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Pacific Rim

To Fight Monsters We Created Monsters

Release Date: Friday, July 12, 2013

Rating: Rated PG-13

When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju.

Studio: Warner Bros

Pain & Gain

Their American Dream is Bigger Than Yours

Release Date: Friday, April 26, 2013

Rating: Rated R

Originally told in the pages of the Miami New Times magazine, Pain & Gain tells the true story of a pair of bodybuilders in Florida who get caught up in an extortion and kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong.

Studio: Paramount Pictures

Paradise Lost

Rating: Not Rated

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Paranoia

Release Date: Friday, September 27, 2013

Rating: Rated R

In this high-stakes thriller, Adam Cassidy (Liam Hemsworth) is an ambitious junior technologist trying to climb the ranks of telecom giant Wyatt Corporation. But after one costly mistake, Adam is blackmailed by ruthless CEO Nicholas Wyatt (Gary Oldman) to turn corporate spy by going to work for the firm’s top competitor, which is run by Wyatt’s old mentor, Jock Goddard (Harrison Ford). Adam soon finds himself delivered into prepackaged success, living his fantasy life of old-world boardrooms, private clubs, exotic cars, and all the spoils of Manhattan bachelorhood.

Studio: Relativity Media / ROGUE Pictures

Paranormal Activity 3

It runs in the family

Release Date: Friday, October 21, 2011

The third film in the found footage franchise will serve as a prequel to the first two movies, taking place when possessed protagonist Katie was a child.

Studio: Paramount Pictures

Patriot Games

Let the Games Begin.

Release Date: Friday, June 5, 1992

Rating: Rated PG-13

In Patriot Games, Harrison Ford plays former CIA agent Jack Ryan, taking over from Alec Baldwin, who had played author Tom Clancy's brainy protagonist in Hunt for Red October. This time around, Ryan foils an attempted assassination, thereby incurring the wrath of a maniacal Irish radical (Sean Bean). After seemingly neutralizing the villains, and deciding to celebrate the occasion with his wife (Anne Archer) and daughter (Thora Birch), everything appears to be back to normal; then all hell breaks loose.

Studio: Paramount Pictures

Paul

Fugitive. Celebrity. Slacker. Joker. Alien.

Release Date: Friday, March 18, 2011

Rating: Not Rated

For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) has been hanging out at a top-secret military base. For reasons unknown, the space-travelling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town—a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Collings (Frost). Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship.

Studio: Universal Pictures

Piranha 3D

This summer 3D shows it's teeth.

Release Date: Friday, August 20, 2010

Rating: Rated R

From acclaimed director Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes) comes the new action thriller Piranha 3D, in the latest eye-popping 3D technology. A new type of terror is about to be cut loose on beautiful Lake Victoria. After a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish, an unlikely group of strangers must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food for the area’s new razor-toothed residents.

Studio: Dimension Films

Piranha 3DD

Twice the terror. Double the D's.

Release Date: Friday, June 1, 2012

Rating: Rated R

Having awoken from their spring break extravaganza at Lake Victoria, the swarm heads upstream where they look to make a meal out of Big Wet, a local water park where when it comes to fun, nobody does it wetter! Though they came to get wet, get loaded and get some, the staff and patrons get more than they bargained for when they must face the fiercest, most bloodthirsty piranhas yet. Lead by the strong-willed, studious Maddy and her friends, Barry and Kyle, the trio must dive in and take on these man-eating creatures using every ounce of their being…but can they be stopped?

Studio: Dimension Films

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

At the end of the world, the adventure begins.

Release Date: Thursday, May 24, 2007

Rating: Rated PG

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is a 2007 adventure fantasy film, the third film in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. The plot follows Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann and the crew of the Black Pearl rescuing Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), from Davy Jones's Locker, and then preparing to fight the East India Trading Company, led by Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander) and Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), who plan to extinguish piracy.

Studio: Walt Disney Pictures

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Captain Jack is back.

Release Date: Friday, July 7, 2006

Rating: Rated PG

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is a 2006 American adventure fantasy film and the second film of the Pirates of the Caribbean series, following Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003). It was directed by Gore Verbinski, written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.

Studio: Walt Disney Pictures

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Release Date: Friday, May 20, 2011

Rating: Rated PG

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End draws inspiration from the novel On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers, which is the same novel that inspired the LucasArts game The Secret of Monkey Island. The plot features Captain Jack Sparrow, again played by Johnny Depp, searching for the Fountain of Youth and confronting the pirate Blackbeard.

Studio: Walt Disney Pictures

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Prepare to be blown out of the water.

Release Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2003

Rating: Rated PG-13

For the roguish yet charming Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp), the crystalline waters of the Caribbean, like the high seas the world over, present a vast playground where adventure and mystery abound. But Jack's idyllic life capsizes after his nemesis, the wily Captain Barbossa (Rush), steals his ship, the Black Pearl, and later attacks the town of Port Royal, kidnapping the Governor's (Pryce) beautiful daughter, Elizabeth Swann (Knightly).

Studio: Walt Disney Pictures

Predator

Nothing like it has ever been on Earth before. It came from another planet for the thrill of the hunt. It picked the wrong man.

Release Date: Friday, June 12, 1987

Rating: Rated R

Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has a code of honor which he will not violate, even when his life depends on it. Paradoxically, his code of honor gives him the backbone to survive as a military special forces operative when he is sent on a covert mission to rescue another group which was sent in to assist some nefarious U.S. government plan in a Latin American country. Once there, he encounters an old army buddy (Carl Weathers) who has gotten too deep in the CIA's good graces for Dutch's comfort.

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Predators

Fear is Reborn

Rating: Rated R

Chosen for their ability to kill without conscience, a group of killers, some trained and some who are not, must endeavour the alien race of predators that have set out to target them as prey. Dropped into the vast jungle of a distant world, these human predators must learn just who, or what, they are up against, and that their ability, knowledge and wits are tested to the limits in the battle of survival of kill or be killed.

Predators breathes new life into the popular science fiction/action franchise which began over 20 years ago.

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Premium Rush

Ride Like Hell

Release Date: Friday, August 24, 2012

Rating: Rated PG-13

Dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies, open doors, and eight million cranky pedestrians is all in a day's work for Wilee (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the best of New York's agile and aggressive bicycle messengers. It takes a special breed to ride the fixie -- super lightweight, single-gear bikes with no brakes and riders who are equal part skilled cyclists and suicidal nutcases who risk becoming a smear on the pavement every time they head into traffic.

Studio: Columbia Pictures

Priest

Release Date: Friday, May 13, 2011

Rating: Rated PG-13

Set 100 years from now after the war between Christians and Satanists, the film is about a Christian warrior priest (Paul Bettany) who disobeys church law by teaming with a young sheriff (Cam Gigandet) and a priestess (Maggie Q) to track down a cult of vampire outlaws that is led by a former Christian and now a Satanic priest, Black Hat, who kidnapped his niece before they brainwash her.

Studio: Sony Pictures

Prometheus

The Search for Our Beginning Could Lead to Our End

Release Date: Friday, June 8, 2012

Rating: Rated R

Visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott returns to the genre he helped define, creating an original science fiction epic set in the most dangerous corners of the universe. The film takes a team of scientists and explorers on a thrilling journey that will test their physical and mental limits and strand them on a distant world, where they will discover the answers to our most profound questions and to life’s ultimate mystery.

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Puncture

Madman. Genius. Playboy. Friend. Fool. Lawyer.

Release Date: Friday, September 23, 2011

Mike Weiss (Chris Evans) is a talented young Houston lawyer and a functioning drug addict. Paul Danziger (co-director Mark Kassen), his longtime friend and partner, is the straightlaced and responsible yin to Mike’s yang. Their mom-and-pop personal-injury law firm is getting by, but things really get interesting when they decide to take on a case involving Vicky (Vinessa Shaw​), a local ER nurse, who is pricked by a contaminated needle on the job.