This week, the new movies in theaters this Friday, October 26th, include stars like Tom Hanks, Sean Bean, Victoria Justice, & Gerard Butler. But you may have known this already.
Before we move on to this week’s new movies, a quick check of hot movie box office performance include
1 Paranormal Activity 4 $29.0M
2 Argo $16.4M
3 Taken 2 $13.2M
4 Hotel Transylvania $13.0M
5 Alex Cross $11.3M
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Onward to the new movies this week. The numbers in [brackets] are IMDb user ratings, rounded to the nearest whole number. Just in case you might be on the fence about a movie. Some new movies have ratings because they’ve been sufficiently screened in movie festivals:
Cloud Atlas NEW!
R, 2 hr 12 min
[8/10]
Written/directed & produced by Tom Yykwer & the team of Andy & Lana Wachowski (Matrix franchise, Ninja Assassin, V for vendetta).
Starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Keith David, James D’Arcy, Susan Sarandon & Hugh Grant.
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
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Chasing Mavericks NEW!
PG, 1 hr 55 min
Directed by Michael Apted (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Amazing Grace).
It stars Gerard Butler, Jonny Weston, Elisabeth Shue & Abigail Spencer.
When young Jay Moriarty (Weston) discovers that the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, exists just miles from his Santa Cruz home, he enlists the help of local legend Frosty Hesson (Butler) to train him to survive it.
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Silent Hill: Revelation 3D NEW!
R, 1 hr 35 min
[8/10]
Directed & written by Michael J. Bassett (Solomon Kane).
The cast includes Adelaide Clemens, Kit Harington, Carrie-Anne Moss, Sean Bean, Radha Mitchell & Malcolm McDowell.
When her father disappears, Heather Mason (Clemens) is drawn into a strange and terrifying alternate reality that holds answers to the horrific nightmares that have plagued her since childhood.
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Fun Size NEW!
PG-13, 1 hr 30 min
Directed/produced by Josh Schwartz (Gossip Girl, Chuck, The O.C.).
The cast includes Victoria Justice, Jackson Nicoll, Chelsea Handler, Josh Pence & Jane Levy.
Wren’s (Justice) Halloween plans go awry when she’s made to babysit her brother, who disappears into a sea of trick-or-treaters. With her best friend and two nerds at her side, she needs to find her brother before her mom finds out he’s missing.
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Meanwhile, here’s a list of movies still playing in my local theater.
Halloween
R, 1 hr 40 min
A seasonal re-release.
Gads, the “in theaters once more time” fad. But if it’s working…
RiffTrax Live: Birdemic NEW!
PG-13, 2 hr
Alex Cross
PG-13, 1 hr 41 min
[5]
Paranormal Activity 4
R, 1 hr 35 min
[5]
Argo
R, 2 hr
[8]
Atlas Shrugged: Part 2
PG-13, 1 hr 52 min
[5]
Here Comes the Boom
PG, 1 hr 45 min
[6]
Seven Psychopaths
R, 1 hr 51 min
[8]
Sinister
R, 1 hr 49 min
[7]
Frankenweenie
PG, 1 hr 27 min
[8]
Taken 2
PG-13, 1 hr 32 min
[7]
Hotel Transylvania
PG, 1 hr 35 min
[7]
Looper
R, 1 hr 59 min
[8]
Pitch Perfect
PG-13, 1 hr 52 min
[7]
End of Watch
R, 1 hr 49 min
[8]
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
PG-13, 1 hr 42 min
[8]
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
G, 2 hr 7 min (1954)
[7]
(Another classic seeing the light of the movie projector one more time!)
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Here’s an update on the status production state of some movies:
Development
· The Avengers 2
· Fifty Shades of Grey
· Prometheus 2
· The Expendables 3
· Jurassic Park IV
Pre-production
· Captain America: The Winter Soldier
· The Amazing Spider-Man 2
· X-Men: Days of Future Past
· Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
· Ant-Man
Filming
· The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
· Thor: The Dark World
· The Fast and the Furious 6
· The Wolverine
· RoboCop
Post-production
· Django Unchained
· The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
· Carrie
· Les Misérables
· Iron Man 3
Completed
· Jack Reacher
· Gangster Squad
· G.I. Joe: Retaliation
· Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters
· Texas Chainsaw 3D
About Bruce Simmons
I've been writing newsletters since 1999. Of late, I've been focusing on the entertainment consumer angle on mostly the sci-fi, fantasy and action genres of TV, movies and books.
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