The Weinstein Company hasn't even been in existance a year yet, but Bob and Harvey's new Indie distributor is already rolling out a small scale blockbuster lineup. Partnered up with Dimension and MGM, they probably won't have many $100 million movies, but then with the low budget productions they're pushing they don't have to.
For Weinstein it's a summer of Kevin Smith, and the fanboy favorite returns to the world that made him famous with a sequel to Clerks. Around that they'll release a few horror movies and videogame to movie translations. Thank god for Kevin.
To find out exactly what The Weinstein Company, MGM, and Dimension Films have in store for you, read CB's Summer 2006 Weinstein Preview below. Click on each movie title for more information and images.
OTHER SUMMER 06 PREVIEWS: UNIVERSAL | SONY | FOX | WB
Pulse
Release Date: July 14
Synopsis: Imagine our wireless technologies made a connection to a world beyond our own. Imagine that world used that technology as a doorway into ours. Now, imagine the connection we made can't be shut down. When you turn on your cell phone or log on to your e-mail, they'll get in, you'll be infected and they'll be able to take from you what they don't have anymore - life. Kristen Bell ("Veronica Mars"), Christina Milian ("Love Don't Cost A Thing") and Ian Somerhalder ("Lost") star in "Pulse", a bone-chilling thriller.
Clerks II
Release Date: August 18
Synopsis: The sequel to writer/director Kevin Smith's 1994 Sundance favorite, "Clerks II" continues the intersecting stories of laterally mobile Dante (Brian O'Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson) and their career slacker shadows Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith) as they face their thirties and the responsibilities and consequences of adulthood. The film also stars Rosario Dawson as their co-worker.
DOA: Dead Or Alive
Release Date: August 25
Synopsis: "DOA" is based on Tecmo's best-selling "Dead or Alive" videogame franchise and has an ensemble cast starring Devon Aoki ("Sin City" and "2 Fast 2 Furious"), Sarah Carter ("Final Destination 2"), Natassia Malthe ("Elektra"), Matthew Marsden ("Black Hawk Down"), Jaime Pressly ("Torque"), Eric Roberts ("National Security") and hot newcomer and Aussie pop star Holly Valance ("National Lampoon's "Pledge This!").
Stormbreaker
Release Date: September 1
Synopsis: "Alex Rider, you're never too young to die!" Explosive, thrilling, action-packed adventure with 14 year-old Alex (newcomer Alex Pettyfer) as a reluctant spy. After the mysterious death of his uncle (Ewan McGregor), an MI6 agent, Rider learns the truth and finds himself forced against his will to take on a dangerous mission for the British secret service to infiltrate the organization of a sinister billionaire (Mickey Rourke). Within days he's gone from schoolboy to superspy - and it looks like his first assignment may be his last…
