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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Based upon the book of the same name. How to Lose Friends, tells the sotry of Toby Young, who as a young writer left the safety net of London and headed for the glittery offices of Vanity Fair in New York. His time is spent being work shy and constantly removing his foot from his mouth...
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Brideshead Revisited
The adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's story about two best friends, Charles Ryder and Sebastian Flyte, as they start their degrees at Oxford. Sebastian is of terribly high estate, but struggles with the pressures of mixing young-adult life, with the academic expectations of Oxford. Whilst the grounded Charles pursues his own ambitions at the same time as protecting his closest friend.
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Tropic Thunder
Hollywood legends Tugg Speedman and Kirk Lazurus are joined by Jeff Portnoy in a mega-budget film adaptation of 'Tropic Thunder' - a real-life story of heroism in Vietnam. But when the actors' competing egos drive the production to the verge of chaos the British director decides to turn the tables on his pampered stars.
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Mamma Mia!
An independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on an idyllic Greek island, Donna is about to let go of Sophie, the spirited daughter she's raised alone. For Sophie's wedding, Donna has invited her two lifelong best girlfriends - practical and no-nonsense Rosie and wealthy, multi-divorcee Tanya - from her one-time backing band, Donna and the Dynamos. But Sophie has secretly invited three guests of her own. On a quest to find the identity of her father to walk her down the aisle, she brings back three men from Donna's past to the Mediterranean paradise they visited 20 years earlier. Over 24 chaotic, magical hours, new love will bloom and old romances will be rekindled on this lush island full of possibilities.
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Taken
An ex-soldier, whose daughter is kidnapped by slave masters while traveling in Europe, must track her down before she's shipped off.
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Death Race
Three-time speedway champion Jensen Ames is an expert at survival in the harsh landscape that has become our country. Just as he thinks he has turned his life around, the ex-con is framed for a gruesome murder he didn't commit. Forced to don the mask of the mythical driver Frankenstein - a crowd favorite who seems impossible to kill - Ames is given an easy choice by Terminal Island's warden: suit up or rot away in a cell. His face hidden by a metallic mask, one convict will be put through an insane three-day challenge. Ames must survive a gauntlet of the most vicious criminals in the country's toughest prison to claim the prize of freedom. Driving a monster car outfitted with machine guns, flamethrowers and grenade launchers, one desperate man will destroy anything in his path to win the most twisted spectator sport on Earth.
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Righteous Kill
After thirty years as partners in the pressure cooker environment of the New York Police Department, highly decorated detectives Turk and Rooster aren't ready to retire. There have been a series of murders of suspected criminals popping up around the city. The police know it's a serial killer because personalized poems are discovered on each body, an obvious clue to the motive. CSI officer, Karen Corelli is intrigued as she uncovers the rhythmic elegies placed on each victim. Detectives Perez and Riley are hoping to solve the case before the old-timers, Turk & Rooster. Lt. Hingis, their boss, just wants the case solved especially since evidence is pointing towards one of their own, a fellow cop. Ever since the first victim, skateboard pimp Rambo, was found, followed by the setup to bust nightclub owner Spider with the help of a Manhattan lawyer, Jessica, who has a drug problem, things are unraveling at the police department.
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Disaster Movie
Over the course of one evening, an unsuspecting group of twenty-somethings find themselves bombarded by a series of natural disasters and catastrophic events.
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The Duchess
Set at the end of the eighteenth century, The Duchess is the story of the beautiful and, glamorous Georgiana Spencer, the most fascinating woman of the age. While her beauty and charisma made her name, her extravagant tastes and appetite for gambling and love made her infamous. Married young to the older, distant Duke of Devonshire, intimate of ministers and princes, Georgiana became a fashion icon, a doting mother, a shrewd political operator and darling of the common people. But at the core of her story is a desperate search for love. From Georgiana's passionate and doomed affair with Earl Grey to the complex ménage à trois with her husband and her best friend, Lady Bess Foster, The Duchess is a very contemporary tale of fame, notoriety and the search for love.
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The Women
The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man. Naturally, this situation becomes the hot talk amongst Mary's catty friends, especially the scandalmonger Sylvia Fowler, who has little room to talk - she finds herself on a train to Reno and headed for divorce right after Mary.
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