Shutdown Movies (Page #2)

The fifth installment of J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts trilogy (the first film hits theaters in 2016).

Sammy Joyce, a socially awkward small-town receptionist, has a nail accidentally shot into her head by a clumsy workman which elicits wild sexual urges. She takes her case to Washington to fight for the rights of the bizarrely injured where she meets an immoral congressman who takes advantage of her sex drive.

Modern day independent women try to make it on their own, one bank robbery at a time.

Set in the near future, the U.S. exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and private enterprise and the mafia controls everything. A computer virus is manifested as a drug called Snow Crash that is transmitted visually from computer screens to unsuspecting users, frying their brains. Hiro Protagonist, a computer hacker/samurai swordsman/pizza delivery driver, investigates and tries to stop the takeover of postmodern civilization.

Three generations of a highly dysfunctional Midwestern family meet at the family home for what will be the last Christmas gathering there.

Heartwarming story about a girl who wishes to trade her family for another family on Christmas Eve.

One half of a lesbian couple trying to have a baby via artificial insemination hooks up with her last boyfriend in order to get pregnant.

The films will take place 20 years after the original, when reinforcements of the original alien race return to Earth after finally receiving a distress call.

A small time hood is framed and sent to prison, only to exact revenge years later.

A man secretly enjoys an extremely successful career as a romance novelist while writing under a female pseudonym. Things get complicated when he falls for a woman who turns out to work for his new publisher.

The continued adventures of double-agent Evelyn Salt. Kurt Wimmer, the writer on Salt, has not written a script, but "has ideas for how to advance the story of the spy thriller" according to L.A. Times. Sony will or will not greenlight the sequel based on the worldwide box office success of Salt.

No plot details are known but sources say "The Zone" revolves around an alien invasion, will be improv-based and cast with relative unknowns.

A boy lives on an island off the coast of Ireland, where his father is the king's bodyguard. When the king is murdered, the boy is blamed for the crime and thrown into prison where he passes the solitary months designing a flying machine that he will use to save his family.

Austin Powers 4 is the next installment in the adventures of the International Man of Mystery. The film is rumored to focus on Austin's nemesis, Doctor Evil.

The story centers on three desperate characters, one of whom finds hope in a small, depressed town.

In 1519, Hernando Cortez leads an infiltration into Mexico bringing with him religion, diseases like smallpox and a lust for gold & silver. Right away Cortez develops a relationship with Aztec ruler Montezuma. Initially held as a guest/prisoner by the Aztec leader, Cortez eventually turns the tables. The Spanish aggression leads to outright battles with invading forces and when Montezuma finally succumbs, he is killed by his countryman shortly after. The warring continues and, Cortez fathers a child with Montezuma's daughter, following his death.