The Animal
Revolution Studios/Columbia Pictures Release
This comedy opens July 11, 2001
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From the producers of the comedy smash
Deuce Bigalow: Maie Gigolo comes The Animal, about
lowly file clerk Marvin Mange (Rob Schneider), who doesn't have
the athletic prowess it takes to complete the police training
school and fulfill his lifelong dream to be a cop.
But his luck changes when he's critically
injured in a car accident and an eccentric doctor secretly uses
animal organs to perform a trans-species-ectomy to rebuild him.
Energized by his new parts, Marvin leaves his weakness behind
and achieves instant fame as a supercop.
Marvin enjoys his newfound popularity in
the department as well as the attention of his new girlfriend,
Rianna (Colleen Haskell of Survivor) until his animal instincts
start taking over his body at all the wrong times. Marvin struggles
to supress his animal urges in a series of hilarious situations.
Stars Rob Schneider, Colleen Haskell, John
C. McGinley, Guy Torry and Edward Asner. Directed by Luke Greenfield.
Story by Tom Brady.
Not yet rated.
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Baby Boy
Columbia Pictures Release
This drama opens July 27, 2001
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Ten years after the release of the seminal
"Boyz N the Hood," acclaimed director John Singleton
returns to the same inner-city Los Angeles neighborhood for the
story of a misguided 20-year-old African American man (Tyrese
Gibson), a 'baby boy' facing the commitments of real life.
Also stars Omar Gooding, A.J. Johnson,
Taraji P. Henson, Snoop Dog and Ving Rhames.
Not yet rated.
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FINAL FANTASY:
The Spirits Within
Columbia Pictures/Square Pictures
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This adventure film opens July 20, 2001
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Blurring the lines between reality and
computer animation, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is
the first feature-length motion picture that brings vivid
hyperRealism to computer-generated, human characters.
The thrilling, futuristic action-adventure
pits the earth and its people against the ultimate enemy-mysterious
aliens that steal the energy from all living things on the planet.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is
a cinematic breakthrough where
the most sophisticated effects imaginable are invisibly woven
into an unforgettable story about adventure, survival and the
eternal spirit of mankind.
Voices by Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi,
Peri GIlpin, Ming-Na, Ving Rhames, Donald Sutherland. Directed
by Hironobu Sakaguchi and co-directed by Motonori Sakakibara.
Rated PG-13 by the MPAA for Sci-Fi Action
and Violence.
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America's Sweethearts
Revolution Studios/Columbia Pictures
This romantic comedy opens July 20, 2001.
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For an awkward, self-conscious girl like
Kiki (Julia Roberts), being the personal assistant to a beautiful
megastar like Gwen (Catherine Zeta-Jones) isn't easy. But when
she dutifully accepts the task of helping Gwen and her estranged
megastar husband Eddie aohn Cusack) make it through one last
public appearance masterminded by legendary press agent Lee Phillips
(Billy Crystal), for ever devoted Kiki finds that her job is
about to get even harder.
At first it seems her biggest challenge
is to keep the peace between Eddie and Gwen and their public
image intact, but soon Kiki is faced with a more personal concem
as her longtime friendship with Eddie begins to take a romantic
tum.
Also stars John Cusack, Hank Azaria, Stanley
Tucci, Christopher Walken and Seth Green/
Not yet rated.
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John Carpenter's
GHOSTS OF MARS
Screen Gems release.
This science fiction/action film opens
August 24, 2001.
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From the famed director of Vampires
and Escape From New York, Iohn Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars
is a harrowing tale of rescue and escape from a colonized
Mars in the year 2025.
Long inhabited by human settlers, the Red
Planet has become the manifest destiny of an over populated Earth.
Nearly 640,000 people now live and work all over Mars, mining
the planet for its abundant natural resources. But one of those
mining operations has uncovered a deadly mother lode- a long-dormant
Martian civilization whose warriors are systematically taking
over the bodies of human intruders.
Lt. Melanie Ballard (Natasha Henstridge)
of the Martian Police Force is on transport assignment to bring
James "Desolation" Williams (Ice Cube), the planet's
most notorious criminal, to justice. Williams has no plans to
make Ballard's job easy, and what begins as a battle of force
and wits between cop and criminal soon turns into something more
fundamental- a battle for human survival in the realm of the
Martian warriors.
It's civilization against civilization
as Ballard and Williams join forces in mortal combat with the
Ghosts of Mars.
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