MOVIES RELEASED AUSTRALIA JUNE 2004

 

 

JUNE 10

 

 

Harry Potter And the Prisoner Of Azkaban (PG): National. Roadshow.  Fantasy. Daniel Radcliffe, John Cleese, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Harris, William Hurt, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters. My god, how many are there? And there's one released EVERY year? Apparently they are releasing them so quickly because of the actors- they'll grow up or something.  Hah! Just feed 'em growth suppressant hormones in their breakfast cereal, and you'll be right. 

 
  MI-3 (Mission Impossible 3) (TBA): Selected. UIP. Action. Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Kelly Brook. D: Joe Carnahan (Narc).
  Wimbledon (TBA): National. UIP (Uni). Comedy. USA. Kirsten Dunst, Paul Bettany, Austin Nichols, Sam Neill, Jon Favreau, Bernard Hill, James McAvoy, Eleanor Bron, Nikolaj Coster Waldau, James McAvoy. D: Richard Loncraine (The Gathering Storm). In just two summer weeks, a British tennis player who was ranked 157th in the world (Paul Bettany), and generally considered to be on his last legs as a professional player, gets his one last chance to win both the All-England Lawn Tennis Championships on the grassy courts of Wimbledon... and the heart of a rising female tennis star (Kirsten Dunst) as well.

 

 

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  Walking Tall (TBA): National. Fox (MGM). 

 

 

JUNE 24 

 

Shrek 2 (TBA): National. UIP. Comedy/animation. Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz. D: Andrew Adamson (Shrek). The film picks up right where the first movie ended... Shrek and Fiona return from their honeymoon to find a letter from Fiona's parents inviting the newlyweds over for dinner. The only problem is that they have no idea that their daughter is now an ogre.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JUNE

 
  Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen (TBA): National. Buena Vista. Comedy . Lindsay Lohan . A teenager (Lohan) from New York  has to reinvent herself when she moves to Jersey.  There, she finds herself competing for attention because another girl has already staked her claim as the school’s centre of attention.  The result is a sharp and comedic battle for adolescent bragging rights.
 

Home On The Range (TBA): National. Buena Vista. Animated Musical Comedy. V: Dame Judy Dench, Cuba Gooding Jnr., Randy Quaid, Jennifer Tilly. Barnyard animals set off on a comical journey across the Old West in order to save their farm.  Some might think the great heroes of America's fabled West are the cowboys or the lawmen. But of course we all know the real hero of the west: the cow. Disney has opened the stable door on these unsung heroes in an hilarious comedy: a woman (Sarah Jessica Parker) who can't make the mortgage payments on her farm, is faced with eviction. Three dairy cows (Maggie, Grace, and Mrs. Caloway) band together as bovine bounty hunters and set out to nab a notorious cattle rustler, a wanted criminal named Alameda Slim (Randy Quaid) whose capture carries enough reward money to save the farm. The cows get help from Buck the Stallion (Cuba Gooding Jr., who is frustrated about being just the sheriff's delivery horse, and wants to capture Alameda Slim to obtain the glory that has so far eluded him).
  A Man's Gotta Do (TBA): Selected. Hopscotch. Australia D: Chris Kennedy. John Howard, Rebecca Frith, Alyssa McClelland, Gyton Grantly.  From the producer of Rabbit Proof Fence, John Winter and the award-winning writer/director Chris Kennedy ( Doing Time for Patsy Cline) comes this sharp-witted comedy. John Howard plays Eddy, who earns an honest living from his fish trawler but  leads a double life as a “standover” man at night to keep his aspirational wife, Yvonne happy. His relationship with his feisty daughter Chantelle, whose Russian fiance has disappeared, is at crisis point and he decides to read her diary or rather get his new sidekick, Dominic to do it.  Eddy’s gotta do what Eddy’s gotta do to keep his eccentric family together.
  My Baby's Momma (TBA): Selected. Buena Vista. 
  We Don't Live Here Anymore (TBA): Selected. Dendy. Naomi Watts, Laura Dern, Peter Krause, Mark Ruffalo. D: Larry Curren (Praise). This movie's script is based upon two stories, "Adultery" and "We Don't Live Here Anymore" (actually a novella), by Andre Dubus, who also wrote the story which was adapted to film as In the Bedroom.   Premise: Two couples (Watts and Krause, Dern and Ruffalo), who have all been close friends for a long time, find their lives changing when two of them have an affair. Filming: Production started on April 6th, 2003 in Vancouver, British Columbia on a budget of about $3 million, and wrapped up in early June, 2003.