Majestic hits with latest Hollywood blockbusters

By Susiths R. Fernando

Following the success of films like 'Water' and 'Superman Returns', a set of the latest Hollywood blockbusters are lined up to be released at Majestic Cinema Colombo.

'Superman Returns' will be followed by Oliver Stone's 'World Trade Center', a movie revolving around the 9/11 attack.

Originally released on August 18, 2006, ‘World Trade Center’ is one of the newest films starring Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maria Bello and Stephen Dorff.

The true story of Will Jimeno and John McLoughlin, two Port Authority police officers who rushed into the burning World Trade Center on 9/11 to help rescue people, but became trapped themselves when the tower collapsed. A race against time ensued to free them before their air ran out.

World Trade Centre is produced by Donald J. Lee Jr, Norm Golightly, Michael Shamberg.

The 'World Trade Centre' will be followed by box office hit ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest’. Released worldwide on July 7 2006, the film stars Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley and Jack Davenport.

Directed by Gore Verbinski the action- adventure is produced by Bruce Hendricks, Mike Stenson and Chad Oman.

Captain Jack Sparrow is caught up in another tangled web of supernatural intrigue. Although the curse of the Black Pearl has been lifted, an even more terrifying threat looms over its captain and scurvy crew: it turns out that Jack owes a blood debt to the legendary Davy Jones, Ruler of the Ocean Depths, who captains the ghostly Flying Dutchman, which no other ship can match in speed and stealth.

Unless the ever-crafty Jack figures a cunning way out of this Faustian pact, he will be cursed to an afterlife of eternal servitude and damnation in the service of Jones.

This startling development interrupts the wedding plans of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, who once again find themselves thrust into Jack's misadventures, leading to escalating confrontations with sea monsters, very unfriendly islanders, flamboyant soothsayer Tia Dalma and even the mysterious appearance of Will's long-lost father, Bootstrap Bill. Meanwhile, ruthless pirate hunter Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company sets his sights on retrieving the fabled "Dead Man's Chest." According to legend, whoever possesses the Dead Man's Chest gains control of Davy Jones, and Beckett intends to use this awesome power to destroy every last Pirate of the Caribbean once and for all. For times are changing on the high seas, with businessmen and bureaucrats becoming the true pirates--and freewheeling, fun-loving buccaneers like Jack and his crew threatened with extinction.

At $135,634,554 domestically in its opening weekend and Walt Disney Pictures' summer blockbuster was the fastest motion picture to reach $100 million, accomplishing the feat in two days.

The film is imported and distributed by the Cinema Entertainment (Pvt) Limited (CEL).

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