Archive for Adventure

Director: Joseph Kosinski
Writers: Eddie Kitsis, Adam Horowitz
Cast: Garrett Hedlund, Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, Olivia Wilde, Beau Garrett

Plot: Sean Flynn, the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn, looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant, father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.

Genre: Action | Sci-Fi | Adventure | Thriller

Release Date: TBA 2010

Director: John Woo
Writers: Khan Chan, Cheng Kuo, Heyu Sheng, John Woo
Cast: Chen Chang, Yong Hou, Jun Hu, Tong Jiang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu Wai

Plot: In Autumn of 208 AD, 100,000 peasants fled with their beloved leader Liu Bei from Cao Cao’s million man army. With the aid of heroes like Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei, they escape across the Great River to take refuge with Sun Quan, the leader of the south. As Cao Cao prepares his huge navy to invade southern China and destroy them both, geniuses like Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu devise a grand strategy. They hope to destroy Cao Cao’s 10,000 ships with fire upon the river, but must first trick Cao Cao into chaining his ships together, and then change the direction of China’s famous and freezing North Wind. While these two struggle to put aside the rivalry between Liu Bei and Sun Quan’s forces, they must hatch their legendary schemes before Cao Cao is ready.

Genre: Action | Adventure | Drama | War

Release Date: TBA 2009

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Writer: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel, Jessica Jade Andres, Aasif Mandvi, Shaun Toub, Cliff Curtis, Keong Sim

Plot: The story follows the adventures of Aang, a ten year old successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations.

Genre: Adventure | Family | Fantasy

Release Date: July 2, 2010

Director: Lee Unkrich
Writer: Michael Arndt
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, Estelle Harris, John Ratzenberger, Ned Beatty, Jodi Benson, Michael Keaton

Plot: Woody, Buzz, and the rest of their toy-box friends are dumped in a day-care center after their owner, Andy, departs for college.

Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family

Release Date: June 18, 2010

Director: Tim Burton
Writer: Linda Woolverton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Sheen, Matt Lucas, Crispin Glover, Stephen Fry, Alan Rickman

Plot: The adventures of a young girl, Alice, who falls into a magical world full of strange characters and darkness behind every corner.

Genre: Adventure | Family | Fantasy

Release Date: March 5, 2010

Directors: Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes
Writers: Gary Whitta, Anthony Peckham
Cast: Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals, Evan Jones

Plot: A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.

Genre: Action | Adventure | Drama

Release Date: January 15, 2010

Director: Guy Ritchie
Writers: Michael Johnson, Anthony Peckham, Guy Ritchie
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong, Kelly Reilly, Eddie Marsan

Plot: Detective Sherlock Holmes (Downey Jr.) and his stalwart partner Watson (Law) engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.

Genre: Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Release Date: December 25, 2009

Director: Alejandro Amenabar
Writers: Mateo Gil, Alejandro Amenabar
Cast: Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac, Ashraf Barhom, Michael Lonsdale, Rupert Evans, Homayoun Ershadi

Plot: A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hopes of pursuing freedom while also falling in love with his master, the famous female philosophy professor and atheist Hypatia of Alexandria.

Genre: Adventure | Drama | History | Romance

Release Date: December 18, 2009

Directors: Jorge Blanco, Javier Abad, Marcos Martinez
Writer: Joe Stillman
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Seann William Scott, Gary Oldman, John Cleese

Plot: The inhabitants of Planet 51 live in fear of alien invasion. Their paranoia is realized when an astronaut arrives from Earth. Befriended by a young resident, he has to avoid capture in order to recover his spaceship and try to return home.

Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy

Release Date: November 20, 2009

Director: Wes Anderson
Writers: Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach
Cast: George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Meryl Streep, Owen Wilson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, Brian Cox, Adrien Brody, Anjelica Huston, Roman Coppola

Plot: Angry farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with a sly fox, look to get rid of their opponent and his family.

Genre: Adventure | Animation | Comedy

Release Date: November 13, 2009