Elevation Pictures + Mr. Will want to heat-up your Summer with some exciting June/July Home Video releases to be excited for! We’re giving away on DVD copies of DANNY COLLINS, THE GUNMAN, ’71 and WHILE WE’RE YOUNG!
DANNY COLLINS
Aging rocker Danny Collins (Al Pacino) decides to change his hard-living ways after receiving a 40-year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon.
He locks himself in a hotel like Lennon did, to try and find out who he once was. He meets a woman who turns his world upside down. As Danny tries to make things right with his long-lost family and himself, this will be his shot at a second chance.
Stars Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Jennifer Garner, Bobby Cannavale and Christopher Plummer.
Out Tuesday, July 7, 2015.
THE GUNMAN
An ex-special forces government contractor named Jim Terrier (Sean Penn) has his past come back to haunt him when his former employer wants him killed.
From the jungles of Africa to the streets of London and the city of Barcelona, Terrier goes on the run on a mission to find the people who want him dead. To save his life, he has to bring down one of the world’s most powerful organizations and face a dangerous enemy from his past in a high-stakes showdown.
Stars Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Ray Winstone, Mark Rylance and Javier Bardem.
Out Tuesday, June 30, 2015.
’71
It’s 1971. Young British Army soldiers Gary (Jack O’Connell) and Thommo (Jack Lowden) are still in training, learning military discipline as their unit prepares for duty in Germany. When plans change, the two, along with their unit of mostly untested men barely out of school, are dropped into the violence taking place in Northern Ireland.
Belfast, divided by religion and politics, is experiencing unpredictable violence between the Protestant Loyalist areas and the mostly Catholic Nationalist districts whose inhabitants oppose British rule. Gary and Thommo’s squad is immediately ordered to patrol a Catholic area,
Stars Jack O’Connell, Paul Anderson, Richard Dormer, Sean Harris, Barry Keoghan, Charlie Murphy and Sam Reid.
Out Tuesday, July 7, 2015.
WHILE WE’RE YOUNG
Middle-aged couple Josh (Ben Stiller) and Cornelia (Naomi Watts) find their world is turned upside-down when a disarming young couple – Jamie (Adam Driver) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried) – enters their lives.
As Josh and Cornelia begin to spend time with Jamie and Darby, they find the younger spirits inside of themselves, and soon begin to look at life, marriage and the world through younger eyes.
Stars Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Grodin and Adam Horovitz.
Out Tuesday, June 30, 2015.
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Despite mixed Reviews from Critics, 20th Century Fox‘s HOME hits a home run with Audiences garnering not only an A CinemaScore, but also the top of the Box Office this weekend with a strong $52.7 million from 3,708 theatres. On the Tomatometer at Rotten Tomatoes, the Animated Feature which showcases the voicework of Rihanna and Jennifer Lopez, tallied-in at 48%.
Debuting in second with $33 million from, 3,175 theatres was Warner Bros.‘ raunchy Comedy GET HARD starring Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart. Critics didn’t think much of it with a 32% on the Tomatometer, but Audiences thought much more highly of it with a B CinemaScore.
INSURGENT continues to perform well in third in its second week out with $23.9 million this weekend. It was last week’s Box Office Champ. Thus far, the Action/Fantasy and second Film in The Divergent Series, has grossed $88.1 million domestically for eOne Films/Lionsgate Films.
CINDERELLA in its third week out earns $17.3 million for Disney, thus far earning $150 million in its North American run.
IT FOLLOWS expands to 1,218 theatres this weekend, good enough for fifth with $3.7 million for RADiUS (The Weinstein Co.)/Mongrel Media. In three weeks it has made $4.2 million.
THE GUNMAN rounds-out the Top Ten with $2.2 million in its second week out for Elevation Pictures/Open Road Films.
Elevation Pictures + Mr. Will want you to see Sean Penn in THE GUNMAN! Screenings take place in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Calgary, Halifax, Edmonton, Winnipeg and Victoria on Wednesday, March 18 and Thursday, March 19, 2015.
Synopsis:
An ex-special forces government contractor named Jim Terrier (Sean Penn) has his past come back to haunt him when his former employer wants him killed.
From the jungles of Africa to the streets of London and the city of Barcelona, Terrier goes on the run on a mission to find the people who want him dead. To save his life, he has to bring down one of the world’s most powerful organizations and face a dangerous enemy from his past in a high-stakes showdown.
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Elevation Pictures release THE GUNMAN on Friday, March 20, 2015.
(Photo/video credit: Elevation Pictures)
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