USC School of Cinematic Arts
Spring Movie Preview 2017: Films Representing SCA Alums We Can't Wait to See!
The Founder
Release Date: January 20, 2017
John Schwartzman, Cinematographer
The film tells the true story of an Illinois salesman named Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton) who made McDonald’s one of the biggest fast-food restaurants in the world.
Patriots Day
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Daphne Lambrinou ’05, Associate Producer
Patriots Day tells the story of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and its aftermath.
Gold
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Robert Elswit ’75, Cinematographer
An unlucky businessman (Matthew McConaughey) teams up with a geologist (Edgar Ramírez) to find gold in the Indonesian jungle.
xXx: The Return of Xander Cage
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Vince Filippone ’93, Editor
In this follow-up to the 2002 actioner, daredevil Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) returns to action to recover a sinister weapon called Pandora’s Box.
Fifty Shades Darker
Release Date: February 10, 2017
James Foley ’79, Director
John Schwartzman, Cinematographer
When Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) entices a hesitant Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) back into his life, she must confront the former women in his life.
Fist Fight
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Shawn Levy ’94, Executive Producer
Mild-mannered English teacher Andy Campbell (Charlie Day) crosses his much tougher colleague Ron Strickland (Ice Cube), who challenges Campbell to an afterschool fight.
The Great Wall
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Charles Roven, Producer
Doug Miro ’97, Writer
A group of mercenaries and an elite force join forces to defend the Great Wall against monsters that attack it every 60 years.
Rock Dog
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Kurt Voelker, Writer
When a radio falls from the sky into the hands of the wide-eyed Tibetan Mastiff named Bodi, he leaves home to explore the music world and become a musician.
John Wick: Chapter Two
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Chad Stahelski ’90, Director
Evan Schiff ’04, Cinematographer
After returning to the criminal underworld to repay a debt, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) gets a large bounty put on his head.
Kong: Skull Island
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Alex Garcia ’99, Producer
A team of explorers and soldiers trek to an island in the Pacific where they encounter King Kong.
Before I Fall
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Michael Fimognari ’01, Cinematographer
17-year-old Samantha Kingston (Zoey Deutch) is killed in a car accident and is stuck reliving her last day for over a week, in order to find out the truth about her death.
The Boss Baby
Release Date: March 31, 2017
James Ryan ’95, Editor
A suit-wearing baby (Alex Baldwin) teams up with his seven-year old brother to stop the CEO of Puppy Co. (Steve Buscemi) from destabilizing the balance of love in the world.
Life
Release Date: March 24, 2017
David Ellison, Producer
A six-member crew of the International Space Station find evidence of extraterrestrial life on Mars.
The Wall
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Doug Liman, Director
Two American soldiers are trapped in a standoff with an Iraqi sniper with nothing but a wall separating them.
Step Sisters
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Christopher Baffa, Cinematographer
A black sorority girl (Megalyn Echikunwoke) agrees to teach the art of black Greek to party-obsessed white sorority girls whose charter is about to be revoked, in a bid to get admitted into Harvard.
The Fate of the Furious
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Neal H. Moritz ‘85, Producer
In this eighth installment of The Fast and the Furious franchise, the crew try to live a normal life until a mysterious woman seduces Dom (Vin Diesel) back into an escapable world of crime where he and his crew must face trials that will test them like never before.
The Circle
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Neal H. Moritz ’85, Producer
A young woman (Emma Watson) lands a job at a powerful tech company called The Circle, where she finds herself involved in issues of privacy, surveillance, and freedom.
Unforgettable
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Caleb Deschanel ’69, Cinematographer
Divorced and mentally unstable, a woman (Katherine Heigl) sets out to make the life of her ex-husband’s new wife a living hell.
Sleight
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Brett Marnell ’89, Producer
When a young street musician (Jacob Latimore) gets in too deep with illegal activities to keep a roof over his and his sister’s heads, his sister is taken and he must use magic to rescue her.
How to be a Latin Lover
Release Date: April 28, 2017
John Bailey, Cinematographer
A former lothario (Eugenio Derbez) whose made a career of seducing rich, older women, moves in with his estranged sister (Salma Hayek) after being dumped after 25 years of marriage.