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| Release date: May 21, 2010 Genre: Action comedy Cast: Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Ryan Phillippe, Powers Boothe, Maya Rudolph and Val Kilmer Written by: Will Forte & John Solomon & Jorma Taccone Directed by: Jorma Taccone Produced by: Lorne Michaels, John Goldwyn Executive Producers: Ryan Kavanaugh, Tucker Tooley, Akiva Schaffer, Seth Meyers, Erin David Only one American hero has earned the rank of Green Beret, Navy SEAL and Army Ranger. Just one operative has been awarded 16 purple hearts, 3 Congressional Medals of Honor and 7 presidential medals of bravery. And only one guy is man enough to still sport a mullet. In 2010, Will Forte brings Saturday Night Live's clueless soldier of fortune to the big screen in the action comedy MacGruber. In the 10 years since his fiancée was killed, special op MacGruber has sworn off a life of fighting crime with his bare hands. But when he learns that his country needs him to find a nuclear warhead that's been stolen by his sworn enemy, Dieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer), MacGruber figures he's the only one tough enough for the job. |
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| Release date: May 14, 2010 Genre: Action-Adventure Cast: Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, William Hurt, Mark Strong, Mark Addy, Oscar Isaac, Danny Huston, Eileen Atkins and Max von Sydow Directed by: Ridley Scott Screenplay by: Brian Helgeland Story by: Brian Helgeland and Ethan Reiff & Cyrus Voris Producers: Brian Grazer, Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe Executive Producer: J.D. Schlissel, Michael Costigan, Jim Whitaker, Ryan Kavanaugh Oscar® winner Russell Crowe stars as the legendary figure known by generations as "Robin Hood," whose exploits have endured in popular mythology and ignited the imagination of those who share his spirit of adventure and righteousness. In 13th century England, Robin and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power. And whether thief or hero, one man from humble beginnings will become an eternal symbol of freedom for his people. Robin Hood chronicles the life of an expert archer, previously interested only in self-preservation, from his service in King Richard's army against the French. Upon Richard's death, Robin travels to Nottingham, a town suffering from the corruption of a despotic sheriff and crippling taxation, where he falls for the spirited widow Lady Marion (Oscar® winner Cate Blanchett), a woman skeptical of the identity and motivations of this crusader from the forest. Hoping to earn the hand of Maid Marion and salvage the village, Robin assembles a gang whose lethal mercenary skills are matched only by its appetite for life. Together, they begin preying on the indulgent upper class to correct injustices under the sheriff. |
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| Release date: March 12, 2010 Genre: Thriller Cast: Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson, Amy Ryan, Khalid Abdalla and Jason Isaacs Directed by: Paul Greengrass Written by: Brian Helgeland Inspired by the book "Imperial Life in the Emerald City" by: Rajiv Chandrasekaran Produced by: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lloyd Levin, Paul Greengrass Executive Producers: Debra Hayward, Liza Chasin Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, United 93) re-team for their latest electrifying thriller in Green Zone, a film set in the chaotic early days of the Iraqi War when no one could be trusted and every decision could detonate unforeseen consequences. During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon) and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose of their mission. |
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| Release date: March 19, 2010 Genre: Futuristic action-thriller Cast: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Liev Schreiber, RZA, Alice Braga, Carice van Houten Directed by: Miguel Sapochnik Screenplay by: Eric Garcia & Garrett Lerner Based on the Novel "The Repossession Mambo" by: Eric Garcia Producer: Scott Stuber Executive Producers: Miguel Sapochnik, Jonathan Mone, Mike Drake, Valerie Dean, Andrew Z. Davis In the futuristic action-thriller Repo Men, humans have extended and improved our lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called The Union. The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is that if you don't pay your bill, The Union sends its highly skilled repo men to take back its property...with no concern for your comfort or survival. Jude Law plays Remy, one of the best organ repo men in the business. When he suffers a cardiac failure on the job, he awakens to find himself fitted with the company's top-of-the-line heart-replacement...as well as a hefty debt. But a side effect of the procedure is that his heart's no longer in the job. When he can't make the payments, The Union sends its toughest enforcer, Remy's former partner Jake (Academy Award® winner Forest Whitaker), to track him down. Now that the hunter has become the hunted, Remy joins Beth (Alice Braga), another debtor who teaches him how to vanish from the system. And as he and Jake embark on a chase across a landscape populated by maniacal friends and foes, one man will become a reluctant champion for thousands on the run. |
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Release date: February 12, 2010 Inspired by the classic Universal film that launched a legacy of horror, The Wolfman brings the myth of a cursed man back to its iconic origins. Oscar® winner Benicio Del Toro stars as Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father (Oscar® winner Anthony Hopkins), Talbot sets out to find his brother...and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. |
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from 12th to 20th February feeling a little off-colour this winter? A bit stressed out with listening to what is going wrong with the world? Anima is offering some light relief for the head and desire for the heart with a little cure of animation. There's nothing like it for putting the neurons back in phase with the zygomatics and vice versa. So take a deep breath and come along to Flagey, from 12th to 20th February. The incredibly optimistic team there has concocted a festival just for you. Mary and Max, the feature by Australian filmmaker Adam Eliot will be opening the Festival. This unusual, hilarious and very tender film featuring the voices of Eric Bana, Toni Collette and Philip Seymour Hoffman tied for the Grand Prix with Henry Selick's Coraline at the last Annecy Festival. Anima is first and foremost an international competition for animated features made during the previous 18 months. Ten features, 5 for children and 5 for adults, have been selected and will be chosen by the public. There are two competitions for short films, one national the other international, along with the rest of the selection of sneak preview shorts offering 128 short films in all to appreciate in 9 international and 3 Belgian programmes, and not forgetting the Animated Night too. International music videos and commercials will also be in competition. Twenty five thousand Euros in cash or material prizes are to be shared out between the different prize winners who will also receive prizes from Festival partners. Choosing these happy winners is the job of two juries: Guy Delisle (Canada), Lotta Geffenblad (Sweden) and Shelley Page (Great Britain) for the international short films and Jacques-Rémy Girerd (France), Nicolas Crousse (Belgium) and Judith Vanistendael (Belgium) for the short Belgian films. As part of the Europalia Arts Festival and its special guest China, Anima is offering a carte blanche to the Animation School of the Communication University of China, based in Beijing, the CICDAF, the major international animation festival in China and 14 MHZ, a French association that distributes Chinese independent films, including work by contemporary artist Sun Xun, which can also be seen in a retrospective at Anima. A feature in competition (Piercing I) and another in retrospective (Little Soldier Zhang Ga) complete this Chinese focus. Other retrospectives and special guests are also on the bill, looking into animation in Sweden today and the animation department of the Moholy Nagy University in Budapest. Screenings concentrating on a particular subject will give everyone the chance to discover or rediscover both dark and comic sides of animation, with programmes like Humour and Fresh Bones (guaranteed to cause a shiver), Acides Animés showing off the young generation with films from the innovating Autour de minuit production company, and all the films of Adam Elliot (Mary and Max). Another programme spotlights the work of French director Florence Miailhe, there's a focus on Greek animation from the 40s to the present, and the Canadian documentary A Thorn in the Mind, where masters of animation like Pjotr Sapejin, Georges Schwizgebel or Raoul Servais talk about their art. Mr Servais will also be in attendance this year for the DVD release of his feature Taxandria, co-produced by Cinéart and Folioscope. The afternoons are set aside for the kids at Anima with programmes of new shorts and features including Kurt Turns Evil, The Bear and the Magician and Panda Go Panda. There will be workshops too, in collaboration with the ABC association, and the Animatins will give a wide audience the opportunity to enjoy the Festival. There's also a very Animated Night at Anima (from 10 pm to 4 in the morning), a special VJ party with the Meaksuma collective, the Open Screenings, for all out of competition Belgian filmmakers, conferences with international guests... In short, enough to give the eyes a real treat from ten in the morning till midnight, every single day! The Futuranima professional meetings for students and professionals will shed light on Belgian skills that export, Pieter Van Houte will talk about Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and Kommer Kleijn will be presenting his Animoko, an incredible live demonstration of Motion control for animation. International guests will be well represented: apart from the members of the jury, there will be the talented artist and filmmaker Florence Miailhe, or Carlye Archibeque who will be presenting the prize winners of the recent SIGGRAPH, Computer Animation Festival, the best in digital creation and latest trends. Finally, from the 15th to 17th, Robert Bennett will be here to give his Corporeal Acting Master class, a three-day training course specific to animation that he has already presented at different studios including Walt Disney Feature Film France, Warner Brothers Feature Film U.S.A. and the A Studio in Copenhagen. As well as this rich programme, Anima is also offering free access to its exhibitions, its children's workshops (an ABC production), numerous concerts and for the second year running a big Cosplay competition organized by the Belgian Cosplay Team. The Festival poster was entrusted to designer and scenographer François Schuiten. The Anima 2010 Grand prix trophy is the work of illustrator and animator Eric Blésin.
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