By Wilson Morales
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STRANGER THAN FICTION
Release Date: November 10, 2006
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Director: Marc Forster
Screenwriter: Zach Helm
Cast: Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson
Website: http://www.strangerthanfiction.com/
Synopsis:
Columbia Pictures and Mandate Pictures' "Stranger Than Fiction" is an inventive comedy about a novelist (Emma Thompson) struggling to complete her latest, and potentially finest, book — she only has to find a way to kill off her main character, Harold Crick, and she'll be done. Little does she know that Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) is inexplicably alive and well in the real world and suddenly aware of her words. Fiction and reality collide when the bewildered and hilariously resistant Harold hears what she has in mind and realizes he must find a way to change her (and his) ending.
CLICK HERE FOR TRAILER AND PHOTOS - http://www.blackfilm.com/20060805/features/strangerthanfiction.shtml
FUR
Release Date: November 10, 2006
Distributor: Picturehouse
Director: Steven Shainberg
Screenwriter: Erin Cressida Wilson
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey, Jr., Harris Yulin, Jane Alexander, Courtney Taylor Burness
Synopsis:
Kidman stars as legendary photographer Diane Arbus. Set in New York in the late 1950s, the film explores an unlikely romance that leads Arbus into a strange new world, sparking her evolution into one of the most provocative and visionary photographers of all time.
CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOS AND TRAILER - http://www.blackfilm.com/20060623/features/fur.shtml
HARSH TIMES
Release Date: November 10, 2006
Distributor:Bauer Martinez Distribution
Director: David Ayer
Producers: Andrea Sperling & David Ayer
Screenwriter:David Ayer
Cast: Christian Bale, Freddy Rodriguez, Eva Longoria
Synopsis: The story follows Mike Alvarez (Rodriguez), unemployed and looking for a job, and Jim David (Bale) who has just been accepted by the DEA to do his share of the dirty work in Columbia. A pair of hell-raising beer-drinking screw-ups with time on their hands, they spend a few days riding around Los Angeles, causing trouble and leaving havoc in their wake - until it all catches up to them and the good times turn harsh. Eva Longoria plays Rodriguez's girlfriend.
CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOS AND TRAILER - http://www.blackfilm.com/20060303/features/harshtimes.shtml
CASINO ROYALE
Release Date: November 17, 2006
Distributor: Columbia Pictures, MGM
Director: Martin Campbell
Screenwriter: Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade
Cast: Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini, Caterina Murino, Simon Abkarian, Tobias Menzies, Ivana Milicevic, Clemens Schik, Ludger Pistor, Claudio Santamaria
Website: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/casinoroyale/site/
Synopsis: Daniel Craig takes over the role of the legendary British secret agent, James Bond, in the highly anticipated 007 adventure thriller. "Casino Royale" will be the 21st James Bond film.
CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOS AND TRAILER - http://blackfilm.com/20060324/features/casinoroyale.shtml
FAST FOOD NATION
Release Date: November 17, 2006 (limited)
Distributor: Fox Searchlight
Director: Richard Linklater
Producers: Jeremy Thomas, Malcolm McLaren
Screenwriters: Eric Schlosser, Richard Linklater, based on the book by:
Eric Schlosser
Cast: Patricia Arquette, Bobby Cannavale, Luis Guzman, Ethan Hawke, Ashley
Johnson, Greg Kinnear, Kris Kristofferson, Avril Lavigne, Esai Morales,
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Lou Taylor Pucci, Ana Claudia Talancon and Wilmer
Valderrama
Synopsis:
Don Henderson (Greg Kinnear)-a marketing executive at Mickey's Fast Food
Restaurant chain, home of "The Big One"-has a problem. Contaminated
meat is getting into the frozen patties of the company's best-selling
burger. To find out why, he'll have to take a journey to the dark side
of the All-American meal.Leaving the cushy confines of the company's
Southern California boardroom for the immigrant-staffed slaughterhouses,
teeming feedlots and cookie cutter strip malls of Middle America, what
Don discovers is a "Fast Food Nation" of consumers who haven't
realized it is they who are being consumed by an industry with a seemingly
endless appetite for fresh meat.
When it was published in 2001, "Fast Food Nation" quickly
became a New York Times bestseller, with its no-holds-barred, non-fiction
exploration of "the dark side of the All-American meal." The
big screen version "Fast Food Nation" is a dramatic feature
penned by "Fast Food Nation" author Eric Schlosser and Oscar® nominee
Richard Linklater, who also serves as director. Explains Linklater: "The
movie is not a documentary, but a character study of the lives behind
the facts and figures. I'm more interested in fiction than non-fiction.
You get to the point through human storytelling."
Website: http://www.fastfoodnation-movie.com/
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HAPPY FEET
Release Date:November 17, 2006
Director: George Miller
Screenwriters: George Miller, John Collee, Judy Morris, Warren Coleman
Producers:Doug Mitchell, Bill Miller, George Miller
Voice Cast: Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving, Anthony LaPaglia, Magda Szubanski, Miriam Mirgoyles.
Happy Feet also features the tap dancing of Savion Glover.
Synopsis: Happy Feet is set deep in Antarctica. Into the land of Emperor Penguins, where each needs a heart song to attract a soul mate, a penguin is born who cannot sing. Our hero Mumble, son of Memphis and Norma Jean, is the worst singer in the world...however, as it happens, he is a brilliant tap dancer!
CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOS AND TRAILER - http://www.blackfilm.com/20051209/features/happyfeet.shtml
TENACIOUS D: THE PICK OF DESTINY
Release Date: November 17, 2006
Distributor: New Line Cinema
Director: Liam Lynch
Executive Producer: Ben Stiller
Screenwriters: Jack Black, Kyle Gass, Liam Lynch
Cast: Jack Black, Kyle Gass, JR "Lee" Reed, Tim Robbins, Ronnie James Dio, Ben Stiller, Meatloaf, Will Ferrell
Synopsis:
This is the story of a friendship that changes the course of rock history forever, of the fateful collision of minds between JB and KG that led to the creation of the precedent-shattering band Tenacious D, and of the two heroes' quest to find the fabled Guitar Pick Of Destiny...
CLICK HERE FOR TRAILER AND PHOTOS - http://www.blackfilm.com/20050819/features/tenaciousd.shtml
BOBBY
Release Date: November 17, 2006
Studio: MGM, The Weinstein Company
Director: Emilio Estevez
Screenwriter: Emilio Estevez
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Lindsay Lohan, Elijah Wood, William H. Macy, Helen Hunt, Christian Slater, Heather Graham, Laurence Fishburne, Freddy Rodriguez, Nick Cannon, Emilio Estevez, Martin Sheen, Shia LaBeouf, Jacob Vargas, Brian Geraghty, Joshua Jackson, Joy Bryant, Svetlana Metkina, Kip Pardue, David Krumholtz, Harry Belafonte, Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Synopsis:
Bobby is a fictionalised account of various people whose lives intersect in the hours leading up to and including the assassination of Senator Robert. F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
The film is a journey of the heart that examines the relationships between men and women, between races and the social divisions that have clipped away the foundation of our humanity. We are given a glimpse into how life can be drastically changed in a moment in time, an indelible event in our nation's history. The characters are ordinary American's who find themselves at the epicentre of one of the most important incidents of the 20th Century.
Bobby is not a political story, though politics are certainly an undercurrent. It is not the story of Bobby Kennedy (seen solely in newsreel footage). Rather, it is the story of all of us.
Bobby is seen through the eyes of twenty-two characters. The hope, excitement and notion that a change is in the air, which Kennedy ignited in us all, black and white, rich and poor, young and old was extinguished that evening in June. From young men in their late teens to early twenties, facing the possibility of shipping off to Vietnam, to the retired doorman of the Ambassador, who has greeted the likes of every U.S. President from FDR to Johnson. From the hotel staff to the guests whom occupy the suites, to the "Youth of Kennedy Volunteers", all ages and genders are represented in screenplay.
CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOS AND TRAILER - http://www.blackfilm.com/20060505/features/bobby.shtml