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Bumper 132-Page Issue

Previews
• We look at the biggest films of the coming year, including Halle Berry giving us the chills in ghostly Gothika, Hugh Jackman hunting monsters in Van Helsing and Renée Zellweger back as Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Mona Lisa Smile
• Hollywood’s leading lady Julia Roberts teaches us all about her new movie role as a free-spirited art teacher who shakes up a conservative school for girls in the 1950s

Something’s Gotta Give
• After years of playing the (younger) ladies man, Jack Nicholson’s latest film sees him falling for Diane Keaton. The two stars tell us all about their new romantic comedy

The School of Rock
• Jack Black tells us how he has combined his talent for comedy with his love of music to make this hilarious story of a musician who teaches his young class how to rock!

The Statement
• What do you do when you’re Michael Caine and you’ve done everything there is to do in the movies? He tells us that there are two choices: have a laugh or get better – and he decided to do both!

House of Sand and Fog
• Before he plays evil villain The Hood in Thunderbirds, Ben Kingsley will star as an ex-Iranian colonel living the American dream. He reveals why he just had to take the role that may well get him an Oscar.

Cheaper by the Dozen
• How Tom Welling, the star of the smash TV series Smallville, made the super-powered leap to the big-screen.

Top 25 Romantic Movies
• As Valentine’s Day is thrust upon us once again, take time to revel in the cheesiness of it all with our countdown of the best slushy movies of all time

Cary Grant
• To celebrate the centenary of the great man’s birth, we look at the life and work of Hollywood’s suave star

New Movies! Over 25 brand spanking new releases –
including the above as well as...

• The Haunted Mansion
  After the huge success of last year’s Pirates of the Caribbean, Disney turns its haunted house ride into a movie starring Eddie Murphy and Terrance Stamp
  
  
• Dogville
  Lars Von Trier’s back to basics Dogme film about a close-knit small town, starring Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany and Chole Sevigny
  
  
• Looney Tunes: Back in Action
  Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and pals are back in this live-action-meets-animation adventure, which also stars Jenna Elfman, Steve Martin and Brendan Fraser
  
  

Home Entertainment – 16 pages reviewing the latest cable and satellite films showing at home, videos, books, CDs, DVDs…

• Including George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones going head to head in Intolerable Cruelty, Disney’s fabulous underwater extravaganza Finding Nemo and John Cusack trying to solve a murder case in Identity

Despatches: – 12 pages of the hottest movie news

• Orlando Bloom to star in Pirates of the Caribbean sequel
  
  
• Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson to make The Hobbit!
  
  
• Leon sequel gets the go-ahead
  
  
• All the latest box-office figures and much, much more…!
  
  

• Competitions
  Win copies of the latest releases including Wrong Turn, Calendar Girls, Down with Love and Confidence!
  
  
• Film Facts
  Once again you put resident film expert Grant Kempster to the test with your wild and wacky movie questions!
  
  
• Next Issue
  Cast your eyes to next month, when Sean Penn will be weighing up 21 Grams, Ben Stiller and Luke Wilson play those eponymous Seventies TV heroes Starsky and Hutch and Diane Lane finds love Under the Tuscan Sun
  
  

Images taken from this issue are copyright or courtesy of: Columbia Pictures, Paramount Pictures

All other contents © Visual Imagination Ltd 2004. Not for reproduction

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