So I decided I wanted to try something new on this blog and talk about films that are going to be released this month. I’m doing something similar over on my other blog and may be making this monthly thing.
Boruto: Naruto the Movie
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Dir. Hiroyuki Yamashita
Prod. Masashi Kishimoto and Ukyō Kodachi
Studio: Toho/Studio Pierriot
Genre: Animated, Action, Adventure
Starring Voice Cast: Yuuko Sanpei, Noriaki Sugiyama, Junko Takeuchi, Kokoro Kikuchi
The eleventh Naruto film to be released, you can read a full synopsis on Boruto here on the Naruto Wikia Page.
Dark Places
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Dir. Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Prod. Stéphane Marsil, Azim Bolkiah, Matthew Rhodes, Cathy Shulman, Charlize Theron
Studio: A24 Films
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Based on: Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
Starring: Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Chloe Grace Moretz, Tye Sheridan, Sterling Jerins, Corey Stoll, Christina Hendricks
Twenty-five years ago, Ben Day was convicted of murdering his mother and two of his sisters after his other sister, Libby, testifies against him. Now, Libby isn’t so sure if Ben really was guilty and must seek out those horrific memories to determine what really happened.
Fantastic Four
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Dir. Josh Trank
Prod. Gregory Goodman, Simon Kinberg, Robert Kulzar, Hutch Parker, Matthew Vaughn
Studio: 20th Century Fox/Marvel Entertainment
Genre: Action, Adventure
Based On: Fantastic Four by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Starring: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, Toby Kebbell, Reg E. Cathey, Tim Blake Nelson
Four ordinary people are given special abilities when they travel to an alternate universe and must use their powers to become superheroes and save the world.
The Gift
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Dir. Joel Edgerton
Prod. Jason Blum, Joel Edgerton, Rebecca Yeldham
Studio: STX Entertainment
Genre: Thriller
Starring: Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton
Gordo is an old high school friend of Simon’s who seems friendly enough at first. However, after Simon and his wife, Robyn, start receiving strange gifts from Gordo, awful truths will be brought to light about what really happened in Simon’s past.
Ricki and the Flash
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Dir. Jonathan Demme
Prod. Marc Platt, Diablo Cody, Mason Novick, Gary Goetzman
Studio: TriStar Pictures
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Mamie Gummer, Audra McDonald, Sebastian Stan, Rick Springfield
Meryl Streep stars as Ricki, a woman who must return to her estranged family to help her daughter deal with her divorce, after abandoning them to become a rock star.
Shaun the Sheep Movie
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Dir. Richard Starzak and Mark Burton
Prod. Paul Kewley and Julie Lockhart
Studio: StudioCanal
Genre: Stop-Motion Animated Comedy
Starring Voice Cast: Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, Omid Djalili
Based on the British series, Shaun the Sheep follows Shaun, a sheep, and his friends as they try to locate their farmer by going on an adventure to the big city where they must animal control and try to blend in.
The Runner
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Dir. Austin Stark
Prod. Bingo Gubelmann, Erika Hampson, Benji, Chris Papavasiliuo, Glenn Williamson
Studio: Paper Street Films/Back Lot Pictures
Genre: Political Drama
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Connie Nielsen, Peter Fonda, Sarah Paulson, Wendell Pierce
Nicolas Cage stars as a politician whose career is destroyed after news of a sex scandal is leaked following the oil spill in 2010.
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Dir. Marielle Heller
Prod. Miranda Bailey, Anne Carey, Bert Hamelinck, Madeline Samit
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Genre: Comedy Drama
Based On: The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures by Phoebe Gloeckner
Starring: Kristen Wiig, Alexander Skarsgård, Christopher Meloni, Bel Powley, Austin Lyon, Quinn Nagle
Minnie Goetze is a fifteen year old girl living in 1970s San Francisco with her mother, Charlotte when she starts an affair with her mother’s boyfriend, Monroe, recording everything that happens in her diary.
Exeter
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Dir. Marcus Nispel
Prod. Brandt Andersen, Michael Corrente, Michael Corso, Marcus Nispel, Trent Othick
Genre: Horror
Starring: Stephen Lang, Kelly Blatz, Brittany Curran, Brett Dier, Gage Golightly
Six teenagers accidentally release a malevolent spirit while goofing off at a party. However, the teens quickly realize the spirit may not be the most dangerous thing out there, and that it’s malevolence is actually the spirit trying to tell them something.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Dir. Guy Ritchie
Prod. John David, Steve Clark-Hall, Lionel Wigram, Guy Ritchie
Studio: Warner Bros.
Genre: Action, Comedy
Based On: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. by Sam Rolfe
Starring: Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki, Jared Harris, Hugh Grant
Two U.N.C.L.E. agents must work together to stop a crime organization before they use nuclear weapons to turn the world catastrophic during this action film set during the 1960s Cold War.
Straight Outta Compton
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Dir. F. Gary Gray
Prod. Ice Cube, Tomica Woods-Wright, Matt Alvarez, F. Gary Gray, Scott Bernstein, Dr. Dre
Studio: Universal Studios
Genre: Biography, Drama
Starring: O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Paul Giamatti, Aldis Hodge, Neil Brown Jr.
A biographical drama that follows the history of the band, N.W.A.
Return to Sender
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Dir. Faoud Mikati
Prod. Candice Abela and Holly Wiersma
Studio: Image Entertainment/Arrow Films
Genre: Thriller
Starring: Rosamund Pike, Nick Nolte, Shiloh Fernendez
After a woman is brutally attacked in her home, she must try to return to her normal life. This proves difficult though when she starts communicating with her attacker while he’s in prison. But, are either of them really what they seem?
Ten Thousand Saints
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Dir. Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
Prod. Anne Carey, Amy Nauiokas, Tredie Styler, Celine Rattray, Luca Borghese, Datari Turner
Studio: Screen Media Films
Genre: Drama
Based On: Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson
Starring: Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Ethan Hawke, Avan Jogia, Emile Hirsch, Emily Mortimer
In this coming-of-age film, three teenagers (Butterfield, Steinfeld, and Hirsch) learn to come together to support each other through difficult times.
People Places Things
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Dir. James C. Strouse
Prod. Michael B. Clark and Alex Turtletaub
Studio: The Film Arcade
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Jemaine Clement, Regina Hall, Jessica Williams, Stephenie Allynne, Michael Chernus, Aundrea Gadsby, Gia Gadsby
Will Henry is a newly singer father who must balance raising his two young daughters while figuring out how to let go of old loves and let new ones in.
Mistress America
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Dir. Noah Baumbach
Prod. Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig, Scott Rudin, Rodrigo Teixeira, Lila Yacoub
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Greta Gerwig, Lola Kirke, Heather Lind, Cindy Cheung, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Matthew Shear, Kathryn Erbe, Michael Chernus
Lola Kirke stars Tracy, a college freshman who allows her future-step-sister to take her on insane adventures to escape the boredom and loneliness of her regular life.
Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Dir. Tadayoshi Yamamuro
Studio: Toei Company/20th Centrury Fox
Genre: Animated, Action, Adventure
Starring an Extensive Voice Cast. The full list can be found here on Wikipedia
The nineteenth film in the Dragon Ball series, you can read a full synopsis here on the Dragon Ball Wikia Page
American Ultra
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Dir. Nima Nourizadeh
Prod. David Alpert, Anthony Bregman, Mark Fasano, Kevin Scott Frakes, Britton Rizzio, Raj Brinder Singh
Studio: Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment
Genre: Action, Comedy
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Topher Grace, Connie Britton, Walton Goggins, John Leuizamo, Bill Pullman, Tony Hale
Mike Howell is a government sleeper agent. When the government targets him for elimination, he is suddenly thrust back into the chaos of his old life and must find a way to escape again.
Hitman: Agent 47
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Dir. Aleksander Bach
Prod. Charles Gordon, Adrian Askariah, Alex Young, Skip Woods
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Genre: Action, Thriller
Based On: Hitman by IO Interactive
Starring: Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware, Zachary Quinto, Ciarán Hinds, Thomas Kretschmann, Angelababy
Rupert Friend is Agent 47, a genetically engineered assassin who must take down an opposing corporation before they unlock the secrets to 47’s creation and use them to make their own army.
Sinister 2
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Dir. Ciaran Foy
Prod. Jason Blum, Scott Derrickson, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones
Studio: Focus Features/Gramercy Pictures
Genre: Horror
Starring: James Ransone, Shannyn Sossamon, Robert Daniel Sloan, Dartanian Sloan
Following the events of the first Sinister film, Deputy So & So is in the process of investigating the murders that have taken place and is hoping to prevent more of them from happening. This might be difficult though when a young family moves into the house Bughuul lives in and he tries to make one of the children film himself killing his family.
Z for Zachariah
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Dir. Craig Zobel
Prod. Skuli Fr. Malmquist, Thor Sigurjonsson, Sigurjón Sighvatsson, Tobey Maguire, Matthew Plouffe, Sophia Lin
Studio: Roadside Attractions
Genre: Drama, Action, Sci-Fi
Based on Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O’Brien
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Margot Robbie, Chris Pine
Based on the novel of the same name, Z for Zachariah tells the story of three of the last remaining survivors on Earth find themselves in a love triangle.
Regression
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Dir. Alejandro Amenábar
Prod. Alejandro Amenábar, Fernando Bovaira, Christina Piovesan
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Genre: Thriller
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Emma Watson, David Dencik, David Thewlis
Emma Watson stares as seventeen-year old Angela, a girl who was sexually abused by her father, though the man doesn’t actually remember the event happening.
Max Steel
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Dir. Stewart Hendler
Prod. Bill O’Dowd and Julia Pistor
Studio: Open Road Films
Genre: Action, Adventure
Starring: Ben Winchell, Ana Villafañe, Andy Garcia, Maria Bello, Billy Slaughter
Max Steel the film acts as an origin story to the series which aired several years ago and follows teenager, Max McGrath, and alien, Steel. The duo must use their powers to turn into Max Steel and save the world.
So what do you think? Any of these films sound good? Did you like this post?
Is there anything you would like to see?
