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Besides the blockbuster weekend nights, HBO plans to takes viewers
down memory lane with HBO Blockbuster Marathon, scheduled
to air weekdays at 9:00 pm, says a company release. The movie channel
will get in the rewind mode and air some of the greatest Hollywood
movies from Mondays to Thursdays and the Best of HBO 2003 on Fridays.
Jumpstarting the Saturday Night Blockbusters series is the
teen comedy American Pie 2 on 6 December. The Universal Picture
sequel reunites the entire ensemble cast of the original comedy
boldly taking 'the next step' into the fringes of adulthood. Next
in the pipeline is Ben Stiller as a dimwitted & vain, male model
who doesn't realize that he's been earmarked as the patsy in an
international fashion conspiracy to assassinate a prime minister
in the side-splitting comedy Zoolander on 13 December.
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On 20 December Jim Carrey will showcase his histrionics in Ron
Howard's The Grinch. The Oscar winning big-budget, live-action
update of Dr. Seuss' classic story is about a creature intent on
ruining the Christmas spirit of the citizens of Whoville,says the
release.
In the next in the line is Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz starrer
Vanilla Sky. It is a story of a successful publisher, who
finds his life taking a turn for the surreal after a car accident
with a jaded lover. A mind-twisting psychological thriller of mythic
proportions is directed by Cameron Crowe has Tom Cruise starring
as the rich & famous magazine publisher, Penelope Cruz, stars
as his love interest, & Julie Gianni played by Cameron Diaz.
The film will air on 27 December.
While the HBO Superstar Sundays kicks off with Brad Pitt
starring as an 18th-century nobleman bitten by a powerful vampire
in Interview with the Vampire on 7 December. On 14 December
catch Bruce Willis, will play a husband going through hard times
after fifteen years of marriage in The Story Of Us, starring
alongside Michelle Pfeiffer.
Next in the line are Sylvester Stallone, as suave narcotics detective
in the action packed Tango & Cash on 21 December and
Wesley Snipes as a cop trying to protect his foster brother in Money
Train on 28 December.
On the Best of HBO 2003, the movie channel will air the action
packed mega blockbuster sequel Mission Impossible 2, starring
Tom Cruise on 5 December, the cult- classic Enter The Dragon,
starring Bruce Lee on 12 December, the sci-fi blockbuster Hollow
Man, starring Kevin Bacon on 19 December and the daredevil ex-legionnaire
and his archeologist wife's attempt to stop the once-again resurrected
Egyptian high priest in The Mummy Returns, starring Brendan
Fraser on 26 December.
Besides that the rest of the list includes blockbuster movies like
Lara Croft: The Tomb Raider, Wild Wild West, The Mummy, Romeo
Must Die, Spy Game, Vertical Limit, Nutty Professor II and The
Fast And The Furious.
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