Films Coming To The Screen In Los Angeles This Week: Bad Boys, Dolittle, Just Mercy

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January 17, 2020

Bad Boys For Life

Run time: 2:03
Genre: Action, Comedy
Rated R

Detective Mike Lawry (Will Smith) leading a group of millennials police officers in AMMO and Detective Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) a police inspector looking forward ready to retire when a  mafia boss seeks revenge for his brother who was brought down by Lawry and Burnett.

Dolittle

Run time: 1:06
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Rated PG

Withdrawing from the world after the death of his wife, Lily (Kassia Smutniak), Doctor Dolittle (Robert Downey Jr.), a renowned veternarian, finds a renewed purpose when he sets on a voyuage to save the Queen, Queen Victoria when an unknown illness threatens her life.

Director: Stephen Gaghan
Producer: Joe Roth, Dan Gregor, Doug Mand
Story by: Thomas Shepherd
Based on Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Cast: Antonia Banderas, Michael Sheen, Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, John Cena, Kumail Nanjiani, Octavia Spencer, Tom Holland, Craig Robinson, Ralph Fiennes, Selena Gomez, Marion Cotillard,
Music: Danny Elfman
Cinematography: Guillermo Navarro
Editor: Craig Alpert, Nick Moore
Production: Media Rights Capital, Team Downey, Roth Films
Distriblutor: Universal Pictures

Just Mercy

Run time: 2:16
Genre: Legal Drama
Rated: PG-13

A true story of Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx) wrongly convicted for murder in Alabama on a false witness and coercion by corrupt police and sentenced to death by the presiding judge. With the dedication of Harvard educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan), the newly appointed director of Alabama Capital Representation Resource Center, who became McMillian's appeals attorney.

With Brie Larson as Eva Ansley, Robert Morgan as Herbert Richarsonim Blake Nelson as Ralph Myers, Rafe Spall as Tommy Chapman, O'Shea Jackson Jr. Screenplay by Destin Daniel Cretton, Andrew Lanham. Based on Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson.
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. Produced by Gip Netter, Asheer Goldstein, Michael B. Jordan. Music by Joel P. West. Cinematographer by Brett Pawlak. Edited by Nat Sanders. Production companies are Endeavor Content, Once Community, Participant Media, Macro Media, Gil Netter Productions Outlier Society.