In this week's preview of upcoming movies, the list offers a buffet of genres, with action being the more dominant. Screen Gems unleashes their Underworld: Awakening, bringing back its star Kate Beckinsale who reprises her role as sexy Death Dealer Selena. Pic opens in over 2,900 theaters, helmed by duo Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein, from the script by Allison Burnett, John Hlavin and J. Michael Straczynski, and the characters created by Kevin Grevioux, Danny McBride and Len Wiseman.
Selene escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species.
Red Tails flies into 2,500 theaters, powered by story writer and producer George Lucas,, with a cast including Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Tristan Wilds,Andre Royo, David Oyelowo, Bryan Cranston, Michael B. Jordan, Daniela Ruah, Lee Tergesen, Gerald McRaney, Ne-Yo, Josh Dallas and Method Man.
Anthony Hemmingway directs from the script by John Ridley and Aaron McGruder, from the story by Ridley and Lucas.
Red Tails is an exciting and emotional action-packed film that tells the story of everyday heroes rising above extraordinary challenges. Inspired by the heroics and valor of the first all-African American aerial combat unit, the film follows the Tuskegee Airmen as they shatter all doubts and prejudices with excellence in the air and on the ground.
Relativity Media's Haywire actioner helmed by Steven Soderbergh, features MMA star Gina Carano in her first feature debut, and looks to deliver some walloping thrills, with the aid of a very strong main cast including Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Michael Angarano, Bill Paxton, Channing Tatum, Mathieu Kassovitz and Eddie J. Fernandez.
The story follows a female covert ops specialist (Carano), who works in the deadly world of international operatives, strikes back after discovering she’s been double-crossed by someone close to her in the agency. The film is produced by Gregory Jacobs (Ocean’s Trilogy) and written by Lem Dobbs (The Limey).
Warner Bros. Pictures' critically-acclaimed Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close drama starring Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock, opens into around 2,500 venues. Stephen Daldry directs from the script by Eric Roth, based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. Also in the cast are John Goodman, Max von Sydow, James Gandolfini, Viola Davis, Jeffrey Wright and Adrian Martinez.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a story that unfolds from inside the young mind of Oskar Schell, an inventive eleven year-old New Yorker whose discovery of a key in his deceased father's belongings sets him off on an urgent search across the city for the lock it will open. A year after his father died in the World Trade Center on what Oskar calls "The Worst Day," he is determined to keep his vital connection to the man who playfully cajoled him into confronting his wildest fears. Now, as Oskar crosses the five New York boroughs in quest of the missing lock - encountering an eclectic assortment of people who are each survivors in their own way - he begins to uncover unseen links to the father he misses, to the mother who seems so far away from him and to the whole noisy, dangerous, discombobulating world around him.
Weinstein Co's Coriolanus drama opens in 3 venues, helmed and starring Ralph Fiennes, as well as Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Cox, Jessica Chastain and James Nesbitt.
Very talented John Logan (The Aviator, Rango, Hugo, Lincoln, Skyfall) wrote the script. based on the William Shakespeare play.
Caius Martius ‘Coriolanus’ (Ralph Fiennes), a revered and feared Roman General is at odds with the city of Rome and his fellow citizens. Pushed by his controlling and ambitious mother Volumnia (Vanessa Redgrave) to seek the exalted and powerful position of Consul, he is loath to ingratiate himself with the masses whose votes he needs in order to secure the office. When the public refuses to support him, Coriolanus’s anger prompts a riot that culminates in his expulsion from Rome. The banished hero then allies himself with his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius (Gerard Butler) to take his revenge on the city.
Check back on Friday for confirmed theater counts and what we think should top the charts at the weekend box office.