The Fall/Awards Movie Season continues as we look into the
month of Halloween, October. Quite a lot to talk about this month, especially
when compared to September. That’s usually the case around this time of the
year; the season really gets started in October. But anyway, welcome back to
Rhode Island Movie Corner’s year-long preview of the films that are set to come
out in 2015. This is Part 10 of 12 and today we’ll be looking at the films that
will be hitting theaters this October. Let’s get started…
OCTOBER 2- One main wide release and an IMAX exclusive debut to
kick off the month. Aside from that, the Denis Villeneuve/Emily Blunt pic
‘Sicario’ will make its nationwide debut.
*Matt Damon stars in Ridley Scott’s latest film, ‘The
Martian’, based off of the novel of the same name by Andy Weir. In it, he plays
an astronaut who ends up getting stranded on Mars, resulting in him having to
survive on the Red Planet while his crew tries to rescue him. The film’s big
ensemble cast also includes Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels, Michael Pena, and
Kate Mara.
*Debuting early on September 30th exclusively in
IMAX theaters, ‘The Walk’, directed by Robert Zemeckis, is the true story of
high-wire artist Phillipe Petit’s famous tightrope walk between the Twin Towers
on August 7, 1974. Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as Petit and the film also stars
Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon, and James Badge Dale.
OCTOBER 9- One main wide release this week while ‘The Walk’ expands
into all theaters nationwide.
*Director Joe Wright brings to life the world of Neverland
in this prequel to J.M. Barrie’s classic novel ‘Peter Pan’, ‘Pan’. It’s the
story of how the young Peter Pan (Levi Miller) is first brought to Neverland
and how he first met James Hook (Garrett Hedlund). The film also stars Hugh
Jackman as the main villain Blackbeard and Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily.
OCTOBER 16- A trio of new wide releases include the latest from
directors Steven Spielberg and Guillermo Del Toro.
*Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg reunite for the first time
in over a decade with ‘Bridge of Spies’. Co-written by the Coen Brothers, the
film, based on a true story, stars Hanks as lawyer James B. Donovan, who in
1962 negotiated the release of captured U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers (Austin
Stowell) from the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The film also stars Mark
Rylance, Amy Ryan, and Alan Alda.
*Guillermo Del Toro returns to his horror roots with
‘Crimson Peak’. Mia Wasikowska stars as a young author who moves into the
haunted estate of her new husband (Tom Hiddleston) and his sister (Jessica
Chastain), where she comes across all sorts of ghostly beings.
*The classic children’s horror series by R.L. Stine,
‘Goosebumps’, gets brought to the big screen. Jack Black stars as R.L. Stine
himself as the film centers on him, his daughter Hannah (Odeya Rush), and their
new neighbor Zack (Dylan Minnette) as they try and stop the monsters of his
stories when they are accidentally unleashed from their books.
OCTOBER 23- Boy oh boy is this a busy week. Six (!) new releases,
one of which is a nationwide expansion.
*Bradley Cooper stars in director John Wells’ ‘Burnt’
alongside a big ensemble cast that also includes Cooper’s ‘American Sniper’
co-star Sienna Miller as well as Daniel Bruhl, Alicia Vikander, Lily James, Uma
Thurman, and Emma Thompson. Cooper plays a chef named Adam Jones (and I’m only
saying that because that was one of the working titles for the film) who looks
to establish a prestigious London restaurant but must overcome his personal
problems that had previously derailed his career.
*In a rare non-horror turn for Blumhouse Productions, we
have ‘Jem and the Holograms’, based off of the toy line and 80’s animated
series of the same name. Directed by Jon M. Chu (‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ and,
yes, two Justin Bieber concert films), the film, like the original series,
centers on a group of friends who form a hit rock band. The film stars Audrey
Peeples, Molly Ringwald, and Juliette Lewis.
*But then there’s the other Blumhouse Productions release
this week, which serves as the return of the ‘Paranormal Activity’ franchise.
Reportedly the ‘final’ installment of the series, ‘Paranormal Activity: The Ghost
Dimension’ will revolve around the protagonists actually being able to see the
‘paranormal activity' this time around.
*Vin Diesel stars in and produces ‘The Last Witch Hunter’,
in which he stars as the ‘titular’ witch-hunter who teams up with, of all
people, a witch to take down the covens of New York City. The film also stars
Elijah Wood and Michael Caine.
*In director Barry Levinson’s ‘Rock the Kasbah’, Bill Murray
stars as a down-on-his-luck manager who finds a young girl from Afghanistan
with an incredible voice and manages her as she competes in the Afghanistan
equivalent of ‘American Idol’. The film also stars Bruce Willis, Zooey
Deschanel, Kate Hudson, and Danny McBride.
*And finally from this week there’s the nationwide expansion
of the Danny Boyle directed and Aaron Sorkin written biopic ‘Steve Jobs’.
Michael Fassbender stars as the titular co-founder of Apple as the film will be
based around three major product launches. The film also stars Seth Rogen as
fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Kate Winslet as Mac and NeXT team member
Joanna Hoffman, and Jeff Daniels as former Apple CEO John Sculley.
OCTOBER 30- After all of those wide releases on the 23rd,
the month ends on an easier note with only two main wide releases.
*Sandra Bullock stars in ‘Our Brand is Crisis’, which is a ‘remake’
of a 2005 documentary of the same name that was about the 2002 presidential
elections in Bolivia and how one of the candidates enlisted the help of an
American political consulting firm to help him win the election. Bullock stars
as the politician’s manager alongside Billy Bob Thornton as her rival political
consultant.
*Finally, there’s ‘Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse’,
in which a trio of scouts have to help their town deal with a zombie outbreak.
And those are the films that are set to come out this
October. Check back next week for Part 11 of this year-long preview as we’ll be
looking at the films that will be hitting theaters in November.
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