The Proposal is an upcoming romantic comedy movie from Walt Disney Pictures starring Sandra Bullock (Miss Congeniality, Speed) and Ryan Reynolds (Definitely, Maybe).
Also starring in The Proposal are Dennis O’Hare, Malin Akerman and Mary Steenburgen under the helm of Anne Fletcher.
Gist: A book editor is forced to marry her male assistant in order to stay in the country. When they travel to Alaska to meet his family, the new couple has to fake their way through a surprise wedding thrown by his parents.
Angels and Demons re-teams director Ron Howard and star Tom Hanks for the sequel to their international blockbuster adaptation of Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code. Although the book Angels and Demons was written before the novel The Da Vinci Code, the movie transpires after the events of the earlier movie. Hanks stars as professor Robert Langdon, the most respected symbologist in the United States, who uses his knowledge in order to decode a symbol on the skin of a murder victim. The clues put him on the trail of an international conspiracy involving the Catholic Church. Ewan McGregor and Ayelet Zurer also star in the Sony Pictures production.
Inglourious Basterds is an upcoming ensemble war film/spaghetti western written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It has the largest cast of characters of any Tarantino film to date and is currently in production with several locations, among them Germany and France. Tarantino plans to complete production of Inglourious Basterds in time for release at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2009. The title of the upcoming film is inspired by Italian director Enzo Castellari's 1978 movie Inglorious Bastards.
Cast: Brad Pitt Aldo Raine Eli Roth Sgt. Donnie Donowitz BJ Novak PFC Utivich Mike Myers Gen. Ed Fenech Michael Fassbender Lt. Archie Hicox Samm Levine Diane Kruger Bridget Von Hammersmark Til Schweiger Christoph Waltz Daniel Bruhl Melanie Laurent Julie Dreyfus Leonardo DiCaprio
The Weinstein Company has slated August 21, 2009 as the tentative U.S. release date.
Friday the 13th is an American horror film directed by Marcus Nispel, and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. It is a reboot of the Friday the 13th film series, whose last film was the 2003 crossover film Freddy vs. Jason. Nispel also helmed the 2003 remake of Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, while Shannon and Swift wrote the screenplay for Freddy vs. Jason. The film stars Derek Mears as Jason Voorhees, with Jared Padalecki and Amanda Righetti portraying the male and female leads. Set for a Friday, February 13, 2009 release, the film will take elements from the first four films.
Synopsis: Young friends Whitney (Amanda Righetti), Mike (Nick Mennell), Richie (Ben Feldman), Amanda (America Olivio), and Wade (Jonathan Sadowski) end up missing in the woods near the abandoned Camp Crystal Lake (made famous by the original 1980 film), after allowing their curiosity to get the better of them and visiting the site where a physcopathic killer resides. Meanwhile Trent (Travis Van Winkle) invites friends Jenna (Danielle Panabaker), Bree (Julianna Guill), Chewie (Aaron Yoo), Chelsea (Willa Ford), Lawrence (Arlen Escarpta), and Nolan (Ryan Hansen) to his cabin on the lake for a weekend of sex, booze, and drugs. However their seemingly fun weekend soon escalates into a nightmare after lone traveler Clay (Jared Padalecki) shows up looking for his missing sister Whitney and the young adults soon find themselves face to face with evil reborn, reimagined, and rebooted, and his name is Jason Vorhees (Derek Mears).
Will Ferrell stars as has-been scientist Dr. Rick Marshall, sucked into one and spat back through time. Way back. Now Marshall has no weapons, few skills ans questionable smarts to survive in an alternate universe full of marauding dinosaurs and fantastic creatures from beyond our world - a place of spectacular sights and super scaled-comedy known as the Land of the Lost.
Sucked alongside him for the adventure are crack-smart research assistant Holly (Anna Friel) and a redneck survivalist (Danny McBride) named Will. Chased by T-Rex and stalked by painfully slow reptiles knowns as Sleestaks, Marshall, Will, and Holly must rely on their only ally - a primate called Chaka (Jorma Taccone) - to navigate out of the hybrid dimension. Escape from this routine expedition gone awry and they're heroes. Get stuck, and they'll be permanent refugees in the Land of the Lost.
Based on the classic television series created by Sid and Marty Krofft, Land of the Lost is directed by Brad Silberling and produced by Jimmy Miller and Sid and Marty Krofft.
Hotel for Dogs is a family movie from Dreamworks about a teen who secretly fills a vacant house with stray dogs after she moves in with her fastidious aunt.
Starring Lisa Kudrow (Friends), Johnny Simmons, Don Cheadle and Emma Roberts (Nancy Drew, Spymate).
Gist: When their new guardians forbid 16-year old Andi and her younger brother, Bruce to have a pet, Andi has to use her quick wit to help find a new home for their dog, Friday. The resourceful kids stumble upon an abandoned hotel and using Bruce’s talents as a mechanical genius, transform it into a magical dog-paradise for Friday–and eventually for all Friday’s friends. When barking dogs make the neighbors suspicious, Andi and Bruce use every invention they have to avoid anyone discovering “who let the dogs in.”
The Uninvited is the Hollywood adaptation of the hit Korean horror movie “A Tale of Two Sisters.”
The Uninvited stars Elizabeth Banks, David Strathairn, Emily Browning and Arielle Kebbel under the direction of Thomas and Charles Guard for Dreamworks Pictures.
Synopsis: Anna returns home after spending time in the hospital following the tragic death of her mother. Her recovery suffers a setback when she discovers her father has become engaged to her mother’s former nurse. That night, Anna is visited by her mother’s ghost, who warns her of Rachel’s intentions. Together, Anna and her sister try to convince their father that his current fiance is not who she pretends to be, and what should have been a happy family reunion becomes a lethal battle of wills between stepdaughters and stepmother.
The Proposal is an upcoming romantic comedy movie from Walt Disney Pictures starring Sandra Bullock (Miss Congeniality, Speed) and Ryan Reynolds (Definitely, Maybe).
