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Paramount and DreamWorks Pictures 2009 Picture Preview

15 upcoming 2009 films profiled

Paramount Pictures has just unveiled their 2009 preview and in rather lackluster form I may say as new images from anticipated features such as Martin Scorese's Shutter Island, Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones and Star Trek were nowhere to be found. Fanboy favorites such as G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen also saw zilch in the updated imagery department. We do, however, have new pics from Eddie Murphy's next kid flick, the previously titled Nowhereland, now labeled as Imagine That and to be honest that is about as exciting as it gets in the updates department.

All the cast, director and synopsis information is listed over the course of the next few pages as well as all the release dates for 15 new features. Surprisingly enough, only one of them is actual a Paramount Pictures solo release as the majority of these belong to their previous partner DreamWorks. Very interesting. Gallery links have been added where they apply, and remember, the links open in a new browser window so just close the new window to return to this article and continue the preview.

Enjoy!

HOTEL FOR DOGS
JANUARY 16, 2009

Photo: DreamWorks Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies
Directed by Thor Freudenthal
Starring: Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Kyla Pratt with Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon and Don Cheadle

"Hotel for Dogs" stars Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon and Don Cheadle in a smart, funny comedy adventure that shows how far love and imagination can take you. When their new guardians forbid 16-year-old Andi (Roberts) and her younger brother, Bruce (Austin) to have a pet, Andi has to use her quick wit to help find a new home for their dog, Friday. The resourceful kids stumble upon an abandoned hotel and using Bruce's talents as a mechanical genius, transform it into a magical dog-paradise for Friday – and eventually for all Friday's friends. When barking dogs make the neighbors suspicious, Andi and Bruce use every invention they have to avoid anyone discovering "who let the dogs in."

THE UNINVITED
JANUARY 30, 2009

Photo: DreamWorks Pictures
Directed by The Guard Brothers
Starring: Emily Browning, Elizabeth Banks, Arielle Kebbel and David Strathairn

In the suspense thriller "The Uninvited," based on the 2003 Korean motion picture "Changhwa, Hongryon" written and directed by Kim Jee-woon, Anna (Emily Browning) returns home after spending time in a psychiatric facility following her mother's tragic death and discovers that her mother's former nurse, Rachel (Elizabeth Banks), has moved into their house and become engaged to her father, Steven (David Strathairn). Soon after she learns this shocking news, Anna is visited by her mother's ghost, who warns her that Rachel has evil intentions. Together, Anna and her sister (Arielle Kebbel) must convince their father that his new fiancee is not who she pretends to be, and what should have been a happy family reunion becomes a lethal battle of wills between stepdaughters and stepmother.

I LOVE YOU, MAN
MARCH 20, 2009

Photo: DreamWorks Pictures
Directed by John Hamburg
Starring: Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, J.K. Simmons, Jane Curtin, Jon Favreau and Jaime Pressly

In "I Love You, Man," a comedy from John Hamburg ("Along Came Polly," co-writer of "Meet the Parents," "Meet the Fockers," "Zoolander"), Peter Klaven (Paul Rudd, "Knocked Up" "The 40 Year Old Virgin") is a successful real estate agent who, upon getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, Zooey ("The Office's" Rashida Jones), discovers, to his dismay and chagrin, that he has no male friend close enough to serve as his Best Man. Peter immediately sets out to rectify the situation, embarking on a series of bizarre and awkward "man-dates," before meeting Sydney Fife (Jason Segel, "Forgetting Sarah Marshall"), a charming, opinionated man with whom he instantly bonds. But the closer the two men get, the more Peter's relationship with Zooey suffers, ultimately forcing him to choose between his fiancee and his new found "bro," in a story that comically explores what it truly means to be a "friend."

MONSTERS vs. ALIENS
MARCH 27, 2009

Photo: DreamWorks SKG
Directed by Rob Letterman Conrad Vernon
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Hugh Laurie, Will Arnett, Seth Rogen, Rainn Wilson, Stephen Colbert, Kiefer Sutherland and Paul Rudd

When California girl Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches tall. The military jumps into action and Susan is captured and secreted away to a covert government compound. There, she is renamed Ginormica and placed in confinement with a ragtag group of Monsters: the brilliant but insect-headed Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D.; the macho half-ape, half-fish The Missing Link; the gelatinous and indestructible B.O.B.; and the 350-foot grub called Insectosaurus. Their confinement is cut short, however, when a mysterious alien robot lands on Earth and begins storming the country. In a moment of desperation, the President is persuaded to enlist the motley crew of Monsters to combat the Alien Robot and save the world from imminent destruction.

"Monsters vs. Aliens" is DreamWorks Animation's first InTru 3D Movie. A 2D version will also be available.

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Films that look Oscar worthy:

The Soloist, even tough it has an April release date.
The Lovely Bones
Up in the Air
Shutter Island, Scorsese. DiCaprio. Academy Awards. Those 3 words go good together.

Films that look horrible:

Hotel for Dogs, I don't even need to explain this one.
Dance Flick
The Uninvited
Imagine that, Meet Dave. Norbit. Daddy Day Care. The Adventures of Pluto Nash. Eddie's in a career slump and I doubt this will be any different.

- Jerzey Jon
( December 30th, 2008 | 1:35 pm )
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where's Friday the 13th? Isnt that a Paramount film?

- joker47
( December 30th, 2008 | 2:04 pm )
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@joker47: Nope, Paramount had the originals, but then New Line took over the franchise so the remake is set up at Warner Bros. Here's my preview page.

- Brad Brevet (Post Author)
( December 30th, 2008 | 2:12 pm )
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I'm looking forward to seeing The Uninvited and The Lovely Bones.

Did we seriously need another Transformers movie, though?

- Ashleigh
( December 30th, 2008 | 2:16 pm )
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@Ashleigh:

It doesn't matter if we needed a transformers sequel, 700+ mil at the B.O. GUARANTEES it lol

Besides, don't be so hard on the bots, that was a fun movie.

- Roger
( December 30th, 2008 | 3:28 pm )
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Yeah transformers should be good mindless fun once again, that's what critics should look at it as. Other than that Shutter Island is gonna kick ass I bet. Not sure about lovely bones, Wahlberg has been involved in some bad movies of late.

- adu
( December 30th, 2008 | 4:22 pm )
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@Ashleigh: Just another way to make movie, company will make ANY sequel if it generates a lot of cash. No matter how awful it may be.

If paramount makes a 2 hour movie and for the whole 2 hours all the viewer sees is an ant climbing over a wall, no dialogue or nothing. Just footage of an ant climbing over a wall. And the Critics call it the worse movie of the last 100 years.

But if the film grosses over 700 million dollars, Paramount will make a sequel of the ant climbing down the wall.

- Jerzey Jon
( December 30th, 2008 | 5:16 pm )
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I'm looking forward to Transformers 2 and Star Trek. I'm not a Trekkie, but it does look impressive, judging from the trailer.
I know many people didn't like Transformers, I loved it. It was a fun, mindless popcorn movie. Hopefully this one will be more robots, less sweaty people.

- Nina
( December 31st, 2008 | 1:29 am )
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@Jerzey Jon: Ha, you're right – how gutted must Paramount have been when they realised there was no possible way to make a sequel to Titanic?!

Of the films listed, I'm most looking forward to Star Trek (and not in any way because I'm shallow and Chris Pine is stupidly pretty) whilst wondering why The Soloist didn't come out in time for this year's Oscars when it was slated for a 2008 release?

- kassiopeia
( December 31st, 2008 | 6:36 am )
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I saw The Uninvited at a screening about a year ago when it was titled Apparition. It was the worst movie I've ever seen, so bad it's become our new benchmark for bad movies. We were particularly savage in our official responses; I believe I commented that it was like Hamlet with all the genders reversed, an interesting idea gone so horribly wrong it will likely never be tried again. As we handed in our response cards, we heard someone from the studios comment that they were getting a lot of negative feedback. I figured it had been shelved altogether, but I guess they're trying to cash in on Elizabeth Banks' popularity. Now, they might have recut it a bit, but considering that some of what we assumed were placeholder effects made it into the trailer, I rather doubt it.

I Love You, Man looks really funny (though the premise is a bit flawed; any bridal magazine will tell you that you don't need a best man these days), and of course I'll see Star Trek. My fiancé thinks Monsters vs. Aliens looks really good, but I'm rather unconvinced. And I'm a chick, so no interest in Transformers or G.I. Joe.

And I was thoroughly disappointed in the book The Lovely Bones. I know it was on the bestseller list for a million weeks, but it was just kind of hollow. Of the 2004 bestsellers I remember reading, I loved Time Traveler's Wife and actually cried at the end of Dogs of Babel, but Lovely Bones was just kind of meh. I'm kind of over Peter Jackson, so that one holds no interest for me.

- aerinpegadrak
( January 1st, 2009 | 2:39 pm )
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@aerinpegadrak: Noted haha

I think it's a pretty solid slate, Peter Jackson is always a good ting to have, not to mention Transformers will be fun, same with Trek. Monsters vs. Aliens looks to a be a solid animated flick also.

- chewbaca69
( January 1st, 2009 | 4:00 pm )
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