There’s a trio of new movies to look forward to this week, including a much-hyped action sci-fi prequel, and the return of a certain lasagna-loving fat cat in animated form. Below you’ll find what will be showing in South African cinemas from this weekend.
And if you want to get a big head start, ticket sales have already opened for Deadpool & Wolverine, which is still a good two months away, with a 26 July release date. Lock your seat down at Ster Kinekor or Nu Metro.
The biggest new release this week is Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the prequel to George Miller’s 2015 Mad Max: Fury Road, and the fifth entry in the long-running Mad Max film series. Set 15 to 20 years before the events of Fury Road, as the world falls apart, a young Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy and Alyla Browne as young Furiosa) is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and into the hands of a Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus (Chris Hemsworth). While two Tyrants war for dominance over the Citadel, Furiosa survives many trials as she plots a way back home through the Wasteland. Miller returns to direct, and rounding out the cast are the likes of Angus Sampson, Nathan Jones, Tom Burke, John Howard and Lachy Hulme.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is coming to regular cinemas as well as IMAX. Read our full Furiosa review here.
Ahead of its Netflix streaming debut next month, Hit Man is releasing in cinemas. Directed by Before Sunrise’s Richard Linklater, action-comedy Hit Man is about a professor (Glen Powell) moonlighting as a hit man of sorts for his city police department. What’s exciting soon heads into dangerous, dubious territory when he finds himself attracted to a woman who enlists his services (Adria Arjona).
Returning to more animated roots following previous live-action + CGI outings is the world-famous comic strip cat Garfield in The Garfield Movie. The film stars Chris Pratt as the voice of the titular character, alongside the vocal talents of Samuel L. Jackson, Hannah Waddingham, Ving Rhames, Nicholas Hoult, Cecily Strong, Harvey Guillén, Brett Goldstein, Bowen Yang, and Snoop Dogg (as a cat). After an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father, scruffy street cat Vic, Garfield and Odie are forced from their perfectly pampered life into joining Vic in a hilarious, high-stakes heist.