Terminator Salvation
Terminator Salvation is a 2009 American science fiction film, written by John Brancato and Michael Ferris, and directed by McG. It is the fourth film in the Terminator series, and stars Christian Bale as future Resistance leader John Connor and Sam Worthington as cyborg Marcus Wright. The film also introduces a young Kyle Reese from the original 1984 film, played by Anton Yelchin, as well as depicting the origin of the T-800 Model 101 Terminator. Terminator Salvation, set in 2018, focuses on the war between humanity and Skynet - a departure from the previous installments, which were set on the present day and featured time travel.After a troubled pre-production, with The Halcyon Company acquiring the rights for the franchise from Andrew G. Vajna and Mario Kassar and several writers working on the screenplay, filming began in May 2008 in New Mexico and ran for 77 days. The film is currently the most expensive independent production in history.[2] Terminator Salvation was released on May 21, 2009 in the United States and Canada, followed by early June releases in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
| Directed by | McG |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Derek Anderson Victor Kubicek Jeffrey Silver Moritz Borman |
| Written by | Screenplay: John Brancato Michael Ferris Characters: James Cameron Gale Anne Hurd |
| Starring | Christian Bale Sam Worthington Anton Yelchin Moon Bloodgood Bryce Dallas Howard Common Jadagrace Berry Michael Ironside Helena Bonham Carter |
| Music by | Danny Elfman Themes: Brad Fiedel |
| Cinematography | Shane Hurlbut |
| Editing by | Conrad Buff |
| Studio | The Halcyon Company Wonderland Sound and Vision |
| Distributed by | United States/Canada: Warner Bros. International: Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | May 21, 2009 (US/Canada) June 3, 2009 (UK) June 4, 2009 (Aus/NZ) June 5, 2009 (South Africa) |
| Running time | 115 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $200 million |
| Gross revenue | $356,675,316[1] |
| Preceded by | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines |
The Bank Job
The Bank Job is a 2008 British crime film directed by Roger Donaldson and starring Jason Statham, based on the 1971 Baker Street robbery in central London, from which the money and valuables stolen were never recovered. The producers allege that the story was prevented from being told because of a D-Notice (now known as a DA-Notice) government gagging request, allegedly to protect a prominent member of the British Royal Family. According to the producers, this movie is intended to reveal the truth for the first time, although it includes significant elements of fiction and the extent to which it represents historical fact is difficult to determine.
| Directed by | Roger Donaldson |
|---|---|
| Produced by | David Alper |
| Written by | Dick Clement Ian La Frenais George McIndoe Aaron Shuster |
| Starring | Jason Statham Saffron Burrows |
| Music by | J. Peter Robinson |
| Cinematography | Michael Coulter |
| Editing by | John Gilbert |
| Distributed by | Lions Gate Entertainment (US, UK)[1] Paramount Pictures (Australia) |
| Release date(s) | 29 February 2007 |
| Running time | 1 hr. 51 mins.[2] |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
| Gross revenue | $63,754,550 (worldwide) |
The International
The International is a 2009 thriller film, directed by Tom Tykwer and starring Clive Owen, and Naomi Watts. In the tradition of 70s thriller films, such as The Conversation (1974) and The French Connection (1971), the film follows a pair that investigates corruption within a banking institution. Production began in Berlin in September 2007. The film opened the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival on February 5, 2009. The film was inspired by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International banking scandal.
| Directed by | Tom Tykwer |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Charles Roven Richard Suckle Lloyd Phillips |
| Written by | Eric Singer |
| Starring | Clive Owen Naomi Watts Armin Mueller-Stahl |
| Music by | Matthew Bellamy Tom Tykwer Reinhold Heil Johnny Klimek |
| Cinematography | Frank Griebe |
| Editing by | Mathilde Bonnefoy |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | February 13, 2009 |
| Running time | 118 min. |
| Country | United States Germany United Kingdom |
| Language | English Italian French |
| Budget | $50,000,000 |
| Gross revenue | $58,166,968 (worldwide) |
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The Great Buck Howard
The Great Buck Howard is a 2008 comedy-drama film directed by Sean McGinly that stars Colin Hanks and John Malkovich. An unbilled Tom Hanks plays the father of his real-life son's character.
It premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2008. The character Buck Howard is inspired by the 1970s mentalist The Amazing Kreskin. No one has been able to prove that Kreskin uses any accomplices for his amazing acts.
| Directed by | Sean McGinly |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Tom Hanks |
| Written by | Sean McGinly |
| Starring | Colin Hanks John Malkovich Emily Blunt Tom Hanks Steve Zahn |
| Music by | Blake Neely |
| Cinematography | Tak Fujimoto |
| Editing by | Myron I. Kerstein |
| Distributed by | Magnolia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | January 18, 2008 (Sundance) March 20, 2009 (limited) |
| Running time | 87 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh is a film adaptation of Michael Chabon's best-selling novel of the same name, which was published in 1988. The screenplay was written by Rawson Marshall Thurber, who also directed. Shooting in Pittsburgh ended in October 2006, with the film set for release in 2008. It made its world premiere in January 2008 at the Sundance Film Festival.
| Directed by | Rawson Marshall Thurber |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Michael London Rawson Marshall Thurber Pete Chiarelli Jason Ajax Mercer Thor Benander |
| Written by | Rawson Marshall Thurber |
| Starring | Jon Foster Sienna Miller Peter Sarsgaard Mena Suvari Nick Nolte |
| Music by | Theodore Shapiro |
| Distributed by | Peace Arch Entertainment Group |
| Release date(s) | 2009 |
| Running time | 114 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Red Baron
Directed by Nikolai Müllerschön
Produced by Dan Maag
Thomas Reisser
Roland Pellegrino
Written by Nikolai Müllerschön
Starring Matthias Schweighöfer
Joseph Fiennes
Til Schweiger
Lena Headey
Cinematography Klaus Merkel
Editing by Christian Lonk
Distributed by Warner Bros
Release date(s) April 10, 2008
Running time 120 minutes (approx.)
Country Germany, UK
Language English, German
Budget €18 million ($22.5 million)
Plot
Ten years later, Lieutenant Richthofen is serving as a fighter pilot with the Imperial German Air Service along the Western Front. After dropping a wreath over the funeral of an Allied pilot, Richthofen and his fellow pilots Werner Voss (Til Schweiger)and Friedrich Sternberg encounter an squadron of enemy planes led by Captain Lanoe Hawker. Richthofen shoots down Canadian pilot Arthur Roy Brown (Joseph Fiennes). After pulling Brown out of the wreckage of his plane, Richthofen assists Nurse Käte Otersdorf (Lena Headey) with applying a tourniquet to the Canadian's wounded leg.
Later, after successfully shooting down and killing "the notorious Captain Hawker," Richthofen awarded the Pour le Merite and promoted to command his own private aerial squadron. There, he is soon joined by his brother Lothar von Richthofen. He orders his men to avoid killing enemy pilots unless absolutely necessary and is enraged when Lothar deliberately strafes and kills a British pilot who has already been forced into a landing.
Later, during an aerial dogfight, Richthofen again encounters Captain Brown, who has escaped from a German POW camp after being nursed by Käte. Both are forced to ditch their planes in no man's land and share a friendly drink. Brown expresses hope that they will not meet again until after the war is over and tells Richthofen that Käte has feelings for him. When Richthofen asks how he can be so sure, Brown retorts, "She bitched about you for weeks."
On the way back to base, Richthofen is devastated to learn that his close friend, the Jewish pilot Friedrich Sternberg, has been shot down and killed. Over the days that follow, Richthofen makes no secret of his grief and refuses to leave his room. An enraged Lothar reminds him that, "A leader cannot afford to mourn."
Shortly thereafter, Richthofen is wounded in the skull and is sent to be nursed by Käte. As he recovers, the two share a romantic dinner and a dance. After Richthofen expresses gratitude for his wound, an enraged Käte gives him a tour of a local field hospital and berates him for regarding war as a game.
Later, Richthofen and Käte are beginning to make love when they are interrupted by an Allied bombing raid. Determined to protect the squadron's aeroplanes, he orders Käte to hide in the cellar and takes to the air with his men.
During a later visit from Käte, Richthofen informs her that he has been offered a rear echelon position in command of the entire Air Service. Käte, who has been long been frantic at the thought of losing him, is overjoyed. Richthofen, however, conceals his doubts from her.
Richthofen has realized that he is being manipulated for propaganda by the Kaiser and his Generals. On the eve of the offensives of February 1918, he approaches General Paul von Hindenburg (Josef Vinklar) and tells him that the war has become an no-win situation which should be ended as soon as possible. Hindenburg is outraged and orders him back to his squadron.
As the offensive begins, Richthofen's squadron sets out to clear every Allied aeroplane and balloon out of the target area. As Käte tends the wounded on the ground, she is horrified to learn that her beloved has returned to combat.
Käte confronts him and demands to know why he has turned down the chance to remain safe. Richthofen states that he will not betray the soldiers in the field, "by remaining the immortal god that Berlin wants me to be." He climaxes by informing her, "You are my greatest victory."
On the morning of April 21, 1918, Richthofen leads his squadron into battle after making love to Käte. Soon after, he is killed in action by Captain Brown.
In the aftermath, Käte crosses over to Allied lines with Brown's assistance and visits Richthofen's grave. She apologises for not coming sooner and expresses regret for never telling him how much she loved him. The camera pans to a funeral wreath left by Brown, "To Manfred von Richtofen, Friend and Enemy."
The Haunting In Connecticut
Directed by Peter Cornwell
Produced by Scott Niemeyer
Paul Brooks
Daniel Farrands
Phyllis Laing
Wendy Rhoads
Andrew Trapani
Written by Adam Simon
Tim Metcalfe
Starring Virginia Madsen
Kyle Gallner
Elias Koteas
Amanda Crew
Martin Donovan
Sophi Knight
Ty Wood
Erik J. Berg
John Bluethner
D.W. Brown
John B. Lowe
Distributed by Lionsgate
Gold Circle Films
Release date(s) March 27, 2009
Running time 92 min.
Language English
Gross revenue $68,683,927
Plot
Set in 1987, the story centers on Matthew William Campbell, who is being treated for cancer on a trial therapy in a remote hospital. After seeing the effect the long commute has on Matt, his mother rents a nearby house, which she learns was previously a funeral home. They discover a mortuary room in the basement that they are unable to enter initially, which severely burns Matt when he attempts to enter. The family begins experiencing violent, supernatural events that the parents first blame on stress and hallucinations from Matt's medications and treatment. Matt also experiences several disturbing visions from the point of view of a young man named Jonah, including an intense séance, and witnessing a doctor inscribe runes onto the skin of a corpse. After a game of hide and seek, during which Matt's younger brother encounters a badly burned ghost in a dumbwaiter, and his younger sister's leg falls through the floor of the attic. Matt then discovers a box under the attic floor boards containing a number of photographs from the séance, and pictures of the boy, Jonah that he believed he had been hallucinating and pictures of other people that had appeared in his "hallucinations", as well as a box of human eyelids.
They investigate the house's past, and discover that during the 1920s, the previous owner, Doctor Aickman, conducted séances in the house, using his assistant Jonah as a medium, who convinced many skeptics of his abilities. Doctor Aickman and his guests all died during one of the séances when the ectoplasm that seeped out of Jonah's mouth exploded into fire and incinerated everyone present, and Jonah eventually was incinerated too when he tried to escape the mercy of the spirits and went missing. Matt then contacts Nicholas, a minister he meets at the hospital and who is also dying of cancer, to ask for his help. Nicholas hypothesizes that Aickman was performing necromancy on the bodies that he was meant to inter to enhance Jonah's abilities as a medium. He had stolen the corpses sent to his funeral home and buried coffins filled with sandbags instead. Nicholas, after initially being driven out by the mother, is called back after the entire family encounters ghosts in a single night, including an electrical storm that takes place throughout the house. After searching the house, Nicholas discovers ashes and a portion of a skull in the mortuary oven. While removing it, the doors and windows begin to slam violently, which abruptly ceases after Nicholas is outside. He then leaves with the human remains, assuring the family that the threat is over. The same night, the family wakes to find strange markings carved into Matt's body, and he is rushed to the hospital.
Nicholas runs off the road after seeing the burned ghost in his rear view mirror. Both he and Matt have a similar vision, revealing that the burned ghost is Jonah, who was killed after the séance by the spirits, who used his abilities as a medium to burn the other guests alive. Nicholas realizes that he has made a terrible mistake by removing Jonah, who was actually trying to help free the ghosts of the corpses stolen by Aickman. By removing Jonah from the house, the family would now be at the mercy of the rest of the enraged ghosts. Matt, after encountering Jonah and learning that he has only a few days left to live, breaks out of the hospital and rushes home. After breaking into the house with a fire axe, he rushes his siblings outside, and barricades himself in the house. He then smashes the interior walls of the living room, revealing dozens of embalmed corpses and then sets the house ablaze, intending to finish the task that Jonah had failed to accomplish. Just as he is surrounded by a swarm of ghosts, his mother comes in to save him, and firemen pull them both out of the burning house, and Matt is revived. Jonah is shown one last time, unharmed, before vanishing. After credits indicate that Matt's cancers went into total remission, and that the Aickman house was rebuilt and resold, with no further incidents reported.
The Other Man
Release Name: The.Other.Man.2008.DVDRip-VANO
Filename: The.Other.Man.2008.DVDRip-VANO
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Source: DVD
Size: 700 MB
Genre: Drama
Video: XviD | 845 kb/s | 576×320
Audio: MP3 | 128 kb/s
Runtime: 90 min
Directed By: Richard Eyre
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Abigail Canton, Amanda Drew
The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.
Thick as Thieves
Thick as Thieves (also known as The Code) is a crime/heist film produced for sale in overseas markets directed by Mimi Leder, starring Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas and Radha Mitchell. Released Direct to DVD in February 2009 in the UK, it was released in the US on 17 April, 2009
Plot
Set in New York City, a veteran thief recruits a younger crook to help him pull off one final job in order to repay his debt to the Russian mob. It turns out that the younger crook was actually a Miami cop on loan to the NYPD, and was looking to bring the veteran thief to justice by being an undercover thief. The cop gets involved in a relationship with the veteran thief's goddaughter when he starts to work with him. When they get around to pulling the final job, a Russian mobster kidnaps the goddaughter and demands two Fabergé eggs to be stolen in return. When the duo get into the vaults of the museum with the eggs, the cop takes the eggs and runs to the Russian mobster to get his lover back. In the end though, the mobster was a good friend of the veteran thief and they set up the cop (it turned out they knew he was a cop) to take the eggs from one and give it to the other. The movie ends when the mobster and veteran thief look for a buyer and the cop decides to move to the thief life as his police career is over. The cop also gets back together with his lover, who turns out to be the Russian mobster's daughter.
The Soloist
Directed by Joe Wright
Produced by Gary Foster
Russ Krasnoff
Written by Susannah Grant
Steve Lopez (articles and book)
Starring Jamie Foxx
Robert Downey Jr.
Catherine Keener
Music by Dario Marianelli
Studio Working Title Films
Participant Productions
Distributed by DreamWorks Pictures (US)
Universal Pictures (international)
Release date(s) 24 April 2009 (US)
11 September 2009 (UK)
Running time 117 min.
Country United States
Language English
Budget $60 million
Gross revenue $30,852,917 (worldwide)
Jamie Foxx portrays Nathaniel Ayers, who is considered a cello prodigy, and Robert Downey Jr. portrays Steve Lopez, a Los Angeles Times columnist who discovers Ayers and writes about him in the newspaper. Production of the film began in January 2008 and was filmed mostly in Los Angeles, with some scenes shot in Cleveland. The film was released on 24 April 2009.
Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a 2009 American science fiction action film which was released on June 19, 2009 in the United Kingdom and June 24, 2009 in North America.It is the sequel to 2007's Transformers and the second film in the live action Transformers series. Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg return respectively as director and executive producer, while Shia LaBeouf reprises the role of Sam Witwicky, the human caught in the war between Autobots and Decepticons. The film introduces many more robots and the scope has been expanded to numerous countries, most notably France and Egypt. The plot revolves around Sam, who has been seeing visions of Cybertronian symbols and therefore gets hunted by evil Decepticons to awake their long-hidden leader, The Fallen.A major hurdle that was overcome during the film's production was the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, as well as possible strikes by the Directors Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild. Bay finished the production on time with the help of previsualization and a scriptment by his writers Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and series newcomer Ehren Kruger. Shooting took place from May to November 2008.
Revenge of the Fallen achieved the highest Wednesday opening gross in history, bringing in $62 million in North America alone and close to $100 million worldwide; this is also the second-highest opening day gross of all time, behind only The Dark Knight's $67.8 million. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is currently the highest grossing film of 2009, beating out Angels & Demons which previously held the title.
Decepticon forces return to Earth on a mission to take Sam Witwicky prisoner, after the young hero learns the truth about the ancient origins of the Transformers. Joining the mission to protect humankind is Optimus Prime, who forms an alliance with international armies for a second epic battle.
THE COTTAGE
Directed by Paul Andrew Williams
Produced by Ken Marshall
Written by Paul Andrew Williams
Starring Andy Serkis
Jennifer Ellison
Doug Bradley
Georgia Groome
Dave Legeno
Reece Shearsmith
Steve O'Donnell
Jonathan Chan-Pensley
Eden Groome
Johnny Harris
Katy Murphy
Simon Schatzberger
Eden Watson
Logan Wong
Music by Laura Rossi
Cinematography Christopher Ross
Editing by Tom Hemmings
Distributed by Pathe Distribution Ltd
Release date(s) March 14, 2008
Running time 92 mins.
Country UK
Language English
The Cottage (2008) is a darkly comic horror film, written and directed by Paul Andrew William
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