Overture Films
Encyclopedia
Overture Films, LLC is an American film production and distribution company. It is a subsidiary of Liberty Media
(although its byline reads "A Starz Company" (Starz is also owned by Liberty Media)).
Launched in November 2006 by Chris McGurk and Danny Rosett, it is a fully integrated studio that produces, acquires, markets, and distributes theatrical motion pictures worldwide. The studio performs collaborative relationships with filmmakers and empowers them to produce quality films that take creative risks and break new grounds.
Overture Films aims to release 8 to 12 movies per year, across a broad spectrum of different genres. This business model is designed to attract a higher quality of film projects, filmmakers, and talent.
Through its affiliated companies Anchor Bay Entertainment
, Starz Entertainment Pay Channels, Starz Media
, and Starz Play, Overture Films makes its films available worldwide to viewers across multiple platforms via their home video, premium television, and Internet distribution channels.
Overture Films will distribute films domestically. International sales and distribution, outside of the U.S., are managed through its ventures with co-financing partners and Alliance Films.
, aiming to produce mainstream commercial films under the $30 million mark targeted at distinct marketing niches. “I believe that this economic model is favorable for setting up a business that can take creative risks,” McGurk said. “We will forge the kind of alliances that made UA
so strong years ago. We have created a haven for great filmmakers and allowed them to make movies.”
In keeping with our objective to be a company dedicated to empowering filmmakers and to produce films outside of the boundaries of the big studio system, McGurk and Rosett hired Robert Kessel because of his unique hands on filmmaking and acquisitions experience and felt that his knowledge was crucial to meeting their filmmaker-friendly objective. That same philosophy is why we hired Peter Adee to run marketing and distribution because of his creativity, strong leadership ability, and deep talent relationships as well as his cutting-edge marketing campaigns andtalent-friendly approach.
will direct the new movie, Haywire
, originally under the title of Knockout.
A group of people intend to stop a female soldier who seeks revenge after she is betrayed.
Haywire is set to release in 2011.
(Cloverfield
) will write and direct the horror feature Let Me In
. Based on the bestselling Swedish novel "Låt den rätte komma in", Let Me In is a contemporary coming of age tale about Owen, an overlooked and bullied boy, who finds love and revenge in Abby, a beautiful yet peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire. Let Me In is set to hit the theaters on October 1, 2010.
(The Painted Veil
) directs Angus MacLachlan
’s (Junebug
) script about a convicted arsonist Edward Norton
who looks to manipulate a parole officer Robert De Niro
into a plan to secure his parole by placing his beautiful wife Milla Jovovich
in the lawman's path. This film will be coming out sometime later this year, 2010.
is an unconventional romantic comedy directed by Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman
who also stars in the film alongside Oscar nominee Amy Ryan
(Gone Baby Gone
) John Ortiz
(American Gangster), Daphne Rubin-Vega
(Broadway’s Rent
). This romantic comedy will be releasing later this year, 2010.
follows three Brooklyn cops (Golden Globe-winner Richard Gere
, Oscar-nominee Ethan Hawke
, and Oscar-nominee Don Cheadle
) who wind up at the same deadly location after experiencing vastly different career paths. It also stars Wesley Snipes
(Blade franchise) and Golden Globe-nominee Ellen Barkin
(Ocean's Eleven
) and reunites director Antoine Fuqua
with Ethan Hawke
, who earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor in the Fuqua-directed Training Day
. Brooklyn's Finest will be unleashed on March 5, 2010.
classic of the same name, The Crazies
is about the inhabitants of a small Iowa town suddenly plagued by insanity and then death after a mysterious toxin called Trixie 'Rhabdoviridae
Prototype' Biological Weapon whose contaminates their water supply and turn the resident into depraved, bloodthirsty killers. Timothy Olyphant
is set to star and Breck Eisner
to direct this movie. It is written by Scott Kosar
and Ray Wright. The Crazies was released on February 26, 2010.
is the story about a top-secret unit within the American military whose purpose is to develop mind-control powers for "psychic spying." Based loosely on Jon Ronson
’s nonfiction book of the same title, Men Who Stare at Goats follows a reporter, Bob (Ewan McGregor
), who stumbles into the story of a lifetime when he meets a special forces agent, Lyn (George Clooney
). As they embark on a new mission, Lyn reveals his twenty-year involvement in this top-secret, psychic military unit and shares details of their activities, including staring at goats in order to kill them telepathically. The film stars Oscar-winner Clooney (Syriana
), with McGregor (Moulin Rouge!
), Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey
(American Beauty
, The Usual Suspects
) and Oscar-winner Jeff Bridges
(The Contender, Crazy Heart
). It is directed by Oscar-nominee Grant Heslov
(producer and writer of Good Night, and Good Luck.)
is a thriller about a brilliant sociopath (Gerard Butler
) who orchestrates a series of high-profile murders that grip the city of Philadelphia—all from inside his jail cell—and the prosecutor assigned to his case (Jamie Foxx
) who realizes he is the only one who can end the reign of terror.
's Capitalism: A Love Story
explores the root causes of the global economic meltdown and take a comical look at the corporate and political shenanigans that culminated in what Moore has described as the biggest robbery in the history of this country—the massive transfer of U.S. taxpayer money to private financial institutions.
film franchise comes Pandorum
, a terrifying thriller in which two crew members (Dennis Quaid
and Ben Foster) wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they have been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they are actually not alone—and the reality of their situation is more horrifying than they could have imagined.
embarks on a quest across America to make a documentary about the one subject she doesn’t fully understand: Love. Michael Cera
(Superbad, Juno
) becomes the object of her affection. Weaving together reality and fantasy, Paper Heart combines elements of documentary and traditional storytelling to bring a fresh perspective to the modern romance.
. Amy Adams
, Emily Blunt
, Alan Arkin
) and a lonely British bureaucrat (Emma Thompson
) meet by chance in London
and transform one another’s lives. Last Chance Harvey
is a low-key romantic-comedy. Directed by Joel Hopkins
, Freddy Rodriguez
, Debra Messing
, Alfred Molina
stars Robert De Niro
, Al Pacino
.
stars Don Cheadle
and Guy Pearce
and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff
.
, Radha Mitchell
, and George Lopez
, a disillusioned man goes into hiding in placid suburbia only to discover he cannot escape the forces of hope.
's follow-up to his award winning directorial debut The Station Agent
, Richard Jenkins
(Six Feet Under) stars as a disillusioned Connecticut economics professor whose life is transformed by a chance encounter in New York City.
tells the story of a young girl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
’s AnnaSophia Robb
) who comes to terms with her mother’s abandonment by forming an unlikely bond with her Uncle (Nick Stahl
), who is struggling to deal with his own troubled life. Woody Harrelson
and Dennis Hopper
co-star. Academy Award-winner Charlize Theron
, who stars as the mother, produced the film.
, Queen Latifah
and Katie Holmes
star as three ordinary women who form an unlikely friendship and decide to do something extraordinary — rob one of the most secure banks in the world. Mad Money
is directed by Thelma & Louise writer Callie Khouri
.
named Chris McGurk and Danny Rosett #10 on their Indie Power 50.
In 2007, The Hollywood Reporter
named Chris McGurk and Danny Rosett #37 on their Indie Power 50.
In early 2010, speculation of a sale of the studio arose due to many its films failing at the box office. Its marketing and distribution are now handled by Relativity Media
.
Liberty Media
Liberty Media Corporation is an American media conglomerate and the control is exercised by company Chairman John C. Malone, who owns a majority of the voting shares....
(although its byline reads "A Starz Company" (Starz is also owned by Liberty Media)).
Launched in November 2006 by Chris McGurk and Danny Rosett, it is a fully integrated studio that produces, acquires, markets, and distributes theatrical motion pictures worldwide. The studio performs collaborative relationships with filmmakers and empowers them to produce quality films that take creative risks and break new grounds.
Overture Films aims to release 8 to 12 movies per year, across a broad spectrum of different genres. This business model is designed to attract a higher quality of film projects, filmmakers, and talent.
Through its affiliated companies Anchor Bay Entertainment
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Anchor Bay Entertainment is a U.S. based home entertainment and production company and is a division of Starz Media, which is a unit of Starz, LLC. It was previously owned by IDT Entertainment until 2006 when IDT was purchased by Starz Media. Anchor Bay markets and sells feature films, series,...
, Starz Entertainment Pay Channels, Starz Media
Starz Media
Starz Media is the motion picture, animation, television, and home video subsidiary of Liberty Media.-Subsidiaries:Starz Media's subsidiaries include:*Anchor Bay Entertainment - distribution division for DVDs and videos....
, and Starz Play, Overture Films makes its films available worldwide to viewers across multiple platforms via their home video, premium television, and Internet distribution channels.
Overture Films will distribute films domestically. International sales and distribution, outside of the U.S., are managed through its ventures with co-financing partners and Alliance Films.
Mission
Overture Films has adopted an independent film model similar to New Line CinemaNew Line Cinema
New Line Cinema, often simply referred to as New Line, is an American film studio. It was founded in 1967 by Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne as a film distributor, later becoming an independent film studio. It became a subsidiary of Time Warner in 1996 and was merged with larger sister studio Warner...
, aiming to produce mainstream commercial films under the $30 million mark targeted at distinct marketing niches. “I believe that this economic model is favorable for setting up a business that can take creative risks,” McGurk said. “We will forge the kind of alliances that made UA
United Artists
United Artists Corporation is an American film studio. The original studio of that name was founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks....
so strong years ago. We have created a haven for great filmmakers and allowed them to make movies.”
In keeping with our objective to be a company dedicated to empowering filmmakers and to produce films outside of the boundaries of the big studio system, McGurk and Rosett hired Robert Kessel because of his unique hands on filmmaking and acquisitions experience and felt that his knowledge was crucial to meeting their filmmaker-friendly objective. That same philosophy is why we hired Peter Adee to run marketing and distribution because of his creativity, strong leadership ability, and deep talent relationships as well as his cutting-edge marketing campaigns andtalent-friendly approach.
Haywire
Steven SoderberghSteven Soderbergh
Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director. He is best known for directing commercial Hollywood films like Erin Brockovich, Traffic, and the remake of Ocean's Eleven, but he has also directed smaller less...
will direct the new movie, Haywire
Haywire (film)
Haywire is an upcoming action film directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Gina Carano, Antonio Banderas, Michael Douglas, Ewan McGregor, Channing Tatum and Michael Fassbender.-Plot:...
, originally under the title of Knockout.
A group of people intend to stop a female soldier who seeks revenge after she is betrayed.
Haywire is set to release in 2011.
Let Me In
Matt ReevesMatt Reeves
Matthew George "Matt" Reeves is an American film writer, director and producer.-Early life:Reeves was born in Rockville Centre, New York, and raised in Los Angeles, California. He began making movies at eight years old, directing friends with a wind-up camera. Reeves met and became friends with J.J...
(Cloverfield
Cloverfield
Cloverfield is a 2008 American disaster-monster film directed by Matt Reeves, produced by J. J. Abrams and written by Drew Goddard.The film follows six young New Yorkers attending a going-away party on the night that a gigantic monster attacks the city...
) will write and direct the horror feature Let Me In
Let Me In (film)
Let Me In is a 2010 American romantic horror film directed by Matt Reeves and starring Kodi Smit-McPhee and Chloë Grace Moretz. It is based on the 2008 Swedish film Let the Right One In , directed by Tomas Alfredson, and the novel of the same name by John Ajvide Lindqvist...
. Based on the bestselling Swedish novel "Låt den rätte komma in", Let Me In is a contemporary coming of age tale about Owen, an overlooked and bullied boy, who finds love and revenge in Abby, a beautiful yet peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire. Let Me In is set to hit the theaters on October 1, 2010.
Stone
John CurranJohn Curran (director)
John Curran is an American film director and screenwriter.Born in Utica, New York, Curran studied illustration and design at Syracuse University, then worked as an illustrator, graphic designer, and production designer in Manhattan before moving to Sydney, Australia in 1986...
(The Painted Veil
The Painted Veil (2006 film)
The Painted Veil is a 2006 Chinese-American drama film directed by John Curran. The screenplay by Ron Nyswaner is based on the 1925 novel of the same title by W. Somerset Maugham...
) directs Angus MacLachlan
Angus MacLachlan
Angus MacLachlan is a playwright and screenwriter most famous for writing the screenplays for the 2005 film Junebug as well as the cult short film Tater Tomater. He graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts in 1980 and continues to reside in Winston-Salem, North Carolina...
’s (Junebug
Junebug (film)
Junebug is a 2005 American comedy-drama film directed by Phil Morrison. It was released on August 3, 2005 and stars Amy Adams, Alessandro Nivola, Embeth Davidtz, and Benjamin McKenzie...
) script about a convicted arsonist Edward Norton
Edward Norton
Edward Harrison Norton is an American actor, screenwriter, film director and producer. In 1996, his supporting role in the courtroom drama Primal Fear garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor...
who looks to manipulate a parole officer Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro, Jr. is an American actor, director and producer. His first major film roles were in Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets, both in 1973...
into a plan to secure his parole by placing his beautiful wife Milla Jovovich
Milla Jovovich
Milla Jovovich December 17, 1975)is an American model, actress, musician, and fashion designer. Over her career, she has appeared in a number of science fiction and action-themed films, for which music channel VH1 has referred to her as the "reigning queen of kick-butt".Milla Jovovich began...
in the lawman's path. This film will be coming out sometime later this year, 2010.
Jack Goes Boating
Jack Goes BoatingJack Goes Boating (film)
Jack Goes Boating is a 2010 romantic comedy film from Overture Films and Relativity Media. Philip Seymour Hoffman makes his directorial debut as he stars alongside Amy Ryan, John Ortiz, and Daphne Rubin-Vega. The film's script was adapted by Robert Glaudini from the 2007 play entitled Jack Goes...
is an unconventional romantic comedy directed by Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman is an American actor and director. Hoffman began acting in television in 1991, and the following year started to appear in films...
who also stars in the film alongside Oscar nominee Amy Ryan
Amy Ryan
Amy Ryan is an American actress. She has been nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe for her performance in Gone Baby Gone and is also known for her roles in the HBO series The Wire, playing Port Authority Officer Beadie Russell; In Treatment, playing psychiatrist Adele Brousse; and The...
(Gone Baby Gone
Gone Baby Gone
Gone Baby Gone is a 2007 American crime drama-mystery film directed by Ben Affleck and starring his brother Casey Affleck. The screenplay by Ben Affleck and Aaron Stockard is based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island...
) John Ortiz
John Ortiz
John Ortiz is an American actor and Artistic Director/Co-Founder of LAByrinth Theater Company.-Career:In 1993, John made his film debut as Al Pacino’s young cousin ‘Guajiro’ in Carlito’s Way. He went on to appear in over 30 films including El Cantante, Take the Lead, Before Night Falls, Amistad,...
(American Gangster), Daphne Rubin-Vega
Daphne Rubin-Vega
Daphne Rubin-Vega is a dancer, singer, and actress. She is best known for originating the role of Mimi Marquez in the Broadway musical Rent, and the role of Lucy, in the Off-Broadway play Jack Goes Boating.-Biography:Rubin-Vega was born in Panama City, Panama, the daughter of Daphine Vega, a...
(Broadway’s Rent
Rent (musical)
Rent is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème...
). This romantic comedy will be releasing later this year, 2010.
Brooklyn's Finest
Brooklyn's FinestBrooklyn's Finest
Brooklyn's Finest is a 2009 American crime film starring Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, and Wesley Snipes in his first theatrical film since 2004's Blade: Trinity. The film also stars Will Patton, Ellen Barkin and Vincent D'Onofrio. It is directed by Antoine Fuqua, and written by Michael...
follows three Brooklyn cops (Golden Globe-winner Richard Gere
Richard Gere
Richard Tiffany Gere is an American actor. He began acting in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and a starring role in Days of Heaven. He came to prominence in 1980 for his role in the film American Gigolo, which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol...
, Oscar-nominee Ethan Hawke
Ethan Hawke
Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, writer and director. He made his feature film debut in 1985 with the science fiction movie Explorers, before making a supporting appearance in the 1989 drama Dead Poets Society which is considered his breakthrough role...
, and Oscar-nominee Don Cheadle
Don Cheadle
Donald Frank "Don" Cheadle, Jr. is an American film actor and producer. Cheadle rose to prominence in the late 1990s and the early 2000s for his supporting roles in the Steven Soderbergh-directed films Out of Sight, Traffic, and Ocean's Eleven...
) who wind up at the same deadly location after experiencing vastly different career paths. It also stars Wesley Snipes
Wesley Snipes
Wesley Trent Snipes is an American actor, film producer, and martial artist, who has starred in numerous action films, thrillers, and dramatic feature films. Snipes is known for playing the Marvel Comics character Blade in the Blade film trilogy, among various other high profile roles...
(Blade franchise) and Golden Globe-nominee Ellen Barkin
Ellen Barkin
Ellen Barkin is an American film, television and theatre actress.-Early life:She was born Ellen Rona Barkin in Bronx, a borough of New York City, New York, the daughter of Evelyn , a hospital administrator who worked at Jamaica Hospital, and Sol Barkin, a chemical salesman...
(Ocean's Eleven
Ocean's Eleven (2001 film)
Ocean's Eleven is a 2001 American comedy-crime caper and remake of the 1960 Rat Pack caper film of the same name. The 2001 film was directed by Steven Soderbergh and features an ensemble cast including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Andy García, and Julia Roberts. The film was...
) and reunites director Antoine Fuqua
Antoine Fuqua
Antoine Fuqua is an American film director. He directed the film Training Day as well as Tears of the Sun, King Arthur, Shooter and Brooklyn's Finest...
with Ethan Hawke
Ethan Hawke
Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, writer and director. He made his feature film debut in 1985 with the science fiction movie Explorers, before making a supporting appearance in the 1989 drama Dead Poets Society which is considered his breakthrough role...
, who earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor in the Fuqua-directed Training Day
Training Day
Training Day is a 2001 crime drama film directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by David Ayer, starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. The film follows two LAPD narcotics detectives over a 24-hour period in the gang neighborhoods of South and East Los Angeles.The film was a box office success and...
. Brooklyn's Finest will be unleashed on March 5, 2010.
The Crazies
A reinvention loosely based upon the George A. RomeroGeorge A. Romero
George Andrew Romero is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter and editor, best known for his gruesome and satirical horror films about a hypothetical zombie apocalypse. He is nicknamed "Godfather of all Zombies." -Life and career:...
classic of the same name, The Crazies
The Crazies (2010 film)
The Crazies is a 2010 American horror film directed by Breck Eisner. Written by Scott Kosar and Ray Wright, the film is a remake of the 1973 film of the same name by George A. Romero, who is also the executive producer and co-writer of the remake....
is about the inhabitants of a small Iowa town suddenly plagued by insanity and then death after a mysterious toxin called Trixie 'Rhabdoviridae
Rhabdoviridae
Rhabdoviruses are viruses belonging to the family Rhabdoviridae, which is in the order Mononegavirales. The name is derived from the Greek rhabdos meaning rod referring to the shape of the viral particles. Rhabdoviruses infect a broad range of hosts throughout the animal and plant kingdoms...
Prototype' Biological Weapon whose contaminates their water supply and turn the resident into depraved, bloodthirsty killers. Timothy Olyphant
Timothy Olyphant
Timothy David Olyphant is an American actor whose notable roles in television drama series include Deadwood as Seth Bullock, Justified as Raylan Givens, The Office as Danny Cordray, and Damages as Wes Krulik...
is set to star and Breck Eisner
Breck Eisner
Michael "Breck" Eisner is an American television and film director.-Early life:Eisner was born Michael Eisner in California, the son of Jane Breckenridge, a business advisor and computer programmer, and Michael Eisner, the former Walt Disney Company chief executive...
to direct this movie. It is written by Scott Kosar
Scott Kosar
Scott Kosar is a screenwriter whose films include The Machinist, the 2003 remake of the classic horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and the 2005 remake of The Amityville Horror.-Life and career:...
and Ray Wright. The Crazies was released on February 26, 2010.
The Men Who Stare at Goats
The Men Who Stare at GoatsThe Men Who Stare at Goats (film)
The Men Who Stare at Goats is a 2009 comedy war film directed by Grant Heslov and written by Peter Straughan and released in theaters on November 6, 2009...
is the story about a top-secret unit within the American military whose purpose is to develop mind-control powers for "psychic spying." Based loosely on Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson is a Welsh journalist, documentary filmmaker, radio presenter and nonfiction author, whose works include The Men Who Stare At Goats. His journalism and columns have appeared in British publications including The Guardian newspaper, City Life and Time Out magazine...
’s nonfiction book of the same title, Men Who Stare at Goats follows a reporter, Bob (Ewan McGregor
Ewan McGregor
Ewan Gordon McGregor is a Scottish actor. He has had success in mainstream, indie, and art house films. McGregor is perhaps best known for his roles as heroin addict Mark Renton in the drama Trainspotting , young Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy , and poet Christian in the...
), who stumbles into the story of a lifetime when he meets a special forces agent, Lyn (George Clooney
George Clooney
George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. For his work as an actor, he has received two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award...
). As they embark on a new mission, Lyn reveals his twenty-year involvement in this top-secret, psychic military unit and shares details of their activities, including staring at goats in order to kill them telepathically. The film stars Oscar-winner Clooney (Syriana
Syriana
Syriana is a 2005 geopolitical thriller film written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, and executive produced by George Clooney, who also stars in the film with an ensemble cast. Gaghan's screenplay is loosely adapted from Robert Baer's memoir See No Evil...
), with McGregor (Moulin Rouge!
Moulin Rouge!
Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 romantic jukebox musical film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. Following the Red Curtain Cinema principles, the film is based on the Orphean myth, La Traviata, and La Bohème...
), Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey, CBE is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and crooner. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television...
(American Beauty
American Beauty (film)
American Beauty is a 1999 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball. Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham, a middle-aged magazine writer who has a midlife crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend, Angela...
, The Usual Suspects
The Usual Suspects
The Usual Suspects is a 1995 American neo-noir film written by Christopher McQuarrie and directed by Bryan Singer. It stars Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Kevin Spacey and Pete Postlethwaite....
) and Oscar-winner Jeff Bridges
Jeff Bridges
Jeffrey Leon "Jeff" Bridges is an American actor and musician. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Otis "Bad" Blake in the 2009 film Crazy Heart....
(The Contender, Crazy Heart
Crazy Heart
Crazy Heart is a 2009 American musical-drama film, written and directed by Scott Cooper and based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Thomas Cobb. Jeff Bridges plays a down-and-out country music singer-songwriter who tries to turn his life around after beginning a relationship with a young...
). It is directed by Oscar-nominee Grant Heslov
Grant Heslov
Grant Heslov is an American actor, film producer, screenwriter and director.-Early life:Heslov was born in Los Angeles, into a Jewish family and was raised in the Palos Verdes area of Los Angeles. He attended Palos Verdes High School, the University of Southern California along with friend Tate...
(producer and writer of Good Night, and Good Luck.)
Law Abiding Citizen
Law Abiding CitizenLaw Abiding Citizen
Law Abiding Citizen is a 2009 thriller film directed by F. Gary Gray from a screenplay written by Kurt Wimmer, starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler. The film takes place in Philadelphia and tells the story of a man whose developed sociopathic tendencies drove him into killing while targeting not...
is a thriller about a brilliant sociopath (Gerard Butler
Gerard Butler
Gerard James Butler is a Scottish actor who has appeared on film, stage, and television. A trained lawyer, Butler turned to acting in the mid-1990s with small roles in productions such as the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies , which he followed with steady work on television, most notably in...
) who orchestrates a series of high-profile murders that grip the city of Philadelphia—all from inside his jail cell—and the prosecutor assigned to his case (Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx
Eric Marlon Bishop , professionally known as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer-songwriter, stand-up comedian, and talk radio host. As an actor, his work in the film Ray earned him the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a...
) who realizes he is the only one who can end the reign of terror.
Capitalism: A Love Story
Michael MooreMichael Moore
Michael Francis Moore is an American filmmaker, author, social critic and activist. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, which is the highest-grossing documentary of all time. His films Bowling for Columbine and Sicko also place in the top ten highest-grossing documentaries...
's Capitalism: A Love Story
Capitalism: A Love Story
Capitalism: A Love Story is a 2009 American documentary film directed, written by and starring Michael Moore. The film centers on the late-2000s financial crisis and the recovery stimulus, while putting forward an indictment of the current economic order in the United States and capitalism in general...
explores the root causes of the global economic meltdown and take a comical look at the corporate and political shenanigans that culminated in what Moore has described as the biggest robbery in the history of this country—the massive transfer of U.S. taxpayer money to private financial institutions.
Pandorum
From the producers of the Resident EvilResident Evil (film)
Resident Evil is a British-German 2002 horror film written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. The film stars Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Eric Mabius, and James Purefoy...
film franchise comes Pandorum
Pandorum
Pandorum is a 2009 German-British science fiction thriller film written by Travis Milloy, directed by Christian Alvart and produced by Paul W.S. Anderson. The film stars Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster. Filming began in Berlin in August 2008. Pandorum was released on September 25, 2009 in the United...
, a terrifying thriller in which two crew members (Dennis Quaid
Dennis Quaid
Dennis William Quaid is an American actor known for his comedic and dramatic roles. First gaining widespread attention in the 1980s, his career rebounded in the 1990s after he overcame an addiction to drugs and an eating disorder...
and Ben Foster) wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they have been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they are actually not alone—and the reality of their situation is more horrifying than they could have imagined.
Paper Heart
Charlyne YiCharlyne Yi
Charlyne Amanda Yi is an American actress, comedian, musician, writer, and painter. Her performances do not include joke-telling as in standup comedy; instead, she uses different tactics such as music, magic, games, and often audience participation...
embarks on a quest across America to make a documentary about the one subject she doesn’t fully understand: Love. Michael Cera
Michael Cera
Michael Austin Cera is a Canadian actor best known for his roles in Arrested Development, Youth in Revolt, Superbad, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and Juno. Cera received the 2008 Canadian Comedy Award for best male performance for his work in Superbad.-Early...
(Superbad, Juno
Juno (film)
Juno is a 2007 comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. Ellen Page stars as the title character, an independent-minded teenager confronting an unplanned pregnancy and the subsequent events that put pressures of adult life onto her. Michael Cera, Olivia Thirlby, J. K....
) becomes the object of her affection. Weaving together reality and fantasy, Paper Heart combines elements of documentary and traditional storytelling to bring a fresh perspective to the modern romance.
Sunshine Cleaning
Rose Lorkowski, a former high school cheerleader and now thirtysomething-year-old maid, is trying to create a better life for herself and her eccentric eight-year-old son Oscar. Her burnout younger sister Norah still lives at home with their father, Joe, whose on the latest of a lifelong string of get-rich-quick schemes. When Rose learns of the big money to be made in crime scene cleaning and biohazard removal business, she and Norah partner up to create their own company, Sunshine CleaningSunshine Cleaning
Sunshine Cleaning is a 2008 comedy-drama film starring Amy Adams and Emily Blunt. Directed by Christine Jeffs and written by Megan Holley, the film premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2008. It was purchased by Overture Films for distribution and opened in limited release in...
. Amy Adams
Amy Adams
Amy Lou Adams is an American actress and singer. Adams began her performing career on stage in dinner theaters before making her screen debut in the 1999 black comedy film Drop Dead Gorgeous...
, Emily Blunt
Emily Blunt
Emily Olivia Leah Blunt is an English actress best known for her roles in The Devil Wears Prada , The Young Victoria , and The Adjustment Bureau . She has been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, two London Film Critics' Circle Awards, and one BAFTA Award...
, Alan Arkin
Alan Arkin
Alan Wolf Arkin is an American actor, director, musician and singer. He is known for starring in such films as Wait Until Dark, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Catch-22, The In-Laws, Edward Scissorhands, Glengarry Glen Ross, Marley & Me, and...
Last Chance Harvey
A struggling New York jingle writer (Dustin HoffmanDustin Hoffman
Dustin Lee Hoffman is an American actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable characters....
) and a lonely British bureaucrat (Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson is a British actress, comedian and screenwriter. Her first major film role was in the 1989 romantic comedy The Tall Guy. In 1992, Thompson won multiple acting awards, including an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress, for her performance in the British drama Howards End...
) meet by chance in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
and transform one another’s lives. Last Chance Harvey
Last Chance Harvey
Last Chance Harvey is a 2008 American romantic drama film written and directed by Joel Hopkins. The screenplay focuses on two lonely people who tentatively forge a relationship over the course of three days...
is a low-key romantic-comedy. Directed by Joel Hopkins
Joel Hopkins
Joel Hopkins is a British independent film director and screenwriter best known for his films Jump Tomorrow and Last Chance Harvey .-Career:Hopkins was born in London, England, though he moved to New York to attend university...
Nothing Like the Holidays
It's Christmastime, and the far-flung members of the Rodriguez family are converging at their parent's home in Chicago to celebrate the season and rejoice in their youngest brother's safe return home from combat overseas. However, when old disputes surface and new surprises arise, familial bonds are stretched to the limit and the Rodriguezes realize they're going to have to pull together to make it through the holidays in one piece. John LeguizamoJohn Leguizamo
Jonathan Alberto "John" Leguizamo is an Colombian-American actor, producer, voice artist, and comedian.-Early life:...
, Freddy Rodriguez
Freddy Rodriguez
Freddy Rodriguez is an American actor known for playing the characters Hector Federico "Rico" Diaz on HBO's Six Feet Under and El Wray in Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror...
, Debra Messing
Debra Messing
Debra Lynn Messing is an American actress, voice artist, and comedienne. She is perhaps best known for her role as Grace Adler in the NBC sitcom Will & Grace and as Molly Kagan in the mini-series The Starter Wife....
, Alfred Molina
Alfred Molina
Alfred Molina is a British-born American actor. He first came to public attention in the UK for his supporting role in the 1987 film Prick Up Your Ears...
Righteous Kill
Longtime partners Detectives David Fisk and Thomas Cowan investigate a series of vigilante killings in a gritty and sophisticated New York City crime thriller. Righteous KillRighteous Kill
Righteous Kill is a 2008 crime thriller film with elements of a buddy cop film directed by Jon Avnet, and starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. Righteous Kill also features John Leguizamo, Carla Gugino, Donnie Wahlberg, Brian Dennehy, and Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson...
stars Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro, Jr. is an American actor, director and producer. His first major film roles were in Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets, both in 1973...
, Al Pacino
Al Pacino
Alfredo James "Al" Pacino is an American film and stage actor and director. He is famous for playing mobsters, including Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy, Tony Montana in Scarface, Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice in Dick Tracy and Carlito Brigante in Carlito's Way, though he has also appeared...
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Traitor
A rogue former U.S. Special Forces operative is aiding terrorists to carry out acts against the West; however, it's unclear where the man's loyalties lie. TraitorTraitor (film)
Traitor is a 2008 American spy thriller film, based on an idea by Steve Martin who is also an executive producer. Written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff, the film stars Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce in the lead roles.-Plot:...
stars Don Cheadle
Don Cheadle
Donald Frank "Don" Cheadle, Jr. is an American film actor and producer. Cheadle rose to prominence in the late 1990s and the early 2000s for his supporting roles in the Steven Soderbergh-directed films Out of Sight, Traffic, and Ocean's Eleven...
and Guy Pearce
Guy Pearce
Guy Edward Pearce is an English-born Australian actor and musician, known for his roles as Leonard Shelby in Christopher Nolan's Memento, Lieutenant Ed Exley in L.A...
and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Jeffrey Nachmanoff is an American screenwriter and director. He wrote the screenplay for the 2004 blockbuster film The Day After Tomorrow. He wrote and directed Traitor, which was released on August 27, 2008.-Filmography:-Unproduced work:...
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Henry Poole Is Here
Luke WilsonLuke Wilson
Luke Cunningham Wilson is an American film actor known for his roles in Old School, Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums, Legally Blonde, Idiocracy and Death at a Funeral.-Early life:...
, Radha Mitchell
Radha Mitchell
Radha Rani Amber Indigo Anunda Mitchell is an Australian actress. Her film roles include Finding Neverland, Phone Booth, Man on Fire, Silent Hill, and the The Crazies-Early life:...
, and George Lopez
George Lopez
George Lopez is an American comedian, actor, and talk show host. He is mostly known for starring in his self-produced ABC sitcom George Lopez. His stand-up comedy examines race and ethnic relations, including the Mexican American culture...
, a disillusioned man goes into hiding in placid suburbia only to discover he cannot escape the forces of hope.
The Visitor
In a world of six billion people, it only takes one to change your life. In actor and filmmaker Tom McCarthyThomas McCarthy (actor)
Thomas Joseph McCarthy is an American actor, writer, and film director who has appeared in several movies, including Meet the Parents and Good Night, and Good Luck, and television shows such as The Wire, Boston Public, Law & Order, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of Saint Maybe...
's follow-up to his award winning directorial debut The Station Agent
The Station Agent
The Station Agent is a 2003 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Thomas McCarthy. McCarthy's script about a man who seeks solitude in an abandoned train station in Newfoundland, New Jersey won him the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.-Plot:Finbar McBride, a quiet,...
, Richard Jenkins
Richard Jenkins
Richard Dale Jenkins is an American stage, film, and television actor. After beginning his career in theatre, Jenkins made his film debut in 1974, and appeared in supporting roles in numerous film productions in the 1980s and the 1990s. His breakthrough came in the 2000s for playing the deceased...
(Six Feet Under) stars as a disillusioned Connecticut economics professor whose life is transformed by a chance encounter in New York City.
Sleepwalking
SleepwalkingSleepwalking (film)
Sleepwalking is a 2008 dramatic film starring Nick Stahl, AnnaSophia Robb, and Charlize Theron . It centers around the bonding of a 30-year-old man and his 12-year-old niece after she is abandoned by her mother. The girl is taken in by the state after he loses his job and apartment...
tells the story of a young girl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 film adaptation of the 1964 book of the same name by Roald Dahl. The film was directed by Tim Burton. The film stars Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket and Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka...
’s AnnaSophia Robb
AnnaSophia Robb
AnnaSophia Robb is an American film and television actress. She gained prominence in 2005 with starring roles in Because of Winn-Dixie and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and starred in Bridge to Terabithia , Race to Witch Mountain , and Soul Surfer .-Personal life:Robb was born in Denver,...
) who comes to terms with her mother’s abandonment by forming an unlikely bond with her Uncle (Nick Stahl
Nick Stahl
Nicolas Kent "Nick" Stahl is an American actor. Starting out as a child actor, he gained recognition for his performance in the 1993 film The Man Without a Face and then embarked on a successful career as a child actor...
), who is struggling to deal with his own troubled life. Woody Harrelson
Woody Harrelson
Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson is an American actor.Harrelson's breakthrough role came in the television sitcom Cheers as bartender Woody Boyd...
and Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant...
co-star. Academy Award-winner Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron is a South African actress, film producer and former fashion model.She rose to fame in the late 1990s following her roles in 2 Days in the Valley, Mighty Joe Young, The Devil's Advocate and The Cider House Rules...
, who stars as the mother, produced the film.
Mad Money
Diane KeatonDiane Keaton
Diane Keaton is an American film actress, director, producer, and screenwriter. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970...
, Queen Latifah
Queen Latifah
Dana Elaine Owens , better known by her stage name Queen Latifah, is an American singer, rapper, and actress. Her work in music, film and television has earned her a Golden Globe award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Image Awards, a Grammy Award, six additional Grammy nominations, an Emmy...
and Katie Holmes
Katie Holmes
Katherine Noelle "Katie" Holmes is an American actress who first achieved fame for her role as Joey Potter on The WB television teen drama Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2003. Her movie roles have included the blockbuster Batman Begins along with art house films such as The Ice Storm and thrillers...
star as three ordinary women who form an unlikely friendship and decide to do something extraordinary — rob one of the most secure banks in the world. Mad Money
Mad Money (film)
Mad Money is a 2008 comedy-crime film starring Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes, and directed by Callie Khouri. It is loosely based on the 2001 British film Hot Money.-Plot:...
is directed by Thelma & Louise writer Callie Khouri
Callie Khouri
Callie Khouri is an American screenwriter and film director. In 1992 she won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for the film, Thelma & Louise.-Biography:...
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Miscellanea
In 2008, The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood Reporter
Formerly a daily trade magazine, The Hollywood Reporter re-launched in late 2010 as a unique hybrid publication serving the entertainment industry and a consumer audience...
named Chris McGurk and Danny Rosett #10 on their Indie Power 50.
In 2007, The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter
Formerly a daily trade magazine, The Hollywood Reporter re-launched in late 2010 as a unique hybrid publication serving the entertainment industry and a consumer audience...
named Chris McGurk and Danny Rosett #37 on their Indie Power 50.
In early 2010, speculation of a sale of the studio arose due to many its films failing at the box office. Its marketing and distribution are now handled by Relativity Media
Relativity Media
Relativity Media is an American independent motion picture production and investment company based in West Hollywood, California.- Company :...
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