2007 SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW
By Wilson Morales
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1408
Release Date: July 13, 2007
Distributor: Dimension Films (The Weinstein Company), MGM
Director: Mikael Håfström
Screenwriter: Matt Greenberg, Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
Cast: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Tony Shalhoub
Website: http://www.1408-themovie.com/
Synopsis: The only demons in room 1408 are those within you.
Renowned horror novelist Mike Enslin (Cusack) only believes what he can see with his own two eyes. After a string of bestsellers discrediting paranormal events in the most infamous haunted houses and graveyards around the world, he scoffs at the concept of an afterlife. Enslin's phantom-free run of long and lonely nights is about to change forever when he checks into suite 1408 of the notorious Dolphin Hotel for his latest project, "Ten Nights in Haunted Hotel Rooms." Defying the warnings of the hotel manager (Jackson), the author is the first person in years to stay in the reputedly haunted room. Another bestseller may be iminent, but like all Stephen King heroes, Enslin must go from skeptic to true believer – and ultimately survive the night.
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HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF PHOENIX
Release Date: July 13, 2007 (conventional theaters and IMAX)
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: David Yates
Screenwriter: Michael Goldenberg
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Jason Isaacs, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters, David Thewlis, Fiona Shaw, Richard Griffiths, David Bradley, Robert Hardy, Mark Williams, Helena Bonham Carter, Imelda Staunton, George Harris, Natalia Tena, Kathryn Hunter, Evanna Lynch, Katie Leung, Jessica Stevenson
Website: http://www.harrypotterorderofthephoenix.com
International Trailer: http://video.aol.co.uk/video-film/1891890
Synopsis: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 is in denial about the teenager's recent encounter with the evil Lord Voldemort, preferring to turn a blind eye to the news that Voldemort has returned. 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.
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GOYA’S GHOST
Release Date: July 20, 2007 (limited)
Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films
Director: Milos Forman
Screenwriter: Jean-Claude Carrière, Milos Forman
Cast: Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgård, Randy Quaid
Synopsis: Spain 1792 - the Catholic Church is at the height of its powers. The revolution has sent neighbouring France into turmoil and the Spanish church decides to restore order by bringing back the dreaded Inquisition. Spearheading this movement is the enigmatic and cunning priest Lorenzo, a man who seeks power above all.
Lorenzo's friend is Francisco Goya, Spain's most famous artist and portraitist to kings and queens. When his beautiful model Ines is unjustly imprisoned and tortured by the Inquisition their friendship is put to a test as Goya begs Lorenzo to spare the poor girl's life.
With the torture-ravaged Ines' life in his hands, he rapes her and leaves her to rot in hidden dungeons. Almost two decades later, just before the French armies invade Spain, Goya is a different man. Having lost his hearing entirely, he has become a dark, disturbed man, almost a ghost of himself. But it is now that he has entered his most famous creative period. Lorenzo, having been banished by the Spanish church, fled to France, only to return in a new guise as chief prosecutor for Napoleon's regime. Now he can take revenge on the very men that threw him out of Spain - he relishes the opportunity to persecute his old allies of the Spanish Inquisition.
When the French abolish the Inquisition, all its prisoners are set free. Ines, the once beautiful figure of Goya's paintings and dreams, emerges from prison not only having lost her youth but also to find her once powerful family slaughtered in their own home.
The only person she has left in this world now is the mad, old Goya. He becomes her protector and she reveals that she gave birth to a girl during her imprisonment.
When Goya discovers Alicia, Ines' daughter, working as a prostitute, he confronts Lorenzo who finally admits having raped Ines and being the father of her child. But mother and daughter are still far from being reunited. The power map of Europe continues its seismic changes as Spain is once again thrown into chaos when Wellington's powerful army invades to restore Spanish rule. Lorenzo finds himself in desperate need of a new ally of faces a gruesome death sentence.
It is mayhem on the streets of Madrid and Goya continues his desperate struggle to reunite mother and daughter. Lorenzo will stop at nothing to save himself and keep secret the child that haunts him..."
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HAIRSPRAY
Release Date: July 20, 2007
Distributor: New Line Cinema
Director: Adam Shankman
Producers: Craig Zadan and Neil Meron
Screenwriter: Leslie Dixon
Cast: John Travolta, Queen Latifah, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, Allison Janney, Brittany Snow, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley
Website: http://www.hairspraymovie.com/
Synopsis: Sixteen years after the release of the original film, New Line Cinema is bringing a feature film adaptation of the Tony award-winning Broadway production "Hairspray" to life. Featuring new and original material based on John Waters' 1988 cult classic about star-struck teenagers on a local Baltimore.
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