Some futuristic story ideas seem to paint a rather bleak picture of how life may be later on and The Hunger Games is right up there with the premise that we could hold lotteries each year to select competitors from youngsters. Seems that North America has become a divided country and now there is only the Capitol which is broken down into 12 districts. Now called Panem, the former United States of America makes many crucial decisions by way of an annual fight to the death. There will be two from each of the 12 districts so the total of 24 participants must fight each other to the death and the citizens find this required viewing on live television!hen 16 year old Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence from Medium, The Bill Engvall Show) volunteers to take her younger sisters place, she and Peeta Mellark, who is her counterpart find they are up against far bigger and stronger competitors who have been trained for this type of battle all of their lives. Peeta is played by Josh Hutcherson (RV, The Kids Are All Right). Look for Stanley Tucci, Woody Harrelson, Lenny Kravitz, and Donald Sutherland also in The Hunger Games.

Liam Neeson heads a great cast of The Grey which is about what happens after an airplane crash lands in the wilds of Alaska. And no it's not another movie about cannibalism! This time the hungry mouths wanting to be fed are canine or rather grey wolves that are always hungry this time of year. The team of oil drillers find they must struggle to survive when the plane they were in crash lands in the wilds of Alaska. At first all they see around them is the dull grey of the wilderness but soon moving objects become visible and when they close in are revealed as a pack of extremely hungry wolves. iam Neeson, best known for roles in The A-Team and Clash of the Titans, is Ottway. Also starring in The Grey are Dermot Mulroney (My Best Friend's Wedding, About Schmidt), Frank Grillo (Breakout Kings, Mother's Day), JamesBadge Dale(Rubicon, The Pacific), Larissa Stadnichuk is the stewardess and a stunt woman). Look for plenty of beautiful Alaskan scenery and some scary wolves!"

When top author Janet Evanovich penned the novel One for the Money back in 1994 it was an immediate hit on paper. Now the fun and frolicking story comes to life in a film directed by Julie Anne Robinson with screenplay credit to Liz Brixius, Kirsten Smith, and Karen McCullah Lutz. A great cast insures this one will be a hit!e find Stephanie Plum out of a job and in need of cash she takes on some bail bondsman work for her cousin Vinnie Plum who owns Vinnie's Bail Bonds. Although she knows virtually nothing about the bail bond business she is determined to catch former vice cop Joe Morelli who is now a bail jumper as well as an accused murderer. This is also the same Joe Morelli who dumped Stephanie after seducing her back in high school. As with all Janet Evanovich stories this one is filled with twists, turns, and plenty of drama and comedy for the heroine. Stars Katherine Heigl (Grey's Anatomy, Knocked Up) as Stephanie Plum, Jason O'Mara (Life on Mars, Terra Nova) as Joe Morelli, and Debbie Reynolds (Tammy and the Bachelor, The Mating Game).

Life of Pi, directed by Ang Lee and based on the Booker award-winning novel of Yann Martel, which was rewritten by David Magee for the movie, telling as a story about Indian boy survived shipwreck alongside with hyena, orangutan, a wounded zebra and a beautiful White Bengal tiger. Yann Martel have explored and studied lots of facts about an ocean life to give credence to story. That's why, despite the unbelievable storyline, the situations and solutions described in the movie could really take place in real life. The boy named Pi was raised in Indian family owning a zoo. At one day they decided to migrate in Canada with all of their animals and boarded the Japanese freighter. Soon after the leaving India, a shipwreck has killed all the people and animals except for little boy and four animals including furious tiger. All of them take a shelter on one small lifeboat. The boy has managed to survive in this uneasy situation for 227 days. A strong will to overcome the deadly perils, a faith in life and inexhaustible optimism leaded him to long journey adrift by the Pacific Ocean. The journey fortunately ends when their boat reaches the Mexico coast. The tiger (named Richard Parker, by the way) escapes to the nearest jungle, leaving the boy alone. Years after, Japanese Maritime officers interviews Pi in order to investigate the circumstances and consequences of shipwreck. Pi tells him as story about his peregrination, but no one believes him. Pi, feeling the lack of confidence, tells them another version of his wandering, without animals, instead of which a sailor, a cook and his mother act. In this butcherly version a cook kills a sailor and Pi's mother to use them as bait and food. After he tells the second story, Pi asks Japanese officers which of two versions they like most. When he gets the answer, confirming that story with animals is better, Pi says "…and so it goes with God".

A comedy caper about bank robbery makes for good and entertaining summer fair at the movies. Thirty Minutes or Less is produced by Ben Stiller and stars Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) as a pizza delivery guy named Nick. Seems Nick is kidnapped while out delivering pizzas, and with a bomb strapped to his chest, forced to rob a bank in a short amount of time. The bumbling duo of bank robbers to be are played by Danny McBride (Due Date, Up In The Air) as Dwayne and Nick Swardson (Bedtime Stories, You Don't Mess With the Zohan) as Travis. Dwayne puts a contract out on his own father, known as The Major (played by Fred Ward) for his insurance policy. And to pay for the murder for hire, he must come up with a big amount of cash quickly, thus the bank robbery. elivering pizzas (and robbing banks) can be dangerous work and this story idea is loosely based on an actual Erie, PA bank robbery back in 2003. 30 minutes or less was filmed in Grand Rapids, Michigan and the site of the bank robbery was a vacant bank in Ludington, Michigan.

Faster is about an ex-convict named Driver (Dwayne Johnson) that is dead set on getting revenge on everyone who back stabbed him. Driver sets out on a mission with his kill list in hand to soon find out he is also being hunted, by a soon to be retired cop and a crazy hitman. He must do his best to stay alive while completing his task, but will he make it to the end or will they get to him first. Faster takes you on a ride to the finish line that will keep you wondering all the way to the end.