Berlin 2007
Production Information
Dates
  • Feb. 8th - Feb. 18th, 2007
 
Location
  • Grand Hyatt - Suite 720
  • Phone: 49 30 2553 4770
 
Screening Times
   
Contact
  • Anne-Marie Boysen
  • E-mail: aboysen@lionsgate.com
  • Phone: 310.255.3700
  • Fax: 310.255.3770
 
Corporate Address
  • 2700 Colorado Ave., Suite 200
    Santa Monica, Ca 90404
 
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THE CONDEMNED
Genre: Action/Thriller
Produced by: Joel Simon
Screenplay by: Scott Wiper and Rob Hedden
Story by: Rob Hedden & Andy Hedden and Scott Wiper
Directed by: Scott Wiper
Cast: Steve Austin, Vinnie Jones
Status: Completed

Synopsis: An adrenalin-charged action thriller, “The Condemned” tells the story of Jack Conrad, who is awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt Central American prison. He is “purchased” by a wealthy television producer and taken to a desolate island where he must fight to the death against nine other condemned killers from all corners of the world, with freedom going to the sole survivor. The producer films the illegal event, airing the killings live and uncensored onto the internet. 
   
PRIDE
Genre: Drama
Producers: Brett Forbes, Patrick Rizzotti, Michael Ohoven, Adam Rosenfelt, Paul Hall
Screenplay by: Kevin Michael Smith & Michael Gozzard and J. Mills Goodloe and Norman Vance Jr.
Story by: Kevin Michael Smith & Michael Gozzard
Directed by: Sunu Gonera
Cast: Terrence Howard, Bernie Mac, Kimberlie Elise, Tom Arnold
Status: Completed

Synopsis: Based on true events, PRIDE tells the inspiring story of Jim Ellis, a charismatic schoolteacher in the 1970s who changed lives forever when he founded an African-American swim team in one of Philadelphia’s roughest neighborhoods.
   
DELTA FARCE
Genre: Comedy
Producers: J.P. Williams & Alan Blomquist
Written by: Bear Aderhold & Thomas F.X. Sullivan
Directed by: CB Harding
Cast: Larry The Cable Guy, Bill Engvall, DJ Qualls, Danny Trejo, Marisol Nichols and Keith David
Status: Post-Production

Synopsis: Down on his luck after losing his job and his girlfriend on the same day, Larry decides to join his neighbor, Bill, and his combat-happy buddy, Everett for a relaxing weekend of drinking and target practice. But when the three hapless men are mistaken for Army Reservists by Sergeant Kilgrove, they’re loaded onto an army plane headed for Fallujah, Iraq – and mistakenly ejected in a Humvee somewhere over Mexico. Convinced they’re actually in the Middle East, the clueless wannabe soldiers save a rural village from a siege of bandits and become local heroes.
   
TYLER PERRY'S DADDY'S LITTLE GIRLS
Genre: Drama
Producers: Tyler Perry, Ruben Cannon
Written & Directed by: Tyler Perry
Cast: Gabrielle Union, Idris Elba, Louis Gossett Jr.
Status: Completed

Synopsis: A romantic drama about family, community and love against the odds. Tyler Perry’s follow-up to his number one box office hits Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Madea’s Family Reunion.…
   
TENDERNESS
Genre: Drama
Producers: John Penotti, Howard Meltzer and Charles Randolph
Written by: Emil Stern
Directed by: John Polson
Cast: Russell Crowe, Jon Foster, Sophie Traub & Laura Dern
Status: Post-Production

Synopsis: Tenderness is the story of a violent teenager, Eric, who meets and falls in love with Lori, a 16-year-old runaway who can't resist his charm. Lieutenant Cristofuoro pursues the pair as he tries to unravel Eric's complex past.
   
THE EYE
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Producers: CW Productions
Screenplay by: Sebastian Gutierrez, Hillary Seitz
Directed by: David Moreau, Xavier Palud
Cast: Jessica Alba
Status: Pre-Production

Synopsis: Sydney, a young, blind violinist is given the chance to see for the first time since childhood through a miraculous corneal transplant. As Sydney adjusts to a dizzying new world of colors and shapes, she is haunted by frightening visions of death itself capturing the doomed and dragging them away from the world of the living. Terrorized and on the brink of insanity, Sydney must discover whose eyes she has inherited, and what secret visions they have held.
   
THE BURROWERS
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Producers: William Sherak, Jason Shuman
Written & Directed by: J.T. Petty
Status: Pre-Production

Synopsis: The Burrowers tells the story of a band of courageous men who set out to find and recover a family of settlers that has mysteriously vanished from their home. Expecting the offenders to be a band of fierce natives, the group prepares for a routine battle. But they soon discover that the real enemy stalks them from below.
   
3:10 TO YUMA
Genre: Action/Drama
Written by: Michael Brandt & Derek Haas, revisions by Stuart Beattie, revisions by James Mangold, based upon the film "3:10 to Yuma" written by Halsted Welles from the short story by Elmore Leonard
Directed by: James Mangold
Cast: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale
Status: Production

Synopsis: In Arizona in the late 1800's, infamous outlaw Ben Wade (Crowe) and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans (Christian Bale), struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the "3:10 to Yuma", a train that will take the killer to trial. On the trail, Evans and Wade, each from very different worlds, begin to earn each other's respect. But with Wade's outfit on their trail - and dangers at every turn - the mission soon becomes a violent, impossible journey toward each man's destiny.
   
KAIDAN
Genre: Horror
Produced by: Taka Ichise
Screenplay by: Satoko Okudera
Original Story by: Encho Sanyutei
Directed by: Hideo Nakata
Cast: Kikunosuke Onoe, Hitomi Kuroki, Mao Inoue, Kumiko Aso, Tae Kimura, Asaka Seto
Status: Post-Production

Synopsis: 250 years ago Soetsu, a humble moneylender, is murdered by Shinzaemon, a cruel samurai, and his body is disposed of in the Kasanegafuchi, the pool of a river where it snakes around, and where legend has it, those who sink into the water will never float to the surface again. 20 years later, in a chance encounter, Shinkichi, the handsome son of Shinzaemon, meets Toyoshiga, the daughter of Soetsu, and they fall in love. When Toyoshiga dies from a mysterious disease, Shinkichi finds that not only is he unable to avoid the mysterious fatality of the past and Toyoshiga's tenacious love for him, but he is also forced to confront the ghostly truths held by the Kasanegafuchi.
   
FUERA DEL CIELO
Genre: Drama
Producers: Epigmenio Ibarra, Carlos Payán, Inna Payán
Written by: Guillermo Ríos
Directed by: Javier “Bug” Patrón
Cast: Demián Bichir, Armando Hernández, Damián Alcázar, Dolores Heredia, Rafael Inclán, Martha Higareda, Ricardo Blume, Elizabeth Cervantes
Status: Completed

Synopsis: FUERA DEL CIELO begins at 6am when Marlboro gets out of prison. Marlboro is Cucu’s older brother and when the brothers unite they begin a journey that will last exactly 24 hours. Marlboro’s release from prison stirs anger and violence in those he left behind and as he confronts each of them, his chances of surviving those 24 hours grows slimmer by the minute.
   
DELIVER US FROM EVIL
Genre: Documentary
Producers: Amy Berg, Frank Donner, Hermas Lassalle, Matthew Cooke
Written & Directed by: Amy Berg
Cast: Thomas Doyle, Oliver O’Grady
Status: Completed

Synopsis: Juxtaposing an extended, deeply unsettling interview with O'Grady himself with the tragic stories of his victims, filmmaker Amy Berg bravely exposes the deep corruption of the Catholic Church and the troubled mind of the man they sheltered.
   
FIDO
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Producers: Blake Corbet, Mary Ann Waterhouse
Screenplay by: Robert Chomiak, Andrew Currie, Dennis Heaton
Directed by: Andrew Currie
Cast: Carrie-Anne Moss, Billy Connolly, Dylan Baker, K’Sun Ray, Henry Czerny, and Tim Blake Nelson
Status: Completed

Synopsis: Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall zombie named Fido. But when Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown-ups, "FIDO" will rip your heart out.
   
RETRIBUTION
Genre: Horror
Producer: Taka Ichise
Written & Directed by: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast: Koji Yakusho, Manami Konishi, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Hiroyuki Hirayama, Joe Odagiri, Ryo Kase
Status: Completed

Synopsis: Detective Yoshioka is haunted by the image of a woman in a red dress and caught in a terror that he himself might be a killer of the serial killer case he chases after. Is his memory twisted? The grudge of the dead comes to this life and roar as “Shriek” and this present life starts to shake.

   
DAYBREAKERS
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Producers: Brian Furst, Sean Furst, Chris Brown
Written & Directed by: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Status: Pre-Production

Synopsis: It is 2016, and it has been 10 years since the plague transformed ordinary people into Vampires dependent on human blood for survival. As the human race nears extinction and the Vampire population grows desperate for blood, a group of rebel Vampires battle military forces to save the last vestiges of humanity.

   
BUG
Genre: Thriller
Producers: Holly Wiersma, Kimberly C. Anderson, Malcolm Petal, Gary Huckabay, Michael Burns, Andreas Schardt
Screenplay by: Tracy Letts, based on his play
Directed by: William Friedkin
Cast: Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Lynn Collins, Brian F. O’Byrne and Harry Connick, Jr.
Status: Completed

Synopsis: A lonely waitress with a tragic past, Agnes rooms in a run-down motel, living in fear of her abusive, recently paroled ex-husband. But when Agnes begins a tentative romance with Peter, an eccentric, nervous drifter, she starts to feel hopeful again - until the first bugs arrive.

   
ROGUE
Genre: Action
Producers: Steven Chasman, Christopher Petzel, Jim Thompson
Written by: Lee Anthony Smith & Gregory J. Bradley
Directed by: Philip Atwell
Cast: Jet Li, Jason Statham, John Lone, Devon Aoki, Ryo Ishibashi
Status: Post-Production

Synopsis: After his partner Tom Wynne (Terry Chen) and family are killed apparently by the infamous and elusive assassin Rogue (Jet Li), FBI agent Jack Crawford (Jason Statham) becomes obsessed with revenge as his world unravels into a vortex of guilt and betrayal. Rogue eventually resurfaces to settle a score of his own, setting off a bloody crime war between Asian mob rivals Chang (John Lone) of the Triad's and Yakuza boss Shiro (Ryo Ishibashi). When Jack and Rogue finally come face to face, the ultimate truth of their pasts will be revealed.

   
RIGHT AT YOUR DOOR
Genre: Thriller
Producers: Palmer West & Jonah Smith
Written & Directed by:   Chris Gorak
Cast: Mary McCormack, Rory Cochrane
Status: Completed

Synopsis: After dirty bombs have been simultaneously detonated in Los Angeles, mass panic spreads throughout the city. One couple is faced with a life-and-death decision in the face of chaos.

   
SKINWALKERS
Genre: Action-Horror
Producers: Don Carmody and Dennis Berardi
Directed by: James Issac
Make-up and effects by: Stan Winston
Cast: Jason Behr, Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra, Natassia Malthe, Sarah Carter, Kim Coates, Matthew Knight Status: Completed

Synopsis: A twelve-year old boy and his mother become the center of an ancient war between two warring werewolf tribes. Both sides will face off in a final battle between good and evil to decide who will rule the earth.

   
BORDERLAND
Genre: True Crime Thriller
Producers: Lauren Moews, Randall Emmett, George Furla, Elisa Salinas, Brian Presley
Written by: Eric Poppen and Zev Berman
Directed by: Zev Berman
Cast: Brian Presley, Rider Strong, Jake Muxworthy, Beto Cuevas, Martha Higareda, Marco Bascuzzi, Roberto Sosa with Damian Alcazar and Sean Astin
Status: Completed

Synopsis: Based on true events, a group of friends travel to Mexico in search of a good time, but when one is abducted by drug runners who believe in human sacrifice, their trip takes an evil and horrific turn.

   
CATACOMBS
Genre: Horror
Producers: Gregg Hoffman, Oren Koules, Mark Burg
Written & Directed by: Tomm Coker & David Elliot
Cast: Shannyn Sossamon, Alecia Moore Status: Completed

Synopsis: One night, Victoria is swept into the Parisian underground rave scene, literally under ground into the city’s Catacombs. It is here among the bodies of the dead that the easily frightened Victoria finds herself lost in the darkness and being pursued by someone or something more terrifying than she could have ever imagined.