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Filmography
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Pirates of the Caribbean 3:
Worlds End (2007)
is the third film in the Pirates of the Caribbean series after Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. It is slated to be released in 2007, directed by Gore
Verbinski, with returning stars Johnny
Depp, Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom. Parts of the film are being shot during the filming of Dead Man's Chest, with some principal photography beginning in April of 2005. The subtitle of this installment is rumored to be World's End.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) Once again thrown into the world of the supernatural, Captain Jack Sparrow finds out that he owes a blood debt to the legendary Davey Jones, Captain of the ghostly Flying Dutchman. With time running out, Jack must find a way out of his debt or else be doomed to eternal damnation and servitude in the afterlife. And as if this weren't enough, the Captain's problems manage to wreck the wedding plans of a certain Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, who are forced to join Jack on yet another misadventure..
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Elizabethtown
(2005)
Comedy
After causing the Oregon shoe company he works for to
lose hundreds of millions of dollars, Drew Baylor (Bloom)
is fired for his mistake, and promptly also dumped by his
girlfriend, Ellen (Biel). On the verge of suicide, Drew is
oddly given a new purpose in life when he is brought back
to his family's small Kentucky hometown of Elizabethtown
following the death of his father, Mitch, as it falls to
him to make sure that his dying wishes are fulfilled. On
the way home, Drew meets a flight attendant, Claire
Colburn (Dunst), with whom he falls in love, in a romance
that helps his life get back on track.
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Kingdom
of Heaven (2005)
Action/Adventure, Drama
and Romance
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN is an epic adventure about a common
man who finds himself thrust into a decades-long war. A
stranger in a strange land, he serves a doomed king, falls
in love with an exotic and forbidden queen, and rises to
knighthood. Ultimately, he must protect the people of
Jerusalem from overwhelming forces while striving to keep
a fragile peace.
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Ned
Kelly (2004)
Action/Adventure and
Western
1 hr. 49 min. Ned Kelly (Ledger) and his brother Dan,
sons of an Irish pig thief exiled to the Australian penal
colony in 1843, formed the core of the Kelly Gang (with
two other men), an outlaw gang (they were called
"bushrangers", not "cowboys") that
roamed across Australia for over two wild years. Kelly was
a clever bandit, making his own homemade armor, including
steel chest plates and helmets, to stop bullets from
stopping him. Kelly was first arrested at 16 for horse
stealing, but he became an outlaw when he killed a police
officer who was harrassing his brother.
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Troy
(2004)
Action/Adventure
2 hrs. 42 min. In 1193 B.C., Prince Paris (Bloom) of
Troy stole the beautiful Greek woman, Helen (Kruger), away
from her husband, Menelaus, the king of Sparta, setting
the two nations at war with each other, as the Greeks
began a bloody siege of Troy using their entire armada,
led by Achilles (Pitt), that lasted over a decade.
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The
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Action/Adventure, Drama
and Science Fiction/Fantasy
3 hrs. 30 min. The Fellowship's journey is coming to
an end. Sauron's forces have attacked Gondor's capital of
Minas Tirith in his final siege against mankind. Watched
over by a fading steward, the once great kingdom has never
been in more desperate need of its king. But will Aragorn
find the strength to become what he was born to be and
rise to meet his destiny? As Gandalf desperately tries to
move the broken forces of Gondor to act, Thיoden
unites the warriors of Rohan to join in the fight. Even in
their courage and passionate loyalty, the forces of men
– with ֹowyn and Merry hidden among them – are
no match against the swarming legions of enemies raining
down on the kingdom. With each victory comes great
sacrifice. Despite their great losses, The Fellowship
charges forward in the greatest battle of their lifetime,
united in their singular goal to give Frodo a chance to
complete his quest. Traveling across treacherous enemy
lands, Frodo must rely increasingly on Sam and Gollum as
The Ring continues to test his allegiance and, ultimately,
his soul.
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Pirates
of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Action/Adventure and
Kids/Family
2 hrs. 23 min. Set in the Caribbean Sea in the 17th
century, this is the story of a gentleman rogue of a
pirate, Jack Sparrow (Depp), who teams up with the
daughter (Knightley) of a governor (Pryce) to stop the
evil plan of a ship of dangerous pirates (led by Rush) who
are trying to reverse an ancient curse that leaves them
stuck between life and death, with the light of the moon
revealing their skeletons, like some kind of undead
monsters.
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The
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Action/Adventure, Drama
and Science Fiction/Fantasy
2 hrs. 59 min. The second chapter in the J.R.R.
Tolkien saga, the hobbits Frodo and Sam brave terrible
dangers in an attempt to have the evil ring destroyed,
while Aragorn, Legolas and their allies strive to rescue
the abducted hobbits Pippin and Merry from the clutches of
evil. The great wizard Gandalf also makes his miraculous
return to aid in the struggle against the united towers of
Saruman and Sauron.
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Black
Hawk Down (2001)
Action/Adventure and
Drama
2 hrs. 24 min. BLACK HAWK DOWN is director Ridley
Scott's (GLADIATOR) adaptation of the true war story as
told in Mark Bowden's book of the same title. The film
takes place in 1993 when the U.S. sent special forces into
Somalia to bring food and humanitarian aid to the starving
population. Using Black Hawk helicopters to lower the
soldiers onto the ground, an unexpected attack by Somalian
forces brings two of the helicopters down immediately.
From there, the U.S. soldiers must struggle to regain
their balance while enduring heavy gunfire.
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The
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Action/Adventure and
Drama
2 hrs. 58 min. Set in mythic Middle Earth, a young
hobbit named Frodo Baggins inherits a magic ring from his
elderly cousin Bilbo. The dark Lord Sauron lusts for the
powers that the magic ring holds, knowing it will enable
him to enslave the people of land. In his effort to thwart
Sauron, Frodo recruits the fellowship of a wizard, an elf,
a dwarf and others on a mission to destroy the ring by
casting it into the volcanic fires in the Crack of Doom.
However, the ring unleashes its own power as a result of
the struggle....
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Wilde (1997)
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius,
poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of
his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled
marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love
for Lord Alfred Douglas, nicknamed Bosie. After legal action
instigated by Bosie's father, the mad Marquess of Queensberry,
Wilde refused to flee the country and was sentenced to two years
at hard labour by the courts of an intolerant Victorian society.
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