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Date: 1/23/2009
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Brendan Fraser, fast becoming Hollywood’s go-to guy whenever kiddie-friendly action is required, joins with Andy Serkis, the man behind Gollum and King Kong, in this umpteenth attempt at the now-traditional ‘storybook miraculously comes to life’ plot. A little early for the half term crowd, but Fraser’s undeniable charm should bring in a few viewers.
Based on the book by Cornelia Funke, "Inkheart" is a timeless adventure tale of imagination that centers on Meggie, a young girl whose father has a secret ability to bring characters from books to life when he reads them aloud. But when a power-hungry villain from a rare children's fable kidnaps Meggie's father to bring others out of the boundaries of fiction, she and a disparate group of friends both real and magic embark on the kind of adventure she has only read about in books to save him and set things right.
Mo Folchart (Fraiser) drags his daughter Meggie (Bennet) all around the world. At the last home, an old enigmatic acquaintence of Mo's shows up named Dustfinger (Bettany). All of a sudden the next morning Mo packs up and leaves with Meggie without telling her what is going on. They travel to Meggie's Great Aunt Eleanor's (Mirren) house to stay at. Then one night a bunch of thugs arrive at the ohouse and kidnap Mo to take him to see Capricorn (Serkis), a cruel and evil dictator. Meggie soon finds out that Mo has the ability to read characters out of books. The only drawback is that when he brings something out of a story, something must go back in to replace it. this is how maggie lost her mother Theresa (guillory) and Capricorn and Dustfinger are characters from a book called Inkheart. Determined to get Mo back, Meggie sets out with Eleanor to Capricorn's village. However, in short of arriving there, both women are also abducted and locked up with Mo. Dustfinger soon comes to the rescue and smuggles them out with a boy who also came out of a book named Farid (Gavron). Now the Group of them must find away to get another copy of Inkheart to send Capricorn and his thieves back into it's pages.
New Line is pushing back the release of Brendan Fraser family fantasy "Inkheart" from this year to January 2009, in part because the studio believed it couldn't adequately market the pic in light of the hit television is taking from the writers strike.
And in a major tweak to its sked, Universal is moving up the release of Judd Apatow-produced laffer "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" from the crowded May 30 frame to April 18. In its old date, "Sarah Marshall" would have competed with 20th Century Fox's Eddie Murphy family comedy "Starship Dave" and New Line's "Sex and the City."
"Inkheart," which is completed, was set to open March 18. Because of the marketing worries, New Line thought about moving the film to fall. But that posed another problem.
Fraser is appearing in two films this summer, one of them New Line's "Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D," which opens July 11. On Aug. 1, Universal bows "Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor."
In terms of the marketing worries, New Line said it was concerned that the loss of first-run shows would minimize the impact of television spots. It's the first time that a studio publicly expressed such a concern since the strike started.
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