Movie of the Week

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Release Date: July 11, 2007 (conventional theaters and IMAX)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: David Yates
Screenwriter: Michael Goldenberg
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Richard Griffiths, Jason Isaacs, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall, Imelda Staunton, David Thewlis, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sequences of fantasy violence and frightening images)
Official Website: HarryPotterOrderofthePhoenix.com
Review: Not Available
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Plot Summary: In "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," Harry returns for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts and discovers that much of the wizarding community has been denied the truth about the teenager's recent encounter with the evil Lord Voldemort. Fearing that Hogwarts' venerable Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, is lying about Voldemort's return in order to undermine his power and take his job, the Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, appoints a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher to keep watch over Dumbledore and the Hogwarts students. But Professor Dolores Umbridge's Ministry-approved course of defensive magic leaves the young wizards woefully unprepared to defend themselves against the dark forces threatening them and the entire wizarding community, so at the prompting of his friends Hermione and Ron, Harry takes matters into his own hands. Meeting secretly with a small group of students who name themselves "Dumbledore's Army," Harry teaches them how to defend themselves against the Dark Arts, preparing the courageous young wizards for the extraordinary battle that lies ahead.

Movie of the Week

Transformers


Release Date: July 2, 2007 (8 p.m.)
Studio: DreamWorks Pictures (Paramount)
Director: Michael Bay
Screenwriter: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel, Anthony Anderson, Rachael Taylor, Megan Fox, John Turturro, Jon Voight
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for intense sequences of sci-fi action violence, brief sexual humor, and language)
Official Website: Transformersmovie.com | MySpace.com/Transformers

Plot Summary: Our world will be transformed on July 3 when aliens make Earth their final battleground in "Transformers." As the forces of evil seek the key to ultimate power, our last chance for survival rests in the hands of young Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf).
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Movie of the Week

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Release Date: June 15, 2007
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Tim Story
Screenwriter: Don Payne
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon, Kerry Washington, Andre Braugher, Gonzalo Menendez, Laurence Fishburne
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG (for sequences of action violence, some mild language and innuendo)
Official Website: FantasticFourmovie.com | MySpace.com/RiseoftheSilverSurfer
Review: 7/10 rating

Plot Summary: Marvel's first family of superheroes, The Fantastic Four, meets their greatest challenge yet in "Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer" as the enigmatic, intergalactic herald, The Silver Surfer, comes to Earth to prepare it for destruction. As the Silver Surfer races around the globe wreaking havoc, Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben must unravel the mystery of the Silver Surfer and confront the surprising return of their mortal enemy, Dr. Doom, before all hope is lost.

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Movie of the Week

Mr. Brooks

Release Date: June 1, 2007
Studio: MGM
Director: Bruce A. Evans
Screenwriter: Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon
Starring: Kevin Costner, William Hurt, Demi Moore, Dane Cook, Marg Helgenberger
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for strong bloody violence, some graphic sexual content, nudity and language)
Official Website: TheresSomethingAboutMrBrooks.com | MySpace.com/MrBrooksmovie
Review: 6/10 rating

Plot Summary: All human beings...are commingled out of good and evil."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Consider Mr. Brooks. A successful businessman, a generous philanthropist, a loving father and devoted husband. Seemingly, he's perfect. But Mr. Brooks has a secret -- he is an insatiable serial killer, so lethally clever that no one has ever suspected him -- until now.

Academy Award winner Kevin Costner stars as Earl Brooks, a man who has managed to keep his two incompatible worlds from intersecting by controlling his cunning, wicked alter ego Marshall (Academy Award winner William Hurt) whom he blames for his wrongdoings. But now, as Mr. Brooks succumbs to one last murderous urge, an amateur photographer (Dane Cook) witnesses the crime. Suddenly Brooks finds himself entangled in the dark agenda of an opportunistic bystander, as well as hunted by the unorthodox and tenacious detective Tracy Atwood (Demi Moore). Can Mr. Brooks outsmart his adversaries and conceal his shocking double life from his wife (Marg Helgenberger) and daughter (Danielle Panabaker) or will someone expose his crimes and his identity once and for all in this unpredictable and electrifying new thriller.

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Movie Update

Transformers to Bow at LA Film Festival

May 30, 2007

Director Michael Bay's Transformers will hold its Los Angeles premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 27.

The DreamWorks/Paramount release, set for a July 4 domestic debut, will screen simultaneously at The Landmark Regent, the Mann National, the Mann Bruin and the Mann Village, where the main premiere will take place.

The premiere will be followed by a party on the Festival Promenade on Broxton Avenue.

Paramount Picturers International has also set international premieres for June 20 in Sitges, Spain, and the next day at the Taormina Film Fest in Italy.

Movie of the Week

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Release Date: May 24, 2007 (8 pm)
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Director: Gore Verbinski
Screenwriter: Terry Rossio, Ted Elliott
Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Geoffrey Rush, Bill Nighy, Chow Yun-Fat, Stellan Skarsgård, Jack Davenport, Naomie Harris, Kevin R. McNally, Lee Arenberg, Mackenzie Crook, Andy Beckwith, Reggie Lee
Genre: Action, Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for intense sequences of action/adventure violence and some frightening images)
Official Website: Disney.com | MySpace.com/AtWorldsEnd


Plot Summary: In the follow-up to the record-breaking smash 2006 hit Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, we find our heroes Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) allied with Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) in a desperate quest to free Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) from his mind-bending trap in Davy Jones' locker – while the terrifying ghost ship, The Flying Dutchman and Davy Jones, under the control of the East India Trading Company, wreaks havoc across the Seven Seas. Navigating through treachery, betrayal and wild waters, they must forge their way to exotic Singapore and confront the cunning Chinese Pirate Sao Feng (Chow Yun-Fat). Now headed beyond the very ends of the earth, each must ultimately choose a side in a final, titanic battle – as not only their lives and fortunes, but the entire future of the freedom-loving Pirate way, hangs in the balance.

soure: comingsoon.net
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Movie Update

Gerard Butler Heads for Nim's Island

Source: Variety
May 18, 2007

Gerard Butler (300) will star opposite Jodie Foster and Abigail Breslin in Fox Walden adventure Nim's Island, based on Wendy Orr's children's novel of the same name.

Husband-wife directing team Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin are set to begin filming in late July in Australia from their adapted screenplay. The studio is planning an April 25, 2008 release.

The storyline revolves around a girl who lives on a tropical isle with her father, a scientist whose boat runs into trouble one day, leaving the girl to fend for herself on the island. She begins emailing the author of the book she is reading, and with the author's help, is able to manage. The trio ultimately unites to save the island from careless tour companies.

Butler will next be seen starring opposite Hilary Swank in dramedy P.S. I Love You on December 21.

After Nim's Island, Butler is set to star in Lakeshore Entertainment's futuristic thriller Game, which begins shooting in January.