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21 is a 2008 drama film from Columbia Pictures. It stars Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, and Laurence Fishburne. The film is based on the best-selling book by Ben Mezrich, Bringing Down the House. The film is scheduled for release on March 28, 2008 in the USA. The Australian release date is April 24th, 2008.

21 promotional poster. MIT Las Vegas card counting

An M.I.T. math whiz is recruited by a teacher to join a specialised team, the Blackjack Team, of card counters. They break away from their mentor before casino security finally catches up with them. Based on the best-selling book and true story by Ben Mezrich "Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Down Vegas for Millions".

The trailer for 21 is below:

In real life, the Blackjack Team was mostly composed of Asian-American males. However, studio executives have cast mostly white actors to portray these men in the film. Ben Mezrich, author of Bringing Down the House, has noted a "stereotypical" casting process on the part of Hollywood.
The scenes in the MIT bar were actually filmed at the Boston University Pub. MIT would not allow them to film on campus.

Much of this movie was actually shot across the river from MIT at Boston University.
Filming was done at the Christian Science Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

Genre: Drama
Directed by: Robert Luketic
Produced by: Kevin Spacey, Brett Ratner
Written by: Ben Mezrich
Starring: Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release date: USA - March 28th, 2008; Australia - April 24th, 2008; UK - April 11th, 2008
Runtime: 95 mins
Budget: $US 75 million
Rating: US - PG 13; for some violence, and sexual content including partial nudity.

*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article 21 (2008 film).
**This movie poster is used here under fair use. It came from the same Wikipedia page as above.

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Charlie Wilson's War

January 7th 2008 04:45

Charlie Wilson's War is a 2007 film about Democratic Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson, who conspired with a rogue CIA operative named Gust Avrakotos to launch an operation to help the Afghan Mujahideen during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. The film is adapted from George Crile's 2003 book Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History. Directed by Mike Nichols, written by Aaron Sorkin, and starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, the film was nominated in 2007 for five Golden Globe Awards, including "Best Motion Picture." The film was released on December 21st in the USA. The Australian release date is January 24th, 2008.

Charlie Wilson's War Tom Hanks Julia Roberts Philip Seymour Hoffman

Urged on by his staunchly anti-communist friend and romantic interest, Joanne Herring, Wilson leads the effort to provide United States funds indirectly to the Afghan Mujahideen. In the process, the film also reveals Wilson as a Congressman whose disdain for the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is supplemented by his gregarious social life of women and partying.
Herring persuades him to visit the Pakistani leadership who complain about the inadequate support to oppose the Soviets and insist he visit a major Afghan refugee camp. Deeply moved by their misery and determination to fight, Wilson is frustrated by the regional CIA detachment's insistence on a low key approach against the Soviet despite his firm pledges for generous funding as a member of two major Congressional defense committees. To solve that problem, Wilson befriends the maverick CIA operative Gust Avrakotos and his understaffed Afghanistan group to find a better strategy, especially including a means to counter the Soviets' formidable gunship helicopter air support. As a result, Wilson's deft political bargaining for the necessary funding and Avrakotos' group's careful planning using those resources, such as supplying the guerrillas with FIM-92 Stinger missile launchers, turn the Soviet occupation into a deadly quagmire with their heavy fighting vehicles being destroyed at a crippling rate. This effort by Wilson ultimately evolves into a major portion of the US foreign policy known as the Reagan Doctrine, under which the U.S. assisted the mujahideen and other anti-communist resistance movements around the world. Controversial at the time, some now credit the policy with contributing to the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union and global communism, bringing about the end of the Cold War.
Despite the victory, Avrakotos warns that unless there is a serious effort to help Afghanistan rebuild back into a stable society, there could be dire and unpredictable repercussions for both that nation and the USA. Unfortunately, Wilson finds exceptionally little enthusiasm in the government for even the modest measures he proposes to heed this warning and his efforts are frustrated. The film ends with Wilson receiving a major commendation for the support of the US clandestine services, but his pride is sadly tempered by his fears of what unintended consequences his secret efforts could yield in the future.

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Cast:
Tom Hanks as Charlie Wilson
Julia Roberts as Joanne Herring
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Gust Avrakotos
Ned Beatty as Doc Long
Om Puri as General Zia-Ul-Haq
Amy Adams as Bonnie Bach
Mary Page Keller as Mrs. Wilson
Emily Blunt as Jane Liddle
Shiri Appleby as Jailbait
Rachel Nichols as Suzanne
Christopher Denham as Michael G. Vickers

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Genre: Biography / Drama
Directed by: Mike Nichols
Produced By: Tom Hanks
Written by: Aaron Sorkin
Distributed by: Universal Pictures Playtone
Release date: USA - December 21st, 2007; Australia - January 24th, 2008; UK - January 9th, 2008
Runtime: 100 mins
Budget: $US 75 million
Rating: US - R; for strong language, nudity/sexual content and some drug use.

*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Charlie Wilson's War.
**This movie poster is used here under fair use. It came from the same Wikipedia page as above.

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The Great Debaters

December 31st 2007 08:21

The Great Debaters is an upcoming 2007 film produced by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions. It is directed by Denzel Washington who also stars in the film along with Forest Whitaker, Kimberly Elise, Nate Parker, Gina Ravera, and Jurnee Smollett. The screenplay is by Suzan-Lori Parks and Robert Eisele It will be released on December 25, 2007 in the USA. The Australian release date is February 28th, 2008.

The film, based on a true story, revolves around the efforts of a debate coach (Denzel Washington) at historically black Wiley College to place his team on equal footing with whites in the American south during the 1930s, when lynch mobs and Jim Crow laws abounded. The Wiley team eventually succeeds to the point at which they are able to take part in a debate with Harvard University. The film was the first in over thirty years, since 1970's Love Story, to be allowed to film substantial scenes on Harvard's campus, possibly because it portrays the university in a good light.

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Genre: Drama
Directed by: Denzel Washington
Produced by: Oprah Winfrey, Denzel Washington, Joe Roth, Kate Forte, David Crockett, Todd Black, Molly Allen
Written by: Suzan-Lori Parks, Robert Eisele
Starring: Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Kimberly Elise, Jurnee Smollett, Gina Ravera
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (USA), The Weinstein Company (Worldwide)
Release date: US - December 25th, 2007; AUS - February 28th, 2008
Runtime: 118 mins
Budget: US$ 15 million

*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article The Great Debaters.
**This movie poster is used here under fair use. It came from the same Wikipedia page as above.

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Persepolis

December 28th 2007 10:26

Persepolis is a 2007 animated film based on the graphic novel of the same name. The film was written and directed by Marjane Satrapi (author of the novel) and Vincent Paronnaud. It tells the story of a young girl in Iran during the Iranian Revolution. Through the eyes of the nine-year-old Marjane it shows how people's hopes were dashed as the fundamentalists took power, forced the veil on women and imprisoned thousands. The title is a reference to the historical town of Persepolis.

The film won the Prize of the Jury at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and was released in France and Belgium on June 27. In her speech on receiving the Cannes award, Satrapi said "Although this film is universal, I wish to dedicate the prize to all Iranians."
The U.S. version is scheduled in theatres on December 25, 2007. The film will be released in Australia on February 7th, 2008.

Marjane is a child growing under the Shah's dictatorship. Her parents are urban educated people but hope for a change. Marjane dreams of being the last of the prophets.
With the revolts against the Shah, her uncle, a Communist aristocrat from Azerbaijan, is freed from prison and tells how he fought for the triumph of the proletariat even escaping to the Soviet Union. However, he is captured again and executed under the Islamic Revolution. He dedicates his single prison visit to Marjane, making a deep impression on her.
Marjane grows during the Revolution, wears a veil, Nike sneakers, and a "Punk Is Not Ded [sic]" jacket. She listens to "rebel" music like The Bee Gees. Her grandmother, a tender independent woman, is another of her influences. Later she evolves to Iron Maiden.
The Iran-Iraq war starts and her parents are concerned about her safety. Since she had studied at the French Lycee of Tehran, she is sent to the French Lycee of Vienna. The Iranian teenager does not fit in well in Austria, but ends up making friends with nihilist high-class kids. She spends Christmas holidays alone while her friends travel to meet their boring families in Brazil or other places. An unsuccessful relationship destroys her character. She sleeps on the streets of Vienna. After being hospitalized with blood-coughing bronchitis, she asks her parents to return to Iran no-questions-asked.
In Iran, she keeps depressed when seeing the situation of her family and former friends. At the end, she gets herself together (to the tune of "The Eye of the Tiger") and studies Fine Arts in the University of Tehran. Things like studying anatomy with veiled women or the party-interruption of Guards of the Revolution cause her to protest.
She finally migrates to Paris leaving her family behind.

The trailer for Persepolis is below:

Genre: Animation / Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
Written by: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
Starring: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Simon Abkarian
Distributed by: Sony Pictures Classics
Release date: USA - December 25th, 2007; Australia - February 7th, 2008; UK - April 11th, 2008
Runtime: 95 mins
Budget: $US 7.3 million
Rating: US - PG; AUS - M; mature thematic material including violent images, sexual references, language and brief drug content.

*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Persepolis (film).
**This movie poster is used here under fair use. It came from the same Wikipedia page as above.

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The Other Boleyn Girl

December 21st 2007 11:44

The Other Boleyn Girl is a movie adaptation of the novel of the same title by British author Philippa Gregory. It is a romanticised account of the life of the 16th-century aristocrat, Lady Mary Boleyn, who was the sister of Queen Anne Boleyn and one-time mistress of King Henry VIII of England.

The project was filmed in the UK in late 2006, and will be released in February, 2008 (UK March 2008). The film is directed by Justin Chadwick from a script by Peter Morgan. The Australian release date is March 13th, 2008.

Scarlett Johansson has been cast in the lead role, alongside Eric Bana as Henry VIII and Natalie Portman as Anne Boleyn. The supporting cast includes Eddie Redmayne as Mary's second husband William Stafford, Kristin Scott Thomas as Lady Elizabeth Boleyn (Mary and Anne's mother), Bill Wallis as Archbishop Cranmer, Tiffany Freisberg as Lady Mary Talbot and Jim Sturgess as George Boleyn, with Brice Stratford as William Henry Bourchier, Captain of the King's bodyguard, Rue McClanahan as Mary and Anne's grandmother, and Ana Torrent as Catharine of Aragon. It also features an appearance by UK Model of the Year 2006/7, Siobhan Hustler, as Anne Boleyn's Lady-in-Waiting.

Costumes design is by Sandy Powell who also worked on Shakespeare in Love, and filming locations include Penshurst Place, Knole Park and Dover Castle in Kent, and Bude in Cornwall.

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Genre: Drama / History / Romance
Directed by: Justin Chadwick
Produced by: Mark Cooper, Alison Owen, Scott Rudin
Written by: Peter Morgan
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, Eric Bana, Jim Sturgess
Distributed by: Sony Pictures, Focus Features
Release date: US - February 29th, 2008; AUS - March 13th, 2008; UK - March 7th, 2008.
Budget: £20 million

*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article The Other Boleyn Girl (film).
**This movie poster is used here under fair use. It came from the same Wikipedia page as above.

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There Will Be Blood

November 23rd 2007 13:06

There Will Be Blood is a film adaptation of Upton Sinclair's novel Oil! It stars Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano, and is screenwritten, produced and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Shooting began in mid-May 2006 in New Mexico and Marfa, Texas, with principal photography wrapping August 24, 2006. The film is scheduled for release on December 26, 2007.

Music for the film was composed by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood

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PS, I Love You

November 19th 2007 11:57

Holly Kennedy (Hilary Swank) is beautiful, smart and married to the love of her life – a passionate, funny and impetuous Irishman named Gerry (Gerard Butler). So when Gerry’s life is taken by an illness, it takes the life out of Holly. The only one who can help her is the person who is no longer there. Nobody knows Holly better than Gerry. So it’s a good think he planned ahead.

Before he died, Gerry wrote Holly a series of letters that will guide her, not only through her grief but in rediscovering herself. The first message arrives on Holly’s 30th birthday in the form of a cake and, to her utter shock, a tape recording from Gerry, who proceeds to order her to get out and “celebrate herself”. In the weeks and months that follow, more letters from Gerry are delivered in surprising ways, each sending her on a new adventure and each signing off in the same way P.S. I Love You

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Awake

November 7th 2007 10:54

Awake is a 2007 thriller/drama film written and directed by Joby Harold and set for release late in the US in February 26th in the USA.. It stars Hayden Christensen and Jessica Alba.

Awake with Jessica Alba and Hayden Christensen

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Things We Lost In The Fire

October 26th 2007 15:31

Things We Lost In The Fire is a 2007 drama film directed by Susanne Bier and written by Allan Loeb.
The film is to be released in the UK on 4 January 2008 and in the US on October 19, 2007. The Australian release date is February 14th, 2008.

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Gone Baby Gone

October 24th 2007 15:11

Gone Baby Gone is a crime thriller adapted and directed by Ben Affleck, set in Boston, and based on the novel of the same title by Dennis Lehane. It stars Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan, as Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, two private investigators hunting for an abducted 4-year-old girl in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester. Ed Harris and John Ashton play two detectives, and Morgan Freeman plays Police Chief Jack Doyle. Dorchester native and Boston underground rapper Slaine plays Kenzie and Gennaro's close friend and drug dealing gun runner Bubba Rogowski. It is set for release on October 19, 2007 in the U.S. and January 1st, 2008 in Australia. It was set for release in the UK on 28 December 2007, but its release has been suspended indefinitely due to its similarities with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann

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Sleuth

October 19th 2007 12:32

Sleuth is a 2007 film directed by Kenneth Branagh based on 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature Harold Pinter's screenplay adaptation of the Tony Award-winning play Sleuth, by Anthony Shaffer. It was produced by Jude Law, who also stars in it as Milo Tindle opposite Michael Caine as Andrew Wyke, who performed as Tindle opposite Laurence Olivier as Wyke in the original 1972 film Sleuth. Though the new film adaptation is termed a "remake", Pinter, Branagh, Law, and Caine and reviewers emphasize that Pinter's "take" on the play differs almost entirely from the original play and film, which he had not seen prior to writing his screenplay

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Atonement Movie Preview

September 14th 2007 14:56

Atonement is a 2007 British film directed by Joe Wright. It is adapted from Ian McEwan's novel of the same name. It stars James McAvoy and Keira Knightley in the lead roles. The film is being produced by Working Title Films and will be distributed worldwide by Universal Studios - with the US release through the Focus Features division. The film is scheduled for release in the United Kingdom and Ireland on September 7, 2007. The film will be released in North America on December 7, 2007. The Australian release date is Boxing Day. The film opened the 2007 Venice Film Festival, making director Joe Wright, at age 35, the youngest director ever to open the prestigious festival. It has already been tipped to be a big Oscar contender.

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No Country for Old Men

September 7th 2007 13:56

No Country For Old Men is a 2007 film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel of the same name. Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen wrote and directed it for a 2007 release. Production started in May 2006 on location in Texas and New Mexico. The title is from the first line of W. B. Yeats's poem 'Sailing to Byzantium'. The movie first screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2007 and will go on general release in the USA on November 9, 2007. The Australian release date is 24th January, 2008.

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American Gangster

September 5th 2007 13:35

American Gangster is a 2007 crime film written by Steve Zaillian and directed by Ridley Scott. The film stars Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, and RZA. Washington portrays Frank Lucas, a real-life heroin kingpin from Manhattan who smuggled the drug into the country in the coffins of American soldiers returning from the Vietnam War. Crowe portrays Richie Roberts, a detective who brings down Lucas's drug empire. Filming was done in New York, and American Gangster is slated for a November 2, 2007 release in the USA and 10th January, 2008 in Australia

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