By Amy Renner Jul. 24, 2009
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Charlie and the Chocola...
Acclaimed director Tim Burton brings his vividly imaginative style to "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", about eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka, and Charlie, a good-hearted boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka's extraordinary factory. Long isolated from his own family, Wonka launches a worldwide contest to select an heir to his candy empire. Five lucky children, including Charlie, draw golden tickets from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided tour of the legendary candy-making facility that no outsider has seen in 15 years. Dazzled by one amazing sight after another, Charlie is drawn into Wonka's fantastic world in this astonishing and enduring story.
Johnny Depp, Christopher Lee, AnnaSophia Robb, Tim Burton, James Fox, Jordan Fry, Richard D. Zanuck, Helena Bonham Carter, Freddie Highmore, Missi Pyle, Noah Taylor, David Kelly, Julia Winter, Philip Wiegratz, Patrick McCormick, Bruce Berman, Brad Grey, Michael Siegel, Felicity Dahl, John August, Roald Dahl
A Sound of Thunder
Based on a short story by master of science fiction Ray Bradbury, the sci-fi action adventure "A Sound of Thunder" is set in the future, when time travel is not only possible—it's a lucrative monopoly. It's especially profitable for Charles Hatton (Ben Kingsley), the owner of Time Safari Inc., a travel agency that specializes in escorting wealthy clients on exclusive hunting trips back to the Prehistoric Age. Under the leadership of seasoned scout Dr. Travis Ryer (Edward Burns), participants are permitted to hunt and kill dinosaurs provided they follow a set of strenuous rules. These guidelines are intended to protect the creatures' natural habitats and prevent time travelers from impacting the course of evolution. When an expedition is compromised and the rules are broken, the hunters return to the future...and discover the world is a markedly different place than it was when they left. As "time waves" ripple from the Prehistoric past through the present to the uncharted future, Ryer teams up with Sonia Rand (Catherine McCormack), the inventor of the time travel technology, to unravel the mystery behind the catastrophic historical changes that are threatening to erase humanity from existence.
Ben Kingsley, Corey Johnson, Edward Burns, Jemima Rooper, Wilfried Hochholdinger, Peter Hyams, Howard Baldwin, Thomas Dean Donnelly, Catherine McCormack, August Zirner, Scott Bellefeville, Renny Harlin, Breck Eisner, John Hardy, Karen Elise Baldwin, Phil Anschutz, Joshua Oppenheimer, Andrew Stevens, Jorg Westerkamp, Rick Nathanson, Romana Cisarova
The Island
Lincoln Six-Echo (Ewan McGregor) is a resident of a seemingly utopian but contained facility in the mid-21st century. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to the "The Island"—reportedly the last uncontaminated spot on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie. He and all of the other inhabitants of the facility are actually human clones whose only purpose is to provide "spare parts" for their original human counterparts. Realizing it is only a matter of time before he is "harvested," Lincoln makes a daring escape with a beautiful fellow resident named Jordan Two-Delta (Scarlett Johansson). Relentlessly pursued by the forces of the sinister institute that once housed them, Lincoln and Jordan engage in a race for their lives to literally meet their makers.