A Quiet Place
Release date: April 6, 2018 (USA)
Director: John Krasinski
Screenplay: John Krasinski, Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
Over three months in 2020, most of Earth’s human population has been wiped out by sightless creatures with hypersensitive hearing known as the “Death Angels.” Boasting considerable size, speed and a seemingly impenetrable armored shell, they use their auditory acuity to locate and attack anything that makes noise. The Abbott family — husband Lee, wife Evelyn, congenitally deaf daughter Regan, and sons Marcus and Beau — silently scavenge for supplies in the deserted town. Their family, skilled in American Sign Language, must nonetheless be vigilant for accidental noise. Four-year-old Beau is drawn to a battery-operated space shuttle toy, but his older family members must leap to prevent him making sound that would attract the creatures. Regan returns the toy to Beau, who unbeknownst to her has also taken the batteries his father removed. Beau activates the shuttle when the family is walking home through the woods, near a bridge. Its noise makes him an instant target for a nearby creature, and he is swiftly killed.
Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe in A Quiet Place
I Feel Pretty
Release date: April 20, 2018 (USA)
Directors: Marc Silverstein, Abby Kohn
Screenplay: Marc Silverstein, Abby Kohn
Production companies: Voltage Pictures, Wonderland Sound and Vision
Producers: Amy Schumer, McG, Nicolas Chartier, Mary Viola, Alissa Phillips, Dominic Rustam
Even though her appearance hasn’t changed AT ALL – Renee’s (Amy Schumer) new belief in herself sees her climbing the ranks at the cosmetics company she works for, getting the respect of her impossibly beautiful boss, bagging a cute boyfriend and getting invited to rooftop parties. With her new confidence comes overconfidence, and even the tendency to treat the ‘less genetically fortunate’ in the same dismissive way that people used to treat her. Eventually Renee believes the spell has been lifted – and finally realizes that when she thought she was ugly, she may have been the most beautiful, and when she believed she was beautiful, she had started to turn a bit ugly. She learns that true beauty is not skin deep. I Feel Pretty is both written and directed by filmmakers Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, both screenwriters of Never Been Kissed, He’s Just Not That Into You, Valentine’s Day, The Vow, making their feature directorial debut. STX will release I Feel Pretty in theaters everywhere starting June 29th this summer. Anyone interested?
Aidy Bryant, Emily Ratajkowski and Amy Schumer in I Feel Pretty
Beirut
Release date: April 11, 2018 (USA)
Director: Brad Anderson
Executive producer: Steven P. Saeta
Producers: Tony Gilroy, Shivani Rawat, Ted Field, Monica Levinson, Mike Weber
In 1980s Beirut, Mason Skiles is a former U.S. diplomat who is called back into service to save a colleague from the group that is possibly responsible for his own family’s death. Meanwhile, a CIA field agent who is working under cover at the American embassy is tasked with keeping Mason alive and ensuring that the mission is a success.
Rosamund Pike, Jon Hamm and Shea Whigham in Beirut.
Brad Anderson directing Beirut.
Tully
Director: Jason Reitman
Screenplay: Diablo Cody
Producers: Charlize Theron, Diablo Cody, Jason Reitman, Mason Novick, Helen Estabrook, Aaron L. Gilbert, Beth Kono, A.J. Dix
Production companies: Bron Studios, Denver and Delilah Productions
Marlo, a mother of three, is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging young nanny named Tully.
Scene from Tully
Jason Reitman directs Charlize Theron in Tully
Jason Reitman directs Tully
Overboard
Release date: May 4, 2018 (USA)
Director: Rob Greenberg
Screenplay: Rob Greenberg, Bob Fisher, Leslie Dixon
Producers: Eugenio Derbez, Bob Fisher, Benjamin Odell
Production companies: Pantelion Films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
A selfish, spoiled, rich playboy from Mexico’s richest family and “Kate” (ANNA FARIS), a working class single mom of three hired to clean Leonardo’s luxury yacht. After unjustly firing Kate and refusing to pay her, Leonardo falls overboard when partying too hard and wakes up on the Oregon coast with amnesia. Kate shows up at the hospital and, to get payback, convinces Leonardo he is her husband and puts him to work – for the first time in his life. At first miserable and inept, Leonardo slowly settles in. Eventually he earns the respect of his new “family” and co-workers. But, with Leonardo’s billionaire family hot on their trail and the possibility of his memory returning at any moment, will their new family last or will Leonardo finally put the clues together and leave them for good?
Eugenio Derbez and Anna Faris in Overboard
Eva Longoria and Anna Faris in Overboard