Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, known in Japan as Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door Hepburn: Kaubōi Bibappu: Tengoku no Tobira?, lit. Cowboy Bebop: Heaven's Door), is a 2001 Japanese animated Space Western action film based on the 1998 anime series Cowboy Bebop created by Hajime Yatate. Multiple staff from the original series worked on the film, including director Shinichirō Watanabe, writer Keiko Nobumoto, character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto, and animation director Hiroshi Osaka, and composer Yoko Kanno. The original English and Japanese voice cast also reprised their roles.

Release date: April 4, 2003 (USA)
Director: Shinichirō Watanabe
Running time: 120 minutes
MPAA rating: R
Initial DVD release: June 24, 2003

Starring (Cast): English voice cast Steven Blum, Beau Billingslea, Wendee Lee, Melissa Fahn, Daran Norris, Jennifer Hale, Nicholas Guest, Dave Wittenberg.

Japanese voice cast Kōichi Yamadera, Megumi Hayashibara, Unshō Ishizuka, Aoi Tada, Ai Kobayashi, Tsutomu Isobe, Renji Ishibashi, Mickey Curtis.

Storyline: Cowboy Bebop: The Movie is set on Mars in the year 2071, forty-nine years after Earth was mostly abandoned after a catastrophe. Humanity has settled on other planets and moons in the solar system. The film's protagonists are legalized bounty hunters who travel together on the spaceship Bebop. They are Spike Spiegel, a former associate of the Red Dragon crime syndicate; Jet Black, a former police officer and owner of the Bebop; Faye Valentine, a woman who was once a fugitive from bounty hunters; Edward Wong (Ed for short), a girl with genius computer skills; and Ein, an artificial dog with human level intelligence.

Days before Halloween, a man explodes a truck in Mars' capital city, spreading what is assumed to be a new pathogen that kills or injures over three hundred people. In response, the Mars government issues a record bounty of 300 million woolong for the culprit's capture. Faye, who was pursuing Lee Sampson, a hacker that was apparently driving the truck, sees the terrorist and the Bebop crew decide to take on the bounty. Each follows different lines of inquiry. Ed, using a tattoo on the attacker's wrist, manages to identify him as Vincent Volaju, a former member of a military squad apparently killed in the Titan War. In reality, Vincent was the only survivor of a test involving the pathogen, having been immunized with a test vaccine: made an amnesic, he suffers from hallucinations, and his inability to tell dreams from reality eventually drove him insane.

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Chappie

Chappie (2015)

Chappie (stylized as CHAPPiE) is a science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp. The screenplay, written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, is based on Blomkamp's 2004 short film Tetra Vaal.[3] The film stars Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Sigourney Weaver, Hugh Jackman, and Watkin Tudor Jones (Ninja) and Yolandi Visser of the South African zef rap-rave group Die Antwoord. The film premiered in New York City on March 4, 2015 and was released in U.S. cinemas on March 6, 2015.

Release date: March 6, 2015 (USA)
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Writers: Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
Running time: 120 minutes
MPAA rating: R
Screenplay: Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell

Starring (Cast): Sharlto Copley as CHAPPiE (voice and motion capture), Dev Patel as Deon Wilson, Ninja as Ninja, Yolandi Visser as Yolandi, Jose Pablo Cantillo as Amerika, Sigourney Weaver as Michelle Bradley, Hugh Jackmanas Vincent Moore, Anderson Cooper as himself, Brandon Auret as Hippo.


Storyline: In an effort to combat the high crime rate in Johannesburg, the South African police force purchases armour-plated attack robots from weapons manufacturer Tetravaal, which prove successful in reducing crime. The robot's inventor Deon Wilson is praised for Tetravaal's success, while engineer Vincent Moore grows jealous after funding is cut for his own attack robot, MOOSE, which is derided for its reliance on a human operator. At home, Deon creates a prototype artificial intelligence that mimics a human mind to the point of feeling emotions and having opinions, but Tetravaal CEO Michelle Bradley refuses to let him test the A.I. on a police robot. Undeterred, Deon steals a recently damaged robot before it is destroyed and puts it in his van, along with the "guard key" needed to update the robot's software. On his way home, he is kidnapped by a group of gangsters, Ninja, Yolandi and Amerika, who threaten to kill him unless he reprograms a police robot to fight for them. Deon installs the new software into the damaged robot, which responds with childlike terror upon powering up. Deon and Yolandi calm the robot, teaching it words and naming it "Chappie". Despite Deon wanting to stay with the robot, Ninja forces him out of their hideout.

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Mad Max: Fury Road

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Mad Max: Fury Road is an upcoming post-apocalyptic action film directed, produced and co-written by George Miller, and the fourth film of Miller's Mad Max franchise. The first film of the franchise in 30 years, Fury Road features actor Tom Hardy as Mad Max.

The film will have its world premiere on 14 May 2015 at the 68th Cannes Film Festival in an out of competition screening, followed by a wide theatrical release on 15 May 2015.

Release date: May 15, 2015 (USA)
Director: George Miller
Writers: George Miller, Brendan McCarthy,
Prequel: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
MPAA rating: R
Screenplay: George Miller, Nick Lathouris, Brendan McCarthy

Starring (Cast): The film stars Tom Hardy as "Mad" Max Rockatansky, Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa, Nicholas Hoult as Nux, Hugh Keays-Byrne as Immortan Joe, Nathan Jones as Rictus Erectus, Josh Helman as Slit, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as Splendid, Riley Keough as Capable, Zoë Kravitz as Toast, Abbey Lee Kershaw as The Dag, Courtney Eaton as Fragile, John Howard as The People Eater, Richard Carter as the Bullet Farmer, iOTA as Coma-Doof Warrior, Angus Sampson as the Organic Mechanic, Jennifer Hagan as Miss Giddy, Megan Gale as Valkyrie, Melissa Jaffer, Gillian Jones, Joy Smithers.

Storyline: Though determined to wander the post-apocalyptic wasteland alone, Mad Max (Tom Hardy) joins Furiosa (Charlize Theron), a fugitive imperator, and her band who are all trying to escape a savage warlord.

Plans for the fourth film of the Mad Max series hit financial difficulties and the project spent around 25 years in "development hell". Mel Gibson was interested in returning for the film, but lost interest after 2000. George Miller announced in 2003 that a script had been written for a fourth film, and that pre-production was in the early stages. Although the project was given the green light for a US$100 million budget to begin filming in Australia in May 2003, Mad Max 4 entered hiatus due to security concerns related to trying to film in Namibia because the United States and many other countries had tightened travel and shipping restrictions. With the outbreak of the Iraq War, Mad Max 4 was abandoned as it was considered a potentially politically sensitive film.

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Insurgent

Insurgent (2015)

The Divergent Series: Insurgent (also known as Insurgent) is a 2015 science fiction action film directed by Robert Schwentke, based on Insurgent, the second book in the Divergent trilogy, written by Veronica Roth. It is the sequel to the 2014 film Divergent and the second installment in The Divergent Series,[3][4] produced by Lucy Fisher, Pouya Shabazian and Douglas Wick, with a screenplay by Brian Duffield, Akiva Goldsman, and Mark Bomback.

Release date: March 20, 2015 (USA)
Director: Robert Schwentke
Writers: Brian Duffield (screenplay), Akiva Goldsman (screenplay)
Prequel: Divergent
Sequel: Allegiant
MPAA rating: PG-13




Starring (Cast): Kate Winslet, Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Octavia Spencer, Jai Courtney, Ray Stevenson, Zoë Kravitz, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Maggie Q, Naomi Watts.


Storyline: As she searches for allies and answers in the wake of the uprising, Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) are on the run. Being hunted by Jeanine Matthews (Kate Winslet), the leader of the Erudite faction, Tris and Four will race against time as they try to figure out what Abnegation sacrificed their lives to protect, and why the Erudite leaders will do anything to stop them. Haunted by her past choices but desperate to protect the ones she loves, Tris faces one impossible challenge after another as she unlocks the truth about the past and ultimately the future of her world.

Insurgent Official Trailer #1 (2015)

Divergent Series: Insurgent Trailer

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