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Hollywood Pictures was an American film production label of the The Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company. Similar to Disney's Touchstone Pictures and former Miramax and Dimension film labels, it produced films for a more mature adult audience than Walt Disney Pictures.
While then-Disney chief Michael Eisner at first intended Hollywood Pictures to be a full-fledged studio, like Touchstone, in recent years its operations have been scaled back and its management has been merged with the flagship Walt Disney Pictures studio. Its most profitable film to date is The Sixth Sense, which grossed over $600 million worldwide.
The division is known for having brought M. Night Shyamalan's films to the theater.
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(1995)Filmography of Hollywood Pictures (93 films)
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The Invisible (2007)
, 1h42Directed by David S. Goyer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Ghost films
Actors Justin Chatwin, Margarita Levieva, Marcia Gay Harden, Chris Marquette, Alex O'Loughlin, Callum Keith Rennie
High school senior Nick Powell (Justin Chatwin) plans to skip his graduation and fly to London for a writing program, despite the plans his controlling mother, Diane (Marcia Gay Harden), has for him. While he is a top performer in school and cares deeply for creative writing, his mother often pressures him to succeed past his abilities and remains emotionally distant. Since Nick's father died unexpectedly the two have maintained a strained relationship.
Primeval (2007)
, 1h33Directed by Michael Katleman
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Natural horror films
Actors Dominic Purcell, Orlando Jones, Brooke Langton, Jürgen Prochnow, Gideon Emery, Ecstasia Sanders
In Burundi, a British forensic anthropologist is examining the corpses in a mass grave, claiming they were all killed in an identical manner. When the woman digs her shovel into what she believes is another grave, an unseen creature attacks, and violently drags her into the river. The UN soldiers accompanying her fire into the water, but only her partially devoured corpse floats to the surface, before being devoured.
Stay Alive (2006)
, 1h25Directed by William Brent Bell
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Jeu, Films about magic and magicians, Ghost films, Vampires in film, Films about video games
Actors Jon Foster, Samaire Armstrong, Frankie Muniz, Jimmi Simpson, Milo Ventimiglia, Wendell Pierce
The film opens with a character in a video game entering an eerie mansion. He is followed throughout the mansion by a woman in a red dress, who kills him by hanging him from a chandelier. The man playing the game is Loomis Crowley (Milo Ventimiglia), and the game is called Stay Alive. Loomis later wakes up to find his roommate and his roommate's girlfriend slaughtered. He is then hanged from a chandelier and killed, similar to the way he died in the game.
Just Visiting (2001)
, 1h28Directed by Jean-Marie Poiré
Origin France
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Time travel films, Comedy science fiction films, Witches in film
Actors Jean Reno, Christina Applegate, Christian Clavier, Malcolm McDowell, Matt Ross, Tara Reid
Au Moyen Âge, le comte Thibault de Malfete, gentilhomme français, s'apprête à épouser la princesse anglaise Rosaline. Mais un noble jaloux fait boire à Thibault une potion qui lui donne momentanément des hallucinations ; Thibault prend Rosaline pour un monstre et la tue. Condamné à mort et voulant réparer son erreur pour retrouver sa promise, il va voir un enchanteur qui lui confectionne une potion pour remonter le temps. Son écuyer, André le Pâté, goûte la potion avant lui. Mais à cause d'une erreur d'ingrédients, Thibault et André se retrouvent projetés à Chicago à la fin du XX siècle. Thibault y rencontre une lointaine descendante.
Gun Shy (2000)
, 1h41Directed by Eric Blakeney
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Liam Neeson, Oliver Platt, Sandra Bullock, José Zúñiga, Michael DeLorenzo, Richard Schiff
Charlie Mayeaux (Liam Neeson) is an undercover DEA agent suffering from anxiety and gastrointestinal problems after a bust gone wrong. During the aforementioned incident, his partner was killed and he found himself served up on a platter of watermelon with a gun shoved in his face just before back-up arrived. Charlie, once known for his ease and almost "magical" talent on the job, is finding it very hard to return to work. His requests to be taken off the case or retired are denied by his bosses, Lonny Ward (Louis Giambalvo) and Dexter Helvenshaw (Mitch Pileggi) as so much time was put into his cover. Charlie works with the dream of one day retiring to Ocean Views, a luxury housing complex with servants and utilities.
Duets (2000)
, 1h52Directed by Bruce Paltrow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films, Road movies
Actors Gwyneth Paltrow, Huey Lewis, Paul Giamatti, Maria Bello, Andre Braugher, Scott Speedman
The story revolves around unrelated pairs of people who spend time in karaoke bars across the United States in the week leading up to a big contest in Omaha.
The Sixth Sense (1999)
, 1h47Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Ghost films, L'enfance marginalisée, Films about psychiatry, Films about school violence
Actors Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, Donnie Wahlberg, Mischa Barton
Dr. Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist in Philadelphia, returns home one night with his wife, Anna, after having been honored for his work. Anna tells Malcolm that everything is second to his work, and that she believes he is truly gifted.
Breakfast of Champions (1999)
, 1h50Directed by Alan Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about writers, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Bruce Willis, Albert Finney, Nick Nolte, Barbara Hershey, Glenne Headly, Lukas Haas
The film is a portrait of a fictional town in the Midwest that is home to a group of idiosyncratic and slightly neurotic characters. Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis) is a wealthy car dealership owner who is on the brink of suicide and is losing touch with reality.
Mystery, Alaska (1999)
, 1h59Directed by Jay Roach
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Sports films, Ice hockey films, Sports d'hiver
Actors Russell Crowe, Burt Reynolds, Colm Meaney, Mary McCormack, Hank Azaria, Lolita Davidovich
The movie is about a fictional small town in Alaska named Mystery, where hockey is the cohesive activity that unites the town. The "Saturday Game" is a weekly event of amateur four-on-four pond hockey played on the open ice of the town's frozen lake. The team consists of ten local townsmen of varying ages and occupations with two goalies and eight skaters publicly scrimmaging each other every Saturday. As there are only ten spots on the team, in order to make room on the roster for the younger up-and-coming town players an older more senior member of the team must be kicked off the team. After an article describing the town and its players appears in Sports Illustrated, a nationally televised exhibition game is scheduled between the NHL's New York Rangers and the hometown favorites in Mystery, Alaska.
, 1h26Directed by Arthur Hiller
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Documentary
Themes Films about films, Films about families, Films about sexuality
Actors Eric Idle, Ryan O'Neal, Coolio, Chuck D, Richard Jeni, Leslie Stefanson
A director by the name of Alan Smithee has been allowed to direct Trio, a big-budget action film starring Sylvester Stallone, Whoopi Goldberg and Jackie Chan. The studio recuts the film, and when Smithee sees the results (which he describes as being "worse than Showgirls"), he wants to disown the film. However, since his name is also the pseudonym used by Hollywood when someone does not want to have their name attached to a bad film, he steals the film and flees, threatening to destroy the film by burning it.
Simon Birch (1998)
, 1h54Directed by Mark Steven Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Buddy films
Actors Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello, Ashley Judd, Jim Carrey, Oliver Platt, David Strathairn
Simon Birch est un petit garçon nain. Persuadé que Dieu l'a créé petit pour accomplir quelque chose de grand, il part à la recherche de son destin.
Firelight (1998)
, 1h42Directed by Sophie Marceau, Steven Spielberg, Stephen Dillane, William Nicholson
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Sophie Marceau, Stephen Dillane, Kevin Anderson, Lia Williams, Joss Ackland, Wolf Kähler
In 1837, Swiss governess Elisabeth Laurier (Sophie Marceau) agrees to bear a child for an anonymous English landowner in return for money needed to pay her father's debts. They meet over three nights at a lonely island hotel. Despite their wish for detachment, they develop a deeply passionate connection during their lovemaking by firelight. Their feelings grow after they converse on the beach and at the hotel. Nine months later (10th of August 1838), Elisabeth gives birth to a girl, and as agreed, she gives up the child to the care of the English landowner. Over the coming years, Elisabeth never forgets her child. She begins to keep a journal of watercoloured flowers and plants, adding a page for each holiday and birthday they are apart.
Deep Rising (1998)
, 1h46Directed by Stephen Sommers
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Natural horror films, Films about cephalopods, Giant monster films, Disaster films
Actors Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Anthony Heald, Wes Studi, Derrick O'Connor
Amidst a storm, a boat is being piloted across the South China Sea by John Finnegan (Treat Williams). With him are his crewmen Joey "Tooch" Pantucci (Kevin J. O'Connor) and Joey's girlfriend Leila (Una Damon). Finnegan has been hired to transport a group of mercenaries, led by a man named Hanover (Wes Studi), to an undisclosed location in the middle of the ocean.
G.I. Jane (1997)
, 2h4Directed by Ridley Scott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Feminist films, Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft, Jim Caviezel, Jason Beghe, Daniel von Bargen
A Senate Armed Services Committee interviews a candidate for the position of Secretary of the Navy. Senator Lillian DeHaven (Anne Bancroft) from Texas criticizes the Navy for not being gender-neutral. Behind the curtains, a deal is struck: If women compare favorably with men in a series of test cases, the military will integrate women fully into all branches of the Navy.
Prefontaine (1997)
, 1h47Directed by Steve James
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary, Romance
Themes Sports films, Athletics films, Children's films
Actors Jared Leto, R. Lee Ermey, Ed O'Neill, Amy Locane, Shannon Leto, Breckin Meyer
Steve Prefontaine, a Coos Bay, Oregon student, is too small to play most sports but becomes a talented distance runner. He enrolls at the University of Oregon in 1969, and meets fellow Oregon Ducks track and field athletes Pat Tyson and Mac Wilkins. With coaches Bill Bowerman and Bill Dellinger, "Pre" wins three national cross-country championships and four consecutive 5,000-meter runs, breaking the U.S. record in the latter. Prefontaine gains fame as an aggressive runner who likes to be out front from the start, rather than biding his time until a strong finish.