"néhány" film, amit az amerikánius gépezet tervez kipöfögni magából 2oo4-ben:
Alexander the Great - Directed by Oliver Stone. Biopic based on the life of Alexander the Great, the young Macedonian general who conquered 90% of the world. This follows his eight year campaigns into Persia, Egypt, and India along with his close male and female relationships.
Stars: Colin Farrell
Alexander: Ends of the Earth - Directed by Baz Luhrmann. Biopic based on the life of Alexander the Great, the young Macedonian general who conquered 90% of the world. This follows his earlier years from the death of his father to his intial takeovers into Greece and beyond.
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicole Kidman
Around the World in Eighty Days - Modern reworking of the Jules Verne classic. A Chinese seeks refuge in the traveling companionship of an eccentric London inventor Phileas Fogg, who has taken on a bet that he can make it around the world in a mere 80 days.
Stars: Jackie Chan
Bad Santa - The story of two criminals who disguise themselves as Santa Claus (Thornton) and his elf, traveling across the country to major malls, using the good will people have towards Santa to rob the stores blind - until they met a special 8 year old.
Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Bernie Mac, John Ritter
Batman: The Frightening - Fifth and possible prequel to the previous films. After escaping Arkham Asylum, the Caped Crusader must try to solve the mystery as to how his battle with the insidious 'The Scarecrow' led him to be locked up for insanity.
Stars: Unknown
Bears - Traditionally animated feature. In the Pacific Northwest pre-white man, the youngest son of an Indian chief killed by a bear seeks revenge for his father's death. However he's soon taught the value of life, just as his vengeful brother sets out to kill all the bears he can find.
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix
Beyond Borders - Directed by Martin Campbell ("Mask of Zorro"). A romantic drama telling of the love between an international disaster relief worker and a philanthropic socialite, set against the backdrop of various modern wars and disasters.
Stars: Angelina Jolie, Clive Owen, Noah Emmerich
Big Fish - Directed by Tim Burton. Edward Bloom has always been a teller of tall-tales about giants, blizzards and a witch. When his wife tries to reunite him with his estranged son, the young man must come to terms with his father's great feats and great failing.
Stars: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Jessica Lange
Blackout - Directed by Philip Kaufman. Jessica is a police officer whose father was a serial killer and spends her days hunting down other killers. Now she finds herself at the center of an investigation when her past lovers start dying around her very quickly.
Stars: Ashley Judd, Samuel L Jackson, Andy Garcia
Catwoman - Patience Price is a veternary scientist/cat-loving gymnast who was recently killed by an industrialist. Revived by a flock of felines, she now seeks revenge on her killer in the guise of 'Catwoman' - a suit-clad vixen with a skill for martial arts.
Stars: Ashley Judd
Cellular - A man receives a call on his cellular phone from a woman who says she's been kidnapped, and thinks she and her family are going to be killed soon. The catch? She doesn't know where she is... and his cell phone battery might go dead soon.
Stars: None at Present
Cold Creek Manor - A couple and their son and daughter relocate from the city to the country, where they discover that their dream home, a sprawling farmhouse, is more of a nightmare, as the previous owner returns from prison... and wants his home back.
Stars: Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff
Constantine - Based on the Vertigo comic book "Hellblazer". John Constantine a globe-trotting and somewhat unstable mystic who investigates supernatural mysteries who must team up with a female cop to investigate a mysterious group known as 'The First of the Fallen'.
Stars: Keanu Reeves
Cursed - From Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven, the creators of the "Scream" trilogy. Details are sketchy, all that's known is that this is set in Los Angeles, and the film is a modern hip twist on the classic werewolf tale.
Stars: None at Present
Cypher - Directed by Vincenzo Natali ("Cube"). An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.
Stars: Jeremy Notham, Lucy Liu, David Hewlett
Diary of a Young London Physician - Directed by David Mamet, this is a new and very dark re-interpretation of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" which follows an English doctor who develops a formula allowing a dark side of his personality to emerge.
Stars: Jude Law
Dogville - Directed by Lars von Trier. Set in an American Town in the Rocky Mountains in the 1930s, a woman arrives who changes things for everyone. Dogville is shot exclusively in a studio with a minimum of props allowing the actors maximum freedom and full exposure.
Stars: Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgaard, Lauren Bacall
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - A business executive and his wife move into her family Victorian mansion. As their obnoxious interior decorator begin changing everything around, the wife begins to see creatures that she believes are some sort of demons her father summoned.
Stars: Unknown
Easy Rider A.D. - Sequel to the famous 1969 feature. The son of Wyatt 'Captain America' Earp teams up with the son of George Hanson to seek clues about what truly happened to their slain fathers. The young men gets on his motorcycle, retracing the path their fathers took in 1969.
Stars: Unknown
Envy - Directed by Barry Levinson. When one of them becomes mindblowingly, quite-literally stinking rich by selling an invention, a pair of life-long best friends and neighbors finds their bond breaking as the other guy starts to go crazy with... envy.
Stars: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Elijah Wood
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - A man discovers that his long-time girlfriend has undergone a psychiatrist's experimental procedure in which all of her memory of him is removed. In order to get over the pain, he undergoes the same procedure.
Stars: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Elijah Wood
Fantastic Four - Based on the Marvel comic about the first humans to attempt interstellar travel whose freak encounter with cosmic rays granted each unique powers to become a famous team of superheroes. However they must also stop one of their group who became the evil Dr. Doom.
Stars: None at Present
Farenheit 451 - Based on the classic Ray Bradbury sci-fi novel and directed by Frank Darabont. In a totalitarian society in the near future, Guy Montag is a fireman whose job is to burn books, artwork and other freedom of expression - until one day he decides to change his mind.
Stars: None At Present
Flora Plum - Directed by Jodie Foster and renewed after an almost two year delay due to Russell Crowe's temporary involvement. A penniless girl in the 1930's is taken in by a circus freak, and even as he falls in love with her, she begins to launch a career in the circus herself.
Stars: Claire Danes, Ewan McGregor, Meryl Streep
Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban - Based on the third book by JK Rowling. Hogwarts is in a panic after escaped murderer Sirius Black comes after Harry, who in his third year is not only seeing death omens but has trouble facing the ghostly Dementor guards around the school.
Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson
Hellboy - Directed by Guillermo Del Toro ("Blade 2") and based on the Mike Mignola comic. A demon child is summoned to Earth by Nazis during WW2. Decades later, he's an investigator at a federal bureau who investigates supernatural events with the help of two strange companions.
Stars: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair,
Helldorado - A bounty hunter takes on an assignment that sends him deep into the Amazon jungle to capture and bring back an "escaped convict". He discovers his quarry is in fact a young guy from a prominent family looking for gold in the jungle.
Stars: The Rock, Seann William Scott, Christopher Walken
Highbinders - After getting killed whilst investigating the Hong Kong slave trade, a Chinese immigration officer and a British Interpol agent awaken to learn they are alive and have supernatural powers to fight the crooks responsible.
Stars: Jackie Chan, Lee Evans
Highwaymen - When his wife is killed by a maniac, a man sets out on the road to find the man responsible, a serial killer who hunts down and kills women using his massive green 1972 Cadillac Eldorado, as a way of expressing his rage about his place in the world.
Stars: James Caviezel, Rhona Mitra
Inglorious Bastards - Written & Directed by Quentin Tarantino. A group of disgraced men in World War Two manage to escape the execution squad by going on a daring mission to help the Allies in the fight against the Nazis.
Stars: Michael Madsen
I, Robot - Directed by Alex Proyas and based on the sci-fi anthology penned by Isaac Asimov. Here are stories of robots gone mad, mind-reading robots, robots with a sense of humor, robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world.
Stars: Unknown
Jersey Girl - Written & Directed by Kevin Smith. Not much is known yet about the premise, except that it's a comedy about fatherhood, is set in the New York/New Jersey area and shows how a new wife and daughter impact the life of a man named Ollie Trinke.
Stars: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Jason Biggs
King Arthur - As the Roman Empire crumbles, the British Isles are thrown into a loose anarchy as errant knights are entrenched in years of territorial battle. Then, one king emerges to unite them, Arthur, with his concept of a Round Table of united knights.
Stars: Unknown
Lemony Snicket - This is the story of three young orphans looking for a new home who are taken in by a series of odd people, including Lemony Snicket and starts with the story of the cunning and dastardly Count Olaf who hopes to snatch their inheritance from them.
Stars: Jim Carrey
Macabre - Directed by Robert Zemeckis and a remake of the 1958 William Caste film. A doctor is given five hours to find his daughter who has been buried alive by two kidnappers. However the crime itself doesn't go as perfectly as planned.
Stars: None At Present
Madagascar - CG animated feature. An animal rights group stages a daring infiltration into the New York Central Park Zoo, freeing four best friends from captivation. When the ship capsizes, however, they end up in Madagascar, where they are free to live in the wild.
Stars: Jason Alexander, Chris Rock, Gwen Stefani
Megalopolis - This is the story of an architect who dreams of building the city of the future, hoping to enable people to live in an utopia where people only do the work they love to do... Utopia is something people have long sought. Is it attainable?
Stars: Unknown
Nautica - Directed by Tarsem ("The Cell"). This is the story of a murder on a yacht in the Caribbean (cruising to the Bahamas) that is told three times, each from the perspective of one of the three vacationers - each with very different motives.
Stars: Ewan McGregor
Preacher - Based on the comic. Both a moral fable for our time, and a love letter to the values of the old west, the movie tells the tale of a man in search of God - but definitely NOT for religious or spiritual enlightenment. Ghosts, vampires and demons abound.
Stars: James Marsden
Pride & Glory - Set in the New York City Police Department, this is the gritty story of three generations of cops whose family resolve is tested when one of the grandsons becomes involved with an investigation that implicates his brother in a corruption scandal.
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Hugh Jackman, Ed Harris
Red Dwarf: The Movie - Based on the UK TV sitcom, this follows the last human being alive along with the rather unusual crew of the mining starship Red Dwarf - a self-important hologram, a neurotic robot, a fashion conscious cat being and a senile computer.
Stars: None At Present
Rendezvous with Rama - Based on the Arthur C. Clarke novel of the same name. A massive cylindrical and seemingly abandoned alien vessel containing an artifical world arrives in the solar system, and a group of scientist must figure out it secrets before it leaves forever.
Stars: None At Present
Sahara - Based on the Clive Cussler novel. Adventurer Dirk Pitt teams with a UN medical investigator to try and find the source of an epidemic which leads to the discovery of a dangerous African tyrant and his plans that'll destroy the ecosystem.
Stars: None at Present
Scary Movie 3 - Written by Kevin Smith and Directed by David Zucker, this is the third film in the series. This is the comedic "story of an orphan who embarks on a magical quest around the world and beyond to rid the universe of evil" .
Stars: Anna Faris
Seconds - The story of a man who is given the chance at rebirth by a group called the Seconds Company. For a price, they can surgically alter you to resemble anyone on the planet, and insert you into that person's life. What happens though if you start to regret your decision?
Stars: Unknown
Sharkslayer - CG animated feature. When the son of the shark boss of a fish crime family is killed, a bottom-feeder is found at the scene of the crime. Hoping to win favor with the ganglord's enemies, the hustler poses as the killer known as the 'sharkslayer'.
Stars: Will Smith, James Gandolfini, Angelina Jolie
Shrek 2 - Sequel to the CG animated hit comedy of 2001. Taking plae shorty after the wedding, Shrek and Fiona decide to visit her parents to share the news of their matrimony, however they of ourse don't know about her rescue or her transformation.
Stars: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz
Starsky & Hutch - Feature film adaptation of the 1970's TV series. Two young plain clothes detectives, Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson and Dave Starsky always seem to get the toughest cases from their boss, Captain Dobey, and relying on omniscient street informer Huggy Bear.
Stars: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Snoop Dogg
Superman - Reinvention of the famous comic directed by Brett Ratner. Here we see how Jor-El sent his son to Earth, how Superman was born and how he faces off with CIA agent Lex Luthor along with several Kryptonians who've come to Earth to torment him.
Stars: None at Present
Sylvia & Ted - Luke Zitto eads a team of U.S. marshals hunting down two criminals: Yellow Man, a brutal axe murderer, and a man accused of raping a fellow marshal and friend of Zitto. What Zitto's Marshals discover is that the two criminals are linked and one has protection.
Stars: Johnny Depp
Take Down - Luke Zitto eads a team of U.S. marshals hunting down two criminals: Yellow Man, a brutal axe murderer, and a man accused of raping a fellow marshal and friend of Zitto. What Zitto's Marshals discover is that the two criminals are linked and one has protection.
Stars: Johnny Depp
Taking Lives - From Director Dj Caruso ("The Salton Sea"). An FBI profiler is on the trail of a young Dutch serial killer who assumes the lives and identities (hence the title) of the people he kills as he travels across America.
Stars: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke
The Alamo - The true story of a small force of less than 300 men who, in 1836, fortified a fort called the Alamo in San Antonio in Texas (before it joined the United States of America), determined to defend it from the daunting power of the far larger Mexican Army.
Stars: Dennis Quaid, Jason Patric, Billy Bob Thornton
The Amazing Spider-Man - Sequel to the major 2002 hit adaptation of the famous comic. As Peter Parker begins college, he must face off with two deadly enemies - former friend Dr. Curt Conners whose become The Lizard, and Dr. Octopus - a man with giant robotic arms.
Stars: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco
The Assumption - Based on the novel "The Assumption of the Virgin" by Katie Campbell. The story of the 15th century Florentine artist Fra Filippo Lippi, who fell in love with the beautiful nun who served as the model of his many paintings.
Stars: Javier Bardem, Juliette Binoche, Sir Ian McKellan
The Aviator - Directed by Martin Scorsese. Based upon the early years (1930-1946) in the life of mogul Howard Hughes who started out as a Hollywood film producer before spreading out into other areas including aviation which lead to the massive flying boat 'The Spruce Goose'.
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio
The Butterfly Effect - A young man devises a technique of traveling back in time to inhabit his childhood body, but he finds that every trip back has unintended results on his present self, leading him to travel back again and again, trying to repair the damage.
Stars: Ashton Kutchner, Eric Stoltz, Amy Smart
The Chronicles of Riddick - This is the sequel to Pitch Black, based upon a story idea by David Twohy. This is the first of three planned sequels to that film and will follow the criminal Riddick in his various space adventures.
Stars: Vin Diesel
The Devil and Daniel Webster - Directed by Anthony Hopkins. Jabez Stone is a writer who sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven years of success and fame. However, when she comes to claim her end of the bargain, Stone does what any modern person would do: sue.
Stars: Alec Baldwin, Anthony Hopkins, Jennifer Love Hewitt
The Good Shepherd - Directed by Robert DeNiro. Follows a Yale graduate recruited to become one of the founding officers of the CIA. The drama will trace a large portion of the history of the CIA, including years up through the Cold War.
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio
The Greatest American Hero - Based on the TV series. A high school math teacher is given a special suit by mysterious aliens that will allow him to perform amazing feats. The problem is that he quickly loses the instruction book and must figure it out on his own.
Stars: Unknown
The Great Raid - The true story of Army ranger Lt. Col. Mucci, chosen by General MacArthur to lead an effort to liberate more than 500 American prisoners of war from the Japanese camp, Cabanatuan in the Phillippines, part of the bloody and infamous Bataan Death March.
Stars: Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Marton Csokas
The Hot Zone - Based on the chilling non-fictional bestseller, this follows the two largest and most notable real life outbreaks of the Ebola virus. The first in Zaire which nearly quarantined ll of Kinshasa, the second at a monkey house in a public park in Washington DC.
Stars: Unknown
The I Inside - A man with amnesia discovers that his memory has been replaced by an amazing ability to travel through time, which he soon begins using to uncover the secrets of his past, and hopefully, solve the mystery of the murder of his brother.
Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Robert Sean Leonard, Piper Perabo
The Knights of Malta - Directed by Guy Ritchie. In the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire, led by Suleiman, held control of most of the lower Mediterranean and sought to begin an invasion of Europe using the island of Malta as a stepping stone.
Stars: Unknown
The Long Green Shore - Set in mid-1945 after V-E Day, but before the fall of Japan, this is the story of an Australian battalion sent to New Guinea to force the beleaguered Japanese to retreat - however the enemy troops will fight to the very end.
Stars: Russell Crowe
The Manchurian Candidate - A new adaptation of the 1959 Richard Condon political satire/thriller novel. A former soldier is haunted by nightmares that the fellow members of his platoon were brainwashed, so decides to investigate the increasingly unusual activities of his former leader.
Stars: Denzel Washington
The Painted Veil - Set in the 1920's, when a doctor, Walter in China discovers that his wife, Kitty is having an affair, he moves them to a remote village to fight a cholera outbreak. Over time, the two become closer than ever, as Kitty begins a "journey of self-discovery.
Stars: Edward Norton, Naomi Watts
The Polar Express - Directed by Robert Zemeckis. A young boy's unyielding faith in Santa Claus is rewarded one Christmas Eve when he's awakened by a steam train that pulls up in front of his house and takes him and other children to the North Pole.
Stars: Tom Hanks
The Reckoning - Set in the 14th century, this is the story of a disgraced priest who joins a traveling band of actors as cover. Arriving in a new village where the murder of a young boy has recently taken place, the troupe performs a play to reenact the events of the crime.
Stars: Paul Bettany, Willem Dafoe, Ewen Bremmer
The Runaway Jury - Based on the famous 60's UK series. Set in New Orleans, this is the story of a mysterious man who gets himself not only on the jury of a landmark case against a gun manufacturer, but as the foreman attempts to influence the others to vote a certain way.
Stars: John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman
The Stepford Wives - Joanna and her husband move to the beautiful upper-class suburb of Stepford, where she soon starts to suspect something is strange and artificial about her new female neighbors. The wives living in the houses around them all to be too perfect.
Stars: Nicole Kidman, Joan Cusack
Tomorrow - As the greenhouse effect suddenly increases to the point where natural disasters are occuring regularly, a paleoclimatologist tries to find a wa to top it and save his son who was lot in New York when a severe ice storm hit.
Stars: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sela Ward
Troy - Based on Homer's "The Illiad". In 1193 B.C., Prince Paris of Troy stole the beautiful Greek woman Helen from her husband King Menelaus of Sparta, setting the two nations at war. Soon, the Greeks begin a bloody siege of Troy using their entire armada, led by Achilles.
Stars: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom
Van Helsing - In turn of the century England, monster killer Dr. Abraham Van Helsing must head to Eastern Europe with a rich family heiress committed to destroying the evil vampire Count Dracula. Along the way they must tackle the Wolf Man, and Frankenstein's Monster.
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Richard Roxburgh, David Wenham
Valley of the Dolls - Based on the legendary 1960's novel by Jacqueline Sussan and updated it for the modern day era. Follows three showbiz girls clawing their way to the top and hitting bottom in New York City & Hollywood.
Stars: None at Present
War of the Worlds - Based on the HG Wells sci-fi classic and set in the stories original era of 1898 England. Odd atmospheric disturbances take place on Mars, followed by death machines 100-feet tall laying waste to the land surrounding London.
Stars: None at Present
