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Resident Evil: Retribution

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As the T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into flesh eating zombies, Alice (Milla Jovovich) fights alongside the resistance while unveiling more of her mysterious past. The chase for those responsible for the outbreak takes her from Tokyo to the States to Moscow culminating in a revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true.

Resident Evil, Bravo DesignLinda Barnard of The Toronto Star writes, “It’s all about the thrill of the kill, and Resident Evil: Retribution doesn’t disappoint in that department. Writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson knows that this is a franchise that works, so why tinker? He stuffs 100 pounds of gore into a five-pound sack and keeps jamming it in. Not content to stick with simple impalements and jetting arcs of blood, Anderson ups the ante with x-rays that show bones breaking and hearts being ripped from arteries as the blows land.”

HSX and FilmGo both forecast that Resident Evil: Retribution will earn around $26M-$27M this weekend though I’d like to point out that through out the course of the franchise, each sequel has done better than the movie preceding it. Afterlife, the fourth and most recent in the series, opened at $26.6M, but Retribution is being shown in fewer theaters. I predict that the movie will open in excess of estimates but shy of the $30M mark.

Rating: R // Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi // Runtime: 1 hr. 35 min. // Starring: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory and Michelle Rodriguez // Directed and Written by: Paul W.S. Anderson// Produced by: Davis Films/Impact Pictures (RE5) and Constantin Film International // Distributed by: Screen Gems

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Total Recall and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

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In Total Recall, a factory worker, Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell), begins to suspect that he’s a spy after visiting Rekall – a company that provides its clients with implanted fake memories of a life they would like to have led. When his own procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police – controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston), the leader of the free world – Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter (Jessica Biel) to find the head of the underground resistance (Bill Nighy) and stop Cohaagen.

Total Recall, Bravo DesignJames Berardinelli of Reelviews.net writse, “No one can fault Len Wiseman’s vision. His grim world is vividly represented via some of the most effectively splashy CGI I have recently seen. There’s a George Lucas-like attention to detail.” The HSX predicts that Total Recall will open up at $29M domestically.

Rating: PG-13 // Genre: Action, Advernture, Sci-Fi // Runtime: 1 hr. 38 min. // Starring: Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bokeem Woodbine, Bryan Cranston and Bill Nighy // Directed by: Len Wiseman // Written by: Kurt Wimmer and Mark Bomback (Screenplay), Philip K. Dick (Short Story / Inspiration), Ronald Shusett, Dan O’Bannon and Jon Povill // Produced by: Total Recall, Original Film, Rekall Productions // Distributed by: Columbia Pictures

Our second featured release is Diary of a Wimpy Kid Dog Days. The hero of the phenomenally successful book series, Greg Heffley, hatches a plan to pretend he has a job at a ritzy country club, but even that fails to keep him away from the season’s dog days, including embarrassing mishaps at a public pool and a camping trip that goes horribly wrong.

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Francesca Steele of Skymovies writes, “It’s good to see cinema’s favorite high school underdog out of the classroom and yes, a little bit more grown-up. And, as was the case with this film’s two predecessors, the characters are unusually charming for a simple kid’s film.” The HSX predicts that Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days will open up at $18M domestically.

Rating: PG // Genre: Comedy, Family // Runtime: 1 hr. 34 min. // Starring: Zachary Gordon, Robert Capron and Devon Bostick // Directed by: David Bowers// Written by: Jeff Kinney (Book), Gabe Sachs, Maya Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky (Screenplay) // Produced and Distributed by: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

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Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter

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Abraham Lincoln, Bravo DesignAbraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, an adaptation of the best-selling graphic novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, opens with Abraham Lincoln, as a boy, witnessing the shocking death of his mother at the hands of a vampire. As a young man, he swears vengeance and, incidentally, Abe (Benjamin Walker) later meets veteran vampire hunter, Henry Sturgess (Dominic Cooper), who apprentices him in the craft of killing the undead. Abe’s weapon of choice? An axe with a silver blade. Eventually, he finally puts his on the backburner in favor of politics becoming the 16th President of the United States. He’s only brought back to this conflict when the Civil War erupts, and he learns that vampires are backing the South.

Roger Ebert writes, “Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject — unless there is a sequel, which is unlikely.” The film opens on June 22, 2012 and is predicted to open at around $20M domestically by the LA Times. 20th Century Fox is anticipating an opening of around $16M.

Rating: R
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Runtime: 1 hr. 45 min.
Starring: Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell and Dominic Cooper
Directed by: Timur Bekmambetov
Written by: Seth Grahame-Smith
Produced by: Abraham Productions, Bazelevs Production and Tim Burton Productions
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation

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MIB 3 and Chernobyl Diaries

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Men In Black Bravo DesignAgents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) are back in MIB 3. When K’s archnemesis, Boris The Terrible (Jemaine Clement), breaks out of prison, Borris immediately travels back in time to take his revenge on the MIB agent who captured him. Back in the present, J is the only person who remembers K’s existence, and in an effort to save his partner as well as the whole planet, he also travels back to 1969, where he partners with a younger K (Josh Brolin), to stop Boris’ plan.

A.O. Scott of the New York Times writes, “Even as the movie carefully fulfills its blockbuster imperatives — with chases and explosions and elaborately contrived plot twists — it swerves into some marvelously silly, unexpectedly witty and genuinely fresh territory.”

Rating: PG-13
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Runtime: 1 hr. 46 min.
Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin
Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld
Written by: Etan Cohen, Lowell Cunningham, David Koepp, Jeff Nathanson and Michael Soccio
Distributed By: Columbia Pictures

Chernobyl Diaries Bravo DesignChernobyl Diaries is an original story from Oren Peli, the creator of Paranormal Activity. The movie follows a group of young tourists who, looking to go off the beaten path, hire an “extreme tour” guide. Ignoring warnings, he takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, deserted since the disaster more than 25 years ago. After a brief exploration of the abandoned city, the group soon find themselves stranded, only to discover that they are not alone.

Evan Dickson of BloodyDisgusting.com writes, “Chernobyl Diaries is a nightmarish journey, suspenseful and surprisingly fun.”

Rating: R
Genre: Horror
Runtime: 1 hr. 30 min.
Starring: Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski and Olivia Dudley
Directed by: Bradley Parker
Written by: Oren Peli, Carey Van Dyke and Shane Van Dyke
Produced By: FilmNation Entertainment
Distributed By: Warner Bros. Pictures and Alcon Entertainment

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21 Jump Street

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In the action-comedy, 21 Jump Street, Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum), a pair of underachieving cops under the command of Captain Dickson (Ice Cube), are sent back to a local high school to infiltrate and bring down a drug ring. Older and wiser, the mismatched partners’ plans to apply the lessons learned from the first time around are derailed when the two find that high school has dramatically changed since their days. Jenko, the jock, is now an outsider. While Schmidt, once the geek, is now cool. Confronted by the terror and anxiety of being a teenager again, further compounded by issues that have long gone unresolved, hilarity ensues.

Michael Rechtshaffen of the Hollywood Reporter writes, “Not since Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg teamed up in The Other Guys has an onscreen pairing proved as comically rewarding as the inspired partnership of Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum as baby-faced cops who go undercover at a high school to bust a drug ring.”

21 Jump Street will be released on March 16, 2012.

21 Jump Street
Rating: R
Genre: Action, Comedy
Runtime: 1 hr. 50 min.
Starring: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson and Ice Cube
Directed By: Phil Lord, Chris Miller
Written By: Michael Bacall, Jonah Hill, Patrick Hasburgh and Stephen J. Cannell
Distributed By: Columbia Pictures
Produced By: Columbia Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Relativity Media, Original Film and Cannell Studios