Film Listings
SONY PICTURES forthcoming uk release dates 2011-2012
MONEYBALL
Starring Brad Pitt, Robin Wright, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Based on a true story – this is the story of Oakland A’s general manager, Billy Beane and his successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
Director: Bennett Miller.
Producers: Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, Scott Rudin.
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ARTHUR CHRISTMAS 3D (Columbia Pictures / SPA / AARDMAN)
Starring James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Ashley Jensen. The 3D, CG-animated family comedy Arthur Christmas, an Aardman production for Sony Pictures Animation, at last reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child’s question: ‘So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?’ The answer: Santa’s exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the heart of the film is a story with the ingredients of a Christmas classic – a family in a state of comic dysfunction and an unlikely hero, Arthur, with an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns.
Directors: Sarah Smith and Barry Cook.
Producers: Steve Pegram.
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DECEMBER
Sat 26 Dec
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
Starring Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Stellan Skarsgard, Robin Wright.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first film in Columbia Pictures’ three-picture adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s literary blockbuster The Millennium Trilogy.
Directed by David Fincher and starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, the film is based on the first novel in the trilogy, which altogether have sold 50 million copies in 46 countries and become a worldwide phenomenon.
Screenplay is by Steven Zaillian.
Director: David Fincher.
Producers: Scott Rudin, Cean Chaffin, Christopher Plummer.
Info: www.sonypicturespublicity.co.uk
2012
Date TBC
JACK AND JILL
Starring Adam Sandler and Katie Holmes.
Jack and Jill is a comedy focusing on Jack Sadelstein (Adam Sandler), a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, who dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his identical twin sister Jill (also Adam Sandler). Jill’s neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down. Katie Holmes plays Erin, Jack’s wife.
Directors: Dennis Dugan.
Producers: Adam Sandler, Jack Giarraputo, Todd Garner.
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Fri 3 Feb 2012
PREMIUM RUSH
Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Dania Ramirez.
When a New York City bicycle messenger picks up an envelope at Columbia University a dirty cop becomes desperate to get his hands on it and chases the messenger throughout the city.
Directed by: David Koepp.
Producers: Gavin Polone.
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Fri 10 Feb 2011
THE VOW
Starring Channing Tatum, Rachel McAdams, Scott Speedman, Jessica Lange, Sam Neill. A car accident puts Paige (McAdams) in a coma, and when she wakes up with severe memory loss, works to win her heart again. Against all odds, her husband Leo (Tatum) must win back his wife’s love again. Based on a true story.
Directed by: Michael Sucsy.
Producers: Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, Jonathan Glickman, Paul Taublieb,
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Fri 30 Mar 2012
THE PIRATES! IN AN ADVENTURE WITH SCIENTISTS (3D)
A group of pirates journey to London and meet Charles Darwin, a talking chimp named Mister Bobo and an enemy looking to wipe them out. Animation: (AARDMAN)/3D. Directed by: Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt.
Producer: Julie Lockhart.
See trailer: http://www.totalfilm.com/trailers/the-pirates-in-an-adventure-with-scientists-3d-trailer
Fri 20 Apr 2012
21 JUMP STREET
Starring Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum.
Under cover cops bring down a high school drug ring. 21 Jump Street is an American police procedural crime drama television series that aired on the Fox Network The series focused on a squad of youthful-looking undercover police officers investigating crimes in high schools, colleges, and other teenage venues
Directed by: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller.
Producers: Douglas S. Rosen, Neal H. Moritz, Stephen J. Cannell.
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Fri 25 May 2012
MEN IN BLACK 3
Starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Sharlto Copley.
We’ve all followed the story in Men In Black II (a commercial success), although not to the extent of the original. The film was based on the Men in Black comic book series by Lowell Cunningham, originally published by Marvel Comics. Men in Black (MiB) is a secret agency without ties to any government, whose goal is to maintain Earth as a “neutral zone” for extraterrestrial aliens, whom they disguise as humans around New York City. In this action/comedy/3D film Agent K (Smith) travels back through time to the 1960s to save Agent J (Jones).
Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld.
Producers: Steven Spielberg, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald.
Wed 4 Jul 2012
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
Starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans.
Teenager Peter Parker grapples with both human problems and super-human crises in this American superhero film The Amazing Spider-Man, which is based on the comic book of the same name that is currently in post-production. This is the fourth in the series of the popular trilogy.
Directed by: Marc Webb.
Producers: Laura Ziskin, Avi Arad.
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