DRAGONLORD'S 2016 MOVIE GUIDE

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CELL

Release: July 8, 2016

Genre: Sci-Fi Horror

Director: Tod Williams (Paranormal Activity 2)

Cast: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Isabelle Fuhrman, Owen Teague, Clark Sarullo, Anthony Reynolds, Erin Elizabeth Burns, and Stacy Keach

Synopsis: When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ensuing chaos after. Adapted from the 2006 Stephen King novel.

 

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GHOSTBUSTERS

Release: July 15, 2016

Genre: Science Fiction Comedy Adventure

Director: Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, Spy, The Heat)

Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Chris Hemsworth, Neil Casey, Andy Garcia, Michael K. Williams, Matt Walsh, Cecily Strong, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, Bill Murray, and Sigourney Weaver

Synopsis: Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig) and Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy) are a pair of unheralded authors who write a book positing that ghosts are real. A few years later, Gilbert lands a prestigious teaching position at Columbia University, but her book resurfaces and she is laughed out of academia. Gilbert reunites with Yates and others when ghosts invade Manhattan and she and her team have to save the world.

 

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INFILTRATOR **Interested**

Release: July 15, 2016

Genre: Biographical Crime Drama

Director: Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer)

Cast: Bryan Cranston, Diane Kruger, Benjamin Bratt, John Leguizamo, Amy Ryan, Said Taghmaoui, Joseph Gilgun, Juliet Aubrey, Yul Vasquez, Olympia Dukakis, and Jason Isaacs

Synopsis: DBased on a true story, Federal agent Robert "Bob" Mazur (Bryan Cranston) goes deep undercover to infiltrate Pablo Escobar’s drug trafficking scene plaguing the nation in 1986 by posing as slick, money-laundering businessman Bob Musella. Teamed with impulsive and streetwise fellow agent Emir Abreu (John Leguizamo) and rookie agent posing as his fiancé Kathy Ertz (Diane Kruger), Mazur befriends Escobar’s top lieutenant Roberto Alcaino (Benjamin Bratt).

Navigating a vicious criminal network in which the slightest slip-up could cost him his life, Mazur risks it all building a case that leads to indictments of 85 drug lords and the corrupt bankers who cleaned their dirty money, along with the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, one of the largest money-laundering banks in the world.

 

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CAFE SOCIETY

Release: July 15, 2016

Genre: Comedy Drama

Director: Woody Allen (Blue Jasmine, Midnight in Paris)

Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Blake Lively, Steve Carell, Parker Posey, Kristen Stewart, Corey Stoll, Ken Stott, Jeannie Berlin

Synopsis: Set in the 1930s, a young Bronx native moves to Hollywood where he falls in love with the secretary of his powerful uncle, an agent to the stars. After returning to New York he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life.

 

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EQUALS

Release: July 15, 2016

Genre: Science Fiction Romance Drama

Director: Drake Doremus (Like Crazy, Breathe In)

Cast: Kristen Stewart, Nicholas Hoult, Guy Pearce, Jackie Weaver, Bel Powley, and Scott Lawrence

Synopsis: In an emotionless utopia, two people fall in love when they regain their feelings from a mysterious disease, causing tensions between them and their society.

 

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STAR TREK BEYOND

Release: July 22, 2016

Genre: Science Fiction Action Adventure

Director: Justin Lin (Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6)

Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Simon Pegg, Idris Elba, and Sofia Boutella

Synopsis: The USS Enterprise crew is attacked by a powerful unstoppable wave of unknown aliens. The Enterprise is destroyed, leaving the crew stranded on a new planet where they find themselves in conflict with a new ruthless enemy.

 

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ICE AGE: COLLISION COURSE

Release: July 22, 2016

Genre: Computer-Animated Adventure Comedy

Director: Mike Thurmeier and Galen T. Chu

Cast: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Keke Palmer, Jennifer Lopez, Simon Pegg, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Adam DeVine, Nick Offerman, Max Greenfield, Stephanie Beatriz, Melissa Rauch, Carlos Ponce, Michael Strahan, Jessie J, and Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Synopsis: Scrat's epic pursuit of his elusive acorn catapults him outside of Earth, where he accidentally sets off a series of cosmic events that transform and threaten the planet. To save themselves from peril, Manny, Sid, Diego, and the rest of the herd leave their home and embark on a quest full of thrills and spills, high and lows, laughter and adventure while traveling to exotic new lands and encountering a host of colorful new characters as well as a new enemy who is a brother to one of their old foes.

 

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LIGHTS OUT

Release: July 22, 2016

Genre: Supernatural Horror

Director: David F. Sandberg (feature film directorial debut)

Cast: Teresa Palmer, Maria Bello, Billy Burke, Alicia Vela-Bailey, Emiy Alyn Lind, Gabriel Bateman and Alexander DiPersia

Synopsis: A feature adaptation of the 2013 short film, "Lights Out" by David Sandberg, a woman is haunted by a creature that only appears when the lights go out. Rebecca (Teresa Palmer), after hearing from her younger brother Martin (Gabriel Bateman), is being stalked by a supernatural entity only visible in the dark, which she links to a failed experiment with a childhood friend that happened many years ago.

 

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ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS: THE MOVIE

Release: July 22, 2016

Genre: Comedy

Director: Mandie Fletcher (feature film directorial debut)

Cast: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Cara Delevingne, Chris Colfer, Gwendoline Christie, Rebel Wilson, Julia Sawalha, and Joan Collins

Synopsis: Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamor, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London's trendiest hot-spots. Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch party, they become entangled in a media storm and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forever more!

 

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DON'T THINK TWICE

Release: July 22, 2016

Genre: Comedy Drama

Director: Mike Birbiglia (Sleepwalk With Me)

Cast: Keegan-Michael Key, Gillian Jacobs, Mike Birbiglia, Kate Micucci, Chris Gethard, Tami Sagher

Information: When a member of a popular New York City improv troupe gets a huge break, the rest of the group - all best friends - start to realize that not everyone is going to make it after all.

 

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JASON BOURNE **Interested**

Release: July 29, 2016

Genre: Action Thriller

Director: Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremancy & Ultimatum)

Cast: Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Alicia Vikander, Vincent Cassel, Tommy Lee Jones, Julia Stiles, Riz Ahmed, Ato Essandoh, Neve Gachev, and Scott Shepherd

Information: The world has changed drastically in the eight years since Matt Damon last appeared as Jason Bourne on the big screen. “There’s been the financial collapse, the great recession, all these issues of cyberwarfare and civil liberties,” says Damon. The tumultuous present serves as the backdrop for this story, in which Bourne resumes his quest for answers about his past. Alicia Vikander plays a cyberspecialist and Tommy Lee Jones is an old-school CIA agent.

 

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BAD MOMS

Release: August 19, 2016

Genre: Comedy

Director: Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (21 & Over)

Cast: Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, Christina Applegate, Jada Pinkett-Smith, and Kesha

Synopsis: A woman with a seemingly perfect life - a great marriage, overachieving kids, beautiful home, stunning looks and still holding down a career. However she's over-worked, over committed and exhausted to the point that she's about to snap. Fed up, she joins forces with two other over-stressed moms and all go on a quest to liberate themselves from conventional responsibilities, going on a wild un-mom like binge of freedom, fun and self-indulgence - putting them on a collision course with PTA Queen Bee Gwendolyn and her clique of devoted perfect moms.

 

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NERVE

Release: July 27, 2016

Genre: Crime Mystery Thriller

Director: Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman (Paranormal Activity 4)

Cast: Emma Roberts, Dave Franco, Emily Meade, Kimiko Glenn, Juliette Lewis, and Marc John Jefferies

Synopsis: Industrious high school senior, Vee Delmonico [Emma Roberts], has had it with living life on the sidelines. When pressured by friends to join the popular online game Nerve, Vee decides to sign up for just one dare in what seems like harmless fun. But as she finds herself caught up in the thrill of the adrenaline-fueled competition partnered with a mysterious stranger [Dave Franco], the game begins to take a sinister turn with increasingly dangerous acts, leading her into a high stakes finale that will determine her entire future.

 

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SUICIDE SQUAD **Must-Watch**

Release: August 5, 2016

Genre: Superhero Action Adventure

Director: David Ayer (Fury, Sabotage, End of Watch)

Cast: Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Jared Leto, Joel Kinnaman, Jai Courtney, Cara Delevingne, Viola Davis, Scott Eastwood, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jay Hernandez, Karen Fukuhara, Ike Barinholtz, Adam Beach, Jim Parrack, Common, Alex Meraz, and David Harbour

Synopsis: It feels good to be bad…Assemble a team of the world’s most dangerous, incarcerated Super Villains, provide them with the most powerful arsenal at the government’s disposal, and send them off on a mission to defeat an enigmatic, insuperable entity. U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined only a secretly convened group of disparate, despicable individuals with next to nothing to lose will do.

However, once they realize they weren’t picked to succeed but chosen for their patent culpability when they inevitably fail, will the Suicide Squad resolve to die trying, or decide it’s every man for himself?

 

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NINE LIVES

Release: August 5, 2016

Genre: Comedy Fantasy

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black, The Addams Family)

Cast: Kevin Spacey, Robbie Amell, Jennifer Garner, Christopher Walken, Cheryl Hines, Malina Weissman

Synopsis: Tom Brand (Kevin Spacey) is a major business tycoon, who distanced himself from his daughter Rebecca (Malina Weissman) and his wife Lara (Jennifer Garner). In a rush to get a last-minute gift for his daughter's 11th birthday, he goes to a mysterious pet shop run by Felix Grant (Christopher Walken) and buys a cat. On the way home however, Tom gets in an accident and finds himself trapped inside the cat's body. He is told by Felix he must reconcile with his family within one week or stay as a cat forever.

 

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THE FOUNDER **Interested**

Release: August 12, 2016

Genre: Biographical Drama

Director: John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side, Saving Mr. Banks)

Cast: Michael Keaton, Laura Dern, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Patrick Wilson, B.J. Novak, and Linda Cardinelli

Synopsis: Written by Robert Siegel (Big Fan), The Founder is a drama that tells the true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers' speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.

 

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PETE'S DRAGON

Release: August 12, 2016

Genre: Family Comedy Adventure

Director: David Lowery (Ain't Them Bodies Saints)

Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford, Karl Urban, Wes Bentley, Karl Urban, Oona Laurence, and Oakes Fegley

Synopsis: For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham (Robert Redford) has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard), who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales…until she meets Pete (Oakes Fegley). Pete is a mysterious 10-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliott. And from Pete’s descriptions, Elliott seems remarkably similar to the dragon from Mr. Meacham’s stories. With the help of Natalie (Oona Laurence), an 11-year-old girl whose father Jack (Wes Bentley) owns the local lumber mill, Grace sets out to determine where Pete came from, where he belongs, and the truth about this dragon.

 

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SAUSAGE PARTY **Interested**

Release: August 12, 2016

Genre: Adult CG-Animated Comedy

Director: Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon (Shrek 2)

Cast: Rogen, Jonah Hill, James Franco, Kristen Wiig, Edward Norton, Michael Cera, David Krumholtz, Nick Kroll, Paul Rudd, Salma Hayek, Bill Hader, Danny McBride, and Craig Robinson

Synopsis: Sausage Party, the first R-rated CG animated movie, is about one sausage leading a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they become chosen to leave the grocery store. The film features the vocal talents of a who’s who of today’s comedy stars.

 

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FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS

Release: August 12, 2016

Genre: Biographical Comedy Drama

Director: Stephen Frears (The Queen, High Fidelity)

Cast: Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, Nina Arianda, Rebecca Ferguson, and John Kavanagh

Synopsis: Set in 1940s New York, Florence Foster Jenkins is the true story of the legendary New York heiress and socialite (Meryl Streep) who obsessively pursued her dream of becoming a great singer. The voice she heard in her head was beautiful, but to everyone else it was hilariously awful. Her “husband” and manager, St. Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant), an aristocratic English actor, was determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth. But when Florence decided to give a public concert at Carnegie Hall, St. Clair knew he faced his greatest challenge.

 

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GHOST TEAM

Release: August 12, 2016

Genre: Comedy

Director: Oliver Irving (How To Be)

Cast: Jon Heder, David Krumholtz, Melonie Diaz, Paul W. Downs, Justin Long and Amy Sedaris

Synopsis: Desperate to escape the monotony of his daily life, paranormal-obsessed Louis (Heder) puts together a dysfunctional team—his depressed best friend, misfit nephew, a cable access "medium" and an overeager security guard—to mount his own investigation into the beyond. What results isn't just a hilariously terrifying brush with the entities haunting an abandoned farm, but an exploration of friendship, adventure and the things we all believe in to keep going. Everyone's hunting for something.

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