By Jack Eichorst
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Captain Jack Sparrow finds the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost pirates led by his old nemesis, Captain Salazar escape from the Devil’s Triangle determined to kill every pirate that sails the sea including him. Jack’s only hope lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, a powerful artifact that bestows upon its possessor total control over the seas.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Brenton Thwaites, Kaya Scodelario, with Javier Bardem, and Geoffrey Rush
Justice League
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Fueled by his restored faith in humanity by Superman’s selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally Diana Prince to face an even greater enemy. Together Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of an unlikely league of heroes Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash It may already be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.
Starring: Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Henry Cavill, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Ray Fisher, Amber Heard, Jesse Eisenberg, Amy Adams, with Jeremy Irons, and J.K. Simmons
Kong: Skull Island
Release Date: March 10, 2017
In the 1970s a team of explorers is brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific that is beautiful as it is treacherous, unaware that they are crossing into the domain of the mythical king of the island, The giant gorilla known as Kong.
Starring: Thomas Hiddleston, Brie Larson, John Goodman, with John C. Reilly, and Samuel L. Jackson
IT
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In a small town in Maine, New England, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown named Pennywise.
Starring: Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Jack Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Chosen Jacobs, and Bill Skarsgård
Thor: Ragnarok
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Plot is being kept under wraps.
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Mark Ruffalo, Karl Urban, Idris Elba, Tessa Thompson, Jaimie Alexander, Jeff Goldblum,
Sam Neill, with Cate Blanchett, and Anthony Hopkins
Alien: Covenant
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy the crew of the colony ship Covenant finds what they believe to be an uncharted paradise. What the crew discover is a dark, dangerous world, whose sole inhabitant is the android David sole survivor of the doomed “Prometheus” expedition.
Starring: Katherine Waterston, Noomi Rapace, Danny McBride, and Michael Fassbinder
Wonder Woman
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Diana, princess of the Amazons, was raised on a sheltered island and trained to be an unconquerable fighter, but after an American pilot named Steve Trevor crashes on the island and tells her about a world war that is happening Diana leaves her home to try to stop the war. Becoming one of the greatest heroes the world has ever known.
Starring: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Elena Anaya, Danny Huston, and Connie Nielsen
God Particle (Cloverfield 3)
Release Date: February 24, 2017
A team of astronauts aboard a space station find themselves alone after a scientific experiment causes Earth to disappear. Leaving the crew stranded and forced to fight for survival following their horrible discovery that challenges all they know about the fabric of reality.
Starring: Daniel Brühl, Elizabeth Debicki, Ziyi Zhang, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and David Oyelowo
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in New York City with fighting crime as his superhero alter ego Spider-Man.
Starring: Tom Holland, Zendaya, with Marisa Tomei, and Michael Keaton
Transformers: The Last Knight
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Optimus Prime finding his home planet, Cybertron, now a dead planet, which he comes to find he was responsible for killing. He finds a way to bring the planet back to life, but in order to do so he needs to find an artifact, and that artifact is on Earth
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Josh Duhamel, Laura Haddock, Santiago Cabrera, Isabela Moner, Stanley Tucci, John Turturro, John Goodman, Ken Watanabe, John DiMaggio, with Peter Cullen, and Anthony Hopkins
Logan
Release Date: March 3, 2017
The X-Men are no more and a now-older Wolverine is past his prime. Trying to live a normal life in hiding as his healing factor fade away and his claws haven’t been used in almost twenty years. Professor Charles Xavier has survived in the care of Logan as he is slowly being afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease. While a corporation headed by Nathaniel Essex and his Reavers a team of criminal mercenaries lead by Donald Pierce are destroying the world leaving it to destruction Now Logan and Xavier must find a way to stop Essex from finding his escaped experiment, young girl named Laura a female clone of Wolverine.
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, and Patrick Stewart
Star Wars: Episode VIII
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Having taken her first steps into a larger world, Rey continues her epic journey in the next chapter of the saga.
Starring: Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, With Laura Dern, and Benicio Del Toro
The Mummy
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Thought safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, a U.S. navy soldier unwittingly awakens an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her into our present time. Bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia and terrors that defy human comprehension.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, Sofia Boutella, and Russell Crowe
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Release Date: May 5, 2017
The Guardians of the Galaxy travel throughout the cosmos and struggle to keep their newfound family together while helping Peter Quill learn more about his true parentage.
Starring: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Elizabeth Debicki, Pom Klementieff, with Nathan Fillion and Kurt Russell
Fast 8
Release Date: April 14, 2017
Dom and his crew follow him to New York to unravel his story and new threats for Toretto and his family.
Starring: Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Nathalie Emmanuel, featuring Charlize Theron, Jason Statham, Scott Eastwood, with Helen Mirren, and Kurt Russell
Power Rangers
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Five troubled teenage student outcasts are chosen by mentor Zordon to become the Power Rangers after learning that their small town and the world is threatened by forces from beyond our world led by evil sorceress Rita Repulsa.
Starring: Dacre Montgomery, Naomi Scott, RJ Cyler, Becky G.,Ludi Lin, Bill Hader, with Elizabeth Banks, and Bryan Cranston
Beauty and the Beast
Release Date: March 17, 2017
In the live-action re-imagining of the Disney classic, a young woman takes her father’s place as prisoner in a beast’s castle, only to fall in love with her beastly captor who turns out to be a prince.
Starring: Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Kevin Kline, Ewan McGregor, Josh Gad, Stanley Tucci, with Emma Thompson, and Ian McKellen
The Shape of Water
Release date: 2017
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1963.
Starring: Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Octavia Spencer
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Release Date: October 6, 2017
When an attack on the Kingsman headquarters takes place and a new villain rises, Eggsy and Merlin are forced to work together with their American counterpart agency Statesman to save the world.
Starring: Taron Egerton, Jeff Bridges, Mark Strong, Halle Berry, Elton John, and Julianne Moore
Annabelle 2
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Several years after the tragic death of their daughter, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home soon becoming the target of the dollmaker’s possessed creation, Annabelle.
Starring: Stephanie Sigman, Lulu Wilson, Javier Botet, Alicia Vela-Bailey, and Miranda Otto
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