[ROCKSTAR]

I was going to post this in the News thread but the list is so long that I found it overwhelming. It better have its own thread that just drown the News section.

Link to the original article from Mercury news.


LOS ANGELES - Highlights of Hollywood's 2005 film slate. Many films do not yet have specific release dates, some remain untitled and studio schedules are subject to change. For films that have specific dates, the month of release is noted in parentheses:

Winter and spring:

ALIENS OF THE DEEP: James Cameron crafts another 3-D documentary, this time exploring exotic undersea life. (January)

ALONE IN THE DARK: A paranormal investigator (Christian Slater) discovers that demons are coming to rule the world. (January)

THE AMITYVILLE HORROR: An update of the 1979 fright flick about a family that moves into a house with a malevolent presence. With Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George. (April)

ARE WE THERE YET?: Ice Cube takes a slapstick road trip with two mischievous kids, hoping to win a date with their mom (Nia Long). (January)

ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13: Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne star in a remake of the 1976 thriller about a siege to free a jailed crime boss. (January)

THE BALLAD OF JACK AND ROSE: Daniel Day-Lewis is a dying activist coping with his rebellious daughter. Day-Lewis' wife, Rebecca Miller, directs. (March)

BEAUTY SHOP: Queen Latifah opens a new salon in this spinoff from the "Barbershop" comedies. With Kevin Bacon and Djimon Hounsou. (March)

BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE: A lonely girl finds solace in a stray dog she adopts. With Jeff Daniels, Cicely Tyson and AnnaSophia Robb. (February)

BE COOL: "Pulp Fiction" pals John Travolta and Uma Thurman reunite in a follow-up to Travolta's crime romp "Get Shorty." (March)

BOOGEYMAN: Producer Sam Raimi follows his horror hit "The Grudge" with a tale of a man haunted by terrifying visions. With Lucy Lawless. (February)

THE CAVE: Spelunkers find terror in a network of Romanian caves. With Cole Hauser, Piper Perabo and Morris Chestnut. (April)

CONSTANTINE: Keanu Reeves is the hero of DC Comics' "Hellblazer" series, who journeys to the underworld in a crime investigation. Rachel Weisz co-stars. (February)

CRASH: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Brendan Fraser and Matt Dillon lead an ensemble drama revolving around a disparate group of Los Angeles dwellers. (May)

CURSED: Siblings (Christina Ricci and Jesse Eisenberg) gain special powers but find them a curse instead of a blessing. Wes Craven directs. (February)

DEAR FRANKIE: A Scottish mom (Emily Mortimer) concocts tales of a distant dad to satisfy her deaf son's curiosity about his father. With Gerard Butler. (March)

DIARY OF A MAD BLACK WOMAN: Abruptly cast aside by her hubby, a woman (Kimberly Elise) tries to stitch her life back together. (February)

DUMA: A boy journeys across southern Africa to restore his cheetah pal to the wilds. With Campbell Scott and Hope Davis.

EROS: Steven Soderbergh, Michelangelo Antonioni and Wong Kar-Wai direct segments in an anthology trilogy examining erotic desire. (April)

GUESS WHO: Ashton Kutcher's the surprise prospective son-in-law, Bernie Mac the fretting father in an update of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." (March)

HIDE AND SEEK: A 9-year-old girl concocts a demented "imaginary friend" in this thriller with Robert De Niro and Dakota Fanning. (January)

HITCH: Will Smith's a professional "date doctor" whose matchmaking skills fail him when he finds the woman of his dreams (Eva Mendes). (February)

THE HONEYMOONERS: Cedric the Entertainer is bus driver Ralph Kramden in a big-screen take on Jackie Gleason's TV classic. (March)

HOSTAGE: A washed-up hostage negotiator (Bruce Willis) must dust off his skills when delinquents take a family captive. (March)

HOUSE OF D: David Duchovny directs and co-stars with wife Tea Leoni, Robin Williams, and Erykah Badu on a coming-of-age drama. (April)

ICE PRINCESS: A teen (Michelle Trachtenberg) chases her dream of becoming a champion figure skater. With Joan Cusack and Kim Cattrall. (March)

IN HER SHOES: Estranged sisters (Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette) reconcile with help from a grandma they never knew they had. Shirley MacLaine co-stars. (April)

INSIDE DEEP THROAT: Brian Grazer produces this documentary chronicling the cultural impact of the 1972 porn flick "Deep Throat." (February)

THE INTERPRETER: Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn in a thriller about a U.N. translator at risk after overhearing a death threat. Sydney Pollack directs. (April)

THE JACKET: An institutionalized veteran (Adrien Brody) is hurled into the future, where he learns of his own looming death. With Keira Knightley. (March)

KING'S RANSOM: A rich businessman (Anthony Anderson) tries to stage his own kidnapping to avoid paying a huge divorce settlement. (April)

A LOT LIKE LOVE: Friends (Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet) take a seven-year hitch toward romance with each other. (April)

MAN OF THE HOUSE: Texas Ranger Tommy Lee Jones plays den mother to five cheerleaders who witnessed a crime. Cedric the Entertainer co-stars. (February)

MELINDA AND MELINDA: Woody Allen's latest Manhattan romance features Will Ferrell, Amanda Peet, Radha Mitchell and Chloe Sevigny. (March)

MILLIONS: A suitcase of cash drops out of the sky and changes the lives of two grieving young brothers. Danny Boyle ("28 Days Later") directs. (March)

MISS CONGENIALITY 2: ARMED AND FABULOUS: Sandra Bullock's back as the stylish FBI agent, tracking a beauty-pageant pal's kidnappers. (March)

THE PACIFIER: Vin Diesel's a Navy SEAL on his deadliest mission - babysitting an unruly brood of orphans in this action comedy. (March)

POOH'S HEFFALUMP MOVIE: Winnie the Pooh and pals set out to capture the horrible heffalump in this animated family flick. (February)

REBOUND: A disgraced college coach (Martin Lawrence) seeks redemption leading a junior-high basketball team. (April)

THE RING TWO: Naomi Watts has another go-round with the killer videotape in this horror sequel. Hideo Nakata, who made the Japanese original "Ringu," directs. (March)

ROBOTS: Robots rule the roost in this animated tale featuring the voices of Halle Berry, Ewan McGregor and Robin Williams. Chris Wedge ("Ice Age") directs. (March)

RORY O'SHEA WAS HERE: Wheelchair-bound Dubliners (James McAvoy and Steven Robertson) strike out on their own with a saucy home-care aid (Romola Garai). (February)

RUMOR HAS IT: An obituary writer (Jennifer Aniston) tries to set her muddled life straight. Rob Reiner directs, Kevin Costner and Shirley MacLaine co-star. (April)

SAHARA: An adventurer (Matthew McConaughey) hunts for treasure in Africa in this Clive Cussler adaptation. With Penelope Cruz. (April)

SIN CITY: Bruce Willis heads a huge cast in Robert Rodriguez's adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novels about a crime-ridden burgh. (April)

SON OF THE MASK: Minus Jim Carrey, the follow-up to his comedy hit casts Jamie Kennedy as a man whose son is born with the mask's strange powers. (February)

A SOUND OF THUNDER: Time-traveling dinosaur hunters disrupt the course of evolution. Based on Ray Bradbury's story. With Edward Burns and Ben Kingsley. (March)

SWIMMING UPSTREAM: An Australian youth overcomes a troubled upbringing to become a champion swimmer. With Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis. (February)

UNLEASHED: A mob killer (Jet Li) goes straight and must fight to protect his kindly adopted family. With Bob Hoskins and Morgan Freeman. (April)

THE UPSIDE OF ANGER: A boozy, bitter single mom (Joan Allen) struggles with four daughters and romance with a neighbor (Kevin Costner). (March)

XXX: STATE OF THE UNION: Ice Cube steps in for Vin Diesel to track a rebel soldier (Willem Dafoe) in this follow-up to the action hit. (April)

THE WEATHER MAN: A successful TV weatherman (Nicolas Cage) copes with chaos in his private life. With Michael Caine. (April)

THE WEDDING DATE: A woman (Debra Messing) hires a male escort (Dermot Mulroney) to dupe her ex-fiance at a wedding. (February)




The rest of the list is in the article and it includes seques to Underworld and Saw (which I found unlikely but here it comes...)

I'm also dying to see Kingdom of Heaven, Ridley Scott goodies, and A History of Violence starring Viggo Mortensen who I'm dying to see as a normal man again. In Hidalgo he was playing a "legend" or whatever, I just want him back to normal to see if he can still do it. j/k

Morgan Freeman will be on a couple of those movies which makes me happy. Also, seems like Kevin Coster is back in action. 2005 has a potential to be a great year for movies.

[UnsilentMajorty]

Some of these films... Mostly the foreign ones.. Are a couple of years old and are just now being released (probably because they finally got a distributor).

Most of the list doesn't impress me.

It really is the "same old crap" that Hollywood has been producing for years. I don't see any "must see" films this Spring at all in that list.

Half of these movies will open one weekend, place 5th, and be on DVD four months later, I.E. Hostage; Ice Princess to name a few. Hmm...

[ROCKSTAR]

I liked the Summer list and the TBA list more than the Winter/Spring one which dumps all sorts of not so good movies to begin the year...

[Suga*Babe]

Apart from Pooh's Heffalump Movie there's nothing on the list that I'd want to watch.

[Profaine Angel]

Originally Posted by UnsilentMajorty Most of the list doesn't impress me.

Neither...talk about blah! There's only one film there I'd actually want to see and will most likely wait for the DVD. One or two others that I'll wait for them to come on TV. Zzzzzzz!

[S.A.S.H.A.]

From that list, I want to see:

CONSTANTINE
CURSED
DEAR FRANKIE (already saw this one this week)
THE JACKET
ROBOTS

I'll probably watch some of the others on DVD.

Sasha

[shrrshrr]

I'm with all of you - very unimpressive.

[Profaine Angel]

Is Rent coming out this year? Not that we'll get it for ages...and not that I've seen the show, but I'm looking forward to the film a little. Idina Menzel is great.

[LittleMilkJug]

I'm interested to see Cursed with Christina Ricci. She has an edge and you just know this won't be the usual film-about-young-people-and-werewolves.

[tinydancer821]

Constantine looks pretty sweet.

[ActionJackson]

The only one on that list that I'm looking forward to seeing is Constantine. There are two others, though, that are mentioned, that I'm definitely going to be seeing. Those would be Cinderella Man and Kingdom of Heaven, which ROCKSTAR also said.

[XxDreamer]

Yeah, most of those movies didn't really interest me. The only ones I'm looking foward too are Boogeyman,The Ring 2, and Guess Who.

[Jay]

Cinderella Man doesn't come out this year? (the one with Russell Crowe playing a boxer)

[LittleMilkJug]

Originally Posted by Jay_10 Cinderella Man doesn't come out this year? (the one with Russell Crowe playing a boxer)

Yes, it should be June 3rd




June 3
- Après Vous (limited)
- Cinderella Man
- High Tension
- House of Wax
- Lords of Dogtown
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants



from CS.N

[-Kelly-]

Thanks for the list, there's only a handful I want to see