The next week or so is a bit different than most weekends for new opening movies. In the next week or so, we’re getting to see Andrew Garfield, Taylor Kitsch, the sexy Blake Lively, Morgan Freeman, Channing Tatum, Mark Wahlberg, Chris Pine and Olivia Wilde.
It’s a huge, July 4th holiday plate of stars coming out to theaters this weekend!
Here’s what the calendar looks like for the upcoming few days:
Fri 29 June
• Magic Mike
• Ted
• People Like Us
• Madea’s Witness Protection
Tue 3 July
• The Amazing Spider-Man
Thu 5 July
• Katy Perry: Part of Me
Fri 6 July
• Savages
• The Magic of Belle Isle
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Fri 29 June
• Magic Mike
This is a movie my wife will probably be dragging me to… it stars Matthew McConaughey, Channing Tatum, Olivia Munn, Alex Pettyfer, James Martin Kelly, Cody Horn and True Blood‘s Joe Manganiello.
The movie is directed by Steven Soderbergh (Haywire, Contagion).
This is the male stripper movie based around Channing Tatum’s earlier years when he was a stripper at the age of 19. You do the math kids!
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• Ted
This is the movie about a boy that grows up to be a man, with his teddy bear. You know the one.. the teddy bear we dragged everywhere… punched on, etc..
It stars Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis and the voice of director Seth MacFarlane as teddy bear Ted.
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• People Like Us
This movie is about a man who is tasked with distributing a large amount of money from his father’s estate to the sister he never met.
The movie stars Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks, Michelle Pfeiffer & Olivia Wilde.
It’s directed by Alex Kurtzman in his first directorial effort. Movies he’s written include Cowboys & Aliens, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and more.
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• Madea’s Witness Protection
Starring and directed by Tyler Perry, Eugene Levy & Denise Richards.
A Wall Street investment banker who has been set up as the linchpin of his company’s mob-backed Ponzi scheme is relocated with his family to Aunt Madea’s southern home.
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Tue 3 July
• The Amazing Spider-Man
Starring Andrew Garfield as the iconic Spider-Man/Peter Parker, Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy, with Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Martin Sheen & Sally Field.
The movie is directed by Marc Webb. Webb? What are the odds of a director named Webb helming Spidey flick? His directorial resume includes (500) Days of Summer.
Movie-goers, this is a different kind of origins movie for Spidey. So be prepared for something just a touch different!
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Thu 5 July
• Katy Perry: Part of Me
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Fri 6 July
• Savages
The cast includes Blake Lively, Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson, Benicio Del Toro and John Travolta in an Oliver Stone directed movie where pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend.
• The Magic of Belle Isle
I’ve included this movie because Morgan Freeman stars in it with Viriginia Madsen, in a movie about a wheelchair-bound author who moves to a rural town to get back in touch with an old talent of his. There, he befriends a single mother and her three kids, who help reignite his passion for writing.
It’s directed by Rob Reiner.
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So that’s what movies are coming up over the next few days, starting this Friday and going into the July 4th holiday mid-week celebration. But what else might be coming at us over the next few weeks or months?
Movies filming right now
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
- Iron Man 3
- Maleficent
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In Post Production
- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2
- Taken 2
- Resident Evil: Retribution
- The Expendables 2
- The Master
- Man of Steel
- Anna Karenina
- Total Recall
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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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