How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is an upcoming comedy film based upon British writer Toby Young's 2001 memoir, also called How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. The film will follow a similar storyline, about his five year struggle to make it in the United States after employment at Vanity Fair magazine — though the names of the magazine and people Young came into contact with during the time were changed for the film adaptation. The film version is a highly fictionalized account, and differs greatly from the work it was built upon.
How to Lose Friends And Alienate People will be released in the United Kingdom on October 3rd, 2008. The Australian release date is October 9th and the US release date is October 3rd.
British writer Sidney Young (Simon Pegg), who despises the world of celebrity, leads efforts on an alternative magazine, Post Modern Review, that mocks the media attention paid to these stars. When Young is offered a job by Clayton Harding (Jeff Bridges) at conservative New York based Sharps magazine, he begins his ascent to success. Starting as an outsider, he makes a gradual movement from his former world, soon becoming the confidante of starlet Sophie Maes (Megan Fox) and beginning a relationship with colleague Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst). Eleanor Johnson (Gillian Anderson) is the power-hungry publicist pulling all the strings. The events unfolding in Young's life now will either break him or make him.
Cast:
Simon Pegg as Sidney Young: Pegg plays the character based upon Toby Young as he is portrayed in the memoir.
Megan Fox as Sophie Maes: Fox as Sophie Maes, is a budding starlet and the object of Young's lust.
Kirsten Dunst as Alison Olsen: Dunst portrays Young's love interest and elusive heroine of the memoir
Jeff Bridges as Clayton Harding: Bridges plays Clayton Harding, Young's magazine editor who is very loosely based on Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair.[1]
Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Johnson: Anderson as Eleanor Johnson, is the publicist pulling all the strings.
Other Info:
Genre: Comedy
Directed by: Robert B. Weide
Produced by: Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth Karlsen
Written by: Peter Straughan
Distributed by: Channel Four Films, Paramount Vantage
Budget: US $28 million
Release date: USA - October 3rd, 2008; Australia - October 9th, 2008; UK - October 3rd, 2008
In this update of Jules Verne's "Journey to the Centre of the Earth," Brendan Fraser will portray a geologist who, with his teenage son, discovers a message hidden in an ancient artefact, leading them into a previously unseen world. "Journey 3-D" will be shot in live action, with the otherworldly landscapes and creatures supplied by high-definition, photo-real 3-D technology. The film will be released in the US on July 11th. The Australian release date is September 29th.
The trailer for Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 3D is below:
Genre: Action/ Adventure
Directed by: Eric Brevig
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem
Release date: USA - July 11th, 2008; Australia - September 29th, 2008; UK - July 11th, 2008
Space Chimps is an upcoming computer-animated film produced by Vanguard Animation and Starz Media. The film was directed by Kirk De Micco, producer Barry Sonnenfeld and starring the voices of Andy Samberg, Jeff Daniels, Cheryl Hines, Kenan Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Kristin Chenoweth and Patrick Warburton. The film will be released on July 18th in the USA and September 18th in Australia.
The story follows two NASA trained chimpanzees; Lucy (a well trained, disciplined, typical “company woman”) and Ham (a classic good-natured goofball) who have to forego their usual comforts and live like animals when their space mission propels them into a distant universe. Forced to land on a magical planet they find a world inhabited by a host of wonderful animals and ruled over by a vicious king.
The trailer for Space Chimps is below:
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Directed by: Kirk De Micco
Produced by: Barry Sonnenfeld, John H. Williams, Curtis Augspurger, Tom Jacomb
Written by: Kirk De Micco
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Stanley Tucci, Patrick Warburton, Cheryl Hines, Kristin Chenoweth, Andy Samberg, Kenan Thompson, Omid Abtahi, Zack Shada
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release date: USA - July 18th, 2008; Australia - September 18th, 2008; UK - August 1st, 2008
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Space Chimps.
**This movie poster is used here under fair use. It came from the same Wikipedia page as above.
Pineapple Express is an upcoming action-comedy film expected to be released on August 8, 2008. The movie stars Seth Rogen and James Franco, and is produced by Judd Apatow. The film was directed by David Gordon Green with a screenplay by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, and story by Apatow, Rogen and Goldberg.
Lazy stoner and process server Dale Denton (Rogen) has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver (Franco): to purchase cannabis, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express that is hot on the drug market. Saul genuinely wants to befriend him, but the selfish Dale is only interested in gaining access to the weed. When he becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop (Rosie Perez) and the city's most dangerous drug lord (Gary Cole), he panics and dumps his roach of Pineapple Express at the crime scene. Dale now has another reason to visit Saul: to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to him, which it really is. As Dale and Saul run for their lives, they quickly discover that they’re not suffering from weed-fuelled paranoia; incredibly, the bad guys really are hot on their trail and trying to figure out the fastest way to kill them both.
The movie trailer for Pineapple Express is below:
Cast:
Seth Rogen as Dale Denton
James Franco as Saul Silver
Amber Heard as Angie Anderson
Rosie Perez as Officer Carol Brazier
Gary Cole as Ted Jones
Craig Robinson as Matheson
Kevin Corrigan as Budlofsky
Danny R. McBride as Red
Ed Begley Jr. as Robert Anderson
Nora Dunn as Shannon Anderson
Bill Hader as Private Greg B. Miller
James Remar as General Brat
Joe Lo Truglio as Mr. Edwards
Ken Jeong as Ken
Other Info:
Genre: Comedy / Crime / Thriller
Directed by: David Gordon Green
Produced by: Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Shauna Robertson
Written by: Judd Apatow, Seth Rogan, Evan Goldberg
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Budget: $US 25 million
Rating: USA - R; for pervasive language, drug use, sexual references, and violence.
Release date: USA - August 8th, 2008; Australia - August 7th, 2008; UK - September 12th, 2008
Mamma Mia! is an upcoming film adaptation of the West End musical of the same name based on the songs of pop group ABBA. It will be produced by Universal Pictures in partnership with Playtone and Littlestar. It is slated for a release date of July 11, 2008 in Sweden and the United Kingdom, and July 18, 2008 in the United States. The Australian release date is July 10th.
The basic premise to Mamma Mia! is using the hit songs of ABBA to tell the story of Sophie Sheridan a young girl who hopes to discover the identity of her father. On the eve of her wedding to Sky (Dominic Cooper), she brings three men, Sam Carmichael (Pierce Brosnan), Bill Austin (Stellan Skarsgård) and Harry Bright (Colin Firth), from her mother Donna's (Meryl Streep) past back to the Greek island they visited over two decades ago.
The trailer for Mamma Mia! is below:
Cast:
Meryl Streep as Donna Sheridan, Sophie's mother.
Christine Baranski as Tanya, Donna's friend.
Julie Walters as Rosie, Donna's friend.
Amanda Seyfried as Sophie Sheridan, Donna's daughter and Sky's fiancée.
Dominic Cooper as Sky, Sophie's fiancée.
Pierce Brosnan as Sam Carmichael, Sophie's possible dad #1.
Colin Firth as Harry Bright, Sophie's possible dad #2.
Stellan Skarsgård as Bill Anderson, Sophie's possible dad #3.
Other Info:
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance
Directed by: Phyllida Lloyd
Produced by: Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
Written by: Catherine Johnson, Benny Andersson
Distributed by: Universal Picture Playtone
Budget: $US 90 million
Release date: USA - July 18th, 2008; Australia - July 10th, 2008; UK - July 11th, 2008
There are heroes…there are superheroes…and then there’s Hancock. With great power comes great responsibility – everyone knows that – everyone, that is, except Hancock. Edgy, conflicted, sarcastic and misunderstood, Hancock’s well-intentioned heroics might get the job done and save countless lives, but always seem to leave jaw-dropping damage in their wake. The public has finally had enough – as grateful as they are to have their local hero, the good citizens of Los Angeles are wondering what they ever did to deserve this guy. Hancock isn’t the kind of man who cares what other people think – until the day that he saves the life of PR executive Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman), and the sardonic superhero begins to realize that he may have a vulnerable side after all. Facing that will be Hancock’s greatest challenge yet – and a task that may prove impossible as Ray’s wife, Mary (Charlize Theron), insists that he’s a lost cause
The premiere was held in London on 18 February 2008, and the film was released in the UK on 28 February 2008. The Australian release date is July 31st.
In September 1971, thieves tunnelled into the vault of a bank in London's Baker Street and looted safe deposit boxes of cash and jewellery worth over three million pounds. None of it was recovered. Nobody was ever arrested. The robbery made headlines for a few days and then disappeared - the result of a 'D' Notice, gagging the press. This film reveals what was hidden for the first time. The story involves murder, corruption and a sex scandal with links to the Royal Family - a story in which the thieves were the most innocent people involved
Kung Fu Panda is an animated film about a panda who learns martial arts and then uses this new ability to fight his enemies. Kung Fu Panda is being directed by John Stevenson and Mark Osborne and produced by Melissa Cobb. The film stars the voices of, among others, Jack Black, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie and Lucy Liu. It is due for release on June 6, 2008 in the USA. The Australian release date is June 26th.
Leatherheads is a 2008 American film directed by and starring George Clooney. The film also stars Renée Zellweger and John Krasinski. It will be released in Australia on May 29th.
Clooney plays Dodge Connolly, captain of the struggling football team, the Duluth Bulldogs. Dodge is determined to save both his team and football in general when the players lose their sponsor and the league is on the brink of collapse. He convinces a college football star, Carter "the Bullet" Rutherford, to join the Bulldogs, hoping to capitalize on Carter's fame as a war hero
Five years in the making, EARTH follows the influence of the sun on life on the planet. The critical and international success of Deep Blue proved that audiences were eager to be immersed in the natural history of our world. Now EARTH takes audiences on an unforgettable journey around the planet, using the sun as our guide, and three engrossing characters to tell its story. Narrated by Patrick Stewart and with music composed and conducted by George Fenton, EARTH offers us a chance to recognise and celebrate the beauty of our planet; whilst at the same time it serves as a timely reminder of the ecological fragility of our planet and the creatures that live on it. The Australian release date for Earth is May 29th, 2008.
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