Coming Attractions for October 2010

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (PG) Animated Action/Fantasy
$217. 6million plus
Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, Jonah Hill,
Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Kristen Wiig. A Viking teenager named Hiccup
lives on the island of Berk, where fighting dragons is a way of life.
The teen’s smarts and offbeat sense of humor does not set to well
with his tribe or its chief... who just happens to be Hiccup’s father.
However, when Hiccup is included in Dragon Training with the other
Viking teens, he sees his chance to prove he has what it takes to be a fighter.
But when he encounters (and ultimately befriends) an injured dragon, his world is
flipped upside down, and what started out as Hiccup’s one shot to prove himself
turns into an opportunity to set a new course for the future of the entire tribe.
Paramount

THE KARATE KID (PG) Drama/Action
$174.9 million
Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, Taraji P. Henson. Twelve-year-old Dre Parker could’ve
been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother’s latest career move has landed
him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying... and the feeling
is mutual... but cultural differences make such a friendship difficult. Even worse,
Dre’s feelings make an enemy of the class bully, and kung fu prodigy, Cheng. With
no friends in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but to maintenance man Mr.
Han, who is secretly a master of kung fu. As Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not
about punches and parries, but maturity and calm, Dre realizes that facing down
the bullies will be the fight of his life. Remake of the 1984 film. Sony

*GROWN UPS (PG-13) Comedy
$158.7 million
Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, David Spade, Salma
Hayek, Maya Rudolph, Maria Bello, Tim Meadows, Steve Buscemi, Colin Quinn.
Thirty years after graduating from high school, five former basketball teammates
gather at the lake house where they celebrated their biggest victory to mourn the
passing of their late coach. Over the course of the Fourth of July weekend, the five
friends realize that just because they’ve all grown up and started families doesn’t
mean that they’ve lost that old spark. Picking up where they left off, they discover
why growing older doesn’t mean growing up. Written by Sandler and Fred Wolf,
and directed by Dennis Dugan (“I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry,” “You Don’t
Mess with the Zohan”). Sony

SEX AND THE CITY 2 (R) Comedy/Romance
$94.9 million
Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, Chris Noth, John
Corbett, Evan Handler, David Eigenger, Jason Lewis, Mario Cantone, Willie Garson.
The four best friends from Manhattan... newly married author Carrie, feminist
lawyer Miranda, promiscuous PR exec Samantha, and supermom Charlotte... are
given the opportunity to take an all-expenses-paid trip to Abu Dhabi for a week and
indulge in Middle Eastern food, culture, and more. This follows a gay wedding of
friends Anthony and Stanford and a star-studded movie premiere back in America.
New Line

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (R) Horror
$63.1 million
Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Thomas Dekker, Katie Cassidy.
Michael Bay produced this reworking of Wes Craven’s 1985 horror classic. Freddy
Krueger is a deceased child killer who torments the dreams of the teenagers of
Springwood, OH. At night, they’re all having the same dream.. of the same man,
wearing a tattered red and green striped sweater, a beaten fedora half-concealing a
disfigured face and a gardener’s glove with knives for fingers. And they’re all hearing
the same frightening voice... one by one, he terrorizes them within the curved
walls of their dreams, where the rules are his, and the only way out is to wake up.
New Line

*PREDATORS (R) Action/Thriller/Sci-Fi
$49.5 million
Adrien Brody, Alice Braga, Topher Grace, Walton Goggins, Oleg Taktarov, Danny
Trejo, Laurence Fishburne. A reboot of the popular “Predator” films from executive
producer Robert Rodriguez. A gritty mercenary who finds himself stranded on a
jungle planet with a Mexican gangster, a female Israeli Defense Forces veteran,
a notorious mass murderer RUF death squad member, and a sword-wielding
Japanese mob enforcer who are all armed to the teeth. The odd man out is a onceprominent
physician whose career came to an end following a big scandal. They’ve
been deposited there to serve as living targets for a horde of Predators, that use the
planet as their private hunting grounds. Fox

OCEANS (G) Documentary
$19.3 million
Pierce Brosnan (voice). “Winged Migration” co-directors Jacques Cluzaud and
Jacques Perrin re-team for this documentary exploring the many mysteries of our
planet’s oceans. Almost three-quarters of the earth’s surface is covered by oceans,
yet strangely we seem to know more about deep space than the world of the sea.
The directors dive deep into the very waters that sustain all of mankind-exploring
the playful splendor and the harsh reality of the weird and wonderful creatures that
live within. Featuring spectacular never-before-seen imagery captured by the latest
underwater technologies. Disney

SPLICE (R) Sci-Fi/Thriller
$17 million
Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chaneac, David Hewlett, Brandon McGibbon.
Brilliant genetic engineers Clive and Elsa specialize in splicing together DNA from
different animals to create incredible new hybrids. Now they want to use human
DNA in a hybrid that could revolutionize science and medicine. But when the pharmaceutical
company that funds their research forbids it, Clive and Elsa secretly
conduct their own experiments. The result is Dren, an amazing, strangely beautiful
creature that exhibits uncommon intelligence and an array of unexpected physical
developments. And though, at first, Dren exceeds their wildest dreams, she begins
to grow and learn at an accelerated rate... and threatens to become their worst
nightmare. Warner Bros.

JONAH HEX (PG-13) Action/Western/Fantasy
$10.4 million
Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox, Michael Fassbender, Will Arnett, Aideen
Quinn, Michael Shannon. It’s 1876. Jonah Hex is a scarred drifter and bounty
hunter. Having survived death, Jonah’s violent history is steeped in myth and
legend, and has left him with one foot in the natural world and one on the “other
side.” A man fated to wander alone, his sole human connection is with Lilah,
whose life in a brothel has left her with scars of her own. Jonah must track down
and stop the sinister terrorist Quentin Turnbull, the man who killed Hex’s family
and mutilated his face with a branding iron. Turnbull, who is gathering an army
and preparing to unleash Hell, is also Jonah’s oldest enemy and will stop at nothing
until Jonah is dead. Based on the 1970s-era DC antihero. Warner Bros.
PLEASE GIVE (R) Comedy/Drama
$3.8 million
Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Amanda Peet, Rebecca Hall, Sarah Steele, Ann
Morgan Guilbert, Lois Smith. Kate has a lot on her mind. There’s the ethics
problem of buying furniture on the cheap at estate sales and marking it up at her
trendy Manhattan store. There’s the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage
daughter to want the expensive things that Kate wants. There’s the marriage
problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with her husband
Alex. They also feel guity waiting for their difficult elderly next-door tenant to die
in order to combine and renovate the apartments. The adult granddaughters of the
tenant bring additional friction to the relationships. Sony