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DID YOU KNOW? With a worldwide box-office gross of over $2.7 billion, Avatar (2009) is currently the highest grossing film, closely followed by Titanic (1997) with $2.1 billion.
HACKSAW RIDGE OPENS 3 NOVEMBER Regardless of his off-screen reputation and disgraces, there’s no denying that Mel Gibson is a terrific director. In just his third film behind the camera since winning the Oscar for Braveheart in 1995, Gibson has chosen to tell the story of army medic Desmond T. Doss (played by Andrew Garfield); the first conscientious objector to be awarded America’s Medal of Honour. Shot in Australia, the film graphically depicts the brutality of war but never fails to lose sight of the humanity of its hero; Garfield (The Social Network) giving a standout performance, and backed by an impressive Australian cast.
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FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM OPENS 17 NOVEMBER The Harry Potter film franchise may have ended five years ago but fans still can’t seem to get enough. With The Cursed Child currently selling out on both the stage and in book form, comes this new Potter film; set in New York and decades before the Boy Wizard was even born. Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne (The Danish Girl) plays Newt Scamander, whose adventures we follow, later detailed in the titular book which Potter nerds will know is taught to students of Hogwarts. David Yates, who directed the final four Potter films, is once again in charge of the movie magic.
ROGUE ONE : A STAR WARS STORY OPENS 15 DECEMBER A Star Wars story but not a sequel to last year’s The Force Awakens (we’ll see that film next Christmas), Gareth Edwards’ film is a prequel to the very first Star Wars film, A New Hope. Set in the lead-up to that film’s events, we follow Jyn Erso (Oscar nominee Felicity Jones), who joins the rebellion against the Empire and is tasked with the mission of retrieving plans for a weapon of mass destruction, the Death Star. Mads Mikkelsen and Forest Whitaker also star, but we’ll be most interested in seeing recent Emmy winner, Ben Mendelsohn (Animal Kingdom), as the film’s villain.
PASSENGERS OPENS 1 JANUARY If you’re going to repopulate the universe, then why not send two of Earth’s most photogenic and charming specimens? Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook) and Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy) play members of a crew travelling 120 years to a distant space colony but, due to a computer malfunction, wake from their hibernation 90 years too early. As they try to unravel the mystery behind the malfunction, Aurora (Lawrence) and Jim (Pratt) begin to fall for each other, only to be threatened by the imminent collapse of the ship and the discovery of the truth behind why they woke up. Passengers is directed by Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game).
By Dwayne Lennox
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