Sunday, September 21, 2014

Top 25 Movies in Action & Adventure

iTunes Store: Top Movies in Action & Adventure

McG - 3 Days to Kill artwork 3 Days to Kill
McG
Genre: Action & Adventure
Price: $14.99
Rental Price: $4.99
Release Date: February 21, 2014

In this heart pounding action-thriller, Kevin Costner is a dangerous international spy determined to give up his high stakes life to build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter. But first, he must complete one last mission.
© © 2013 3DTK Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Phil Lord & Christopher Miller - 21 Jump Street artwork 21 Jump Street
Phil Lord & Christopher Miller
Genre: Action & Adventure
Price: $12.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: March 16, 2012

Former high school foes turned rookie cop partners can't catch a break – until they're assigned to pose as students and bust a drug ring inside their old alma mater. Living like teenagers again, they slip back into their adolescent selves and risk the case – and their friendship - with hysterically disastrous results! Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum and Ice Cube star in this outrageously hilarious action-comedy!
© © 2012 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved.


Camille Delamarre - Brick Mansions artwork Brick Mansions
Camille Delamarre
Genre: Action & Adventure
Price: $14.99
Rental Price: $4.99
Release Date: April 25, 2014

In a dystopian Detroit, abandoned brick mansions left from better times now house only the most dangerous criminals. Unable to control the crime, the police constructed a colossal containment wall around this area to protect the rest of the city. Undercover cop Damien Collier (Paul Walker) is determined to bring his father’s killer, Tremaine (RZA) to justice and every day is a battle against corruption. For Lino (David Belle), every day is a fight to live an honest life. Their paths never should have crossed, but when Tremaine kidnaps Lino’s girlfriend, Damien reluctantly accepts the help of the fearless ex-convict, and together they must stop a sinister plot to devastate the entire city. With stylized action featuring thrilling Parkour stunts (David Belle is the co-founder of this physical training discipline), Brick Mansions puts an entertaining twist on the action genre.
© © 2013 Europacorp - Transfilm International Inc.
Joe Johnston - Captain America: The First Avenger artwork Captain America: The First Avenger
Joe Johnston
Genre: Action & Adventure
Price: $19.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: July 22, 2011

After being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers volunteers for a top secret research project that turns him into Captain America, a superhero dedicated to defending America's ideals. Captain America leads the fight for freedom as the ultimate weapon against evil. When a terrifying force threatens everyone across the globe, the world's greatest soldier wages war on the evil HYDRA organization, led by the villainous Red Skull.
© © 2011 Marvel Entertainment, LLC and its subsidiaries. All rights reserved.
Anthony Russo & Joe Russo - Captain America: The Winter Soldier artwork Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Anthony Russo & Joe Russo
Genre: Action & Adventure
Price: $19.99
Rental Price: $4.99
Release Date: April 4, 2014

After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Marvel’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” finds Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn. When the full scope of the villainous plot is revealed, Captain America and the Black Widow enlist the help of a new ally, the Falcon. However, they soon find themselves up against an unexpected and formidable enemy—the Winter Soldier.
© © 2014 Marvel
Chris Renaud & Pierre Coffin - Despicable Me artwork Despicable Me
Chris Renaud & Pierre Coffin
Genre: Kids & Family
Price: $9.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: July 9, 2010

Get ready for a minion laughs in the funniest blockbuster hit of the year! Vying for the title of “World’s Greatest Villain”, Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) – along with his hilarious crew of mischievous minions – plots to pull off the craziest crime of the century: steal the moon! But when Gru enlists the help of three little girls, they see something in him nobody else has ever seen: the perfect dad. From executive producer Chris Meledandri (Horton Hears a Who, Ice Age), and featuring the voices of an all-star comedic cast, including Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Miranda Cosgrove and Julie Andrews, Despicable Me is “rousingly funny, heartfelt and imaginative” (Pete Hammond, Boxoffice Magazine).
© © 2010 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Neil Burger - Divergent artwork Divergent
Neil Burger
Genre: Action & Adventure
Price: $19.99
Rental Price: $3.99
Release Date: March 21, 2014

Based on the worldwide bestseller, DIVERGENT is a thrilling action-adventure set in a future world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues. Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley) is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy by a faction leader (Kate Winslet) to destroy all Divergents, she must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it's too late.
© 2014 Motion Picture Artwork TM & © Summit Entertainment, LLC.  All Rights Reserved.
Gareth Edwards - Godzilla (2014) artwork Godzilla (2014)
Gareth Edwards
Genre: Action & Adventure
Price: $19.99
Rental Price: $3.99
Release Date: May 16, 2014

In this gritty, realistic sci-fi action epic, Godzilla returns to its roots as one of the world's most recognized monsters. Directed by Gareth Edwards and featuring an all-star international cast, this spectacular adventure pits Godzilla against malevolent creatures that, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.
© © 2014 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Legendary Pictures Productions, LLC and Ratpac-Dune Entertainment LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Dean Deblois & Chris Sanders - How to Train Your Dragon artwork How to Train Your Dragon
Dean Deblois & Chris Sanders
Genre: Kids & Family
Price: $9.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: March 26, 2010

This Academy Award®-nominated DreamWorks Animation film rolls fire-breathing action, epic adventure and big laughs into a captivating, fun and original story. Hiccup is a young Viking who defies tradition and befriends one of his deadliest foes – a ferocious dragon he calls Toothless. Together, the unlikely heroes fight against the odds to save both their worlds in this wonderful, feel-good hit.
© © 2010 DreamWorks Animation L.L.C. All Rights Reserved.
Kenneth Branagh - Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit artwork Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Kenneth Branagh
Genre: Action & Adventure
Price: $14.99
Rental Price: $4.99
Release Date: January 17, 2014

Based on the CIA analyst created by espionage master Tom Clancy, “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” is a blistering action thriller that follows Ryan (Chris Pine, “Star Trek”) from his quiet double-life as a veteran-turned-Wall Street executive to his all-out initiation as a hunted American agent on the trail of a massive terrorist plot in Moscow.
© © 2014 Paramount Pictures Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
David Gordon Green - Joe artwork Joe
David Gordon Green
Genre: Drama
Price: $14.99
Rental Price: $0.99
Release Date: April 11, 2014

Academy Award® winner Nicolas Cage stars as Joe, a hard-living ex-con who is the unlikeliest of role models. But when he meets a troubled 15-year-old homeless boy (Tye Sheridan) desperately in need of help, Joe is faced with the heartbreaking choice of redemption or ruin.
Doug Liman - Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow artwork Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow
Doug Liman
Genre: Action & Adventure
Price: $19.99
Release Date: June 6, 2014

An alien race, undefeatable by any existing military unit, has launched a relentless attack on Earth, and Major William Cage (Tom Cruise) finds himself dropped into a suicide mission. Killed within minutes, Cage is thrown into a time loop, forced to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying again and again. Training alongside warrior Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), his skills slowly evolve, and each battle moves them one step closer to defeating the enemy in this fun action thriller.
© © 2014 Warner Bros. Ent. All Rights Reserved
Peter Berg - Lone Survivor artwork Lone Survivor
Peter Berg
Genre: Action & Adventure
Price: $14.99
Rental Price: $4.99
Release Date: December 25, 2013

Based on The New York Times bestselling true story of heroism, courage and survival, Lone Survivor tells the incredible tale of four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative. The four men must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish. Academy Award® nominee Mark Wahlberg (The Fighter) leads an all-star cast including Taylor Kitsch (Savages), Ben Foster (3:10 to Yuma), Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild), and Eric Bana (Munich) in a movie hailed by critics as “unforgettable, tense, and inspiring.” (Movieline)
© © 2013 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Rian Johnson - Looper artwork Looper
Rian Johnson
Genre: Action & Adventure
Price: $9.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: September 27, 2012

In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination. The film is written and directed by Rian Johnson and also stars Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, and Jeff Daniels.
© © 2012 Looper Distribution, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Jaume Collet-Serra - Non-Stop artwork Non-Stop
Jaume Collet-Serra
Genre: Action & Adventure
Price: $14.99
Rental Price: $4.99
Release Date: February 28, 2014

Global action star Liam Neeson stars in this action thriller played out at 40,000 feet in the air. During a transatlantic flight, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks (Neeson) receives a series of cryptic text messages threatening to kill a passenger every 20 minutes unless $150 million is transferred into an off-shore account. With the lives of hundreds of passengers hanging in the balance, Marks must use every nuance of his training to uncover the killer traveling on the aircraft. Co-starring Julianne Moore (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1), Michelle Dockery (TV’s Downton Abbey) and Academy Award® winner Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave).
© © 2013 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Bong Joon-ho - Snowpiercer artwork Snowpiercer
Bong Joon-ho
Genre: Action & Adventure
Price: $14.99
Rental Price: $6.99
Release Date: June 27, 2014

A post-apocalyptic ice age forces humanity’s last survivors aboard a globe-spanning super train. One man (Chris Evans) will risk everything to lead a revolt for control of the engine and the future of the world.
© © 2013 Snowpiercer Ltd. Co.
Marc Webb - The Amazing Spider-Man 2 artwork The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Marc Webb
Genre: Action & Adventure
Price: $17.99
Rental Price: $3.99
Release Date: May 2, 2014

It’s great to be Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield). For Peter Parker, there’s no feeling quite like swinging between skyscrapers, embracing being the hero, and spending time with Gwen (Emma Stone). But being Spider-Man comes at a price: only Spider-Man can protect his fellow New Yorkers from the formidable villains that threaten the city. With the emergence of Electro (Jamie Foxx), Peter must confront a foe far more powerful than he. And as his old friend, Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan), returns, Peter comes to realize that all of his enemies have one thing in common: Oscorp.
© © 2014 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Marvel, Spider-Man and all related character names and their distinctive likenesses: ™ & 2014 Marvel Entertainment, LLC and its subsidiaries. All Rights Reserved.
Christian Tureaud & David Salzberg - The Hornet's Nest artwork The Hornet's Nest
Christian Tureaud & David Salzberg
Genre: Action & Adventure
Price: $14.99
Rental Price: $3.99
Release Date: September 9, 2014

The Hornet's Nest is a groundbreaking and immersive feature film, using unprecedented real footage to tell the story of an elite group of U.S. troops sent on a dangerous mission deep inside one of Afghanistan’s most hostile valleys. The film culminates with what was planned as a single day strike turning into nine intense days of harrowing combat against an invisible, hostile enemy in the country’s complex terrain where no foreign troops have ever dared to go before. Two embedded journalists, a father and son, bravely followed the troops through the fiercest and most blood-soaked battlegrounds of the conflict. What resulted is an intensely raw feature film experience that will give audiences a deeply emotional and authentic view of the heroism at the center of this gripping story.
© © 2014 The Hornet's Nest
Edward Zwick - The Last Samurai artwork The Last Samurai
Edward Zwick
Genre: Action & Adventure
Price: $9.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: December 5, 2003

Epic Action Drama. Set in Japan during the 1870s, The Last Samurai tells the story of Capt. Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), a respected American military officer hired by the Emperor of Japan to train the country's first army in the art of modern warfare. As the Emperor attempts to eradicate the ancient Imperial Samurai warriors in preparation for more Westernized and trade-friendly government policies, Algren finds himself unexpectedly impressed and influenced by his encounters with the Samurai, which places him at the center of a struggle between two eras and two worlds, with only his own sense of honor to guide him.
© © 2003 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Phil Lord & Christopher Miller - The LEGO Movie artwork The LEGO Movie
Phil Lord & Christopher Miller
Genre: Kids & Family
Price: $19.99
Rental Price: $3.99
Release Date: February 7, 2014

The first-ever full-length theatrical LEGO movie follows Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO mini figure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared.
© © 2014 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
David Michod - The Rover (2014) artwork The Rover (2014)
David Michod
Genre: Thriller
Price: $14.99
Rental Price: $4.99
Release Date: June 13, 2014

THE ROVER, David Michôd's highly anticipated follow-up to ANIMAL KINGDOM, is set in a world 10 years following the collapse of society. The rule of the law has disintegrated and life is cheap. The film follows hardened loner Eric (Pearce) as he travels the desolate towns and roads of the outback. When a gang of thieves steals his car, they leave behind a wounded Rey (Pattinson) in their wake. Forcing Rey to help track the gang, Eric will go to any lengths to take back the one thing that still matters to him. Michôd also wrote the film based on a story he conceived with Joel Edgerton.
© © 2013 Rover Film Holdings Pty Limited, Screen Australia, Screen NSW and The South Australian Film Corporation
Ben Stiller - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty artwork The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Ben Stiller
Genre: Comedy
Price: $14.99
Rental Price: $4.99
Release Date: December 25, 2013

A moment comes when you stop dreaming, start living and discover your destiny. For day dreamer Walter Mitty, that time is now. When his job, along with that of his coworker (Kristen Wiig) are threatened, Walter takes action and embarks on an incredible journey. Ben Stiller directs and co-stars in this inspiring story about an ordinary man who leaps into the extraordinary adventure that is life.
© © 2013 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.
William Eubank - The Signal (2014) artwork The Signal (2014)
William Eubank
Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Price: $14.99
Release Date: June 13, 2014

Nic (Brenton Thwaites of The Giver and Maleficent), Haley (Olivia Cooke of Bates Motel), and Jonah (Beau Knapp of Super 8) are three college students pondering the future. Haley is relocating for a year, and her devoted boyfriend Nic and his pal Jonah are helping in the cross-country move. But their road trip across the Southwest experiences a detour: the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. Nic and Jonah have piqued this mysterious hacker’s interest, and vice versa. The trail heats up, provocations are traded online, and the trio find themselves drawn to an isolated area. Night falls, contact is made, and suddenly everything goes dark. When Nic regains consciousness, he is in a waking nightmare. His friends are nowhere to be seen, but he is determined to locate them – in whatever form they may still be alive. His only lead is the man who now meticulously interrogates him, Dr. Wallace Damon (Academy Award® nominee Laurence Fishburne). Damon voices concern for Nic’s safety, and tries to evaluate the younger man’s sense of reality. As the two match wits, Nic looks to break free…
© © 2014 Focus Features. All Rights Reserved.
Tony Scott - Top Gun (1986) artwork Top Gun (1986)
Tony Scott
Genre: Action & Adventure
Price: $9.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: May 12, 1986

A hip, heart-pounding combination of action, music and incredible aerial photography helped make Top Gun the blockbuster hit of 1986. Top Gun takes a look at the danger and excitement that awaits every pilot at the Navy's prestigious fighter weapons school. Tom Cruise is superb as Maverick Mitchell, a daring young flyer who's out to become the best. And Kelly McGillis sizzles as the civilian instructor who teaches Maverick a few things you can't learn in a classroom.
© © 2004 Paramount Pictures
Michael Bay - Transformers: Age of Extinction artwork Transformers: Age of Extinction
Michael Bay
Genre: Action & Adventure
Price: $19.99
Release Date: June 27, 2014

From director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg comes the best 'Transformers' ever! With humanity facing extinction from a terrifying new threat, it's up to Optimus Prime and the Autobots to save the world. But now that our government has turned against them, they'll need a new team of allies, including inventor Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg) and the fearsome Dinobots!
© © 2014 Paramount Pictures Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

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