Welcome back to Rhode Island Movie Corner’s
Year-long preview of the films set to come out during 2013. This is Part 8 and
today we’ll be looking into the final month of summer with the films coming out
during the month of August.
AUGUST 2- While one holdover from July, ‘Smurfs 2’,
opens early on the Wednesday of that week, one new release is set to come out
on the first Friday of the month.
*The first major release of the month is ‘2 Guns’,
an action/crime comedy from director Baltasar Kormakur, whose last project was
2012’s ‘Contraband’. Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg star as a DEA and NCIS
agent, respectively, who investigate one another, believing that they are
stealing money from the mob. They are then forced to work together when they
learn that they were both set up by the mob. The film is an adaptation of the
graphic novel of the same name by Steven Grant.
AUGUST 7- The weekend of August 9-11 is going to be
busy. Four films are set to come out, 2 of which are opening early on the 7th.
*‘Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters’ is the second
installment in the ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympian’ film series (based off of
Rick Riordan’s bestselling novels) and the sequel to 2010’s ‘Percy Jackson and
the Olympians: The Lightning Thief’. Thor Freudenthal (‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’)
takes over directing duties from Chris Columbus for this film, which sees Percy
Jackson (Logan Lerman), the demigod son of Poseidon, embark on a journey to
find the Golden Fleece in order to save his training ground, Camp Half-Blood.
Brandon T. Jackson and Alexandra Daddario reprise their roles as the satyr
Grover and Annabeth, demigod daughter of Athena, respectively, alongside newcomers
Stanley Tucci as Dionysus and Nathan Fillion as Hermes.
*‘We’re the Millers’ is a comedy directed by Rawson
Thurber, who directed 2004’s ‘Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story’. Jason Sudeikis
stars as a drug-dealer tasked with transporting some marijuana over the border.
To do so inconspicuously, he hires a fake family, including his stripper ‘wife’
(Jennifer Aniston) and their two ‘kids’ (Emma Roberts and Will Poulter).
AUGUST 9- As for the two releases that are set to
come out officially on the Friday of that weekend…
*After the success of 2009’s ‘District 9’, Neill
Blomkamp returns with another original story, ‘Elysium’. In this film, which
takes place in the year 2154, the rich live on a luxurious crime-free habitat
called Elysium while everyone else remains on the war-torn Earth and are
struggling to escape the planet. Matt Damon stars as a factory worker who
attempts to get to Elysium after he ends up with a cancer virus. The film also
stars Jodie Foster as the secretary of Elysium and Sharlto Copley as the leader
of her secret police force.
*The final release of the August 9-11 weekend is
‘Planes’, a spinoff of Disney/Pixar’s ‘Cars’ franchise. Produced by DisneyToon
Studios (the company behind Disney’s direct-to-video projects), the film was
originally supposed to be a direct-to-video release. But, because Disney was
impressed by some of the completed sequences, they decided to have it released
in theaters. The film follows a small-town plane named Dusty (Dane Cook, who
replaced Jon Cryer in the role) who dreams of becoming a racing plane, despite
the fact that he’s not built for racing and he’s also afraid of heights. The
film’s supporting cast also includes John Cleese, Val Kilmer, and Julia
Louis-Dreyfus.
AUGUST 16- Another big week with four major
releases.
*While the original ‘Kick-Ass’ was not a huge hit at
the box office when it was released in 2010, its solid critical and audience
reception has led to a sequel, ‘Kick-Ass 2’, which will hit theaters this
weekend. Jeff Wadlow (‘Never Back Down’) takes over for Matthew Vaughn as
director for this new film. Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Chloe Grace Moretz reprise
their roles as Kick-Ass and Hit Girl, respectively, who join forces with a team
of up-and-coming superheroes, led by Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey) to
take on Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), who is reborn as the super villain
known as ‘The MotherF***er’.
*Two historical dramas are set to hit theaters this
weekend. The first is ‘Jobs’, a biopic based on the life of Apple co-founder
Steve Jobs, who passed away on October 5, 2011. Ashton Kutcher stars as the
entrepreneur/inventor while Josh Gad stars as Apple I/II inventor and company
co-founder Steve Wozniak. It’s the story of how Jobs and Wozniak started the
personal computer revolution with the help of Wozniak’s invention, the Apple I.
*The other ‘biopic’ is ‘The Butler’, which is based
off of the real-life story of Eugene Allen, who served as the official butler
at the White House for eight presidencies from 1952-1986. The film is directed
by Lee Daniels (‘Precious’) and stars Forest Whitaker as the fictional version
of Allen, Cecil Gaines. The film also stars Oprah Winfrey, Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Terrence Howard, and for the Presidents of the United States; Robin Williams as
Dwight D. Eisenhower, James Marsden as John F. Kennedy, Liev Schreiber as Lyndon
B. Johnson, John Cusack as Richard Nixon, and Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan.
*The final release that weekend is ‘Paranoia’, a
thriller that stars Liam Hemsworth as a worker at a technology corporation who
is tasked with an espionage assignment at a rival company when he is faced with
losing his job after a prank. Gary Oldman stars as the CEO of the company
Hemsworth’s character works for while Harrison Ford stars as the CEO of the
rival company.
AUGUST 21- Three films come out this weekend,
although one opens early on Wednesday
*‘The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones’ is the
latest adaptation of a popular book franchise; in this case, ‘The Mortal
Instruments’ series from author Cassandra Clare. Directed by Harald Zwart (the
2010 ‘Karate Kid’ remake), the film stars Lily Collins as Clarissa ‘Clary’
Fray, a young girl who learns that she is the daughter of a Shadowhunter, a
half-angel/half-human warrior and that she also has the abilities of these
warriors despite the fact that she is not one of them. She uses these powers in
order to rescue her mother (Lena Headey).
AUGUST 23- As for the two films set to come out on
that Friday…
*While it was released in the U.K. on July 19th,
‘The World’s End’ will hit U.S. theaters on August 23rd. It is the
third and final film in the ‘Cornetto Trilogy’, a series of comedy films from
director Edgar Wright which also includes 2004’s ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and 2007’s
‘Hot Fuzz’. This film follows five friends (played by Simon Pegg, Nick Frost,
Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, and Eddie Marsan) as they attempt an epic pub
crawl in their hometown, which they had attempted years ago but failed to
complete. However, they soon learn that things have changed in their town and completing
this pub crawl becomes the least of their problems.
*‘You’re Next’ is a horror-thriller directed by Adam
Wingard (who worked on the anthology films ‘V/H/S’ and ‘V/H/S 2’). The film,
which made its debut at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, is about
a group of serial killers who descend upon a family reunion.
AUGUST 30- Two films close out the month
*In ‘Closed Circuit’, Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall
play a pair of lawyers (and ex-lovers) who take on the case of an alleged
terrorist.
*Finally, there is, for the fans of the group, ‘One
Direction: This is Us’, the latest 3-D concert film (directed by Morgan
Spurlock (‘Super-Size Me’) following the boy band ‘One Direction’.
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