Bruce Almighty is a 2003 film, starring Jim Carrey. The film itself is hilarious and witty. It’s about Bruce Nolan (Carrey), a mediocre reporter, that finds himself taking God’s place and controlling everything in the universe. For Bruce, the more good he tries to do, both for himself and others, the more things go wrong, but in a very funny, funny way.

The movie has an all star cast, at the time some of them weren’t well known, but today, they’re all regular stars. Tis movie helped to make that happen.

It’s a great film to own and to watch – anytime.

Budget: $81 million
Director: Tom Shadyac
Starring:
Jim Carrey
Jennifer Aniston
Morgan Freeman
Steven Carell
Philip Baker Hall
Catherine Bell

Timeline is a 2003 film that seemed to miss the mark for a lot of people. I personally thought the film was really good and had an interesting plot. Then, I saw how much the film cost to make – $80 million dollars. Wow. I don’t see that kind of money when I watch the film, which means there were a lot of people that were way overpaid for their position or performance.

The film is about a company that accidentally discovers a worm hole and are able to time travel back to 14th Century France. The plot thickens when an archeologist travels back and is captured by the occupying English. The rest of his crew, in an attempt to find and save him, travel back and are also captured. In attempting to get home, they discover that have also changed the future and must save themselves along with the way history originally played out.

Budget: $80 million
Director: Richard Donner
Starring:
Paul Walker
Frances O’Connor
Gerard Butler
Billy Connolly
David Thewlis
Anna Friel
Lambert Wilson
Rossif Sutherland

Like all films, whether successful or not – it started with an idea. That idea was SAW, not necessarily a franchise, but if it comes about, who’s going to say ‘no.’

That idea was started by two guys; James Wan & Leigh Whannell. They met each other during film school. James wanted to be a director and Leigh was a screenwriter; a perfect combination.

The two got together and hashed out the idea for SAW, in 2003, they created a short film around the concept and began pitching it.

Lionsgate picked up the film in 2004 for financing and once produced, it was featured at the Sundance Film Festival. The following October, like all the Octobers after that, they released the film theatrically. The film and the sequels have been very successful. So successful, year after year, the budget grew, and another film was produced.

With less than an estimated $50 million dollars spent on production of all the films, the SAW franchise has gone on to make over three quarters of a billion dollars in revenue. Not a bad investment on Liongate’s part.

Below are some of the posters and characters from each of the films.

In all 6 films have been released, with a 7th planned for production February 2010.

Total Budgets: $61.5 million
Gross (all films): $603 million
Directors:
James Wan
Darren Lynn Bousman
Kevin Greutert
David Hackl
Starring:
Leigh Whannell
Cary Elwes
Danny Glover
Shawnee Smith
Donnie Wahlberg
Tobin Bell
Beverley Mitchell
Dina Meyer
Costas Mandylor
Bahar Soomekh
Julie Benz

I especially remember this 2003 version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre for two reasons: 1st) the presence of Jessica Biel; and 2nd) the movie’s producer is Michael Bay. With Michael Bay as the producer, you can surely watch out for unique camera angles throughout the film, as well as believable gory and action scenes. Then let’s delve on Jessica Biel. This movie is exactly the cause why Jessica was evicted from 7th Heaven. Jessica says she wants to take on more mature roles. And indeed she has, for Jessica here is very sexy, an extreme departure from her stint in 7th Heaven.

The first Texas Chainsaw Massacre was shot in 1973, and it reflected an era of violence in America. It kind of started the trend in unfounded slasher movies. Even then, the cinematography of the 1973 movie was great, and so this 2003 release had a tough act to follow. But it successfully surpassed all the cinematic challenges.