Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movies that will be released in Navi Mumbai’ (Jurassic World and Duff) that was published in Newsband

New movies that will be released in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamath

Jurassic World

Jurassic World (also known as Jurassic Park IV) is a 2015 American science fiction adventure film directed by Colin Trevorrow. It is the fourth installment in the Jurassic Park film series. The screenplay was co-written by Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Derek Connolly, and Trevorrow. The film stars Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D'Onofrio, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Omar Sy, B. D. Wong, and Irrfan Khan. Wong is the only actor from any of the previous films to appear in Jurassic World. Steven Spielberg, director of the first two Jurassic Park films, acts as executive producer as he did for the third film.

Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park (1993), Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond. After 10 years of operation and visitor rates declining, in order to fulfill a corporate mandate, a new attraction is created to re-spark visitor's interest, which backfires horribly

Thus the new film continues the storyline begun with Steven Spielberg’s original film from 1993, establishing that the park created on an island off the coast of Coast Rica is now a popular Sea World-like theme park known as Jurassic World. Visiting the island are brothers Gray (Ty Simpkins) and Zach (Nick Robinson), who are being looked after by their workaholic aunt Claire (Howard), an operations manager too busy running Jurassic World to pay them much attention.

The brothers soon run into trouble when the park’s scientists (led by a snidely smug BD Wong) develop a hybrid dinosaur they’ve dubbed Indominus rex that is set to be Jurassic World’s super-sized new attraction — until, that is, it gets loose and begins terrorizing everyone. Desperate to stop this rampaging, frighteningly intelligent menace, Claire turns to Owen (Pratt), a strapping dinosaur trainer who had one unsuccessful date with Claire long ago.

The Duff

The Duff (stylized as THE DUFF) is a 2015 American teen comedy film directed by Ari Sandel and written by Josh A. Cagan, based on the novel of the same name by Kody Keplinger. The film stars Mae Whitman, Robbie Amell, Bella Thorne, Bianca A. Santos, Skyler Samuels, Allison Janney, and Ken Jeong.

Bianca (Mae Whitman) is a convent high school senior whose world is shattered when she learns the student body knows her as The DUFF (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) to her prettier, more popular friends (Skyler Samuels & Bianca Santos). Now, despite the words of caution from her favorite teacher (Ken Jeong), she puts aside the potential distraction of her crush, Toby (Nick Eversman), and enlists Wesley (Robbie Amell), a slick but charming jock, to help reinvent herself. To save her senior year from turning into a total disaster, Bianca must find the confidence to overthrow the school's ruthless label maker Madison (Bella Thorne) and remind everyone that no matter what people look or act like, we are all someone's DUFF.