Brilliant
Directed by: Jon Amiel
Writing credits: Gillian Gorfil (screenplay),
Gillian Gorfil (story)
Genre: Action / Crime
Plot Outline: A jewel thief and a conman try to pull off the biggest heist in history.
Napoleon and Betsy
Directed by: Benjamin Ross
Genre: Drama / Romance
Plot Outline: The story of fallen French Emperor Napoleon during his last years on the island of St. Helena when he falls in love with a young English girl.
Amazon
Writing credits: Dirk Blackman, Howard McCain
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama
Plot Outline: A gladiatrix exacts vengeance on an army that destroyed her homeland.
Mary Queen of Scots
Writing credits: Jimmy McGovern (written by)
Genre: Drama / History
Plot Outline: A chronicle of the life and reign of Mary I of Scotland (Johansson), with a concentration on her strained personal and political relationship with her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England.
Woody Allen Spanish Project
Directed by: Woody Allen
Writing credits: Woody Allen
Genre: Comedy
Plot Outline: A painter enters a relationship with two American tourists. Conflict begins with the painter's jealous ex-girlfriend.
The Other Boleyn Girl
Directed by: Justin Chadwick
Writing credits: Philippa Gregory (novel), Peter Morgan (screenplay)
Genre: Drama / History / Romance
Plot Outline: Two sisters contend for the affection of King Henry VIII.
The Nanny Diaries
Directed by: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Writing credits: Shari Springer Berman (screenplay) & Robert Pulcini (screenplay)
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Plot Outline: A college student (Johansson) goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, her studies, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.
"Robot Chicken" TV-Series
Created by: Seth Green, Matthew Senreich
Genre: Animation / Comedy
Plot Outline: From creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, Robot Chicken is stop motion animation with a demented twist.
The Prestige
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Writing credits: Jonathan Nolan (screenplay) and Christopher Nolan (screenplay)
Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Thriller
Plot Outline: Robert and Alfred are rival magicians. When Alfred performs the ultimate magic trick, Robert tries desperately to find out the secret to the trick.
The Black Dahlia
Directed by: Brian De Palma
Writing credits: Josh Friedman (screenplay), James Ellroy (novel)
Genre: Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Plot Outline: An adaptation of James Ellroy's novel about two 1940s L.A. cops who head up the hunt for the killer of starlet Elizabeth Short.
Scoop
Directed by: Woody Allen
Writing credits: Woody Allen (written by)
Genre: Comedy / Fantasy / Mystery
Plot Outline: An American journalism student (Johansson) in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat (Jackman) as the incident unfurls.
The Island
Directed by: Michael Bay
Writing credits: Caspian Tredwell-Owen (screenplay) and
Alex Kurtzman (screenplay)
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Plot Outline: A man (Ewan McGregor) goes on the run after he discovers that he is actually a "harvested being", and is being kept along with others in a utopian facility.
Match Point
Directed by: Woody Allen
Writing credits: Woody Allen (written by)
Genre: Crime / Drama / Romance
Plot Outline: At a turning point in his life, a former tennis pro falls for a femme-fatal type who happens to be dating his friend and soon-to-be brother-in-law.
In Good Company
Directed by: Paul Weitz
Writing credits: Paul Weitz (written by)
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Plot Outline: Dennis Quaid plays a middle-aged ad exec faced with a new boss who's nearly half his age ... and who also happens to be sleeping with his daughter.
The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie (VG)
Directed by: Shiraz Akmal
Writing credits: Scott Nixon (PC version)
Genre: Animation
Plot Outline: SpongeBob and Patrick journey to the hazardous Shell City to get back King Neptune's stolen crown.
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
Directed by: Stephen Hillenburg
Writing credits: Stephen Hillenburg (television series SpongeBob SquarePants), Stephen Hillenburg (story)
Genre: Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Family
Plot Outline: SpongeBob SquarePants takes leave from the town of Bikini Bottom in order to track down King Neptune's stolen crown.
A Good Woman
Directed by: Mike Barker
Writing credits: Oscar Wilde (play), Howard Himelstein (screenplay)
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Plot Outline: A seductress lures away the husband of a younger woman.
A Love Song for Bobby Long
Directed by: Shainee Gabel
Writing credits: Ronald Everett Capps (novel), Shainee Gabel (screenplay)
Genre: Drama
Plot Outline: A headstrong young woman returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother.
The Perfect Score
Directed by: Brian Robbins
Writing credits: Marc Hyman (story) & Jon Zack (story)
Genre: Comedy / Crime
Plot Outline: Six high school seniors decide to break into the Princeton Testing Center so they can steal the answers to their upcoming SAT tests and all get perfect scores.
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Directed by: Peter Webber
Writing credits: Tracy Chevalier (novel), Olivia Hetreed (screenplay)
Genre: Biography / Drama / Romance
Plot Outline: A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.
Lost in Translation
Directed by: Sofia Coppola
Writing credits: Sofia Coppola (written by)
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Plot Outline: A movie star with a sense of emptiness, and a neglected newlywed meet up as strangers in Tokyo, Japan and form an unlikely bond.
Eight Legged Freaks
Directed by: Ellory Elkayem
Writing credits: Ellory Elkayem (story) & Randy Kornfield (story)
Genre: Action / Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Plot Outline: A variety of horrible poisonous spiders get exposed to a noxious chemical that causes them to grow to monumental proportions.
An American Rhapsody
Directed by: Éva Gárdos
Writing credits: Éva Gárdos (written by)
Genre: Drama
Plot Outline: A young Hungarian girl struggles to find her place in the world when she's reunited with her parents in the USA years after she was left behind during their plight from the communist country in the 1950s.
Ghost World
Directed by: Terry Zwigoff
Writing credits: Daniel Clowes (comic book), Daniel Clowes (written by)
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Plot Outline: Enid and Rebecca are social outsiders who, after graduating from high school, play a mean prank on a middle-aged geek.
The Man Who Wasn't There
Directed by: Joel Coen
Writing credits: Joel Coen (written by) & Ethan Coen (written by)
Genre: Crime / Drama
Plot Outline: A laconic, chain-smoking barber blackmails his wife's boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning, but his plan goes terribly wrong.
My Brother the Pig
Directed by: Erik Fleming
Writing credits: Matthew Flynn (written by)
Genre: Comedy / Family / Fantasy
The Horse Whisperer
Directed by: Robert Redford
Writing credits: Nick Evans (novel), Eric Roth (screenplay)
Genre: Drama / Romance
Plot Outline: The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.
Home Alone 3
Directed by: Raja Gosnell
Writing credits: John Hughes (written by)
Genre: Action / Comedy / Crime / Family
Plot Outline: Alex Pruitt, a young boy of nine living in Chicago, fend off thieves who seek a top-secret chip in his toy car to support a North Korean terrorist organization's next deed.
Fall
Directed by: Eric Schaeffer
Writing credits: Eric Schaeffer
Genre: Drama / Romance
Plot Outline: Cab driver Michael and supermodel Sarah fall in love while her gorgeous husband Phillippe is in Madrid for two months.
Manny & Lo
Directed by: Lisa Krueger
Writing credits: Lisa Krueger
Genre: Drama
Plot Outline: A pregnant teen and her younger sister run away from foster homes and kidnap a woman whom they believe can help with the pregnancy.
If Lucy Fell
Directed by: Eric Schaeffer
Writing credits: Eric Schaeffer (story) & Tony Spiridakis (story)
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Plot Outline: Joe and Lucy are roommates and best friends. Lucy, whose love life is embarrassingly dull, convinces Joe...
The Client TV-Series
Directed by: Daniel Attias, Steve Dubin
Writing credits: Randy Anderson (writer), Mitchell Binder (writer)
Genre: Thriller
Just Cause
Directed by: Arne Glimcher
Writing credits: John Katzenbach (novel), Jeb Stuart (screenplay)
Genre: Action / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Plot Outline: Bobby Earl is facing the electric chair for the murder of a young girl. Eight years after the crime he calls in Paul Armstrong...
North
Directed by: Rob Reiner
Writing credits: Alan Zweibel (novel), Alan Zweibel (screenplay)
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Family
Plot Outline: Eleven-year-old North has had it with his parents. They are always busy with their careers and don't give North the attention he needs...
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