Welcome back to this four-part look
into the upcoming movies in the final quarter of 2012. This is Part
3, where we'll be looking into the month of Thanksgiving, November.
*After spending most of the last decade
working strictly through the use of motion-capture, director Robert
Zemeckis returns to live-action film making with 'Flight'. Denzel
Washington stars as a pilot who gets into a plane crash but saves
everyone on board by making an emergency landing. However, a shocking
truth of what happened while he was flying could spell trouble for
him in the long run. The film comes out on the 2nd.
*For the martial arts crowd, November
2nd also sees the release of 'The Man with the Iron
Fists'. The directorial debut of musician RZA stars himself as a
blacksmith who must save his village from invaders. The film also
stars Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu.
*Closing out the weekend of November
2nd is one for the video game fanatics, Wreck-It-Ralph,
the latest animated film from Disney and produced by Pixar's John
Lasseter. It centers around the titular 'Wreck-It-Ralph', the bad guy
in a popular arcade video game who grows tired of being the villain
and yearns to be a good guy for once as he travels across multiple
video games looking to find his place in life. John C. Reilly stars
as Ralph and his co-stars include Jack McBrayer, Sarah Silverman, and
Jane Lynch. The movie also features cameos from many characters from
other video games including Sonic, Ryu and Ken from Street Fighter,
and Bowser from Super Mario Bros (sorry, no Mario or Luigi).
*November 9th sees the
return of one 'Bond... James Bond' with the latest Bond flick,
Skyfall, the 23rd entry in this long running franchise.
Daniel Craig returns for a third time as Agent 007, who returns from
an apparent demise to face off against Javier Bardem's Raoul Silva
when MI6 falls under attack. Sam Mendes (American Beauty)
helms this new flick and newcomers include Ralph Fiennes as a
government agent monitoring MI6, Naomie Harris as field agent Eve,
and Ben Whishaw as Q, the first time the character has appeared in a
Bond film since the last Pierce Brosnan film 'Die Another Day'. For
those in the UK, Skyfall comes out a few weeks earlier on October
26th
but here in the U.S., you'll have to wait until November.
*November
16th
won't give much in terms of competition for what will probably be
number one that week, the final entry in the Twilight saga, Breaking
Dawn Part 2.
*Continuing
the long line of remakes that come out every year is 'Red Dawn', a
remake of the 1984 flick of the same name which was notably the first
film to ever be released with the PG-13 rating. This project has been
in development since 2009 but due to financial issues with MGM, it
doesn't come out until the 21st
of November of this year after it was originally planned for a 2010
release. During this time, the main villains were changed from the
Chinese to North Korea in order to maintain access to China's box
office. This remake stars Chris 'Thor' Hemsworth and Josh Peck in the
roles once held by Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen. Like with 'House at the End of Street', however, this was filmed before Hemsworth and co-star Josh Hutcherson made it big in Hollywood with their roles in Thor and The Hunger Games, respectively.
*November
21st
also sees the release of the latest from Dreamworks Animation, Rise
of the Guardians. This new animated feature, produced by Guillermo
Del Toro, focuses on the 'Immortal Guardians' who must band together
when the Earth is threatened by the Boogeyman. The all-star cast
includes Chris Pine as Jack Frost, Hugh Jackman as the Easter Bunny,
Alec Baldwin as Santa Claus, Isla Fisher as the Tooth Fairy, and Jude
Law as the Boogeyman.
*Finally,
this weekend also sees the release of the latest from the director of
'The Fighter', 'The Silver Linings Playbook. This dramedy stars
Bradley Cooper as an ex-teacher who moves back in with his parents
(played by Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver) after a stint in a mental
institution as he tries to get his life back together. He soon meets
Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a girl who has had problems of her own,
and the two form a unique bond as they get to know each other.
In
terms of Limited Releases, there's one big one for this month...
*Earlier
this year, we had the action-fantasy flick 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire
Hunter'. For those of you looking for a more historically accurate
take on our country's sixteenth President, you're in luck with
'Lincoln', directed by Steven Spielberg. In the lead role as Lincoln
is Daniel Day Lewis and the film, which is based on the biography
'Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln' by Doris
Kearns Goodwin, will follow Lincoln during the last few months of his
life, from the abolishment of slavery to his untimely assassination
at Ford's Theater. Joining Day Lewis is Sally Field as First Lady
Mary Todd, Joseph Gordon Levitt as their son Robert, Tommy Lee Jones,
Jackie Earle Haley, and Jared Harris. 'Lincoln' hits theaters, in
limited release, on November 16th.
And
that is all for the month of November. Stay tuned for the finale of
this four-part preview with a look into the month of December.
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