Based on information provided by the Dark Horizons site and internet research, here are just some of the movies you can expect to see in movie theatres in August:
Dirty Girl
Opens: August 5
Danielle (Juno Temple) is a troubled and promiscuous Oklahoma high school student in the 1980s. She argues with her mother (Milla Jovovich) who is about to marry a Mormon and amidst the chaos befriends Clarke (Jeremy Dozier), a shy, gay classmate. Together they flee in Clarke’s homophobic father’s car and embark on a road trip to Los Angeles, where Danielle expects to find her birth father. The cast also includes Milla Jovovich, Mary Steenbergen and William H. Macy.
The Change-Up
Opens: August 5
Two childhood friends (Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman) have drifted apart – one an overworked lawyer with a family, the other a single and oft unemployed man-child. After a drunken night, they wake up having switched bodies and proceed to learn each other’s lives are nowhere near as rosy as they once seemed. The cast includes Leslie Mann and Olivia Wilde.
The Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Opens: August 5
A contemporary-set reboot of the “Planet of the Apes” franchise, this cautionary tale is set in San Francisco in which one man’s experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy. The movie stars James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Brian Cox and Tom Felton.
The Whistleblower
Opens: August 5
A policewoman (Rachel Weisz) risks her job and her own safety to uncover and bring to light a wide-scale, child sex-slave and human-trafficking scandal involving U.S. military contractors and the United Nations in postwar Bosnia. The cast includes Monica Belluci, David Hewlett, Vanessa Redgrave, Benedict Cumberbatch and David Strathairn.
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
Opens: August 12
A young girl moves into an old mansion that her father and his girlfriend are renovating. The girl soon finds a hidden basement with a sealed fireplace, behind which she hears voices that beg her to open it so they can be her friends. The creatures inside get out and start to torment Sally and plan to eventually take her down into the fireplace and their domain. The cast includes Guy Pearce, Katie Holmes and Bailee Madison.
Glee Live In Concert
Opens August 12
Shot during two concert dates in June in East Rutherford, New Jersey, the Glee Live In Concert tour will have a two-week limited engagement in theatres that will feature the entire concert as well as behind the scenes footage.
The Help
Opens: August 12
Cast: Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard, Viola Davis, Mike Vogel, Allison Janney
Set in the early 1960’s, a white college graduate uncomfortable with the current social norms of Mississippi at the time plans a book detailing the life of the various black maids in the area. Her research soon uncovers not just racism but cruelty and criminal action by white society women, some of them even her friends.
Conan the Barbarian
Opens: August 19
Khalar Singh arrives in Cimmeria seeking the help of young Conan’s father Corin. When help is refused, Singh slaughters all the Cimmerians except for Conan (Jason Momoa) who escapes. Becoming a thief, he eventually seeks revenge for his father’s death. The film stars Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang and Ron Perlman.
Flypaper
Opens August 19
A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he’s secretly in love. The cast includes Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Judd, Jeffrey Tambor, Pruitt Taylor Vince and Mekhi Phifer.
Fright Night
Opens: August 19
Trouble arrives for high school senior Charlie Brewster (Anton Yelchin) when Jerry Dandridge (Colin Farrell) moves in next door. He seems like a great guy at first, but there’s something not quite right. After observing some very strange activity, Charlie comes to an unmistakable conclusion: Jerry is a vampire preying on the neighborhood. The cast includes Christopher Mintz-Plasse, David Tennant and Toni Collette.
One Day
Opens: August 19
Emma and Dexter (Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess) meet on the night of their college graduation – July 15th, 1988. She is a working-class girl of principle and ambition. He is a wealthy charmer who dreams that the world will be his playground. We follow them across every July 15th over the next two decades as their friendship ebbs and flows with time and they come to the realization of what they’re searching for. The cast also includes Romola Garai.
Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World
Opens: August 19
A mother (Jessica Alba) returns to her old profession — she’s a retired spy — in order to prevent a villain bent on stopping time. Her kids soon come along for the ride. The cast includes Joel McHale and Jeremy Piven.
Colombiana
Opens August 26
Zoe Saldana plays a young woman who, after witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents’ death. The cast also includes Michael Vartan and Callum Blue.
The Debt
Opens August 31
The film tells the story of a young Mossad operative named Rachel (Jessica Chastian) who teams up with two spies (Marton Csokas and Sam Worthington) to track down a Nazi doctor hiding in East Berlin in 1966. Thirty years later, an older Rachel (Helen Mirren) must face the legacy of her past mission and its unnerving loose ends.
Movies coming out in September will be posted at the end of August.
Enjoy!
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