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Blue Crush

Universal

CAST & CREW:

Genre: Romantic Adventure

Cast: Kate Bosworth, Michelle Rodriguez, Matthew Davis, Sanoe Lake, Mika Boorem, Faizon Love Director: John Stockwell

Writers: Lizzy Weiss, John Stockwell

Produced by: Brian Grazer, Karen Kehela Executive Producers: Buffy Shutt, Kathy Jones, Louis G. Friedman

SYNOPSIS:

Nothing gets between Anne Marie (Kate Bosworth) and her board. Living in a beach shack on Oahu with three roommates including her rebellious younger sister, she is up before dawn every morning to conquer the waves and count the days until the Pipe Masters surf competition. Working as a hotel maid to pay the bills, Anne Marie finds everything else she needs in the adrenaline-charged surf scene ... until pro quarterback Matt Tollman (Matthew Davis) comes along. Like it or not, Anne Marie starts losing her balance - and finding it - as she falls for Matt. Crafted by filmmakers dedicated to the sport, Blue Crush brings together world-class surfers in front of the camera and behind-the-scenes, and features some of the best sequences of women surfing ever captured on film.

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The Bourne Identity

Universal

CAST & CREW:

Genre: Spy thriller

Cast: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Brian Cox, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Gabriel Mann Judy Parfitt

Directed by: Doug Liman Screenplay by: Tony Gilroy and William Blake Herron

Based on the Novel by: Robert Ludlum

Produced by: Doug Liman, Patrick Crowley, Richard N. Gladstein

Executive Producers: Frank Marshall, Robert Ludlum

SYNOPSIS:

Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity, the first in his trio of international thrillers featuring master spy Jason Bourne, was a sensation when it was published in 1980. Now this potent novel gets an edgy 21st century spin from director Doug Liman (Swingers, Go) who delivers Ludlun's high-stakes tale with grit, style and nerve. The story opens as an amnesiac (Damon) is rescued at sea by the crew of an Italian fishing boat. Nearly dead, he carries only the bullets in his back and the back account number implanted in his hip. Although completely without identity or background, he does possess an array of extraordinary talents in fighting, linguistics and self-defense that speak of a dangerous past. He sets out on a desperate search – assisted by the initially rebellious Marie (Potente) – to discover who he really is, and why so many people want him dead. The Bourne Identity also stars Chris Cooper (American Beauty), Clive Owen (Croupier), Brian Cox (L.I.E.) and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (The Mummy Returns). Doug Liman, Patrick Crowley and Richard N. Gladstein produced the film from a screenplay by Tony Gilroy and William Blake Herron. The executive producers are Frank Marshall and Robert Ludlum.

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The Hulk

Universal

CAST & CREW:

Cast: Eric Banner, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliot, Nick Nolte, Josh Lucas

Directed by: Ang Lee

Writers: James Schamas

Produced by: Gale Anne Hurd, Avi Arad, James Schamas, Larry Franco

Executive Producers: Stan Lee, Kevin Feige

SYNOPSIS:

Acclaimed filmmaker Ang Lee's concept for his film adaptation classic Marvel Comics series. The Hulk, combines all the elements of a blockbuster visual effects-intensive superhero movie with the brooding romance and tragedy of Universal's classic horror films. In depicting The Hulk as both a superhero and a monsetr, a wish fullfilment and a nightmare, Lee and his team hadve stayed true to the early subversive spirit of the character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, while completely updating The Hulk and projecting it into the dangers and aspirations of contemporary times.

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The Life of David Gale

Universal

CAST & CREW:

Cast: Kevin Spacey (David Gale), Laura Linney (Constance Harraway), Kate Winslet, Gabriel Mann, Rhona Mitra, Leon Rippy; other cast not yet announced. Nicolas Cage may also take a small role.

Director: Alan Parker (Angel Heart, Mississippi Burning, Pink Floyd: The Wall, Angela's Ashes, The Commitments)

Screenwriter: Charles Randolph (debut; Randolph is a philosophy professor in Vienna, Austria originally from Texas)

SYNOPSIS:

This film tells the story of what happens when Dr. David Gale (Spacey), a Texas professor and advocate for the elimination of the death penalty, is falsely accused and convicted of the rape and murder of another activist, Constance Harraway (Linney) and ends up on the state's notorious death row himself. The movie unfolds in a series of flashbacks, as Gale tells his story to a reporter (Winslet) visiting him on death row. (Mann plays the reporter's intern.)

Web: The Life of David Gale

The Palace Thief

Universal

CAST & CREW:

Cast: Kevin Kline (Professor Hundert), Emile Hirsch, Joel Gretsch, Embeth Davidtz, Patrick Dempsey, Rob Morrow, Steven Culp, Paul Franklin Dano, Edward Herrmann, Rahul Khanna, Rishi Mehta, Roger Rees, Harris Yulin

Screenwriter: Neil Tolkin (License to Drive; cowriter of Jury Duty, starring Pauly Shore)

SYNOPSIS:

This is the story of the relationship between a prep school teacher (Kline) and a troubled student (Hirsch; Gretsch plays him as a man) who lives in the shadow of his father, in a mentor relationship which stretches over 30 years...

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Red Dragon

Universal

CAST & CREW:

Cast: Anthony Hopkins (Hannibal Lecter), Edward Norton (FBI Agent Will Graham), Ralph Fiennes (Francis Dolarhyde), Anthony Heald, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Harvey Keitel (Agent Crawford), Mary Louise Parker (Mrs. Graham), Tyler Patrick-Jones, Emily Watson (Reba)

Director: Brett Ratner (The Family Man, Rush Hour, Money Talks, Rush Hour 2)

Screenwriter: Ted Tally (The Silence of the Lambs, Before and After, The Juror, All the Pretty Horses, White Palace)

SYNOPSIS:

This is the story of former FBI agent Will Graham (Norton), nearly killed by Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins), who finds himself asking the imprisoned killer for help in solving a new serial killer, Francis Dolarhyde (Fiennes; in talks)... (2/10/01) USA Today reported this week that this film would include the capture of Hannibal, which was left out of Manhunter. (Watson plays Reba, the blind woman the killer is involved with; Keitel plays Graham's FBI mentor; Parker plays Graham's wife; Hoffman plays a tabloid eporter)

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