Action Soundtracks 2014 List

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Interstellar PG-13

A sci-fi film that delves into Caltech physicist Kip Thorne's theories of gravity fields. A space travel story about a group of explorers who travel through a worm hole and into another dimension. Based on real science, the film will explore the mind-bending territory of black holes and gravity waves and touch on some of the hypotheses that Albert Einstein chased but never could prove.
Steven Spielberg, Anne Hathaway, Christopher Nolan, Matthew McConaughey, Jordan Goldberg, Emma Thomas, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 PG-13

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 now brings the franchise to its powerful fourth chapter in which Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) now fully realizes the stakes are no longer just for survival -- they are for the future.

With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss confronts President Snow (Donald Sutherland) in the final showdown. Teamed with a group of her closest friends – including Gale (Liam Hemsworth), Finnick (Sam Claflin), and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) – Katniss goes off on a mission with the unit from District 13 as they risk their lives to stage an assassination attempt on President Snow who has become increasingly obsessed with destroying her. The mortal traps, enemies, and moral choices that await Katniss will challenge her more than any arena she faced in The Hunger Games.
Francis Lawrence, Jennifer Lawrence, Elizabeth Banks, Mahershala Ali, Liam Hemsworth, Julianne Moore, Stanley Tucci, Toby Jones
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 PG-13

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice, but even though she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. President Snow makes it clear that no one is safe either -- not Katniss's family, not her friends and not the people of District 12.
Francis Lawrence, Jennifer Lawrence, Elizabeth Banks, Mahershala Ali, Liam Hemsworth, Stanley Tucci, Toby Jones, Jon Kilik

John Wick R

An ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is a fresh and stylized take on the "assassin genre".
Adrianne Palicki, Keanu Reeves, Willem Dafoe, Chad Stahelski, Derek Kolstad, Jason Isaacs, Eva Longoria, Basil Iwanyk

Revenge of the Green Dragons R

The film follows two immigrant brothers Sonny (Justin Chon) and Steven (Kevin Wu) who survive the impoverished despair of New York in the 1980s by joining Chinatown gang "The Green Dragons". The brothers quickly rise up the ranks, drawing the unwanted attention of hard-boiled city cops. After an ill- fated love affair pits Sonny against his own brother, he sets out for revenge on the very gang who made him who he is.
Andrew Lau, Andrew Loo, Martin Scorsese, Justin Chon, Kevin Wu
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The Expendables 3 PG-13

In The Expendables 3, Barney (Sylvester Stallone), Christmas (Jason Statham) and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks (Mel Gibson), who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables -- but Barney has other plans. Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster and more tech-savvy. The latest mission becomes a clash of classic old-school style versus high-tech expertise in the Expendables’ most personal battle yet.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson, Avi Lerner, Nicolas Cage, Jackie Chan, Wesley Snipes, Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham
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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

In Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Dwight (Josh Brolin) is hunted down by the only woman he ever loved, Ava Lord, and then watches his life go straight to hell. Chronologically, this story takes place prior to “The Big Fat Kill” (featured in the film Frank Miller's Sin City) and explains how Dwight came to have a dramatically different face.
Mickey Rourke, Jeremy Piven, Bruce Willis, Rosario Dawson, William Monahan, Michael Madsen, Jamie Chung, Ray Liotta

The Giver PG-13

In a perfect world where there is no conflict, racism or sickness, every member of society has a specific role, and 16-year-old Jonas is selected to be the Receiver of Memories. As Jonas uncovers the truth behind his world's past, he discovers that many years earlier his forefathers gave up humanity in order to have a stable society.
Alexander Skarsgard, Jeff Bridges, Odeya Rush, Brenton Thwaites, Taylor Swift, Neil Koenigsberg, John Heyman, Vadim Perelman

The November Man R

The film will follow a "sleeping" agent (Pierce Brosnan) who is called out of retirement thanks to a government conspiracy.
Pierce Brosnan, Luke Bracey, Will Patton, Michael Finch, Olga Kurylenko, Roger Donaldson, Karl Gajdusek, Eliza Taylor

The Equalizer

Denzel Washington plays Robert McCall, a retired intelligence officer who helps the powerless. In the movie version, he is living a quiet life while working at a Home Depot, when one act of kindness toward a prostitute (Chloe Moretz) gets him embroiled with the Russian mob. Marton Csokas will play a vicious fixer for the Russians.
Denzel Washington, Melissa Leo, Jason Blumenthal, Richard Wenk, Chloë Grace Moretz, David Harbour, Mace Neufeld, Tony Eldridge

Into the Storm PG-13

In the span of a single day, the town of Silverton is ravaged by an unprecedented onslaught of tornadoes. The entire town is at the mercy of the erratic and deadly cyclones, even as storm trackers predict the worst is yet to come. Most people seek shelter, while others run towards the vortex, testing how far a storm chaser will go for that once-in-a-lifetime shot.

Told through the eyes and lenses of professional storm chasers, thrill-seeking amateurs, and courageous townspeople, Into the Storm throws you directly into the eye of the storm to experience Mother Nature at her most extreme.
Matt Walsh, Steven Quale, Richard Armitage, Todd Garner, John Swetnam, Simon Beaufoy, Arlen Escarpeta, Alycia Debnam-Carey

Sabotage

Follows an elite DEA task force that deals with the world's deadliest drug cartels. Specializing in complex mobile operations, the team executes a tactical raid on a cartel safe house. What looks to be a typical raid turns out to be an elaborate theft operation, pre-planned by the DEA squad. After hiding millions in stolen cash, the team believes their secret is safe - until someone begins assassinating them one by one.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Joe Roth, Dawn Olivieri, Palak Patel, Malin Akerman, Norton Herrick, Paul Hanson, Bill Block

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes PG-13

A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species.
Matt Reeves, Andy Serkis, Judy Greer, Peter Chernin, Amanda Silver, Scott Z. Burns, Jason Clarke, Kodi Smit-McPhee

Guardians of the Galaxy PG-13

An American pilot ends up in space in the middle of a universal conflict and goes on the run with futuristic ex-cons who have something everyone wants.
Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Chris Pratt, Benicio Del Toro, Djimon Hounsou, James Gunn, Kevin Feige

Edge of Tomorrow PG-13

Lt. Col. Bill Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously dropped into what amounts to a suicide mission. Killed within minutes, Cage now finds himself inexplicably thrown into a time loop—forcing him to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying again…and again.

But with each battle, Cage becomes able to engage the adversaries with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt). And, as Cage and Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated encounter gets them one step closer to defeating the enemy.
Doug Liman, Jeremy Piven, Tom Lassally, Dante Harper, Tom Cruise, Kick Gurry, Joby Harold, Emily Blunt

X-Men: Days of Future Past PG-13

The story is partially set in an alternate future where surviving mutants have been penned in concentration camps, giant robots called Sentinels patrol America, and most of the X-Men have been hunted and killed. In the present day, the X-Men were forced to stop a key event from unfolding in order to keep that future from occurring.
Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, Patrick Stewart, Matthew Vaughn, Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg

Escape Plan R

Ray Breslin (Stallone), the world's foremost authority on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called "The Tomb.” But when he is wrongly imprisoned, he must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer (Schwarzenegger) to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Randall Emmett, Miles Chapman, Jim Caviezel, George Furla, Jason Keller, Sylvester Stallone, Vincent D'Onofrio

Stalingrad R

Stalingrad is a drama set in 1942, during one of the most important battles of World War II, which stopped the progress of Nazi forces and turned the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The Soviet army mounts a counter-attack on the Nazi forces that occupy half of Stalingrad on the other side of the Volga, but the operation to cross the river is unsuccessful. A few soldiers who managed to get to the other side take refuge in a house on the bank of Volga. Here they find a girl who didn’t escape when the Germans came. While the whole might of the German army descends onto them, the heroes of Stalingrad experience love, loss, joy and the sense of ultimate freedom that can only be felt by those about to die. They defend the house at all costs while the Red Army prepares for another attack.
Fedor Bondarchuk, Iliya Tilkin, Sergey Snezhkin

Lone Survivor R

Tells the story of four Navy SEALs on an ill-fated covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative who are ambushed by enemy forces in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan.
Peter Berg, Akiva Goldsman, Emile Hirsch, Alexander Ludwig, Kerry Foster, Randall Emmett, Barry Spikings, Mark Wahlberg

Godzilla PG-13

The film retells the origin of Godzilla in contemporary times as a "terrifying force of nature".
Bryan Cranston, Gareth Edwards, Sally Hawkins, Thomas Tull, Richard T. Jones, David S. Goyer, Max Borenstein, David Strathairn

Under the Skin R

Storyline revolves around an alien disguised as a mesmerizing woman who snares human prey on remote highways and other desolate spots with her voracious sexuality. Over time, she begins to change her thinking about humans and finds herself on a collision course with her own kind.
Scarlett Johansson, Tanya Seghatchian, Tessa Ross, Jonathan Glazer, Nick Wechsler, James Wilson, Walter Campbell, Antonia Campbell-Hughes

Need for Speed PG-13

The story chronicles a near-impossible cross-country race against time—one that begins as a mission for revenge, but proves to be one of redemption. In a last attempt to save his struggling garage, blue-collar mechanic Tobey Marshall (Aaron Paul)—who with his team skillfully builds and races muscle cars on the side—reluctantly partners with wealthy, arrogant ex-NASCAR driver Dino Brewster (Dominic Cooper). Just as a major sale to car broker Julia Bonet (Imogen Poots) looks like it will save the business, a disastrous, unsanctioned race results in Dino framing Tobey for manslaughter.

Two years later and fresh out of prison, Tobey is set on revenge with plans to take down Dino in the high-stakes De Leon race—the Super Bowl of underground racing. To get there in time, Tobey must run a high-octane, action-packed gauntlet, dodging cops coast-to-coast and dealing with fallout from a dangerous bounty Dino put on his car. With his loyal crew and the surprisingly resourceful Julia as allies, Tobey defies odds at every turn and proves that even in the flashy world of exotic supercars, the underdog can still finish first.
Michael Keaton, Imogen Poots, Rami Malek, Dakota Johnson, Kid Cudi, Dominic Cooper, Han Soto, John Gatins

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 PG-13

For Peter Parker, life is busy. Between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen Stacy, high school graduation can’t come quickly enough. Peter hasn’t forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s father to protect her by staying away, but that’s a promise he just can’t keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro, emerges, an old friend, Harry Osborn, returns, and Peter uncovers new clues about his past
James Vanderbilt, Emma Stone, Felicity Jones, Andrew Garfield, Matt Tolmach, Roberto Orci, Martin Sheen, Avi Arad

The Raid 2 R

Picking up right where the first film ends, The Raid 2 follows Rama (Uwais) as he goes undercover and infiltrates the ranks of a ruthless Jakarta crime syndicate in order to protect his family and uncover the corruption in his own police force.
Gareth Evans, Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, Donny Alamsyah, Tio Pakusodewo

300: Rise of An Empire R

This new chapter of the epic saga takes the action to a fresh battlefield—on the sea—as Greek general Themistokles (Sullivan Stapleton) attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. 300: Rise of an Empire pits Themistokles against the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), and Artemesia (Eva Green), vengeful commander of the Persian navy.
Eva Green, Zack Snyder, Thomas Tull, Callan Mulvey, Noam Murro, Jamie Blackley, Sullivan Stapleton, Mark Canton

Non-Stop PG-13

Liam Neeson stars in Non-Stop, a suspense thriller played out at 40,000 feet in the air. During a transatlantic flight from New York City to London, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks (Neeson) receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the airline to transfer $150 million into an off-shore account. Until he secures the money, a passenger on his flight will be killed every 20 minutes. The
Jaume Collet-Serra, Lupita Nyong'o, Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Linus Roache, Anson Mount, Corey Stoll, Omar Metwally

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit PG-13

This original story follow a young Jack (Chris Pine) as he uncovers a financial terrorist plot. The story follows him from 9/11, through his tour of duty in Afghanistan, which scarred him forever, and into his early days in the Financial Intelligence Unit of the modern CIA where he becomes an analyst, under the guardianship of his handler, Harper (Kevin Costner). When Ryan believes he’s uncovered a Russian plot to collapse the United States economy, he goes from being an analyst to becoming a spy and must fight to save his own life and those of countless others, while also trying to protect the thing that's more important to him than anything, his relationship with his fiancée Cathy (Keira Knightley).
Kevin Costner, Chris Pine, Adam Cozad, David Ellison, Mace Neufeld, David Koepp, David Paymer, Kenneth Branagh

Robocop PG-13

In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years – and it’s meant billions for OmniCorp’s bottom line. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) – a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit – is critically injured in the line of duty, OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine pursuing justice.
James Vanderbilt, Michael Keaton, Abbie Cornish, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael K. Williams, Josh Zetumer, David Self, Nick Schenk

Vampire Academy

Vampire Academy tells the legend of Rose Hathaway (Zoey Deutch) and Lissa Dragomir (Lucy Fry), two 17-year-old girls who attend a hidden boarding school for Moroi (mortal, peaceful Vampires) and Dhampirs (half-vampire/half-human guardians). Rose, a rebellious Guardian-in-training and her best friend, Lissa - a royal vampire Princess - have been on the run when they are captured and returned to St.Vladamirs Academy, the very place where they believe their lives may be in most jeopardy. Thrust back into the perils of Moroi Society and high school, Lissa struggles to reclaim her status while Rose trains with her mentor and love-interest, Dimitri (Danila Kozlovsky), to guarantee her place as Lissa's guardian. Rose will sacrifice everything to protect Lissa from those who intend to exploit her from within the Academy walls and the Strigoi (immortal, evil vampires) who hunt her kind from outside its sanctuary.
Dan Waters, Mark S. Waters, Don Murphy, Zoey Deutch, Olga Kurylenko, Claire Foy, Michael Preger, Danila Kozlovskiy

The LEGO Movie PG

The original 3D computer animated story follows Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure 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.

Chris Pratt stars as the voice of Emmet. Will Ferrell stars as the voice of his primary adversary, President Business, an erudite, anal-retentive CEO who has a hard time balancing world domination with micro-managing his own life; while Liam Neeson voices the president’s powerful henchman, known as Bad Cop, who will stop at nothing to catch Emmet.

Starring as Emmet’s fellow travelers are Morgan Freeman, as Vitruvius, an old mystic; Elizabeth Banks, as tough-as-nails Lucy, who mistakes Emmet for the savior of the world and guides him on his quest; Will Arnett, as the mysterious Batman, a LEGO minifigure with whom Lucy shares a history; Nick Offerman as a craggy, swaggering pirate obsessed with revenge on President Business; and Alison Brie as a sweet, loveable member of the team, with a powerful secret.
Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Ferrell, Kevin Hageman, Channing Tatum, Will Arnett, Liam Neeson, Dan Lin

Pompeii PG-13

Set in 79 A.D., Pompeii tells the epic story of Milo, a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him.
Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Browning, Jared Harris, Paz Vega, Paul W.S. Anderson, Lee Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler, Kit Harington