Other films planned for 2005

Published 9:00 pm Thursday, January 27, 2005

Here are some of the other planned film releases for 2005. Many films do not yet have specific release dates, some remain untitled and studio schedules are subject to change. For films that have specific dates, the month of release is noted in parentheses:

Winter and spring:

“The Ballad of Jack and Rose”: Daniel Day-Lewis is a dying activist coping with his rebellious daughter. (March)

“The Cave”: Spelunkers find terror in a network of Romanian caves. With Cole Hauser, Piper Perabo and Morris Chestnut. (April)

“Crash”: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Brendan Fraser and Matt Dillon lead an ensemble drama revolving around a disparate group of Los Angeles dwellers. (May)

“Dear Frankie”: A Scottish mom (Emily Mortimer) concocts tales of a distant dad to satisfy her deaf son’s curiosity about his father. With Gerard Butler. (March)

“Duma”: A boy journeys across southern Africa to restore his cheetah pal to the wilds. With Campbell Scott and Hope Davis.

“Eros”: Steven Soderbergh, Michelangelo Antonioni and Wong Kar-Wai direct segments in an anthology trilogy examining erotic desire. (April)

“Hostage”: A washed-up hostage negotiator (Bruce Willis) must dust off his skills when delinquents take a family captive. (March)

“House of D”: David Duchovny directs and co-stars with Tea Leoni, Robin Williams, and Erykah Badu on a coming-of-age drama. (April)

“Ice Princess”: A teen (Michelle Trachtenberg) chases her dream of becoming a champion figure skater. With Joan Cusack and Kim Cattrall. (March)

“In Her Shoes”: Estranged sisters (Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette) reconcile with help from a grandma they never knew they had. Shirley MacLaine co-stars. (April)

“The Jacket”: An institutionalized veteran (Adrien Brody) is hurled into the future, where he learns of his own looming death. With Keira Knightley. (March)

“King’s Ransom”: A rich businessman (Anthony Anderson) tries to stage his own kidnapping to avoid paying a divorce settlement. (April)

“A Lot Like Love”: Friends (Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet) take a seven-year hitch toward romance with each other. (April)

“Millions”: A suitcase of cash drops out of the sky and changes the lives of two grieving young brothers. Danny Boyle (“28 Days Later”) directs. (March)

“The Pacifier”: Vin Diesel’s a Navy SEAL on his deadliest mission – babysitting an unruly brood of orphans. (March)

“Rebound”: A disgraced college coach (Martin Lawrence) seeks redemption leading a junior-high basketball team. (April)

“Rumor Has It”: An obituary writer (Jennifer Aniston) tries to set her muddled life straight. Rob Reiner directs, Kevin Costner and Shirley MacLaine co-star. (April)

“Sahara”: An adventurer (Matthew McConaughey) hunts for treasure in Africa in this Clive Cussler adaptation. With Penelope Cruz. (April)

“Sin City”: Bruce Willis heads a huge cast in Robert Rodriguez’s adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novels about a crime-ridden burgh. (April)

“A Sound of Thunder”: Time-traveling dinosaur hunters disrupt the course of evolution. Based on Ray Bradbury’s story. With Edward Burns and Ben Kingsley. (March)

“Unleashed”: A mob killer (Jet Li) goes straight and must fight to protect his adopted family. Bob Hoskins and Morgan Freeman. (April)

“The Upside of Anger”: A boozy, bitter single mom (Joan Allen) struggles with four daughters and romance with a neighbor (Kevin Costner). (March)

“The Weather Man”: A successful TV weatherman (Nicolas Cage) copes with chaos in his private life. With Michael Caine. (April)

Summer season:

“The Adventures of Shark Boy &Lava Girl”: Robert Rodriguez (“Spy Kids 3-D”: Game Over”) spins a new 3-D tale of a boy with two fantastical imaginary pals. (June)

“Cinderella Man”: Russell Crowe plays Depression-era fighter Jim Braddock, who gets a second chance at his boxing dream. Renee Zellweger co-stars, Ron Howard directs. (June)

“Dark Water”: A single mom (Jennifer Connelly) faces strange noises, puzzling leaks and other sinister signs in a new apartment. (August)

“Deuce Bigalo”: European Gigolo”: Goofy male prostitute (Rob Schneider) is back in action to solve a wave of gigolo murders. (August)

“The Devil’s Rejects”: Director Rob Zombie resurrects characters from his “House of 1000 Corpses” in this horror follow-up. (August)

“Doom”: The Rock and Karl Urban star in the sci-fi action-adventure based on the computer-game phenomenon. (August)

“Elizabethtown”: Cameron Crowe directs a story of blossoming romance at a Southern patriarch’s ostentatious funeral. With Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst. (July)

“Everything is Illuminated”: Elijah Wood stars in the story of a man’s search to find the woman who saved his grandfather in World War II. Liev Schreiber directs. (August)

“The 40-Year-Old Virgin”: Buddies of a geek (Steve Carell) plot to end his lifelong celibacy by fixing him up with a single mom (Catherine Keener). (August)

“Happy Endings”: Lisa Kudrow, Laura Dern, Tom Arnold and Maggie Gyllenhaal lead a comedy about dysfunctional family and friends. (July)

“Herbie”: Fully Loaded”: Disney’s “Love Bug” gets a new owner in Lindsay Lohan, who enters the plucky Volkswagen on the NASCAR circuit. (June)

“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”: Douglas Adams’ end-of-the-world sci-fi romp finally hits the big-screen. With Sam Rockwell, Mos Def and John Malkovich. (May)

“House of Wax”: College students fall in with a menacing museum curator in an update of the Vincent Price fright film. With Elisha Cuthbert and Paris Hilton. (June)

“Into the Blue”: Divers battle rival treasure hunters and smugglers to retrieve gold from a shipwreck. With Paul Walker and Jessica Alba. (July)

“The Island”: Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson are clones out to escape the farm where they’re raised as spare parts for their originals. Michael Bay directs. (July)

“Lords of Dogtown”: The skateboarding Z-Boyz of 1970s southern California pioneer extreme sports. With Heath Ledger, Johnny Knoxville and Emile Hirsch. (June)

“Mindhunters”: A group of FBI profilers must uncover a killer in their midst. With Val Kilmer, Christian Slater and LL Cool J. (May)

“Must Love Dogs”: With help from her meddling family, a divorcee (Diane Lane) makes a shaky return to romance. With John Cusack.

“The Perfect Man”: A teen (Hilary Duff) concocts a secret admirer for her loser-at-love mom. With Heather Locklear and Chris Noth. (August)

“The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”: Four teen girls bond through sharing a pair of thrift-shop pants. With Amber Tamblyn and Alexis Bledel. (May)

“The Skeleton Key”: A live-in nurse (Kate Hudson) encounters terror in patient’s crumbling mansion. Gena Rowlands and John Hurt. (July)

“Sky High”: Freshman at a superhero school copes with his embarrassing lack of superpowers. Kurt Russell and Kelly Preston. (July)

“Stealth”: Military top guns try to bring down a renegade drone plane controlled by artificial intelligence. Jamie Foxx and Jessica Biel. (July)

Untitled Kurt Russell/Dakota Fanning Project: A father and daughter work to salvage the career of an injured racehorse. (August)

Untitled Mike Judge Project: Director Judge spins a comedy of a man (Luke Wilson) who wakes up 1,000 years in the future to find he’s the smartest guy alive. (August)

“Wedding Crashers”: Two divorce mediators (Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson) crash weddings in search of one-night stands. (July)

Fall and holiday:

“The Barnyard”: An animated family flick about talking farm animals, featuring the voices of Kevin James, Danny Glover and Courtney Cox Arquette.

“Domino”: The daughter (Keira Knightley) of actor Laurence Harvey quits her modeling career to become a bounty hunter. Tony Scott directs.

“The Exorcism of Emily Rose”: A lawyer (Laura Linney) defends a priest (Tom Wilkinson) accused of in the death of a girl who underwent an exorcism. (September)

“Fever Pitch”: Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon in a romance about a woman competing with her man’s first love”: the Boston Red Sox. Bobby and Peter Farrelly direct. (October)

“Fierce People”: A drug addict (Diane Lane) tries to clean up her act and build a new life for herself and her teenage son.

“Flightplan”: A mother (Jodie Foster) faces an airborne mystery when her 6-year-old daughter vanishes on a trans-Atlantic flight. (September)

“The Fog”: Ghosts of shipwrecked sailors terrorize a seaside town in a remake of John Carpenter’s 1980 horror tale. (October)

“The Fountain”: Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz star in a fantasy of a man’s 1,000-year-long quest to save his lady love.

“George Romero’s Land of the Dead”: “Night of the Living Dead” creator George Romero resurrects the undead again in his return to the zombie genre. (October)

“A Good Woman”: Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson and Tom Wilkinson star in an update of Oscar Wilde’s “Lady Windermere’s Fan” set in 1930s Italy.

“The Great Raid”: U.S. troops go on a daring rescue of American POWs from a Japanese camp in the Philippines in 1945. Benjamin Bratt and James Franco. (December)

“The Ice Harvest”: Plans by an embezzler (John Cusack) to skip town with his loot and a beautiful woman are disrupted by an ice storm. With Billy Bob Thornton. (November)

“Jarhead”: Sam Mendes (“American Beauty”) directs a drama based on a U.S. Marine’s memoirs in the Gulf War. With Jake Gyllenhaal and Jamie Foxx. (November)

“Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang”: A thief (Robert Downey Jr.) auditioning as an actor is hurled into a murder investigation. With Val Kilmer.

“The Legend of Zorro”: Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones reunite with “The Mask of Zorro” director Martin Campbell for another swashbuckler. (November)

“Lucky You”: A professional card player (Eric Bana) has a run-in with his estranged dad at Vegas’ World Series of Poker.

“The New World”: Colin Farrell stars in a tale of John Smith, Pocahontas and the conflict between Indians and 17th century settlers. Terrence Malick directs. (November)

“The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio”: A mother of 10 (Julianne Moore) pays the bills by entering commercial jingle contests. With Woody Harrelson and Laura Dern.

“Roll Bounce”: A local roller-skating king (Bow Wow) enters the big competition at a glitzy rink. (September)

“Saw 2”: The low-budget horror hit from 2004 gets a quick follow-up. (October)

“A Scanner Darkly”: Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson and Winona Ryder in Philip K. Dick’s tale of a future in which America has lost the war on drugs. (September)

“Serenity”: Joss Whedon offers a big-screen addendum to his sci-fi TV show “Firefly.” (September)

“Shopgirl”: Steve Martin stars in an adaptation of his novella about a Saks clerk (Claire Danes) wooed by a rich older man and a young average guy (Jason Schwartzman).

“Syriana”: George Clooney and Matt Damon star in a political thriller set among energy industry power-mongers. With William Hurt.

“Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride”: Stop-motion animation tells the story of a man forced to wed in the underworld. With the voices of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter and Emily Watson. (September)

“Underworld”: Evolution”: Kate Beckinsale vamps her way through a sequel to the action tale of a blood feud between vampires and werewolves. (December)

“V for Vendetta”: The Wachowski brothers (“The Matrix”) co-write a sci-fi thriller about a rebel in totalitarian Britain.

“The Woods”: A teen (Agnes Bruckner) has ghastly visions at a boarding school where students are disappearing. With Patricia Clarkson. (September)

“Zathura”: Two young brothers are hurled into a space adventure while playing a mysterious game found in their basement. (November)

Untitled 50 Cent Project: Singer stars in the story of a street tough who gives up crime to pursue a rap career. Jim Sheridan directs.

Untitled Niki Caro Project: “Whale Rider” director Niki Caro tells the story of a woman (Charlize Theron) crusading against her mining company’s unfair practices.

To be determined:

“Aeon Flux”: Charlize Theron turns action hero in a live version of TV’s animated sci-fi series set in Earth’s bleak future.

“Annapolis”: A struggling Naval cadet (James Franco) challenges his rival (Tyrese Gibson) in the academy’s boxing championships.

“Art School Confidential”: An art student (Max Minghella) schemes to make a splash in the cultural world. Co-starring John Malkovich and Anjelica Huston.

“Bandidas”: A society woman and a peasant become notorious bank robbers in 19th century Mexico. Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek star.

“Bee Season”: A neglected daughter (Flora Cross) comes into her own after triumphing in a spelling bee. With Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche.

“Big Momma’s House 2”: Martin Lawrence puts on the fat suit again as an FBI agent who goes undercover as a portly Southern woman.

“Capote”: Philip Seymour Hoffman plays author Truman Capote researching the crime novel “In Cold Blood.” With Catherine Keener and Chris Cooper.

“Glory Road”: The real-life story of college basketball’s first all-black starting lineup in its 1966 NCAA tournament quest. With Josh Lucas and Derek Luke.

“The Greatest Game Ever Played”: A young amateur (Shia LaBeouf) transfixes the golf world in a match against the British champ in 1913. Bill Paxton directs.

“A History of Violence”: An unassuming family man (Viggo Mortensen) is hurled into the public spotlight by a violent incident. David Cronenberg directs.

“Last Holiday”: Convinced she’s dying, a wallflower (Queen Latifah) lives it up on a European spree. LL Cool J co-stars in the update of an Alec Guinness tale.

“Little Manhattan”: A 10-year-old tries his hand at first love when he’s smitten by a classmate. With Cynthia Nixon.

“The Man”: A federal agent (Samuel L. Jackson) teams with a dental-supply sales guy (Eugene Levy) in an undercover crime romp.

“Nanny McPhee”: Emma Thompson stars as a nanny out to tame the seven unruly children of a widower (Colin Firth). Angela Lansbury co-stars.

“Prime”: A twentysomething man falls for a divorced career woman (Uma Thurman) in this romantic comedy. With Meryl Streep.

“Proof”: Gwyneth Paltrow stars as a woman coming to terms with the death of her father (Anthony Hopkins). With Jake Gyllenhaal.

“Red-Eye”: An airplane passenger (Rachel McAdams) is forced into a plot to kill a business executive. Wes Craven directs.

“The Ringer”: A sleazy guy (Johnny Knoxville) tries to pull a con on the Special Olympics by signing up and pretending he’s mentally challenged.

“Romance &Cigarettes”: John Turturro directs a musical fantasy set among working-class stiffs. With James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet and Mandy Moore.

“Stay”: A psychiatrist tries to save a distraught patient planning to commit suicide. With Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts.

“The Transporter 2”: Jason Statham returns as the tough operative, who sets out to save abducted twin brothers.

“Tristan and Isolde”: A new take on the medieval legend of a love affair with tragic consequences. James Franco and Sophia Myles star.

“Two for the Money”: An ex-college football star (Matthew McConaughey) becomes a pawn in a sports-gambling operation. Al Pacino co-stars.

“Undertaking Betty”: Alfred Molina, Brenda Blethyn, Christopher Walken and Naomi Watts in a funeral comedy set at a Welsh mortuary.

“An Unfinished Life”: Robert Redford and Jennifer Lopez star in a reunion drama about a reclusive rancher and his estranged daughter-in-law. With Morgan Freeman.

Untitled “Carlito’s Way” project: This prequel to “Carlito’s Way” traces the crime roots of the title character (Jay Hernandez). Mario Van Peebles co-stars.

Untitled Lindsay Lohan project: Lindsay Lohan stars as a woman whose good luck is accidentally swapped for a man’s bad fortune.

Untitled Mark Wahlberg project: Mark Wahlberg stars in the story of four brothers out to avenge their mother’s death. John Singleton directs.

“Wannabe”: Two rising actresses (Pell James and Ashlee Simpson) try to build some hype for an unsuccessful musician.