Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Release Date: December 17, 2004
Director: Brad Silberling
Screenwriter: Robert Gordon, Daniel Handler
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: Not available
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Official Website: UnfortunateEventsmovie.com
Official Trailer: Large QuickTime Preview
Starring: Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Billy Connolly, Jennifer Coolidge, Liam Aiken, Emily Browning, Timothy Spall, Luis Guzman, Craig Ferguson, Cedric the Entertainer, Jude Law (voice of Lemony Snicket)
Plot Summary: Jim Carrey stars as Count Olaf, a wily villain with clever disguises and outrageous schemes, who is bent on swindling the Baudelaire orphans out of their family fortune. Featuring the unique blend of intelligence, irony and irreverence that readers of all ages have discovered in Lemony Snicket's best-selling books.
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Cellular
Release Date: September 17th, 2004
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Distributor: New Line Cinema
Official Website: cellularthemovie.com
Official Trailer: Large QuickTime Preview
Cast: Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, Jason Statham, Jessica Biel, Noah Emmerich, William H. Macy, Valerie Cruz, Eric Etebari, Rick Hoffman, Matt McColms, Dat Phan; other cast not announced yet.
Premise: A young man (Evans) receives a call on his cellular phone from a woman (Basinger) who says she's been kidnapped (by Statham's character), and thinks she's going to be killed soon, along with her husband and son who the kidnappers have gone after next. The catch? She doesn't know where she is... and his cell phone battery might go dead soon. (Macy plays a police officer.)
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Exorcist: The Beginning
Release Date: August 20th, 2004
Genre: Based on a Book, Historical, Horror, Sequel, Supernatural
Distributor: Warner Brothers
Official Website: exorcistthebeginning.warnerbros.com
Unofficial Fan Site: CaptainHowdy.com
Official Trailer: Large Windows Media Player Trailer
Cast: Stellan Skarsgaard (Father Merrin), James D'Arcy (Father William Francis), Isabella Scorupco (Rachel), Ilario Bisi-Pedro, Ralph Brown, Alan Ford, Andrew French, Antonie Kamerling, Alessandra Martines, Eddie Osei, Julian Wadham
Based Upon: This is the fourth in the series of horror films that started with The Exorcist in 1973, which was followed by The Exorcist II: The Heretic in 1977, and The Exorcist III in 1990. Whereas those last two were sequels, this is a prequel to the first film. That film was based upon the novel by William Peter Blatty, but he didn't have anything to do with this film (indeed, he's been actively vocal against it).
In the aftermath of World War II, Lancaster Marin finds himself in the remote Turkana region of Kenya. Haunted by memories of the war, he has taken sabbatical from the priesthood and journeyed far from his native Holland. He has come to lead the archeological excavation of a mysterious, Byzantine church, buried in pristine condition as if on the day it was completed. Directly underneath the church, Merrin discovers a much more ancient crypt- and finds himself face-to-face with unspeakable Evil.
Madness descends on the local villagers and the contingent of British soldiers sent to guard the excavation. Merrin watches helplessly as the atrocities of war are repeated against another innocent village-atrocities he’d hoped to never see again. The blood of innocents flows freely on the East African plain, but the horror has only just begun…
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Thunderbirds
Release Date: July 30, 2004
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG (for intense action sequences and language)
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Screenwriter: William Osborne
Studio: Universal Pictures
Official Website: Thunderbirdsmovie.com
Official Trailer: Large QuickTime Trailer
Starring: Bill Paxton, Anthony Edwards, Sophia Myles, Brady Corbet, Soren Fulton, Vanessa Hudgens, Ben Kingsley
Plot Summary: When dangerous situations exceed the limitations or ordinary military and international security forces, the world calls upon the high-tech assistance of International Rescue--a mysterious band of fearless adventurers and their fleet of awesome, imaginatively engineered vehicles known as: Thunderbirds! Hidden from the world, Tracy Island, a lush patch of land situated in the remote waters of the South Pacific, is home to brilliant entrepreneur and former astronaut Jeff Tracy (Paxton) and his five sons. It is also the headquarters of Tracy's top-secret organization, International Rescue - and it is under siege. Master criminal The Hood (Kingsley) has breached island security, intent on commandeering International Rescue's fleet of five highly advanced rescue vehicles, each designed to accomplish a specific task. Deploying Jeff and his four eldest sons on a mission, The Hood finds his plans obstructed by Jeff's youngest son Alan (Corbet), who will do anything to save the Tracy family and the Thunderbirds.
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Ocean's Twelve
Release Date: December 10, 2004
Genre: Action, Adventure
MPAA Rating: Not available
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Screenwriter: George Nolfi
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Official Website: Oceans12.WarnerBros.com
Official Trailer: Large QuickTime Trailer
Starring: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Julia Roberts, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Elliott Gould, Eddie Jemison, Bernie Mac, Carl Reiner, Vincent Cassel, Eddie Izzard
Plot Summary: In this sequel to the blockbuster hit "Ocean's Eleven," rival cat burglars who are masters of their craft team up to outfox the beautiful FBI agent one of them is in love with.
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The Aviator
Release Date: December 17, 2004
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Screenwriter: John Logan
Distributor: Miramax Films
Official Website: scorsesefilms.com
Official Trailer: Large QuickTime Trailer
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio (Howard Robard Hughes, Jr.), Alan Alda (Senator Brewster), Alec Baldwin (Juan Tripp), Kate Beckinsale (Ava Gardner), Cate Blanchett (Katharine Hepburn), Frances Conroy (Kit Hepburn), Willem Dafoe (cameo), Kelli Garner (Faith Domergue), Sam Hennings, Ian Holm, Danny Huston (Jack Frye), Vincent Laresca (Jorge), Jude Law (Errol Flynn), Josie Maran, Matt Ross (Glenn Odekirk), Nellie Sciutto (Nadine Henley), Adam Scott, Justin Shilton, Brent Spiner (Robert Gross), Gwen Stefani (Jean Harlow, Chris Ufland, Rufus Wainwright.
Based Upon: This film is based upon the early career of tycoon Howard Hughes (1905-1976), whose career spanned across everything from oil (which he cared little for), film, casinos, and aviation, as he turned millions of dollars into billions..
Premise: Focusing on his early years (from the 1930 production of 'Hell's Angels' to the 1947 test flight of the Blue Spruce, when he was 42), this is the story of how young Howard Hughes transformed a small fortune into a massive one. The son of the Texan inventor of an amazing drill bit who died when he was 18, leaving him with 75% of the "Hughes Tool Co.", Howard Hughes (DiCaprio) quickly moved to Los Angeles to become a Hollywood film producer, where he helped launch the career of Jean Harlow and other starlets, and producing such classics as Hell's Angels, The Front Page, Flying Leathernecks, and Scarface (the 1932 original), eventually owning RKO Pictures. Hughes' legend came not from focusing on just Hollywood, however, as he simultaneously branched into industry after industry, including aviation in 1932 (including TWA Airlines), and during WWII, defense, leading to the creation of the (infamous) Spruce Goose, a flying boat of immense size. After WWII, Hughes' expansions continued, with an electronics company that was integral to the evolution of the satellite, and Hughes' several Las Vegas casinos (though this film may be ending before he moves there). This film will also focus on Hughes' romances with Hollywood stars like Katherine Hepburn (Blanchett) and Ava Gardner (Beckinsale). (Huston plays the president of TWA; Baldwin plays the president of their competitor, Pan Am).
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Ladder 49
Release Date: October 8th, 2004
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jay Russell
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Official Website: ladder49.movies.go.com
Official Trailer: Large QuickTime Trailer
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta, Jacinda Barrett, Robert Patrick, Morris Chestnut, Kevin Chapman, Kevin Daniels, Jay Hernandez, Balthazar Getty, Tim Guinee, Billy Burke, Marja Allen, Nick Loren, Spencer Berglund, James E. Ash, Peggy Cafferty, Sho Brown.
Premise: Trapped in a fire that looks likely to kill him, a fireman (Phoenix) takes the opportunity to look back over his life, career and marriage, while he waits for his company, Ladder 49, to rescue him, if they can... (Travolta plays Phoenix's fire chief and mentor; Barrett plays his wife; Cooper plays the "grunge" rocker that his wife was dating before him; Hamlin plays Phoenix's daughter).
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