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May 2006
Summer Preview 2006

Summer Preview 2006, continued
By Wilson Morales



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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST

Release Date: July 7, 2006
Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures
Director: Gore Verbinski
Screenwriter: Terry Rossio, Ted Elliott
Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Stellan Skarsgård, Naomie Harris, Alex Norton, Jack Davenport, Tom Hollander, Vanessa Branch

Synopsis: This time around, Johnny returns as Captain Jack Sparrow and is caught in yet another tangled web of supernatural intrigue. It turns out, Captain Jack owes a blood debt to the legendary Davey Jones, ruler of the ocean depths and captain of the ghostly Flying Dutchman. If Jack can't figure a crafty way out of this one, he'll be cursed to an afterlife of eternal servitude and damnation. And as if that weren't enough, Captain Jack's problems throw a huge wrench into the wedding plans of the blissful Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, who quickly find themselves thrust into Jack's misadventures.
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A SCANNER DARKLY

Release Date: July 7, 2006
Distributor: Warner Independent Pictures
Director: Richard Linklater
Screenwriter: Richard Linklater
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Rory Cochran

Synopsis: "A Scanner Darkly" is set in suburban Orange County, California in a future where America has lost the war on drugs. When one reluctant undercover cop is ordered to start spying on his friends, he is launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode. It is a cautionary tale of drug use based on the novel by Philip K. Dick and his own experiences.
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PULSE

Release Date: July 14, 2006
Distributor: Dimension Films (Weinstein Co.)
Director: Jim Sonzero
Producers: Michael Leahy & Joel Soisson
Screenwriter: Stephen Susso, based on the Japanese film, Kairo, written by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast: Kristen Bell, Steve Talley, Ian Somerhalder, Christina Milian, Corryn Cummins, Joseph Gatt, Rick Gonzalez, Samm Levine, Riki Lindhome, Amanda Tepe, Jonathan Tucker

Synopsis: Based on the Japanese horror movie "Kairo," "Pulse" centers on a group of college students who discover that a computer hacker friend of theirs unwittingly pirated a strange wireless signal that opened a doorway for a terrifying evil to cross over into the world. As it spreads, everyone in its path is consumed, and the students must race to find a way to stop it.
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MY SUPER EX-GIRLFRIEND

Release Date: July 14, 2006
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Director: Ivan Reitman
Screenwriter: Don Payne
Cast: Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Eddie Izzard, Wanda Sykes, Rainn Wilson

Synopsis: A man finds out that his girlfriend is a superhero, but when he breaks up with her for being too neurotic and controlling, she uses her super powers to torment and embarass him.

LADY IN THE WATER

Release Date: July 21, 2006
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Screenwriter: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Freddy Rodriguez, Jeffrey Wright, Bob Balaban, Sarita Choudhury, Mary Beth Hurt, Cindy Cheung, Joe Reitman

Synopsis: In "Lady in the Water," a story originally conceived by Shyamalan for his children, a modest building manager named Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti) rescues a mysterious young woman (Bryce Dallas Howard) from danger and discovers she is actually a narf, a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the treacherous journey from our world back to hers. Cleveland and his fellow tenants start to realize that they are also characters in this bedtime story. As Cleveland falls deeper and deeper in love with the woman, he works together with the tenants to protect his new fragile friend from the deadly creatures that reside in this fable and are determined to prevent her from returning home.
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