Not to play my hand too early, but I’m going to start with the latter, a drama based on a bestseller that is another one of those “young adult” novels you keep hearing about, but this one, rather than trying to merge romance with genre premises like vampires, zombies or science fiction elements, is based on the harsh realities of teenage cancer patients, as Woodley plays Hazel Grace Lancaster, a teenager dying from lung cancer who begins a romance with another cancer patient (Elgort). Smith, Jumper and The Bourne Identity, while Shailene Woodley stars in the adaptation of John Green’s bestselling romance novel The Fault in Our Stars (20th Century Fox), alongside her Divergent co-star Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolff, Laura Dern and Willem Dafoe.
So what do we have this weekend? We have Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt in Edge of Tomorrow (Warner Bros), directed by Doug Liman, the filmmaker behind Mr.
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This weekend is particularly interesting because we have two potentially mid-range movies, both book adaptations rather than being easier-to-sell sequels or remakes, one being a straight out drama, the other a science fiction action-thriller starring one of the biggest movie stars in the world! We’re looking at a weekend that could possibly be full of surprises in terms of which one will win. Family films are generally going to do better with school being out, but for whatever reason, there have been many bombs during June, which got lost in the shadows of much bigger movies. In recent years, that’s changed with many big hits being released in June like last year’s Man of Steel, Monsters University and World War Z. Unfortunately, we’re also in June, which is often the summer month when things slow down, mainly since people have been overwhelmed by back-to-back must-see May releases.
Nope, that trend is back now that we’ve hit the summer and enough schools are out that younger moviegoers can see a movie on Thursday or Friday rather than waiting for the weekend. May has been absolutely amazing at the box office with back-to-back blockbusters and many of the non-sequels doing way better than expected, although we’ve also gone back to what seemed like a retired tradition of people rushing out to see a movie opening weekend and then business quickly tailing of.