Shutdown Movies (Page #3)

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

Peter Straughan's script will play up the action and sexier elements of the story much the same way that Lionel Wigram, who co-wrote and produced "Sherlock Holmes," reimagined the detective (limned by Robert Downey Jr.) as a bare-knuckle boxing, martial-arts savvy sleuth.

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.

Barbara Gordon, the daughter of Gotham City police commissioner James Gordon, takes on the mantle of Batgirl and operates in Gotham City fighting crime.

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.

Born in London as Mary O'Brien in 1939, Springfield became the finest white soul singer of her era, scoring such hits as "I Only Want to Be With You" and "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself." In 1969, Springfield released what is widely considered her masterpiece, "Dusty in Memphis," an album that yielded the classic "Son of a Preacher Man" but was a commercial failure. The singer battled substance abuse and a decline in artistic fortunes that ended only when she dueted with the Pet Shop Boys for 1990's "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" She died in 1999 at age 59 after a long battle with cancer.

A romantic comedy about an estranged high-powered New York couple who witness a murder and are placed in a witness-protection program in a small Wyoming town.

Director Guillermo Del Toro envisioned "Hellboy" as a trilogy. The third film may also featuring the screen debut of Lobster Johnson.

Based on the true story of Hope Stout, a 12-year-old girl who, when diagnosed with a life-threatening disease, set out on a mission to fund the wishes of all the other health-challenged children in her part of North Carolina.

Follows Henry Lime, a government agent with psychic abilities who loses control of his abilities, causing an entire town to kill each other and forcing him on the run.

Set in medieval times, a brotherhood of mice are sworn to protect the common folk. Or rodent, as it were.

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.

Set at the end of WWII, an Army nurse takes a second honeymoon in Scotland with her husband and finds herself transported back to a time when the clans ruled the Highlands and her husband's English ancestors are the enemy.

Patty Hearst, the granddaughter of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, is 19 when she is kidnapped from her Berkeley apartment by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974. Hearst is subsequently beaten unconscious during the abduction by members of urban guerrilla group. As her family tries to ransom her release, Hearst shocks the country by announcing on an audiotape two months after her abduction that she has changed her name to Tania and joined the SLA. Shortly after, she is seen toting a rifle in surveillance footage during a bank robbery in San Francisco. She is labeled a “common criminal” by the U.S. Attorney General, and after a spree of potentially violent activities, she is apprehended. Defiant, she claims to be an Urban Guerrilla, but some feel she has been brainwashed by her kidnappers. A sensational trial follows. Although it is revealed that Hearst had been raped and brutalized before succumbing to the ideology of her kidnappers, she is convicted of bank robbery and using a firearm in a felony and given a 35-year sentence.

About an unhappy 14 year old boy in a colony of Saturn, who is given a robotic drill sergeant baby sitter to put him back on track but they end up going on adventures in space.

The fifth installment of the "Spider-Man" franchise. There are no indications yet on plot details.

This original story will be a gritty actioner introducing the character of Lucas Armstrong and the life-or-death consequences he will face after undergoing a transformation granting him superhuman abilities.

An 3D stop-action animated movie that will be based on the original cartoons and not a sequel or reboot of the TV show or previous movies.

A CIA squad, known informally as "the boys," keeps watch on the proliferation of superheroes and, if necessary, intimidates or eliminates them.