five groups based on
its mistreatment of the Earth falls on deaf ears, he takes wife
DIRECTOR: Neil Burger
Naameh (Connelly) and their
STARRING: Shailene Woodley,
children (Watson, Logan Lerman
Kate Winslet, Theo James
and Douglas Booth) into the
Another popular Young Adult
wilderness where he sets out
book becomes a film, this one
to build an ark to survive the
set in a dystopian future where
Armageddon.
people are slotted into one
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COMING ATTRACTIONS
Captain America: Winter Soldier star Chris Evans
April to the Amazon rainforest.
THE QUIET ONES
The domesticated family
DIRECTOR: John Pogue
quickly learns fending for
STARRING: Jared Harris,
itself in the wild sure is fowl.
Sam Clafin, Olivia Cooke
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British horror studio Hammer’s
CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDIER
that stars Harris as an Oxford professor who leads a group of
DIRECTOR: Anthony Russo,
students in an experiment to see
Joe Russo
if, using negative energy, they
STARRING: Chris Evans,
can create a poltergeist.
Scarlett Johansson,
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Samuel L. Jackson
Rio 2’s pretty birds
latest is this 1970s-set ghost story
Iron Man 3 launched
TRANSCENDENCE
Marvel Studios’ “Phase Two,”
DIRECTOR: Wally Pfister
which takes its casts of
STARRING: Johnny Depp,
superheroes into a post-
Rebecca Hall, Morgan Freeman
Avengers universe. Here, 1940s
Christopher Nolan’s longtime
supersoldier Captain America
cinematographer Pfister makes
(Evans) continues to feel out
his directing debut with this
of place in the fast-paced
sci-fi about a woman (Hall)
21st-century. But his moral code
who uploads the brain of her
and superior fighting skills are
murdered, computer scientist husband (Depp) into a mainframe
RIO 2
Jewel (Hathaway) and Blu
needed when he teams with
DIRECTOR: Carlos Saldanha
(Eisenberg), along with
Black Widow (Johansson) to
where he attempts to transform
VOICES: Jesse Eisenberg,
their three kids, decide they
find a traitor lurking within the
computers into machines that
Anne Hathaway, Leslie Mann
want to experience life in
U.S. Government.
can think for themselves.
Rio’s two blue macaw lovebirds
the wild, so they fly from Rio
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May THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2
X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST
DIRECTOR: Marc Webb
DIRECTOR: Bryan Singer
STARRING: Andrew Garfield,
STARRING: James McAvoy,
Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx
Michael Fassbender,
Andrew Garfield once again
Hugh Jackman
squeezes into that spandex
Director Singer’s sequel to the
suit to play the web-slinging
stylish X-Men: First Class finds
superhero in this sequel to
the aged Charles Xavier
The Amazing Spider-Man.
(Patrick Stewart) and Magneto
Peter’s still adjusting to his
(Ian McKellen) sending
roles as crime-fighter and
Wolverine (Jackman) into the
boyfriend to Gwen Stacy
past where he must convince the
(Stone) when Harry Osborn
younger Xavier (McAvoy) and
(Dane DeHaan) and two new
Magneto (Fassbender) to work
villains — Electro (Foxx) and
together to stop a catastrophic
The Rhino (Paul Giamatti) —
event from occurring.
arrive to make trouble.
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GODZILLA
MALEFICENT
DIRECTOR: Gareth Edwards
DIRECTOR: Robert Stromberg
STARRING: Elizabeth Olsen,
STARRING: Angelina Jolie,
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Elle Fanning
The dormant Godzilla franchise
This Disney fantasy recounts
wakes up with this reboot that
the trials of Sleeping Beauty’s
finds the giant monster — based
wicked fairy godmother
on the design of the original
Maleficent (Jolie). We learn
creature from the 1954 Japanese
that Maleficent wasn’t actually
film — attacking the world.
born bad, but rather was
Taylor-Johnson plays a military
the protector of her forest
officer and Olsen plays a nurse,
kingdom. It turns out it was
EDGE OF TOMORROW
both of whom get caught up in
a betrayal that turned her
DIRECTOR: Doug Liman
BFF Toothless. During one of
Godzilla’s path of destruction.
heart to stone.
STARRING: Tom Cruise,
their rides they come across an
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Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton
ice cave that’s home to a slew of
Based on the Japanese graphic
wild dragons and the mysterious
novel All You Need is Kill, this
Dragon Rider, who may prove a
sci-fi stars Cruise as a futuristic
threat to the Viking people.
soldier sent on a suicide mission
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How to Train Your Dragon gets a sequel
June
against an alien enemy. He
roams the skies with his dragon
is killed almost instantly but,
22 JUMP STREET
instead of dying, he reawakens
DIRECTORS: Phil Lord
to live the same day over again,
and Chris Miller
meaning he can learn, bit by
STARRING: Channing Tatum,
bit, what it takes to defeat the
Jonah Hill
enemy. Blunt plays against type
In 2012’s 21 Jump Street, Tatum
as a tough-as-nails soldier.
and Hill played undercover
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cops who posed as high school
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2
Angelina Jolie in Maleficent
adventurous Viking Hiccup, who
students to break up a drug ring. Here, they’ll pose as college students investigating criminal
DIRECTOR: Dean DeBlois
behaviour on campus, although
VOICES: Jay Baruchel,
it’s not exactly clear what the
Gerard Butler, Kristen Wiig
naughty college kids are doing.
Jay Baruchel returns to voice the
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COMING ATTRACTIONS July
FAST & FURIOUS 7
in a world where the human
DIRECTOR: James Wan
survivors of a virus that killed
STARRING: Vin Diesel,
billions live in fear of Caesar,
Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham
who commands an ever-evolving
The seventh installment of the
ape kingdom.
vroom-vroom franchise sees
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Ian Shaw (Statham), the brother Evans) from Fast & Furious 6,
JUPITER ASCENDING
seeking revenge against Dom
DIRECTORS: Lana Wachowski
(Diesel), Luke (Johnson) and
and Andy Wachowski
Brian (Paul Walker).
STARRING: Mila Kunis,
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Channing Tatum
of bad guy Owen Shaw (Luke
DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
Welcome back Fast & Furious franchise star Vin Diesel
The brother-sister directing team who gave us the eyepopping Matrix trilogy, and most recently the head-
DIRECTOR: Matt Reeves
scratching Cloud Atlas, continues
STARRING: Andy Serkis,
to push boundaries with this
Jason Clarke
epic sci-fi about a Russian janitor
2011’s Rise of the Planet of
named Jupiter Jones (Kunis)
the Apes was an unexpected
who learns she’s destined to
worldwide hit with audiences
be the next Queen of the
marvelling at Andy Serkis’
Universe. This makes the present
motion-capture performance
Queen uneasy, so she sends a
as genetically evolved ape
hybrid human/wolf (Tatum)
Caesar. The sequel picks up
to take her out.
a decade after the first film
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August GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
DRACULA
DIRECTOR: James Gunn
STARRING: Luke Evans,
STARRING: Chris Pratt,
Sarah Gadon, Dominic Cooper
Vin Diesel, Zoe Saldana
In this origin tale, we discover
Marvel Films rolls out
how 15th-century nobleman
another team of cosmic
Vlad the Impaler (Evans) is
superbeings, although this
forced to make a demonic deal
bunch has more in common
with a bloodthirsty sultan to
with the morally questionable
save his wife (Gadon) and
Watchmen than the heroic
child from harm.
Avengers. Pratt stars as
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space pilot Star-Lord, who
DIRECTOR: Gary Shore
Josh Brolin in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
assassin Gamora (Saldana),
THE EXPENDABLES 3
muscle-bound Drax the
DIRECTOR: Patrick Hughes
Destroyer (Dave Bautista),
STARRING: Sylvester Stallone
SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR
tree-like warrior Groot
The Expendables franchise
DIRECTORS: Frank Miller,
Willis) and private eye Dwight
(Diesel) and his furry friend
proves aging action stars don’t
Robert Rodriguez
(Brolin, who replaces Clive Owen
Rocket Raccoon (voiced by
fade away, but rather go to
STARRING: Jessica Alba,
from the first film) off to save
Bradley Cooper) to battle the
Bulgaria to shoot affordable
Josh Brolin, Mickey Rourke
another ex-lover (Eva Green)
universe’s bad guys.
movies that make money.
Eight years after Sin City, this
from an abusive partner.
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sequel hits screens with four
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assembles a group that includes
12
new vignettes. Stories include stripper Nancy (Alba) grieving the death of Hartigan (Bruce
October THE INTERVIEW DIRECTORS: Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg STARRING: James Franco, Seth Rogen Riding the wave of success from This is the End, directors Rogen and Goldberg reteam for this comedy about a TV interviewer (Franco) and his producer (Rogen) sent to North Korea to interview
Frankenstein’s Daniel Radcliffe
leader Kim Jong-un.
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THE JUDGE
Milla Jovovich will return for Resident Evil 6
FRANKENSTEIN DIRECTOR: Paul McGuigan
DIRECTOR: David Dobkin
STARRING: Daniel Radcliffe,
STARRING: Robert Downey Jr.,
James McAvoy
Vera Farmiga, Robert Duvall
In 2014, Mary Shelley’s
Downey plays a big-city lawyer
Frankenstein tale inspires
who returns to his hometown to
two pics — January’s
attend his mother’s funeral. He
I, Frankenstein and this gothic
just wants to do his duty and
drama that recounts the story
leave, but when he learns his
from the point of view of
father (Duvall), the town judge,
Dr. Frankenstein’s (McAvoy)
is a suspect in a murder case,
hunchbacked assistant,
he decides to stick around.
Igor (Radcliffe).
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September RESIDENT EVIL 6
orphan boy named Egg who’s
DIRECTOR: Paul W.S. Anderson
taken in by box-shaped trolls
STARRING: Milla Jovovich,
who live underneath the city
Sienna Guillory
and come out at night to forage
The unstoppable sci-fi franchise
for trinkets and trash. Kingsley
hits the half-dozen mark with this
voices the villain.
latest pic about the superhuman
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Alice (Jovovich) and her band of human survivors fighting hordes
THE EQUALIZER
of zombies and clones that were
DIRECTOR: Antoine Fuqua
created after the evil Umbrella
STARRING: Denzel Washington,
Corporation unleashed a virus.
Chloë Grace Moretz
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Based on the 1980s TV
THE BOXTROLLS
show of the same name that starred Edward Woodward,
DIRECTORS: Anthony Stacchi,
this big-screen adaptation
Graham Annable
stars Washington as a retired
VOICES: Simon Pegg,
government operative who
Toni Collette, Ben Kingsley
helps regular folks seek justice.
From Laika, the animation
Here, he offers his services to a
studio that gave us Coraline
prostitute (Moretz), leading to
and ParaNorman, comes this
blowback from the Russian mob.
3D, stop-motion tale about an
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The Judge star Robert Downey Jr.
13
COMING ATTRACTIONS December EXODUS STARRING: Christian Bale,
THE HOBBIT: THERE AND BACK AGAIN
Joel Edgerton
DIRECTOR: Peter Jackson
The hottest property in
STARRING: Martin Freeman,
Hollywood continues to be the
Ian McKellen
Bible as studios and filmmakers
The final film in Jackson’s second
comb its pages for epic stories
trilogy based on the works of
(all of which come free of
J.R.R. Tolkien will include the epic
charge). Director Scott casts
Battle of the Five Armies, which
Bale as Moses, who is chosen by
sees Bilbo and the Dwarves,
God to free the Israelites from
the men of Lake-town and the
their bondage under Egyptian
Giant Eagles face off against the
Pharaoh Ramses (Edgerton).
nasty Goblins and Wargs.
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TOMORROWLAND
INTO THE WOODS
DIRECTOR: Brad Bird
DIRECTOR: Rob Marshall
STARRING: George Clooney,
STARRING: Meryl Streep,
Britt Robinson
Johnny Depp, Emily Blunt
Originally titled 1952, this highly
This big-screen adaptation of
secretive Disney project has been
composer Steven Sondheim’s
confirmed as a sci-fi film that
Broadway musical finds characters from different fairy
DIRECTOR: Ridley Scott
It’s the beginning of the end for The Hunger Games stars Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson
November INTERSTELLAR
German army that wants nothing
stars Clooney. That is all we know
DIRECTOR: Christopher Nolan
more than to take out an Allied
for sure, but indications point
tales working together to thwart
STARRING: Anne Hathaway,
invader. Pitt and his co-stars
to a story revolving around the
an evil witch (Streep) who’s put
Matthew McConaughey
took tank-driving lessons before
Disney theme parks’ futuristic
a curse on a baker and his wife
Director Nolan’s follow-up
filming began to ensure the
land, and including time travel.
(Blunt). Depp plays the Wolf
to The Dark Knight Rises is
authenticity of their manoeuvres.
Call us intrigued.
from the Red Riding Hood tale.
a big-budget sci-fi starring
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McConaughey as a scientist
travel through time and into
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1
other dimensions. Expect Nolan
DIRECTOR: Francis Lawrence
to keep any other salient plot
STARRING: Jennifer Lawrence,
points under wraps as long
Josh Hutcherson
as possible, just as he did
The grand finale of the
with Inception and the
Hunger Games film series has
Dark Knight series.
been split up into two parts.
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Part I picks up after the events
who leads a team of space explorers to a newly discovered wormhole that allows them to
FURY
of Catching Fire in which Katniss (Lawrence) survived the
DIRECTOR: David Ayer
Quarter Quell, and now finds
STARRING: Brad Pitt,
herself safely ensconced in rebel
Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman
headquarters. As the rebels plan
In April 1945 an American tank
one final attack against Panem
crew, commanded by WarDaddy
forces, Katniss must decide who
(Pitt), is caught behind Nazi lines
to trust, and how far she’ll go
and must fight its way through
to help save her people.
an increasingly desperate
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The Hobbit: There and Back Again star Martin Freeman
