>> Host: New year, new movies.
As 2014 comes to a close,
it's time to look forward to what theaters have in store for us.
These are our top ten most anticipated films of 2015.
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>> Host: Starting us off at number ten, we're looking forward to some of
the hopefully hilarious comedy that hit the screens this year.
Amy Poehler and Tina Fey pair back up in Sisters.
Sequels to Ted, Magic Mike, and Pitch Perfect,
will drop, and the Entourage movie is going to actually finally happen.
Paul Feig's, Spy, which starts Melissa McCarthy and Jason Statham doing pretty
much exactly what you'd expect, looks hilarious, and just misses our number ten
because our pick actually goes to Judd Apatow's Trainwreck.
>> David Letterman: What do you know about writing a movie?
Do you know anything about it?
>> Actress: Nothing. Judd Apatow
manipulated me into writing a movie.
I got to cut out the agent, but I still have to pay them.
>> David Letterman: [LAUGH] >> Host: Judd Apatow's been in a bit
of a slump lately, but
hopefully the new talent featured in Trainwreck can pull him out of it.
This will be his first time not writing.
Directing the script penned by writer and star Amy Schumer.
The story will follow Schumer's life as it goes off the rails Parts for
Daniel Radcliffe, Bree Larson, Tilda Swinton and Bill Hader.
It's a new look for Apatow, breaking away from his usual suspects, but
we think this might just shake up his work in a best possible way.
>> Actress2: Hey, what's your name?
>> Host: But if you think that's a lot of comedy sequels,
just wait until you look at the action lineup.
This year we'll be seeing follow ups to Terminator, Mission Impossible, Fast and
Furious, Hunger Games, Divergent, Maze Runner and James Bond.
And you can bet there are rapid fans of each series just counting down the days.
But for our number nine, we can't wait for the epic looking follow up to Mad Max,
with Fury Road.
It's got bad ass Tom Hardy, buzzheaded Charlize Theron, the original director,
and some of the most gorgeous looking visuals spotted in any trailer ever.
Sure, we all complain about sequels in the abstract.
We can't wait for the next original story either.
But sometimes there's nothing like a familiar franchise to get us
riled up about the movies.
>> Actor: I think human consciousness was a tragic misstep in evolution.
>> Host: If you're hurting from a break from sequels, threequels, and fourquels?
No, I'm not sure what that one is.
We've got some good news, because moving up to number eight, we wouldn't be
Cinefix if we didn't consider the Indy's alongside the big blockbusters.
Just because their trailers don't scream as loudly for
attention, doesn't mean we're looking forward to them any less.
And 2015 looks like it will be a excellent year for smaller fare.
Some of the one's we're looking forward to most.
Noah Baumbach's latest, While We Were Young, Terence Malick's long awaited
Knight of Cups, James Ponsoldt's David Foster Wallace biopic, End Of The Tour.
Derek Cianfrance's latest since Place Beyond The Pines,
The Light Between Oceans, and Jeff Nichols' foray into genre film making,
in his homage to John Carpenter, Midnight Special.
But for out number eight,
we're most looking forward to the teaming out of Matthew McConaughey and
Gus Van Sant, one of the most intimate directors out there, in Sea of Trees.
Throw in Ken Watanabe, and give them a story about two men
who encounter each other in Japan suicide forest,
both looking to end their lives, and you can consider us sold.
>> Actress3: So, how was the first day of school?
>> Actress4: It was fine I guess, I don't know.
>> Actress3: Do you ever look at someone and
wonder, what is going on inside their head?
>> Actress5: Did you guys pick up on that?
>> Actress6: Sure did. >> Actress7: Something's wrong.
>> Host: 2015 also looks to be an exciting year for animation.
>From the stop motion adaptation of the beloved French story La Petit Prince,
to a hopefully not childhood ruining CGI rendition of Charles Schulz's Peanuts,
to a sequel that focuses on everybody's favorite part of Despicable Me.
This year looks to have something for everyone.
But on top of all that we're getting two Pixar movies this year.
The Good Dinosaur has been pushed back from 2013.
So we're still excited about the movie that promises to show us what would have
happened if the asteroid that lead to the extinction of dinosaurs actually missed.
But for our number seven pick, we're even more jazzed for Inside Out.
Their hilarious looking story of competing emotions that
take us inside the mind of a seven year old girl.
Written by Michael Art of Little Miss Sunshine and Toy Story 3, and directed,
in part, by the man who gave us Up and Monsters, Inc.
Inside Out is sure to find just the right amount of humor and heart, and
appeal to audiences of all ages.
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>> Host: This next year promises to bring us some Oscar worthy films from
some of our favorite prestige directors.
Zumekis will adapt Man on Wire's twin towers tight rope stunt into a biopic
starring Joseph Gordon Levitt in The Walk.
And Martin Scorsese will finally get his passion project, Silence,
the story of Jesuit priest in 17th century Japan, to audiences everywhere.
But our pick for
number six goes to Spielberg's yet untitled Cold War thriller.
Tentatively titled St. James Place, the script has work from Joel and Ethan Coen,
and the film will see a return of one of the greatest actor director pairings ever,
with Tom Hanks in the lead.
Based on the 1960s U2 incident Saint James plays
lawyer thrust into the Cold War conflict as he attempts to negotiate the release of
a pilot whose plane was shot down over Soviet Russia.
You can bet we won't miss this one.
>> Actor2: Okay, got one money clip, one pin,
one pack of Beemans gum, and whatever that is.
>> Actress8: That's not mine.
>> Actor2: What's not yours?
>> Actress8: The pin, I've never- [SOUND] >> Host: It's looking like a strong year
for science fiction as well, with genre veterans Ridley Scott, and the Wachowskis,
returning to give us The Martian, Matt Damon as an astronaut stranded on Mars,
which sounds oddly familiar.
And Jupiter Ascending, an original space epic about Mila Kunis and
Channing Tatum verses the queen of the universe, respectively.
But for our number five, we've gotta hand it to Disney's Tomorrowland.
The story of a bright teenage girl and a jaded middle aged boy genius as they try
to unravel the mysteries of Tomorrowland, a world set in another dimension.
DIrected by Brad Bird and written by Damon Lindelof, the film is set to
star George Clooney and Britt Robertson, with Hugh Laurie as the villain.
The premise sounds awesome, the trailer looks fantastic, and
it seems like the perfect story for Pixar vet, Brad Bird.
All for an original sci fi blockbuster.
We can't wait to take a look.
>> Actor3: I'm gonna show you something beautiful.
>> Host: Of course we couldn't talk about the most anticipated movies of 2015
without at least one spot for super hero movies.
And while we'd be lying if we said we weren't looking forward to the latest
attempt at the Fantastic Four, and we're holding out hope in the powers of Marvel
that Ant Man is another surprise hit, a la Guardians of the Galaxy, there isn't
a superhero movie that people are looking forward to more than our number four,
the Avengers: Age of Ultron.
What is there to say about Age of Ultron?
Josh Wheaton is back with the entire cast, plus a few more more in the form of
Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, and the Vision.
In a story about you guessed it, the Avengers saving the world.
This time from a rogue artificial intelligence built by Tony Stark.
Think Terminator meets Iron Man.
In what will, undoubtedly, be one of cinema's biggest events of 2015, Age of
Ultron will give us Marvel's eleventh entry into their massive movie universe.
And the level of anticipation is sure to bring us lines
out the door at midnight screens everywhere.
>> Actor4: You just gotta keep living man.
L, I, V, I, N.
>> Host: If you're following the Oscar buzz this year you know that there
are some film makers that are getting a whole lot more attention than others.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is one of them.
Bird Man happened to be one of the weirdest, funniest, most awesome movies of
the year, and Inarritu is back in 2015 with The Revenant,
an 1820 western revenge thriller starring Leo DiCaprio who is robbed and left for
dead, after being mauled by a bear.
While that movie sounds really, really exciting, we're even more eager for
Richard Linklater's next film.
He got big press and Golden Globes for Boyhood, he's on track as the favorite for
this year's Oscar, and we think he certainly deserves it.
He's easily one of our favorite film makers.
Boyhood, the Before trilogy,
and a whole slew of other awesome films, Linklater's done it all.
The fans of his work will all mention Dazed and
And Confused as his real jumping off point.
Well the good news is that our number three, That's What I'm Talking About,
has been called the spiritual sequel to Dazed and Confused.
It doesn't have the same characters or story, but expect a similar tone.
And since Linklater's matured into one of the most personal film
makers of his generation, we can't wait to see what that means.
>> Actor5: I like the way you die boy.
>> Host: Closing in at number two we have to honor the offerings of some of our fan
favorite directors.
While Guillermo Del Toro is taking a step back from his big budget, Pacific Rim,
to a smaller horror film with Crimson Peak, that just misses our list,
instead we got to give it to Quintin Tarantino's long awaited Hateful Eight.
With a will he, won't he,
production history that say Quintin scrape the project after the script leaked.
He's changed his mind and he is back in the saddle.
With a cast that include the like of Tim Roth, Kurt Russel,
Bruce Stern and Samuel L Jackson, in a setting in post civil war Wyoming,
the film is sure to be bloody, campy, and badass in equal measure.
Tarantino is talented, popular and consistent, so we're hoping it's
more than worth the price of admission and we bet the rest of America is, too.
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>> Actor6: Past being in awakening.
Have you felt it?
>> Host: And finally, at number one, we really have only one choice for 2015.
In any other year, that might have been Jurassic World,
where you see Chris Pratt lead us back to Isla Nublar and our childhood.
But this year, our inner children have promised their hearts to one film and
one film only, Star Wars: Episode VII, The Force Awakens.
Is there a series more legendary, exciting, groundbreaking, or
nostalgic than Star Wars?
We're not sure, but we can't wait for the newest chapter.
Hilted light sabers, a brand-new cast, lens flares.
We don't really even know what to expect.
God, are we expecting?
There's nothing we can say that hasn't been said a million times already,
and will be said a million times more before the film's December release,
which is why it's our pick for the most anticipated film of 2015.
>> [MUSIC] >> Host: So what do you think?
Do you disagree with one of our picks?
Did we leave out one of your most anticipated films of this next year?
Let us know in the comments below, and be sure to subscribe for
more Cinefix movie lists.
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