A few smaller, barely-marketed movies are opening this week in the wake of ‘Batman v. Superman’, but none of them are particularly notable.<\/p>\n
The distribution company Pure Flix invests in low-budget “sure thing” movies with built-in Christian audiences so that no money has to be invested in marketing. Having made boatloads with the faith-based drama ‘God’s Not Dead’, the studio is dumping the aptly titled sequel ‘God’s Not Dead 2<\/strong>‘ on April 1st. No, this isn’t an April Fool’s joke. In the sequel, Christianity falls under attack when a school teacher gets into hot water for answering a student’s question about Jesus. Coming a week after Easter (and ‘BvS’) and tailing three widely marketed faith-based movies (‘Risen’, ‘The Young Messiah’ and ‘Miracles from Heaven’), Pure Flix may have chosen a poor window for the 2,300-screen release. <\/p>\n Also released with a minuscule advertising campaign is the comedy ‘Meet the Blacks<\/strong>‘. Mike Epps stars as the head of a household that has lived the stereotypical black lifestyle for too long. He’s fed up with it. So, when he comes across an unexpected small fortune, he pulls a ‘Beverly Hillbillies’ and uproots his family for a social upgrade to Beverly Hills. Although that already sounds like the basis of a bad comedy, just wait, there’s more. They just so happen to arrive in their new ritzy neighborhood on the day of the annual 12-hour period where any and all crime is legal. Yes, someone took the plot of ‘The Purge<\/a>‘ and applied it to a stereotypical urban comedy. No, I’m not making this up. Mike Tyson, George Lopez, Charlie Murphy, Perez Hilton and Paul Mooney co-star in this 1,000-screen release.<\/p>\n After banking on his overrated gimmick picture ‘Boyhood<\/a>‘, Richard Linklater is taking the easy road for his new movie and has stooped to making a sequel to an old hit. Well, in this case, it’s an unofficial sequel. ‘Everybody Wants Some!!<\/strong>‘ serves as a companion piece to ‘Dazed and Confused<\/a>‘ \u2013 only this round is set in the 1980s (instead of the ’70s) and follows a group of college baseball players who will try anything and everything thanks to the newfound freedom that college life away from home offers. I wonder if anybody from this no-name cast will ultimately be as successful as those from ‘Dazed and Confused’? Paramount is launching ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ on 19 screens.<\/p>\n In very limited release, Sony Pictures Classics is releasing Don Cheadle’s feature film directorial debut, ‘Miles Ahead<\/strong>‘. Cheadle also leads the cast in this witty-titled Miles Davis bio-pic that comes to L.A. and New York screens just one week after the Hank Williams bio-pic ‘I Saw the Light’ debuted. Ewan McGregor and Michael Stuhlbarg star.<\/p>\n Jeff Nichols’ well-received and well-reviewed sci-fi drama ‘Midnight Special<\/strong>‘ opened on a handful of screens two weeks ago, but is expanding to 55 screens this weekend. That brings it one step closer to being accessible to the masses!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few smaller, barely-marketed movies are opening this week in the wake of ‘Batman v. Superman’, but none of them are particularly notable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":76782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[8809,7263,8810,8781,8818,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76780"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76875,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76780\/revisions\/76875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}