ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES
(Paramount) Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, David Koechner, Kristen Wiig, Harrison Ford, James Marsden, Greg Kinnear, Meagan Good. Directed by Adam McKay
It is the 1980s and legendary San Diego newsman Ron Burgundy and his news team have settled into gentle obscurity. A revolution in news is brewing however and the advent of 24-hour cable news networks beckon with a siren’s call to Burgundy and his team. Can they return from the shadows into the lights they were meant to shine in, or will those forces aligned against Ron and his team triumph and in so doing plunge the world into a nightmare of despair? Well, no…
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Release formats: Standard (opened Wednesday)
Genre: Comedy
Rating: PG-13 (for crude and sexual content, drug use, language and comic violence)
American Hustle
(Columbia) Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence. In the heyday of the ABSCAM scandal of the 70s, an out-of-control FBI agent recruits a con man and his British accomplice to take down a New Jersey power broker. The whole scheme however is threatened by the con man’s unpredictable and vindictive estranged wife.
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Release formats: Standard (opens Thursday)
Genre: Drama
Rating: R (for pervasive language, some sexual content and brief violence)
Dhoom 3
(Yash Raj) Aamir Khan, Katrina Kaif, Tabrett Bethell, Kim DeJesus. A young man joins a circus along with a comely gymnast but his motives are different; he intends to rob the owners whom he holds responsible for the murder of his father.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Bollywood
Rating: NR
Saving Mr. Banks
(Disney) Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson, Colin Farrell, Paul Giamatti. Walt Disney wants to make a movie based on the beloved children’s book Mary Poppins. The trouble is, the book’s prickly author P.L. Travers has no desire to see her work bastardized by Hollywood. Disney, who promised his children he’d make this movie, must find a way to convince her that not only her words will be respected, so too will the spirit of the book.
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Release formats: Standard (opens Thursday)
Genre: Biographical Drama
Rating: PG-13 (for thematic elements including some unsettling images)
Walking with Dinosaurs
(20th Century Fox) Starring the voices of Justin Long, John Leguizamo, Karl Urban, Charlie Rowe. A tribe of dinosaurs battles for survival in a changing prehistoric world.
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Release formats: Standard, 3D (opens Thursday)
Genre: Adventure
Rating: PG (for creature action and peril, and mild rude humor)
