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2012 SUMMER MOVIEGUIDE

Alex Mau / Mango Projects

56May 4th

The AvengersThe Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Perfect Family

May 11thDark Shadows

God Bless America

May 16thThe Dictator

May 18thBattleshipHysteria

What to Expect When You’re Expecting

May 25thChernobyl Diaries

Men in Black 3Moonrise Kingdom

June 1stBattlefield America

Snow White and the Huntsman

June 8thBel Ami

Dark HorseLola Versus

Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most WantedPrometheus

Peace, Love and MisunderstandingSafety Not Guaranteed

June 15thRock of AgesThat’s My Boy

The Woman in the FifthYour Sister’s Sister

June 22ndAbraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

BraveSeeking a Friend for the End of the World

To Rome with Love

June 29thBeasts of the Southern WildMadea’s Witness Protection

Magic MikePeople Like UsTake This Waltz

TedCourtesy of IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/summermovieguide/

78July 3rd

The Amazing Spider-Man

July 6thSavages

July 13thIce Age: Continental Drift

Trishna

July 20thThe Dark Knight Rises

July 25thRudy Sparks

July 27thEasy Money

Killer JoeStep Up Revolution

The Watch

Courtesy of IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/summermovieguide/

August 3rd360

The Bourne LegacyDiary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

Total Recall

August 10thThe CampaignHope Springs

Sparkle

August 15thThe Odd Life of Timothy Green

August 17thParaNorman

The Expendables 2

August 24thHit and Run

Premium RushThe Apparition

August 29thLawless

August 31stThe Possession

Director: Joss Whedon

Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L. Jackson and Scarlett Johansson

Plot Summary: Nick Fury is director of S.H.I.E.L.D, an international peace keeping agency. The agency is a who’s who of Marvel Super Heroes, with Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When global security is threatened by Loki and his cohorts, Nick Fury and his team will need all their powers to save the world from disaster.

Director: Timur Bekmambetov

Starring: Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell and Dominic Cooper

Plot Summary:Explores the secret life of the America’s greatest president, Abraham Lincoln, and the untold story that shaped their nation. The president discovers blood-thirsty vampires are planning to take over the United States. Lincoln makes it his mis-sion to eliminate them, becoming history’s greatest hunter of the undead.

Director: Wes Anderson

Starring: Jared GilmanKara HaywardEdward Norton

Bill MurrayTilda Swinton

Jason SchwartzmanFrances McDormand

Harvey KeitelBob Balaban

andBruce Willis

Plot Summary:Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, “Moonrise Kingdom” tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall

in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilder-ness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is

brewing off-shore and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle

-- which might not be such a bad thing.

Director: Tim Burton

Starring: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green,Helena Bonham Carter, Jackie Earle Haley,

Jonny Lee Miller, Bella Heathcoteand Chloë Grace Moretz

Plot Summary:

In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas has the world at his feet or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy... until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard. A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadver-tently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets

Director: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman and Steve Purcell

Starring (Voice): Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Robbie Coltrane, Kevin McKidd, Julie Walters, Craig Ferguson and John Ratzenberger Plot Summary: Since ancient times, stories of epic battles and mystical legends have been passed through the generations across the rugged and mysterious Highlands of Scotland. In “Brave,” a new tale joins the lore when the courageous Merida (voice of Kelly Macdonald) confronts tradition, destiny and the fiercest of beasts.

Merida is a skilled archer and impetuous daughter of King Fergus (voice of Billy Connolly) and Queen Elinor (voice of Emma Thompson). Determined to carve her own path in life, Merida defies an age-old custom sacred to the uproarious lords of the land: massive Lord MacGuffin (voice of Kevin McKidd), surly Lord Macintosh (voice of Craig Ferguson) and cantankerous Lord Dingwall (voice of Robbie Coltrane). Merida’s actions inad-vertently unleash chaos and fury in the kingdom, and when she turns to an eccentric old Wise Woman (voice of Julie Walters) for help, she is granted an ill-fated wish. The ensuing peril forces Merida to discover the mean-ing of true bravery in order to undo a beastly curse before it’s too late.

Director: Peter Berg

Starring:Taylor Kitsch , Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Deckerand Liam Neeson Plot Summary:Peter Berg (“Hancock”) produces and directs “Battleship,” an epic action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force. Based on Hasbro’s classic naval combat game, “Battleship” stars Taylor Kitsch as Hopper, a Naval officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones; Brooklyn Decker as Sam, a physical therapist and Hopper’s fiancée; Al-exander Skarsgård as Hopper’s older brother, Commanding Officer Stone of the USS Sam-son; Rihanna as Lt. Raikes, Hopper’s crewmate and a weapons specialist on the USS John Paul Jones; and international superstar Liam Neeson as Hopper and Stone’s superior (and Sam’s father), Admiral Shane.

Berg directs this epic action-adventure also produced by Brian Goldner and Bennett Sch-neir of Hasbro (the “Transformers” franchise), along with Scott Stuber (“Couples Retreat”), Sarah Aubrey (“The Kingdom”) and Duncan Henderson (“Master and Commander”).

The battle for Earth begins at sea.

Plot Summary:A team of scientists journey through the universe on the

spaceship “Prometheus” on a voy-age to investigate Alien life forms. The team of scientists becomes

stranded on an Alien world, and as they struggle to survive it becomes

clear that the horrors they expe-rience are not just a threat to

themselves, but to all of mankind.

Director: Ridley Scott

Starring:Noomi Rapace,

Logan Marshall-Green,Charlize Theron,

Idris Elbaand

Michael Fassbender

Director: Marc Webb

Starring:Andrew GarfieldEmma Stoneand Rhys Ifans

Plot Summary:Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. Pe-ter is also finding his way with his first high school crush, Gwen Stacy, and together, they struggle with love, commitment, and secrets. As Peter discovers a mysterious brief-case that belonged to his father, he be-gins a quest to understand his parents’ disappearance - leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr Curt Connors, his father’s former partner. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course with Connors’ alter-ego, The Lizard, Peter will make life-altering choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become a hero.

PLOT SUMMARY:For a factory work-er named Douglas

Quaid, even though he’s got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds

like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life - real memo-

ries of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted

man. Finding himself on the run from the police – controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen, the leader of

the free world – Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter to find the head of the underground resistance and stop

Cohaagen. The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid dis-covers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.

DIRECTED BY: Len Wiseman

STARRINGColin Farrell

Kate Beckinsale Bokeem WoodbineBryan Cranston

and Jessica Biel

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Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin

Plot Summary: In “Men in Black 3,” Agents J and K are back... in time. Agent J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when Agent K’s life and the fate of the planet are put

at stake, Agent J will have to travel back in time to put things right. Agent J discovers that there are secrets to the universe that Agent K never told him -- secrets that will reveal themselves as he teams up with the young Agent

K to save his partner, the agency, and the future of humankind.

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