Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Weekend Box Office: "The Fate of the Furious" the latest film in the high octane  "Fast and Furious" franchise was number one for a third weekend in a row with $19.3 million, "How to be a Latin Lover", actor Ken Marino's directorial debut starring Eugenio Derbez and Salma Hayek was number two with $12 million, and  "Baahubali 2: The Conclusion" a South Indian cinema production about India's ancient rulers and their family feud was number three with $10.1 million. 
     
                                                                                

Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" is scheduled to open this Friday. Director James Gunn's sequel to his highly successful "Guardians of the Galaxy" promises to deliver an adventure worthy of this ragtag team that has become a family to one another. This time they will have to save the galaxy while fighting enemies on all sides intent on their destruction. 

                                                                          
                                                                                   

"Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" will open in theaters on July 21. This movie which is a passion project for director Luc Besson ("The Professional", "The Fifth Element") was born out his love for the French comic series "Valerian and Laureline". The ground-breaking comic book series which was first published in 1967 and subsequently released as a series of graphic novels has inspired a generation of artists, writers and filmmakers. 

                                                                                

Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" is scheduled to open in theaters on May 25. Johnny Depp reprises his role as the pirate rogue Captain Jack Sparrow. Down on his luck and pursued by an old enemy in the form of the terrifying Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem) and his equally deadly ghost sailors, Jack's only hope for survival is to find the legendary Trident of Poseidon.

                                                                           

"Transformers: The Last Knight" is scheduled to open in theaters in June, no scheduled date. Director Michael Bay's latest installment is another action packed epic that features a war between Humans and Transformers, Optimus Prime fighting against humanity, the Earth in peril of becoming transformed into a new Cybertron, and the only hope of survival exists in a legend form Earth's history.The movie's cast features Mark Wahlberg, Josh Duhamel, Anthony Hopkins, Laura Haddock, Isabella Moner, Stanley Tucci, and John Turturro.

                                                                                  

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