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Released 2007 Rating 12A in UK Director Gore Verbinski Writer/s Ted Elliot, Terry Rossio Starring Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightly, Geoffrey Rush, Bill Nighy, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin McNally, Mackenzie Crook, Tom Hollander, Naomie Harris Source of story A Disneyworld ride! And previous episodes Elevator Pitch Jack Sparrow, condemned in the previous film to Davy … Continue reading
Released 2004 Rating 12A in UK Director Steven Brill Writer/s Fred Wolf, Harris Goldberg, Tom Nursall, Jay Leggett, Mitch Rouse Starring Matthew Lillard, Seth Green, Dax Shepard Source of story An original screenplay, but involving D.B.Cooper a man who exhorted $200,000 from an airline owner and parachuted out of one never to be seen again. … Continue reading
Released 2010 Rating 12A in UK Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Writer/s Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Christopher McQuarrie, Julian Fellows Starring Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Paul Bettany, Timothy Dalton Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch A woman who is under surveilance, selects a man at random on a train to be a decoy, … Continue reading
Released 2010 Rating 15 in UK Director Paul W.S. Anderson Writer/s Paul W.S. Anderson Starring Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Wentworth Miller, Sienna Guillory, Source of story Originally a video game, and previous movies. Elevator Pitch Alice searches for other survivors of the T-Virus piloting an aircraft, finally landing on the roof of a prison in … Continue reading
Released 1997 Rating 15 in UK Director James L Brooks Writer/s Mark Andrus, James L Brooks Starring Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr, Skeet Ulrich, Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch A rich author who compulsively must follow precise patterns in his life finds everything changes when his gay neighbour … Continue reading
Released 2016 Rating PG in UK Director Jon Favreau Writer/s Justin Marks Starring Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Scarlett Johansson Source of story The Book by Rudyard Kipling – and the 1967 cartoon. Elevator Pitch A young boy is left alone in the jungle and becomes a cub in a pack of … Continue reading
Released 2010 Rating 15 in UK Director Shawn Levy Writer/s Josh Klausner Starring Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Mark Wahlberg, Taraji P.Henson, Kristen Wiig, Mark Ruffalo, James Franco, Mila Kunis Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch A couple whose lives have become a bit boring initiate “date night” where they go out and dine … Continue reading
Released 2013 Rating R in USA Director Joon-ho Bong Writer/s Joon-ho Bong, Kelly Masterson Starring Chris Evans, Kang-ho Song, Ed Harris, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton Source of story A graphic story Le Transperceneige by Jaques Lob, Bejamin Legrand, Jean Marc Rochette Elevator Pitch A ragged bunch of men women and children are crammed into the … Continue reading
Released 2008 Rating 15 in UK Director Matt Reeves Writer/s Drew Goddard Starring Mike Vogel, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan, Michael Stahl-David Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch During a party to celebrate the departure from New York of one of them, there is upheaval in the city, and they see buildings falling. They … Continue reading
Released 2015 Rating 15 in UK Director Jay Roach Writer/s John McNamara Starring Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Elle Fanning Source of story Real events and book by Bruce Cook Elevator Pitch Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and nine others are called before Congress to answer allegations that they are members of the communist party. They … Continue reading
Released 2013 Rating 12A in UK Director Lee Daniels Writer/s Danny Strong Starring Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Mariah Carey, Vanessa Redgrave, David Oyelowo, Cuba Gooding Jr, Lenny Kravitz, Robin Williams, John Cusack, Liev Schreiber, Alan Rickman, Jane Fonda. Source of story Inspired by real events and an article by Wil Haygood in the Washington Post … Continue reading
Released 2010 Rating 12A in UK Director Greg Berlanti Writer/s Ian Deitchman, Kristin Rusk Robinson Starring Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Josh Lucas, Sarah Burns, Melissa McCarthy Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch When a married couple are killed in a road accident, two of their friends, one male one female, are named as … Continue reading
Released 2011 Rating 12A Director Rob Marshall Writer/s Ted Elliot, Terry Rossio and others. Starring Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Ian McShane, Geoffrey Rush, Kevin McNally, Richard Griffiths, Judy Dench, Sam Claflin, Astrid Berges-Frisbey Source of story This episode loosley based on a novel by Tim Powers, the franchise based on a ride at Disneyland. Elevator … Continue reading
Released 2008 Rating 12A in UK Director Marc Forster Writer/s Paul Haggis, Neil Purvis, Robert Wade Starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Judi Dench, Gemma Arterton, Jeffrey Wright, Rory Kinnear, Tim Pigott-Smith, Source of story A continuation of Casino Royal, title apparently an Ian Fleming short story. Elevator Pitch The secret organisation Quantum has penetrated the … Continue reading
Released 1983 Rating 15 in UK Director John Landis Writer/s Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod Starring Dan Akroyd, Eddie Murphy, Don Ameche, Jamie Lee Curtis, Denholm Elliott, Ralph Bellamy, Frank Oz, James Belushi Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch At the whim of a couple of financiers a homeless man and a young businessman … Continue reading
Released 2006 Rating 13 in UK Director Woody Allen Writer/s Woody Allen Starring Woody Allen, Scarlett Johansson, Hugh Jackman, Ian McShane Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch A dead investigative reporter, on the boat across the Styx gets a whiff of a dramatic story, and manages to communicate with an American journalism student … Continue reading
Released 2016 Rating 15 in UK Director Billy Ray Writer/s Billy Ray Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts, Dean Norris Source of story A 2009 Argentinian film of the same name. Elevator Pitch A former FBI officer returns to Los Angeles to tell his former colleagues that he has found the identity of a … Continue reading
Released 2011 Rating 15 in UK Director John Michael McDonagh Writer/s John Michael McDonagh Starring Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong, Liam Cunningham Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch A country policeman on the west coast of Ireland has his own sense of right and wrong. This involves paying prostitutes and returning a … Continue reading
Released 2006 Rating 15 in UK Director Vondie Curtis-Hall Writer/s Vondie Curtis-Hall, Darin Scott Starring Tyrese Gibson, Meagan Good Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch A former criminal recently released on probation when his car, with the son in it, is hijacked. The cost of getting the boy back from a fearsome gang … Continue reading
Released 1981 Rating 15 in UK Director George Miller Writer/s George Miller Starring Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Source of story Mad Max 1 Elevator Pitch In post nuclear war Australia Max comes across a fortified community in the desert that has an oil well and a primitive refinery, but it is being besieged by a … Continue reading
Released 2002 Rating 12A in UK Director Stephen Herek Writer/s John Scott Shepherd Starring Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns, Tony Shalhoub, Stockard Channing, Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch A TV news reporter who apparently has everything, has her death predicted by a street prophet, and as his other preditions come true so it … Continue reading
Released 1986 Rating PG Director Leonard Nimoy Writer/s Leonard Nemoy, Harve Bennet, Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, Nicholas Meyer Starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelly, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Catherine Hicks Source of story Startrek TV, and actually this is a continuation of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Elevator … Continue reading
Released 2015 Rating 12A in UK Director Nicholas Hytner Writer/s Alan Bennet Starring Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Jim Broadbent, Richard Griffiths, Francis de la Tour, James Corden Source of story Real events, recorded by Alan Bennet as a book and a play Elevator Pitch Shortly after Alan Bennet moves into a substantial house in Camden … Continue reading
Released 2012 Rating 12A in UK Director Simon West Writer/s David Guggenheim Starring Nicolas Cage, Josh Lucas, Malin Akerman, Danny Huston Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch Eight years after a failed bank robbery a criminal gets out of jail, only to find himself having to pursue his former partner, who had has … Continue reading
Released 2008 Rating 12A Director Mathieu Kassovitz Writer/s Mathieu Kassovitz Starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Melanie Thierry, Mark Strong, Charlotte Rampling, Gerard Depardieu, David Belle, Source of story A novel by Maurice G Dantec Elevator Pitch In a future where law and order has broken down a former mercenary is hired to take a young … Continue reading
Released 2008 Rating PG in UK Director Mark Osborne, John Stevenson Writer/s Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger Starring Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Ian McShane, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogan, Lucy Lui Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch An obese panda with a dream of becoming a kung fu master is accidentally chosen to … Continue reading
Released 2013 Rating 15 in UK Director Mikael Hafstrom Writer/s Miles Chapman, Jason Keller Starring Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, 50 Cent, Jim Caveizel, Sam Neill, Vinnie Jones Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch An expert in prison security, who usually determines the weaknesses in such facilities by escaping from them, is incarcerated in … Continue reading
Released 2007 Rating 15 in UK Director Danny Boyle Writer/s Alex Garland Starring Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Mark Strong Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch A space craft is sent from earth to revive the dying sun with a large atomic bomb. They are the second mission, the first … Continue reading
Released 2013 Rating 12A in UK Director Guillermo del Toro Writer/s Guillermo del Toro, Travis Beacham Starring Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Burn Gorman, Ron Perlman Source of story An original screenplay – but sort of based on Japanese Anime. Elevator Pitch The world is threatened by monsters which rise from the sea to … Continue reading
Released 2011 Rating 15 in UK Director Greg Mottola Writer/s Simon Pegg, Nick Frost Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch A couple of geeks are on a trip round the “alien sites” in America in an RV after going to Comicon, when they come … Continue reading
Released 2012 Rating 15 in UK Director Ridley Scott Writer/s Jon Spailts, Damon Lindelof Starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce, Rafe Spall Source of story The story was prompted by the Alien franchise, although this is a prequel. Elevator Pitch Earth scientists identify the possible source of humanity on a … Continue reading
Released 2009 Rating PG Director McG Writer/s John Brancato, Michael Ferris Starring Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Moon Bloodwood, Helena Bonham Carter, Anton Yelchin, Bryce Dallas Howard Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch The war between humans and the machines goes on, but then a mystery man appears in the desolate destructed landscape, appearing … Continue reading
Released 1994 Rating 18 in UK Director Quentin Tarantino Writer/s Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avery Starring Tim Roth, John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Uma Therman , Harvey Keitel Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch A number of connected stories in the LA underworld involving a violent mafia boss and his … Continue reading
Released 2009 Rating 15 in UK Director Neal Brennan Writer/s Andy Stock, Rick Stempson Starring Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, James Brolin Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch A failing car dealership hires a group of supersalesmen to mastermind a July 4th Sale, and amid their success their leader falls for the boss’s daughter … Continue reading
Released 1982 Rating 15 in UK Director Taylor Hackford Writer/s Douglas Day Stewart Starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger, Louis Gusset Jr, David Caruso Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch A group of young men and women enrol in Navy flight school training during which some of them take up with the young women … Continue reading
Released 2011 Rating 15 in UK Director Steven Soderbergh Writer/s Lem Dobbs Starring Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender, Channing Tatum, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch A female “black ops” specialist is betrayed and marked for elimination after a particularly sensitive operation, forcing her to go on the … Continue reading
Released 2007 Rating PG in UK Director Tim Story Writer/s Don Payne, Mark Frost Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis Source of story The characters including the Silver Surfer, from Marvel Comics by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby Elevator Pitch Two of the Fantastic 4 are getting married when they are disturbed … Continue reading
Released 2015 Rating 15 in Uk Director Joel Edgerton Writer/s Joel Edgerton Starring Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch A couple recently moved from Chicago to California accidentally meet a former fellow pupil from the husband’s school. The husband is striving for promotion in his new employment, … Continue reading
Released 2009 Rating 15 in UK Director Robert Luketic Writer/s Nicole Eastment, Karen McCullah Starring Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch An outrageous TV presenter who gives romantic advice is hired to revive a morning show which is produced by an earnest and controlling producer. He helps her with … Continue reading
Released 1999 Rating 12 in UK Director Gary Sinyor Writer/s Steve Cohen Starring Chris O’Donnell, Renee Zellweger, Edward Asner, Hal Holbrook, James Cromwell, Peter Ustinov, Mariah Carey, Sarah Silverman, Jennifer Esposito, Brooke Shields Source of story A play by Roi Cooper Megrue and a 1925 film “Seven Chances” Elevator Pitch A determined 30 year old … Continue reading
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