Showing posts with label Patrick Wilson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Patrick Wilson. Show all posts

Saturday, June 6, 2015

Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)


"It will take what you love most."


Directed by James Wan
Produced by Jason Blum, Oren Peli
Screenplay by Leigh Whannell
Story by James Wan, Leigh Whannell
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye, Ty Simpkins, Barbara Hershey
Music by Joseph Bishara
Cinematography: John R. Leonetti
Edited by Kirk Morri
Production companies: IM Global, Entertainment One, Blumhouse Productions
Distributed by FilmDistrictб Stage 6 Films
Release date: 13 September 2013 (Canada)
Running time: 105 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $5 million
Box office: $161.9 million

"Insidious: Chapter 2" is a horror thriller film directed by James Wan and written by Leigh Whannell. This picture is a sequel to "Insidious". The story is about Josh and Renai Lambert who seek to uncover the secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.

Saturday, November 29, 2014

The Conjuring (2013)


"Based on the true case files of the Warrens"


Directed by James Wan
Produced by Tony DeRosa-Grund, Peter Safran, Rob Cowan
Written by Chad Hayes, Carey W. Hayes
Starring: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor
Music by Joseph Bishara
Cinematography: John R. Leonetti
Edited by Kirk M. Morri
Production company: New Line Cinema, The Safran Company, Evergreen Media Group
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date: 18 July 2013 (Australia)
Running time: 112 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $20.000.000
Box office: $318.000.141

"The Conjuring" is a horror film directed by James Wan. It tells the story of Ed and Lorraine Warren, who are American paranormal investigators and authors associated with prominent cases of haunting. One of them leads the Warrens to the Perron family, who are experiencing increasingly disturbing events in their farmhouse in Rhode Island in 1971.

Friday, November 28, 2014

Insidious (2011)


"The further you travel, the darker it gets."


Directed by James Wan
Produced by Jason Blum, Steven Schneider, Oren Peli
Written by Leigh Whannell
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey
Music by Joseph Bishara
Cinematography: John R. Leonetti, David M. Brewer
Edited by James Wan, Kirk Morri
Production company: Alliance Films, IM Global, Stage 6 Films, Blumhouse Productions
Distributed by FilmDistrict, Momentum Pictures
Release date: 31 March 2011 (Belarus)
Running time: 102 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $1.500.000
Box office: $150.009.150

"Insidious" is a mystery horror drama film directed by James Wan and written by Leigh Whannell. The story is about the Lamberts who move into a new home. A short time later, one of theirs sons, Dalton, falls from a ladder when he sees something in the shadows. Hearing his terrified screams, Renai and Josh rush to his aid and declare the attic "off limits" to the children. The next day, Dalton falls into an inexplicable coma. But is it a coma in fact?

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Watchmen (2009)


"We're society's only protection."



Directed by Zack Snyder
Produced by Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, Deborah Snyder
Screenplay by David Hayter, Alex Tse
Based on "Watchmen" by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons
Starring: Malin Åkerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson
Music by Tyler Bates
Cinematography: Larry Fong
Edited by William Hoy
Production company: Legendary Pictures, DC Comics, Cruel and Unusual Films, Lawrence Gordon Productions
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, Paramount Pictures
Release date: 4 March 2009 (Belgium )
Running time: 162 minutes
Country: Canada
Budget: $130.000.000
Box office: $185.258.983

"Watchmen" is an action mystery sci-fi neo-noir film directed by Zack Snyder and adapted from the 1987 comic-book of the same name by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. The action is set in an alternate history in the year 1985 at the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Meanwhile streets of USA are full of costumed crimefighters, superheroes, who grow unpopular among the police and the public with time. While many of the heroes retired, Doctor Manhattan and The Comedian operate as government-sanctioned agents, and Rorschach continues to operate outside the law. However, they uncover something grandiose and sinister that that may turn the course of history.

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Passengers (2008)


"The truth can't hide forever."


Directed by Rodrigo García
Produced by Joseph Drake
Written by Ronnie Christensen
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson, Clea DuVall, Andre Braugher, Chelah Horsdal, David Morse, Dianne Wiest
Music by Edward Shearmur
Cinematography: Igor Jadue-Lillo
Edited by Thom Noble
Production company: Mandate Pictures
Distributed by TriStar Pictures
Release date: 26 September 2008 (Spain)
Running time: 93 minutes
Country: United States, Canada
Budget: $25.000.000
Box office: $5.494.715

"Passengers" is a mystery romantic drama film directed by Rodrigo García. It tells the story of a psychotherapist, Claire Summers, who has to treat a group of survivors of a plane crash. At first everything goes normally but then strange events, such disappearances of group members, transpire. And Claire starts to think that all these things are linked to the catastrophe. However, in what way?

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Hard Candy (2005)


"Strangers shouldn't talk to little girls."


Directed by David Slade
Produced by Rosanne Korenberg, Paul Allen
Written by Brian Nelson
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Ellen Page, Sandra Oh, Odessa Rae
Music by Molly Nyman, Harry Escott
Cinematography: Jo Willems
Edited by Art Jones
Production company: Vulcan Productions
Distributed by Lionsgate
Release date: 12 May 2006 (Spain)
Running time: 104 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $950.000
Box office: $7.022.209

"Hard Candy" is a crime thriller drama film directed by David Slade and written by Brian Nelson. The story is about a teenage girl Haley who has a flirtatious online chat with a man whose real name is Jeff. After a time they decide to meet. It turned out that they have much in common and therefore Jeff asks her to go to him. He says he's a photographer who would like to take her pictures. Surprisingly, Haley agrees with this offer.

Monday, November 24, 2014

The Phantom Of The Opera (2004)


"Her voice became his passion. Her love became his obsession. Her refusal became his rage..."


Directed by Joel Schumacher
Produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Screenplay by Joel Schumacher, Andrew Lloyd Webber
Based on "The Phantom of the Opera" by Andrew Lloyd Webber, "Le Fantôme de l'Opéra" by Gaston Leroux
Starring: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver, Simon Callow, Ciaran Hinds
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Cinematography: John Mathieson
Edited by Terry Rawlings
Production company: Really Useful Films, Joel Schumacher Productions, Odyssey Entertainment, Scion Films
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date: 10 December 2004 (UK)
Running time: 143 minutes
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Budget: $70.000.000
Box office: $154.648.887

"The Phantom of the Opera" is a drama musical romantic thriller film directed by Joel Schumacher and adapted from Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical of the same name, which is based on the French novel "Le Fantôme de l'Opéra" by Gaston Leroux. The story is about a spectre-like entity who lives somewhere within the opera house and is believed to be a ghost. He watches every show and one day he notices singing of beautiful Christine with who he falls in love.

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Annabelle (2014)



Directed by John R. Leonetti
Produced by Peter Safran, James Wan
Written by Gary Dauberman
Starring: Annabelle Wallis, Ward Horton, Alfre Woodard
Music by Joseph Bishara
Cinematography: James Kniest
Edited by Tom Elkins
Production company: New Line Cinema, RatPac Entertainment, Atomic Monster, The Safran Company
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date: 1 October 2014 (Hong Kong)
Running time: 99 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $6.500.000
Box office: $231.800.000


"Annabelle" is a horror film directed by John R. Leonetti, It's both a prequel to and spin-off of "The Conjuring". The film tells the story of the doll Annabelle more particularly. In 1969, John and Mia Form live in Santa Monica and are expecting their first child. John gives her a doll that she has been trying to find. Mia loves it and puts it with the rest of her doll collection, saying that she "fits right in". At night, Mia hears a murder occurring at their neighbours, the Higgins'. When Mia returns home and call the police as her husband told her to do, she is attacked by a woman holding the doll and a male accomplice. John and the police arrive and kill the man while the woman kills herself. She leaves a bloody symbol drawn on the wall and a drop of her blood falls on the face of the doll in her arms.