Which movies are you most looking forward to in 2006?

Drag00n79

Well, just checking out the future the releases on IMDb there and the ones for me are

Munich
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
Starring: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig
Director: Steven Spielberg
Released 27 January (IRL)

V for Vendetta
In a story where Germany won a future World War and Great Britain is now a fascist state, a shadowy freedom-fighter known only as "V" uses terrorist tactics to fight against his totalitarian society. Upon rescuing a girl from the secret police, he also finds his best chance at having an ally.
Starring: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving
Director: James McTeigue
Released 17 March (IRL)

Hostel
Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
Starring: Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson
Director: Eli Roth
Released 21 March (IRL)

Poseidon
A remake of the 1972 disaster classic 'The Poseidon Adventure'. While ringing in the new year aboard the cruise ship Poseidon, a giant wave crashes into the ship and flips it upside down. A ragtag group of survivors realize their only chance is to make their way to the deepest bowels of the ship, now at the top, if they are going to have any chance of getting out.
Starring: Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Released 2 June (IRL)

The Omen 666
A remake of the 1976 horror classic The Omen. An American official realizes that his young son may literally be the devil incarnate.
Starring: Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Mia Farrow
Director: Dan McDermott
Released 6 June (IRL) — when else!

All The King’s Men
Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana.
Starring: Seán Penn, Jude Law
Director: Steven Zaillian
Released Summer? (IRL)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Once again thrown into the world of the supernatural, Captain Jack Sparrow finds out that he owes a blood debt to the legendary Davey Jones, Captain of the ghostly Flying Dutchman. With time running out, Jack must find a way out of his debt or else be doomed to eternal damnation and servitude in the afterlife. And as if this weren't enough, the Captain's problems manage to wreck the wedding plans of a certain Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, who are forced to join Jack on yet another misadventure.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom
Director: Gore Verbinski
Released 6 July (IRL)

Superman Returns
Following a mysterious absence of several years, the Man of Steel comes back to Earth in the epic action-adventure Superman Returns, a soaring new chapter in the saga of one of the world's most beloved superheroes. While an old enemy plots to render him powerless once and for all, Superman faces the heartbreaking realization that the woman he loves, Lois Lane, has moved on with her life. Or has she? Superman's bittersweet return challenges him to bridge the distance between them while finding a place in a society that has learned to survive without him. In an attempt to protect the world he loves from cataclysmic destruction, Superman embarks on an epic journey of redemption that takes him from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of outer space.
Starring: Brandon Routh, Kevin Spacey
Director: Bryan Singer
Released 14 July (IRL)

Cars
From Pixar Animations, Cars Is the saga of Lightning McQueen, a hot-shot animated stock-car voiced by actor Owen Wilson. En route to a big race, the cocky McQueen gets waylaid in Radiator Springs, where he finds the true meaning of friendship and family.
Starring (voices): Owen Wilson, Paul Newman
Director: John Lasseter
Released 28 July (IRL)

The Departed
The remake of the 2002 Hong Kong hit film revolves around a rivalry between the Massachusetts police force and an Irish-American gang. A gangster is chosen to infiltrate the police force while a young police officer is chosen to infiltrate the gang. When their paths cross, what will be the result?
Starring: Leonardo di Caprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Released August (USA)

Miami Vice
Vice detectives James Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs take on the Florida drug world.
Starring: Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx.
Director: Michael Mann
Released 4 August (IRL)

Ant Bully
After Lucas Nickle floods an ant colony with his watergun, he's magically shrunken down to insect size and sentenced to hard labor in the ruins.
Starring: Jake T. Austin, Julia Roberts (voice)
Director: John A. Davis
Released 4 August (IRL)

Sin City 2
It's one of those hot nights, dry and windless. The kind that makes people do sweaty, secret things. Dwight's thinking of all the ways he's screwed up and what he'd give for one clear chance to wipe the slate clean, to dig his way out of the numb gray hell that is his life. And he'd give anything. Just to cut loose. Just to feel the fire. One more time.
Starring: Devon Aoki, Rosario Dawson, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke
Directors: Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez
Released 18 August (IRL)

Grind House
Two 60 minute horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez put together as a two film features. Including fake movie trailers in between both movies.
Starring: John Jarratt, Alicia Rachel Marek.
Directors: Rodriguez and Tarantino
Released 22 September (USA)

Casino Royale
Monsieur Le Chiffre, a French gangster, uses the profits from his casino to fund terrorists. But he has made the mistake of misappropriating their funds. Le Chiffre plans to recoup the loss at a gambling tournament. James Bond is sent to make sure he doesn't win.
Starring: Daniel Craig, Judi Dench
Director: Martin Campbell
Released 17 November (IRL)

88 Minutes
A thriller about a college professor who, while moonlighting as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI, receives a death threat telling him that he has only 88 minutes to live. In narrowing down possible suspects, he frantically seeks to communicate with a problem student, an ex-girlfriend, and a serial killer on death row.
Starring: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt
Director: Jon Avnet
Released Late 2006 (IRL)

Die Hard 4.0/Die Hardest
McClane, now retired, and his son get involved in a cyber-terrorist plot.
Starring: Bruce Willis
Director: To be announced
Released: December? (USA)

Buck Owens

Im going to add http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414993/ The Fountain to that list.

Plot Outline: Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.

the trailer looks amazing, no release date as yet.

Apocalypo, Mel Gibson's new film sounds interesting http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472043/

Vokes

Theres a 2nd trailer out now for V for Vendetta: http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/v_for_vendetta/hd/

Im looking forward to X3 more than Superman.

Oooooh, and Pirates 2, can't wait for it.

tvnutz

Sin City 2? gah...why don't I have a good feeling about that.

And I am also looking forward to X3 more than Superman.

Munich also looks very good.

TerrorFirmer

Hostel, definately, can't wait to see that.

Die Hard 4.0 and Sin City 2 also on my list.

Anyone any info on the film "Slither"? That looked amazing - the kind of gore gross out fest left behind in the 80's.

edit: Also very much looking forward to V for Vendetta

segadreamcast

Buck Owens wrote:

Im going to add http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414993/ The Fountain to that list.

Plot Outline: Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.

the trailer looks amazing, no release date as yet.

Apocalypo, Mel Gibson's new film sounds interesting http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472043/

The Fountain has flop written all over it, in my eyes:

IMDB Trivia wrote:

Trivia: In early 2002, writer/director Darren Aronofsky cast Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett in the central leads of Tom and Izzi with a budget of $75 million. During pre-production, Pitt and Aronofsky were having major creative differences, so Pitt left to film Troy (2004) instead and the film was shut down. In early 2004, with a smaller budget of $40 million, Aronofsky cast Hugh Jackman as Tom and Rachel Weisz replaced Blanchett as Izzi. (more)

fade2black

Superman. Returns.

Tusky

Your post is pleasing to the eye Shamrok. I like the colors.

Necronomicon

Hostel for sure, can't wait. And Sin City 2 and Slither. I really have my doubts about Die Hard 4, but I'll go see it anyway.

Drag00n79

Tusky wrote:

Your post is pleasing to the eye Shamrok. I like the colors.

Not as much as I like your sig — always makes me chuckle.

Repli

I'm really looking forward to 'Bobby'

Plot Outline: The story of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, on June 6th, 1968, which centers around 22 people who were at the Ambassador Hotel where he was killed.

Dunno why Lindsay Lohan is playing Diane though

Drag00n79

Repli wrote:

I'm really looking forward to 'Bobby'

That movie has some cast!

Chad ghostal

looking forward to seeing Syriana and good night and good luck

Dar

Memoirs of a Geisha is out on the 13th. Doesnt look great, but I really enjoyed the book so looking forward to it.

Kingp35

Really looking forward to Pirates of the Carribean 2. Also V for Vendetta and Munich.

nadir

Hana yori mo naho
Bandage

Dont be at yourself

For Your Consideration

New film from Christopher Guest, also starring Ricky Gervais.

Bar'El

superman returns
superman returns
superman returns

madrab

fountain looks interesting, superman meh loks ok

xmen is the one i want to see

joe_chicken

All the comic book ones sound pretty good....


But Casino Royale wins my vote... purely to see how they handle it with no gizmos and whatsits and cheesiness.. is that not what bond is?

hopefully it'll be good though

Spider_Baby!

Saw the ad for Mission Impossible 3 yesterday! Cant wait for that...

monkeyfudge

Spider_Baby! wrote:

Saw the ad for Mission Impossible 3 yesterday! Cant wait for that...

Normally I wouldn't go near those films... but the fact that Philip Seymour Hoffman is the bad makes it look very cool.

Oh... and is it wrong to be looking forward to the Silent Hill movie?

The teaser makes it look pretty cool...

http://www.twitchfilm.net/shmovie_teaser.mpg

fade2black

I've stuck a link for the full list of films coming out in 2006 in my sig...

Some interesting ones in there after a quick glance...."A-Team", "Saw 3"...and also Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center"

Spider_Baby!

World Trade Centre...? They've made a movie already?! Heres hoping the release date is Spetember 11th(though it says august in the link in Fade2blacks sig)!

Karl Hungus

Silent Hill is on my to-do list.

monkeyfudge

I'm also looking forward to Art School Confidential

I'm a huge Daniel Clowes fan and I really enjoyed what Zwigoff did with Ghost World.

madrab

Karl Hungus wrote:

Silent Hill is on my to-do list.

sean bean is in it

let me guess he will play a good guy who will suddenly & "without" warning switch sides & be a baddie

i want nothing to do with it

monkeyfudge

Radha Mitchell is in Silent Hill as well... She's been pretty good in anything else I've seen her in. The trailer that I linked to further up makes it look pretty interesting.

oh.. and I notice the Borg Queen is also in it.

The Black Oil

Munich, Jarhead, Good Night and Good Luck, Cars, Superman Returns, Untitled 11/9 Project (Oliver Stone), Lady In The Water, The Fantastic Mr Fox, Mission Impossible 3, hopefully better than 2 with more emphasis on the team rather than Cruise's one man army! Flags Of Our Fathers, Thank You for Smoking, A Scanner Darkly, Che.

Vokes

madrab wrote:

sean bean is in it

let me guess he will play a good guy who will suddenly & "without" warning switch sides & be a baddie

i want nothing to do with it

And in a shocking move, his character will also be killed off :eek:

flogen

Most of the movies in the first post, except a few of the kids ones.
Syriana too.
How do they plan on getting the A-Team out this year when no cast or director has even been announced. It'll probably suck anyway.
Fantastic Mr. Fox though, by Anderson. Very interested in that, I love that book

Karl Hungus

You know, almost everything that I'm looking forward in 2006 are DVD releases. It was ages before I even came up with Silent Hill as something to be released in cinemas that I'm genuinely looking forward to. Although now that someone has reminded me, A Scanner Darkly is one I'll be looking out for definetly, aswell as Slither. But even then, I simply don't go to the cinema that much any more, so I'll probably be waiting for those on DVD more than likely.

What I'm really looking forward to though, are:

Howl's Moving Castle
Sympathy For Lady Vengeance
Crying Fist
Vital
The Hidden Blade
Takeshis'

Aswell as all those Studio Ghibli films that are finally being released, and some re-released, which is about damned time!

Basq

AM looking forward to:

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - Johnny Depp as Capt Jack Sparrow again can only promise more fun-filled for a 2 hour viewing. The teaser trailer didn't really do it for me though!

Sin City 2 - looking forward to this mainly as it's got pretty much the same cast and crew from the original. Should be extremely stylish if not good anyways. But it's bound to be good!

Hostel - being one of the many few who thought 'Cabin Fever' was actually a very under-rated and harshly put-down little gem of a movie, i was interesting to see what Eli Roth had next lined up. The trailer is a bit 'Saw'-ish but from advanced reports and reviews from the States, it's a sick and entertaining little film.

Southland Tales - could be potentially the strangest film you'll see this year! From the director / writer of 'Donnie Darko' comes his next directorial effort, 'Southland Tales' with an amazing ensemble cast (The Rock, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mandy Moore and Kevin Smith to name just a few). According to IMDB, all we know about is the plot-outline is: "Set in 2008 where a three-day heatwave in Los Angeles culminates in a huge Fourth of July party." and the genre listed for it include Comedy / Musical / Sci-Fi / Thriller. Quite a interesting little film we're in for there!

Clerks II - OK, i'm a huge Kevin Smith fan and after the disaster than was 'Jersey Girl' - it's about time we go back to his classic characters and dialogue that he's good at. So, we're visiting Randall and Dante again. Still not sure about it though.. but if Jeff Anderson puts in even half of a performance as he did in the original 'Clerks', it should be excellent!

Dial V For Vendetta - the more i see of this film, the more i'm looking forward to it. Starring a shaved Natalie Portman and directed by the Wachowski Brother's, it looks like it could be potentially excellent. Now.. watch the excellent Japanese trailer!

Flight 93 - directed by one of the most promising directors of the moment, Paul Greengrass. One of the first films to tell the story of the events of 9-11 from aboard one of the hi-jacked flights. The teaser is quite chilling and gave me goosebumps while watching it. Looking forward to this!

NOT looking forward to:

Casino Royale - yawn! Sorry but they lost Brosnan who was a smooth mother-<beep>er as Bond. Daniel Craig...? DANIEL... CRAIG? The guy was pathetic in 'Layer Cake' .. never mind stepping into Bond's shoes.

Superman Returns - sorry but the teaser did nothing for me. Even though i typically love Singer's work, this just looks a bit like pretentious twaddle! (ohhhh.. controversial)

Die Hard 4.0 - LEAVE THE CLASSIC TRILOGY BE!!

Cars - Sorry but i'm incredibly sick of the whole Pixar thing. I'm gonna put it on the record now that Pixar will never make another film that near as good as 'Toy Story' - 'The Incredibles' came quite close but doesn't hold up to repeated viewings. Sorry but you won't get me sitting in a cinema screen for 90 minutes listening to an Owen Wilson voiced car! :rolleyes:

There's probably a few more but that's all i can think of for now!

shuushh

a scanner darkly even though i know deep down it will probably be garbage and fantastic mr.fox and also fountain nothing else really leaps out yet

still have to see king kong and brokeback mountain

s8n

Jackass 2

The Black Oil

flogen wrote:

Syriana too.

Yeah, watched the trailer for that yesterday, any idea when we'll get it, Spring or thereabouts?

Loomis

Spider_Baby! wrote:

Saw the ad for Mission Impossible 3 yesterday! Cant wait for that...

They actually got it made then...

Jarhead looks really good from the trailers.Seems like it'll have a deadly soundtrack too