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COMING<br />
IN AUGUST<br />
2 GUNS<br />
READY, FIRE, AIM<br />
WIDE<br />
n Icelandic director Baltasar<br />
Kormákur helms this action comedy<br />
based on the graphic novel of the<br />
same name. Denzel Washington as a<br />
DEA agent and Mark Wahlberg as a<br />
Navy Seal must team up when they<br />
suspect they’ve been set up by the<br />
CIA. It’s a sure bet that guns will fire<br />
and quips will be thrown.<br />
DISTRIBUTOR Universal Pictures CAST Denzel<br />
Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton,<br />
Bill Paxton DIRECTOR Baltasar Kormákur<br />
SCREENWRITER Blake Masters PRODUCERS Andrew<br />
Cosby, Randall Emmett, George Furla,<br />
Norton Herrick, Marc Platt, Ross Richie<br />
GENRE Action comedy RATING TBD RUNNING<br />
TIME TBD RELEASE DATE <strong>August</strong> 2, <strong>2013</strong><br />
LTD.<br />
DRIFT<br />
COWABUNGA!<br />
n <strong>Pro</strong>ject Greenlight’s 2005 winner Morgan<br />
O’Neill co-directs this period piece about the<br />
dawn of the surf era in Australia during the<br />
1970s. Myles Pollard (X-Men Origins: Wolverine)<br />
and Xavier Samuel (The Twilight Saga:<br />
Eclipse) play brothers who struggle to make<br />
ends meet as they launch a fledgling surf shop<br />
out of their backyard garage. Sam Worthington<br />
(Avatar) shows up as a filmmaker along for the<br />
ride. Say g’day to short boards and wetsuits.<br />
DISTRIBUTOR Lionsgate CAST Sam Worthington,<br />
Xavier Samuel, Myles Pollard DIRECTORS<br />
Morgan O’Neill, Ben Nott SCREENWRITER<br />
Morgan O’Neill PRODUCERS Michele Bennett,<br />
Tim Duffy, Myles Pollard GENRE Sports drama<br />
RATING R RUNNING TIME 113 min. RELEASE<br />
DATE <strong>August</strong> 2<br />
LTD.<br />
EUROPA REPORT<br />
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?<br />
n Sharlto Copley (who body-melded with<br />
“prawns” in 2009’s District 9) toplines this tale<br />
about a group of six astronauts who journey<br />
to one of Jupiter’s moons on a search for E.T.<br />
and lose contact with Earth after a member of<br />
their team dies. Joining him on the ride is The<br />
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’s Michael Nyqvist.<br />
Rather than travel to the Galilean moons,<br />
Equadorian director Sebastián Cordero shot<br />
this found-footage film in far-off Brooklyn.<br />
Rotten Tomatoes already has this scored at 69<br />
percent. It’s fresh!<br />
DISTRIBUTOR Magnet CAST Sharlto Copley, Michael<br />
Nyqvist, Embeth Davidtz, Dan Fogler<br />
DIRECTOR Sebastián Cordero SCREENWRITER<br />
Philip Gelatt PRODUCER Ben Browning GENRE<br />
Science fiction RATING PG-13 RUNNING TIME<br />
89 min. RELEASE DATE <strong>August</strong> 2<br />
LTD.<br />
THE SPECTACULAR NOW<br />
SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRITS<br />
n At hit at Sundance, The Spectacular Now<br />
attempts to refresh the teen movie formula<br />
and by most accounts succeeds. Miles Teller<br />
(Footloose) plays an aimless high school senior<br />
(and budding alcoholic) who meets a girl (The<br />
Descendants’ Shailene Woodley) with more on<br />
her mind than simple carpe diem.<br />
DISTRIBUTOR A24 CAST Miles Teller, Shailene<br />
Woodley, Brie Larson, Jennifer Jason Leigh,<br />
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kyle Chandler<br />
DIRECTOR James Ponsoldt SCREENWRITERS<br />
Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber PRODUC-<br />
ERS Michelle Krumm, Andrew Lauren, Shawn<br />
Levy GENRE Dramedy RATING PG-13 RUNNING<br />
TIME 100 min. RELEASE DATE <strong>August</strong> 2<br />
48 BoxOffice ® <strong>Pro</strong> The Business of Movies AUGUST <strong>2013</strong>
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