Wednesday we get Attack on Titan: Part 1, and while it is in somewhat limited release it is still in a number of theaters per city. Thanks to Funimation for setting up the network of digital theaters this live action movie duo will be showing in. Friday we get The Martian, another film I have been waiting a long time for. That one is actually late Thursday, which has pretty much become the default for weekly movie releases. I think because it boosts the claimable box office for the Opening Weekend just enough to make films look like they had a good opening. I intend to see both of these this week.
Starring Bruce Campbell and Lucy Lawless, Ash vs Evil Dead is going to return us to one of the best horror comedy’s ever made.
Russia is finally producing a superhero movie under the title Zaschitniki (The Guardians), and the trailer looks quite good. In a parallel timeline during the height of the Cold War, the superheroes are gathered together from the different countries under Russian rule, each heroes powers reflecting the strengths of their homelands. They must protect their countries from August Kuratov’s clone army and a device he built which controls other machines, turning them against their owners. I really enjoyed the Nightwatch/Daywatch films, and am looking forward to this one, which will be in theaters in 2016.
This week we get the animated silliness of Hotel Transylvania 2, with an all star voice cast that includes Adam Sandler as Dracula and Mel Brooks as his father, Vlad. There is another comedy worth noting; Intern has Robert De Niro as Anne Hathaway’s Intern in a very interesting movie. As far as I know this will also mark the first time his daughter, Drena De Niro, will be sharing the big screen with him, but don’t be fooled into thinking this is nepotism. She has been working in media her entire life, and has won awards for film direction.
CGI is getting downright amazing as this trailer for Disney’s new The Jungle Book proves. The film will be hitting the big screens on April 15th, 2016, and as you can see from the trailer it does a great job of blending live action footage of the man cub with computer created animals to bring Rudyard Kipling’s classic story to life.
The primary selection this week is Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, based on the second book in James Dashner’s Maze Runner YA series. There are 5 books so far, so if it does well enough at the box office there may be three more films coming. For those wondering, I linked to the Japanese page for the movie because the US site set off my Site Adviser with warnings about aggressive linking. For those who were hoping for something sillier this weekend also brings us Cooties, in which a virus turns the elementary school kids into killer zombies. The teachers, led by Elijah Wood, have the fight of their lives trying to escape while three of them have an ongoing verbal battle trying to resolve their love triangle. I think I might go for silly this time around.