The Bourne Ultimatum

Director Paul Greengrass
Produced by Patrick Crowley, Frank Marshall, Paul L. Sandberg, Doug Liman
Written by Novel Robert Ludlum
Screen Story Tony Gilroy
Screenplay Tony Gilroy and Scott Z. Burns and George Nolfi Tom Stoppard (uncredited)
Starring Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Paddy Considine,
Edgar Ramirez, Albert Finney, Joan Allen,
Music by John Powell
Cinematography Oliver Wood
Editing by Christopher Rouse
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Plot Outline: Bourne dodges new, superior assassins as he searches for his unknown past while a government agent tries to track him down.

Running time 111 min
Country USA
Language English
Budget $110 Million
Gross revenue $244,539,830 (worldwide)


The Bourne Ultimatum is a 2007 film loosely based on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name.

A sequel to The Bourne Supremacy and the third film of the Bourne Trilogy, it stars Matt Damon reprising his role as Ludlum's signature character, amnesiac CIA assassin Jason Bourne. Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Paddy Considine, Edgar Ramirez, Albert Finney, and Joan Allen co-star. The key cast members reprise their roles from the two previous Bourne movies, with additions such as Strathairn, playing a CIA department head; Paddy Considine as a British journalist; and Edgar Ramirez as a new assassin sent to kill Bourne. The film continues the saga of Jason Bourne after he survives the harrowing Bourne Supremacy car chase in Moscow, Russia, and follows the character as he travels to Paris, London, Madrid, Tangier and New York City to uncover his real identity, while the CIA continues to send assassins after him.

Paul Greengrass directed the film from a script by Tony Gilroy, Scott Z. Burns, George Nolfi and an uncredited Tom Stoppard.[citation needed] The producers were Patrick Crowley, Frank Marshall, Paul L. Sandberg and Doug Liman, who directed the first Bourne movie, The Bourne Identity.

The Bourne Ultimatum was produced by Universal Pictures and was released on August 3, 2007 in North America, where it grossed $69.3 million in ticket sales in its first weekend of release, making it the highest August opening. The film was released on August 16, 2007, in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Singapore.

By the end of August 2007, the film was said to be on track to exceed the international box office gross of the first two films in the trilogy.


Cast

* Matt Damon as Jason Bourne (Captain David Webb): an amnesiac who was previously a CIA assassin, Bourne is trying to escape Moscow police at the beginning of the film, shortly after stopping a Russian assassin in an auto chase near the end of the previous film.
* David Strathairn as Noah Vosen: a CIA Deputy Director, Vosen is the head of Operation Blackbriar, a renamed and upgraded Operation Treadstone.
* Joan Allen as Pamela Landy: a CIA Deputy Director, Landy is working with Vosen to track and capture Bourne.
* Julia Stiles as Nicky Parsons: formerly Bourne's Treadstone contact in Paris, she was assigned to Madrid after attempts to capture Bourne in Berlin and Russia failed.
* Paddy Considine as Simon Ross: a British journalist who has been uncovering the secrets behind the origin of Operation Treadstone, and Bourne's past.
* Albert Finney as Dr. Albert Hirsch: the CIA specialist who supervised Bourne's behavior modification training prior to Operation Treadstone.
* Scott Glenn as Ezra Kramer: Director of the CIA.
* Colin Stinton as Neal Daniels: CIA's Station Chief in Madrid.
* Joey Ansah as Desh Bouksani: a Blackbriar assassin quartered in North Africa.
* Edgar Ramirez as Paz: a Blackbriar assassin who is sent after Ross and Bourne.
* Tom Gallop as Tom Cronin: Landy's deputy.
* Corey Johnson as Wills: Vosen's deputy at Operation Blackbriar.
* Sam Dang as Raymond Sykes: Deputy commander of CIA New York branch. Former field agent attached to Vosen.

Die Hard 4.0

Synopsis

In this action-packed sequel, John McClane no longer works for the police department, but his job chasing down dangerous hackers for the Department of Homeland Security still places him directly in the line of fire. When an attack on America’s vulnerable infrastructure begins to shut down the entire nation, McClane is assigned the dangerous task of capturing the mysterious figure behind the act of terror and preventing chaos and catastrophe.

Die Hard 4

The latest film in the “Die Hard” will start shooting later this month, with two new actors joining Bruce Willis.

As Variety reports, Justin Long and Maggie Q were chosen as the co-stars for “Live Free or Die Hard”, with “Underworld”'s Len Wiseman directing.

The 28 year-old Long previously appeared in “Herbie Fully Loaded” and “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story”.
Maggie Q recently appeared in “Mission: Impossible III”.

Rumors of a fourth “Die Hard” film were in circulation since “Die Hard With a Vengeance” was released in 1995.

"Our villain is high-tech, but the way McClane deals with him is low-tech. A fist fight still solves a lot of problems", said director Wiseman towards the nature of the film.

”Live Free or Die Hard” is set to be released next June.

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Fantastic Four - DVD Review

If you have been looking for an exciting movie, Fantastic Four is perfect for you. This movie has great special effects and loyalty to the comic book. This is an awesome film for everyone that is an old Fantastic Four fan and even for today's generation.

Volunteering for a voyage to an orbiting space station, four scientists are changed by cosmic rays. Johnny Storm, played by Chris Evans, creates and controls fire. Ben Grimm, played by Michael Chiklis, turns into an incredibly strong...thing! Dr. Reed Richards, played by Ioan Gruffudd, gets the ability to stretch his body. Sue Storm, portrayed by Jessica Alba, becomes invisible and can generate force fields.

Before leaving Earth, Dr. Richards approaches Victor Doom, played by Julian McMahon, with a business proposition involving research on genetics and finding a cure for a wide variety of diseases. They agree to use Doom's hovering space station to observe a unique space storm that contains the building blocks of life. Everything seems routine until the storm picks up speed and hits the station far ahead of schedule.

All at once, everyone on the space station is affected, though none of them are aware of it...until the genetic changes begin to happen.

Together, the "Fantastic Four", as named by the press, must intervene in the evil plans of Doom, a tycoon billionaire businessman. Being aboard the space station with the other four, Doom also changes gaining an invincible metal alloy body that absorbs and controls electricity.

Then it really gets complicated. Sue Storm and Reed Richards join forces to find a cure for their "special powers" and yet somehow, have to get past their old personal conflict. These two extremely intelligent scientists once were in love and had a painful end to their relationship. Now, suddenly reunited, they try to be professional with each other in order to figure out a way to change their bodies back to the way they used to be.

Ben Grimm really gets the short end of the stick. He has the most changes to deal with since his total appearance is altered to a walking huge hulk of living rocks. Even though he has a heart of gold, his girlfriend rejects him immediately, frightened by his new body. Ben Grimm endures even more humiliation when the press gives him the name, "The Thing". He cannot even use an elevator because his weight exceeds the limit of what elevators can handle, over two thousand pounds.

The movie grows more intense as Doom grows in his abilities and ambitions for power. Like his personality, he remains cold to human suffering, caring only for what he can use and control.

After being threatened directly by Doom, all four heroes, Reed Richards, Ben Grimm, Sue and Johnny Storm must band together to stop Doom from destroying the city and killing millions of innocent people.

"Fantastic Four" is Rated PG for sequences of intense action and suggestive content. This movie really delivers to the fan a lot of action, humor, and fun.

About the Author: Tom Straub is a successful author and webmaster of the DVD Reviews website featuring online reviews of all your favorites.

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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer - No.1 movie in sales

The 20th Century Fox sequel "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" debuted as the No. 1 weekend flick with $57.4 million in sales, slightly surpassing the $56.1 million opening of "Fantastic Four" two years ago, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The new "Fantastic Four" reunites the quartet of astronauts-turned-mutant-superheroes, played by Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis and Chris Evans. This time, the comic-book heroes join forces with archenemy Dr. Doom (Julian McMahon) to take down the Silver Surfer, an emissary leading a planet-destroying entity to Earth, according to AP.

The studio and filmmakers toned down the action so the sequel could earn a PG rating to broaden the audience to family viewers. The first "Fantastic Four" was rated PG-13.

"A lot of the superhero comic-book movies are sort of geared toward being darker and edgier. We think 'Fantastic Four' is a more family friendly group of superheroes," said Chris Aronson, senior vice president for distribution at 20th Century Fox. "We wanted to make sure to cast a wide net and go after the family audience, and it worked."

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Sequel
Release Date: June 15th, 2007 (wide)
Distributors: 20th Century Fox Distribution


Riding the wave of success most comic book adaptations are receiving at the box office, the Fantastic Four are returning for a second helping. Not only am I extremely happy to see Jessica Alba in a skin-tight super costume, the next film introducing a new DC comic book character. Apparently the plotline reads: The Fantastic Four learn that they aren't the only super-powered beings in the universe when they square off against the power Silver Surfer and the planet-eating Galactus.