Paramount and DreamWorks Pictures 2009 Picture Preview
15 upcoming 2009 films profiled
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Keener, Tom Hollander and LisaGay Hamilton
In "The Soloist," an emotionally soaring drama about the redemptive power of music, journalist Steve Lopez (Oscar® nominee Robert Downey Jr.) discovers Nathaniel Anthony Ayers (Oscar® winner Jamie Foxx), a former classical music prodigy, playing his violin on the streets of L.A. As Lopez endeavors to help the homeless man find his way back, a unique friendship is formed, one that transforms both their lives. "The Soloist" is directed by Joe Wright (Golden Globe winner for Best Drama and Oscar® nominee for Best Picture "Atonement").
Starring: John Cho, Ben Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Simon Pegg, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Winona Ryder, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, with Eric Bana and Leonard Nimoy
From director J.J. Abrams ("Mission: Impossible III," "Lost" and "Alias"), producers Damon Lindelof and Bryan Burk and screenwriters Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman ("TRANSFORMERS," "MI: III") comes a new vision of the greatest space adventure of all time, "Star Trek," featuring a young, new crew venturing boldly where no one has gone before.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden Church, Nicole Ari Parker, Ronny Cox and Martin Sheen
In Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies' family comedy "Imagine That," Eddie Murphy stars as a successful financial executive who has more time for his blackberry than his seven-year-old daughter (Yara Shahidi). When he has a crisis of confidence and his career starts going down the drain, however, he finds the solution to all his problems in his daughter's imaginary world.
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, John Benjamin Hickey, Ramon Rodriguez, Isabel Lucas and John Turturro
In the highly-anticipated "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," debuting June 26, 2009, Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) again joins with the Autobots® against their sworn enemies, the Decepticons®. Michael Bay directs from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger & Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman.
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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.
where's Friday the 13th? Isnt that a Paramount film?
@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.
I'm looking forward to seeing The Uninvited and The Lovely Bones.
Did we seriously need another Transformers movie, though?
@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.
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.
@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.
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.
@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?
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: 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.