Zeros to Heroes: Mighty Avenger and Notorious Pirate Headline May's movie Line Up
By Brandon Porter
Hey Followers, The summer movie season has officially begun. The anticipation and excitement for this year's summer flicks has been outstanding. But after a record breaking box office performance from Fast Five, which raked in over $85 million dollars this past weekend, the bar has unexpectedly been raised for the films that follow it. These next few months will be particularly interesting after such a booming start. In this post, we will preview the headline films in the month of May. Paramount and Disney will be going at it this month as each studio dishes out their first strikes
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| After a brief stint as James T. Kirk's father in Star Trek, australian actor Chris Hemsworth looks to solidify himself among hollywood's elite as he portrays the god of thunder and future avenger. |
Thor (Paramount Pictures, May 6th)
Continuing the enormous line of live action superhero films, Thor looks the strike down the competition this year. Chris Hemsworth joins an all star cast which includes Anthony Hopkins as Asgard ruler, Odin, Idris Elba as Heimdall, and academy award winner Natalie Portman as Jane Foster, in the origin story of one of the Mighty members of the Avengers. Thor is the first of three superhero movies set to be realeased this summer and the first film realeased by Paramount in the summer movie season. As with other superhero films, the main blood that keeps the film strong is the fans of the series. Thor, if it wants to deliver a solid critical and box office performance, will have to present a strong script as well as a solid plot that is familiar to fans but easy to understand for audience members who don't follow the comics. Being that Fast Five had such a fantastic run, Thor will be looking for the same results when it's released in theaters and IMAX on May 6th.
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| Johnny Deep is back as Captian Jack along with Penolope Cruz in the next chapter of the Pirates franchise. |
Pirates of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Walt Disney Pictures, May 20th)
Mermaids, zombies, and Blackbeard..oh my!!! That's what you can expect to see Captian Jack Sparrow face in his latest adventure, Pirates of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. It's not hard to see that this year's installment of the millon dollar Disney franchise is hands down one of the most anticipated movies of the summer. With the return of Johnny Deep as the notorious Jack Sparrow as well as a cast of new characters, On Stranger Tides looks to sink its competitors and make a splash at the box office. It's been over 4 years since the last Pirates movie hit theaters. After the brief hiatus, Disney is ready to hoist the sails for another fastastic adventure, this time to the legendary fountain of youth. Since 2003, the Pirates of The Caribbean franchise has joined the many other successful film series in recent memory which includes Harry Potter, 007, and Star Wars. Because of this, fans will be lining up to see their adventurous hero in the new film. One of the interesting set ups of On Stranger Tides is the shake up of the franchises' main cast. Even with actors Johnny Deep and Geoffery Rush returning for the fourth film, Disney has done away with series veterans Orlando Bloom and Keira Kinghtley and brought in new actors to portray the newly added characters. Such actors include Ian McShane as the legendary Blackbeard, Penelope Cruz as Blackbeard's daughter and Sparrow's old flame Angelica, Sam Claflin as young missionary Philip Swift, and in her first American role, spanish actress Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey as the mysterious mermaid Syrena. With the departure of Bloom and Knightley and the new cast of characters, Disney seems to want to move forward and begin a new story arc in the saga. We'll see how the new changes fair when Pirates of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides shoves off into theaters May 20th in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D.
Well that's all for now followers. Be on the look out for the reviews and analysis of these two films and the ones to come. See ya soon!!!
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