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Mega hits for the New Year
The movie line up for the year 2005 is packed with some explosive hits which will compete for the top notches at Box Office. Hollywood movie fans will see some of the best special effects movies ever created which includes the mega hit Star Wars 3, Batman the movie, King Kong and Son of the Mask. There is a significant increase in movies related to real life affairs as well as movies based on current global issues from crime rings to internal conflicts.

Elektra features Jeniffer Garner the hot action heroine who has reached mega stardom in action adventures with the hit TV drama Alias. Remember Daredevil Elektra was first introduced on the big screen as the main female character alongside the blind superhero the Daredevil. This time the plot of Elektra will draw heavily from the graphic novels “The Elektra Assassin” and “The Elektra Saga,” as she battles the Hand, an organization of killers that trained her and then betrayed her. One major character will be Stick, a martial arts trainer who is a venerable Marvel Comics figure who also appeared as the villain in Daredevil.

A James Cameron documentary titled Aliens of the Deep will also be released this year and is expected to provide a boost emerging documentary movie industry. “Aliens of the Deep” is the result of several dramatic and visually stunning deep-sea expeditions to hydrothermal vent sites in the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. These vent sites are violent volcanic regions where the interaction between ocean and molten rock create plumes of super-heated, chemically-charged water that serve as unimaginable oases for animals unlike anything ever discovered. Six-foot tall stomach-less worms with blood-red plumes, blind white crabs, and an inconceivable biomass of shrimp capable of “seeing” heat all compete to find just the right location in the flow of the super-heated, life-giving water that surrounds these vents. Unlike all other life on Earth, these creatures are not dependent on sunlight and their ecosystems are as close to alien as anything ever imagined.

Vin Diesel redefines what it means to be an action hero in the heartwarming family action-comedy “The Pacifier.” Diesel stars as Navy SEAL Shane Wolfe who, as an elite member of the world’s fiercest and most highly trained force though he was prepared to take on any duty no matter how perilous or impossible... until he tried baby-sitting. Diesel is assigned to protect the five out-of-control children of an assassinated scientist working on vital government secrets. Vin Diesel will not return in the sequel to the hit XXX he will be replaced by Ice Cube in this new episode. Samuel L. Jackson will return as NSA agent Augustus Gibbons, the handler of the incorrigible agent drafted to tackle unsavory thugs around the world.

The sequel to the extremely successful horror thriller the Ring will also hit the screens this year. Titled The Ring Two Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) and her son Aidan (David Dorfman) have relocated to the quaint mountain town of Asheville, where Rachel has found a new job at the local Asheville Gazette, working alongside reporter Max Rourke (Simon Baker). The discovery of a local teenage homicide whilst scanning the electronic Asheville Police archives prompts Rachel to uncover the truth behind it. Before long, Rachel has linked the homicide to the mysterious video tape. Just when Rachel is within reach of uncovering the secret, she discovers that Aidan has been hospitalized unconscious, perilously cold, and bruised. Rachel suspects this is the act of Samara Morgan, but Dr Emma Temple suspects otherwise. Having being blamed for child abuse and looking guilty as sin, Rachel returns to Seattle, to dig deeper into the past of the ghostly Samara.

Expected to be a mega hit the final episode of the 1 trilogy of the Star Wars series Return of the Sith will be released in May. After three long years of relentless fighting, the Clone Wars are nearly at an end. The Jedi Council dispatches Obi-Wan Kenobi to bring General Grievous, the deadly leader of the Separatist droid army, to justice. Meanwhile, back on Coruscant, Chancellor Palpatine has grown in power. His sweeping political changes transform the war-weary Republic into the mighty Galactic Empire. To his closest ally, Anakin Skywalker, he reveals the true nature of power and the promised secrets of the Force in an attempt to lure him to the dark side.

The Marvel Juggernaaut seems to be never ending this times the movie is The Fantastic Four. When an experimental space voyage goes awry, four people are changed by cosmic rays. Reed Richards, inventor and leader of the group gains the ability to stretch his body, and takes the name, Mr. Fantastic. His girlfriend, Sue Storm, gains the ability to turn invisible and create force fields, becoming the Invisible Girl. Her little brother Johnny Storm gains the ability to control fire, including covering his own body with flame, like a Human Torch. Pilot Ben Grimm is turned into a super-strong rocky Thing. Together, they use their unique powers to explore the strange aspects of the world and acting as a force for humanity.

For the kids Harry will return with more mysteries in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire The pivotal fourth novel in the seven-part tale of Harry Potter’s training as a wizard and his coming of age. Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup with Hermione, Ron, and the Weasleys. He wants to dream about Cho Chang, his crush (and maybe do more than dream). He wants to find out about the mysterious event that’s supposed to take place at Hogwarts this year, an event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn’t happened for a hundred years.

The year will come to an end with movie which has thrilled many generations of movie fans, it’s the new editions of the awesome King Kong, Jackson will bring his sweeping cinematic vision to the iconic story of the gigantic ape-monster captured in the wilds and brought to civilization where he meets his tragic fate.

The screenplay by Jackson, Walsh and Boyens is based on the original story by Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace, which became the classic 1933 RKO Radio Pictures film, directed by adventurers Cooper and Ernest B. Schoesdack. Jackson will employ the latest motion picture technology to cinematically portray the timeless tale of the beast and his beauty.

He will expand on the chapters of the tale that take place in the mysterious and dangerous jungles of Skull Island, and his Kong promises to be a unique and breathtaking creation.

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