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Despite public demand, Rovio's The Angry Birds Movie lands in cinemas on May 13. The first hit smartphone game to make the leap to the multiplex, it may just prompt a wave of app-based epics. Here are some we really hope don't get green-lit.
Director: J.J. Abrams
Archaeologist Kentucky Smith (Nicolas Cage) finds himself hunted by Islamic State after stealing artefacts from a Syrian temple as it's being blown up. Teaming up with an alcoholic spy (Adam Driver), Smith is chased across the Middle East - all a set-up for the sequel, The Infinite Scrolls. Temple Runhas actually already been optioned for a film.
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Ken Watanabe stars as an ageing shinobi in this claustrophobic arthouse thriller. On the run from the cops, Watanabe's furious Snowflame darts into a Tribeca grocery store before taking the oddly unbothered owner (played by Bill Murray) - hostage. Shots - and watermelons - will fly!
Director: Werner Herzog
An alien (a motion-captured Shia LaBeouf) wakes up on a floating rock, with no memory of how he got there. He jumps to the slab above, then to the one above that, and so on, hoping to find a clue to his predicament. A monologue, narrated by the director, has the alien pondering the futility of existence, and of life itself.
Director: Christopher Nolan
Maisie Williams plays plucky princess Ida in this epic from the master of nonlinear storytelling. Our mute, soul-searching heroine defies the laws of physics and geometry as impossible architecture unravels around her, while being stalked by the possibly illusory Crow People (all played by Tom Hardy). A mind-bending 70mm experience to be screened exclusively in specially designed revolving cinemas.
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