NOW YOU SEE ME 2 (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network), Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight), Woody Harrelson (The Hunger Games), Dave Franco (21 Jump Street), Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Lizzy Caplan (The Night Before), Jay Chou (The Green Hornet), Sanaa Lathan (Alien vs. Predator), Michael Caine (The Italian Job), Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption), Henry Lloyd-Hughes (The Inbetweeners Movie), David Warshofsky (Taken), Tsai Chin (Casino Royale), Richard Laing (Batman Begins)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Jon M. Chu (G.I. Joe: Retaliation), director; Ed Solomon (Men in Black), writer; Bobby Cohen (Revolutionary Road), Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek Into Darkness) and Roberto Orci (Cowboys & Aliens), producers; Brian Tyler (Avengers: Age of Ultron), composer; Peter Deming (Mulholland Drive), cinematographer; Stan Salfas (Dwn of the Planet of the Apes), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

A year after outrunning the FBI and winning public adoration for their Robin Hood-style antics, magician group The Four Horsemen – Danny (Eisenberg), Merritt (Harrelson), Jack (Franco) and newcomer Lula (Caplan) – and their manager Dylan Rhodes (Ruffalo) return for a comeback performance that threatens to expose the crimes of a business magnate. Soon, however, they find themselves in the presence of tech prodigy Walter Marby (Radcliffe) who forces them to use their skills to try and pull off an impossible heist…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The surprisingly entertaining, if silly, magic caper Now You See Me at last gets a follow-up, bringing back most of the main cast (sans Isla Fisher) as well as new additions like Daniel Radcliffe to conjure up a bigger, and hopefully better, illusion than before.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

MONDAY 4TH JULY 2016

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