30 Movies to Be Excited for in 2015
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Published
12/10/2014
Here's a collection of films to look forward to in the new year.
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Taken 3 - Liam Neeson is back for one last showdown, but this time he's on the run after being framed for his wife's murder. Forest Whitaker plays the inspector who's trying to bring him down. They'll surely close out this series with an action-packed bang. Release date: January 9th -
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Chappie is an experimental robot designed to learn and feel. He is kidnapped by local gangsters, and his designer, played by Dev Patel Slumdog Millionaire, seeks to save him. Release date: March 6th -
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Cinderella - Disney has hit a successful stride with their recent live-action films and they seek to continue that with a retelling of the story of Cinderella. Lily James stars in the title role, with Cate Blanchett as the Stepmother and Helena Bonham Carter as the Fairy Godmother. Release date: March 13th -
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In the Heart of the Sea - Based on the amazing true story of the whaleship Essex and the sperm whale that attacked it in 1819. 4 men of the crew played by Benjamin Walker, Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, and Tom Holland are left stranded and desperate, leading to their journey to South America and cannibalism. Release date: March 13th -
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Furious 7 - After Paul Walker's tragic death in 2013, this film became more than just the seventh installment in this series. It became a goodbye to him and his Fast and Furious family. With Jason Statham as the new villain, this one will undoubtedly top the previous action that made this series entertaining. Release date: April 3rd -
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The Avengers: Age of Ultron - With S.H.I.E.L.D. destroyed, Tony Stark attempts to create a peacekeeping program with Ultron, a self-aware, self-teaching artificial intelligence. This backfires when Ultron decides that the human race is the enemy and must be destroyed. The Avengers must team up again to save the world. Release date: May 1st -
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Mad Max: Fury Road - In the first film of the Mad Max series in 30 years, original director and creator George Miller brings it back with Tom Hardy in the lead role. Max, now alone in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, meets Furiosa Charlize Theron and helps her across the dangerous desert. Release date: May 15th -
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Tomorrowland - Frank George Clooney and Casey Britt Robertson travel to place known as Tomorrowland, somewhere in time and space where their actions directly affect the world and themselves. Release date: May 22nd -
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Jurassic World - 22 years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar, off the Pacific coast of Central America, now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond. This new park is owned by the Masrani Global Corporation. Owen Chris Pratt, a member of Jurassic World's on-site staff, conducts behavioral research on the Velociraptors. At the request of the corporation, the park's geneticists create a genetically-modified hybrid dinosaur to boost visitor attendance, which soon runs wild on the island. Release date: June 12th -
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Inside Out - Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Riley is guided by her emotions Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Rileys mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters. Although Joy, Rileys main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive, the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school. Release date: June 19th -
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Terminator Genisys - The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance, continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by Skynet that will attack him from two fronts, past and future, and will ultimately change warfare forever. Arnold Schwarzenegger returns for the first time since 2003. Release date: July 1st -
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Ant-Man - Scott Lang Paul Rudd must aid his mentor Dr. Hank Pym in safeguarding the mystery of the Ant-Man technology, which allows its user to decrease in size but increase in strength, from various menaces and plot a caper to defend the Earth. Release date: July 17th -
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Pan - The story of Peter Pan now finds itself before the events of the Darling children, taking us back to the origins of Peter himself. He is taken to a mysterious new place called Neverland, ruled by Blackbeard Hugh Jackman. He befriends a man named James Hook Garrett Hedlund and they come together to fight off the evil pirate. Release date: July 17th -
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The Fantastic Four - Have Marvel fans gotten the reboot they've been hoping for? Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, and Jamie Bell are the new Fantastic Four, and the fight against Dr. Doom Toby Kebbell will be as real and action-packed as ever. Release date: August 7th -
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Triple Nine - A group of corrupt police officers are blackmailed into pulling off a seemingly impossible heist. They plot the murder of a rookie police officer in order to orchestrate a "999", code for 'officer down', to pull off the heist across town. Playing the cops are Woody Harrelson, Kate Winslet, Aaron Paul, Norman Reedus, and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Release date: September 11th -
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Black Mass - Based on the book "Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob", this movie tells the story of two brothers: convicted murderer and organized crime figure Whitey Bulger Johnny Depp and Democratic politician and lawyer. Their opposing jobs didn't keep them apart, which caused trouble and ultimately a decision between family and the law. Release date: September 18th -
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Everest - In 1996, eight people were caught in a blizzard during their ascent on Mount Everest and perished. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, this movie will tell the story of the brave people who ultimately paid the highest price in an attempt to climb Earth's highest mountain. Release date: September 18th -
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Victor Frankenstein - Told from Igor's Daniel Radcliffe perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein James McAvoy, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man who created the legend we know today. Release date: October 2nd -
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The Walk - Based on the story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on August 7, 1974, this film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Petit and will give the audience a 3D experience only previously had by Petit himself. Release date: October 2nd -
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The Jungle Book - The retelling of Rudyard Kipling's classic story will feature Bill Murray as Baloo, Idris Elba as Shere Khan, Ben Kingsley as Bagheera, Christopher Walken as King Louie, Scarlett Johansson as Kaa, and introducing Neel Sethi as Mowgli. Release date: October 9th -
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Crimson Peak - Set in Cumbria, in a crumbling mansion in a largely rural and mountainous region of northern England in the 19th century, young author Edith Cushing Mia Wasikowska discovers that her charming new husband Sir Thomas Sharpe Tom Hiddleston is not who he appears to be. Release date: October 16th -
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St. James Place - Based on the 1960 U-2 Incident, "St. James Place" depicts a lawyer named James Donovan Tom Hanks who is thrust into the center of the Cold War when he is given a mission to negotiate the release of Francis Gary Powers, a pilot whose plane was shot down in the Soviet Union. Written by the Coen Brothers and directed by Steven Spielberg, this one will surely bring the dark story of the Cold War to an amazing visual reality. Release date: October 16th -
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Spectre- Sam Mendes returns to direct the next Bond film, this time telling the story of a cryptic message from an unlikely source that sets James Bond Daniel Craig navigating the layers of a sinister organisation known as SPECTRE. As M Ralph Fiennes continues fighting political pressures that threaten the future of MI6, Bond draws closer to uncovering a hidden truth that threatens to destroy everything he has fought to protect. Release date: November 9th -
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 - Picking up immediately after the events of "Mockingjay - Part 1", this film will bring the Hunger Games series to an action-packed and explosive end. Release date: November 20th -
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The Good Dinosaur - "The Good Dinosaur148" asks the generations-old question: What if the cataclysmic asteroid that forever changed life on Earth actually missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? The film is a humorous and exciting original story about Arlo, a lively 70-foot-tall teenage Apatosaurus with a big heart. After a traumatic event rattles Arlo146's tranquil community, he sets out on a quest to restore peace, gaining an unlikely companion along the way - 151a young human boy named Spot. Release date: November 25th -
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" The Martian"- Based on "The Martian" by Andy Weir, this movie will follow Mark Watney Matt Damon as he becomes stranded alone on Mars and must improvise in order to survive. It's "Apollo 13" meets "Cast Away". Release date: November 25th -
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Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Set approximately 30 years after the events of "Return of the Jedi", "The Force Awakens" brings old characters Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher and new ones John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, and Adam Driver to the fun and endless universe that George Lucas built. Now heralded by J.J. Abrams, the Star Wars adventures continue in a new and exciting fashion. Release date: December 18th -
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Joy - Jennifer Lawrence plays Joy Mangano, who has lived a successful but challenging life as an American inventor,entrepreneur, and single mom of three children. Release date: December 25th -
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Mission Impossible 5 - Following the success of "Ghost Protocol", the fifth film in the series will see Tom Cruise reprise his role as Ethan Hunt. Not much else is known about this movie except that Tom Cruise himself was seen filming a shot while hanging outside of a military plane in the air. Release date: December 25th -
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The Revenant - Leonardo DiCaprio portrays Hugh Glass, an American fur trapper and frontiersman. Glass was famed, most of all, as a frontier folk hero for his legendary cross-country trek after being mauled by a grizzly bear. Release date: December 25th
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