Fans of horror, thrillers, mysteries, fantasy and action movies (with a dash of humor) your holiday date is at the movies this August with three cult directors.
Trap. Just released in U.S. theaters, it comes out in Italy on Aug. 7.
For “addicts” of super cult horror mystery director M. Night Shyamalan, the new film that promises to cool down the boiling summer temperatures is already in theaters.
Trap stars Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue and musician and actress (and “nepo baby”) Saleka Shyamalan, produces it Blinding Edge Pictures, distributes Warner Bros.
The story is this: a father and his teenage daughter go to a pop star’s concert. It would seem like an ordinary family evening, but we soon find out that the nice dad is a wanted killer, “the Butcher,” and that he is about to walk into a giant trap.
Shyamalan revealed the twist as early as the release of the first trailer, “When I had the idea, I thought: being in the role of the trapped serial killer is the funniest part, the premise of everything that will happen next. So I wanted the audience to know right away, and they actually find out pretty much around minute 11.”
Borderlands. Due out in the U.S. on August 9 (in Italy on the 7th).
There is a super choral cast in this humorous fantasy movie by Eli Roth, which brings together Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Edgar Ramírez, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu, Gina Gershon, and Jamie Lee Curtis, and is based on the popular video game series created by Gearbox Software and popular worldwide. Ari Arad produces (Eagles Pictures distributes it in Italy).
The plot: Lilith (Blanchett), a notorious bounty hunter, is forced despite herself to return to her home planet, the chaotic Pandora.
The mission is to find the missing daughter of the “bad guy” Atlas (Ramírez), which is why he ends up allying himself with an unlikely team of outcasts: Roland (Hart), an experienced mercenary; Tiny Tina (Greenblatt), an explosives-loving teenager and her muscular pimp (Munteanu); mad scientist Tannis (Curtis); and a loudmouthed, know-it-all robot (Black).
Together they must defeat an alien species and some dangerous bandits and discover one of Pandora’s most incredible secrets.
Of course, the rest is all fighting and shooting, as per a video game.
Alien: Romulus. Due out in the U.S. on August 16 (in Italy on the 14th).
There is great curiosity about this new chapter in the super cult Alien franchise, produced for 20th Century Studios by Ridley Scott himself and Fede Alvarez, who wrote and directs it, (in Italy it is distributed by The Walt Disney Company Italia).
The main characters are played by Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, and Aileen Wu.The plot is a kind of sequel that nevertheless does not include the characters we have already met, but somehow reenacts the story from the beginning.
Rummaging through the depths of an abandoned space station, a group of young space colonists come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe. Guess which one?
The article Ferragosto 2024 at the cinema comes from TheNewyorker.
