2006 Movies

Alien Autopsy
Genres: Drama, Comedy, Scifi

Release Date: 14 April 2006
Cast: Anthony McPartlin, Declan Donnelly, Omid Djalili, Morwenna Banks, Bill Pullman
Director: Jonny Campbell

Plot: Ray and Gary are best friends who discover a top secret military tape on a visit to the US. They borrow the money to buy it, and return to the UK amid a hail of publicity. But as the media frenzy grows, the two come under pressure from a secret of their own that could even threaten their lives.

Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction
Genre: Thriller

Release Date: 10 March 2006
Cast: Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, Bill Murray
Director: Michael Caton-Jones

Plot: Sharon Stone is set to reprise her role as manipulative, seductive novelist Catherine Tramell.

Cars
Genres: Comedy, Family, Animation

Release Date: 28 July 2006 in USA and Uk
Cast: Paul Newman, Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt, Dan Whitney
Director: John Lasseter

Plot: Pixar's next movie. It is about a collection of cars travelling along the historic Route 66.

Links:
Cars: Disney Official Site

Chicken Little
Genres: Comedy, Family, Animation

Release Date: 20 October 2005 in USA and 10 February 2006 in UK.
Cast: Zach Braff, Amy Sedaris, Joan Cusack, Garry Marshall, Steve Zahn
Director: Mark Dindal

Plot: An acorn falls on Chicken Little's head, and he causes widespread panic by claiming that the sky is falling down.

Links:
Chicken Little: Official Website by Disney

Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Genres: Animation, Comedy

Release Date: 31 March 2006 in USA and 7 April 2006
Cast: Ray Romano, John Leguzamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah
Director: Carlos Saldanha

Plot: It's the return of those lovable rogues: Diego, Manny and Sid. It's up to them to save the day once again, as this time the Ice Age era is nearly over and their world is starting to melt, which will destroy their valley! Don¡¯t despair, as our heroes are back together and will teach us to put aside our differences in these troubled times.

Links:
Iceage2.com: Official Website

Mission Impossible 3
Genres: Thriller, Action

Release Date: 5 May 2006 in USA and UK.
Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Michelle Monaghan, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Maggie Q, Billy Crudup, Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames
Director: J J Abrams

Plot: Ethan Hunt returns as the super-secret super-spy. Plot details are as yet unconfirmed, but expect to see self-destructing instructions, implausibly-realistic masks being removed to reveal The Toothsome One, and much precarious dangling from high altitude perches.

Links:
Mission Impossible 3: Official Website

Munich
Genres: Drama

Release Date: 23 December 2005 in USA and 27 January 2006 in UK.
Cast: Eric Bana, Ben Kingsley, Geoffrey Rush
Director: Steven Spielberg
Music: John Williams

Plot: At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Palestinian gunmen killed 11 Israeli athletes. This film is set in the aftermath, as agents from Mossad, Israel's secret service, hunt down the men responsible.

Links:
Munich Movie: Official Website

Pink Panther
Genre: Comedy

Release Date: 10 February 2006 in USA and 17 March 2006 in UK.
Cast: Jean Reno, Steve Martin, Beyonce Knowles, Kevin Kline
Director: Shawn Levy

Plot: Prequel to the Blake Edwards / Peter Sellers classic. Clouseau must solve two crimes - the murder of a football coach, and the theft of the Pink Panther diamond. There's no guarantee of him getting to the bottom of either.

Links:
Pink Panther: Official Website from Sony Pictures.

Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
Genres: Action, Family

Release Date: July 6 2006 in USA and UK.
Cast: Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom, Johnny Depp, Stellan Skarsgård, Bill Nighy, Jack Davenport
Director: Gore Verbinski

Plot: This is the sequel to the 2003 summer hit movie. The three leads are set to reprise their roles as Captain Jack Sparrow, Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner.

Links:
Pirates of the Caribbean: Official Website

Poseidon
Genres: Drama, Action

Release Date: 12 May 2006 in USA and 2 June 2006 in UK.
Cast: Emmy Rossum, Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, Mike Vogel, Josh Lucas, Mia Maestro, Freddy Rodriguez, Jacinda Barrett, Jimmy Bennett, Kevin Dillon
Director: Wolfgang Petersen

Plot: A remake of the classic 1972 disaster film, in which a luxury liner is tipped over by a giant wave, forcing a ragtag band of passengers to try and make their way to safety.

Links:
Poseidon Movie:

Sin City 2
Genres: Crime, Drama

Release Date: 18 August 2006 in UK.
Cast: Devon Aoki, Clive Owen, Jessica Alba, Mickey Rourke
Directors: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez

Plot: It was another dark night in Basin City when lovers Dwight and Ava Lord were reunited. But in Sin City, a reunion is never good news. And Ava has plans for Dwight.

Syriana
Genres: Drama, Thriller

Release Date: 9 December 2005 in USA and 3 March 2006 in UK.
Cast: George Clooney, Kayvan Novak
Director: Stephen Gaghan

Plot: Based on the account of Max Baer (Clooney) who watched from the inside of the CIA for years as, by a number of factors, they got the terrorism situation wrong in the Middle East.

Links:
Syriana Movie: Official Website

Superman Returns
Genres: Action, Fantasy, Family

Release Date: 14 July 2006
Cast: Sam Huntington, Brandon Routh, Kevin Spacey, James Marsden, Eva Marie Saint, Kal Penn, Parker Posey, Kate Bosworth
Director: Bryan Singer

Plot: The Man of Steel returns. Plot details remain hazy, with re-writes still going on. However, we can expect the outrunning of speeding bullets, leaping tall buildings in one bound and pants being worn over tights.

Links:
Superman Returns: Official Website from Warner Bros

Transformers
Genre: Action

Release Date: July 2007
Director: Michael Bay
Screenwriter: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci

Plot: Two tribes of robots, disguised as everyday vehicles and objects, live on Earth. The Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, are decent blokes who respect human life. The Decepticons, led by Megatron, believe in the survival of the fittest and despise organic life. Things get hairy.

Two for the Money
Genres: Drama, Comedy, Thriller

Release Date: 7 October 2005 in USA and 10 March 2006 in UK.
Cast: All Pacino, Matthew McConaughey, Rene Russo
Director: D.J. Caruso

Plot: After suffering a career-ending injury, a former college football star aligns himself with one of the most renown bookies in the sports-gambling business.

Links:
Two for the Money: Official Website

X-Men 3
Genres: Action, Scifi, Fantasy

Release Date: May 2006
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Kelsey Grammer, Vinnie Jones, Halle Berry, James Marsden, Ben Foster, Hugh Jackman, Ellen Page
Director: Brett Ratner

Plot: When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men, led by Professor Charles Xavier (Stewart), and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organized under Xavier's former ally, Magneto (McKellen).

Links:
X3movie.com: Official Website

V For Vendetta
Genres: Fantasy, Thriller

Release Date: 17 March 2006 in USA and UK.
Cast: Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Stephen Fry, John Hurt, Sinead Cusack, Tim Pigott-Smith, Stephen Rea
Director: James McTeigue
Screenwriter: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski

Plot: Based on Alan Moore and David Lloyd's graphic novel, in which the terrorist, freedom fighter and Guy Fawkes impersonator known only as "V" strikes out against the fascist government in a nightmarish alternate Britain.

Links:
V For Vendetta Movie: Official Website

Plot: Borat Movie is about Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron Cohen), Kazakhstan's sixth most famous man and a leading journalist from the State run TV network, travels from his home in Kazakhstan to the U.S. to make a documentary. On his cross-country road-trip, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences.

Zathura
Genres: Action, Scifi, Family

Release Date: 03 February 2006
Cast: Jonah Bobo, Tim Robbins, Kristen Stewart,
Director: Jon Favreau

Plot: While bored and stuck at home, two bickering brothers find an old board game in the cellar that transports them to outer space. Unless they can successfully complete the game and reach the planet Zathura, they will be trapped there forever.

Links:
Zathura Movie: Official Website by Sony Pictures