Based on information provided by the Box Office Mojo and some internet research, here are a few of the movies you can expect to see in the movie theatres in February:
Birds of Prey
Opens: February 7
Since the events of Suicide Squad, Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) has left the Joker. When Roman Sionis (Ewan McGregor), a marcissitic crime lord known as Black Mask, places a hit on a young girl names Cassandra Cain (Elly Jay Basco), Gotham City turns upside down looking for her. Harley joins forces with Dinah Lance aka Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), Helena Bertinelli aka Huntress) (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), and Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez) to protect the girl and to take Sionis down. The cast includes Chris Messina and Ali Wong.
Ordinary Love
Opens: February 14
An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple (Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville) in the midst of the wife’s breast cancer diagnosis.
Sonic the Hedgehog
Opens: February 14
Sonic (voiced by Ben Schwartz), a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog from another world, comes to Earth to escape malevolent forces that seek to harness his power of super-speed. After accidentally causing a massive power outage and hiding out in the town of Green Hills. Sonic is targeted by the government who then hire the tyrannical roboticist Dr. Robotnik (Jim Carrey) to hunt him down. Meanwhile ex-SFPD officer-turned-Green Hills sheriff Tom Wachowski (James Marsden) meets Sonic and decides to help him evade capture, collect his rings and stop Robotnik from using Sonic’s powers for world domination. The cast includes Tika Sumpter, Adam Pally and Neal McDonough.
The Photograph
Opens: February 14
A series of intertwining love stories set in the past and in the present. The film stars Issa Rae, LaKeith Stanfield, Chelsea Peretti, Rob Morgan, Courtney B. Vance and Kevin Harrison, Jr.
What Above Love
Opens: February 14
Two young people, somewhat wary of love, spend a summer together in Europe making a film about people’s attitude towards love. Tanner (Marielle Jaffe from The Secret Life of the American Teenager) and Christian (Miguel Angel Munoz) realize that they’re actually filming their own love story, but they have no idea that their film will ultimately save Christian’s life after tragedy strikes them both. Sharon Stone and Andy Garcia play Tanner’s parents and Iain Glen plays the American Ambassador.
The Call of the Wild
Opens: February 21
Based on the popular Jack London novel, a domesticated St. Bernard/Scotch Collie dog name Buck is stolen from his Santa Clara, California home and is sold to freight haulers in the Yukon. The cast includes Harrison Ford, Dan Stevens, Karen Gillan, Bradley Whitford and Omar Sy.
Emma
Opens: February 21
Based on the legendary Jane Austen novel following the antics of a young woman, Emma Woodhouse (Anya Taylor-Joy) lives in Georgian- and Regency-era England and occupies herself with matchmaking – in sometimes misguided, often meddlesome fashion- in the lives of her friends and family. The cast includes Bill Nighy, Miranda Hart and Rupert Graves.
Burden
Opens: February 28
The film follows Mike Burden (Garrett Hedlund), an orphan raisewithin the Ku Klux Klan, who attempts to break away when the girl he falls in love with urges him to leave for a better life together. The Klan seeks Mike out for vengeance, a black church congregation led by Reverend Kennedy (Forest Whitaker) takes Mike, his girlfriend and her son in, protects them and accepts them into their community in hopes of teaching Mike about love and acceptance. The film also stars Andrea Riseborough, Tom Wilkinson, Tess Harper and Usher.
Greed
Opens: February 28
A satire on wealth, centered around a billionaire high-street fashion mogul’s 60th birthday on the Greek Island Mykonos. The cast includes Steve Coogan, Isla Fisher, Sophie Cookson, Asa Butterfield, Shirley Henderson and Stephen Fry.
Movies coming out in March will be posted at the end of February.
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