Black Book - Film, Movie - Trailer

Plot: The film tells the story of Rachel Steinn (Carice van Houten) at the end of the Second World War. She is a Jewish singer who used to live in Berlin before the war and who is now hiding from the Nazi regime in the occupied Netherlands. She meets members of the Dutch resistance Gerben Kuipers (Derek de Lint) and Hans Akkermans (Thom Hoffman), and the German SD officers Ludwig Müntze (Sebastian Koch) and Günther Franken (Waldemar Kobus), and she becomes friends with her Dutch colleague Ronnie (Halina Reijn).

Genres: thriller, war

Starring: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn

Director: Paul Verhoeven

Producers: Jeroen Beker, San Fu Maltha, Frans van Gestel, Jos van der Linden

Written by Gerard Soeteman, Paul Verhoeven

Music by Anne Dudley

Cinematography Karl Walter Lindenlaub

Editors: Job ter Burg, James Herbert

Distributed by A-Film

Release date: April 6, 2007 (US)

Budget €17,000,000

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Happily N'Ever After - Animation, Movie - Trailer

Story: As the story begins, we are introduced to the idea that the Wizard controls all of the fairy tales and maintain the balance of good and evil in Fairy Tale Land. With the help of his assistants, the Wizard is checking to make sure that all the fairy tales under his care are "on track" to have their traditional happy endings. As we meet him, however, the Wizard is leaving for Scotland for a long-overdue vacation. He leaves the kingdom in the hands of his two assistants, the uptight Munk and the decidedly goofy Mambo.

Ella (better known as Cinderella) starts out a damsel in distress, dreaming of the Prince who will sweep her off her feet. Her best friend at the palace is Rick, the palace dishwasher. Rick takes it upon himself to deliver the invitations to the royal ball to Ella. Ella visits Rick in the palace kitchen to borrow items she needs to complete her chores and to share her hopes of dancing with "him" (the Prince) tonight. Ella sees Rick only as a friend, but Rick secretly loves Ella, although he is too cool and proud to admit it. Rick can't really understand what Ella likes about the Prince. Rick's Three Amigos, the comic chefs in the palace kitchen, believe that Rick has a bad case of "Prince envy".

The Prince does everything by the book. He wants it all to be perfect: perfect hair, perfect shirt, perfect everything (he even put on perfect underwear). He plans to meet his Damsel at the ball.

However, things don't go as planned at the ball. Thanks to the assistants, Ella's evil stepmother, Frieda, gains access to the Wizard's lair during the Prince's ball. While the boss is away, the wicked stepmother does play. Frieda manages to chase off Munk and Mambo and tip the scales of good and evil, causing a series of fairy tales to go wrong and have comically unhappy endings. As for Ella, Frieda can't stand her hope and goodness. Frieda's goal is to put the "cinder" back in Cinderella. That night, she calls an army of trolls, witches, big bad wolves, and giants to her castle. Ella finds out and escapes to the woods, where she meets Munk and Mambo. Together, they flee to the Seven Dwarfs' home. Witches and trolls, led by Ice Queen, attack them. Rick flies up on a broom, having stolen it from Frieda. The dwarfs hold off the trolls, while Rick, Mambo, Munk, and Ella escape. The Ice Queen is shot down and killed during an attempt to capture them. Frieda discovers the failure and goes after Ella herself. She succeeds in capturing her and Rick, Munk, and Mambo follow her. Ella, meanwhile, is being tortured by Frieda in the palace throne room. Rick, Munk, and Mambo slip into Frieda's castle and attack Frieda. During the fight, Frieda generates a pit of flame in the floor. Mumbo knocks her in, and everything returns to normal. But Frieda had one final trick to play. While plummeting through the magma, she uses her staff to fly back up again. After a short battle, Frieda creates a portal by accident. Ella knocks Frieda back, so that part of her is in the portal, she then finishes her off by punching her and knocking Frieda into the river of time. Later, Frieda is shown trapped in the Ice Age. She is surrounded by seals and dragged off, a rather comical death for the self-proclaimed "Empress of Evil."

Set against a backdrop of fractured fairy tales spinning wildly out of control, Ella and her true love Rick ultimately must choose their destinies in a world of happy endings.

Genres: animation, comedy, family

Staring: Sigourney Weaver, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze, Jr., George Carlin, Michael McShane, Patrick Warburton, Andy Dick, Wallace Shawn

Director: Paul J. Bolger

Producer: John H. Williams

Written by Robert Moreland

Release date: January 5, 2007

Budget: $47,000,000