HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2
(DreamWorks) Starring the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Cate Blanchett, Kit Harrington, Djimon Hounsou, Craig Ferguson, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill. Directed by Dean DeBlois
Hiccup, the Viking who united Vikings and dragons, is faced with a new and darker challenge – a warlord who controls some fierce dragons of his own and wants all of them under his thumb. Hiccup will have to organize his own tribe with the aid of someone unexpected whom he literally never thought he’d see again – his mom.
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Release formats: Standard, 3D, IMAX 3D (opens Thursday)
Genre: Animated Feature
Rating: PG (for adventure action and mild rude humor)
22 Jump Street
(Columbia/MGM) Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, Amber Stevens. Fresh from their triumph of breaking up a high school drug ring, the two misfit cops go undercover – in college. However, their experiences there lead them to question their partnership as the two overgrown teenagers are dragged into manhood, kicking and screaming.
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Release formats: Standard (opens Thursday)
Genre: Action Comedy
Rating: R (for language throughout, sexual content, drug material, brief nudity and some violence)
Palo Alto
(Tribeca) Emma Roberts, James Franco, Val Kilmer, Nat Wolff. Four teens – a popular soccer player, a promiscuous loner who seeks validation through sex, an introspective artist and his increasingly reckless and irresponsible best friend, try to navigate through very complicated situations that may destroy their lives – or perhaps even end them. Based on a series of interlinked stories written by Franco. Gia Coppola, the granddaughter of Francis Ford Coppola, makes her directing debut.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Drama
Rating: R (for strong sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and pervasive language – all involving teens)
The Signal
(Focus) Brenton Thwaites, Olivia Cooke, Beau Knapp, Laurence Fishburne. Three college students on a Southwestern road trip make a harrowing detour into a waking nightmare that has them as the focus of a government investigation.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Sci-Fi Thriller
Rating: PG-13 (for some thematic elements, violence and language)
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