In the summer of August this year, the domestic theater line offered another domestic science fiction giant "Shanghai Fortress" after "The Wandering Earth", and game fans can see "Angry Birds 2" on the big screen, and the long-awaited "Fast and Furious" series also took over the next "special action".
North America ushered in the "book reform, comic change month", literary and artistic, heavy mouth everything. If you love horror, you can't miss "Horror Stories Told in the Dark".
Let's go and have a look!
<h1> Domestic cinema line </h1>
Heroes of Fire
August 1 (Chinese mainland)
There is an IMAX version
Director: Chen Guohui
Writers: Yu Yongyong / Chen Guohui
Starring: Huang Xiaoming / Du Jiang / Tan Zhuo / Yang Zi / Ou Hao
Genre: Drama / Disaster
Country of Production: Chinese mainland
Runtime: 120 minutes
Hats off to firefighting!
The largest fire film in the history of Chinese film
"Heroes of Fire" is adapted from the work "The Deepest Water is Tears" by the well-known Chinese documentary writer Baoji Yuanye, directed by Chen Guohui and starring Huang Xiaoming, Du Jiang, Tan Zhuo, Yang Zi, Ou Hao and so on.
The story tells that after the explosion of the oil pipeline near the harbor, the crude oil spill spread, and the overheated area continued to spread at a very fast speed; the fire was once close to the storage of flammable, explosive, and highly toxic xylene tank farms, and once the chemical zone exploded, it would cause a devastating blow to the local ecosystem and the safety of people's property.
Relying on their professionalism and bravery, the fire brigade evacuated the crowd in time and avoided casualties; after 15 hours, it successfully extinguished the fire and closed all tubing valves, creating a miracle in the history of firefighting.
In order to ensure the reproduction of the real scene of front-line firefighting, the film interviewed 2 fire brigades, 6 fire squadrons, and 81 firefighters before filming; all the leading actors, including Huang Xiaoming and Du Jiang, trained intensively for 100 days before filming; in order to perfectly interpret these "life-playing" heroes, many dangerous scenes starred in person.
In front of the IMAX giant screen, you will experience the ruthlessness of fire first-hand, and you can feel the light of dedication in the mortal body of the firefighter.
While showing the iron will of heroes, the film also always tells the audience that they are also people; our years are quiet, just because someone carries the weight for us. With this film, I would like to pay tribute to the fire heroes and their families who guard us!
Acts 2
August 7 (Chinese mainland)
Director: Wen Weihong
Starring: Zhang Jiahui / Gu Tianle / Wu Zhenyu / Jiang Peiyao
Genre: Drama / Action / Crime
Country of Production: Chinese mainland
Three movie emperors in one play,
Who is the "black policeman"?
The Three Great Pages of Heavenly Kings... No, it's the Hong Kong Movie Emperor!
A little attention can be found that the output of Hong Kong films in recent years is extremely high, and almost every month there are good new works and sequels of Hong Kong films released.
"Acts 2" is an excellent Hong Kong film sequel, and the film emperor lineup of Zhang Jiahui, Gu Tianle and Wu Zhenyu is exactly the same as the previous game.
Undercover, brotherhood and love feud have always been the three common elements of Hong Kong police films, and the main line of "Acts 2: Spy Operation" is a special "looking for undercover".
The film tells a black police message unlocked by the dark web, which has plunged the police community into an unprecedented panic. In order to protect the evidence, Superintendent Cheng Tao fell into crisis, and his master Ip Chi Fan and his brother Jing Jinxian also fell in love with each other. It is difficult to distinguish between friend and foe within the police community.
With the deepening of the investigation, a terrorist organization that has been hidden behind the scenes for many years has gradually surfaced, just like the title of the film "Spy Operation", the spy war flavor of this film is very strong;
Not only are the literary dramas brilliant, but the film is filmed in Hong Kong, Myanmar, Spain and other places, and the gun battles, flying cars, explosions, and fights are also very full.
Shanghai Fortress
August 9 (Chinese mainland)
Director: Teng Huatao
Writers: Gangnam / Han Jinglong
Starring: Lu Han / Shu Qi / Shi Liang / Gao Yixiang
Genre: Romance / Sci-Fi / War
Aliens have finally "attacked" China
At the beginning of 2019, "The Wandering Earth" let Chinese film fans see the rise of domestic science fiction films; more than half of the year, another domestic science fiction big production "Shanghai Fortress" came.
In fact, many Chinese writers have already provided excellent creative blueprints for science fiction films: before there was Liu Liu's "The Wandering Earth", now jiangnan's "Shanghai Fortress". The novel has been published for ten years and has a high score of 8.4 on Douban.
"Shanghai Fortress" is set in the near future, when alien forces raid the earth, and humans are barely supported by the support of the "Alpha Civilization". The flooded Statue of Liberty, the collapsing Big Ben, the broken Tower of Tokyo — all these familiar landmarks were destroyed.
Giant alien motherships hovered in the air and launched round after round of offensives, and Shanghai, China, became the last line of defense for humanity – the first time a sci-fi war movie had set the home of the showdown in China.
What kind of apocalyptic love can the fresh combination of Lu Han and Shu Qi deduce under the end of the world?
The Peak Glory of Full-Time Masters
August 16 (Chinese mainland)
Director: Shi Juansheng / Deng Zhiwei
Starring: Ajay / Bian Jiang / Xizi / Xia Lei
Genre: Drama / Animation
Duration: 118 minutes
China's first e-sports animated film
As the first "Thousand League-level" work in the history of online literature (more than a thousand readers consume more than 1,000 yuan), "Full-time Master" is recognized as a super IP.
The recently launched drama version easily exceeded 100 million plays, and on August 16, the first anime movie in the series, "Full-time Master's Peak Glory", will be released.
With e-sports becoming the 78th sport in the country, society has a more rational understanding of e-sports: in the past, playing games was seen as not doing business and losing their minds. Today, esports, like other sports, is a dream and a belief.
Although e-sports has been "officially declared" as a serious profession, the general perception of society is still biased, and the holding of the first Glory E-sports Professional League has given these misunderstood teenagers the opportunity to correct their names.
The film tells the story of Ye Xiu's first entry into glory - from forming the Jiashi team, to gathering team members and participating in the first glory professional e-sports competition... All the contestants, including the protagonist Ye Xiu, have only one goal - to exert their youthful blood and win the professional league championship.
Not only does the story make our "Internet addicted teenagers" feel a sense of substitution, the film has also made enough efforts in terms of pictures: Huang Chengxi, the highest-rated storyboard director in the history of Naruto Hirohito' historical episodes; Yang Tingmu, the original artist of "One Piece" and "Attack on Titan"; Liang Boya, the original artist of "Attack on Titan" and "One Punch Superman"...
Voiced for Ye Xiu is Wei Wuxian in "The Ancestor of the Magic Path", the great god of Ajie; there are also excellent voice actors such as Bian Jiang, Xia Lei, Liu Kang, and Wen Jingyuan.
You may not recognize them, but as soon as they open their mouths... Scalp tingling!
Yesterday's Miracle
Yesterday
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Starring: Jack Bass / Richard Curtis
Genre: Comedy / Music / Fantasy
Country of Production: United Kingdom
Runtime: 116 minutes
When the world forgot about the Beatles
Who will save their music?
"Yesterday's Miracle" tells a comedy story about music and dreams.
A global blackout erased all human memories of the Beatles, and only amateur singer Jack remembers the greatest rock band in history.
After performing the Beatles' famous song "Yesterday" to a friend, everyone praised Jack's "creation", and he realized that his road to fame was coming!
So Jack, who couldn't see the future, decided to "become" the Beatles.
However, superstars are not good – in this film, the audience will follow Jack's perspective, experience the Beatles' creative career, and experience life's difficulties and difficult choices.
"Yesterday's Miracle" is directed by Danny Ball, a famous director who has directed "Slumdog Millionaire", "Guess the Train", and "28 Days of Surprise"; Richard Curtis, who won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for "Four Weddings and a Funeral", and wrote "True Love Supreme" and "Notting Hill" and other masterpieces.
Richard Curtis (left) and Danny Ball (right)
The film is starring popular actors Hymish Patel and Lily James, and even pop superstar "Yellow Boss" Ed Sheeran and "Saturday Night Live" Golden Cascade Mike Kinnon.
Angry Birds 2
The Angry Birds Movie 2
Director: Tulup van Olman
Writer: Peter Ackerman
Starring: Jason Sudages / Bill Hader
Genre: Comedy / Animation / Adventure
Country/Region of Production: Finland / United States
Rival pigs and birds work together against mysterious opponents
Looking at this poster, you can understand that "Angry Birds 2" is a joyful release to relieve the heat and relieve the heat.
The birds and pigs we are familiar with have all returned! It landed first in North America on August 14 and reached Chinese mainland on august 16.
Ten years of "rejoicing and enemies" pigs and birds are still "tearing down each other" as usual. However, the "uninvited guest" launched a hockey ball that attacked Bird Island and Pig Island, forcing both sides to put down the mustard.
Pigs and birds are combined, and they are invincible! After being attacked by an ice hockey sent by a mysterious villain, Pigbird decides to join forces against the enemy and form a "Plastic Alliance" to come to the frozen new island.
Collectively dressed in cool down jackets, they prepared to go deep behind enemy lines to stop the evil plans of the mysterious villains. Even if you are in deep crisis, don't forget to sell cute treasures; go to Iceland to face the villain, and don't forget to have a wonderful fight dance.
"Keep Silent"
August 23 (Chinese mainland)
Writer/Director: Zhou Ke
Starring: Zhou Xun / Wu Zhenyu / Zu Feng / Sun Rui
Genre: Drama / Romance / Suspense
Runtime: 96 minutes
This month's brain-burning responsibility,
Zhou Xun Wu Zhenyu staged a not-guilty defense in the "Mother Murder Case"
Just said the Hong Kong film emperor, this is not, the mainland film queen also came.
This is Wu Zhenyu's second theatrical work this month, and zhou Xun is leading, which is already a big attraction.
The story of the film revolves around a murder in a secret room, with the courtroom as the stage. Through the lawyer and prosecutor Wu Zhenyu played by Zhou Xun, step by step to bring out the evidence of the case, and peel back the cocoon to clarify the truth of the case. The case was also transformed from an ordinary murder case to a "mother murder case" because of the clues that were constantly being excavated.
After the film emperor is on the same stage, the court game session will be wonderful - watching the stills, I want to book tickets!
Fast & Furious: Special Ops
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Director: David Rydge
Writers: Chris Morgan / Gary Scott Thompson
Starring: Dawn Johnson / Jason Statham
Idris Elba / Elsa Gonzalez
Genre: Comedy / Action / Adventure
Country of Production: United States
Runtime: 134 minutes
Johnson + Statham:
Elite agents team up with extralegal villains
Special Ops is directed by Deadpool director David Ricky and written by Chris Morgan and Gary Scott Thompson, the royal writers of the Fast and Furious series.
The movie will be released in North America on August 2, and it seems that American friends will enjoy the "new configuration" of "Fast and Furious" before us!
Probably because Donald (Groot) went to outer space, and the mission was carried out by sworn enemies Hobbes (Dwayne Johnson) and Shaw (Guoda Statham).
The two have looked down on each other since Super 7, and Shaw has been imprisoned by Hobbes himself. When meeting light, they are afraid of each other, and heavy is dry. But as the old saying goes, you don't know each other without fighting. The friendship between the two brothers is smashed out of the fist to the flesh.
In "Super 7", they are the opposite of good and evil, hand-to-hand combat, gun battles, grenades throwing, and killing moves everywhere;
By "Super 8", although they united the front, their bodies were honest but not honest, and they stirred up their mouths like an old couple.
Now the two powerful people in the "big family" have ushered in a new challenge - to destroy the biological and chemical weapons that threaten the fate of mankind.
If you've seen the trailer, you'll be able to see that the game is still the original "Fast and Furious": there are many big scenes such as drag racing and gunfights; from Los Angeles to London, from the toxic ruins of Chernobyl to the beautiful South Pacific island nation of Samoa, this special operation has swept the world.
Hobbes and Shaw can't clearly hammer each other, so they play with each other's dismantling, and do not forget to "calculate" each other; you let me jump off the building, I will let you take off... (Note johnson mouth type)
This movie is not a solo drama for men, this series has always implemented the tenet of "the more beautiful the girl, the more able to fight", and Sister Xiao, played by Vanessa Kirby, is a mortal version of the Valkyrie.
The brother is a villain, but the younger sister is a senior MI6 agent, and she stole the important weapon in the villain's hand. Worthy of being The sister of Teacher Guo Da, she was as handsome as his brother when she fought. (In the movie, she seems to have a small spark with Dwayne Johnson~)
But as Sister Shaw says, this time the opponent, the anarchist Brixton (Idris Elba), is by far the most difficult person to deal with.
His armed forces can match those of regular armies, and the biological and chemical weapons in his hands are enough to change the fate of mankind. I don't know how the temporary iron triangle of "old couple + sister" will solve this crisis.
The Mule
The Mule
August 26 (Chinese mainland)
Director: Clint Eastwood
Writers: Nick Schenck
Starring: Clint Eastwood / Bradley Cooper
Lawrence Fishburn / Michael Penner
Genre: Drama / Suspense / Thriller / Crime
Runtime: 116 minutes
The 90-year-old cowboy incarnated as a "poison" walker
In 2008, clint Eastwood's self-directed film Classic Cars was released, and he vowed, "This is probably the last movie I'll star in." He was 78 years old.
Ten years on, Clint Eastwood seems to be a race against time. During that decade, he worked on "Hoover", "American Sniper", "Captain Sully" and many other feature films.
In 2018, the dedicated old cowboy broke his word. The old man returned to the audience with a copy of "The Mule". Now that this movie can be on the Chinese screen, let us see the "quasi-curtain" of the old cowboy, and we are really moved!
Clint Eastwood plays Earl Stone, a bankrupt and solitary octogenarian. The old man is very similar to the old cowboy himself, and is a "workaholic" who has dedicated his life to his career.
When the property is seized for auction because it is insolvent, Earl gets a job that only requires him to drive. The job was simple enough, but what Earl didn't know was that he became a mule, a drug carrier for a Mexican drug cartel.
He did a great job, in fact, more and more drugs were transported through him, so much so that the drug cartel later equipped him with a docking person. Although Earl's financial problems were solved, the various life mistakes he had made gradually began to bring heavy pressure.
Finally, I have to be emotional, looking at the rickety body of Klingt Eastwood in the movie, both admiration and heartache. This movie ticket, I will definitely make up.
<h1> North American Cinema Line </h1>
Luce
Light
August 2 (North America)
Directed by: Julius Jonah
Writers: Julius Jonah / J. C. Lee
Starring: Naomi Watts / Octavia Spencer
Tim Rose / Kevin Harrison Jr
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 109 minutes
In the eyes of parents and teachers, honor students "run away"
A fierce clash of races and identities
The film involves a variety of social focus topics, including family, education, and race, with Hollywood movie stars Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, and Tim Rose joining, which is called star-studded.
The plot revolves around a former African child soldier, Luce (Kevin Harrison Jr.), who lives in the suburbs with his adoptive parents (Naomi Watts and Tim Rose).
Luce's idealized image as a school honor student and star athlete began to unravel in an argument with a teacher. Just like the good students in the eyes of teachers and parents in reality suddenly do something out of the ordinary, everyone can't understand.
Because his potentially politically violent views were exposed, putting pressure on his family while sparking heated race and identity debates.
The film, which China has also been involved in the investment, premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and is said to have received a very good response, with a Rotten Tomatoes freshness rating of 95%, which is worth looking forward to.
Horror Stories Told in the Dark
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
August 9 (North America)
Director: Andrea Ivordorff
Writers: John Auguste / Marcus Dunstan
Dan Hagman / Kevin Haggman / Patrick Melton
Alvin Schwartz / Gilmour del Toro
Starring: Zoe Margaret Colletti / Michael Garza
Gabriel Rush / Gil Belos
Type: Horror
Based on the world's most horrific banned book,
The horror stories you read become reality step by step...
The film is based on the world-renowned banned horror book Tales Told in the Dark.
△ Three original books, by Evan Schwartz, illustrator Stephen Gammel
The original contains many horror stories circulated in the folk, and was once listed as a banned book because it was too terrifying. Come and feel the illustrations of the novel, is every face strangely twisted, the more you look at it, the more madful?
The film was produced by CBS, produced by Oscar-level director Gilmour del Toro, and directed by Andrea Ivdorff (director of The Nameless Woman).
I heard that "Gyro" himself is a die-hard fan of the original novel...
Gilmour del Toro (left) and Andrea Ivdorff (right)
The creators are not afraid to scare everyone at all, and the most terrifying monsters in the original book are all reproduced in the movie.
Ultra-high energy early warning !!! Timid friends recommend sliding the screen!
△ Contrast the original illustration (left) with the film (right).
Of course, the reason why this work is on the banned books list is because the story itself is terrible enough.
"Ghost Stories Told in the Dark" tells the story of a spooky mansion on the outskirts of the small town of Mill Valley in the United States, where the girl Sarah wrote her tortured life into a horror storybook.
Years later, Stella and her friends went on an expedition to the abandoned haunted mansion, where she discovered the storybook and took it home to read, which featured various legendary ghosts such as "Harlow the Scarecrow", "The Pale Woman" and so on.
The day after she finished reading the story, her friend Tommy mysteriously disappeared, and Stella accidentally discovered that the protagonist of the horror story was also named Tommy... Gradually, Stella discovers that it is not them who are reading the story at all, but that the story is rewriting their destiny.
Don't be afraid of ghost stories scaring people, just afraid of ghost stories coming true!
Hell's Kitchen
The Kitchen
Director: Andrea Belllov
Writers: Andrea Belllov / Ollie Masters
Starring: Melissa McCarthy / Domnar Gleason
Elizabeth Moss / Tiffany Hades
Genre: Drama / Action / Sci-Fi / Crime
When the gangster brothers are trapped in me
"Big Brother Woman" reorganizes the country
The film is based on DC's Vertigo comics, and Andrea Belllov, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for "Rushing Out of Compton," will direct the film.
△ Hell's Kitchen comic cover
Hell's Kitchen is a true portrayal of New York in the late 1970s, a city on the brink of disintegration that is home to the drug trade and gangster fights.
The gangster big brother is imprisoned, and the three "big brother women" take on the heavy responsibility of reorganizing the gang.
The three "strong women" are the famous Hollywood actress Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Hades, and Elizabeth Moss, the star of "The Handmaid's Tale".
Unexpectedly, after the three female bosses took over the plate, they enjoyed the excitement of the underworld and the huge oil and water more and more, and officially entered the industry since then. They do whatever it takes to achieve their goals, and even their husbands who are released from prison cannot hinder their inflated ambitions.
"Ready to Go"
Ready or Not
August 23 (North America)
Directed by: Matt Betinelli-Olpin / Taylor Gillette
Starring: Samara Viven / Andy McDowell
Mark O'Brien / Adam Brody
Type: Thriller
Duration: 95 minutes
The most suffocating way to get married: hunting the bride
A bride is about to marry into the rich, and the wedding scene is full of pomp and circumstance, full of love atmosphere.
But what should have been a beautiful wedding, the style of painting suddenly changed.
On wedding night, the in-laws force the bride to participate in a bizarre and terrifying game of hide-and-seek.
The bride began to be confused, and this way of marriage was a bit violent. But soon she realized that it wasn't a wedding at all, but a massacre, and that it was their hunting ground.
So the bride threw away the bouquet in her hand, took up the weapon, and single-handedly escaped the pursuit of the whole family.
The beastliness in the bride's body was awakened, and this hunting night, who won was really uncertain!
The film was directed by Taylor Gillette & Matt Bertinelly-Olpin (Devil's Due Date). As a thriller masterpiece with enough plasma, novel plot and strong suspense, "Ready or Not" deserves a wave of attention.
Official Secret
Official Secrets
August 30 (North America)
Director: Gavin Hood
Starring: Kayla Knightley / Matt Smith
Ralph Fiennes / Matthew Goody
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Biography
Country of Production: United Kingdom / United States
Duration: 112 minutes
Literary and artistic version of "Spy Shadow"
Spy operation based on "True Events"
South African director Gavin Hood became famous in 2005 for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Tsotsi, and in 2009 he shot X-Men Prequel: Wolverine and reached the peak of his career.
△ Gavin Hood, who won the little gold man
After years of silence, this year he took his new work," Official Secret, to the premiere of this year's Sundance Film Festival.
The story tells the true story of Catherine Gunn, a British intelligence whistleblower:
She leaked a top-secret NSA memo before the 2003 Iraq War, exposing illegal espionage by U.N. Security Council members in the United States and Britain. In the memorandum, it was proposed to blackmail these member states into voting in favour of the Iraq war.
This film is a political thriller, and you may think that you have seen a similar story in "Spy Heavy", but the attraction of this movie is that it has a real prototype.
The list of theatrical films carefully selected for geeks in August is this, which ones do you plan to "be lucky"?