Hoyts Distribution Pty Limited
A.C.N. 096 774 015
RELEASE SCHEDULE
1st November 2005
NOTE: DATES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE
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17 NOVEMBER 2005
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SAW 2
Mitchell, Timothy Burd
THRILLER / HORROR
Cast: Donnie Wahlberg, Shawnee Smith, Tobin Bell, Franky G, Emmanuel Vaugier, Dina Meyer, Beverley Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Executive Producers: Leigh Whannel and James Wan Jigsaw continues his next game on a group of unlucky victims, who are locked away and forced to kill each other, while a Detective Eric Mason tries to track him down - unknowingly that the game is going on right in front of him...
1 DECEMBER 2005
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WAITING
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris, Luis Guzman, Justin Long Director: Rob McKittrick
COMEDY
In the spirit of Van Wilder and American Pie, Waiting is a hysterical look at a day in the life of sex-crazed college waiters and waitresses. Monty has a passion for underage girls and endless partying with no goals in sight. Dean is struggling to find his place in the world as he is feeling the pressure from his mother and his peers to be more than just a waiter and a student. Together they are friends, roommates and head waiters at ―Shennanigans‖ where it‘s not only the name of the restaurant, it is their mission statement. In one day at Shennanigans, lust will simmer and cool, lives will be made and destroyed and customers will commend and complain. Whether it‘s serving up food from off the floor or flashing their private parts to each other, the employees of this restaurant will go out of their way to make sure no rules go un-broken. From trainees to managers, nobody is safe at ‗Shennanigans‘.
12 JANUARY 2006
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JUST FRIENDS
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart, Chris Klein Director: Roger Kumble
COMEDY
Back in high school in New Jersey in the 1990‘s, Chris was shy, overweight and the butt of the cool crowd‘s jokes. The only bright spot in his life was his friendship with Jamie Palamino (Amy Smart) a super-popular cheerleader and the hottest girl in school. For four years, these two best buds were inseparable, save for the occasional jock boyfriend of Jamie‘s coming between them. But throughout high school, Chris was harboring a secret – he was hopelessly in love with his best friend, Jamie. On the night of their high school graduation, Chris finally works up his courage and makes his feelings known. In response, a surprised Jamie tells Chris that she loves him…like a brother. She proceeds to give him the ―Just Friends‖ speech, the most painful words known to man. Enraged and humiliated, Chris declares himself no longer friends with Jamie and storms off. Ten years later, Chris has reinvented himself as a smooth talking lady-killer, living large in Los Angeles. Chris‘s boss, KC (Stephen Root), has just given him his most challenging job assignment yet – turning spoiled socialite, diva and magazine pin-up girl Samantha James (Anna Faris) into a pop-singing sensation. The well-known fact that Chris and Sam used to date, and that she still carries a torch for him, makes it all the more hellish. But what Chris doesn‘t realize is that his nightmare is just beginning. The less than talented Sam doesn‘t feel she can ―create‖ unless Chris whisks her off to Paris. En route, a plane malfunction causes them to make an unexpected pit-stop in New Jersey – the first time Chris has been back in 10 years. Chris takes the opportunity to drop in on his overly excitable mom (Julie Hagerty) and smart-aleck brother, Mike (Christopher Marquette). However, Chris‘ plans to only stay the night are detoured when he runs into Jamie Palamino working at the local bar. Suddenly faced with the chance to undo the past and ―seal the deal‖ with the ―just friends‖ girl of his dreams, Chris finds himself postponing Paris. This sets off a chain of events in which Chris tries to woo Jamie, all the while distracting the suspicious Samantha. Unbelievably, Chris is finding it more difficult to romance Jamie than it was 10 years ago. The harder Chris tries, the deeper he finds himself entrenched in the ‗friend zone,‘ the purgatory of dating where only platonic relationships flourish. When Dusty Dinkleman (Chris Klein), another ‗just friends‘ guy from high school shows up, Chris‘ fate seems doomed. Can one escape the clutches of the ‗friend zone?‘ Is it possible to go from ‗just friend‘ to boyfriend? Chris is about to find out the hard way…
2 FEBUARY 2006
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LORD OF WAR
Cast: Nicholas Cage, Ethan Hawke, Bridget Maynahan, Donald Sutherland Director: Andrew Niccol
ACTION THIRLLER
Based on fact, LORD OF WAR is an action adventure story set in the world of international arms dealing. The film explores a little-known consequence of the end of the Cold War – the enormous quantity of arms that suddenly became available for sale by former Soviet states to developing countries (especially in Africa) and the vast sums of money made by the arms dealers who sold them. Many believe it is the greatest heist of the 20th Century. In Ukraine alone between 1982 and 1992 over $32 billion in arms were stolen. No culprit has ever been caught or prosecuted. The film follows the globetrotting exploits of arms dealer Yuri Orlov. Through some of the deadliest war zones, Yuri struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals, even some of his customers who include many of the world‘s most notorious dictators. Finally, Yuri must also face his own conscience.
16 FEBUARY 2006
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CHAOS
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Jason Stratham, Ryan Phillippe Director: Tony Giglio
ACTION
Two detectives are partnered up and must uncover how five bank robbers‘ escaped from a bank heist with over one billion dollars. The mastermind of the heist begins a cat and mouse game with detectives, leading them to discover a far greater conspiracy is at hand.
FEBRUARY 2006
CAKE
Cast: Heather Graham, David Sutcliffe Director: Nisha Ganatra
ROMANTIC COMEDY
Pippa McGee takes a weekend break from her freewheeling life as a travel writer and toxic bachelorette. She returns to her hometown to serve as yet another bridesmaid at yet another wedding. From the moment she gets off the plane, its disaster. Jet lagged and behind schedule, Pippa makes a spectacle of herself, downing martinis and hitting on men. She struggles home tipsy. Only to discover that her widowed, tyrannical publishing mogul father has had a heart attack. Lying frail in his hospital bed, he has only one thing on his mind: he needs an editor for one of his magazines. Pippa volunteers, excited. What magazine? Travel? Politics? No. He needs her to run Wedding Bells. A peter pan story with an outrageous, charming, flawed heroine, Wedding Bells is about growing up – growing up with passion and heart and truth. To thine own self be true-but it‘s the self-part that tricky. Wedding Bells takes on the themes of love, family, friendships, and commitment, both skewering and celebrating the world of wedding fever along the way.
FEBUARY 2006
COLOUR ME KUBRICK
Cast: John Malkovich Director: Brian W. Cook
COMEDY
Alan Conway, a second rate con artist who passes himself off as Stanley Kubrick in the London area during the early 1990‘s, gets away with a few drinks, a few pounds, a few seductions and a few moments in the sun – capitalizing on the publics need to rub shoulders with the mythic figures of our age. Stanley Kubrick, whose identity was stolen, was not amused. We will be. Colour Me Kubrick is as much about the foibles of ordinary people and the contemporary obsession with celebrity as it is about the fantasy life and hilarious cons perpetrated by our dingy hero, Alan Conway, played by John Malkovich. The film is comic in tone, fast paced, chaotic, disjointed, designed to keep the audience off balance, the ‗con‘ always one step ahead of our capacity to unravel it, the magician vanishing just before the hoodwinked victim grasps the sleight of the hand.
MARCH 2006
MAN ABOUT TOWN
DRAMA / COMEDY
Cast: Ben Affleck, Rebecca Romijn, John Cleese, Mike Binder, Amber Valetta, Jerry O‘Connell, Bai Ling Director: Mike Binder Top Hollywood talent agent Jack (Ben Affleck) seems to have it all: a successful career, lots of money and a beautiful wife. But he still feels like something is missing, so he takes a journal writing class to explore his feelings. When Jack learns his wife Nina (Rebecca Romijn) is cheating on him with his most important client, his perfect life quickly starts to unravel. Things get even worse when Jack‘s journal, containing all his secrets that could ruin him both personally and professionally, is stolen by an ambitious journalist who‘s hoping to bring him down.
MARCH 2006
PLEDGE THIS
Cast: Paris Hilton, Holly Valance, Carmen Electra Director: William Heins
COMEDY
South Beach University‘s Gamma Gamma Sorority has been crowned America‘s hottest sorority by FHM magazine. Gamma president Victoria English (Paris Hilton) is unquestionably the ―it‖ girl on campus – beautiful, stylish and rumored to be the world‘s richest young woman. Victoria has built the Gammas on her image; only the beautiful, the stylish and the elite have a chance of admittance. As the campus is abuzz with the Gammas and the upcoming spread in FHM, Victoria takes full advantage of it... for herself.
___________________________________________________________________________________________ APRIL 2006 MATERIAL GIRLS
Cast: Hillary Duff, Haylie Duff, Angelica Houston, Lukas Haas Director: Martha Coolidge Heirs to a lucrative cosmetics corporation, ‗celebutantes‘ Persia and Tanzie shop by day and party by night, lapping up the paparazzi spotlight while hobnobbing with models and rock stars. But when the clueless duo are accused of testing their products on children by a treacherous executive, the value of their father‘s company hits rock bottom and the A list trendsetters are reduced to homeless socials pariahs who must learn humility the hard way and fight to save their father‘s company and reputation. A universally timeless trading places fable, Material girls is a sharp, chic comedy about two glamour girls who learn the one thing more valuable than a gold card is a heart of gold.
COMEDY
APRIL 2006
THE LONG WEEKEND
Cast: Chris Klein, Brendan Fehr
Director: Pat Holden
COMEDY
A high concept comedy about two brothers, playboy Cooper (Klein) and uptight Ed (Fehr). Ed has a weekend to save his career, but Cooper has other plans fro the weekend – to help his stressed out brother get lucky with the ladies.
DIRECT TO DVD 2006
UNDISCOVERED
TEEN ROMANCE
Cast: Pell James, Steven Strait, Ashlee Simpson, Kip Pardue, Carrie Fisher, Fisher Stevens, Peter Weller Director: Meiert Avis Luke and Brier are in love. They just don‘t know it yet. Two years ago they shared a brief romantic ‗moment‘ on a New York subway. That first meeting is just a sweet memory, until they hook up again in the Los Angeles entertainment scene. Top Model Brier‘s star is rising, while Luke‘s is falling. He‘s a talented singer/songwriter whose ‗next big thing‘ appeal is getting old. Brier realizes that Luke is a great guy who just needs a break. He gets it when she and her savvy manager concoct the ultimate ‗hype‘ campaign that ignites major buzz around his career. Soon big record labels and oversexed supermodels are kicking down his door. Though she feels the heat with Luke, Brier won‘t stand next in line to anyone‘s career. Her one rule after a crazy fling with a philandering rock star is simple: never date musicians! But true love is hard to resist. Brier and Luke are a hot item, until Luke discovers that Brier‘s sneaky hype campaign is the spin behind his success. He breaks it off with her, just as his record label dumps him. With Luke‘s star fading again, Brier makes one last attempt to stand by her man. In this town, it‘s not who you know. It‘s who you want to be.
2006
THE DARK
Cast: Sean Bean, Maria Bello Director: John Fawcett
HORROR
In a last ditch attempt to pull her family back together, New Yorker Adelle (MARIA BELLO) travels with her young daughter Sarah (SOPHIE STUCKEY) to Wales – to see her estranged husband James (SEAN BEAN) and try to patch their lives back together in the surroundings of an old cliff-top farmhouse. But Adelle‘s worst nightmares are realised when, days into the trip, Sarah is tragically swept out to sea, pulled into the dark depths despite her mother‘s desperate attempts to save her. While James leads the search for Sarah‘s body, a guilt-ridden Adelle is haunted by visions and traces of her daughter – it‘s almost as if Sarah is trapped somewhere in the house itself. Learning of an ancient local legend of a place called THE DARK – an ethereal land of the dead that is a distorted mirror image of the real world - Adelle becomes convinced Sarah is trying to communicate to her from this sinister parallel universe. When she finds a strange little girl named Ebrill (ABIGAIL STONE) in Sarah‘s bed, Adelle is sure she‘s the key to getting her daughter back. For the legend dictates that the departed can be returned from THE DARK if a sacrifice is made – one of the living for one of the dead. And if Ebrill is who she says she is, she died over fifty years before. But all James can see in his wife is a woman in the depths of despair and on the very edge of sanity. To him, Ebrill is a runaway, nothing more. However, when local farmer and handyman Daffyd (MAURICE ROËVES) recognises Ebrill from his own shadowy childhood, one filled with stark memories of a rural pagan cult, Adelle knows her suspicions are true. And she takes the ultimate leap of faith – throwing herself into the ocean, and into THE DARK itself, in her frantic attempt to reclaim her daughter‘s life.
2006
THE ALIBI
ROMANTIC COMEDY
Cast: Steve Coogan, Rebecca Romijn, Selma Blair, James Marsden, Jamie King, James Brolin, Sam Elliot, Henry Rollins Director: Matt Checkowski and Kurt Mattila Planning a little lunchtime rendezvous? Can‘t keep your hands off the milkman? Need someone to cover for you while you sneak out to the country with your secretary? For better or for worse –in sickness and in health—Ray Elliot (Steve Coogan) is your man. Ray runs an alibi service for men and women who want to spend a little quality time away from their so -called loved ones. Business is booming and Ray‘s life couldn‘t be better if it weren‘t for Wendell hatch (James Marsden), the pampered son of Rays biggest client, who snuck away to Napa for the weekend before his wedding and accidentally strangled his date-mind you, not his fiancée. Suddenly Ray‗s accessory to Murder, featured on the most wanted lists of a savvy small-town cop, a heart broken chauffeur hungry for revenge and a high-minded assassin who call himself THE MORMON. With the help of Lola (Rebecca Romijn Stamos), his sexy, fast-talking right hand woman, Ray must mastermind one final con that will clear his name for murder and put the ghosts from his past to rest, once and for all. But even for Ray, everything doesn‘t always go to plan – whether he likes it or not, he‘s about to learn a thing or two about love and other affairs of the heart.
2006
THE BIG WHITE
BLACK COMEDY
Cast: Robin Williams, Holly Hunter, Giovanni Ribisi, Woody Harrelson, Alison Lohman, Tim Blake Nelson Director: Mark Mylod Alaska, home of the moose, of baked desserts and home to Paul Barnes, a travel agent selling dreams but living in a financial nightmare. Up to his neck in debt and snow, with a foul-mouthed wife, Margaret, suffering from Tourette‘s syndrome, Paul hopes to solve his problems with the help of his missing brother, Raymond. In an effort to pay off his debtors and get some medical help for his wife, Paul tries to cash in on his missing brothers life insurance policy of $1 million. However, he comes face to face with Ted waters, a tough young insurance investigator. Ted denies Paul‘s request as Raymond has only been missing for five years, not long enough to pronounce him decreased. Paul one day accidentally stumbles across a corpse in the dumpster behind his shop. His immediate horror is soon overtaken by a crazy idea – he could pretend the corpse is his brother, claim the policy and solve all his problems.
2006
I COULD NEVER BE YOUR WOMAN
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer Director: Amy Heckerling
ROMANTIC COMEDY
Romantic comedy about a successful professional woman (Pfeiffer) who has trouble with her love life .
2006
WHISPER
THRILLER
Cast: Josh Holloway, Sarah Wayne Callies, Blake Woodruff, Joel Edgerton, John Kapelos, Dule Hill Director: Stewart Hendler Supernatural thriller set in New England, it revolves around the kidnapping of a young boy by a former convict and three friends. After a series of unexplained events, they begin to realize that the child is less innocent than he seems.
2006
IN THE LAND OF WOMAN
Cast: Meg Ryan, Adam Brody, Kristen Stewart, Makenzie Vega, Olympia Dukakis Director: Jonathan Kasdan
ROMANTIC COMEDY
A recently single twenty-something guy from Los Angeles travels to suburban Detroit to care for his cantankerous, eccentric grandmother and to pull his life back together. There he meets an attractive, unhappily married mother and her blossoming teenage daughter .. and that‘s where the adventure begins. In the land of women is a quirky romantic comedy where love conquers all.
Also coming in 2006: Van Wilder 2 - Ryan Reynolds, Kal Penn