Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Summit 2010 Preview

Most of the slate is heavy drama and emo love story claptrap, so let's take a look at the movies you MIGHT sit in on, when the time comes. For my buck, the magic words are Bruce Willis and guns.

FURRY VENGEANCE

Starring
BRENDAN FRASER, BROOKE SHIELDS

Directed by Roger Kumble

Written by Michael Carnes and Josh Gilbert


“FURRY VENGEANCE” is a live action family comedy in which an ambitious young real estate developer, Dan Sanders, faces off with a band of angry animals when his new housing subdivision pushes too far into a pristine part of the wilderness. Led by an incredibly clever raccoon, the animals stymie the development and teach our hero about the environmental consequences of man’s encroachment on nature.

U.S. release via Summit Entertainment, April 2, 2010.

RED

Starring BRUCE WILLIS, MORGAN FREEMAN, HELEN MIRREN, and MARY LOUISE PARKER

Directed by ROBERT SCHMENTKE

Frank Moses, a former black-ops CIA agent, is now living a quiet life. That is, until the day a hi-tech assassin shows up intent on killing him. With his secret identity compromised and his love interest in danger, Frank must reassemble his old team to figure out who is out to get them.

Currently in pre-production. U.S. release via Summit Entertainment, Fall 2010

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE

Starring
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Nikki Reed, Kellan Lutz, Jackson Rathbone and Dakota Fanning

Based on the Novel “Eclipse” by Stephenie Meyer / Screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg

Directed by David Slade


In ECLIPSE, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob — knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life.


U.S. release via Summit Entertainment, June 30, 2010.

THE GHOSTWRITER

Directed by ACADEMY AWARD® WINNER ROMAN POLANSKI

Written by ACADEMY AWARD® WINNER ROMAN POLANSKI AND BEST-SELLING NOVELIST ROBERT HARRIS

Starring EWAN MCGREGOR , PIERCE BROSNAN, KIM CATTRALL, OLIVIA WILLIAMS, TOM WILKINSON, TIMOTHY HUTTON, AND ELI WALLACH

Produced by ACADEMY AWARD® NOMINEES ROMAN POLANSKI, ROBERT BENMUSSA & ALAIN SARDE

When a successful British ghostwriter, THE GHOST, agrees to complete the memoirs of former British Prime Minister ADAM LANG, his agent assures him it’s the opportunity of a lifetime. But the project seems doomed from the start—not least because his predecessor on the project, Lang’s long-term aide, died in an unfortunate accident.

The Ghost flies out to work on the project, in the middle of winter, to an oceanfront house on an island off the U.S. Eastern seaboard. But the day after he arrives, a former British cabinet minister accuses Lang of authorizing the illegal seizure of suspected terrorists and handing them over for torture by the CIA—a war crime. The controversy brings reporters and protesters swarming to the island mansion where Lang is staying with his wife, RUTH, and his personal assistant (and mistress), AMELIA. As The Ghost works, he begins to uncover clues suggesting his predecessor may have stumbled on a dark secret linking Lang to the CIA—and that somehow this information is hidden in the manuscript he left behind. Was Lang in the service of the American intelligence agency while he was prime minister? And was The Ghost’s predecessor murdered because of the appalling truth he uncovered?

Resonating with topical themes, this atmospheric and suspenseful political thriller is a story of deceit and betrayal on every level— sexual, political and literary. In a world in which nothing, and no one, is as it seems, The Ghost quickly discovers that the past can be deadly—and that history is decided by whoever stays alive to write it.

Currently in Post-production. U.S. release via Summit Entertainment Spring 2010.

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