A sci-fi fantasy and a Greek mythology face-off in a battle of the sexes at the weekend box office. Scarlett Johansson [SJOHA] toplines Lucy [LUCY] as a party girl who is turned into a killing machine by an experimental drug that increases her full brain capacity. Luc Besson [LBESS] directed the R-rated actioner which harkens back to his early films like Le Femme Nikita and The Professional, but with special effects. Moviegoers have been buzzing since Universal dropped the first trailer....
Sony Pictures Classics has released the trailer for the drama Whiplash [WHPLS]. Miles Teller [MTELL] stars as a young jazz drummer who attends one of the best music schools in the country under the guidance of a maestro, played by J.K. Simmons [JKSIM]. He struggles under an abusive student-teacher relationship, but the tough love may be what it takes for him to become a virtuoso drummer. Premiering to critical acclaim at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Whiplash hits theaters...
Universal has unveiled the debut trailer for the highly-anticipated feature adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey [50SHD]. Dakota Johnson [DJOHN] stars as Anatasia Steele, a naive young woman who goes to work for the millionaire playboy Christian Grey, played by Jaime Dornan. He introduces her into the world of S&M erotica where she becomes the submissive to his dominance. Fifty Shades of Grey will heat up the screen on Valentine's Day 2015.
Relativity has unleashed the full-length trailer for the thriller The November Man [NOVMN] on Apple. More than a decade after playing James Bond, Pierce Brosnan [PBROS] gets back into the spygame to take on the new kid on the block, played by Luke Bracey [LBRAC].
Peter Devereaux (Pierce Brosnan) is an extremely dangerous and highly trained ex-CIA agent who is lured out of quiet retirement on a very personal mission. He must protect valuable witness, Alice Fournier, (Olga Kurylenko) who...
Open Road Films has revealed the teaser trailer for the thriller Nightcrawler [NTCRW]. Jake Gyllenhaal [JGYLL] stars a driven unemployed man who discovers Los Angeles' nocturnal underworld of crime journalism where a group of freelance camera crews chase police sirens to film car crashes, fires, murders and other disturbances. Nightcrawler arrives in theaters on October 17th.
Warner Bros. and MGM have dropped the second trailer for the teen drama If I Stay [ISTAY] starring Chloe Grace Moretz [CMORE] and Jamie Blackley. Will the same teen moviegoers that made The Fault in Our Stars a breakout hit just a month ago support another tearjerker in the same vein?
"If I Stay" is the story of the gifted classical musician Mia and her boyfriend, Adam, an up and coming indie-rock star. Torn between two paths in life, her art or her relationship, Mia is forced to make an...
Roadside Attractions has uploaded the full-length trailer for the satire Dear White People [DWHTP]. The independent film won the Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent at the 2014 Sundance Festival and could be a breakout hit within the target demographic of African-Americans as well as hipsters. Dear White People opens in limited release beginning October 17th.
Relativity has released the domestic trailer for the comedy Hector and the Search for Happiness [HECJR] on Apple. Though based on the bestselling novel of the same name, the film starring Simon Pegg [SPEGG] comes across like a British version of the recent The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
Hector (Simon Pegg) is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara (Rosamund Pike), he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted...
The Weinstein Co. has unlocked the first trailer for the biographical drama The Imitation Game [IMITG] starring Benedict Cumberbatch [BCUMB], Keira Knightley [KKNIG], Mark Strong [MSTRO] and Matthew Goode [MTGOO]. The film checks all the boxes for a leading awards contender come this fall.
Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the genius British mathematician, logician, cryptologist and computer scientist who led the charge to crack the German Enigma Code that helped the Allies win...
Three new wide releases were no match for the reigning Dawn of the Planet of the Apes [APES2] as the sci-fi sequel remained on top of the weekend box office with an estimated $36.0 million. The film dropped 50% in its second weekend to advance its total to $139.0 million.
The Purge: Anarchy [PURG2] opened in second place with a respectable $28.4 million since the sequel featured a different cast from the original that debuted with $34.1 million. The thriller sequel attracted an audience...
