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Blindness is an upcoming dramatic thriller film that is an adaptation of the 1995 novel Blindness by José Saramago about a society suffering an epidemic of blindness. The film is written by Don McKellar and directed by Fernando Meirelles with Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo as the stars. The novel's author originally refused to sell rights for a film adaptation, not wanting it to fall into the wrong hands. Meirelles was able to acquire rights with the condition that the film would be set in an unrecognizable city. The director chose São Paulo as the primary backdrop for Blindness, though scenes were also filmed in Ontario, Canada and Montevideo, Uruguay.

Julianne Moore plays the only person immune to the epidemic of blindness. Her sight is kept a secret by her husband and others, though as time goes on, she feels isolated in being the only one with sight. With all the characters aside from Julianne Moore's character being blind, the cast was trained to simulate blindness. Meirelles also stylized the film to reflect the lack of point-of-view that the characters would experience. Blindness premiered as the opening film at the Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2008, and the film is commercially scheduled for limited release in the United States on September 12, 2008. The Australian release date is October 2nd.

Below see the trailer for Blindness:

Genre: Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
Directed by: Fernando Meirelles
Produced by: Niv Fichman, Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Sonoko Sakai
Written by: Don McKellar
Starring: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Gael García Bernal, Danny Glover, Alice Braga, Sandra Oh
Distributed by: Miramax Films
Budget: $US 25 million
Release date: USA - September 12th, 2008; Australia - October 2nd, 2008; UK - November 14th, 2008

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

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The Escapist

July 16th 2008 15:14

The Escapist is an extraordinarily visual and visceral thriller that had its world premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, "The Escapist" stars Brian Cox as a man who is serving a life sentence in prison. When a letter informs him that his daughter is critically ill, he decides he must see her before it is too late and concocts an escape plan. He assembles a motley crew of unlikely companions each of whom possesses a special and necessary skill that will help with his far-fetched scheme. Juxtaposing the intricate preparations for the break-out with the actual escape itself, the film becomes an intense, existential drama about every man's need to free himself from confinement and to redeem himself for past failings.

See the trailer for The Escapist below:

Genre: Thriller
Directed by: Rupert Wyatt
Starring: Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Liam Cunningham, Seu Jorge, Dominic Cooper, Steven Macintosh, Damian Lewis
Release date: USA - January 21st, 2008; Australia - November 20th, 2008; UK - June 20th, 2008

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Eagle Eye

June 2nd 2008 12:18

Eagle Eye is a 2008 American Action thriller film directed by D.J. Caruso and starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan. It will be released in September 27th in the USA. The Australian release date is September 25th.

A young man, Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) returns home after the mysterious death of his successful twin brother. He and a single mother, Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan) find out that they have been framed as terrorists, and they are coerced into becoming members of a cell tasked to assassinate a politician.

The trailer for Eagle Eye is below:

Genre: Drama / Thriller
Directed by: D.J. Caruso
Produced by: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Pat Crowley, Ed McDonnell
Written by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Billy Bob Thornton
Distributed by: DreamWorks
Budget: US$ 105 million
Release date: USA - September 27th, 2008; Australia - September 25th, 2008; UK - October 17h, 2009

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

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The Bank Job Movie Preview

May 2nd 2008 12:08

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.

The Bank Job trailer is below:

Genre: Crime / Thriller
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Produced by: David Alper
Written by: Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, George McIndoe, Aaron Shuster
Starring: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays
Distributed by: Lions Gate
Runtime: 111.5 minutes
Release date: USA - March 7th, 2008; Australia - July 31st, 2008; UK - February 29th, 2008

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Black Water Movie Preview

April 11th 2008 10:50

Based on a true story, Black Water is a thriller that sounds a now familiar warning - that Australia can be a dangerous place for a holiday. Black Water is based in realism. It stalks the line between horror and psychological thriller, a tale of true survival, that begs the question what would you do? How would you get out alive? Black Water will be released in Australia on April 24th, 2008.

The makers of Black Water didn't want to use limp CGI crocs in their film. If you want to know what it's like to be stalked by a croc, you've got to use real crocs! They went to the north of Australia and braved the waters with real salt water crocodiles.
A movie camera was nearly lost, having to be torn from the jaws of a crocodile on the second day of shooting.

Grace, her boyfriend Adam and her younger sister Lee are on holiday in Northern Australia and decide to take a river tour with Jim, their guide.
As they drift into the mangrove swamp their boat is suddenly capsized and Jim disappears. Realising they've been attacked by a crocodile, Adam drags Grace to the safety of a tree whilst Lee clings to the top of the overturned boat. Adam and Grace frantically try to manoeuvre Lee and the boat to the tree but it is firmly stuck. Stranded in the flooded mangrove swamp, the three holiday makers must work out what to do to survive. They must somehow elude a man eating crocodile, reclaim their overturned boat and get back down river alive. But will they make it?

The trailer for Black Water is below:

Genre: Adventure / Thriller
Directed by: Andrew Traucki, David Nerlich
Produced by: Michael Robertson
Written by: Andrew Traucki, David Nerlich
Starring: Diana Glenn, Maeve Dermody, Andy Rodoreda, Ben Oxenbould, Fiona Press
Runtime: 88 minutes

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The Happening Trailer

March 26th 2008 11:07

The Happening is a 2008 American film written, co-produced and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It stars Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel. Production began in August 2007 in Philadelphia. The Happening will be released on Friday, June 13, 2008, deliberately planned to fall on Friday the 13th.

A big city family goes on the run from an airborne virus that makes people kill themselves. Trying to escape the plague, they travel by car to rural areas believing they’ll be safe there

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The Eye

January 25th 2008 13:05

The Eye is an upcoming 2008 film starring Jessica Alba. It is a remake of a 2002 Hong Kong film of the same name.

The Eye. Horror/Thriller starring Jessica Alba

Sydney Wells (Jessica Alba) is an accomplished concert violinist who has been blind since a childhood tragedy. Sydney undergoes a double corneal transplant, and her sight is restored. But Sydney's happiness is short-lived as unexplainable shadowy and frightening images start to haunt her. Are they a passing aftermath of her surgery, Sydney's mind adjusting to sight, a product of her imagination, or something horrifyingly real? As Sydney's family and friends begin to doubt her sanity, Sydney is soon convinced that her anonymous eye donor has somehow opened the door to a terrifying world only she can now see

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Death Defying Acts

January 16th 2008 09:25

Death Defying Acts is an upcoming supernatural romantic thriller expected to be released in early 2008 and hyped as being the next Prestige. The film (directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Guy Pearce and Catherine Zeta Jones) follows the American escapologist, Harry Houdini in the height of his career in the 1920's. The Australian release date is March 13th, 2008. It will be released on January 12th in the US.

1926, a prolonged thirteen years since his mother's death, Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) lives with regret that he wasn't at his mother's side when she passed away. When the guilt begins to haunt him he offers $10,000 to anyone that can help him contact his mother, revealing her hidden secret

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Untraceable

January 14th 2008 10:36

Untraceable is an upcoming 2008 thriller which stars Diane Lane, Joseph Cross, Billy Burke, and Colin Hanks. The film will be distributed by Screen Gems. Gregory Hoblit directed the $57 million dollar production. The American release date is January 25th, 2007. The Australian release date is March 6th.

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Cloverfield

December 17th 2007 11:04

Cloverfield is a 2008 American monster movie produced by J. J. Abrams, directed by Matt Reeves, and written by Drew Goddard. First publicized in advance screenings of Transformers, the project is slated for a January 18, 2008 release. Paramount Pictures is carrying out a viral marketing campaign to promote the film. The film had a production title of 01-18-08, as such you can probably guess the release date, Except in Australia where is will be released a day early.

Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives

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I Am Legend

November 21st 2007 12:18

I Am Legend is an upcoming 2007 post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Will Smith. I Am Legend is based on Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend. This is the third adaptation of the novel, following The Last Man on Earth (1964) and The Omega Man (1971). Smith plays Robert Neville, possibly the only survivor of a man-made virus in the world. He works to create a cure, but he is being stalked by nocturnal mutant survivors of the plague.
I Am Legend is scheduled to be released December 14, 2007. The Australian release date is January 3rd, 2008.

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Valkyrie

November 14th 2007 01:48

Valkyrie is a 2008 historical thriller film directed by Bryan Singer and starring Tom Cruise. The film is based on the July Plot of German army officers to assassinate Hitler. Cruise will portray the leader of the plot, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. Cruise's portrayal caused controversy among German politicians and members of Stauffenberg's family due to the actor's practice of Scientology, though German newspapers and filmmakers gave support to the film to spread global awareness of von Stauffenberg's attempted plot. The filmmakers of Valkyrie initially had difficulty setting up filming locations in Germany, but they were later given leeway to film in locations pertaining to the film's story, such as Berlin's historic Bendlerblock. It will be released on June 27th, 2008.

The cast of Valkyrie

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Eastern Promises

October 3rd 2007 02:20

Eastern Promises is a 2007 drama and thriller feature film directed by David Cronenberg. The screenplay was written by Steve Knight, whose previous credits include Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things. The film premiered September 8, 2007 at the Toronto International Film Festival. The wide US release date was September 21st. The Australian release date is October 25th.

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Fracture

August 1st 2007 14:50

Fracture is a 2007 legal/crime suspense film directed by Gregory Hoblit and starring Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling. New Line Cinema serves as distributor. The Australian release date is August 2nd.

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