New Theatrical
Romantic Releases:
"Joe Somebody" and "The Majestic"
Romantic Releases:
"Joe Somebody" and "The Majestic"
Synopsis - "Joe Somebody"
Everybody wants to be somebody and Joe Scheffer (Tim Allen) is no exception. But Joe feels like he’s a nobody. A talented video specialist at a Minneapolis pharmaceutical company, he regularly has been passed over for a long-promised promotion. And Joe is faring no better in his personal life, as he still pines for ex-wife Callie (Kelly Lynch).Things for Joe go from “ordinary” to worse when he endures the cruelest cut of all - the loss of his cherished and hard earned personal parking space at the hands of the office bully Mark McKinney (Patrick Warburton), who humiliates Joe in front of his precocious daughter Natalie (Hayden Panettiere). The incident spurs Joe to embark on a quest for redemption - or at the very least a rematch with Mark. The first step: martial arts instruction from Chuck Scarett (Jim Belushi), a washed up “B” action star who ultimately gives Joe much more than karate lessons.
Next: a makeover that includes a new hairstyle and wardrobe. Joe’s plans reap unexpected dividends: As news spreads of the rematch, Joe makes an unexpected ascent up the corporate ladder. He finds this newfound promotion, popularity and corporate perks intoxicating (a bonus is Callie’s awakening interest in Joe), but daughter Natalie makes it clear she liked her dad the way he was, not this new and improved version.
Also unimpressed with Joe’s transformation is plucky "wellness coordinator" Meg Harper (Julie Bowen), to whom Joe has been making tentative romantic overtures. As the showdown with the once-feared colleague nears, Joe is determined to show Meg, Natalie everybody that this one-time nobody is now a somebody to be reckoned with.
Release Date: December 21, 2001
Directed By: John Pasquin
Screenwriter: John Scott Sheperd
Producers: Arnold and Anne Kopelson, Matthew Gross, Ken Atchity, and Brian Reilly
Executive Producers: Aaron Milchan and William Wilson III
Director of Photography: Daryn Okada
Film Editor: David Finfer
Production Designer: Jackson De Govia
Music By: George Clinton
Starring: Tim Allen, Kelly Lynch, Jim Belushi, Julie Bowen, Greg Germann, Hayden Panettiere, and Patrick Warburton
Rating: PG for language, thematic elements and some mild violence.
Official Site: "Joe Somebody"
Photos: Photographs from the Premiere
Interviews: Q&A with the Cast
Synopsis - "The Majestic"
Hollywood screenwriter Peter Appleton (Jim Carrey), a staff writer at HHS Studios in 1951, is an ambitious up-and-comer. His first produced screenplay, a 'B' movie swashbuckler entitled “Sand Pirates of the Sahara,” has just opened on a double bill with John Huston's adventure, “The African Queen,” at Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard.
Not only is Appleton enjoying professional success, he has a hot starlet girlfriend, Sandra Sinclair (Amand Detmer), the female lead in his big screen debut.
However, life is full of 'what if's...'
What if Appleton were suddenly targeted by the House Un-American Activities Committee for suspected Communist leanings uncovered during his college years?
What if Appleton lost not only his job and his girl, but his identity as well in a serious car crash in which the young writer developed amnesia?
What if Appleton, unsure as to who he really is, stumbles into a charming little town on Northern California's coast and is mistaken for one of the town's long lost World War II heroes?
Release Date: December 21, 2001
Directed By: Frank Darabont
Screenwriters: Michael Sloane and Frank Darabont
Producers: Frank Darabont, Michael Sloane, Jim Behnke, and Liz Glotzer
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
Film Editor: Jim Page
Production Designer: Gregory Melton
Costume Designer: Karyn Wagner
Casting: Deborah Aquila
Composer: Mark Isham
Starring: Jim Carrey, Laurie Holden, Martin Landau, Bruce Campbell, Jeffrey DeMunn, Bob Balaban, Brent Briscoe, Amanda Detmer, James Whitmore, and David Ogden Stiers
Rating: PG for language and mild thematic elements.
Official Site: "The Majestic"
Interviews: Interviews with the cast and director
Article: More info on the film
Review: Movie Review
NEW ON VIDEO - ROMANCE:
"Moulin Rouge" - Video Release December 18, 2001
"The Princess Diaries" - Video Release December 18, 2001
"All Over the Guy" - Video Release December 18, 2001
NEW IN THEATERS - OTHER GENRES:
"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring"
"How High"
"Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius"
