This summer’s line-up is a mouth-watering mix of sequels and originals, with top-flight films from the UK, Europe and Asia as well as the innovative action, witty humour and sparkling romance audiences have come to expect and enjoy. This summer’s sizzling line-up is captured in this compilation trailer which will go into cinemas, offering virtually an A to Z whistle-stop tour of the summer, from Adulthood and Angus, Thongs through to WALL-E and Wanted via many stars in between. Whatever their tastes, cinemagoers are in for a memorable summer at the movies.

SUMMER TRAILER

SUMMER 2008: CINEMA LINE-UP

Hotly anticipated international blockbusters:

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Sex And The City: The Movie
The Dark Knight (Batman 6th sequel)
Iron Man
The Incredible Hulk
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (Guillermo Del Toro)
The Duchess (Keira Knightley)
The Love Guru (Mike Myers)
Brideshead Revisited
Death Race
Wanted (Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy)
Kung Fu Panda (Jack Black, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie)

Strong Family films/animation:

W.A.L.L.-E (Pixar)
Kung Fu Panda (Dreamworks)
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Walt Disney)
Iron Man
The Incredible Hulk
Indiana Jones
The Dark Knight

Hugely talented directors/writers are back this summer with their next big film:

Woody Allen – Cassandra’s Dream
Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight
M.Night Shyamalan – The Happening
The Wachowski Brothers – Speed Racer
Guillermo Del Toro – Hellboy 2
Gurinder Chadha – Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (dir. Bend It Like Beckham)
Tom Tykwer – The International (dir. Perfume)
Amongst others…

Strong slate of foreign/intl. films this summer:

Mongol – Oscar-nominated (Kazakstan)
God Tussi Great Ho – Bollywood hit stars Amitabh Bachchan who starred in Cheeni Kum
Caramel – Lebanese (Lebanon’s Oscar submission)
Ikiru (1967) - Japanese
Ben X, Belgium/NL; won 3 prizes at Montreal World FF
XXY, Argentina, Won 2 Cannes awards; 1 EIFF & 1 Goya
La Antena, Argentina (2 wins + 8 noms)
Vexille – Japanese Animation
Terror’s Advocate, France
Heartbeat Detector, France
Female Agents, France (starring Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu) 

British:

Brideshead Revisited – Dir. Julian Jarrold, starring Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Ben Whishaw, Greta Scacchi (David M. Thompson, Exec Producer of My Summer of Love
Dangerous Parking – Dir. Peter Howitt, starring Saffron Burrows, Sean Pertwee, Tom Conti.
Adulthood, Dir. Noel Clarke, stars Danny Dyer, Scarlett Alice Johnson from Eastenders (follows Kidulthood – won BIFA 2006) 

Strong Documentary strand:

Taxi To The Darkside, US – Won OSCAR for Best Documentary
Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden? (9 May) – (Morgan Spurlock - Super Size Me, US)
Garbage Warrior, US
Terror’s Advocate, France
Let’s Get Lost, (1988), US, Dir. Bruce Weber, Oscar nominated Documentary about famous Jazz trumpeter/singer Chet Baker
A Letter To True, Dir. Bruce Weber
 
Classics Re-released:

Jules et Jim, 1962, Dir. François Truffaut  – BFI Distribution
Some Came Running, 1958, Dir. Vincente Minnelli, starring Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine and Dean Martin + nominated for 5 Oscars – BFI Distribution
Let’s Get Lost, 1988, Oscar nominated Documentary about famous Jazz trumpeter/singer Chet Baker – Metrodome
The Passionate Friends, 1949, Dir. David Lean – BFI Distribution