Movies Released December 28th - January 4th, 2016

Three singers (Paltrow, Witherspoon and Diaz) who each scored a top hit song in the 1990s before watching their careers go down the drain.

“The Day of the Triffids” is planned as a 3D feature. Based on a 1951 novel by John Wyndham, the film tells the story of genetically engineered hyper-intelligent plants that, after most of humanity is blinded by a meteor shower, begin to attack and devour the world’s population. The story was previously adapted (albeit loosely) into a British film version in 1961 and also spawned two television serials in 1981 and 2009.

The project, centers on an everyday guy who becomes the pet of a group of aliens.

Based on Sean Rubin’s graphic novel “Bolivar” – tells of young girl, Sybil, and her attempts to befriend her new next-door neighbor, the world’s last living dinosaur.

The story centers on a weary hostage extractor who travels to Paraguay’s Ciudad del Este, a border town considered one of the world’s most dangerous and corrupt locales, to save a kidnap victim.

An adaptation of the recent Neil LaBute play. The original stage version is officially described as follows: Your career as a writer is blossoming, your beautiful, young fiancée is waiting to get married and rush off to Cancun by your side — so what is your natural reaction? Well, if you’re a man, it’s probably to get nervous and start calling up old girlfriends. And so begins a single man’s odyssey through four hotel rooms, as he flies across the country in search of the perfect woman (whom he’s already broken up with). ‘Some Girl’ is the latest work from Neil LaBute, American theater’s great…

Based on Scott Hampton’s supernatural graphic novel “Trespassers” – the story centers on a group of mythbusters, set on debunking the legend of a famous allegedly haunted house. They have their scientific rationality tested when they discover demonic guardians, a gateway to hell and the fact that not all of them are exactly who they claim to be.

Based on the forthcoming sci-fi novel by Rick Yancey. Planned as a trilogy of books, Yancey’s story has a teenage girl on the search for her brother against the background of an alien invasion. At her side is a young man who may or may not be an undercover invader himself.

“Undercover Clown” is the story of a strait-laced Detective who investigates a suspect who delights in murdering clowns. The Detective, who’s never had use for a sense of humor, must enroll in Clown College in order to infiltrate the world of clowns and discover clues that help him solve the case. In the process of becoming a clown himself, the Detective learns that looking at the funny side of life has its advantages. The original comic book was written by Devin Hylton.

Little is known about the specifics of the plot, but it’s said to be a sci-fi adventure project.

Based on a script by William Nicholson (Gladiator), sanctioned by Mandela himself, and will cover the entire life and political career of Nelson Mandela including the 18 years he spent on Robben Island while in captivity.

Based on the novel by William Landay – is described as follows: At home, Andy Barber is a quiet family man, a devoted husband and father. At work, he is a trusted senior prosecutor, the District Attorney’s right hand and master trial lawyer. When a teenaged boy is found dead in the woods near Barber’s suburban home, naturally he takes on the investigation, as he has countless homicides before. But the case may be Barber’s undoing: in a terrifying swerve, Barber’s own 14-year-old son, Jacob, is accused of the murder. The boy insists he is innocent, and Barber rallies to his son’s defense — as…

Based on the 2010 novel by Charles Martin which is described as follows: On a stormy winter night, two strangers wait for a flight at the Salt Lake City airport. Ashley Knox is an attractive, successful writer, who is flying East for her much anticipated wedding. Dr. Ben Payne has just wrapped up a medical conference and is also eager to return home to Jacksonville, FL for a slate of surgeries he has scheduled for the following day. When the last outgoing flight is cancelled due to a broken de-icer and a forthcoming storm, Ben finds a charter plane that can take him around the…

Two of Mark Twain’s beloved fictional characters introduced way back in 1876 are getting a 21st Century makeover. – Not much is known about the story, although Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, the two boys introduced in Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” who grew popular through their mischievous adventures in four books, multiple films and television shows, will be portrayed as adults and there will be a supernatural element to the film.

Based on George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four.” Released in 1948, the novel tells of a future world called Oceania wherein individuality and privacy are outlawed and citizens live in service to an all-seeing entity called “Big Brother.”