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Friday’s openings: Sharks, corpses and racing cars

Dan Webster

We've got four movies on Friday's national release schedule, though none are among the summer season's most anticipated openings. Friday's lineup (for the moment) looks like this:

"47 Meters Down": Two young women are trapped deep underwater and must struggle to get free even as their air tanks slowly empty and a school of great white sharks swim between them and escape. Did I mention the girls are wearing bikinis? (Just kidding. They're wearing skintight wetsuits.)

"All Eyez on Me": Demetrius Shipp Jr. portrays the one and only Tupac Shakur, whose 1996 death at age 25 only enhanced his status as a Thug Life hiphop legend.

Cars 3": Lightning McQueen is back at the races, this time trying to prove to a new generation that he is still the best race car ever. Yes, that is Owen Wilson as the voice of our protagonist.

"Rough Night": Four friends go on a wild night, which goes a bit haywire when the male stripper they hired ends up dead. Talk about too much of a good thing.

That's the mainstream movie news for the moment. I'll update when the local bookings get finalized.