Here’s my list of most interesting film premieres still to open in cinemas across English speaking countries in August 2012. Few titles to see with your mates, few titles to see with your dates. List is completely subjective and skewed by my personal likes and dislikes and if you think something should be included, just use comments form to submit full description of films you think should be on this list and justification for your submission and I’ll happily add it and you’ll be fully credited on the page.
No memory at all. Total Recall remake. Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel
Plot: Remake of the 1990ies film with Arnold Schwarzenegger losely based on novel by Philip K. Dick.
Why watch: Anything and everything based on Philip K. Dick novels is always worth checking.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Production: USA $200 million
Director: Len Wiseman
Script: Mark Bomback, Kurt Wimmer, Philip K. Dick (novel)
Starring: Colin Farrell, Bokeem Woodbine, Bryan Cranston, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Ethan Hawke, John Cho, Bill Nightly
Cinemas: Friday August 3, 2012
Premiere: Thursday 16th August 2012 Cinemas: Wednesday 29th August 2012
Cinemas: Thursday 6th September 2012
She was Iron Lady, he was Man In Black. It was love from the first sight.
Plot: After 30 years of marriage, Kay and Arnold Soames attend intense marriage counseling.
Why watch: Solid cast. I wouldn’t expect Oscars though.
Notes: Blatant ignorance to the movie starring Colin Firth, Heather Graham and Minnie Driver of the same title just 9 years ago.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Production: USA $30 million
Director: David Frankel
Script: Vanessa Taylor
Starring: Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell, Elisabeth Shue, Mimi Rogers
Cinemas: Friday August 10, 2012
Cinemas: Thursday 23rd August 2012
Cinemas: Friday 13th September 2012
Americas finest. Zach Galifianakis and Will Ferrell in “The Campaign”
Plot: Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the United States House of Representatives
Why watch: Will Ferrell movie. From director of Austin Powers.
Genre: Comedy
Production: USA, $56 million
Director: Jay Roach
Script: Chris Henchy, Shawn Harwell
Cast: Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Jason Sudeikis, Katherine LaNasa, Dylan McDermott, John Lithgow, Dan Aykroyd, Brian Cox
Cinemas, Thursday 9th August 2012
Cinemas: Friday August 10, 2012
Cinemas: Friday 28th September 2012 (what? nearly two months? this shit will get pirated people)
Not Jason Bourne.
Plot: . New CIA operative takes the lead in Robert Ludlum’s universe.
Why watch: Bourne story without Jason Bourne, script doesn’t follow book at all. Better background cast. This could be fun.
Genre: Action
Production: USA $90 million
Director: Tony Gilroy
Script: Tony and Dan Gilroy, Eric Van Lustbader (novel), Robert Ludlum (original concept novel)
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Albert Finney, Oscar Isaac, Joan Allen, Stacy Keach, Paddy Considine
Premiere: Monday July 30, 2012 Cinemas: Friday August 10, 2012
Cinemas: Friday August 10, 2012
Premiere: Tuesday 7th August 2012 Cinemas: Thursday 16th August 2012
Previews: Friday 10th August 2012 Cinemas: Monday 13th August 2012
More names than space on the poster. The Expendables 2
Plot: When one of their own is brutally murdered by rival mercenary, the Expendables team gear up to gain revenge and stop a deadly weapon.
Why watch: Shameless parade of action flick has-beens, guns, muscles, wide necks, martial “arts”, bad accents, strain injuries, whole shabang. You cannot miss this.
Genre: Action
Production: USA $80 million
Director: Simon West
Script: Sylvester Stallone, Dave Callaham, Ken Kaufman, Richard Wenk, David Agosto
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren, Jason Statham, Bruce Willis, Jet Li, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Liam Hemsworth
Premiere: Monday 13th August 2012 Cinemas: Thursday 16th August 2012
Premiere: Friday August 3, 2012, Cinemas: Friday August 17, 2012
Cinemas: Friday August 17, 2012
Cinemas: Thursday 30th August 2012
French need four words for “without law”. “Lawless” International Poster
Plot: Gang of prohibition era alcohol smugglers in Franklin County, Virginia is threatened by corrupt authorities.
Why watch: Hardy, Pearce and Oldman in gangster movie written by Nick Cave? Has to be checked.
Genre: Western, Crime
Production: USA
Director: John Hillcoat
Script: Matt Bondurant (nove;), Nick Cave
Starring: Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Guy Pearce, Jessica Chastain, Gary Oldman, Mia Wasikowska, Jason Clarke, Noah Taylor
August 31, 2012
Premiere: Monday 27th August 2012 Cinemas: Friday 7th September 2012
And finally – low-budget entry – United Kingdom only:
Rouge goes rouge.
Plot: IRA operative switches sides and becomes an informant for MI5 in 90ies Northern Ireland.
Why watch: Cast and potential
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Production: UK, tray of baked beans with toast, handful of shillings and a twopence.
Director: James Marsh
Script: Tom Bradby
Starring: Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Gillian Anderson, Domhnall Gleeson, Brid Brennan, David Wilmot, Stuart Graham, Martin McCann, Aidan Gillen
Premiere: Monday 13th August 2012 Cinemas: Friday 24th August 2012
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