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COMING<br />
SOON<br />
by Sara Maria Vizcarrondo<br />
CHRIS POWER<br />
TIMES TWO:<br />
HEMSWORTH AND<br />
EVANS<br />
MARVEL’S<br />
THE<br />
AVENGERS<br />
SUPERFRIENDS SAVE THE<br />
WORLD<br />
When comic book readers got<br />
bored by their superheroes,<br />
comic writers smashed a bunch<br />
of names together and called<br />
it a league. Here, led by dono-wrong<br />
writer/director Joss<br />
Whedon, we meet Nick Fury<br />
(Samuel L. Jackson), hired by the<br />
government to recruit engineering<br />
marvel Iron Man (Robert<br />
Downey Jr.), science experiment<br />
Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Nordic<br />
god Thor (Chris Hemsworth)<br />
and hotties Hawkeye (Jeremy<br />
Renner) and Black Widow (Scarlett<br />
Johansson) to save the world<br />
from Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and<br />
his Transformer-styled mayhem<br />
machines.<br />
DISTRIBUTOR Disney CAST Scarlett Johansson,<br />
Chris Evans, Robert Downey<br />
Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Paul Bettany,<br />
Stellan Skarsgard, Don Cheadle,<br />
Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Ruffalo,<br />
Lou Ferrigno, Jeremy Renner, Chris<br />
Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cobie<br />
Smulders DIRECTOR Joss Whedon<br />
SCREENWRITER Joss Whedon PRODUCER<br />
Kevin Feige GENRE Action RATING TBD<br />
RUNNING TIME TBD RELEASE DATE <strong>May</strong><br />
4, <strong>2012</strong><br />
OH,<br />
GOODIE—JUDI<br />
DENCH HAS<br />
ARRIVED<br />
THE BEST EXOTIC<br />
MARIGOLD HOTEL<br />
NOW, VOYAGERS<br />
>> Seven U.K. residents head to India to<br />
spend their golden years in a fabulously<br />
marketed resort, only to learn too quickly<br />
that the Third World is an adventure with discomforts<br />
and their romantically named resort<br />
just a dust bucket with an overambitious<br />
tween playing innkeeper. The cast couldn’t<br />
be more esteemed, and the comedy couldn’t<br />
be drier, with aged and attractive singles<br />
coupling and dying in equal measure. Most<br />
of these Brits remember when England called<br />
India a colony—I hope that comes up over<br />
the breakfast table.<br />
DISTRIBUTOR Fox Searchlight CAST Judi Dench,<br />
Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith, Dev<br />
Patel DIRECTOR John Madden SCREENWRITER<br />
Ol Parker PRODUCER Graham Broadbent,<br />
Peter Czernin GENRE Comedy, Drama RATING<br />
PG-13 for sexual content and language. RUN-<br />
NING TIME 124 min. RELEASE DATE <strong>May</strong> 4 ltd.<br />
MEETING EVIL<br />
LUKE, I AM YOUR COMEBACK<br />
>> Most of us haven’t seen Luke Wilson (aka<br />
the brunette Wilson) since those ill-advised<br />
phone commercials a year or so ago. Here, he<br />
plays a down-on-his-luck family man who loses<br />
his job, house and car on the same day, only to<br />
be “rescued” by Samuel L. Jackson. (Consider<br />
him here the not-so-super Nick Frost.) Sam’s<br />
got plans that aren’t on the up-and-up and can’t<br />
be explained to the cops without incrimination.<br />
If anyone looks like he’s guilty of being<br />
in the wrong place at the wrong time, it’s this<br />
ex-AT&T spokesman who still looks perfectly<br />
hapless in the interrogation room.<br />
DISTRIBUTOR Magnolia CAST Samuel L. Jackson,<br />
Leslie Bibb, Luke Wilson DIRECTOR Chris<br />
Fisher SCREENWRITER Chris Fisher PRODUCER<br />
Brad Krevoy, Mike Callaghan, Justin Bursch<br />
GENRE Suspense RATING R for violent content<br />
and language. RUNNING TIME 89 min. RELEASE<br />
DATE <strong>May</strong> 4 ltd.<br />
FIRST POSITION<br />
DANCE MACHINES<br />
>> The Youth America Grand Prix is the biggest<br />
ballet contest in the States, with young dancers<br />
competing from various parts of the country<br />
for prestige and the attention of ballet company<br />
recruiters both national and international. This<br />
104 BOXOFFICE PRO MAY <strong>2012</strong>
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