What To Look Out For: Movies

Posted on 12. Aug, 2009 by Broadband in Entertainment, Film & TV

Two thirds into the year and we’ve already seen an abundance of equally great and terrible movies. From the returning franchises of Friday The 13th and The Fast & Furious to the modern cult classics Star Trek & The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. We saw contrasting views in this summer’s blockbusters Transformer:Revenge of The Fallen and Terminator Salvation and heaps of praise for comedies The Proposal and The Hangover. Sequels were a continuing theme with the eagerly anticipated Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs to the easily forgotten  Underworld: Rise of the Lycans and  Night At The Museum 2. Stick in comic founded movies, a great Depression gangster film, a Tim Burton animation and a Disney TV to Film motion pic and it’s been an eclectic and fast moving year for movies. However it doesnt stop there, as a host of movies are set for release in the last third of 2009. Take a look at just a percentage of the films you can expect this year and next in our trailer frenzy!

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
Director: Neal Brennan
Cast: Jeremy Piven, Kathryn Hahn, Ving Rhames, David Koechner, Ed Helsm
Synopsis: A used-car liquidator is hired to save a struggling dealership over the 4th of July.

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I Can Do Bad All By Myself
Director: Tyler Perry
Cast: Taraji P Henson, Adam Rodriguez, Brian White, Mary J Blige, Tyler Perry
Synopsis: When Madea catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she delivers the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. A heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off of Raymond, her married boyfriend, April wants nothing to do with the kids. But her attitude begins to change when Sandino, a handsome Mexican immigrant looking for work, moves into April’s basement room. Making amends for his own troubled past, Sandino challenges April to open her heart. And April soon realizes she must make the biggest choice of her life: between her old ways with Raymond and the new possibilities of family, faith…and even true love.

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The Informant
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joe Mchale, Mike O’Malley
Synopsis: The U.S. government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whiteacre.

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Fame
Director: Kevin Tancharoen
Cast: Naturi Naughton, Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, Kelsey Grammer
Synopsis: A group of talented young people from all walks of life overcome incredible odds to gain acceptance to an elite New York public high school for the arts, which auditions over 12,000 students and accepts a scant 425. Once immersed in the rigorous, life-changing curriculum, the kids learn that their challenges are just beginning

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Saw VI
Director: Kevin Greutert
Cast: Costas Mandylor, Mark Rolston, Tobin Bell, Betsy Russell, Shawnee Smith, Peter Outbridge
Synopsis: Would YOU like to know?

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Twiglight Saga: New Moon
Director: Chris Weitz
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautney, Dakota Fanning, Michael Sheen
Synopsis: The sequel to Twilight centers on Edward Cullen leaving Bella Swan in order to keep her safe from other vampires.

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The Princess and The Frog
Director: Ron Clements and John Musker
Cast: Anika Noni Rose, John Goodman, Keith David, Jenifer Lewis, Oprah Winfrey
Synopsis: A fairy tale centered on a young girl named Princess Tiana who lives in New Orleans’ French Quarter during the Jazz Age

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Sherlock Holmes
Director: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Mark Strong, Rachael McAdams
Synopsis: In a dynamic new portrayal of Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous characters, “Sherlock Holmes” sends Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson on their latest challenge. Revealing fighting skills as lethal as his legendary intellect, Holmes will battle as never before to bring down a new nemesis and unravel a deadly plot that could destroy the country.

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The Book of Eli
Director: Albert Hughes & Allen Hughes
Cast: Michael Gambon, Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Jennifer Beals
Synopsis: In The Book of Eli, Denzel Washington stars as a lone warrior named Eli, who fights his way across the desolate wasteland of near-future America to realize his destiny and deliver the knowledge that can bring civilization back from the brink of destruction and save the future of humanity.

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Daybreakers
Director: Michael Spiereg and Peter Spiereg
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Isabel Lucas, Michael Dorman, Vince Colosimo.
Synopsis: Edward Dalton is a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world’s population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.

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