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PICTURE THIS Yasmin Sulaiman takes a look at some of the coming year’s big movie releases
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER DECEMBER
Two book sensations cross over to the big screen: David Fincher directs Gillian Flynn’s taut thriller Gone Girl (3 Oct), with Ben Afl eck in the lead role, while the i lm of James Dashner’s The Maze Runner (10 Oct, pictured) features British stars Will Poulter (Son of Rambow) and Skins’ Kaya Scodelario. Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway are space travellers who enter a wormhole in Interstellar (7 Nov), the new i lm from director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception). And The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (21 Nov, pictured) is out this month too.
The three-part adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit i nally comes to a close this year with The Battle of the Five Armies (12 Dec, pictured). Elsewhere, the Farrelly Brothers release sequel Dumb and Dumber To (19 Dec), 20 years after the i lm that made them – and Jim Carrey – famous.
JANUARY
FEBRUARY MARCH
Channing Tatum and Steve Carell kick-off 2015 with likely Oscar contender Foxcatcher (9 Jan, pictured), a biopic about Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz, while Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, The Master) adapts Thomas Pynchon’s postmodern crime novel Inherent Vice (30 Jan).
In one corner, Jamie Dornan morphs into Christian Grey in the much anticipated – and probably much watered-down – i lm of EL James’ Fifty Shades of Grey (13 Feb). In the other, it’s Shaun the Sheep in, erm, Shaun the Sheep Movie (6 Feb, pictured) from Aardman Animations. Take your pick. Shailene Woodley (pictured) and Theo James re- emerge in Divergent sequel Insurgent (20 Mar). If you’ve had enough post-apocalyptic drama, there’s a Disney antidote in the form of Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella (27 Mar), with Helena ‘Bellatrix’ Bonham Carter as the Fairy Godmother.
APRIL MAY
JUNE
Three words: Age of Ultron (24 Apr). All other i lms give up this month as Marvel’s The Avengers sequel brings Iron Man, Captain America, The Hulk, Thor, Black Widow and co back to the cinema. The i rst instalment became the third-highest grossing i lm ever. We reckon this one’ll do pretty well too. Like Pirates of the Caribbean, Tomorrowland (22 May) is another i lm inspired by a Disney theme park attraction. But check your scepticism: Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) is at the helm, so there’s hope yet. Look out for comedy Spy from Bridesmaids’ Paul Feig too.
Blockbuster season kicks off with Guardians of the Galaxy’s Chris Pratt in Jurassic Park sequel Jurassic World (12 Jun). The Fantastic Four (18 Jun) gets a reboot and cyborg Arnie returns in Terminator: Genisys (26 Jun). Plus, there’s the movie continuation of TV show Entourage (19 Jun).
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