Dragonlord's 2015 Movie Guide

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Weekend Box Office:

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON Breaks Out With Massive $56.1M

Swaggering into theaters across North America, Straight Outta Compton beat all expectations, grabbing an estimated $56.1 million

 

[anaconda]

I really want to watch Man from UNCLE. I'm a big Guy Ritchie fan and I hope it lives up to my expectations.

I looked up Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and both were in the mid 70s on RT so hopefully this is on the same level of those (in which case I'll love it).

 

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HITMAN: AGENT 47

Release Date: Aug. 21 (Wide)

Genre: Action Thriller

Director: Aleksander Bach (feature film directorial debut)

Cast: Rupert Friend, Zachary Quinto, Hannah Ware, Thomas Kretschmann and Ciaran Hinds

Synopsis: Based on the top-selling, award-winning videogame franchise, Hitman: Agent 47 centers on an elite assassin who was genetically engineered from conception to be the perfect killing machine, and is known only by the last two digits on the barcode tattooed on the back of his neck. He is the culmination of decades of research - and forty-six earlier Agent clones -- endowing him with unprecedented strength, speed, stamina and intelligence. His latest target is a mega-corporation that plans to unlock the secret of Agent 47's past to create an army of killers whose powers surpass even his own. Teaming up with a young woman who may hold the secret to overcoming their powerful and clandestine enemies, 47 confronts stunning revelations about his own origins and squares off in an epic battle with his deadliest foe.

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Rotten Tomatoes: 8% Approval Rating (5 out of 63 critics like it)

Critics Consensus: Hitman: Agent 47 fails to clear the low bar set by its predecessor, forsaking thrilling action in favor of a sleekly hollow m

 

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Weekend Box Office:

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON Powers to $26 Million 2nd Weekend

Straight Outta Compton continues to feel the love at the box office in its second weekend, earning another $26.8 million in North American theaters. Universal's N.W.A biopic earned a huge $60.2 million in its first outing. Three R-rated films — a horror sequel, a video game adaptation and a stoner action-comedy — all failed to meet their projected numbers this weekend, placing below both Compton and Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, which is in its fourth week in theaters.

Compton has already passed $100 million after just two weeks at the box office, hitting an estimated $111.5 million through this weekend. A smart marketing campaign, good reviews and strong word-of-mouth are to thank for the studio's latest success. Compton's second weekend win marks Universal’s 13th weekend atop the North American box office.

Blumhouse's Sinister 2, after scaring up a solid $850,000 from 2,100 locations Thursday night, earned $10.6 million for the weekend. Hitting 2,758 theaters this weekend, the sequel is falling behind the tally of the original film, which starred Ethan Hawke and debuted to $18 million in October 2012. It went on to earn $77.7 million worldwide.

Hitman: Agent 47, which earned $600,000 from 2,500 locations Thursday night, took home $8.2 million this weekend. The Fox film is an adaptation of a popular video game, starring Homeland’s Rupert Friend as an elite assassin. It won't catch the number earned by the 2007 adaptation starring Timothy Olyphant, which earned $13 million when it debuted in November that year, and went on to take in just under $100 million worldwide.

Lionsgate's American Ultra is also off to a quiet start as well. After taking in $425,000 Thursday night, the action-comedy earned around $5.5 million in its debut. Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart star in American Ultra, an action-comedy about a stoner and mini-mart employee (Eisenberg) who discovers he was was trained as a secret agent. The Adventureland reunion is opening in 2,778 locations.


Box Office Report: 'Straight Outta Compton' Powering to $26 Million Second Weekend

 

[Rhett Henley MD]

Sunday bike ride got rained out yesterday so we all got blazed and went for a triple header at the local theater:

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: sort of meh - but was super high the first two hours of the day
Straight out of Compton: really solid, Cube's son especially - perfect amount of stoned to enjoy
The End of the Tour: enjoyed it but was losing my stone and wasn't the right film to sober up to. Fat Segel was nice, Eisenberg convincing too. Could have used more tits, though.

 

[Mondo Freaks]

American Ultra was decent. Its basically a stoner version of Bourne Identity.

 

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NO ESCAPE

Release Date: Aug. 26 (Wide)

Genre: Action Thriller

Director: John Erick Dowdle (As Above, So Below, Quarantine)

Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Owen Wilson, Lake Bell, Sterling Jerins, Claire Geare, Byron Gibson

Synopsis: When Jack (Owen Wilson) finds an opportunity to go to Malaysia to head his water manufacturing company's new plant there, he immediately jumps at the opportunity and moves his family there. When they get there; they seem to be having problems, the electronics don't work and rarely any cars are seen in the streets. When he goes to the market the next morning, he finds himself caught in the middle of a violent rebellion headed by armed rebels executing foreigners. Jack must get back to the hotel and with the help of a mysterious British "tourist" (Pierce Brosnan), must get his family to the American Embassy in the midst of the chaos. But is there any escape?

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Rotten Tomatoes: 40% Approval Rating (37 out of 92 critics like it)

Critics Consensus: No Escape's talented cast and taut B-movie thrills are unfortunately offset by its one-dimensional characters and uncomfortably retrograde worldview.
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WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS

Release Date: Aug. 28 (Wide)

Genre: Musical Drama

Director: Max Joseph (feature film directorial debut)

Cast: Zac Efron, Emily Ratajkowski, Wes Bentley, Jonny Weston, Shiloh Fernandez, Jon Bernthal

Synopsis: We Are Your Friends is about what it takes to find your voice. Set in the world of electronic music and Hollywood nightlife, an aspiring 23-year-old DJ named Cole (Efron) spends his days scheming with his childhood friends and his nights working on the one track that will set the world on fire. All of this changes when he meets a charismatic but damaged older DJ named James (Bentley), who takes him under his wing. Things get complicated, however, when Cole starts falling for James

 

[Tobago Jones]

Zac Efron's 'We Are Your Friends' Craters With $1.8M

'Friends' suffers the worst opening of all time for a Hollywood studio title going out in 2,000 or more theaters.

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[Hyperglide]

Zac Efron's 'We Are Your Friends' Craters With $1.8M



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Came here to post this. 3 worst opening EVER for a hollywood Major Studio Release that opened wide. lmao... FU Zac Efron!!

Pretty sure this means he won't be headlining a movie for a while.

 

[Rhett Henley MD]

Watched a quick Nick Cage montage yesterday while boozing...of course this one got the best response:

 

[Jermei]

Z for Zacheriah was a good book. I read it in grade 9 and was hooked on the story, can't say I remember it too well but i remember thinking it would make for a good movie. I'll be seeing it for sure.

 

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THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED

Release Date: Sep. 4 (Wide Release)

Genre: Action

Director: Camille Delamarre (Brick Mansions)

Cast: Ed Skrein, Ray Stevenson, Loan Chabanol, No

 

[Hyperglide]

Hey Dragon I know you're the movie guru around here. Did you hear the news about the Mega Man movie they just announced?

 

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

Hey Dragon I know you're the movie guru around here. Did you hear the news about the Mega Man movie they just announced?

Yeah, I read about it two days ago. For some reason, I just totally forgot to report it in MNN. Will rectify that later.

 

[Hyperglide]

Yeah, I read about it two days ago. For some reason, I just totally forgot to report it in MNN. Will rectify that later.

Sounds good.

 

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Weekend Box Office:

WAR ROOM Wins Labor Day Weekend, TRANSPORTER Stalls

Superheroes

 

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THE VISIT

Release Date: Sep. 11 (Wide Release)

Genre: Mystery Suspense Horror

Director: M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs)

Cast: Kathryn Hahn, Ed Oxenbould, Peter McRobbie, Benjamin Kanes, Olivia De Jonge

Synopsis: The terrifying story of a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances of getting back home are growing smaller every day.

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Rotten Tomatoes: 62% Approval Rating (76 out of 122 critics like it)

Critics Consensus: The Visit provides horror fans with a satisfying blend of thrills and laughs -- and also signals a welcome return to form for writer-director M. Night Shyamalan.
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THE PERFECT GUY

Release Date: Sep. 11 (Wide Release)

Genre: Suspense Thriller

Director: David M. Rosenthal (A Single Shot, Janie Jones)

Cast: Sanaa Lathan, Michael Ealy, Morris Chestnut, Charles S. Dutton, Kathryn Morris, Holt McCallany, Tess Harper, Rutina Wesley, Shannon Lucio, Jessica Parker Kennedy, David Starzyk and Ronnie Gene Blevins

Synopsis: After a painful breakup, successful lobbyist Leah Vaughn jumps into a passionate relationship with a charming stranger. When her ex-boyfriend resurfaces in her life she has to figure out who she should trust and who she should fear.

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Rotten Tomatoes: 25% Approval Rating (2 out of 8 critics like it)

Critics Consensus: Reads like a 14-year-old girl's assumed representation of adult life, The Perfect Guy' is witless, graceless, and juvenile.
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SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE

Release Date: Sep. 11 (Limited Release)

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Director: Leslye Headland (Bachelorette)

Cast: Jason Sudekis, Alison Brie, Adam Scott, Amanda Peet, Natasha Lyonne, Jason Mantzoukas

Synopsis: Jason Sudeikis and Alison Brie star as two romantic failures whose years of serial infidelity and self-sabotage have led them to swear that their relationship will remain strictly platonic. But can love still bloom while you're sleeping with other people? Writer/director Leslye Headland's (Bachelorette) sexy romantic comedy co-stars Amanda Peet, Adam Scott, and Natasha Lyonne.

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Rotten Tomatoes: 54% Approval Rating (21 out of 39 critics like it)

Critics Consensus: Sleeping with Other People has likable leads and flashes of inspiration, but seems unwilling or unable to surround them with the truly subversive rom-com they deserve.
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A BRILLIANT YOUNG MIND

Release Date: Sep. 11 (Limited Release)

Genre: Drama Comedy

Director: Morgan Matthews (Shooting Bigfoot)

Cast: Asa Butterfield, Sally Hawkins, Rafe Spall, Eddie Marsan, Martin McCaan, Jo Yang

Synopsis: This heart-warming and life-affirming story follows the unconventional and hilarious relationship between student and teacher - whose roles are often reversed - and the unfathomable experience of first love - even when you don't understand what love is.

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Rotten Tomatoes: 91% Approval Rating (43 out of 47 critics like it)

Critics Consensus: A Brilliant Young Mind is tender and perceptive -- and intelligent enough to find a wealth of dramatic riches buried under well-trod narrative ground.
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TIME OUT OF MIND

Release Date: Sep. 11 (Limited Release)

Genre: Drama

Director: Oren Moverman (Love & Mercy, Rampart, The Messenger)

Cast: Richard Gere, Jena Malone, Kyra Sedgwick, Steve Buscemi, Brian d'Arcy James, Ben Vereen

Synopsis: Oren Moverman's drama Time out of Mind stars Richard Gere as George, a homeless, mentally-ill man who has been unable to hold a job for years. He drifts through the city looking for food, alcohol, and shelter. He also tries to make contact with his estranged daughter (Jena Malone). Eventually George takes advantage of some of the social services provided by the city of New York, but he lacks the proper paperwork to get the financial assistance he needs. He befriends a fellow homeless man (Ben Vereen) who claims to have been a successful jazz musician.

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Rotten Tomatoes: 69% Approval Rating (25 out of 36 critics like it)

Critics Consensus: Time Out of Mind demands patience, yet its noble intentions -- and Richard Gere's committed performance -- are difficult to deny.
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GOODNIGHT MOMMY

Release Date: Sep. 11 (Limited Release)

Genre: Horror Thriller Drama

Director: Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz

Cast: Susanne Wuest, Lukas Schwarz, Elias Schwarz and Hans Escher

Synopsis: In the heat of the summer. A lonesome house in the countryside between woods and corn fields. Nine-year-old twin brothers are waiting for their mother. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before. The children start to doubt that this woman is actually their mother. It emerges an existential struggle for identity and fundamental trust.

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Rotten Tomatoes: 79% Approval Rating (23 out of 29 critics like it)

Critics Consensus: Dark, violent, and drenched in dread, Goodnight Mommy is perfect for extreme horror enthusiasts -- or filmgoers who prefer to watch between splayed fingers.

 

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Weekend Box Office:

THE PERFECT GUY Narrowly Beats THE VISIT with $26.7 Million

Romantic thriller The Perfect Guy looks to have narrowly beaten M. Night Shyamalan's horror-thriller The Visit at the North American box office with $26.7 million from 2,221 theaters. The Visit took in an estimated $25.7 million, the top opening of 2015 so far for a horror film. The final weekend order of the two films could change if Sunday projections are off.

Perfect Guy, from Screen Gems, marks the fifth weekend in a row that a movie featuring African-American actors in the lead roles topped the chart. Universal's Straight Outta Compton won three consecutive weekends, followed by Sony/TriStar's Christian drama War Room over Labor Day.

The international box office race was dominated by Mission: Impossible

 

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MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS

Release Date: Sep. 18 (Wide Release)

Genre: Science Fiction Mystery Action Thriller

Director: Wes Ball (The Maze Runner)

Cast: Dylan O'Brien, Aidan Gillen, Ki Hong Lee, Thomas Sangster, Kaya Scodelario, Patricia Clarkson, Nathalie Emmanuel, Giancarlo Esposito, Jacob Lofland, Katherine McNamara, Lili Taylor, Barry Pepper

Synopsis: In this next chapter of the epic “Maze Runner” saga, Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD’s vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.

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Rotten Tomatoes: 48% Approval Rating (39 out of 80 critics like it)

Critics Consensus: Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials offers an action-packed improvement over its predecessor, although the franchise still stands in the shadow of more successful YA adaptations.
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BLACK MASS

Release Date: Sep. 18 (IMAX Release)

Genre: Crime Action Drama

Director: Scott Cooper (Out of the Furnace, Crazy Heart)

Cast: Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kevin Bacon, Juno Temple, Sienna Miller, Dakota Johnson, Peter Sarsgaard, David Harbour, Rory Cochrane, Julianne Nicholson, James Russo, Adam Scott, Jeremy Strong, Corey Stoll

Synopsis: John Connolly (Joel Edgerton) and James "Whitey" Bulger (Johnny Depp) grew up together on the streets of South Boston. Decades later, in the late 1970s, they would meet again. By then, Connolly was a major figure in the FBI's Boston office and Whitey had become godfather of the Irish Mob. What happened between them - a dirty deal to trade secrets and take down Boston's Italian Mafia in the process - would spiral out of control, leading to murders, drug dealing, racketeering indictments, and, ultimately, to Bulger making the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List.

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Rotten Tomatoes: 76% Approval Rating (84 out of 110 critics like it)

Critics Consensus: Black Mass spins a gripping yarn out of its fact-based story -- and leaves audiences with one of Johnny Depp's most compelling performances in years.
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EVEREST

Release Date: Sep. 18 (Wide Release)

Genre: True Story Adventure Thriller

Director: Baltasar Kormákur (2 Guns, Contraband)

Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Jason Clarke, John Hawkes, Sam Worthington, Keira Knightley, Robin Wright, Emily Watson, Clive Standen, Martin Hendersen, Elizabeth Debicki, Thomas M. Wright, Michael Kelly

Synopsis: Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain, Everest documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.




Rotten Tomatoes: 72% Approval Rating (74 out of 103 critics like it)

Critics Consensus: Everest boasts all the dizzying cinematography a person could hope to get out a movie about mountain climbers, even if it's content to tread less challenging narrative terrain.

 

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SICARIO

Release Date: Sep. 18 (Limited Release)

Genre: Crime Drama Thriller

Director: Denis Villeneuve (Enemy, Prisoners, Incendies)

Cast: Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Jeffrey Donovan, Maximiliano Hernandez

Synopsis: In the lawless border area stretching between the U.S. and Mexico, an idealistic FBI agent (Emily Blunt) is enlisted by an elite government task force official (Josh Brolin) to aid in the escalating war against drugs. Led by an enigmatic consultant with a questionable past (Benicio Del Toro), the team sets out on a clandestine journey forcing Kate to question everything that she believes in order to survive.

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Rotten Tomatoes: 92% Approval Rating (36 out of 39 critics like it)

Critics Consensus: Led by outstanding work from Emily Blunt and Benicio del Toro, Sicario is a taut, tightly wound thriller with much more on its mind than attention-getting set pieces.
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CAPTIVE

Release Date: Sep. 18 (Limited Release)

Genre: True Story Drama Thriller

Director: Jerry Jameson (Last Flight Out)

Cast: Kate Mara, David Oyelowo, Leonor Varela, Mimi Rogers, E. Roger Mitchell Jessica Oyelowo

Synopsis: A thrilling drama about the spiritual collision of two broken lives. When Brian Nichols -on the run as the subject of a city wide manhunt and desperate to make contact with his newborn son - takes recovering meth addict Ashley Smith hostage in her own apartment, she turns for guidance to Rick Warren's best-selling inspirational book, The Purpose Driven Life. While reading aloud, Ashley and her would-be killer each face crossroads where despair and death intersect hope.

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Rotten Tomatoes: 38% Approval Rating (5 out of 13 critics like it)

Critics Consensus: A Lifetime movie shoved into a cage and fattened with sermons and platitudes until it is ready to be served up cold and bland.
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PAWN SACRIFICE

Release Date: Sep. 16 (Limited Release)

Genre: Historical Drama

Director: Ed Zwick (Glory, The Last Samurai, Courage Under Fire)

Cast: Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, Peter Sarsgaard, Lily Rabe, Robin Weigert, Michael Stuhlbarg

Synopsis: In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. Also starring Liev Schreiber and Peter Sarsgaard, Pawn Sacrifice chronicles Fischer's terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world.

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Rotten Tomatoes: 78% Approval Rating (32 out of 41 critics like it)

Critics Consensus: Anchored by a sensitive performance from Tobey Maguire, Pawn Sacrifice adds another solidly gripping drama to the list of films inspired by chess wiz Bobby Fischer.
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COOTIES

Release Date: Sep. 18 (Limited Release)

Genre: Horror Comedy

Director: Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion

Cast: Elijah Wood, Rainn Wilson, Alison Pill, Jack MacBrayer, Nasim Pedrad, Jorge Garcia, Armani Jackson

Synopsis: When a cafeteria food virus turns elementary school children into killer zombies, a group of misfit teachers must band together to escape the playground carnage. The film stars Elijah Wood (The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings), Rainn Wilson ("The Office"), and Alison Pill ("The Newsroom") as teachers who fight to survive the mayhem while hilariously bickering in an uncomfortable love triangle on the worst Monday of their lives.

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Rotten Tomatoes: 32% Approval Rating (7 out of 22 critics like it)

Critics Consensus: Cooties struggles to fill 90 minutes with a premise that could support, at most, five minutes of great content.