| SEPTEMBER FILMS, continued
THE MAN, ROLL BOUNCE, FLIGHTPLAN, INTO THE BLUE AND SERENITY COME OUT
THIS MONTH
Now that the summer is over and a number of brainless films have come
and gone, it's that time of the year when studios start releasing
some hopeful quality films. Usually, the early days of September starts
off with leftover films that studios hope will make some money. Samuel
L. Jackson started the year with "Coach Carter" and has appeared
in 3 other films since then. Well, he's back again and in a buddy movie
along with Eugene Levy in "The Man". After being delayed for
some time, the Jennifer Lopez and Robert Redford and Morgan Freeman film,
"An Unfinished Life", finally makes its way to the big screen.
Another Miramax holdover, "Proof" with Gweneth Paltrow and Anthony
Hopkins gets released this month as well. Reese Witherspoon works the
charm with Mark Ruffalo in "Just Like Heaven". Jodie Foster
looks for her daughter aboard a plane in "Flightplan". Afrer releasing
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" this summer, Warner Bros.
has another Tim Burton and Johnny Depp film, "Tim Burton's Corpse
Bride". Ben Kinglsey hopes to rebound from "A Sound of Thunder"
with his take as Fagin in Roman Polanski's "Oliver Twist". Director
Malcolm Lee goes back to the days when rollerskating was the biggest
thing in town with "Roll Bounce", starring Bow Wow. And to end
the month off, Joss Whedon brings his cancelled TV show, Firefly, to the
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FLIGHTPLAN
Release Date: September 23, 2005
Distributor: Touchstone Pictures
Director: Robert Schwentke
Screenwriter: Peter A. Dowling and Billy Ray
Cast: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen
and Sean Bean
Synopsis:
Academy Award-winning producer Brian Grazer ("A Beautiful Mind,"
"Apollo 13") teams up with two-time Academy Award-winning actress
Jodie Foster ("Silence of the Lambs," "The Accused") in the taut
psychological thriller, FLIGHTPLAN, directed by Robert Schwentke
and written by Peter Dowling and Billy Ray. Flying at 40,000
feet in a cavernous, state-of-the-art 474 aircraft, Kyle Pratt (FOSTER)
faces every mother's worst nightmare when her six year-old daughter,
Julia, vanishes without a trace mid-flight from Berlin to New York.
Already emotionally devastated by the unexpected death of her husband,
Kyle desperately struggles to prove her sanity to the disbelieving
flight crew and passengers while facing the very real possibility
that she may be losing her mind. While neither Captain Rich (SEAN
BEAN), nor Air Marshal Gene Carson (PETER SARSGAARD) want to doubt
the bereaved widow, all evidence indicates that her daughter was
never on board resulting in paranoia and doubt among the passengers
and crew of the plane. Finding herself desperately alone,
Kyle can only rely on her own wits to solve the mystery and save
her daughter.
Click here for trailer and photos - http://www.blackfilm.com/20050422/features/flightplan.shtml
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CRY WOLF
Release Date: September 23, 2005
Distributor: Rogue Pictures (Focus Features)
Film Genre: Thriller
Country: United States
Director: Jeff Wadlow
Producer: Beau Bauman
Screenwriters: Beau Bauman & Jeff Wadlow
Cast: Julian Morris, Jared Padalecki , Jon Bon
Jovi, Lindy Booth, and Gary Cole
Synopsis: Modern-day retelling of The Boy Who
Cried Wolf
Click here for trailer and photos - http://www.blackfilm.com/20050401/features/fs_crywolf.shtml
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TIM BURTON'S CORPSE BRIDE
Release Date: September 23, 2005
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Film Genre: Live-Action Animation
Country: United States
Directors: Michael Johnson, Tim Burton
Screenwriters: Caroline Thompson, Pamela Pettler
Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Emily
Watson, Richard E. Grant, Albert Finney, Joanna Lumley, Christopher
Lee
Synopsis:
Set in a 19th century European village, this stop-motion, animated
feature follows the story of Victor (Depp), a young man who is whisked
away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious Corpse Bride (Bonham-Carter),
while his real bride, Victoria (Watson), waits bereft in the land
of the living. Though life in the Land of the Dead proves to be
a lot more colorful than his strict Victorian upbringing, Victor
learns that there is nothing in this world, or the next, that can
keep him away from his one true love. It's a tale of optimism, romance
and a very lively afterlife, told in classic Tim Burton style.
Click here for trailer and photos - http://www.blackfilm.com/20041217/features/fs_corpsebride.shtml
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ROLL BOUNCE
Release Date: September 23, 2005
Distributor: Fox Searchlight
Director: Malcolm D. Lee
Producers: Robert Teitel & George Tillman
Jr.
Screenwriter: Norman Vance Jr.
Cast: Nick Cannon, Bow Wow, Mike Epps, Rick
Gonzalez, Meagan Good, Brandon Jackson, Chi McBride, Kellita Smith,
Jurnee Smollett, Khleo Thomas, Tai' isha Davis,
Synopsis: 1970s roller-skate jams fuel this coming-of-age
comedy, as X (Bow Wow) and his friends, who rule their local rink,
are shocked when their home base goes out of business. Heading over
to the Sweetwater Roller Rink, they find their modest talents are,
at first, no competition for their trick skaters and pretty girls
who follow their every move.
Click here for trailer and photos - http://www.blackfilm.com/20041105/features/fs_rollbounce.shtml
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OLIVER TWIST
Release Date: September 30, 2005
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Director: Roman Polanski
Producers: Alain Sarde & Robert Benmussa
Screenwriter: Ronald Harwood, based on the novel
by Charles Dickens
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Barney Clark, Jamie Foreman,
Harry Eden, Lewis Chase, Leanne Rowe, & Edward Hardwicke
Synopsis: (From IMDB)
An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets
a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household
of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Click here for photos - http://www.blackfilm.com/20041210/features/fs_oliverstwist.shtml
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SERENITY
Release Date: September 30, 2005
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Film Genre: Futuristic action-adventure
Country: United States
Director: Joss Whedon
Screenwriter: Joss Whedon
Cast: Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Chiwetel
Ejiofor, Nathan Fillion, Ron Glass, Summer Glau, Sean Maher, Jewel
Staite, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk
Synopsis:
Joss Whedon- the Oscar®- and Emmy-nominated writer/director
responsible for the worldwide television phenomena of Buffy the
Vampire Slayer and Angel-now applies his trademark compassion and
wit to a small band of galactic outcasts 500 years in the future
in his feature film directorial debut, Serenity. The film centers
around Captain Malcolm Reynolds, a hardened veteran (on the losing
side) of a galactic civil war, who now ekes out a living pulling
off small crimes and transport-for-hire aboard his ship, Serenity.
He leads a small, eclectic crew who are the closest thing he has
left to family - squabbling, insubordinate and undyingly loyal.
When Mal takes on two new passengers-a young doctor and his unstable,
telepathic sister-he gets much more than he bargained for. The pair
are fugitives from the coalition dominating the universe, who will
stop at nothing to reclaim the girl. The crew that was once used
to skimming the outskirts of the galaxy unnoticed find themselves
caught between the unstoppable military force of the Universal Alliance
and the horrific, cannibalistic fury of the Reavers, savages who
roam the very edge of space. Hunted by vastly different enemies,
they begin to discover that the greatest danger to them may be on
board Serenity herself.
Click here for trailer and photos - http://www.blackfilm.com/20050107/features/fs_serenity.shtml
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A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
Release Date: September 30, 2005
Distributor: New Line Cinema
Film Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: United States
Director: David Cronenberg
Screenwriter: Josh Olson
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris and Maria Bello
Synopsis:
A stylized thriller from director David Cronenberg, A History of
Violence examines how far a man is willing to go in his quest for
redemption and to protect his family. Viggo Mortensen stars as Tom
McKenna, a man who leads a quiet, charmed life with his loving wife
and family in a small town. But when an unexpected incident turns
bloody and brings unwanted attention to him, Tom is forced to return
to his secret past in order to rescue his family from peril.
Click here for photos - http://www.blackfilm.com/20050114/features/fs_historyofviolence.shtml
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INTO THE BLUE
Release Date: September 30, 2005
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Director: John Stockwell
Screenwriter: Matt Johnson
Cast: Paul Walker, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin,
Dwayne Adway, Scott Caan, Ramon Saunders, Ashley Scott, Chris Taloa
Synopsis:
Into the Blue is a high-stakes thriller set in the deep, shark-infested
waters of the Bahamas. When young divers discover the wreckage of
a cargo plane at the bottom of the sea, they believe their dream
of buried treasure has come true. What they don't realize is that
millions of dollars of illegal goods are in that sunken plane and
a group of dangerous criminals are already desperately searching
for it. As tensions mount and the friends begin to fight about what
to do with their find, others get closer to discovering their secret
- and the treasure hunters quickly become the hunted.
Click here for trailer and photos - http://www.blackfilm.com/20050107/features/fs_intotheblue.shtml
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