Posted on: Friday, January 18, 2008
Lights, camera, movies!
By Bill Goodykoontz
Gannett News Service
What's heading for the multiplexes in the next few months?
Here's a look at the schedule through April, subject to the whims of Hollywood. (Editor's note: Big-buzz films that already opened in the major cities on the Mainland may open in Hawai'i as the year progresses. "The Savages," opening today, is one such.
TODAY
"27 Dresses" (PG-13)
"Mad Money" (PG-13)
"Cloverfield" (PG-13)
"There Will Be Blood" (R)
JAN. 25
"Be Kind, Rewind" (PG-13): Jack Black and Mos Def remake films lost when Black's brain becomes magnetized. Hmm.
"How She Move" (PG-13): Tre Armstrong stars as a competitive step-dancer.
"Meet the Spartans" (PG-13): Another spoof of current films. Carmen Electra, uh, stars.
"Rambo" (R): Sylvester Stallone returns as a presumably longer-in-the-tooth John Rambo. What else do you need to know?
"Untraceable" (R): Diane Lane stars as an FBI agent hunting a serial killer who kills victims via the Web. Yes, it sounds weird, perhaps watching the trailer can clarify: www.sonypictures.com/movies/untraceable.
FEB. 1
"The Eye" (PG-13): Yet another remake of a Japanese horror film, this one with Jessica Alba.
"Over Her Dead Body" (PG-13): Eva Longoria Parker (yes, she's taken her husband's name officially) hits the big screen in a ghost story.
"Strange Wilderness" (R): Jonah Hill and Justin Long star in a comedy about trying to find Bigfoot.
FEB. 8
"Fool's Gold" (PG-13): Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey star in a romantic adventure.
"Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins" (PG-13): Martin Lawrence as an L.A. talk-show host who returns to the Deep South.
FEB. 14
"Definitely, Maybe" (PG-13): Romantic comedy with Ryan Reynolds as a political consultant, Abigail Breslin as his daughter.
"Jumper" (PG-13): Hayden Christensen finds he is able to teleport, or "jump," anywhere. Not everyone is amused.
"Step Up 2 the Streets" (not yet rated): Students find love at the Maryland School of the Arts.
FEB. 15
"George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead" (R): Students making a zombie movie run into the real thing.
"The Spiderwick Chronicles" (PG): Big-screen version of the popular books. Alternate universe and all that.
FEB. 22
"Charlie Bartlett" (R): Anton Yelchin makes himself his school's psychiatrist at his new school.
"Vantage Point" (not yet rated): Attempted assassination told from different points of view, with a big-name cast (Dennis Quaid, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver).
"Witless Protection" (PG-13): Jenny McCarthy comedy; puns relating to title withheld.
FEB. 29
"Semi-Pro" (not yet rated): Will Ferrell stars as the owner-player of a professional basketball team.
"The Other Boleyn Girl" (PG-13): Period piece with Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson.
"City of Men" (R): Follow-up to "City of God," with the two friends caught in the midst of a drug war in Rio de Janeiro.
MARCH 7
"10,000 B.C." (PG-13): Prehistoric fellow saves his tribe.
"The Accidental Husband" (PG-13): Jeffrey Dean Morgan wants revenge after radio host Uma Thurman tells his girlfriend to dump him.
"The Bank Job" (R): Bank-heist film based on a true story, with Jason Statham.
"College Road Trip" (not yet rated): Raven-Symoné stars as a girl looking for the right college, with Martin Lawrence as her protective father.
MARCH 14
"Big Stan" (not yet rated): Rob Schneider hires a martial-arts expert to prepare for prison.
"Funny Games" (R): Psychos take a family hostage. With Naomi Watts.
"Horton Hears a Who!" (not yet rated): Big-screen, animated version of the Dr. Seuss classic, with voices of Jim Carrey, Carol Burnett, Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen.
"Pride and Glory" (not yet rated): Edward Norton and Colin Farrell are New York cops on opposite ends of a scandal.
"Sleepwalking" (R): An 11-year-old girl (AnnaSophia Robb) is abandoned by her mother. Directed by Bill Maher.
MARCH 19
"Inkheart" (PG): Brendan Fraser can summon characters from books. No good can come of this.
MARCH 21
"Drillbit Taylor" (not yet rated): Kids hire a bodyguard. Owen Wilson's return to the screen; Seth Rogen co-wrote the script.
Shutter: (PG-13): Horror film with Joshua Jackson and Rachael Taylor.
"Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns" (not yet rated): Angela Bassett stars in the prolific Perry's latest, about meeting her late father's family for the first time.
MARCH 28
"21" (PG-13): Kevin Spacey stars in the story of the MIT card counters who won millions in Vegas casinos.
"Run, Fat Boy, Run" (PG-13): Simon Pegg leaves his fiancee, then realizes years later it was a mistake.
"Stop Loss" (R): Ryan Phillippe is a soldier who refuses to return to Iraq.
"Superhero Movie" (not yet rated): "Airplane!" director takes on caped crusaders and the like.
APRIL 4
"Leatherheads" (PG-13): George Clooney directs this film about 1920s football. Good cast, too, with Renée Zellweger and John Krasinski.
"Nim's Island" (not yet rated): Magical island, missing people and more. Jodie Foster stars.
"The Ruins" (not yet rated): Scary-movie doings at a Mexican archaeological dig.
"Wild Child" (not yet rated): Emma Roberts is packed off to boarding school.
APRIL 11
"College" (R): No one you've ever heard of stars in this comedy about high-school students visiting a college campus.
"Prom Night" (PG-13): Brittany Snow stars in a slasher flick.
APRIL 18
"Baby Mama" (not yet rated): "Saturday Night Live" vets Tina Fey and Amy Poehler reunite for a comedy about an infertile businesswoman.
"Forbidden Kingdom" (not yet rated): Jet Li and Jackie Chan team up for the first time.
"The Rocker" (not yet rated): Josh Gad stars as a washed-up drummer drumming for the big time again (rim shot).
APRIL 25
"Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" (not yet rated): Best title of the year. John Cho and Kal Penn return, as does — best of all — Neil Patrick Harris, as himself. The plot, if it matters, finds Harold and Kumar suspected of being terrorists.
"Amusement" (PG-13): Not so amusing: A killer is after three women, none of whom you'd recognize.
"The List" (R): Ewan McGregor and Hugh Jackman star in a thriller set against the backdrop of a sex club.
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