August 2006 | blackfilm.com | features

LITTLE CHILDREN

Release Date: October 6, 2006
Distributor: New Line Cinema
Director: Todd Field
Screenwriter: Todd Field, Tom Perrotta
Cast: Jennifer Connelly, Noah Emmerich, Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Kate Winslet, Gregg Edelman, Sarah Buxton

Synopsis: Based on the book by Tom Perrotta, "Little Children" is about two recently married couples living in the same community, whose lives become interconnected in dangerous ways.

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THE GRUDGE 2

Release Date: October 13, 2006
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Producers: Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Taka Ichise
Screenwriter: Stephen Susco
Cast: Amber Tamblyn, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Arielle Kebbel, Jennifer Beals, Teresa Palmer, Takako Fuji, Ryo Ishibashi, Misako Uno, Shaun Sipos, Edison Chen

Synopsis: From Columbia Pictures and Ghost House Pictures comes the much-anticipated sequel to the 2004 worldwide hit "The Grudge." The terrifying thriller "The Grudge 2" explores the dark secrets of the grudge as the terrifying supernatural curse is unleashed on a group of seemingly unrelated victims. One by one, they are infected by the grudge, which quickly moves from a burned-down house in Tokyo and spreads to everyone who crosses its path.

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INFAMOUS

Release Date: October 13, 2006 (NY, LA; top 10 markets: October 27; top 40 markets: November 3) Distributor: Warner Independent Pictures
Director: Douglas McGrath
Screenwriter: Douglas McGrath
Cast: Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig, Peter Bogdonovich, Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, Gwyneth Paltrow, Isabella Rossellini, Juliet Stevenson, Sigourney Weaver MPAA Rating: R (for language, violence and some sexuality)

Official Website: http://wip.warnerbros.com/

Synopsis: What starts out as the humorous journey of the openly gay writer Truman Capote to the middle-class world of 1950's Kansas, where he goes to research the murder of the Clutter family, turns to something altogether darker when Capote forms an intense relationship with one of the murderers. In doing so, he produced his greatest work, "In Cold Blood," but at a devastating personal cost.

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THE MARINE

Release Date: October 13, 2006
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Director: John Bonito
Screenwriters: Michell Gallagher, Alan McElroy Cast: John Cena, Kelly Carlson, Jeff Chase

Synopsis: A Marine returns from battle to find that his girlfriend is ensnared in a kidnapping plot.

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DOA: DEAD OR ALIVE

Release Date: October 20, 2006
Distributor: Dimension Films (The Weinstein Company)
Director: Corey Yuen Screenwriter: J.F. Lawton, Seth Gross, Adam Gross, Granz Henman
Cast: Devon Aoki, Sarah Carter, Natassia Malthe, Matthew Marsden, Jamie Pressly, Eric Roberts, Holly Valance, and Brian Wilson

Synopsis: "DOA" is based on Tecmo's best-selling "Dead or Alive" videogame franchise and has an ensemble cast starring Devon Aoki ("Sin City" and "2 Fast 2 Furious"), Sarah Carter ("Final Destination 2"), Natassia Malthe ("Elektra"), Matthew Marsden ("Black Hawk Down"), Jaime Pressly ("Torque"), Eric Roberts ("National Security") and hot newcomer and Aussie pop star Holly Valance ("National Lampoon's "Pledge This!").

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FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS

Release Date: October 20, 2006
Distributor: Paramount Picture
Director: Clint Eastwood
Screenwriter: Paul Haggis
Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, Paul Walker, Jamie Bell, Barry Pepper, John Benjamin Hickey

Synopsis: From Academy Award®-winning director Clint Eastwood (“Million Dollar Baby,” “Unforgiven”) comes the World War II drama “Flags of Our Fathers,” produced by Eastwood and Academy Award® winner Steven Spielberg (“Saving Private Ryan,” “Schindler’s List”). February 1945. Even as victory in Europe was finally within reach, the war in the Pacific raged on. One of the most crucial and bloodiest battles of the war was the struggle for the island of Iwo Jima, which culminated with what would become one of the most iconic images in history: five Marines and a Navy corpsman raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi. The inspiring photo capturing that moment became a symbol of victory to a nation that had grown weary of war and made instant heroes of the six American soldiers at the base of the flag, some of whom would die soon after, never knowing that they had been immortalized. But the surviving flag raisers had no interest in being held up as symbols and did not consider themselves heroes; they wanted only to stay on the front with their brothers in arms who were fighting and dying without fanfare or glory. “Flags of Our Fathers” is based on the bestselling book by James Bradley with Ron Powers, which chronicled the battle of Iwo Jima and the fates of the flag raisers and some of their brothers in Easy Company. Bradley’s father, John “Doc” Bradley, was one of the soldiers pictured raising the flag, although James never knew the full extent of his father’s experiences until after the elder Bradley’s death in 1994.

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FLICKA

Release Date: October 20, 2006
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Stefen Fangmeier
Screenwriter: Peter Buchman
Starring: Ed Speleers, John Malkovich, Jeremy Irons, Djimon Hounsou, Robert Carlyle, Sienna Guillory, Garrett Hedlund, Caroline Chikezie

Official Website: Flickamovie.com

Synopsis: Based on the Christopher Paolini-penned bestselling fantasy novel about a farm boy who learns he is the last of a breed of benevolent Dragon Riders, whose magical powers are derived from their bond with the beasts.

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