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Watchmen

October 27th 2008 09:57
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Watchmen movie poster

Watchmen is the 2009 film adaptation from the comic book series of the same name.
Set in 1985, the movie is set in an alternative universe where superheroes are a way of life, the US and Soviet Union are about to break into war, and Richard Nixon is still president.

The story follows the vigilante Rorschach who, after one of his colleagues is murdered uncovers a plot to kill or discredit all superheroes. He re-unites his former legion of rag-tag crime fighters and uncovers a conspiracy larger than he could ever have imagined.
Watchmen will be released in the USA on March 6th. The Australian release date in March 5th.


View the early trailer for Watchmen below:

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The Spirit

October 10th 2008 12:03
The Spirit Movie Poster


The Spirit is the film adaptation of the newspaper strip of the same name. It stars Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson and Eva Mendes.
The movie tells the story of a man who fakes his own death and fights crime from the shadows. Samuel L. Jackson plays his nemesis the Octopus, a ruthless killer taking out the citizens of Central City one by one. As the hero battles the Octopus, he crosses paths with a plethora of women who try to seduce him, kill him, or both.

The Sprit is of the same ilk as Sin City and Batman Begins. It will be released in the USA on Christmas Day. The Australian release date is Boxing Day, 2008.


The Spirit trailer is here:

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RocknRolla

August 25th 2008 10:16
RocknRolla movie poster


RocknRolla is the latest crime thriller directed by Guy Ritchie. Filmed in London, it focuses on the story of a Russian mobster who sets up a real estate scam in the UK where huge amounts of cash are up for grabs. Everyone in the London underworld tried to get in on the action, from crime lords to corrupt politicians and petty thieves. They all want to get rich quick, but who will win out in the end.
RocknRolla will be released in the UK on October 3rd and the USA on October 31st. The Australian release date is November 6th.



Here is the trailer for RocknRolla:
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Max Payne the Movie

July 30th 2008 14:46
Max Payne is an upcoming movie based on the video game of the same name. Mark Wahlberg will star in the title role. The film is due to be released in the USA on October 17th. The Australian release date is October 16th.
Max Payne starring Mark Wahlberg. Game and movie

Max Payne is a cop who has a dismal job, but a loving family. When his family and partner are brutally murdered, Max decides to go against the rules to discover the truth about what happened to them. With all the joy in his life gone and framed for murder to top it all off, Max Payne launches a one man war against the mob and other mysterious enemies with the NYPD also chasing him along the way. Will Max discover the truth of what happened to his loved ones and extract the revenge he so desires?


The trailer for Max Payne is below:

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James Bond - Quantum of Solace

July 14th 2008 14:24
Quantum of Solace is the 22nd James Bond film by EON Productions, due for release in the United Kingdom on 31 October 2008 and in North America on 7 November. The Australian release date is November 27th. The sequel to Casino Royale (2006), it is directed by Marc Forster, and features Daniel Craig's second performance as James Bond. In the film, Bond battles Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), a member of the Quantum organisation posing as an environmentalist, who intends to stage a coup d'état in Bolivia to take control of its water supply. Bond seeks revenge for the death of Vesper Lynd, and is assisted by Camille (Olga Kurylenko). The title was chosen from an unrelated short story in Ian Fleming's For Your Eyes Only (1960).
James Bond 22 - Quantum of Solace

Filming took place in Panama, Chile, Italy, Austria and Pinewood Studios. There will be more gadgets than in Casino Royale, though they will still aim to be realistic.

The film continues "an hour after" Casino Royale's conclusion, when Mr. White is shot and captured by Bond at Lake Como. Bond is then involved in a car chase in Siena, Italy. The official synopsis shows that White reveals to Bond and M that his organisation (called Quantum) has agents in Her Majesty's Government and the Central Intelligence Agency. Forensic evidence of an MI6 traitor leads Bond to Haiti, where he meets Camille, who then helps him find Dominic Greene, a ruthless businessman and chairman of Greene Planet, the legitimate cover for Quantum.

Greene intends to use his government contacts to help overthrow the current regime in Bolivia, and place the exiled General Medrano as the head of state. Medrano will in exchange give him a barren piece of land, which will actually give them total control of the nation's water supply. Bond travels to Austria and South America to unravel Greene's plan, staying one step ahead of the CIA, terrorists, and M whilst trying to keep his desire for retribution over Vesper Lynd's death in check.

Here is the first trailer for Quantum of Solace:



Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller
Directed by: Marc Forster
Produced by: Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli
Written by: Joshua Zetumer, Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade
Starring: Daniel Craig, Mathieu Amalric, Olga Kurylenko, Gemma Arterton, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini
Runtime: 110 mins
Release date: USA - November 7th, 2008; Australia - November 27th, 2008; UK - October 31st, 2008
Budget: £113.4 million



*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Quantum of Solace.
**This movie poster is used here under fair use. It came from the same Wikipedia page as above.
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Death Race

July 11th 2008 12:11
Death Race starring Jason Statham

In the near-future, prisons are run by a corporation which uses inmates to participate in the most popular sport on earth, a brutal adrenalin-fuelled game of carnage in which monster cars are fitted with machine guns, flame throwers and rocket launchers. Former racing champion Jensen Ames is just two months away from release when the corporation selects him for the biggest event of the season, the Death Race. Facing a gauntlet of the most vicious criminals on the planet, he must kill or be killed in a brutal three day challenge for the ultimate prize: freedom. Death Race will be released in the USA on August 22nd. The Australian release date is October 30th.

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The Forbidden Kingdom

June 11th 2008 12:22
The Forbidden Kingdom is a 2008 Hollywood martial arts-adventure film from Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company directed by Rob Minkoff. It is the first film to star together two of the best-known names in the martial arts film genre, Jackie Chan and Jet Li. The action sequences were choreographed by Yuen Woo-ping. The Australian release date is July 24th.
Forbidden Kingdom Jackie Chan Jet li

In "Forbidden Kingdom," American teenager Jason (Michael Angarano), who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kungfu classics, finds an antique Chinese staff in a pawn shop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King (Jet Li). With the lost relic in hand, Jason unexpectedly finds himself transported back to ancient China


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Redbelt

May 30th 2008 12:46
Redbelt poster

Set in the west-side Los Angeles fight world, a world inhabited by bouncers, cage-fighters, cops, and special forces types, "Redbelt" is the story of Mike Terry (Chewitel Ejiofor), a Jiu-jitsu master who has avoided the prize fighting circuit, choosing to instead pursue an honorable life by operating a self defense studio with a samurai’s code. Terry and his wife Sondra (Alice Braga) struggle to keep the business running to make ends meet. An accident on a dark, rainy night at the Academy between an off duty officer (Max Martini) and a distraught lawyer (Emily Mortimer) puts in motion a series of events that will change Terry's life dramatically introducing him to a world of promoters (Ricky Jay, Joe Mantegna) and movie stars (Tim Allen). Faced with this, in order to pay off his debts and regain his honor, Terry must step into the ring for the first time in his life.

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Journey to the Centre of the Earth 3D


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


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Hancock

May 5th 2008 11:40
Hancock poster. Will Smith


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


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The Incredible Hulk

April 4th 2008 12:05
The Incredible Hulk is a superhero film based on the Marvel comic of the same name, set for release on June 13, 2008. It is directed by Louis Leterrier and stars Edward Norton as Bruce Banner, Liv Tyler as Betty Ross, William Hurt as her father General Thaddeus Ross and Tim Roth as the villainous Emil Blonsky, known in the comics as the Abomination. The film follows Banner as he flees the pursuit of General Ross and attempts a cure to rid himself of the Hulk. But when Blonsky injects himself with Banner's gamma formula and becomes an even greater monster, Banner must accept his own inner beast and defeat Blonsky. The film will be released in the USA on June 13th. The Australian release date is June 12th.

After the 2003 film Hulk, Marvel Studios reacquired the rights to the character, and writer Zak Penn began work on a loose sequel that would be closer to the comics and the television series. Norton rewrote the script after he signed on to star, severing ties to its predecessor by retelling the origin story in flashbacks and revelations. Filming mostly took place in Toronto, Canada in 2007, and the film's crew went to great lengths to reduce the production's carbon emissions. Letterier's direction aimed to make the monsters look more realistic and frightening. He redesigned the Abomination, who in the comics is a reptilian KGB agent, into a mutant soldier


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Babylon A.D.

April 2nd 2008 11:48
Babylon A.D. is a science fiction film based on the novel Babylon Babies by Maurice Georges Dantec.It is being directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and stars Vin Diesel. Babylon A.D. will be released on August 29, 2008 in the United States. The Australian release date is August 28th.
Babylon A.D. Vin Diesel.

The premise for the film is veteran-turned-mercenary Thoorop (Diesel) takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman from Russia to China. Little does he know that she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a genetically modified Messiah


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Hellboy II: The Golden Army

March 31st 2008 11:24
Hellboy II. Hellboy 2: Golden army

Along with his expanding team in the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Development—pyrokinetic girlfriend Liz (Selma Blair), aquatic empath Abe (Doug Jones) and protoplasmic mystic Johann—the BPRD will travel between the surface strata and the unseen magical one, where creatures of fantasy become corporeal. And Hellboy, a creature of two worlds who's accepted by neither, must choose between the life he knows and an unknown destiny that beckons him. The film will be released in America on July 11th. The Australian release date is August 28th.

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X-Files 2

March 21st 2008 12:36
The X-Files sequel which has the working title "Done One" is the second feature film based on the TV series The X-Files, following the 1998 film of the same name. The sequel is directed by the TV series creator Chris Carter and written by Carter and Frank Spotnitz. The film was first anticipated in November 2001 to follow the conclusion of the ninth season of the TV series, but it remained in development hell for six years before entering production in December 2007 in Vancouver. The stars of the TV series, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, return to reprise their roles as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. The premise of the film is not yet publicly known, but many of those involved, including Carter, Duchovny, and 20th Century Fox, have spoken of the film as one that would stand alone and be apart from the mythology of the TV series. The film is slated for a July 25, 2008 release in the USA. The Australian release date is July 24th.
X-Files 2 sequel done one poster. Scully & Mulder

Due to the highly secretive nature of the project, very little is known about the movie's plot. It is known that, unlike the first film, the plot will not focus on the series' ongoing "mythology" and will instead be a standalone thriller/horror story, similar to many of the "monster-of-the-week" episodes that were frequently seen in the TV series


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