Let's Talk Movies #33: Star Wars: Jabba Rising...Captain America Trumps China...and MORE!

[manhn]

This surprises/shocks me. I thought movie studios just cared about profit. (Well, maybe awards too! ). But for movie studios to not make sequels to profitable movies when the movie fared poorly in America, but was a hit everywhere else? I just have to think something else is at play...but I have no idea what.

I believe the studios get to keep a higher percentage of the domestic gross as opposed to international.

 

[Wyliefan]

I learned from the DVD extra that Bob Fosse played Hortensio in this, had to go back again and watch the number he was in.

My favorite part of Kiss Me Kate is playing Spot the Dancer. Fosse dances with Carol Haney, who was an assistant to Gene Kelly and a talented choreographer and Broadway star in her own right. Also in the number is Jeanne Coyne, another Kelly assistant, who eventually became Mrs. Kelly. Haney and Coyne showed up as specialty dancers or background dancers in quite a few MGM musicals. And the other men are Bobby Van and Tommy Rall. A dream team all around!

 

[skatesindreams]

Well, with "M*A*S*H" we part ways. I adore it. (I do hate the movie version, though.)

Agreed, on both counts!

 

[watchthis!!]

9 stars who turned down great film roles
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40271801

The most interesting one for me was for Legally Blonde. I think Reese Witherspoon is perfect in the role, but I'm curious to see what the movie would have been like with Christina Applegate in the role. Applegate so often plays the tough chick, but a few times I've seen her when she shows a vulnerability and her eyes say so much about the pain her character is feeling. So I think Applegate could have brought a bit more depth to an admittedly superficial role than Witherspoon did. Okay, I'm bracing myself for some argument with this!

Lots of bad options for alternative casting, most specifically with Mark Wahlberg in Jake Gylenhaal's role for Brokeback Mountain. I almost think it's a joke that we could believe that Ang Lee would have ever considered working with somebody like Wahlberg, especially in this role/movie.

As for one of the other choices, heard about this on the radio this morning:

Gwyneth Paltrow Says She’s Moving Away from Acting to Focus on Goop: ‘This Really Requires Almost All of My Time’
http://people.com/celebrity/gwyneth-paltrow-moving-away-from-acting-for-goop/

"Moving away from acting" is different from what they said on the radio this morning, they were a bit over-dramatic saying she was "retiring from the movie biz". I expect we'll be seeing Gwyneth in Iron Man 12 or wherever they'are at now.

 

[VGThuy]

Interesting about Christina Applegate doing Legally Blonde. Applegate and Witherspoon played sisters on Friends although they were never in the same episode. Applegate won an Emmy for her role.

 

[manhn]

I would imagine that pretty every significant female role in the 90s was offered to Roberts.

Bleh on Wahlberg and his creepy comments.

 

[PeterG]

I've decided to re-post the trailer post for this week as I've changed the order around (and included the link to the youtube playlist, of course). I always change the order of the trailers in the playlist so there aren't movies of the same genre back to back and if there are a number of documentaries that they're not all placed together. Although I usually do put foreign language movies last. So here we go...


Trailers For Movies Released 2017-06-16th
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuI4-fSHhipRHYkZ-UjJPRX-fPO6WYQJ-

June 16th - Rough Night (Wide) – Comedy with Scarlett Johansson, Zoë Kravitz, Kate McKinnon, Demi Moore, Ilana Glazer and Ty Burrell

June 16th - Cars 3 (Wide) – Animated comedy with Owen Wilson, Chris Cooper, Nathan Fillion, Armie Hammer, Kerry Washington, Tony Shalhoub, Margo Martindale, Bonnie Hunt, Bob Costas, Lea DeLaria and Larry The Cable Guy

June 16th - 47 Meters Down (Wide) – Horror thriller with Mandy Moore, Claire Holt [The Vampire Diaries] and Matthew Modine

June 16th - All Eyez on Me (Wide) – Musical drama, new cast. From imdb.com: “Tells the true and untold story of prolific rapper, actor, poet and activist Tupac Shakur.”

June 16th - Once Upon a Time in Venice (Limited) - Action comedy with Jason Momoa, Bruce Willis, Famke Jannsen, John Goodman, Kal Penn, Billy Gardell and Adam Goldberg

June 16th - The Book of Henry (Limited) - Thriller with Naomi Watts, Jacob Tremblay, Dean Norris, Sarah Silverman and Lee Pace

June 15th - The Hippopotamus (Limited) – Comedy with Matthew Modine, Russell Tovey [Quantico] and Fiona Shaw [True Blood]

June 16th - Score: A Film Music Documentary (Limited) with Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, John Williams, Trent Reznor, James Carmeron, Randy Newman, Quincy Jones, Alexandre Desplat and Howard Shore - From imdb.com: "...brings Hollywood's premier composers together to give viewers a privileged look inside the musical challenges and creative secrecy of the world's most widely known music genre: the film score."

June 16th - The Journey (Limited) - Drama with Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, John Hurt and Freddie Highmore

June 16th - Kill Switch (Limited) - Sci-fi with Dan Stevens. From imdb.com: "A pilot battles to save his family and the planet after an experiment for unlimited energy goes wrong."

June 16th - Maudie (Limited) - Romantic drama with Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke

June 16th - Hare Krishna! The Mantra, The Movement and the Swami Who Started it all (Limited - New York) - Documentary. From imdb.com: "the life of Srila Prabhupada, the 70-year-old Indian Swami who arrives in America without support or money and ignites a worldwide spiritual phenomenon, now known as the Hare Krishna Movement."
- NO TRAILER AT YOTUBE

June 16th - Pray for Rain (Limited) - Drama with Jane Seymour. From imdb.com: "A journalist returns to the California farming community where she was raised only to find it has been ravaged by drought and has become a place ruled by gangs."

June 16th - Hearing is Believing (Limited) - Documentary. From imdb.com: "...introduces the world to the life and music of the multi-talented 23-year old musician and composer, Rachel Flowers."

June 16th - Lost in Paris (Limited) French comedy with Emmanuelle Riva (Amour). From imdb.com: "Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing."

 

[watchthis!!]

So what was the last movie you started to watch, but gave up on? How much of the movie had you watched before you gave up? The other day I started to watch a movie called Area 51 with some friends. We wanted to see a sci-fi movie, and this one had a decent rating (but nobody famous in it). It's about three guys who take camcorders to Nevada with the hope of getting some incredible footage of Area 51. We lasted about 15 minutes...that's all it took for us to give up. The three (male) characters were like the most obnoxious guys you see in those most obnoxious beer commercials. They said things about how cool it was to be doing something illegal and how cool they could be taking on a project that could cost them their lives! (I can only hope that's what did happen. ) Then on the way to Area 51, they stop by in Las Vegas to stay for the night and have to stop by Hooters, where they use the camcorders for footage of Area 51 on boobies in tight t-shirts. The part after that where we gave up is when they were waiting to follow some knowledgeable person arriving in Las Vegas by plane and they sit in the car for five minutes of screen time waiting for the guy to drive out of the airport (onto a Las Vegas road where there are no other vehicles). They follow this car whose occupants seem unaware that the vehicle sitting at the airport exit is now following them with not one other car (in Las Vegas!!) in sight. One friend said (after we stopped watching), "those found footage / amateur-filed movies are really past their prime". I agree. That shaky camera work and dropped cameras during (supposedly) scary moments were great for a few movies, but that way of making a movie isn't something that can captivate an audience once we've seen it more than a handful of times.

So what movie recently did you give up? How far along did you stick with it before giving up?

 

[Aussie Willy]

I gave up on Happy Feet. Couldn't stand the dancing singing penguins. On the other hand loved Penguins of Madagascar. Go figure that one.

Anyway latest movie updates. Have seen three in three days. Two mainstream and one arthouse.

1/ Despicable M3 - really enjoyable and entertaining. Great characters and 80s movie soundtrack. Dance Off!!!

2/ Wonder Woman - I had low expectations so better than what I expected. Like most people I thought it was great to finally see a female superhero be the central character. Hollywood needs to wake up to itself. Gal Gadot was really good as WW. Had some good humour and didn't take itself too seriously either.

3/ Kedi - a documentary about the cats of Istanbul who roam the streets and befriend the people. The people tell the story of the cats and their relationships with them. Funniest cat was the one who sits outside the cafe and will only eat turkey and cheese. Has beautiful photography and Istanbul is on it's best display. At the cinema I have never seen so many cat lovers in the one room (except at a cat show).

 

[Vash01]

Saw ' All the presidents men' on DVD today. Very good but I thought it ended abruptly. We know what happened and yet it kept me interested throughout. Later I watched the special about it, on MSNBC. Are there any good books that describe the details leading up to Nixon's resignation? MSNBC has mentioned some things, but I want to know more. I have ordered the sequel by Woodward and Bernstein, as a start.

 

[watchthis!!]

Summer 2017's best movies: from Scarlett Johansson's hen night to Morrissey's teen years
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jun/15/summer-2017-best-movies

Too many good movies to talk about individually, so I'll just list my draft list of what I want to see:

Whitney: Can I VBe Me
Okja
Song To Song (that cast!!!)
It Comes At Night
War for the Planet of the Apes
Dunkirk
Victim
The Emoji Movie
The Dark Tower
Detroit
Logan Lucky
An Inconvenient Sequel

 

[PeterG]

Tonight I watched Agora, the 2009 historical drama starring Rachel Weisz, Oscar Isaac and Max Minghella. Weisz plays the lead character, Hypatia, in third century Alexandra, Egypt. She's a philosopher and astronomer and is living among the time of religious change, which leads to societal upheaval, fighting and ultimately death. Isaac and Minghella play two men who care about Weisz's character. It's a very overwhelming movie on many different levels. Very well made, Alejandro Amenábar is the director and writer. He also did double duty on The Others (Nicole Kidman) and The Sea Inside (Javier Bardem). I definitely recommend this one, but view it when you want a very powerful drama to sink your teeth into. Interestingly, at the box office it made only $619,423 in the U.S., but over 38 million internationally. Guess the American movie studio got scared about the religious war aspect of the film and chickened out and didn't promote it in North America. Which is a shame.

Isn't 47 Meters Down just The Shallows with more people in it?

It's funny, at first I just nodded my head (in silence) with your thought. But then I wondered if we just feel this way because so rarely we see movies where women are the main characters (or the ONLY characters). So it stands out when we see two movies that are similar with women as the central focus. But then I thought about all the action movies (or war dramas...or cop thrillers...) with men as the leads, and we don't think to say something about those movies. Because we see movies like that with men as the focus...it just happens so much that we don't even think to say anything. Thinking about this has made me add 47 Meters Down to my To See list. Wonder how it will do compared to The Shallows, which cost 13 million to make and made 118 million worldwide.

Once Upon a Time in Venice sounds like a Merchant-Ivory period drama, not an action comedy!

I think if you watch the trailer for this one, you probably won't think that way anymore!

 

[Jay42]

It's funny, at first I just nodded my head (in silence) with your thought. But then I wondered if we just feel this way because so rarely we see movies where women are the main characters (or the ONLY characters). So it stands out when we see two movies that are similar with women as the central focus. But then I thought about all the action movies (or war dramas...or cop thrillers...) with men as the leads, and we don't think to say something about those movies. Because we see movies like that with men as the focus...it just happens so much that we don't even think to say anything. Thinking about this has made me add 47 Meters Down to my To See list. Wonder how it will do compared to The Shallows, which cost 13 million to make and made 118 million worldwide.

Oh I say similar things about male led movies as well. Not on here, apparently. But it is definitely something I've had conversations about. I sometimes have trouble articulating myself so conversations like that I frequently have with my friends because they'll know what I mean when I mess something up or don't explain something as well as I meant to.

I'm not really a fan of shark movies so I haven't seen The Shallows and the odds I'll see 47 Meters down are pretty slim, I do hope it's good and does well because the only way to get more movies with female leads is for them to continue doing well.

 

[PeterG]

Oh I say similar things about male led movies as well. Not on here, apparently. But it is definitely something I've had conversations about. I sometimes have trouble articulating myself so conversations like that I frequently have with my friends because they'll know what I mean when I mess something up or don't explain something as well as I meant to.

I'm not really a fan of shark movies so I haven't seen The Shallows and the odds I'll see 47 Meters down are pretty slim, I do hope it's good and does well because the only way to get more movies with female leads is for them to continue doing well.

I think I might have really read something into your first message as you didn't say anything about the movies being female-led. So my thoughts were either assumptive on my part (is that a word??!!) or I was thinking my thoughts in a general sense rather than about something specifically you were talking about. So maybe I was rambling a bit... But I can see some people saying, "another chick/shark movie"?? when they don't say the same thing with the other examples I gave. I think that's because it's so rare to get female-led movies and when two similarly-themed female-led movies come out at the same time, it's too much for some people to handle. It'll be interesting to see how they come together now. I wonder if Blake Lively's career will see any upswing from the success of her movie. Or maybe she's busy doing the Mom thing now.

 

[Jay42]

I think I might have really read something into your first message as you didn't say anything about the movies being female-led. So my thoughts were either assumptive on my part (is that a word??!!) or I was thinking my thoughts in a general sense rather than about something specifically you were talking about. So maybe I was rambling a bit... But I can see some people saying, "another chick/shark movie"?? when they don't say the same thing with the other examples I gave. I think that's because it's so rare to get female-led movies and when two similarly-themed female-led movies come out at the same time, it's too much for some people to handle. It'll be interesting to see how they come together now. I wonder if Blake Lively's career will see any upswing from the success of her movie. Or maybe she's busy doing the Mom thing now.

I will admit I didn't think of chick/shark movie connection and more of people abandoned with sharks but your point was very well made.

I checked Blake Lively's page on IMDb and she has a movie in pre-production and it looks like she's in talks for a movie with Anna Kendrick directed by Paul Feig.

 

[PeterG]

I checked Blake Lively's page on IMDb and she has a movie in pre-production and it looks like she's in talks for a movie with Anna Kendrick directed by Paul Feig.

Ooh...that's a great twosome to be working with!

 

[misskarne]

I finally got to watch Hidden Figures tonight. (I missed it at the cinema, forgot to buy the DVD, borrowed it from my mum )

It was incredible. I love movies about the space program to begin with (two of my all-time favourite movies are Apollo 13 and The Dish), and this one just took it to the next level. These absolute geniuses working all that stuff out in their heads! John Glenn refusing to go up unless Katherine had checked his numbers! All that computing done by hand! I thought it had great moments, too, like when Katherine was allowed into the briefing over the protests of Paul, and proceeded to show everyone how it was done.

But it made me pretty sad, too, watching Mary argue that she should be allowed to become an engineer, watching Dorothy fight for the promotion she so richly deserved (and then getting her - well, I won't say revenge, but validation - by making the IBM work!), watching the way Katherine was treated in the Space Task Group room, and listening to what was said to them. The more things change, the more the stay the same.

I have no doubt we all know the reason this didn't clean up at the Oscars, and it has nothing to do with the quality of the other movies.

 

[Jay42]

I finally got to watch Hidden Figures tonight. (I missed it at the cinema, forgot to buy the DVD, borrowed it from my mum )

It was incredible. I love movies about the space program to begin with (two of my all-time favourite movies are Apollo 13 and The Dish), and this one just took it to the next level. These absolute geniuses working all that stuff out in their heads! John Glenn refusing to go up unless Katherine had checked his numbers! All that computing done by hand! I thought it had great moments, too, like when Katherine was allowed into the briefing over the protests of Paul, and proceeded to show everyone how it was done.

But it made me pretty sad, too, watching Mary argue that she should be allowed to become an engineer, watching Dorothy fight for the promotion she so richly deserved (and then getting her - well, I won't say revenge, but validation - by making the IBM work!), watching the way Katherine was treated in the Space Task Group room, and listening to what was said to them. The more things change, the more the stay the same.

I have no doubt we all know the reason this didn't clean up at the Oscars, and it has nothing to do with the quality of the other movies.

Are you referring to Oscars won or nominations? Because Hidden Figures only got 3 nominations and 2 of those awards went to Moonlight (African American writers, director and cast) and the 3rd went to Viola Davis, who I still maintain should have won for The Help but that's a rant for another day.

That said, Taraji P. Henson should have been nominated for Best Lead Actress and the fact that she wasn't bothers me. Did she get dumped so they could nominate Ruth Negga? And if that's the case why is OK for Best Supporting Actress to have more than one black woman but not the Best Lead Actress category? I also firmly believe Janelle Monae should have been nominated for Best Supporting Actress as well as Octavia Spencer and a Costume Design nomination would definitely have fit as well.

I find the Academy's habit of looking at ensemble movies, or movies with multiple potential acting nominees who could potentially fit in the same category and then choosing 1 person from that cast (Matt Dillon for Crash, Ian McKellan for The Return of the King) and nominating only them annoying. I personally don't think Crash was a good enough movie to get any Oscar nominations although the message is important. As for Lord of the Rings, while I agree Ian McKellan is a fantastic actor, Sean Astin was amazing in The Return of the King. I think the Academy definitely pulled that with Hidden Figures by only nominating Octavia Spencer. She was the "representative" of the cast. It's ridiculous.

 

[VGThuy]

Lead Actress was pretty competitive last year. Negga was a surprise nominee and Streep had a good campaign. Most people were mad about Amy Adams being left off. To get nominated and to win Best Picture, you have to be ranked highly on the ballot. So people who receive the most first and second place and possibly 3rd place votes will get in, while those who may be ranked 4th or 5th but appeared on more ballots may not get in since it's weighted in that way. Plus the Academy has like 6,000+ members now and while I'm not sure how many of them are in the actor's branch but I think actors make up the most populous branch of the Academy. I think for ensemble like films, the picking of only one actor to represent the rest is a result of the studio campaigning. It's hard to split all of your resources around to try to get a nomination for a specific category, but if you put all of your attention on one person then it'll be easier. Plus, having only one nomination from the film be the nominee means there is no risk of vote splitting which is in the studio's best interest. Sometimes the campaign doesn't work and someone gets nominated for a film even though the studio and attention was on their co-star. There have been cases where more than one actor from the same movie was nominated in the same category, but it's not common, but then getting a nomination is hard anyway.

This means nothing, but I thought Hidden Figures receiving nominations was its own award because I found the movie pretty basic and middlebrow myself. But then I feel that way about a lot of movies that have been nominated for and have won tons of Oscars, so my taste gauge means nothing.

 

[Kruss]

Kiss Me Kate, one of my absolute favorites. A little trivia, it was filmed for 3D showings. As you watch it, you can spot the parts where things would have come flying at the screen.

 

[watchthis!!]

Texas Killing Fields is a really good movie based on a true story about the murders of over 30 young women, staring in the early 1970’s and most recently as of 2006. Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Sam Worthington play the two police officers trying to stop the murders. It’s a very well made movie, but unfortunately only made $45,470 in the U.S. Which is unfortunate, because it’s a great crime thriller. Jessica Chastain plays a police officer in the neighbouring district, who works with Morgan and Worthington to bring the killer to justice. Chloë Grace Moretz, Jason Clarke and Sheryl Lee (Twin Peaks) are also in this movie, so a great cast. And the movie has a female director, Ami Canaan Mann, who is now directing episodes of TV for such shows as Chicago Med and The Blacklist.

Trailer for Texas Killing Fields: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7woppidfvtc

I find the Academy's habit...

When we talk about "the academy", do we mean the 6,000 members of the academy? There isn't a board of people representing the academy that is responsible for nominations? If so, then how do nominations come about...all 6,000 members nominate one (or more?) individuals (or teams) per category? Then the top five (or more, with best picture) become the nominees and then all 6,000 Academy members get a ballot and they pick only one choice per category? As I'm typing this, I seem to remember hearing something about how only actors make nominations in the acting categories and I assume only editors nominate editors, etc? Not sure if this is the case or not. But if so, then after the nominations are made, all academy members get to vote for each category. What have I got right (or wrong)?

 

[VGThuy]

When we talk about "the academy", do we mean the 6,000 members of the academy? There isn't a board of people representing the academy that is responsible for nominations? If so, then how do nominations come about...all 6,000 members nominate one (or more?) individuals (or teams) per category? Then the top five (or more, with best picture) become the nominees and then all 6,000 Academy members get a ballot and they pick only one choice per category? As I'm typing this, I seem to remember hearing something about how only actors make nominations in the acting categories and I assume only editors nominate editors, etc? Not sure if this is the case or not. But if so, then after the nominations are made, all academy members get to vote for each category. What have I got right (or wrong)?

You're right about that. There are 17 branches of the Academy and each one is responsible for picking nominees for each branch's respective categories. Some categories have more stringent rules than others about whether its branch members can take part in the nominations and even voting once nominations come out (I think it used to be or still is a rule that in order to vote for foreign film, you have to show you watched all five nominees or something). The way they pick the nominees is by a weighted ballots where they can pick up to five nominees. They are ranked, so it's important that film be in the first, second, or third position if you want to give it a chance to be nominated.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/54560/how-are-oscar-nominees-chosen

 

[Vash01]

I finally saw Moonlight on DVD tonight. I was not blown away by it. There were certainly some artistic moments but to me the first part of the three was the most interesting part of the movie. TBH I liked Lion and Hidden figures more than either Moonlight or La La Land, which were both good movies, but probable #3 & 4 in my book.

 

[VGThuy]

I actually thought most of the movies that came out last year that I've seen were sort of only ok. Elle was probably my favorite that I've seen.

 

[watchthis!!]

Elizabeth Banks’ Big Issue With Steven Spielberg’s Movies
http://www.cinemablend.com/news/1670530/elizabeth-banks-big-issue-with-steven-spielbergs-movies

Banks recently won an award (the Women in Film Crystal Award) and used her speech to make some interesting (and bold!) comments about Steven Spielberg.

I went to Indiana Jones and Jaws and every movie Steven Spielberg ever made, and by the way, he's never made a movie with a female lead. Sorry, Steven. I don't mean to call your ass out, but it's true.

The article mentions that isn't quite true as Spielberg has directed The Color Purple, The BFG and Sugarland Express, all of which had lead characters which were female. But that's just one movie out of every ten that he's directed.

Great article, I'm a bit shocked that Banks has taken aim at such a movie industry giant, but I'm guessing he can handle it! Plus maybe this is a small step in the movie industry to make more changes in regards to representation. Especially if people keep calling them out on it.

 

[Seerek]

I find the Academy's habit of looking at ensemble movies, or movies with multiple potential acting nominees who could potentially fit in the same category and then choosing 1 person from that cast (Matt Dillon for Crash, Ian McKellan for The Return of the King) and nominating only them annoying.

Yes, very true. That's why the SAG Best Ensemble category is probably as good as it's going to get for films that are ensemble.

Interestingly, Don Cheadle was nominated alongside Dillon for Crash in Supporting at both the SAG and BAFTA awards, but not the Oscars. Another recent example is Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchi in Babel.

 

[Buzz]

Transformers: The Last Knight = 5/10 The movie had it's moments but overall it is a hot mess and not enough of Freya the dog!

 

[manhn]

I liked Hidden Figures too, but I didn't love it. I preferred Loving and was fine with Negga being nominated. Of course, Meryl can just go away and Taraji can grab that nod.

Anyways, the real wuzobbed was Sally Field.

 

[VGThuy]

I liked Hidden Figures too, but I didn't love it. I preferred Loving and was fine with Negga being nominated. Of course, Meryl can just go away and Taraji can grab that nod.

Anyways, the real wuzobbed was Sally Field.

I've been meaning to watch Hello, My Name is Doris. I'm still bitter than Isabelle Huppert didn't win the Oscar.

 

[PeterG]

Trailers For Movies Released 2017-06-23rd
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuI4-fSHhipSRCOUWI2XLfuTl_pbn9uXX

Good Fortune looks like it's probably a good movie, but the trailer didn't quite grab me enough to add it to my To See list. It seemed like maybe the trailer basically told the story of the movie, so no need to spend two hours watching what the trailer's already told us.


June 23rd - Transformers: The Last Knight (Wide) – Action sci-fi with Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Duhamel and Stanley Tucci

June 23rd - The Beguiled (Limited) – Western drama directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning and Colin Farrell
- Opens in wide release next week

June 23rd - The Bad Batch (Limited) – Sci-fi romance with Jason Momoa, Keanu Reeves, Jim Carrey, Diego Luna and Giovanni Ribisi

June 23rd - The Big Sick (Limited) – Romantic comedy with Kumail Nanjiani [Silicon Valley, Portlandia], Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter, David Alan Grier and Ray Romano
- Opens wide July 14th

June 23rd – Rogue Agent aka Newcomer aka The Operative (Limited – Los Angeles) – Crime thriller with Anthony LaPaglia

June 23rd - Ripped (Limited) – Comedy with a new cast & Russell Peters. From imdb.com: “…two free spirited stoners who, after smoking some top secret pot created by the CIA in 1986, find themselves catapulted into 2016.”

June 22nd - Good Fortune (Limited) – Documentary. From imdb.com: “A modern day Robin Hood, JP's motto is ‘Success unshared is failure.’ The son of immigrants, JP defies the stereotype of 'the 1%' and is the poster boy of the triple bottom line - people, planet and profit.”

June 23rd - Alien Arrival (Limited) – Action sci-fi with a new cast. From imdb.com: “Arrowhead is an interstellar survival story of a stranded mercenary who discovers a deadly secret on a seemingly deserted moon.”

June 23rd - A Beginner’s Guide to Snuff (Limited) – Comedy horror thriller with a new cast. From imdb.com: “…a pitch black comedy thriller in the vein of early Coen Brothers films.”

June 23rd - Tubelight (Limited) – Indian war drama with Salman Khan. From imdb.com: “…the story of a man's unshakable faith in himself and the love for his family.”