The District of Columbia has been cast as the silent star in several upcoming releases. Its one-of-a-kind locations, busy commercial corridors and diverse neighborhoods have been captured on film by Academy Award-winning directors Ethan and Joel Coen and acclaimed British director Ridley Scott. We invite you to discover the chills, thrills, excitement and drama that these DC flicks have to offer.
Stop Loss-Drama
Paramount Pictures
(Release Date: 3-28-08)
From acclaimed Director Kimberly Peirce comes her emotional follow-up film to the Oscar-winner Boys Don’t Cry. Ryan Phillippe stars as a soldier back home in Texas who, after fighting in Iraq, refuses to return to battle despite the government mandate requiring him to do so.
Directed by Kimberly Peirce
Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Rob Brown
Get Smart -Comedy
Warner Bros. Pictures
(Release Date: 6-20-08)
The classic television series Get Smart gets the big screen treatment from director Peter Segal (Nutty Professor 2). Steve Carrel (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) stars as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 for CONTROL, who battles the forces of KAOS with the more-competent Agent 99 and various gizmos and gadgets at his side.
Directed by Peter Segal
Cast: Steve Carell, Anne Hataway, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Alan Arkin, Bill Murray
Recount-Drama
HBO Pictures
(Release Date: 5-25-08)
A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 US presidential election and the subsequent recounts in Florida.
Directed by Jay Roach
Cast: Kevin Spacey, John Hurt, Laura Dern, Tom Wilkerson, Denis Leary, George W. Bush (archive footage), Al Gore (archive footage)
Burn After Reading-Thriller
Focus Features
(Release Date: 9-12-08)
A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it.
Directed by Ethan and Joel Coen
Cast: Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand
Eagle Eye-Thriller
Dreamworks SKG
(Release Date: 9-26-08)
The story follows a loser (Shia LaBeouf) who gets his hands on a top-secret pharmaceutical drug that makes you smarter. He experiences sudden financial and social success but soon discovers that the drug has lethal and lasting side effects, including "trip-switching," a phenomenon in which time moves with a stop-motion quality.
Directed by D.J. Caruso
Cast: Shia LeBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Billy Bod Thorton
Boy of Pigs-Drama
Astrakan Films
(Release Date: TBD-2008)
A coming-of-age story set in Georgetown in the early1960’s. Adam Stafford is a preteen living next door to a woman named Catherine (Gretchen Mol). It begins to appear that Catherine is the lover to President Kennedy and this begins to put her life in jeopardy. During this time, she and Adam begin an unlikely friendship.
Directed by William Olsson
Cast: Gretchen Mol, James Rebhorn, Noah Wylie
Body of Lies–Political Drama Warner Bros. Pictures
(Release Date: 10-10-08)
A former journalist injured in the Iraq war is hired by the CIA to track down an Al Qaeda leader in Jordan. Based on the novel Body of Lies by David Ignatius.
Directed by Ridley Scott
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe