As we near the end of 2004 it comes time to look forward to 2005 and here we have another 2005 slate preview as New Line Cinema has released images and details for eight of their upcoming flicks, just browse the titles below, and enjoy.
You might think this is a joke but New Line is ready to release Son of the Mask, which was originally intended for a 2004 release, but has now been pushed to Feb. 18, 2005. The film stars Jamie Kennedy, Alan Cumming, Bob Hoskins and Traylor Howard and brings back the mask Jim Carrey made popular back in 1994, best known as the film that launched Cameron Diaz‘s career.
This time around the legendary Mask of Loki wreaked havoc on the life of an unsuspecting adult, the magical mask finds its way into the possession of a child. For pics, the trailer and more info click here.
Next we have a Kevin Costner flick which also stars Joan Allen, Erika Christensen, Evan Rachel Wood, Keri Russell and Alicia Witt. The Upside of Anger is a drama that Allen starring as the sharp-witted Terry Wolfmeyer, a suburban wife and mother who is left to raise her four headstrong daughters when her husband unexpectedly disappears. Things get even more hectic when Terry falls for her neighbor Denny (Costner), a once-great baseball star turned radio DJ, and her daughters are forced to juggle their mom’s romantic dilemmas as well as their own.
For pics and a look at the poster click here.
If you thought Son of the Mask was a joke get ready for King’s Ransom, starring the recently exonerated of rape charges, Anthony Anderson, a.k.a. the man who is nowhere near as funny as studios seem to think he is.
After ruining the first Barbershop film Anderson stars as Malcolm King, a wealthy and arrogant businessman whose ex-wife to be has plans to take him for everything he’s worth in their divorce settlement.
For the rest of the story, more cast info, and some pics click here.
J-Lo is back and this time without Ben-Lo, her victim in this one will be co-star of the ABC hit show “Alias,” Michael Vartan, not to mention the big surprise as the mother-in-law from hell Jane Fonda in Monster-in-Law.
Unlucky in love, beautiful Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Cantilini (Jennifer Lopez) has finally met the man of her dreams, Dr. Kevin Fields (Michael Vartan). There’s just one problem – his mother! Overbearing and controlling, not to mention volatile, Viola Fields (Jane Fonda) has recently been canned from her job as a star news anchor. Fearing she will lose her son’s affections as she has her career, Viola decides to break up the happy couple by becoming the world’s worst mother-in-law.
For pics, a look at the teaser trailer and more of the story click here.
Now here we may have a comedy that will work as Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson and Christopher Walken team up for The Wedding Crashers, which also features the co-star of New Line’s Notebook, Rachel McAdams.
Vaughn and Wilson star as a pair of divorce mediators who spend their weekends crashing weddings in a search for Ms. Right…for a night. But when one of them falls for the engaged daughter (Rachel McAdams) of an influential and eccentric politician (Christopher Walken) at the social event of the year, they get roped into spending a wild weekend at the family’s palatial waterfront estate and quickly find themselves in over their heads.
For pics, the trailer and more click here.
Here we have one of Keira Knightley‘s many upcoming films, Domino, as she stars as Domino Harvey, daughter of legendary actor Laurence Harvey and a former Ford model who rejected her privileged Beverly Hills life to become a bounty hunter. Directed by Tony Scott this film has the potential of being a complete misrepresentation of the true story or one hell of an exciting fare, we will just have to wait and see.
In The New World we all hope that Colin Farrell will find a much better epic story than he did in the huge Oliver Stone flop Alexander, and New Line is hoping the same as Farrell stars in an epic adventure set amid the encounter of European and Native American cultures during the founding of the Jamestown Settlement in 1607, inspired by the legend of John Smith (Colin Farrell) and Pocahontas.
For the rest of the story, a larger look at the pic above and the trailer click here.
Viggo Mortensen found massive success as Aragorn in New Line’s Lord of the Rings trilogy and then met some varied criticism in his Touchstone film Hidalgo. Now he teams up with the sexy Maria Bello and Ed Harris in A History of Violence, a stylized thriller examining how far a man is willing to go in his quest for redemption and to protect his family.
To check out some pics from the film and some additional cast info click here.
