EDGE OF TOMORROW In
3D and 2D in select theaters
and
IMAX on June 6
(Warner Bros.
Pictures/Village Roadshow Pictures)
Director: Doug Liman
Writers: Screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie and
Jez Butterworth &
John-Henry Butterworth
Based on the acclaimed
novel All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi
Sakurazaka
Producers: Erwin Stoff, Tom Lassally, Jeffrey Silver, Gregory Jacobs,
Jason Hoffs
Executive Producers: Doug Liman, Dave Bartis, Joby Harold, Hidemi
Fukuhara, Bruce Berman
Cast: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, Jeremy Piven,
Ciarán Hinds, Noah Taylor,
Kick Gurry, Dragomir Mrsic, Charlotte Riley,
Jonas Armstrong, Franz Drameh, Masayoshi Haneda, Tony Way
Sci-Fi Thriller. The epic action of “Edge of Tomorrow”
unfolds in a near future in which an alien race has hit the Earth in an
unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world. Major William
Cage (Tom Cruise)
is an officer
who has never
seen a day
of combat when he
is unceremoniously dropped into what amounts to a suicide mission. Killed within minutes, Cage now finds himself
inexplicably thrown into a time loop—forcing him to live out the same brutal
combat over and over, fighting and dying again…and again. But with each battle, Cage becomes able to engage
the adversaries with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita
Vrataski (Emily Blunt). And, as Cage and
Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated encounter gets them one step
closer to defeating the enemy.
JERSEY BOYS In
theaters on June 20
(Warner Bros. Pictures)
Director: Clint Eastwood
Writers: Screenplay by Marshall Brickman &
Rick Elice
Based on the stage play
“Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons” directed for
the stage by Des McAnuff,
Book by Marshall
Brickman and Rick Elice,
Song music by Bob Gaudio
and lyrics by Bob Crewe
Producers: Clint Eastwood, Graham King, Robert Lorenz
Executive Producers: Franki Valli, Bob
Gaudio, Tim Moore, Tim Headington, Brett Ratner,
James Packer
Cast: John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Vincent Piazza,
Michael Lomenda, Christopher Walken
Musical. Clint Eastwood’s big
screen version of the Tony Award-winning musical tells the story of the four
young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to
form the iconic `60s rock group The Four Seasons. Their trials and triumphs are accompanied by
the hit songs that influenced a generation, and are now being embraced by a new
generation of fans through the stage musical.
TAMMY In
theaters on July 2
(New Line Cinema)
Director: Ben Falcone
Writers: Written by Melissa McCarthy & Ben Falcone
Producers: Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Melissa McCarthy
Executive Producers: Rob Cowan, Ben Falcone, Chris Henchy, Kevin
Messick
Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon, Allison Janney, Gary
Cole, Mark Duplass,
Toni Collette, Nat Faxon, Dan Aykroyd, Kathy
Bates
Comedy. Tammy (Melissa McCarthy) is having a bad
day. She’s totaled her clunker car,
gotten fired from her thankless job at a greasy burger joint, and instead of
finding comfort at home, finds her husband getting comfortable with the neighbor
in her own house. It’s time to take her boom box and book it. The bad news is she’s broke and without
wheels. The worse news is her grandma, Pearl (Susan Sarandon), is her only option—with a car,
cash, and an itch to see Niagara Falls. Not exactly the escape Tammy had in
mind. But on the road, with grandma
riding shot gun, it may be just what Tammy needs.
JUPITER ASCENDING In
3D and 2D in select theaters
and
IMAX on July 18
(Warner Bros.
Pictures/Village Roadshow Pictures)
Directors: The Wachowskis
Writers: The Wachowskis
Producers: Grant Hill, Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski
Executive Producers: Roberto Malerba, Bruce Berman
Cast: Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne,
Douglas Booth,
Tuppence Middleton, Doona Bae, James D’Arcy,
Tim Pigott-Smith
Sci-Fi Epic Adventure. From the streets of
Chicago to the far-flung galaxies whirling through space, “Jupiter Ascending”
tells the story of Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis), who was born under a night sky,
with signs predicting she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but
wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning other people’s houses and an
endless run of bad breaks. Only when
Caine (Channing Tatum), a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on
Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been
waiting for her all along—her genetic signature marks her as next in line for
an extraordinary inheritance that could alter the balance of the cosmos.
INTO THE STORM In
theaters on August 8
(New Line
Cinema/Village Roadshow Pictures)
Director: Steven Quale
Writer: John Swetnam
Producer: Todd Garner
Executive Producers: Toby Emmerich, Richard Brener, Walter Hamada,
Dave Neustadter,
Mark McNair, Jeremy Stein, Bruce Berman
Cast: Richard Armitage, Sarah Wayne Callies, Matt Walsh,
Alycia Debnam-Carey, Arlen Escarpeta, Max Deacon, Nathan Kress, Jeremy Sumpter,
Kyle Davis, Jon Reep,
Scott Lawrence
Action Thriller. In the span of a single day, the town of Silverton is ravaged by
an unprecedented onslaught of tornadoes.
The entire town is at the mercy of the erratic and deadly cyclones, even
as storm trackers predict the worst is yet to come. Most people seek shelter, while others run
towards the vortex, testing how far a storm chaser will go for that
once-in-a-lifetime shot. Told through
the eyes and lenses of professional storm chasers, thrill-seeking amateurs, and
courageous townspeople, “Into the Storm” throws you directly into the eye of
the storm to experience Mother Nature at her most extreme.
THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU In
theaters on September 12
(Warner Bros. Pictures)
Director: Shawn Levy
Writer: Screenplay by Jonathan Tropper
Based on the novel This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan
Tropper
Producers: Paula Weinstein, Shawn Levy, Jeffrey Levine
Executive Producers: Mary McLaglen,
Jonathan Tropper
Cast: Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Adam Driver, Rose Byrne,
Corey Stoll, Kathryn Hahn,
Abigail Spencer, Dax Shepard, Jane Fonda
Dramatic Comedy. When their father
passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective
adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the
same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an
assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. Confronting their history and
the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love
them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting
ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families can
provide— driving us insane even as they remind us of our truest, and often
best, selves.
DOLPHIN TALE 2 In
theaters on September 19
(Warner Bros.
Pictures/Alcon Entertainment)
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Writer: Charles Martin Smith
Producers: Andrew A. Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Richard Ingber
Cast: Harry Connick, Jr., Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Kris
Kristofferson, Nathan Gamble, Cozi Zuehlsdorff, Austin Stowell, Bethany
Hamilton
Family Adventure. “Dolphin Tale 2”
continues the story of the brave dolphin Winter, whose miraculous rescue and
recovery—thanks to a groundbreaking prosthetic tail—made her a symbol of hope
and perseverance to people around the world and inspired the 2011 family hit
movie “Dolphin Tale.” It has been
several years since young Sawyer Nelson (Nathan Gamble) and the dedicated team
at the Clearwater
Marine Hospital,
headed by Dr. Clay Haskett (Harry Connick, Jr.), rescued Winter. With the help of Dr. Cameron McCarthy
(Morgan Freeman), who developed a unique prosthetic tail for the injured
dolphin, they were able to save her life. Yet their fight is not over.
Winter’s surrogate mother,
the very elderly
dolphin Panama, has
passed away, leaving
Winter without the only poolmate she has ever known. However, the loss
of Panama may have even greater repercussions
for Winter, who,
according to USDA
regulations, cannot be
housed alone, as dolphins’ social behavior requires them to
be paired with other dolphins. Time is
running out to find a companion for her before the team at Clearwater loses their beloved Winter to
another aquarium.
THE JUDGE In
theaters on October 10
(Warner Bros.
Pictures/Village Roadshow Pictures)
Director: David Dobkin
Writers: Screenplay
by Nick Schenk and Bill Dubuque
Story by David Dobkin
& Nick Schenk
Producers: Susan
Downey, David Dobkin, David Gambino
Executive Producers: Herb
Gains, Robert Downey Jr., Bruce Berman
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall, Vera Farmiga,
Vincent D’Onofrio, Jeremy Strong,
Dax Shepard, Leighton Meester, Melissa Leo,
Billy Bob Thornton, Ken Howard,
Emma Tremblay, Balthazar
Getty, David Krumholtz, Sarah Lancaster, Grace Zabriskie, Denis O’Hare
Drama. Hank Palmer (Robert Downey Jr.) returns to
his childhood home where his estranged father, the town’s judge (Robert
Duvall), is suspected of murder. He sets
out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he
walked away from years before.
INTERSTELLAR In
IMAX and 35mm theaters
on
November 7
(Warner
Bros. Pictures / Paramount Pictures /
Legendary Pictures)
Director: Christopher
Nolan
Writers: Jonathan
Nolan and Christopher Nolan
Producers: Emma
Thomas, Christopher Nolan and Lynda Obst
Executive
Producers: Kip Thorne, Jake Myers and Jordan
Goldberg
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne
Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, and Michael Caine, Casey
Affleck, Wes Bentley, Bill Irwin, MacKenzie Foy, Topher Grace, David Gyasi.
Sci-fi Action. Interstellar chronicles
the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered
wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast
distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 In
theaters on November 26
(New Line Cinema)
Director: Sean Anders
Writers: Screenplay by Sean Anders & John Morris
Story by Jonathan
Goldstein & John Francis Daley
Based on characters
created by Michael Markowtiz
Producers: Brett Ratner, Jay Stern, John Morris, John Rickard, Chris
Bender
Executive Producers: Diana Pokorny, John Cheng
Cast: Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis Jennifer
Aniston, Jamie Foxx, Chris Pine, Kevin Spacey, Christoph Waltz
Comedy. Fed up with answering to higher-ups, Nick,
Dale and Kurt decide to become their own bosses by launching their own business
in “Horrible Bosses 2.” But a slick
investor soon pulls the rug out from under them. Outplayed and desperate, and with no legal
recourse, the three would-be entrepreneurs hatch a misguided plan to kidnap the
investor’s adult son and ransom him to regain control of their company in this
follow-up to the 2011 hit comedy “Horrible Bosses” that reunites stars Jason
Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis as everyone’s favorite working stiffs. Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Foxx and Kevin Spacey
also reprise their starring roles, while Chris Pine and Christoph Waltz star as
new adversaries standing between the guys and their dreams of success.
THE HOBBIT: In
High Frame Rate 3D (HFR 3D),
THERE AND BACK AGAIN other
3D and 2D formats and IMAX
in
select theaters on December 17
(New Line Cinema/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures)
Director: Peter Jackson
Writers: Screenplay by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter
Jackson & Guillermo del Toro
Based on the Novel by
J.R.R. Tolkien
Producers: Carolynne Cunningham, Zane Weiner, Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson
Exec Producers: Alan Horn, Toby
Emmerich, Ken Kamins, Carolyn Blackwood
Cast: Ian McKellen, Martin
Freeman, Richard Armitage, Evangeline Lilly, Lee Pace, Luke Evans, Benedict
Cumberbatch, Stephen Fry, Cate Blanchett, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee,
Hugo Weaving, Ken Stott, James Nesbitt, and
Orlando Bloom. Also starring (in
alphabetical order) John Bell, Manu Bennett, Jed Brophy, Adam Brown, John
Callen,
Billy Connolly, Ryan
Gage, Mark Hadlow, Peter Hambleton, Stephen Hunter,
William Kircher,
Lawrence Makoare, Sylvester McCoy, Graham McTavish,
Dean O’Gorman, Mikael
Persbrandt, Aidan Turner
Fantasy Adventure. “The Hobbit: There and Back Again” is the
epic conclusion to Peter Jackson’s trilogy of films adapting the enduringly
popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. The film concludes the adventure of the title
character Bilbo Baggins, who joins the Wizard Gandalf and thirteen Dwarves, led
by Thorin Oakenshield, on an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of
Erebor.
