The Weekend Forecast: Surprise, Surpise - Furious 7 to Stay at #1 for Another Week.

In which I predict the big winners (and losers) at the Box Office this weekend.

So now we enter the home stretch before Age of Ultron hits theaters next weekend.  Nothing's really planning on changing this weekend, mostly because nobody's stupid enough to release their movie a week before Avengers is going to run away with everything anyway.

So needless to say, Furious 7 will enjoy one last weekend in the number one slot before it falls down a peg or two.  As it turns out, I'll be in theaters to help it along that last stretch.  Having finally caught up with the rest of the franchise, it's time to check out movie #7.

The "big" new release this weekend is Age of Adaline, which I think that I can safely skip.  It's the new, pseudo Benjamin Button "but now with 100% more female" and it looks implausibly boring.  Rather than aging in reverse, its protagonist simply stops aging in her prime and then seemingly mopes about it for the next couple of hours.

Also sneaking into theaters this weekend is Ex Machina, which I am especially interested in seeing.  It's a dark, cerebral-looking sci-fi / horror movie that questions what sapience really is and what something inhuman would even do with it.  The fact that it's written and directed by Alex Garland (of 28 Days Later and Sunshine fame) is simply added reassurance of its awesomeness.

Other than those two, however, there's not much to really talk about.  Furious 7 remains king of the hill, the two new releases slide into the top ten somewhere and everything else stays more or less where it was last weekend.

So what movie are you planning on seeing in theaters this weekend?  Share your thoughts in the comment section below.

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