2016 Sci-Fi Movies Preview

The Space Between Us (July 29, 2016)

Starring: Gary Oldman, Asa Butterfield, Carla Gugino, Britt Robertson, BD Wong, and Janet Montgomery

The Plot: In this star-crossed science fiction love story about two teens from different worlds, Gardner Elliot, the first human born on Mars, is secretly raised in an experimental colony after his astronaut mother dies during childbirth. Sixteen years later, Gardner begins an online romance with a girl living in Colorado and hatches a plan to travel across the universe to meet her.

Now, on the run, with Earth’s gravity threatening his very existence, Gardner must race against time and nature to find his love and win her heart. Once united, the two teens venture to seek out the enigmatic billionaire who funded the original expedition to Mars, in hopes of uncovering information about Gardner’s mother and the mysterious circumstances surrounding how Gardner came into existence.

Spectral (August 12, 2016)

Starring: Emily Mortimer, Max Martini, James Badge Dale, Bruce Greenwood, and Clayne Crawford

The Plot: Legendary Pictures’ Spectral is a 3D action-thriller that tracks an elite Spec Ops team on a mission to take down an aggressive phantom threat that cannot be explained.

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Star Trek Beyond (July 22, 2016)

Starring: Chris Pine, Simon Pegg, Zach Quinto, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, Anton Yelchin and Karl Urban

The Plot: The crew of the Enterprise are stranded on a hostile planet and must survive a new alien threat.

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Synchronicity (January 22, 2016)

Starring: Chad McKnight, AJ Bowen, Brianne Davis, Scott Poythress, and Michael Ironside

The Plot: Daring physicist Jim Beale has invented a machine that can fold space-time and ruthless corporate tycoon Klaus Meisner will stop at nothing to get it. When Jim uses the machine to tear open the fabric of the universe, a rare Dahlia appears from the future. But in order to keep the rights to his invention he must prove that it works by finding the flower’s identical match in the present. Jim soon discovers that the Dahlia lies in the hands of the mysterious Abby, who seduces him into revealing his secrets. Convinced that she is in league with Klaus to take ownership of his life’s work, Jim travels back in time to stop the conspiracy before it can happen. But once in the past, Jim uncovers a surprising truth about Abby, the machine, and his own uncertain future.

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Stephen Amell as Casey Jones and Megan Fox as April O’Neil in ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows’ (Photo © 2015 Paramount Pictures)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (June 3, 2016)

Starring: Megan Fox, Stephen Amell, Sheamus Farrelly, Gary Anthony Williams, Tyler Perry, Will Arnett, William Fictner, Brittany Ishibashi, Laura Linney, and Brian Tee

The Plot: The sequel to 2014’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Out of the Shadows features Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo once again fighting to save their city.

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Starring: Analeigh Tipton, Michael Kelly, and Sofia Black-D’Elia

The Plot: Per IMDB – “Following the outbreak of a virus that wipes out the majority of the human population, a young woman documents her family’s new life in quarantine and tries to protect her infected sister.”

What Happened to Monday? (November 15, 2016)

Starring: Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close, and Willem Dafoe

The Plot: In a not so distant future, where overpopulation and famine have forced governments to undertake a drastic One-Child Policy, seven identical sisters live a hide-and-seek existence pursued by the Child Allocation Bureau. The Bureau, directed by the fierce Nicolette Cayman, enforces a strict family-planning agenda that the sisters outwit by taking turns assuming the identity of one person: Karen Settman. Taught by their grandfather who raised and named them – Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday – each can go outside once a week as their common identity, but are only free to be themselves in the prison of their own apartment. That is until, one day, Monday does not come home…

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Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult in ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ (Photo © 2015 20th Century Fox)

X-Men: Apocalypse (May 27, 2016)

Starring: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner, Olivia Munn, Lucas Till, Evan Peters, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Alexandra Shipp, Josh Helman, Lana Condor, and Ben Hardy

The Plot: Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshiped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel’s X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto (Michael Fassbender), to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) with the help of Professor X (James McAvoy) must lead a team of young X-Men to stop their greatest nemesis and save mankind from complete destruction.

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