Up Coming Movies

Footloose

 

  

Release Date: Thursday 6 October 2011

Rated: M (Mature Themes)

Running Time: 113 minutes

Director: Craig Brewer

Cast:  Julianne Hough, Dennis Quaid, Kenny Wormald, Miles Teller and Andi MacDowell

 

A remake of the 1984 movie in which a rebellious teenager moves into a town where dancing has been banned.

 

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Reel Steel

 

  

Release Date: Thursday 6 October 2011

Rated: M (Contains violence)

Running Time: 127 minutes

Director: Shawn Levy

Cast: Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Kevin Durand, Anthony Mackie and Dakota Goyo

 

A gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future where the sport of boxing has gone high-tech. Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max to build and train a championship contender.

 

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The Cup   

 

     

Release Date: Thursday 13 October 2011

Rated: PG

Running Time:  To be confirmed

Director: Simon Wincer

Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Stephen Curry, Daniel MacPherson, Tom Burlinson and Bill Hunter.

 

Probably no race had a more extraordinary effect on a nation than the running of Australia's 2002 Melbourne Cup. At the heart of this true story is a young jockey who loses his only brother in a tragic racing accident just days before the race, suffers through a series of discouraging defeats only to triumph in one of the most thrilling finales in all of sport.

 

Visit The Cup website.

 

Take Shelter

 

 

Release Date: Thursday 13 October

Rated: M (Mature themes, violence and coarse language)

Running Time: 121 minutes

Director: Jeff Nichols

Cast: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Katy Mixon, Kathy Baker and Shea Whigham

 

Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.

 

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The Thing

 

 

Release Date: Thursday 13 October 2011

Rated: MA15+ (Strong horror violence)

Running Time: 103 minutes

Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr

Cast: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Eric Christian Olsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Ulrich Thomsen

 

Palaeontologist Kate Lloyd has travelled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extra-terrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up.

Visit The Thing website.

 

What’s Your Number?

 

 

Release Date: Thursday 13 October 2011

Rated: MA15+ (Strong sexual references)

Running Time: 106 minutes

Director: Mark Mylod

 

Cast: Anna Faris, Chris Pratt, Martin Freeman, Mike Vogel and Chris Evans

A woman looks back at the past twenty men she's had relationships with in her life and wonders if one of them might be her one true love.

 

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Midnight in Paris

 

 

Release Date:  Thursday 20 October 2011

Rated: PG (Contains mild sexual references)

Running Time: 94 minutes

Director: Woody Allen

Cast: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Mimi Kennedy, Michael Sheen and Kathy Bates

 

Midnight in Paris is about a family travelling on business; it’s about two young people who are engaged to be married. It's about a young man falling in love with the City of Light; and ultimately it’s about the illusion people have that a life different from their own would be much better.

 

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Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer

 

 

Release Date: Thursday 27 October 2011

Rated: G

Running Time: 92 minutes

Director: John Schultz

Cast: Jordana Beatty, Heather Graham and Parris Mosteller

 

This summer, Judy Moody is planning the most super-duper, double-rare summer vacation ever with best friends Rocky and Amy. Except that it turns out Rocky is going to circus camp to learn to tame lions, and Amy is headed off to Borneo with her mom to save a lost tribe while Judy stays home with her pesky little brother Stink and second-best friend Frank Pearl.

Visit the Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer website.

 

Ben 10: Ultimate Alien

 

 

Release Date:  Friday 28 October 2011

Rated: PG

Running Time: To be confirmed

 

It's hero time! Go ultimate as Ben 10 Ultimate Alien hits the big screen for the very first time, only at Hoyts!

Ben's new Ultimatrix is loaded with an arsenal of new aliens and ultimate versions of classic heroes like Humungousaur, Swampfire, Spidermonkey, Cannonbolt, Echo Echo, and Big Chill.

 

Visit the Ben 10: Ultimate Alien website.

 

Anonymous

 

 

Release Date:  Thursday 3 November 2011

Rated:  M (Violence and sex scenes)

Running Time: 130 minutes

Director: Roland Emmerich

 

Cast:  Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Jamie Campbell Bower, Joely Richardson and David Thewlis

 

A political thriller advancing the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays; set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her.

 

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