The Matrix is a 1999 AmericanAustralian neonoir science fiction action film written and directed by The Wachowski Brothers, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, CarrieAnne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano. It depicts a dystopian future in which reality as perceived by most humans is actually a simulated reality called the Matrix, created by sentient machines to subdue the human population, while their bodies heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source. Computer programmer Neo learns this truth and is drawn into a rebellion against the machines, which involves other people who have been freed from the dream world.
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Man of Steel is a 2013 BritishAmerican superhero film based on the DC Comics character Superman, coproduced by Legendary Pictures and Syncopy Films, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the first installment in the DC Extended Universe. 4 Directed by Zack Snyder and written by David S. Goyer, the film stars Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Laurence Fishburne, Antje Traue, Ayelet Zurer, Christopher Meloni, and Russell Crowe. Man of Steel is a reboot of the Superman film series that portrays the characters origin story.
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Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic adventure war film set during the Vietnam War, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, and Martin Sheen. The film follows the central character, Captain Benjamin L. Willard Sheen, on a secret mission to assassinate the renegade and presumed insane Colonel Walter E. Kurtz Brando.
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Akeelah and the Bee is a 2006 American drama film written and directed by Doug Atchison. It tells the story of Akeelah Anderson Keke Palmer, an 11yearold girl who participates in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, her mother Angela Bassett, her schoolmates, and her coach, Dr. Joshua Larabee Laurence Fishburne. The cast also features Curtis Armstrong, J.R. Villarreal, Sean Michael Afable, Erica Hubbard, Lee Thompson Young, Julito McCullum, Sahara Garey, Eddie Steeples, and Tzi Ma.
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Contagion is a 2011 American science fiction medical thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Marion Cotillard, Bryan Cranston, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, and Jennifer Ehle. The plot of Contagion documents the spread of a virus transmitted by fomites, attempts by medical researchers and public health officials to identify and contain the disease, the loss of social order in a pandemic, and finally the introduction of a vaccine to halt its spread. To follow several interacting plot lines, the film makes use of the multinarrative hyperlink cinema style, popularized in several of Soderberghs films.
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Predators is a 2010 American science fiction action film directed by Nimrd Antal and starring Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Walton Goggins, Laurence Fishburne, Danny Trejo, Mahershala Ali, Oleg Taktarov and Louis Ozawa Changchien. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the third installment of the Predator franchise, following Predator 1987 and Predator 2 1990, while ignoring the events of the crossover films Alien vs. Predator 2004 and Aliens vs. Predator Requiem 2007.
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TMNT is a 2007 American computeranimated fantasy action film based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters which were published by Mirage Studios. Written and directed by Kevin Munroe, the film features the voice talents of Nolan North, James Arnold Taylor, Mikey Kelley, Mitchell Whitfield, Chris Evans, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kevin Smith, Patrick Stewart, Zhang Ziyi and Laurence Fishburne who provides narration. It was the last film that Mako Iwamatsu made before his death and was coproduced by the franchises cocreator Peter Laird for Warner Bros. Pictures. TMNT was the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film made with computergenerated imagery CGI, created by Imagi Animation Studios, as well as the first feature film in the franchise in 14 years. TMNT cocreator Peter Laird stated it takes place in its own universe separate from the previous films, which was supported by its depiction in Turtles Forever. 5 However director Kevin Munroe says the film exists in the same continuity as the other films, which was supported by the memento wall at the end of the film. 6 The film sees the four Turtles Raphael, Leonardo, Donatello, and Michelangelo grow apart after their final defeat of the Shredder, when strange things are happening in New York City as ancient creatures threaten the world and the Turtles must reunite to save it.
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Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer also known as Fantastic Four 2 or stylized as Fantastic 4 Rise of the Silver Surfer is a 2007 superhero film, based on the Fantastic Four comic book. A sequel to the 2005 film Fantastic Four, the film is directed by Tim Story. Ioan Gruffudd as Reed Richards, Jessica Alba as Sue Storm, Chris Evans as Johnny Storm, and Michael Chiklis as Ben Grimm are the film series recurring protagonists, while Julian McMahon and Kerry Washington reprise their roles from the first film as Victor Von Doom and Alicia Masters, respectively. Beau Garrett appears as Frankie Raye, along with Doug Jones as the Silver Surfer, with Laurence Fishburne voicing the Surfer. The plot follows the Fantastic Four as they confront the Silver Surfer and attempt to save Earth from Galactus. The film grossed 289 million and received mixed reviews from critics. It was released on Bluray and DVD on October 2, 2007.
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Mission Impossible III marketed as MiIII, MI3, or Mission Impossible 3 is a 2006 American action spy film cowritten and directed by J.J. Abrams, his first film as a director, starring Tom Cruise, who also served as a producer, in the role of IMF agent Ethan Hunt. It is the third installment in the Mission Impossible film series. On April 26, 2006, the film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and widely released in the United States on May 5, 2006, and was a critical and commercial success. 3
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The Matrix is a science fiction action media franchise created by The Wachowski Brothers and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The series began with the feature film The Matrix 1999, and continued with two sequels, The Matrix Reloaded 2003 and The Matrix Revolutions 2003. The characters and settings of the films are further explored in other media set in the same fictional universe, including animation, comics, and video games.
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The Matrix is a science fiction action media franchise created by The Wachowski Brothers and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The series began with the feature film The Matrix 1999, and continued with two sequels, The Matrix Reloaded 2003 and The Matrix Revolutions 2003. The characters and settings of the films are further explored in other media set in the same fictional universe, including animation, comics, and video games.
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The Signal is a 2014 American science fiction thriller film directed by William Eubank and cowritten with Carlyle Eubank and David Frigerio. The film stars Brenton Thwaites and Laurence Fishburne. The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically in the United States on June 13, 2014. 4 The film is among an increasing number of lowbudget, 1 independent science fiction films to be included at the Sundance Film Festival in recent years. 5 6
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Osmosis Jones is a 2001 American liveactionanimated buddy cop comedy film directed by Tom Sito and Piet Kroon for the animated segments and the Farrelly brothers for the liveaction ones. Unusual in this genre, the animated characters are inside the liveaction ones the film is set in a fictionalized version of the human body which resembles a large city, where microorganisms or any being based in organisms are anthropomorphic and centers on Frank Detorre, a slovenly zookeeper. Osmosis Jones, a white blood cell, teams up with Drix, a cold pill, against Thrax, a deadly virus who plans to kill Frank in fortyeight hours and other characters living within him.
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Ride Along is a 2014 American action comedy film directed by Tim Story and starring Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, John Leguizamo, Bryan Callen, Tika Sumpter and Laurence Fishburne. Greg Coolidge, Jason Mantzoukas, Phil Hay, and Matt Manfredi wrote the screenplay based on a story originally from Coolidge.
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The Matrix Reloaded is a 2003 AmericanAustralian science fiction action film, the first sequel to The Matrix, and the second installment in The Matrix trilogy, written and directed by The Wachowski Brothers. It premiered on May 7, 2003, in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, and went on general release by Warner Bros. in North American theaters on May 15, 2003, and around the world during the latter half of that month. It was also screened out of competition at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. 5 The video game Enter the Matrix, which was released on May 15, and a collection of nine animated shorts, The Animatrix, which was released on June 3, supported and expanded the storyline of the film. The Matrix Revolutions, which completes the story, was released six months after Reloaded, in November 2003.
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The Tuskegee Airmen is a 1995 HBO television movie based on the exploits of an actual groundbreaking unit, the first African American combat pilots in the United States Army Air Corps, that fought in World War II. The film was directed by Robert Markowitz and stars Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding, Jr., John Lithgow, and MalcolmJamal Warner.
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Death Wish II is a 1982 crime thriller action film directed by Michael Winner. It is the first of four sequels to the 1974 film Death Wish. In Death Wish II, architect Paul Kersey Charles Bronson moves to Los Angeles with his daughter Robin Sherwood. After his daughter is murdered at the hands of several gang members, Kersey is once again forced to become a vigilante. Unlike the original, in which he hunts down every criminal he encounters, Kersey only pursues his familys attackers. The sequel makes a complete break from the Brian Garfield novels Death Wish and Death Sentence, redefining the Paul Kersey character.
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Event Horizon is a 1997 BritishAmerican science fiction horror film. The screenplay was written by Philip Eisner, with an uncredited rewrite by Andrew Kevin Walker, and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. The film stars Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neill.
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Mystic River is a 2003 American mystery drama film directed and scored by Clint Eastwood. It stars Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, and Laura Linney. The screenplay by Brian Helgeland was based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane. The film was produced by Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt and Eastwood. It is the first film on which Eastwood was credited as composer of the score.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors is a 1987 American slasher fantasy film and the third film in the Nightmare on Elm Street series. The film was directed by Chuck Russell, written by original creator Wes Craven and cowritten by Bruce Wagner, and starred Craig Wasson, Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger and Patricia Arquette in her first role. 1 It is the sequel to A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 Freddys Revenge and is followed by A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 The Dream Master.
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21 is a 2008 American heist drama film directed by Robert Luketic and stars Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Bosworth, Liza Lapira, Jacob Pitts, Aaron Yoo, and Kieu Chinh. The film is inspired by the true story of the MIT Blackjack Team as told in Bringing Down the House, the bestselling book by Ben Mezrich. Despite its largely mixed reviews and controversy over the films casting choices, 21 was a box office success, and was the number one film in the United States and Canada during its first and second weekends of release.
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Bobby is a 2006 American drama film written and directed by Emilio Estevez, and starring an ensemble cast. The screenplay is a fictionalized account of the hours leading up to the June 5, 1968 shooting of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy in the kitchen of The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles following his win of the 1968 Democratic Party presidential primary in California.
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Rudderless is a 2014 American musical drama film the directorial debut of William H. Macy, and stars Billy Crudup, Felicity Huffman, Laurence Fishburne, Anton Yelchin and Ben Kweller. The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2014. 1 The film was released in theaters and through videoondemand beginning October 17, 2014. 2
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The Matrix Revolutions is a 2003 AmericanAustralian science fiction action film and the third installment of the Matrix trilogy. The film was released six months following The Matrix Reloaded. The film was written and directed by The Wachowskis and released simultaneously in 60 countries on November 5, 2003. While it is the final film in the series, the Matrix storyline is continued in The Matrix Online. The film was the second liveaction film to be released in both regular and IMAX theaters at the same time.
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Khumba is a 2013 3D South African computeranimated adventure comedy film directed and produced by Anthony Silverston, written by Silverston and Raffaella Delle Donne. The film stars the voices of Jake T. Austin, Steve Buscemi, Loretta Devine, Laurence Fishburne, Richard E. Grant, AnnaSophia Robb, Catherine Tate, and Liam Neeson with supporting roles done by Anika Noni Rose and Ben Vereen. It was made by Triggerfish Animation Studios 3 and is distributed by Millennium Entertainment in the US. The International distribution rights are being licensed by Cinema Management Group. 4 The film centers on Khumba, a halfstriped zebra who is blamed for the lack of rain by the rest of his insular, superstitious herd. He then embarks on a quest to earn his stripes.
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Hoodlum is a 1997 crime drama film that gives a fictionalized account of the gang war between the ItalianJewish mafia alliance and the Black gangsters of Harlem that took place in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The film concentrated on Ellsworth Bumpy Johnson Laurence Fishburne, Dutch Schultz Tim Roth, and Lucky Luciano Andy Garca. 2
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Boyz n the Hood is a 1991 American teen hood drama film written and directed by John Singleton in his directorial debut, and starring Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Morris Chestnut, Larry Fishburne, Nia Long and Angela Bassett, depicting life in South Central Los Angeles, California. This was the film debut of Ice Cube and Morris Chestnut.
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Apocalypse Now Redux is a 2001 extended version of Francis Ford Coppolas epic war film Apocalypse Now, which was originally released in 1979. Coppola, along with editorlongtime collaborator Walter Murch, added 49 minutes of scenes that had been cut out of the original film. It represents a significant reedit of the original version.
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Searching for Bobby Fischer, released in the United Kingdom as Innocent Moves, is a 1993 American drama film written and directed by Steven Zaillian. The film was Zaillians directorial debut, and stars Max Pomeranc, Joe Mantegna, Joan Allen, Ben Kingsley and Laurence Fishburne. It is based on the life of prodigy chess player Joshua Waitzkin, played by Pomeranc, and adapted from the book of the same name by Joshuas father Fred.
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Red Heat is a 1988 American buddy cop action film directed by Walter Hill. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, as Moscow narc Ivan Danko, and James Belushi, as Chicago detective Art Ridzik. Finding themselves on the same case, Danko and Ridzik work as partners to catch a cunning and deadly Soviet Georgian drug kingpin, Viktor Rostavili Ed ORoss, who also happens to be the killer of Dankos previous partner back in Soviet Russia.
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Biker Boyz is a 2003 film about a group of underground motorcycle drag racers. It stars Laurence Fishburne, Djimon Hounsou, Derek Luke, Meagan Good, and Larenz Tate and is written and directed by Reggie Rock Bythewood. It also features Lisa Bonet, Orlando Jones, Kid Rock and Vanessa Bell Calloway.
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Higher Learning is a 1995 American drama film written and directed by John Singleton, and starring an ensemble cast. The film follows the changing lives of three incoming freshmen at the fictional Columbus University Malik Williams Omar Epps, a black track star who struggles with academics Kristen Connor Kristy Swanson, a shy and naive girl and Remy Michael Rapaport, a lonely and confused man seemingly out of place in his new environment. 1
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School Daze is a 1988 American musical comedy drama film, written and directed by Spike Lee, and starring Larry Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, and Tisha CampbellMartin. Based in part on Spike Lees experiences at Atlantas Morehouse College, Spelman College and Clark Atlanta University, it is a story about fraternity and sorority members clashing with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend. It also touches upon issues of real and perceived racism related to skin tone bias and hair texture within the AfricanAmerican community. The second feature film by Spike Lee, School Daze was released on February 12, 1988 by Columbia Pictures.
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King of New York is a 1990 crime thriller film, starring Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne, David Caruso, Wesley Snipes, Victor Argo, Giancarlo Esposito, and Steve Buscemi. It was directed by independent filmmaker Abel Ferrara and written by Nicholas St. John.
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The Colony is a 2013 Canadian science fiction horror film directed by Jeff Renfroe. It had a limited release on 26 April 2013 in Canada, and was released on 20 September 2013 in the United States.
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Assault on Precinct 13 is a 2005 action thriller film directed by JeanFranois Richet, starring Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne. The cast also includes John Leguizamo, Maria Bello, Ja Rule and Drea de Matteo. It is a loose remake of John Carpenters 1976 film of the same name, with an updated plot.
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Class Action is a 1991 American drama thriller film directed by Michael Apted. Gene Hackman and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio star Laurence Fishburne, Colin Friels, Fred Dalton Thompson, and Donald Moffat are also featured. The film was entered into the 17th Moscow International Film Festival. 2
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Armored is a 2009 American crime thriller film directed by Nimrd Antal, written by firsttime screenwriter James V. Simpson, and starring Matt Dillon, Jean Reno, Laurence Fishburne, Amaury Nolasco, Milo Ventimiglia, Skeet Ulrich, and Columbus Short. It was released on December 4, 2009. 2
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The Death and Life of Bobby Z, also known as Bobby Z and Lets Kill Bobby Z, is a 2007 AmericanGerman action film, directed by John Herzfeld, and starring Paul Walker, Laurence Fishburne, Olivia Wilde and Joaquim de Almeida. The film received an R rating by the MPAA for violence, some drug use, language and brief nudity. Don Winslow, who wrote the novel on which the film is based, acknowledged that the screen adaption was not successful. 2
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Bad Company is a 1995 U.S. neonoir thriller film directed by Damian Harris and written by Ross Thomas.
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Black Water Transit is a 2009 crime drama film based on the novel of the same name by Carsten Stroud. It is directed by Tony Kaye and stars an ensemble cast including Laurence Fishburne and Karl Urban.
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Othello is a 1995 film based on William Shakespeares tragedy of the same name. It was directed by Oliver Parker and stars Laurence Fishburne as Othello, Irne Jacob as Desdemona, and Kenneth Branagh as Iago. This is the first cinematic reproduction of the play released by a major studio that casts an African American actor to play the role of Othello, although lowbudget independent films of the play starring Ted Lange 1 and Yaphet Kotto 2 predated it.
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Decoration Day is a 1990 film based on a novel by John William Corrington of the same title. The awardwinning madeforTV movie was directed by Robert Markowitz and filmed on location in Georgia.
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Just Cause is a 1995 suspense crime thriller film directed by Arne Glimcher and starring Sean Connery and Laurence Fishburne. It is based on John Katzenbachs novel of the same name.
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Fled is a 1996 action film directed by Kevin Hooks. It stars Laurence Fishburne and Stephen Baldwin as two prisoners chained together who flee during an escape attempt gone bad.
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Cornbread, Earl and Me is a 1975 American drama film that stars Tierre Turner, Laurence Fishburne, and Jamaal Wilkes. Directed and produced by Joseph Manduke, the film is loosely based on the 1966 Ronald Fair novel Hog Butcher. 1 2
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Days of Wrath is a 2008 drama film starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Laurence Fishburne and Wilmer Valderrama. The film is directed by Celia Fox, and written by Mitchell Kapner and Michael Markee.
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Five Fingers is a 2006 dramathriller film directed by Laurence Malkin, and written by Chad Thumann and Malkin. The film had ten producers, including actor Laurence Fishburne, who stars alongside Ryan Phillippe, Gina Torres, Touriya Haoud, Sad Taghmaoui and Colm Meaney. Five Fingers was filmed in the Netherlands, Morocco, and Louisiana in 2004.
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Have a Little Faith is a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie. 1 The film debuted on ABC on November 27, 2011 as the first Hallmark Hall of Fame film broadcast since CBS cancelled the series earlier in 2011. It was the first Hallmark Hall of Fame film broadcast on ABC since 1995.
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Tortured is a 2008 crime thriller film written and directed by Nolan Lebovitz and starring Cole Hauser, Laurence Fishburne, and James Cromwell. It was released directtoDVD in the U.S. on September 16, 2008. 1 The movie was filmed in Canada, in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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