Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a 2023 animated superhero film produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson, it is the sequel to the Academy Award-winning Into the Spider-Verse (2018).
Shameik Moore returns as Miles Morales, who is pulled across the multiverse and introduced to the Spider-Society — an interdimensional task force of Spider-People led by the severe Miguel O'Hara/Spider-Man 2099 (Oscar Isaac). When Miles learns the Society operates on a rigid doctrine about which tragedies must be allowed to happen, he finds himself at odds with hundreds of versions of himself. Hailee Steinfeld returns as Gwen Stacy, with Jason Schwartzman voicing the villainous Spot.
Released on June 2, 2023, the film grossed over $690 million worldwide and drew rapturous reviews, with critics calling its animation among the most ambitious ever committed to a mainstream feature. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature and ends on a cliffhanger leading into Beyond the Spider-Verse.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is the second film in The Hunger Games sci-fi trilogy that depicts the events that are supposedly taken place in future or in alternative universe where inhuman annual deathly games are held by Capitol to distract the attention of poorest segments of society (which seem to represent almost 100% of population) from troubles of their miserable lives. The movie storyline is loosely based on Suzanne Collins's book Catching Fire. Simon Beaufoy and Michael Arndt have adopted the book for filming and written the screenplay for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. The movie's story is revolving around "Victor's Tour" of the 74th Annual Hunger Games winners Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson). Now they are heroes adored by all the people and the Capitol is betting on them to calm down incipient rebellion. Katness and Peeta finds themselves drawn in series of intrigues all meaning death for them in grand finale. The brilliant play of Jennifer Lawrence, who may be familiar for you by her recent roles in House at the End of the Street and Playbook, undoubtedly has "make" the movie. For Josh Hutcherson, The Hunger Games mean great breakthrough in his career although he has shown the best of his actor's skill in Red Dawn and The Forger.
Imagine the world divided on two societies: the richest one living on the luxurious orbital station located at the Lagrange Point 1 between Earth and Moon; and the rest of the human population living their worthless lives on the overpopulated and extremely polluted Earth. The space habitat called Elysium has state-of-art medical technologies that could save billions of live on Earth, but they serves to extend the lives of richest ones who live on Stanford torus: an Earth-gravity equipped hollow doughnut stuffed with enormously expensive houses, pools and golf courses. At this time, inhabitants of the planet Earth, have struggling for their lives, surviving the corruption, banditry and poverty without a ray of hope for a better life. But there is the man on the Earth who has his own mission to save his life. The only thing he needs is to get into Elysium and restore the justice. The destiny of both of the world now depends of his fight with Elysium's mayor Secretary Jessica Delacourt. His name is Max Da Costa. Elysium's director Neill Blomkamp managed to gather a brilliant ensemble cast to turn an ordinary sci-fi movie to an extraordinary one: Matt Damon (True Grit, Invictus, The Informant!) stars as Max Da Costa, while Jodie Foster (Carnage, The Brave One, Panic Room) acts as main antagonist Jessica Delacourt.
2 Guns is an adrenaline action crime drama directed by iconic European director and actor Baltasar Kormákur, a man behind such the great movies as White Night Wedding, Contraband and The Deep. The movie follows the adventures of undercover agents, a DEA agent Bobby Trench and a Naval Intelligence Officer, Marcus Stigman. One day they got the order to rob the bank where local drug cartel is laundering money. Upon the stealing of US$50 million they suddenly realize that they just have stole CIA funds, with all the following consequences. Now they have to investigate who has set them up, and have to work together to save their lives and find the way to return the money. Baltasar Kormákur has considered Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn for the main roles but finally choose Denzel Washington (Flight, Safe House, Unstoppable and The Book of Eli) for the role of DEA agent Bobby Trench, while Mark Wahlberg (Pain & Gain, Broken City, Ted and Contraband) was chosen to star as Naval Intelligence Officer Marcus Stigman.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 which was previously known as Cloudy 2: Revenge of the Leftovers is a sequel of filmed in 2010 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. The movie's screenplay is loosely based on original film, not a Barrett's second book Pickles to Pittsburgh, and follows the events which took place just after the end of the first movie. Its plot centers on Flint Lockwood, a young genius who invented a food machine, which nearly destroyed the planet with a disastrous food storm. Nowadays Flint works on The Live Corp. He is idolizing Chester V, who runs the company and tries his best to meet his expectations. Nevertheless, when he gets to know that his monstrous food machine is still active and now producing food-animal hybrids, Flint decides to leave The Live Corp. Now his mission is to destroy dangerous machine, before its creatures destroy the Earth. Saber cucumbers, taco-diles and apple boas are not those who can be easily got rid of, but it's time for Flint to invent something to separate the food from animals.
Riddick (2013), which previously was titled as The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking is the third movie of the Riddick franchise. The first one was low budget Pitch Black, which was filmed in 2000. This film gave a start both for The Chronicles of Riddick franchise and Vin Diesel career. The movie was a "sleeper hit" grossing over US$53 million in theaters with budget less than US$23 million. The second film in the franchise, The Chronicles of Riddick was less successful in profits: it generated over US$115 million with budget around US$100 million, but met mostly positive audience feedback, although critics met it with tepid reviews. Nevertheless, the third movie is aimed to repeat the success of the first film: it has relatively low budget grossing around US$38 million. The story of the Riddick (2013) revolves around the antihero, Richard B. Riddick. He is left on the scorched planet inhabited by alien predators. When he manages to activate an alarm beacon, it attracts the attention of two spaceships. The first one carries the hordes of thugs hired to kill Riddick, while the second one is captained by the man well known to him. Uncommon intelligence and inhuman strength help Riddick to use these guests to get away from the planet, commit an act of retaliation and rescue the people of his homeworld planet Furya from mass destruction.
Being a sequel of legendary comedy of 00s, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) doesn't mean to copy or event to develop a plot of the original movie. For Anchorman: The Legend Continues (2012) it's a totally true. Although there is the same director and producer in both of the movies: Adam McKay and Judd Apatow accordingly, and the plot is written by the same Will Ferrel (The Other Guys, Step Brothers, Wedding Crashers) who plays main character, Ron Burgundy, in Anchorman: The Legend Continues – these two movies are "absolutely different": new jokes in the same 70s-styled environment. The rest of the cast were left intact: Christina Applegate (The Big Hit, Claudine's Return, Just Visiting) plays Veronica Corningstone Ron's person of interest, while Paul Rudd (Admission, This Is 40, Wanderlust) stars as Brian Fantana, an arrogant and over-sexiest Ron's coworker.
When it comes to digital era sales, two 40something advanced salesmen feel themselves … outdated and obsolete. Finally, both of them are losing their jobs and find themselves on the sidelines of the global progress. However, there one chance of the million to prove them not losers and this chance awaits for them in Google Inc. Now, they are the interns in the world most sophisticated organization fighting for the potential big bucks with tech-savvy elite of best students of the planet. In addition, all their bosses are twice younger them. Nevertheless, the hefty moxie combined with desire for money can work wonders. Shawn Levy's new movie The Internship (2013) stars Vince Vaughn (The Dilemma, The Watch, Couples Retreat) and Owen Wilson (The Big Year, Midnight in Paris, Hall Pass) as two hapless salesmen, Billy and Nick. Story and screenplay of The Internship was written by Vince Vaughn, and this movie is the second collaboration between of Shawn Levy and Vince Vaughn. The first one was in The Watch (2012).
Former bank robber and cop who has always been after that criminal, both are faced a dangerous conspiracy threatening their life. No one could predict that one only insignificant event will ignite the entire chain of catastrophically hazardous happenings leading to potentially "unhappy end". The former enemies, a retired criminal Jacob Sternwood and a gritty copper Max Lewinsky both have learn how to survive invisible threats, which makes them a team. The movie was directed by Eran Creevy, a man behind Shifty (2009), Scoop, Breakfast on Pluto and Wimbledon. He gathered an awesome ensemble in his thriller Welcome to the Punch: Jacob Sternwood is played by Mark Strong (Mindscape, Zero Dark Thirty, John Carter and Green Lantern) while James McAvoy (X-Men: First Class, The Conspirator, Atonement and The Last King of Scotland) stars as Max Lewinsky.
When Todd Phillips filmed his first The Hangover in 2009, he could hardly imagine that this movie will bring almost 500 millions USD box office. After the tremendous success of the first movie, the sequel deemed as something inevitable. The Hangover Part II wasn't a bad movie; however it has earned for Warner Bros. Pictures slightly less cash then the previous one. Although the rumors about futility of The Hangover Part III were in the air, Todd Phillips has decided to film the third movie in rarely record time – less than two years. The pressure of doubtfulness of the success of The Hangover Part III was too strong to replicate the plot of the first two movies. The audience demands something greater: more action, more entangled plot, more powerful actors' play. The last thing was not in scarcity: since the first The Hangover Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Justin Bartha have improved their actors skills in such smash movies like Dark Horse, The Rebound, The Campaign, The Muppets, It's Kind of a Funny Story, Hit and Run, Limitless, Valentine's Day, Silver Linings Playbook etc. As for the action-packed scenes and entangled plot, the trailer ensures us that everything is OK with these ingredients as well.
For those who were patient enough to wait till the end of credits of Fast and Furious 5, there was a scene where Monica Fuentes (Eva Mendes) shows to Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) some pictures of Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) who supposedly died in Fast and Furious 4 but appears to be alive. This small scene ignites the entire plot of Fast and Furious 6. All the members of gang are scattered around the world hiding both from justice and criminals. It's not so easy for Hobbs to discover where Dominic Toretto hides, however he believes that Toretto helps him to catch another dangerous gang he chasing for the years. All he needs to succeed is supremacy on the streets and Torreto's gang may be the key for success. In exchange for the successful job Hobbs proposes clearing the records for Toretto and his team, which means a long-awaited freedom for them. Another prize is more personal - Letty, a Dominic's ex-lover seems to be the dangerous gang head's second self.