There doesn’t seem to be anything I have been waiting for this week. I suppose Left Behind could be interesting, in an end-of-the-world sort of way, and it does have Nicolas Cage, so there should be some good over the top moments. For the younger set The Hero of Color City has a diverse group of animated crayons fighting for the imagination of children everywhere. It does have quite an impressive collection of voice actors, but somehow I suspect I will be doing something else for the weekend.
If you hadn’t already guessed from previous posts, I will absolutely be in the theaters for opening day of the Marvel/Disney production of Big Hero 6.
It won’t be in theaters until February, but Jupiter Ascending has already released it’s third trailer, and the best of the bunch in my opinion. This epic space opera is another project by the Wachowskis, and looks to be somewhere between Star Wars and Dune as far as I can tell. When you see this in the theater, keep your eyes open for a short scene done by Terry Gilliam, which is a homage to his movie Brazil according to the entry in Wikipedia. After watching all the trailers, I am pretty sure I am going to have to see this movie in 3D.
I have been looking forward to The Boxtrolls for a while now, and it is finally time to see them on the big screen. Based on Alan Snow’s children’s novel Here Be Monsters, it is one of a series. I am hoping that the film does well enough at the box office that they decide to go ahead and make the rest of them. If you are looking for something a bit grittier, The Equalizer is also coming out this week. It stars Denzel Washington, and is based on the 1980’s TV show of the same name.
Earlier today the Hollywood Reporter announced a date has finally been set for the X-Men spinoff Deadpool, with a target date of 12Feb16. The main rumor is Ryan Reynolds will reprise the Wade Wilson roll he had in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and I do believe that is him in the leaked test footage included here. Because scheduling is everything to large projects that all need to draw on the same resources, the Fantastic Four reboot moves to 7Aug15, and Assassin’s Creed, which previously held that date, gets pushed back almost a year, to some time in 2016.
This week we get several interesting choices, starting with The Maze Runner based on the great YA novel by James Dashner. I expect this one to pull the best numbers at the box office because of the popularity of the book, so it got the first mention. In limited release we have the new Terry Gilliam film The Zero Theorem, about a computer hacker trying to figure out the reason humans exist. While this one might be the hardest to find on a local screen, it could be the most interesting film out of the group. Space Station 76 definitely gets my vote for silliest movie this time around, with the tag line A 1970s version of the future, where personalities and asteroids collide. I have seen more than one review saying it is the best sci-Fi comedy since Galaxy Quest, which I dearly love. It isn’t the only comedy choice, since we also have Simon Pegg’s rendition of a psychiatrist searching the world in Hector and the Search for Happiness.