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The major studios have begun announcing their slates of releases for 2006, and they are full of science fiction, fantasy, supernatural thrillers and computer-animated movies. A rundown follows. Paramount will offer the Tom Cruise sequel Mission: Impossible III, from director and Lost creator J.J. Abrams, on May 5; the computer-animated Barnyard, featuring the voices of Courtney Cox and Danny Glover, on Oct. 6; and the live-action and animated Charlotte's Web, starring Dakota Fanning, on Dec. 20. Sony has the sequel Underworld: Evolution on Jan 20; Ultraviolet, a vampire thriller starring Milla Jovovich, on Feb. 24; Silent Hill, based on the video game, on April 21; Ron Howard's The Da Vinci Code, based on the worldwide best seller, on May 19; the Adam Sandler fantasy comedy Click on June 23; the computer-animated Monster House on July 21; The Return of Zoom, a comic-based superhero comedy starring Tim Allen, on Aug. 11; The Messengers, a supernatural thriller from the Pang brothers, on Aug. 18; the supernatural fantasy drama The Covenant on Sept. 8; the computer-animated Open Season, featuring the voices of Martin Lawrence, Ashton Kutcher and Debra Messing, on Sept. 29; the horror sequel The Grudge 2 on Oct. 20; the offbeat Will Ferrell comedy Stranger Than Fiction on Nov. 10; and the 21st James Bond movie, Casino Royale, which introduces Daniel Craig as 007, on Nov. 17. Fox will unveil the Lindsay Lohan comedy Just My Luck on March 3; the computer-animated sequel film Ice Age 2: The Meltdown on March 31; the mermaid movie Aquamarine on April 14; Brett Ratner's X-Men 3 on May 26; the horror sequel The Omen 666 on June 6; Garfield 2 on June 23; My Super Ex-Girlfriend, a comedy starring Uma Thurman, on July 14; and the film version of the fantasy best-seller Eragon on Dec. 15. Also coming from Fox in 2006 is the Mike Judge satire Idiocracy and the vampire SF movie Perfect Creature. Warner will offer up the Wachowski brothers' V for Vendetta on March 17; the Keanu Reeves romantic fantasy movie The Lake House on June 16; Bryan Singer's hotly anticipated Superman Returns on June 29; M. Night Shyamalan's next creepy fantasy film Lady in the Water on July 21; the computer-animated fantasy movie The Ant Bully on Aug. 4; the Nicole Kidman alien invasion story The Visiting on Aug. 11; Hilary Swank's supernatural thriller The Reaping in October; and the computer-animated Happy Feet, with a voice cast of dozens, on Nov. 17. Also on Warner's docket for 2006 is Darren Aronofsky SF epic The Fountain. |
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| The Big Flicks of 2006 (via ETonline.com) December 29, 2005 Seen all the big movies of the holiday season already? ET has a sneak peek at the biggest movies of the new year to whet your appetite! In 'Last Holiday,' opening January 13, QUEEN LATIFAH plays Georgia Byrd, a meek, quiet sort of girl "who's always doing everything for everyone else," says the actress/rapper. She finds out she has just a few weeks left to live, "and that's where the story takes off; the transformation going from being this quiet person to doing all the things she's ever wanted to do, and it's quite an adventure." The movie also stars LL COOL J, GERARD DEPARDIEU and TIMOTHY HUTTON. 'Spider-Man' star JAMES FRANCO and 'Flight of the Phoenix' co-pilot TYRESE GIBSON go head-to-head in the military school drama 'Annapolis,' opening January 27, also starring JORDANA BREWSTER and DONNIE WAHLBERG. In the movie, James plays a regular guy from a poor shipbuilding family who lands a spot as a "plebe" freshman at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. "I would describe it as a mixture of 'An Officer and a Gentleman' and 'Rocky,'" Wahlberg tells ET. "It's really a coming-of-age story, though. It's really about a young man who has a dream, and gets a shot at that dream, and didn't really think about all that dream would really require." Other big January movies include 'Glory Road,' with JOSH LUCAS, JON VOIGHT and DEREK LUKE starring in the true story of a college basketball team with the first-ever starting line-up of African-American players that went on to win the 1966 NCAA title; KATE BECKINSALE returns to vamp it up opposite SCOTT SPEEDMAN once again in the bloodsuckers vs. werewolves tale 'Underworld: Evolution'; and MARTIN LAWRENCE is back in a "fat suit" for the crazy comedy 'Big Momma's House 2.' February 3 finds STEVE MARTIN starring in the long-awaited remake of 'The Pink Panther.' In the updated version of the 1963 film, Martin re-interprets the role of the bumbling police detective Inspector Clouseau, made famous by PETER SELLERS, while KEVIN KLINE takes on the role of Chief Inspector Dreyfus and French favorite JEAN RENO is Clouseau's new sidekick. BEYONCÉ fits right in with her role as Xania -- an international pop star -- who happens to become a murder suspect! "You don't know if Xania has a crush on Clouseau or if she is using her sexuality as a weapon," the pop diva tells ET. Also on Feb. 3, 'Match Point' starlet SCARLETT JOHANSSON joins HELEN HUNT and TOM WILKINSON in the upper crust satire 'A Good Woman,' based on the OSCAR WILDE play. On Feb. 10, MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY teams up with SARAH JESSICA PARKER in 'Failure to Launch' as a man who still lives with his parents and falls in love with the woman of his dreams -- until he suspects she's been hired by his folks to get him out of the house. And those wacky guys behind the 'Scary Movie' franchise are at it again, and this time they've aimed their rapier wit at the romance movie genre with 'Date Movie' (Feb. 17). Starring former "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" star ALYSON HANNIGAN (yet another actor who dons a "fat suit" for the role), the film skewers such flicks as 'Wedding Crashers,' 'Meet the Fockers,' 'Napoleon Dynamite' and 'Kill Bill.' In the thriller 'Firewall' (Feb. 10), HARRISON FORD stars as a bank security expert who must crack his own theft-proof computer system and steal $100 million in order to save his wife (VIRGINIA MADSEN) and daughter from a criminal mastermind, played by PAUL BETTANY. And another drama, 'Freedomland' (Feb. 17), finds JULIANNE MOORE and SAMUEL L. JACKSON facing a racial controversy when Julianne's child disappears and feared dead. March continues the action with 'V for Vendetta' (March 17), in which 'Star Wars' princess NATALIE PORTMAN is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked vigilante known only as "V," set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain. The same day, DENZEL WASHINGTON, CLIVE OWEN and JODIE FOSTER engage in a deadly game of cat and mouse during a volatile bank robbery in 'Inside Man.' And finally, on the lighter side, LINDSAY LOHAN endures a freak switch when her perpetual good fortune swaps with a chronically unlucky man in 'Just My Luck' (out in March), her first new movie since 'Herbie: Fully Loaded'; RAY ROMANO, JOHN LEGUIZAMO and DENIS LEARY once again voice their prehistoric animal roles for the long-awaited CGI sequel, 'Ice Age 2: The Meltdown'; and TIM ALLEN and ROBERT DOWNEY JR. transform into man's best friend in the Disney update of 'The Shaggy Dog' (March 10). In the movie, Tim plays a lawyer whose devotion to his career comes at the expense of his family. When he turns into man's best friend, he discovers a new perspective on becoming a loyal and devoted family, er, man. Watch ET for more on the first great movies of 2006! |
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| Ultraviolet, a vampire thriller starring Milla Jovovich |
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Now I wonder where they got that idea from? :ponder: |
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| Ultraviolet, a vampire thriller starring Milla Jovovich |
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It seems doubtful that the movie was based on the series judging by the description of the movie. They share the title and vampires, but the movie description sounds pretty ghastly. http://www.millaj.com/film/ultraviolet.shtml |
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| Anyway....I still think the linking of the name 'Ultraviolet' with the Vampire theme is too unusual to be mere co-incidence.... |
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| yeah but do the americans know that the UK had a serie called ultraviolet a few years back? :ponder: |
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| Generalizing. The proper question is: did the people responsible for this film know there was such a series in the UK? Answer: probably. |
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do they care about that fact? most probably no |