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  Scoop (July 2006)

 

Director : Christopher Nolan

Synopsis : An American journalism student (Johansson) in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat (Jackman) as the incident unfurls. - IMDB

Cast : Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Woody Allen Ian McShane

Distributor: Focus Feathers

Tagline: tba

Genre: Comedy/Romance

 
The Prestige
(10/27/06)

 

Director : Christopher Nolan

Synopsis : Based on Christopher Priest's 1996 novel, Bale and Jackman play rival magicians in turn-of-the-century London who battle each other for trade secrets. The rivalry is so intense that it turns them into murderers. - IMDB

Cast : Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, David Bowie, Scarlett Johansson

Distributor: Buena Vista

Tagline: tba

Genre: Fantasy/Drama/Action

 
The Fountain
(October 2006)

 

Director : Darren Aronofsky

Synopsis : 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. - IMDB

Cast : Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Sean Patrick Thomas

Distributor: Warner Bros

Tagline: tba

Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama

Film List

  Van Helsing (May 7,  2004)

Director : Steven Sommers

Synopsis : The Universal Pictures project pits Jackman, in the role of vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing, against three creatures from the studio's vintage horror years -- Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolf Man. The story reimagines the studio's monsters in a late Victorian drama, taking Dr. Van Helsing to Eastern Europe in a quest to vanquish the creatures.

Cast : Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh, Will Kemp, Shuler Hensley, Kevin J. O'Connor, David Wenham, Elena Anaya, Silvia Colloca, Josie Maran

Distributor: Universal Pictures

Tagline: The One Name They All Fear

Genre: Action/Adventure/Comedy/Fantasy/Horror/Thriller
Domestic Box Office Total: $120,177,084

Overseas Gross: $179,980,554

   

X2 (2003)

 

Director: Byran Singer

Synopsis: From IMDB: A new war between humans and mutants begins after a tentative of murder in the White House against the president of the United States. Now, all the mutants need to fight together against an enemy in common: General William Stryker, who is planning to destroy them all. He uses radical methods to get some mation from Magneto, and plans an attack to Prof. Xavier's mutant school when there is only Wolverine and the young students (Jean Grey and Storm are looking for a new mutant, Nightcrawler, and Xavier and Clycops are in Magneto's plastic prison). The plot goes on with a lot of action scenes and many revelations, following the comic books.

Cast: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Sir Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Alan Cumming, Brian Cox, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Kelly Hu, Aaron Stanford, Shawn Ashmore, Peter Wingfield

Distributor: Fox

Running Time: 2 hrs. 14 min.

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Tagline: The time has come for those who are different to stand united

Genre: Action/Thriller/Adventure/Drama/Sci-Fi

Domestic Box Office Total:  $214,949,694

Overseas Gross: $191,500,000

Boxofficemojo Breakdown

 

Kate & Leopold (2001)

 

Director : James Mangold

Synopsis : From IMDB: Kate and her actor brother live in N.Y. in the 21st Century. Her ex-boy friend, Stuart, lives above her apartment and finds this space near the Brooklyn Bridge where there is a gap in time. He goes back to the eighteen hundreds and takes pictures of the place. Leopold, a man living in the 1870's, was puzzled by Stuart's tiny camera and decides to follow him and they both ended up in this century. Leopold is clueless about his new surroundings. He gets help and insights from Charlie who thinks that Leopold is an actor who is always in character. Leopold is a highly intelligent man and tries his best to learn and even improve the modern conveniences that he encounters.

Cast : Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schrieber, Breckin Meyer, Bradley Whitford, Charlotte Ayanna, Phillip Bosco

Distributor: Miramax

Running Time: 2 hrs. 1 min

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Tagline: If they lived in the same century they'd be perfect for each other.

Box Office Total : $47,121,859

 

Swordfish (2001)

Director :Dominic Sena

Synopsis : From IMDB: In this futuristic technology spy movie, John Travolta plays Gabriel Shear, a man who is desperately trying to access information that is locked inside a complicated computer system that contains mountains of government secrets - and money. He hires Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman), a desperate computer expert, to help him hack into the system.

Cast : John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Sam Shepard, Vinnie Jones, Camryn Grimes

Distributor : Warner Bros.

Tagline: Log on. Hack in. Go anywhere. Steal everything.

Genre: Action/Crime/Thriller/Drama

Box Office Total: Total Gross: $69,772,969

 

Someone Like You (2001)

Director : Tony Goldwyn

Synopsis : From IMDB: Jane Goodale (Ashley Judd) has everything going for her. She's a producer of a popular daytime talk show, and is in a hot romance with the show's dashing executive producer Ray (Greg Kinnear). When Ray unexpectedly dumps her, she begins an extensive study of male behavior to try to find out what makes men tick. Her "research" leads her to become an overnight sensation/guru for single women everywhere. When Jane begins to use her womanizing roomate and co-worker Eddie (Hugh Jackman) as fodder for her research, she finds both humor and answers where they were least expected.

Cast : Hugh Jackman, Ashley Judd, Greg Kinnear, Ellen Barkin, and Marisa Tomei

Distributor : Fox

Tagline: The story about the one that got away and the one she never saw coming.

Box Office Total: $27,343,067

 

X-Men (2000)

Director : Byran Singer

Synopsis : From IMDB: After the death of his family at the hands of the Nazis, Magnus, a mutant vows revenge on all humanity. Meanwhile a group of good mutants is assembled by Charles Xavier, who trains and cares for them. Magnus now under the guise of Magneto assembles villains Sabertooth and Mystique to destroy anyone that gets in his way, including a furry canadian agent named Logan (Wolverine). Fierce battle ensues between Sabertooth and Wolverine and Xaviers group, the X-men, recruits the mutant just in time to learn of Magneto's dastardly evil plan to destroy the world.

Cast : Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Sir Ian McKellen, Anna Paquin, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Halle Berry, Bruce Davison, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Tyler Mane, Ray Park

Running Tim e: 1 hrs. 44 min.

Distributor : Fox

Box Office Total : $157,299,717

 

 

Paperback Hero (1999)

Director :Antony Bowman

Synopsis : From IMDB: Jack Willis is a handsome roadtrain driver with a secret - he has just become a top-selling romance novelist. However, being a 'man's man' in the Australian outlook, to avoid embarrassment, he needs a name, a woman's name - and he chooses that of his best friend, Ruby Vale. He must do some fancy footwork to continue the charade when the glamorous city publisher, Ziggy, arrives in dusty outback Lucktown to sign 'Ruby Vale' to a major book deal. Ruby agrees to help Jack though it's for her own gain as well - the publisher will pay for her coming wedding (with Hamish, Jack's buddy). Accompanied by Jack, Ruby goes to Sydney to meet the media, appear on TV and cocktail parties, etc. Gradually, Jack realizes that he has fallen in love with Ruby, while Ruby is also touched by Jack's novel. However, Hamish arrives in Sydney a few days later and asks both of them to stop all these foolish things...

Cast : Claudia Karvan, Hugh Jackman, Angie Milliken, Andrew S. Gilbert, Jeanie Drynan, Bruce Venables

Tagline: He's hard, tough ... and doesn't give a XXXX for anything ... except romantic novels

Genre: Comedy/Romance