War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) - Release Info, Soundtrack listing, Box office, Movie Review

War for the Planet of the Apes is the summer’s most essential blockbuster

Elsewhere, supernatural horror film 'Wish Upon' could have trouble scaring up much business, while 'The Big Sick' expands nationwide after an impressive limited run at the specialty box office.

On Friday, the critically acclaimed War for the Planet of the Apes, the final installment in 20th Century Fox's refurbished trilogy, opens everywhere in North America. Prerelease tracking suggests the tentpole will launch to $55 million or more, but that might not be enough to beat holdover Spider-Man: Homecoming.

If Sony and Marvel Studios' Spider-Man reboot falls only 50 percent in its sophomore outing, that means a weekend tally of $58.5 million. But if it declines 55 percent or more, it will land in the low-$50 million range.

Amid a summer strewn with tentpoles panned by critics before disappointing at the domestic box office, War for the Planet of the Apes and Spider-Man: Homecoming both boast the identical certified fresh rating of a stellar 93 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. That's slightly ahead of Wonder Woman (92 percent) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, the other two summer tentpoles bronzed by glowing reviews.

War for the Planet of the Apes, having decoupled itself from the obligation to be faithful to any holy text in particular, is able to do all kinds of things recent Biblical blockbusters couldn’t pull off. It can reference other kinds of movies and other genres. It can layer symbols and code into its characters and settings to evoke several historical narratives at once. It can crack jokes and stage breathtaking action scenes and imagine narrative twists, with no purists coming after them with lit torches crying foul


The latest Planet of the Apes installment, costing $150 million to produce before marketing, sees Matt Reeves once again sitting in the director's chair after helming sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which debuted to $72.6 million domestically in July 2014. Rupert Wyatt directed the first title in the trilogy, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which bowed to $54.8 million in August 2011.

I’m half-kidding. It’s a movie about talking apes, after all, led by a chimpanzee named Caesar, and it’s set in a post-apocalyptic future America, where Woody Harrelson is running a rogue paramilitary force. None of those things appear in the Holy Writ.

But then again, that paramilitary force rallies beneath a tattered American flag spray-painted with the call sign ΑΩ — Alpha Omega, the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet and a name used for God in the Biblical book of Revelation. They force captive apes into servitude in a manner that recalls images of the enslaved Israelites in Egypt being forced to build pyramids. Several scenes — including the final one — clearly paint Caesar, leader of the apes, as a Moses figure.

War for the Planet of the Apes Information

Directed by Matt Reeves

Produced by Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver

Written by Mark Bomback, Matt Reeves

Based on Characters created by Rick Jaffa Amanda Silver Premise suggested by Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle

Starring  - Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn, Amiah Miller, Karin Konoval, Judy Greer, Terry Notary

Music by Michael Giacchino

Cinematography - Michael Seresin

Edited by  William Hoy, Stan Salfas

Production company - Chernin Entertainment

Distributed by 20th Century Fox

War for the Planet of the Apes Release date July 14, 2017

Running time 140 minutes

Country - United States

Language - English

War for the Planet of the Apes is an upcoming American science fiction film directed by Matt Reeves and written by Mark Bomback and Reeves. It is a sequel to the 2014 film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and the third installment in the Planet of the Apes reboot series. The film stars Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn, Amiah Miller, Karin Konoval, Judy Greer and Terry Notary. Principal photography began on October 14, 2015, in Vancouver.

The film is scheduled to be released in the United Kingdom on July 11, 2017 and in the United States on July 14, by 20th Century Fox.

In War for the Planet of the Apes, the third chapter of the critically acclaimed blockbuster franchise, Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

War for the Planet of the Apes Is an Adventure Humans Almost Don't Deserve

The bigger movies get, somehow the smaller we get. Increasingly elaborate special effects, marathon-length runtimes, plots that sprawl off the rails within the first 20 minutes: Pictures built to entertain us don’t necessarily make us feel more human. But Matt Reeves’ War for the Planet of the Apes is something else, a summer blockbuster that treats its audience as primates of a higher order. It’s not going to change the summer-blockbuster landscape single-handedly, but at least it comes by its thrills honestly: This is a spectacle that trusts us to think.

War for the Planet of the Apes Release Info

UK, Ireland on 11 July 2017 Belgium,  New Zealand, Sweden on 12 July 2017 Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Georgia, Greece, Hong Kong, Croatia, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Cambodia, Kuwait, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Ukraine on 13 July 2017 Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Canada, Estonia, Spain, Lithuania, Norway, Turkey, USA on 14 July 2017 Indonesia on 26 July 2017 Australia on 27 July 2017 Poland on 28 July 2017 France on 2 August 2017 Argentina, Brazil, Germany on 3 August 2017 Austria on 4 August 2017 Japan on 13 October 2017

In the first movie in the rebooted franchise, the 2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes (directed by Rupert Wyatt), a bunch of superbright chimps—the virus that has made them so smart is lethal to humans—break out of a Northern California research facility and scamper over the Golden Gate Bridge to freedom in the redwood forest. In the Reeves-directed Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), set some 10 years later, the apes have built a world of their own, but it’s threatened by the relatively few surviving humans—tensions escalate into an all-out war between ape and man. The anchor character of those two movies, and of this one, is the chimp Caesar, played, via motion-capture technology, by Andy Serkis. His simian brow is noble. His eyes carry both shadows of sorrow and flickers of hope. He’s a leader of apes, and men could learn a thing or two from him too. But in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, a hate-filled bonobo named Koba (Toby Kebbell) instigated a war Caesar was unable to stop.

War for the Planet of the Apes Soundtrack listing

1. "Apes’ Past is Prologue (Written By Griffin Giacchino)"

2. "Assault of the Earth"

3. "Exodus Wounds"

4. "The Posse Polonaise"

5. "The Bad Ape Bagatelle"

6. "Don’t Luca Now"

7. "Koba Dependent"

8. "The Ecstasy of the Bold"

9. "Apes Together Strong"

10. "A Tide in the Affairs of Apes"

11. "Planet of the Escapes"

12. "The Hating Game"

13. "A Man Named Suicide"

14. "More Red Than Alive"

15. "Migration"

16. "Paradise Found"

17. "End Credits"

As War for the Planet of the Apes opens, Caesar and his cohorts defend their forest world against a battalion of human intruders. They're able to corner this particular group of soldiers, though instead of killing them, they send the troops back alive to their colonel, as a message of peace. But the Colonel (Woody Harrelson), a war-hardened loon with rogue ambitions of his own, will have none of it. He unleashes more violence against the peaceful apes, who are simply trying to rebuild their war-torn home. Caesar realizes he must fight back, though the real demon he struggles against is the angry legacy of Koba. (Koba, killed off in the last film, reappears in spirit in this one.)

There’s ape betrayal, ape bravery, ape joy and lots of ape action in War for the Planet of the Apes. Yet the picture’s plot mechanics aren’t nearly as significant or as memorable as its characters are: The way they move and interact invites curiosity and sometimes even wonder. The apes who have had contact with humankind speak English, but most communicate via sign and body language—their interactions constitute a ballet of interpretive dance and knowing looks. In addition to Caesar, many old favorites from the other movies return, the loveliest among them the empathetic orangutan Maurice (Karin Konoval): His gentle soul shines through his luminous pie plate of a face. He’s a calming influence on Caesar and a watchful maternal stand-in for the mute, though never excessively cute, orphan girl who’s adopted by the apes (Amiah Miller). Best of all, though, is the chimp played by Steve Zahn, an old-man loner who goes by a name some humans gave him long ago: Bad Ape. Bad Ape is actually a great ape, a marvelous, semi-forgetful senior citizen whose doddering generosity is the sort that can save the day. (When he holds a pair of binoculars to his eyes the wrong way around, the “oooooohhhh” of disappointment that escapes his lips is one of the movie’s goofiest little pleasures.)

War for the Planet of the Apes Box officeIn North America the film is projected to gross $50–60 million in its opening weekend, with rival studios having it debut to as high as $70–80 million.

War for the Planet of the Apes is hardly all joy and light: Harrelson’s loose-cannon Colonel is a sadist and a dictator wannabe, and the movie contains some harrowing scenes of ape suffering. Be forewarned if you’re thinking of taking really little kids. But there’s plenty of vital poetry in the picture, particularly of the visual sort: The sight of apes sitting upright on horseback, riding off to battle or just trotting along a beach, is strangely stirring, a picture of animal dignity that isn’t quite right yet makes all kinds of sense. The special traits of these creatures—their eagerness to do the right thing and their impulse to look out for one another—are qualities to which real humans should aspire. In the words of Bad Ape, a kind of broken English-as-a-second-language that nevertheless gets the message across: “New friends. Special day.”

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