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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 44 BOXOFFICE PRO OCTOBER 2012
TM SCREENWRITER Kay Cannon PRODUC- ERS Elizabeth Banks, Paul Brooks, Max Handelman GENRE Musical Comedy RAT- ING PG-13 for sexual material, language and drug references RUNNING TIME TBA RELEASE DATE Oct. 5, 2012 BUTTER CARVING CHOLESTEROL This star-studded comedy about competitive butter carving has been lounging around the festivals and film markets for some time. So it’s a hopeful thing that the Weinsteins are pushing this oddball story of ferocious dairy love into the mix during awards season. Jennifer Garner stars as the meticulous maven of a perennial butter-carving contest with Ty Burrell, Kristen Schaal and the long-missing Alicia Silverstone as small-town Iowans also trying to achieve excellence in fat. DISTRIBUTOR The Weinstein Company CAST Jennifer Garner, Yara Shahidi, Hugh Jackman, Ty Burrell, Olivia Wilde, Ashley Greene, Alicia Silverstone, Kristen Schaal, Rob Corddy DIRECTOR Jim Field Smith SCREENWRITER Jason Micallef PRODUCERS Michael De Luca, Jennifer Garner, Alissa Phillips, Juliana Janes GENRE Comedy RATING R for language and sexual content RUNNING TIME TBA RELEASE DATE Oct. 5 ltd. V/H/S RETRO FLICKS HAVE THEIR REVENGE This horror story is bookended by a team of thieves who break into a house to steal a VHS tape. Why they’d tape their crime is beyond us, but the importance of leaving a record seems apparent, as the thieves only find the proof of people dying by unbelievable means. Four of the nine filmmakers behind this horror snippet fright fest fly under the banner Radio Silence (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez, Chad Villella) while some of the other makers and actors herein honed their chops in mumblecore comedies and dramas about post-collegiate confusion. But the lion’s share of the acclaim goes to young spookster directors like Ti West, which makes this gaggle of gross-outs especially alluring. DISTRIBUTOR Magnet CAST Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes, Adam Wingard, Sophia Takal, Kate Lyn Scheil, Joe Swanberg, Mike Donlan DIRECTORS Matt Bettinelli- Olpin, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez, Chad A 3D Picture That Wows! Spectral TM 240 3D The Worldʼs Most Trusted 3D Screen For more information visit: www.harkness‐screens.com/ad13 OCTOBER 2012 BOXOFFICE PRO 45
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