The One and Only Ivan (2020)
Disney first approached screenwriter Mike White to adapt Katherine Applegate’s 2012 children’s book, “The One and Only Ivan,” which won the Newbery Medal in 2013. White wasn’t keen on adapting a children’s book, but...
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Triple Frontier (2019)
After a nearly five-year hiatus from writing and directing films (with the exception of his untimely departure from Deepwater Horizon) , J.C. Chandor re-emerges with Triple Frontier (not the best title, taking its name from, according...
Snatched (2017)
Amy Schumer stars as Emily Middleton, who cajoles her divorced doting mother Linda (Hawn, Everyone Says I Love You) to accompany her on a non-refundable vacation to a posh resort in Ecuador she booked...
The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
Based on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alexander Skarsgard (Zoolander 2, Hidden) stars as John Clayton III of Greystoke Manor, an earl living comfortably in London during the Victorian Era, whose past has made...
Predator (1987)
A leaner-than-customary Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Major “Dutch” Schaeffer, who, along with his crew of elite special ops commandos, is sent to the jungle of a hostile Latin American country on a covert hostage...
Jumanji (1995)
Based on Chris Van Allsburg’s 1981 children’s book of the same name, Jumanji, the film, fleshes out the short book to include a story about Alan Parrish (Hann-Byrd, Little Man Tate), who, as a young boy...
The Rundown (2003)
Sometimes it’s the casting that makes or breaks a movie, and in casting The Rock as the good guy and Christopher Walken as the bad, you’re already halfway successful to make a fun, exciting movie. ...
Tears of the Sun (2003)
Bruce and co. are sent on a special-ops mission into the Nigerian jungle with a simple mission to get an American (by marriage), and any other “non-indigenous” people out of there before the newly empowered...