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Walter F. Parkes

Walter F. Parkes (né Walter Fishman) is an American film producer, writer and former studio head. For the last fourteen years Parkes has been associated with DreamWorks Pictures, which he ran from its inception in 1994 until 2005. A three-time Academy Award nominee as both producer and screenwriter...
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The Ring

The Ring is a 2002 American horror film directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Naomi Watts and Martin Henderson. It is an American remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film Ringu. Both films are based on the Kôji Suzuki's novel Ring and focuses on a...

Initial release date:

  • Oct 18, 2002

Directed by:

Rating:

PG-13 (USA)

Runtime:

  • 115 min (69 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 48,000,000 (US$)

Screenplay by:

Awakenings

Awakenings is a 1990 drama film based on Oliver Sacks' memoir of the same name. It tells the true story of Oliver Sacks, fictionalized as American Malcolm Sayer and played by Robin Williams who, in 1969, discovers beneficial effects of the then-new...

Initial release date:

  • Dec 20, 1990

Directed by:

Rating:

PG-13 (USA)

Runtime:

  • 121 min (72.6 hs )

Screenplay by:

Minority Report

Minority Report is a 2002 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and loosely based on the short story "The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick. It is set primarily in Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia in the year 2054, where "Precrime...

Initial release date:

  • Jun 21, 2002

Directed by:

Rating:

PG-13 (USA)

Runtime:

  • 145 min (87 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 102,000,000 (US$)

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

A.I. Artificial Intelligence, also known as Artificial Intelligence: A.I. or simply A.I., is a 2001 science fiction film directed, produced and co-written by Steven Spielberg. Based on Brian Aldiss's short story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long, the...

Initial release date:

  • 2001

Directed by:

Rating:

PG-13 (USA)

Runtime:

  • 146 min (87.6 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 90,000,000 (US$)

Men in Black

Men in Black is a 1997 science fiction-comedy-action film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith and Vincent D'Onofrio. The film was based on the Men in Black comic book series by Lowell Cunningham, originally published...

Initial release date:

  • Jul 2, 1997

Directed by:

Rating:

PG-13 (USA)

Runtime:

  • 98 min (59 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 90,000,000 (US$)

Screenplay by:

Catch Me If You Can

Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 American comedy-drama film based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways pilot, a Georgia doctor and Louisiana...

Initial release date:

  • Dec 25, 2002

Directed by:

Rating:

PG-13 (USA)

Runtime:

  • 141 min (84.6 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 52,000,000 (US$)

Men in Black II

Men in Black II (also known as MIIB) is a 2002 science fiction action comedy film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith. The film also stars Lara Flynn Boyle, Johnny Knoxville, Rosario Dawson and Rip Torn. The film is a sequel to the 1997 film Men...

Initial release date:

  • Jul 3, 2002

Directed by:

Rating:

PG-13 (USA)

Runtime:

  • 88 min (53 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 140,000,000 (US$)

The Terminal

The Terminal is a 2004 comedy-drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones. It is about a man trapped in a terminal at JFK International Airport when he is denied entry into the United States and at the...

Initial release date:

  • Jun 18, 2004

Directed by:

Rating:

PG-13 (USA)

Runtime:

  • 128 min (76.8 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 60,000,000 (US$)

The Mask of Zorro

The Mask of Zorro is a swashbuckler film directed by Martin Campbell, and stars Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Stuart Wilson. In over 80 years since the creation of the Spanish masked swordsman, Banderas was the first...

Initial release date:

  • Jul 17, 1998

Directed by:

Rating:

PG-13 (USA)

Runtime:

  • 136 min (81.6 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 95,000,000 (US$)

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar is a 1995 American comedy film, starring Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, and John Leguizamo as three New York drag queens who embark on a road trip. The film's title refers to a totemic autographed...

Initial release date:

  • Sep 8, 1995

Rating:

PG-13 (USA)

Runtime:

  • 109 min (65.4 hs )

Screenplay by:

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is a 2004 black comedy film directed by Brad Silberling. It is based on the first three novels, The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, and The Wide Window, in Lemony Snicket's book series A Series of...

Initial release date:

  • Dec 17, 2004

Directed by:

Rating:

PG (USA)

Runtime:

  • 108 min (64.8 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 125,000,000 (US$)

Project X

Project X is a 1987 film produced by Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker and directed by Jonathan Kaplan. The film makes a political commentary on the ethics of animal research. The screenplay's premise has a fictional air force soldier named Jimmy...

Initial release date:

  • Apr 17, 1987

Directed by:

Rating:

PG (USA)

Runtime:

  • 108 min (64.8 hs )

Screenplay by:

Sneakers

Sneakers is a 1992 caper film directed by Phil Alden Robinson and written by Robinson, Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker. It was filmed in late 1991 and released in 1992. Martin Brice (Robert Redford), a hacker, has kept to his assumed name of...

Initial release date:

  • Sep 9, 1992

Directed by:

Rating:

PG-13 (USA)

Runtime:

  • 126 min (75.6 hs )

The Ring Two

The Ring Two is a 2005 American horror film, and a sequel to the 2002 film The Ring, which was a remake of the 1998 Japanese film of the same name. Hideo Nakata, director of the original Japanese films Ring and Ring 2 on which the American versions...

Initial release date:

  • Mar 18, 2005

Directed by:

Rating:

PG-13 (USA)

Runtime:

  • 110 min (66 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 60,000,000 (US$)

Screenplay by:

The Legend of Zorro

The Legend of Zorro is a 2005 sequel to 1998's The Mask of Zorro, both directed by Martin Campbell. Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones reprise their roles as the titular hero and his spouse, and Rufus Sewell stars as the villain. The film,...

Initial release date:

  • Oct 28, 2005

Directed by:

Rating:

PG (USA)

Runtime:

  • 130 min (78 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 80,000,000 (US$)

Just like Heaven

Just Like Heaven is a romantic comedy film released on September 16, 2005, in the U.S. and Canada. Set in San Francisco, it was directed by Mark Waters and stars Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo, and Jon Heder. It reached #1 in the United States box...

Initial release date:

  • Sep 16, 2005

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 95 min (57 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 58,000,000 (US$)

The Time Machine

This page is about the 2002 film. For other uses, see The Time Machine (disambiguation). The Time Machine is a 2002 science fiction film adapted from the 1895 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells, and the 1960 film screenplay by David Duncan. It...

Initial release date:

  • Mar 8, 2002

Runtime:

  • 96 min (58 hs )

Volunteers

Volunteers is a 1985 comedy directed by Nicholas Meyer. Tom Hanks stars as Lawrence, a rich kid with a large debt in the 1960s. After his father refuses to help him out, Lawrence escapes his angry debtors by jumping on a Peace Corps flight to...

Initial release date:

  • Aug 16, 1985

Directed by:

Rating:

R (USA)

Runtime:

  • 107 min (64.2 hs )

True Believer

True Believer is a 1989 courtroom drama directed by Joseph Ruben and released by Columbia Pictures. The film stars James Woods as burnt-out attorney Eddie Dodd, who has left behind civil rights work to defend drug dealers. Robert Downey Jr. plays...

Initial release date:

  • 1989

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 108 min (64.8 hs )

Screenplay by:

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 2007 film directed by Tim Burton. It is an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning 1979 musical thriller. It re-tells the Victorian melodramatic tale of Sweeney Todd,...

Initial release date:

  • Dec 21, 2007

Directed by:

Rating:

R (USA)

Runtime:

  • 117 min (70.2 hs )

The Trigger Effect

The Trigger Effect is a 1996 movie starring Kyle MacLachlan, Elisabeth Shue and Dermot Mulroney. The story starts off with a young married couple, Annie and Matthew, played by Elizabeth Shue and Kyle MacLachlan, returning home from the movies to...

Initial release date:

  • Aug 30, 1996

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 94 min (56 hs )

The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner is a 2007 film directed by Marc Forster based on the novel of the same name by Khaled Hosseini. It tells the story of Amir, a well-to-do boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who is tormented by the guilt of abandoning his...

Initial release date:

  • 2007

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 128 min (76.8 hs )

The Uninvited

Anna returns home after spending time in the hospital following the tragic death of her mother. Her recovery suffers a setback when she discovers her father has become engaged to her mother's former nurse. That night, Anna is visited by her mother's...

Initial release date:

  • Jan 30, 2009

Rating:

PG-13 (USA)

Runtime:

  • 87 min (52 hs )

A Tale of Two Sisters

The Uninvited is a 2009 American remake of the 2003 South Korean horror film A Tale of Two Sisters. It is unrelated to another 2003 Korean horror film and a 1944 American film, both of which have the same name. The story revolves around a troubled...

Initial release date:

  • 2008

Runtime:

  • 87 min (52 hs )

Tombés du ciel

Tombés du ciel (Lost in Transit, literally "Fallen from the Sky") is a 1994 French film directed by Philippe Lioret. Tombés du ciel won the Grand Prize at the 6th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival held in February 1995.

Initial release date:

  • Jun 23, 1994

Runtime:

  • 91 min (55 hs )

The Burning Plain

The Burning Plain is a 2009 drama film directed and written by Guillermo Arriaga, the screenwriter of Amores perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003), and Babel (2006). The film stars Charlize Theron, Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Basinger and Joaquim de Almeida. In...

Initial release date:

  • 2009

Directed by:

Screenplay by:

Dinner For Schmucks

Dinner For Schmucks is a 2010 comedy film written by Andy Borowitz, Ken Daurio, David Guion, Michael Handelman, Cinco Paul, Francis Veber, Jon Vitti and directed by Jay Roach.

Initial release date:

  • Jul 23, 2010

Directed by:

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