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ICE AGE 2: THE MELTDOWN heats up the local box-office
Johannesburg, 03 April 2006: - The coolest film around, ICE AGE 2: THE MELTDOWN, melted hearts around the country to become the biggest 20th Century Fox three day opening (excluding previews) of all time. It is also the second biggest animated film opening in South Africa after Shrek 2.

The film opened in South Africa last Friday, 31 March with 83 prints and has had many sold-out shows at cinemas over the weekend. It opened 87% bigger than the opening of Ice Age and is now the third biggest 20th Century Fox opening after Mr. and Mrs. Smith (4-day opening) and Die Another Day which both included previews.

Due to the increase in piracy and various security concerns, there were no sneak previews before the films release.

It released simultaneously with the US on Friday, grossing $70.5 million for the domestic opening weekend. The sequel to Ice Age has already surpassed the $118 million mark globally.

In ICE AGE 2: THE MELTDOWN, the sub-zero heroes from the worldwide blockbuster CGI film “Ice Age” are back – Manny the woolly mammoth, Sid the sloth, Diego the sabre-toothed tiger, and the hapless prehistoric squirrel/rat known as Scrat. In the new film, the Ice Age is coming to an end, and the animals are delighting in the melting paradise that is their new world.

Manny, Sid, and Diego quickly learn that the warming climate has one major drawback: A huge glacial dam holding off oceans of water is about to break, threatening the entire valley. The only chance of survival lies at the other end of the valley. So our three heroes, along with new characters such as Ellie, Crash and Eddie, form the most unlikely family – in any “Age” – as they embark on a mission across an ever-changing, increasingly dangerous landscape towards their salvation.

ICE AGE 2: THE MELTDOWN has everything you loved about the first movie with even more comedy, action, and spectacular visuals which were made possible by specific technological advances from Blue Sky Studios. Our three heroes’ unyielding friendship lives on with some memorable new characters thrown into the mix. The result will thaw hearts of all ages.

ICE AGE 2: THE MELTDOWN is distributed by 20th Century Fox internationally and sub-distributed by Nu Metro Film Distribution in South Africa.

Genre: Drama
Release Date: Friday, 24 March 2006
Age Restriction 10LV
Running Time: 103
Starring: James Franco, Jordana Brewster, Donnie Wahlberg, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Tyreses Gibson
Produced By: Damien Saccani, Mark Vahradian
Directed By: Justin Lin

Synopsis:
When he won a coveted admission spot to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, local kid Jake Huard (JAMES FRANCO, "James Dean") thought all his dreams had come true - but his battle to become the man he wants to be is only just beginning.
Now, uncertain if a regular kid from a poor blue collar family can fit into the Academy's pressure-cooker atmosphere, and barely making the grade as a Freshman "plebe," Jake has one last shot at proving he has what it takes to become an officer in an institution that boasts a venerable 137-year history of focused discipline and determined excellence. With nothing left to lose, Jake decides to enter the notoriously fierce Navy boxing competition known as the Brigade Championships -- and face off against his arch-nemesis, Midshipman Lt. Cole (TYRESE GIBSON). Everything Jake has ever hoped for stands in the balance: the chance to make his father proud, to validate his Lieutenant's faith in him, to stand up for his fellow plebes, and most of all, to forge a different future.
Directed by critically acclaimed indie director Justin Lin ("Better Luck Tomorrow"), comes this exhilarating comeback story of a courageous young sailor who discovers that some opportunities in life are worth fighting for. Jake's fellow classmates are comprised of a dynamic young cast that includes Jordana Brewster as the alluringly tough, female commander who helps to train Jake; Donnie Wahlberg as Lt. Cmdr. Burton, the officer who first decides to take a chance on Jake; and Chi McBride as the boxing coach who takes Jake from amateur swinger to focused warrior.

Genre: Drama
Release Date: Friday, 24 March 2006
Age Restriction 13LV
Running Time: 118
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Produced By:CAROLINE BARON
Directed By: BENNETT MILLER
Synopsis:
In November, 1959, Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and a favorite figure in what is soon to be known as the Jet Set, reads an article on a back page of the New York Times. It tells of the murders of four members of a well-known farm family-the Clutters-in Holcomb, Kansas. Similar stories appear in newspapers almost every day, but something about this one catches Capote's eye. It presents an opportunity, he believes, to test his long-held theory that, in the hands of the right writer, non-fiction can be as compelling as fiction. What impact have the murders had on that tiny town on the wind-swept plains? With that as his subject-for his purpose, it does not matter if the murderers are never caught-he convinces The New Yorker magazine to give him an assignment and he sets out for Kansas. Accompanying him is a friend from his Alabama childhood: Harper Lee (Catherine Keener), who within a few months will win a Pulitzer Prize and achieve fame of her own as the author of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Though his childlike voice, fey mannerisms and unconventional clothes arouse initial hostility in a part of the country that still thinks of itself as part of the Old West, Capote quickly wins the trust of the locals, most notably Alvin Dewey (Chris Cooper), the Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent who is leading the hunt for the killers. Caught in Las Vegas, the killers-Perry Smith (Clifton Collins Jr.) and Dick Hickock (Mark Pellegrino)-are returned to Kansas, where they are tried, convicted and sentenced to die. Capote visits them in jail. As he gets to know them, he realizes that what he had thought would be a magazine article has grown into a book, a book that could rank with the greatest in modern literature. His subject is now as profound as any an American writer has ever tackled. It is nothing less than the collision of two Americas: the safe, protected country the Clutters knew and the rootless, amoral country inhabited by their killers. Hidden behind Capote's often frivolous fa?ade is a writer of towering ambition.

Genre: Comedy / Family / Romance
Release Date: Friday, 24 March 2006
Age Restriction A
Running Time: 87
Starring :Dennis Quaid
Directed By: Raja Gosnell
Websites:
http://www.yoursmineandoursmovie.com/
Synopsis:
In this family comedy, single parents Frank (Dennis Quaid) and Helen (Rene Russo) plan to tie the knot .... but with 18 children between them trying to sabotage the marriage, they discover that weddings - and the famlies- can't be built in a day.