BoxOffice® Pro - October 2012

COMING
SOON
by Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
TAKEN 2
DON’T TAKE MY DAUGHTER! MAKE
THAT, MY EX-WIFE!
I’m not sure how it’s possible for Maggie Grace
to get kidnapped and sold again without making
the audience feel like it’s kinda her fault.
Sure, that sounds pitiless, but when the writers
were asked to concoct a sequel to the surprise
hit Taken, you just know they blanched. This
time around, Liam Neeson again elicits swoons
from the mothers in the crowd by stopping at
nothing to recover his daughter—and this time
around his ex-wife too—from the clutches of
the thugs who poached his daughter in the first
film. This revenge is fierce and stars all the same
actors.
DISTRIBUTOR Twenteith Century Fox CAST
Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie
Grace, Rade Serbedzija DIRECTOR Olivier
Megaton SCREENWRITERS Luc Besson,
Robert Mark Kamen PRODUCER Luc
Besson GENRE Action RATING PG-13 for intense
sequences of violence and action,
and some sensuality RUNNING TIME TBD
RELEASE DATE Oct. 5, 2012
SISTER L’ENFANT D’EN HAUT
SIBLING ROBIN HOODS STEAL FROM
SKIERS
Jeff Lipsky’s newest distribution label, Adopt
Films, is rolling out some really top-shelf
foreign titles, and this is the third on its 2012
roster. About a sister and brother who live in a
Swiss ski resort and survive by stealing things
from wealthy guests, Sister is directed by Ursula
Meier, a multi-hyphenate whose last film,
Home, starred Isabelle Huppert and gained
good press despite the kind of title that leaves
it unsearchable in any database. Sister stars
current it-girl Léa Seydoux, who you might
remember from Mission Impossible—Ghost
Protocol (think sharpshooter who falls out of
window). She’s gonna be huge!
DISTRIBUTOR Adopt Films CAST Kacey
Mottet Klein, Léa Seydoux, Martin
Compston, Gillian Anderson, Jean-
François Stévenin DIRECTOR Ursula Meier
SCREENWRITERS Antoine Jaccoud, Ursula
Meier PRODUCER Ruth Waldburger GENRE
Drama; French-language, subtitled
RATING Unrated RUNNING TIME 100 min.
RELEASE DATE Oct. 5 ltd.
SINISTER
DEMONS SWAP RECIPES FOR
CHILDREN
One thing that scares the devout is the end
of innocence. Once you’ve crossed over into
“knowledge,” you’re stuck with all the consequences—and
likely a chance of going to hell.
Sinister is a ghost story that taps into that fear
by casting Ethan Hawke as a writer whose family
moves to a house marked by a child-killing
demon. And when Hawke gains that dark
knowledge of the dammed, a portal into hell
opens, and the family is slowly sucked in. It’s
worth noting Hawke had an ugly saga with his
ex Uma Thurman, and plenty of critics could
see this one as a kind of penance. Just saying.
DISTRIBUTOR Lionsgate CAST Ethan
Hawke, Juliet Rylance, James Ransone
DIRECTOR Scott Derrickson SCREEN-
WRITERS Scott Derrickson, C. Robert
Cargill PRODUCERS Jason Blum, Brian
Kavanaugh-Jones GENRE Horror RATING R
for disturbing violent images and some
terror RUNNING TIME 110 min. RELEASE DATE
Oct. 5, 2012
PITCH PERFECT
REBEL WILSON CAN’T BE
EMBARRASSED—THANK GOD
An unlikely cast of young actors and singers
were pulled together for this Glee-inspired
comedy about competitive singing. Starring
Rebel Wilson, the girl soon to be known as “the
bride from Bachelorette,” this musical tracks the
crazypants competitive fury between a collegiate
a capella group (the Bellas) and their more
up-to-date male counterparts. For as G-rated
as this story could have been, the banner ads
suggest it’s got a hefty dose of Porky’s.
DISTRIBUTOR Universal Pictures CAST Anna
Kendrick, Brittany Snow, Rebel Wilson,
Elizabeth Banks, Alexis Knapp, Christopher
Mintz-Plasse DIRECTOR Jason Moore
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