2008 Big Movie Preview
Monsters attack the Statue of Liberty in “Cloverfield” - January 18th
JANUARY
January 18th
“Cloverfield” – Paramount’s hush-hush film from director Matt Reeves is about a monster attack in New York city.
January 25th
“Rambo IV” – Sylvester Stallone returns for a fourth and hopefully final installment to the franchise.
Samuel L. Jackson in “Jumper” - February 14th
FEBRUARY
February 14th
“Jumper” – Valentines Day is the target date for New Regency’s “Jumper” starring Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson and Rachel Bilson. They’ve teamed with “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” director Doug Liman and face off against Step Up 2 and the Universal comedy “Definitely, Maybe” starring Ryan Reynolds and Mrs. Borat (Isla Fisher)
February 15th
“Vantage Point” – Director Pete Travis takes a look at a presidential assassination from several viewpoints in this political action-thriller Sony – Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox and Forest Whitaker star.
February 29th
“Babylon A.D.” – French director Mathieu Kassovitz enlists Vin Diesel and fellow frenchie Gerard Depardieu in this 20th Century Fox about a human host that will produce a genetically modified Messiah thanks to a religious cult.
“Semi-Pro” – Will Ferrell and Woody Harrelson play semi-professional basketball players for New Line.
Roland Emmerich’s CGI film “10,000 B.C.” - March 7th
MARCH
March 7th
“10,000 B.C.” – Following up box office smash hit “The Day After Tomorrow,” German director Roland Emmerich will use as much CGI as possible in this prehistoric action flick for Warner Bros.
March 14th
“Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who” – An all-star cast of voices teams up for the big screen debut of Horton with Jim Carrey as ‘Horton’ and Steve Carell as ‘The May of Who-Ville’ -20th Century Fox will release.
March 28th
“21” – Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey and Laurence Fishburne star in a film about six MIT students who are trained by their professeor in the art of card-counting and head to Vegas casinos where they end up winning millions of dollars.
“Stop Loss” – a powerful film from director Kimberly Peirce (“Boys Don’t Cry”) starring Ryan Phillippe and Joseph Gordon-Levitt which looks at American soldiers fighting in Iraq who refuse to go back to the fighting after their tours of duty are over.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in “Baby Mama” - April 18th
APRIL
April 18th
“Baby Mama” – Saturday Night Live stars Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are a career woman and a surrogate mother respectively starring in this comedy for Universal.
Patrick Dempsey stars in “Made of Honor” - May 2nd
MAY
May 2nd
“Made of Honor” – This Sony comedy finds Patrick Dempsey or the ‘new Hugh Grant’ as he’s being called is a serial dater who is asked by his best friend Michelle Monaghan (“The Heartbreak Kid”) to be her ‘maid of honor.’
“Iron Man” – Robert Downey Jr. stars in the Paramount distributed Marvel comic film directed by Jon Favreau.
May 9th
“Speed Racer” – the Wachowskis cast Emile Hirsch as ‘Speed Racer’ a skilled young car driver who faces the race of his life. Christina Ricci and Matthew Fox co-star in this Warner Bros. release.
May 16th
“The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” – Disney launches the second film in the 4 film long franchise.
May 23rd
“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” – Harrison Ford, George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg team up for the 4th time
May 30th
“Starship Dave” – Eddie Murphy stars as a crew of tiny aliens who look just like humans come to New York in a ship resembling a human being in the hopes of saving their home planet.
“Sex and the City: The Movie” - The stars of the HBO series return to the big screen in a film written and directed by Michael Patrick King and New Line will release.
Jack Black’s voice stars in “Kung Fu Panda” - June 6th
JUNE
June 6th
“Kung Fu Panda” – Jack Black, Angelina Jolie and Dustin Hoffman voice cartoon Pandas for DreamWorks
“You Don’t Mess with the Zohan” – Adam Sandler re-teams with director Dennis Dugan in a Sony film about an Israeli Mossad agent who orchestrates a scenario where he is able to move to New York and reinvent himself as a hairstylist.
June 13th
“The Incredible Hulk” – Edward Norton is ‘Bruce Banner’ in this Universal comic-inspired action flick.
“The Happening” – M. Night Shyamalan directs a probably awful film about a family on the run after a natural disaster threatens planet Earth. The film stars Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel and will be released by 20th Century Fox.
June 20th
“Get Smart” - Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson team up for Warner Bros. in the reamke of this 1960’s TV classic
June 27th
“Wanted” – Angelina Jolie trains James McAvoy to become an assasin in this Timur Bekmambetov action film for Universal.
“WALL·E” – Andrew Stanton, the writer/director from “Finding Nemo” give us an animated tale about a robot in the year 2700. Pixar is creating and Disney distributing.
Will Smith is a troubled super-hero in “Hancock” - July 2nd
JULY
July 2nd
“Hancock” (also known as “Tonight, He Comes”) – Will Smith is Mr. 4th of July and this year should be no exception as he stars in the Vincent Ngo comic book spin. Will Smith will play a hard-living superhero who falls out of favor with the public and enters into a questionable relationship with his wife played by Charlize Theron. Peter Berg (“Friday Night Lights” and “The Kingdom”) directs.
July 11th
“Hellboy 2” – Guillermo del Toro and Ron Perlman (’Hellboy’) reteam for Sony in this dark comic book franchise.
July 18th
“The Dark Knight” – after a thrilling success with “Batman Begins” Christopher Nolan reteams with Christian Bale and Morgan Freeman for Warner Bros. Heath Ledger joins as ‘The Joker’
“Mamma Mia!” – Universal casts Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan in this ABBA inspired musical film.
July 25th
“Step Brothers” – “Talladega Nights” veterans Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly re-team with director Adam McKay and Sony in this movie about two spoiled men who get into a sibling rivalry after their parents marry.
“X Files 2” – Fox sends David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson out in the field for the sequel to the original film derived from the long running TV show.
Brendan Fraser returns in “The Mummy - Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” - August 1st
AUGUST
August 1st
“The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” – Brendan Fraser (this time with Maria Bello – no Rachel Weisz on board) join forces for Universal in this action packed Rob Cohen directed film.
August 8th
“South of the Border” – Awful director Raja Gosnell (”Scooby Doo“) directs Drew Barrymore and a boat load of Mexican chihuahua dogs
Tom Cruise stars in “Valkyrie” - October 3rd
OCTOBER
October 3rd
“Valkyrie” – Bryan Singer directs the first United Artists release starring Tom Cruise as a Nazi colonel who teams with other ranking officers in an attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.
“High School Musical 3: Senior Year” – Senior Year will find Troy (Zac Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) stressing out over their impending separation once graduation sends everybody on their merry ways. Sure enough, East High’s senior class will stage one last musical “reflecting their experiences, hopes and fears about the future.”
NOVEMBER
November 7th
“James Bond #22” – Sony and MGM will combine to release the 22nd installment of the ‘James Bond’ franchise. This time Daniel Craig repeats his role as James Bond and co-stars Gemma Amerton, Giancarlo Giannini, Dame Judi Dench and Jesper Christensen join him.
November 21st
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” – Warner Bros. cashes in on their long running franchise that has in 5 films out grossed more than all 3 ‘Lord of the Rings’ films, all 6 ‘Star Wars’ films and all 22 ‘James Bond’ films.
Jennifer Connelly and Keanu Reeves remake “The Day the Earth Stood Still” - December 12th
DECEMBER
December 12th
“The Day the Earth Stood Still” – the beautiful Jennifer Connelly is paired with Keanu Reeves (as ‘Klaatu’) in this 20th Century Fox film remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic.
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Knoxville Films
Great list!
Jan 3rd, 2008
sally
Stop Loss (March 28): You have not described the story, because there is just one soldier who doesn’t want to return to Iraq, and it’s not because he’s against the war… This is about the life experiences of the troops we keep saying we support as we send them into such a nightmarish world, and we should honor them by stepping into that world, take 90 minutes off from shopping, clubbing, consuming ourselves into oblivious ignorance of their real situation.
Jan 4th, 2008
CMAC
I’d gladly step into their world if it meant firing rocket launchers at some Iraqi babies. If someone figures outs a way I can do that for 90 minutes, sign me up.
Jan 4th, 2008
Ashley
Sally you have strong feelings about this. I know once I saw first saw this trailer for Stop-Loss I new I was going to have to see this film. I would suggest that anyone who wants to know more about the film to check out the trailer and the official page. They dive down into the essence of what it all about.
http://www.stoplossmovie.com/SoundOff/
Jan 4th, 2008
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