Griffin
19-12-2001, 12:53
Almost all of these are out at least six months in the US :mad:
BLACKHAWK DOWN
Release: Jan 18
Certificate: 18
Running Time: tbc
Action adventure from famed producer Jerry Bruckheimer (together with co-Producer Ridley Scott) & acclaimed director Ridley Scott, Black Hawk Down is the harrowing true account of a group of elite U.S. soldiers sent into Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993 as part of a U.N. peacekeeping operation. Their mission: to abduct several top lieutenants of a Somalian warlord as part of a strategy to quell the civil war that is tearing away at the country. The carefully planned mission goes terribly wrong, resulting in the U.S. military’s single biggest firefight since Vietnam. Young Rangers and veteran Delta Force soldiers must fight side by side against overwhelming odds, trapped behind enemy lines until a rescue convoy can be mounted to retrieve them. During this crucible of fire tensions flare, friends are lost, alliances are formed, boys become men & soldiers learn the true nature of war & heroism. Stars: Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett, Tom Sizemore, Eric Bana.
THE GLASS HOUSE
Release: January 25
Certificate: 15PG
Running Time: tbc
A psychological thriller directed by Daniel Sackheim. When Ruby (Leelee Sobieski) & her younger brother Brett (Trevor Morgan) parents are killed in a car crash their parents’ best friends Erin & Terry Glass (Diane Lane & Stellan Skarsgard) become their guardians, whereupon they are promised a world of opulence & California fun – all they have to do is move into the Glasses’ gated house in picturesque Malibu. But in this taut psychological thriller trust can be as transparent as The Glass House. Ruby suspects her carers are not the ideal guardians they seem to be, but are her suspicions justified or merely the perceptions of a rebellious teen with a fertile imagination?…
FUNNY GIRL
Release: Feb tbc
Certificate: tbc
Running Time: 155 mins
One of the most popular movie musicals ever made, FUNNY GIRL follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice -- a role that earned Barbra Streisand the 1968 Oscar® for Best Actress. FUNNY GIRL was directed by William Wyler and written by Isobel Lennart and Bob Merrill. Starring Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis and Walter Pidgeon,
13 GHOSTS
Release: March 8th
Certificate:
Running Time: tbc
A state-of-the-art remake of the classic William Castle horror film about a family that inherits a spectacular old house from an eccentric uncle. There's just one problem: the house seems to have a dangerous agenda all its own. Trapped in their new home by strangely shifting walls, the family encounters powerful and vengeful entities that threaten to annihilate anyone in their path. Soon the family is joined by an offbeat ghost hunter who is determined to free the spirits imprisoned in the house. Caught in a frantic race to save themselves before it is too late, the human inhabitants realize the house is a riddle which contains the key to their imminent salvation — or destruction.
Stars: Matthew Lillard, F. Murray Abraham, Tony Shaloub
THE ONE
Release: March 29th
Certificate: 15PG
Running Time: tbc
In a stunning dual role international action star Jet Li (Black Mask) portrays Gabriel Yulaw, a police officer confronted with a sinister form of himself escaped from an advanced parallel universe and intent on killing Gabriel. His alter ego’s hunt culminates in a fateful battle between good & evil that changes Gabriel’s perception of reality and forces him to examine the evil hidden within himself. A story of perception altering possibilities, riveting action & martial arts stunts, innovative special effects & the nature of destiny.
THE PANIC ROOM
Release: April 12 tbc
Certificate: tbc
Running Time: tbc
Adult thriller directed by David Fincher and starring Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam & Jared Leto. Trapped in their New York brownstone’s panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-in’s, newly divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) & her young daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) play a deadly game of cat and mouse with 3 intruders during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
DARK BLUE WORLD
Release: April 26
Certificate: TBC
Running Time: 119mins
DARK BLUE WORLD (TMAVOMODRY SVET) re-unites the entire Oscar®-winning KOLYA (Best Foreign Language Film 1996) creative team, under KOLYA producer Eric Abraham (Portobello Pictures) and the Czech KOLYA director and co-producer Jan Sverak (Biograf Jan Sverak)
DARK BLUE WORLD, written by the director’s father, Zdenek Sverak, who wrote and starred in KOLYA, tells the story of the friendship between two Czech pilots, one older and one younger, who escape Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, make their way to Britain, join the Royal Air Force and fall in love with the same English woman – the ultimate test of their friendship.
THE SWEETEST THING
Release: April 26 tbc
Certificate: tbc
Running Time: tbc
The Sweetest Thing tells the story of sexy Christina Walters (Cameron Diaz), who after years of avoiding meaningful relationships with men, unexpectedly one night meets her perfect match. When she finds out the next morning that he's suddenly left town, she and her best friend, Courtney (Christina Applegate), set out to find him and encounter a series of hilarious misadventures on their journey. Their search ultimately leads them to a surprising discovery and they learn that love is, after all, the sweetest thing.
SPIDERMAN
Release: May 3
Certificate: tbc
Running Time: tbc
Orphaned at an early age, Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) lives in Queens, New York with his beloved Aunt May (Academy AwardÒ nominee Rosemary Harris) and Uncle Ben (Academy AwardÒ winner Cliff Robertson). Peter leads the life of a normal student, working as a photographer at the Daily Bugle under the tutelage of publisher J. Jonah Jameson (J.K. Simmons), pining after the beautiful Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) and hanging out with buddy Harry Osborn (James Franco).
On a school trip, during which Peter and his classmates are given a science demonstration on spiders, Peter is bitten by a genetically altered spider. Soon after, he discovers that he has unusual powers: he is endowed with the strength and agility of a spider along with a keen, ESP-like “spider sense.”
NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE
Release: 26 May tbc
Certificate:
Running Time:
Not Another Teen Movie shows no mercy as it skewers the conventions and cliches of the genre you hate to love. Join Janey Briggs (Chyler Leigh), an aspiring artist who is outcast by her classmates for wearing glasses, a ponytail and paint-covered overalls; and Jake Wyler (Chris Evans), the all-American football star who makes a foolish bet to turn Janey into a prom queen, in a risque romp with an assortment of twisted takes on classic teen characters and teen movies.
POLLOCK
Release: May TBC
Certificate:
Running Time:
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: “Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?” The article pictured Pollock in a now-famous pose, wearing a worn black jacket and blue jeans, his arms crossed defiantly over his chest and one of his kinetic canvasses stretched out behind him. Already well-known in the New York art world, he had become a household name—America’s first “Art Star”—and his bold and radical style of painting continued to change the course of modern art. But the torments that had plagued the artist all of his life—perhaps the ones that drove him to paint in the first place, or that helped script his fiercely original art—continued to haunt him. As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral that would threaten to destroy the foundations of his marriage, the promise of his career, and—on one deceptively calm and balmy summer night in 1956—his life.
DOGTOWN AND Z-BOYS
Release: 7 June tbc
Certificate: tbc
Running Time: tbc
Modern skateboarding was born in Dogtown, a run-down urban beach neighbourhood in Santa Monica that bred aggressive, territorial competitors with a street-smart sense of style. It was there that a bunch of discarded kids from broken homes formed a group known as the Zephyr Team a.k.a. Z-Boys. In Dogtown and Z-Boys, director Stacy Peralta, one of the original Z-Boys, interweaves vintage footage, new editing techniques, breathtaking still photographs, new interviews with the team and narration from Sean Penn with music from the era. Dogtown and Z-Boys explodes off the screen as a work that perfectly captures the energy of a cultural movement. Dogtown and Z-Boys is the story of a group of accidental revolutionaries, gifted kids who inadvertently inspired an American pop culture phenomenon.
GRATEFUL DAWG
Release: June tbc
Certificate: tbc
Running Time: tbc
In 1964, at a folk venue called Sunset Park in Pennsylvania, a young banjo player from San Francisco struck up a conversation with a mandolin player from New Jersey, in between sets of a concert by the father of bluegrass, Bill Monroe. Nearly a decade later, they would form one of the most popular bluegrass groups in musical history; twenty-five years after their first meeting, the two troubadours would release a series of albums that would delight and entertain fans of all ages and musical persuasions.
STUART LITTLE 2
Release: July 19
Certificate: tbc
Running Time: tbc
In Stuart Little 2, the plucky, pint-sized hero returns to delight audiences with even more action-packed adventure than before. In the sequel, the little mouse with a big heart learns more about relationships, extending his embrace beyond family to friendship.
MEN IN BLACK II
Release: August 2
Certificate:
Running Time:
In Men In Black II (Will Smith) and Kay (Tommy Lee Jones) reunite to provide our best, last, and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIBs untarnished mission statement: protecting the earth from the scum of the universe.
ENOUGH
Release: September 20 tbc
Certificate:
Running Time:
Touching on the theme of female empowerment, the film traces the story of working class waitress Slim (Jennifer Lopez), whose life is transformed when she marries wealthy contractor Mitch (Bill Campbell). After becoming the perfect upper middle class suburban family with the birth of baby Gracie, Slim discovers that her husband is anything but perfect. Fleeing her violent spouse to save her life, she and her daughter take refuge in an unknown locale, where she soon realizes they are being watched. Fearing for Gracie’s well-being as well as her own, Slim readies herself with a training regime, confronts Mitch and ultimately must fight for her life.
THE NEW GUY
Release: tbc
Certificate:
Running Time:
At East Highland High School, new guy Gil Harris (DJ QUALLS) is at the top of the popularity food chain. Mysterious and charming, Gil’s got girls falling all over him and thugs scrambling to get his back. He’s got East Highland High School in the palm of his hand. But Gil’s got a secret. Not so long ago, at Rocky Creek High School, across town, Gil—formerly known as Diz, a.k.a. Dizzy Gillespie Harrison—was a ‘blip,’ a loser so low, he’s wasn’t even on the social radar. So how did Diz change his life and become Gil the new guy? A simple plan, determination and the help of some unlikely friends.
ROLLER BALL
Release: TBC
Certificate:
Running Time:
John McTiernan’s ROLLERBALL takes place five minutes in the future, and the future is fierce. A notorious renegade sport, ROLLERBALL pack arenas all over the world. A global viewership bets and roots for star players Jonathon Cross (Chris Klein), Marcus Ridley (LL Cool J) and their beautiful teammate Aurora (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) who skate and motorcycle past opponents to score. Despite the danger of the game, the real threat lies in the team owner Petrovich (Jean Reno) who sacrifices anything and anyone to maximize ratings, which are worth more to him then the final score. In a heroic move, Jonathon and his teammates attempt to expose the corruption and treachery. It is a risky play and the penalty is lethal.
HEROES OF HEAVEN AND EARTH
Release: TBC
Certificate:
Running Time:
Set against the backdrop of the ferocious Gobi Desert, the story surrounds two protagonists, Lieutenant Li (Jiang Wen) and Japanese emmisary, Lai Qi (Kiichi Nakai) - both first class warriors and master swordsmen. After decades of service to the Chinese Emperor, Lai Qi longs to return to Japan but finds himself exiled to the West chasing wanted criminals. Capturing and killing Lieutenant Li, a renegade soldier under execution order after refusing to kill female and child prisoners, is his only passport back to Japan. The two soldiers eventually cross paths and swords when Lai Qi inadvertently saves the same young woman, Minzhu (Zhao Wei), Lt. Li rescued five years earlier. The two warriors agree to delay their final personal battle until the caravan carrying Minzhu and a Buddhist monk is brought to safety. The monk, however, is carrying a sacred and powerful ‘pagoda’ that attracts the attention of the region’s ruthless overlord. Lai Qi and Lt. Li, accompanied by his former posse of soldiers who have forsaken their new lives to return to his side, must face the cruelty of the desert, the region’s barbaric bandits and brutality of the overlord’s men before they can finally face one another.
BIG SHOTS FUNERAL
Release: TBC
Certificate:
Running Time:
World famous film director Don Tyler (Donald Sutherland) is surrounded by hundreds of costumed extras in China’s fantastic Forbidden City – for centuries home to the most powerful emperors in the world – when creative drought hits and he doesn’t even have any idea where to put the camera. Tossed off the picture by his studio boss (Paul Mazursky), his depression is relieved only by an unlikely friendship with a down-on-his-luck Chinese cameraman, YoYo (Ge You). The director’s melancholia turns darkly serious when he falls into a coma, and it turns out his last wish was that YoYo give him a wacky “comedy funeral” to prepare him for Buddhist reincarnation. When the costs of the spectacular event spin wildly out of control, can YoYo hold it all together by selling prime ad space at this unique funeral to be televised around the world? And more importantly for YoYo, can he convince Tyler’s lovely assistant Lucy (Rosamund Kwan) that he isn’t just selling out Tyler to the highest bidder?
DOUBLE VISION
Release: TBC
Certificate:
Running Time:
In Taipei, the teeming modern capital of Taiwan, a corporate CEO freezes to death on a steaming hot day. Then, the notorious mistress of a politician burns to death in a room untouched by flames. The coroner (Yang Kwei-Mei) discovers two bizarre and grizzly links – a mysterious fungus imbedded in the brains of the bodies, and signs that both died in a hallucinatory state. But Li Feng-Bo (Dai Lei-Ren) -- the tough, no-holds-barred homicide detective on the case -- can’t find any connection between the victims, any clue as to how the fungus got into their systems or, for that matter, any idea of how they suffered such similar but eerily different deaths.
What is clear is that Li is dealing with Taiwan’s first-ever serial killer.
DEEDS
Release: TBC
Certificate:
Running Time:
Longfellow Deeds (Adam Sandler) is a sweet, lovable guy leading a simple but happy life in the tiny hamlet of Mandrake Falls, New Hampshire. Deeds is admired by the locals who crowd his pizzeria to hear him recite his truly terrible (but hilarious) greeting card poetry.
Life is good at the small town restaurant until two corporate-type strangers bring news that Deeds is about to be rolling in a different kind of dough. A long lost relative, Preston Blake, has left him an inheritance of 40 billion dollars along with a chain of media outlets, a football team, a basketball team, and a private helicopter ready to whisk him off to corporate America.
It’s a rags to riches story that has local tabloid reporters, including Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder) salivating. Deeds ultimately has to prove that money changes everything…not everyone.
BLACKHAWK DOWN
Release: Jan 18
Certificate: 18
Running Time: tbc
Action adventure from famed producer Jerry Bruckheimer (together with co-Producer Ridley Scott) & acclaimed director Ridley Scott, Black Hawk Down is the harrowing true account of a group of elite U.S. soldiers sent into Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993 as part of a U.N. peacekeeping operation. Their mission: to abduct several top lieutenants of a Somalian warlord as part of a strategy to quell the civil war that is tearing away at the country. The carefully planned mission goes terribly wrong, resulting in the U.S. military’s single biggest firefight since Vietnam. Young Rangers and veteran Delta Force soldiers must fight side by side against overwhelming odds, trapped behind enemy lines until a rescue convoy can be mounted to retrieve them. During this crucible of fire tensions flare, friends are lost, alliances are formed, boys become men & soldiers learn the true nature of war & heroism. Stars: Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett, Tom Sizemore, Eric Bana.
THE GLASS HOUSE
Release: January 25
Certificate: 15PG
Running Time: tbc
A psychological thriller directed by Daniel Sackheim. When Ruby (Leelee Sobieski) & her younger brother Brett (Trevor Morgan) parents are killed in a car crash their parents’ best friends Erin & Terry Glass (Diane Lane & Stellan Skarsgard) become their guardians, whereupon they are promised a world of opulence & California fun – all they have to do is move into the Glasses’ gated house in picturesque Malibu. But in this taut psychological thriller trust can be as transparent as The Glass House. Ruby suspects her carers are not the ideal guardians they seem to be, but are her suspicions justified or merely the perceptions of a rebellious teen with a fertile imagination?…
FUNNY GIRL
Release: Feb tbc
Certificate: tbc
Running Time: 155 mins
One of the most popular movie musicals ever made, FUNNY GIRL follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice -- a role that earned Barbra Streisand the 1968 Oscar® for Best Actress. FUNNY GIRL was directed by William Wyler and written by Isobel Lennart and Bob Merrill. Starring Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis and Walter Pidgeon,
13 GHOSTS
Release: March 8th
Certificate:
Running Time: tbc
A state-of-the-art remake of the classic William Castle horror film about a family that inherits a spectacular old house from an eccentric uncle. There's just one problem: the house seems to have a dangerous agenda all its own. Trapped in their new home by strangely shifting walls, the family encounters powerful and vengeful entities that threaten to annihilate anyone in their path. Soon the family is joined by an offbeat ghost hunter who is determined to free the spirits imprisoned in the house. Caught in a frantic race to save themselves before it is too late, the human inhabitants realize the house is a riddle which contains the key to their imminent salvation — or destruction.
Stars: Matthew Lillard, F. Murray Abraham, Tony Shaloub
THE ONE
Release: March 29th
Certificate: 15PG
Running Time: tbc
In a stunning dual role international action star Jet Li (Black Mask) portrays Gabriel Yulaw, a police officer confronted with a sinister form of himself escaped from an advanced parallel universe and intent on killing Gabriel. His alter ego’s hunt culminates in a fateful battle between good & evil that changes Gabriel’s perception of reality and forces him to examine the evil hidden within himself. A story of perception altering possibilities, riveting action & martial arts stunts, innovative special effects & the nature of destiny.
THE PANIC ROOM
Release: April 12 tbc
Certificate: tbc
Running Time: tbc
Adult thriller directed by David Fincher and starring Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam & Jared Leto. Trapped in their New York brownstone’s panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-in’s, newly divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) & her young daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) play a deadly game of cat and mouse with 3 intruders during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
DARK BLUE WORLD
Release: April 26
Certificate: TBC
Running Time: 119mins
DARK BLUE WORLD (TMAVOMODRY SVET) re-unites the entire Oscar®-winning KOLYA (Best Foreign Language Film 1996) creative team, under KOLYA producer Eric Abraham (Portobello Pictures) and the Czech KOLYA director and co-producer Jan Sverak (Biograf Jan Sverak)
DARK BLUE WORLD, written by the director’s father, Zdenek Sverak, who wrote and starred in KOLYA, tells the story of the friendship between two Czech pilots, one older and one younger, who escape Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, make their way to Britain, join the Royal Air Force and fall in love with the same English woman – the ultimate test of their friendship.
THE SWEETEST THING
Release: April 26 tbc
Certificate: tbc
Running Time: tbc
The Sweetest Thing tells the story of sexy Christina Walters (Cameron Diaz), who after years of avoiding meaningful relationships with men, unexpectedly one night meets her perfect match. When she finds out the next morning that he's suddenly left town, she and her best friend, Courtney (Christina Applegate), set out to find him and encounter a series of hilarious misadventures on their journey. Their search ultimately leads them to a surprising discovery and they learn that love is, after all, the sweetest thing.
SPIDERMAN
Release: May 3
Certificate: tbc
Running Time: tbc
Orphaned at an early age, Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) lives in Queens, New York with his beloved Aunt May (Academy AwardÒ nominee Rosemary Harris) and Uncle Ben (Academy AwardÒ winner Cliff Robertson). Peter leads the life of a normal student, working as a photographer at the Daily Bugle under the tutelage of publisher J. Jonah Jameson (J.K. Simmons), pining after the beautiful Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) and hanging out with buddy Harry Osborn (James Franco).
On a school trip, during which Peter and his classmates are given a science demonstration on spiders, Peter is bitten by a genetically altered spider. Soon after, he discovers that he has unusual powers: he is endowed with the strength and agility of a spider along with a keen, ESP-like “spider sense.”
NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE
Release: 26 May tbc
Certificate:
Running Time:
Not Another Teen Movie shows no mercy as it skewers the conventions and cliches of the genre you hate to love. Join Janey Briggs (Chyler Leigh), an aspiring artist who is outcast by her classmates for wearing glasses, a ponytail and paint-covered overalls; and Jake Wyler (Chris Evans), the all-American football star who makes a foolish bet to turn Janey into a prom queen, in a risque romp with an assortment of twisted takes on classic teen characters and teen movies.
POLLOCK
Release: May TBC
Certificate:
Running Time:
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: “Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?” The article pictured Pollock in a now-famous pose, wearing a worn black jacket and blue jeans, his arms crossed defiantly over his chest and one of his kinetic canvasses stretched out behind him. Already well-known in the New York art world, he had become a household name—America’s first “Art Star”—and his bold and radical style of painting continued to change the course of modern art. But the torments that had plagued the artist all of his life—perhaps the ones that drove him to paint in the first place, or that helped script his fiercely original art—continued to haunt him. As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral that would threaten to destroy the foundations of his marriage, the promise of his career, and—on one deceptively calm and balmy summer night in 1956—his life.
DOGTOWN AND Z-BOYS
Release: 7 June tbc
Certificate: tbc
Running Time: tbc
Modern skateboarding was born in Dogtown, a run-down urban beach neighbourhood in Santa Monica that bred aggressive, territorial competitors with a street-smart sense of style. It was there that a bunch of discarded kids from broken homes formed a group known as the Zephyr Team a.k.a. Z-Boys. In Dogtown and Z-Boys, director Stacy Peralta, one of the original Z-Boys, interweaves vintage footage, new editing techniques, breathtaking still photographs, new interviews with the team and narration from Sean Penn with music from the era. Dogtown and Z-Boys explodes off the screen as a work that perfectly captures the energy of a cultural movement. Dogtown and Z-Boys is the story of a group of accidental revolutionaries, gifted kids who inadvertently inspired an American pop culture phenomenon.
GRATEFUL DAWG
Release: June tbc
Certificate: tbc
Running Time: tbc
In 1964, at a folk venue called Sunset Park in Pennsylvania, a young banjo player from San Francisco struck up a conversation with a mandolin player from New Jersey, in between sets of a concert by the father of bluegrass, Bill Monroe. Nearly a decade later, they would form one of the most popular bluegrass groups in musical history; twenty-five years after their first meeting, the two troubadours would release a series of albums that would delight and entertain fans of all ages and musical persuasions.
STUART LITTLE 2
Release: July 19
Certificate: tbc
Running Time: tbc
In Stuart Little 2, the plucky, pint-sized hero returns to delight audiences with even more action-packed adventure than before. In the sequel, the little mouse with a big heart learns more about relationships, extending his embrace beyond family to friendship.
MEN IN BLACK II
Release: August 2
Certificate:
Running Time:
In Men In Black II (Will Smith) and Kay (Tommy Lee Jones) reunite to provide our best, last, and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIBs untarnished mission statement: protecting the earth from the scum of the universe.
ENOUGH
Release: September 20 tbc
Certificate:
Running Time:
Touching on the theme of female empowerment, the film traces the story of working class waitress Slim (Jennifer Lopez), whose life is transformed when she marries wealthy contractor Mitch (Bill Campbell). After becoming the perfect upper middle class suburban family with the birth of baby Gracie, Slim discovers that her husband is anything but perfect. Fleeing her violent spouse to save her life, she and her daughter take refuge in an unknown locale, where she soon realizes they are being watched. Fearing for Gracie’s well-being as well as her own, Slim readies herself with a training regime, confronts Mitch and ultimately must fight for her life.
THE NEW GUY
Release: tbc
Certificate:
Running Time:
At East Highland High School, new guy Gil Harris (DJ QUALLS) is at the top of the popularity food chain. Mysterious and charming, Gil’s got girls falling all over him and thugs scrambling to get his back. He’s got East Highland High School in the palm of his hand. But Gil’s got a secret. Not so long ago, at Rocky Creek High School, across town, Gil—formerly known as Diz, a.k.a. Dizzy Gillespie Harrison—was a ‘blip,’ a loser so low, he’s wasn’t even on the social radar. So how did Diz change his life and become Gil the new guy? A simple plan, determination and the help of some unlikely friends.
ROLLER BALL
Release: TBC
Certificate:
Running Time:
John McTiernan’s ROLLERBALL takes place five minutes in the future, and the future is fierce. A notorious renegade sport, ROLLERBALL pack arenas all over the world. A global viewership bets and roots for star players Jonathon Cross (Chris Klein), Marcus Ridley (LL Cool J) and their beautiful teammate Aurora (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) who skate and motorcycle past opponents to score. Despite the danger of the game, the real threat lies in the team owner Petrovich (Jean Reno) who sacrifices anything and anyone to maximize ratings, which are worth more to him then the final score. In a heroic move, Jonathon and his teammates attempt to expose the corruption and treachery. It is a risky play and the penalty is lethal.
HEROES OF HEAVEN AND EARTH
Release: TBC
Certificate:
Running Time:
Set against the backdrop of the ferocious Gobi Desert, the story surrounds two protagonists, Lieutenant Li (Jiang Wen) and Japanese emmisary, Lai Qi (Kiichi Nakai) - both first class warriors and master swordsmen. After decades of service to the Chinese Emperor, Lai Qi longs to return to Japan but finds himself exiled to the West chasing wanted criminals. Capturing and killing Lieutenant Li, a renegade soldier under execution order after refusing to kill female and child prisoners, is his only passport back to Japan. The two soldiers eventually cross paths and swords when Lai Qi inadvertently saves the same young woman, Minzhu (Zhao Wei), Lt. Li rescued five years earlier. The two warriors agree to delay their final personal battle until the caravan carrying Minzhu and a Buddhist monk is brought to safety. The monk, however, is carrying a sacred and powerful ‘pagoda’ that attracts the attention of the region’s ruthless overlord. Lai Qi and Lt. Li, accompanied by his former posse of soldiers who have forsaken their new lives to return to his side, must face the cruelty of the desert, the region’s barbaric bandits and brutality of the overlord’s men before they can finally face one another.
BIG SHOTS FUNERAL
Release: TBC
Certificate:
Running Time:
World famous film director Don Tyler (Donald Sutherland) is surrounded by hundreds of costumed extras in China’s fantastic Forbidden City – for centuries home to the most powerful emperors in the world – when creative drought hits and he doesn’t even have any idea where to put the camera. Tossed off the picture by his studio boss (Paul Mazursky), his depression is relieved only by an unlikely friendship with a down-on-his-luck Chinese cameraman, YoYo (Ge You). The director’s melancholia turns darkly serious when he falls into a coma, and it turns out his last wish was that YoYo give him a wacky “comedy funeral” to prepare him for Buddhist reincarnation. When the costs of the spectacular event spin wildly out of control, can YoYo hold it all together by selling prime ad space at this unique funeral to be televised around the world? And more importantly for YoYo, can he convince Tyler’s lovely assistant Lucy (Rosamund Kwan) that he isn’t just selling out Tyler to the highest bidder?
DOUBLE VISION
Release: TBC
Certificate:
Running Time:
In Taipei, the teeming modern capital of Taiwan, a corporate CEO freezes to death on a steaming hot day. Then, the notorious mistress of a politician burns to death in a room untouched by flames. The coroner (Yang Kwei-Mei) discovers two bizarre and grizzly links – a mysterious fungus imbedded in the brains of the bodies, and signs that both died in a hallucinatory state. But Li Feng-Bo (Dai Lei-Ren) -- the tough, no-holds-barred homicide detective on the case -- can’t find any connection between the victims, any clue as to how the fungus got into their systems or, for that matter, any idea of how they suffered such similar but eerily different deaths.
What is clear is that Li is dealing with Taiwan’s first-ever serial killer.
DEEDS
Release: TBC
Certificate:
Running Time:
Longfellow Deeds (Adam Sandler) is a sweet, lovable guy leading a simple but happy life in the tiny hamlet of Mandrake Falls, New Hampshire. Deeds is admired by the locals who crowd his pizzeria to hear him recite his truly terrible (but hilarious) greeting card poetry.
Life is good at the small town restaurant until two corporate-type strangers bring news that Deeds is about to be rolling in a different kind of dough. A long lost relative, Preston Blake, has left him an inheritance of 40 billion dollars along with a chain of media outlets, a football team, a basketball team, and a private helicopter ready to whisk him off to corporate America.
It’s a rags to riches story that has local tabloid reporters, including Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder) salivating. Deeds ultimately has to prove that money changes everything…not everyone.