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Batman Begins (July 17, 05)
Christian Bale (Batman), Ken Watanabe, Michael Caine, Morgan
Freeman, Katie Holmes, Liam Neeson
When fate prevents him from avenging the deaths of his parents,
young Bruce Wayne (Bale) flees to Asia where he seeks counsel from a dangerous ninja cult leader known as Ra's al Ghul (Watanabe).
When he returns, Bruce finds that Gotham City has become overrun with crime and corruption, and that there are forces at work
trying to remove him from his inherited place as the owner of Wayne Industries. Discovering a cave under Wayne Manor, Bruce
assumes a new identity as a secret detective and guardian of the people of Gotham City against the criminals that plague them...
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
(Dec 25, 05)
Tilda Swinton (the White Which), other cast not announced yet
Four children (Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie) are
sent to live with an old professor in the country during World War II air raids on England, and soon discover that they can
walk into a strong wardrobe closet and find themselves in a strange fantasy land called Narnia filled with a wide variety
of magical and fantastic people and creatures. With Narnia frozen over by a winter that never stops, the children are enlisted
to help Aslan (the Great Lion who founded Narnia hundreds of years ago) defeat the evil White Witch (Swinton), break her evil
spell, and free the people and magical beasts of Narnia. It's based on the first book in a series of popular childrens novels
written by CS Lewis.
Pretty Persuasion (TBA 05)
Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods, Ron Livingston
A sexual harassment scandal blows the doors off a Beverly Hills
private school.
Elektra (TBA 05)
Jenifer Garner (Elektra), other cast not annonced yet
Most of the exact details of this movie's storyline aren't yet known,
except that it will follow the further adventures of Elektra Natchios (Garner), sai enthusiast and assassin for hire,
after the events of Daredevil, as she comes into conflict with the Order of
the Hand, a group of assassins who helped train her, and that she will find help in the form of the blind martial arts teacher,
Stick, who also trained a certain eyesight-challenged ex-boyfriend of hers...
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