NEW GAME: ANNOUNCED PROJECTS

[Charles Productions]

**I know that it's recommended we only have 1 release per month except once or twice in a year, but I'm kind of stretching it (two releases in July, Sept., Nov.) any major problems, PM me.**

Welcome to Charles Productions! Here are our projects and hopeful release dates (all currently tentative for the year):

[glow=red,2,300]The Family Guy Movie: [/glow]
Quahog has hit it big. People are starting companies, people are investing and getting rich quick. Even Peter Griffin. Now with his mansion, instead of his quaint little home, he sits as the jealous Glen Quagmire, Cleveland Brown, and Joe Swanson plot to assasinate him. Meanwhile, Stewie runs against Mayor Adam West in the newest mayoral election. Quahog is the newest city of wealth, sex, and scandal. Until everything crashes and burns: and becomes a slum.
Coming: July 14, 2006

[glow=red,2,300]4% Famous: [/glow]
Which loose-lipped gal about town has been caught canoodling with a randy restaurateur? Sources say the new "legs" of the "Examiner's" gossip column has been helping him bury his long-simmering scandal even though it's been eating away at her conscience. Which grizzly tabloid guy better watch his way with the ladies? We hear he got more than a hangover from a boozy night out with a mattress (model/actress) that may cost him his burgeoning relationship with a precocious Park Avenue princess. Which Wall Street mogul is about to be busted for fuzzy math on his taxes? Luckily, his ink-stained son is digging up a diversion to take down a blowhard billionaire instead.
Coming: July 28, 2006

[glow=red,2,300]MechAssault[/glow]
Based on the popular video game: It's the 31st century, the world has survived several possible apocalypses, wars, and terrorist attacks, now the infantry are causing troubles on Earth and a 40-foot tall walking tank called a BattleMech, piloted by an ordinary military commander has to battle to help save the world from chaos.
Coming: August 11, 2006


[glow=red,2,300]Jack the Ripper[/glow]
It's August of 1888, and women are beginning to die in whitechapel. The gruesome nature of their deaths is causing panic, and when the man named Jack the Ripper begins striking again, and sending out letters, all hell breaks loose. But who is Jack the Ripper?
Coming: September 1, 2006

[glow=red,2,300]A Tree Grows in Brooklyn [smaller release][/glow]
The beloved American classic about a young girl’s coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident. The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg.
Coming: September 22, 2006

[glow=red,2,300]Cell 666:[/glow]
Charles Production's first horror movie! One rainy night in 2004, a man was arrested for manslaughter and put in the revived Alcatraz's Cell #666. But the unlucky number isn't the only devlish thing about the jail, the inmate inside is a creature of the night, and when he breaks out, all of America goes to hell.
Coming: October 30 (with midnight showings)

[glow=red,2,300]Bloodtide[/glow]
The time is the not-too-distant future. London is in ruins. A bombed-out shell. A picked-over carcass where the only rule of law is might makes right. What remains of the city is being fought over by two ruthless gangs of warlords. In an effort to create peace, however, a truce between the two families is suggested by Val, patriarch of the Volson clan. His collateral? The hand of his fourteen-year-old daughter, Signy, in marriage to his blood rival, Conor. A rebellious, headstrong teenager who has dreamed all her life of joining her father's forces as a soldier in the war against Conor, Signy is stunned by the announcement. To agree to such a plan is unthinkable! Conor is her mortal enemy. To live as his wife is no better than to live as a slave...for the rest of her life.

But what of the alternative? Does she dare defy her father? And what of the consequences of her rebellion? Her decision will set in motion a series of events--events both horrifying and tragic--that will change her life forever.
Coming: November 10, 2006

[glow=red,2,300]The Alchemist [smaller release][/glow]
A timeless classic brought to life! An andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of buried treasure buried in the pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a discovery of the treasures found within.
Coming: November 30, 2006 (Thursday release)

[glow=red,2,300]Mars 2020[/glow]
The year is 2020, NASA just launched Expedition IV, a spacecraft with specially trained astronauts to land on Mars. When they first land, it is televised to the world, and Earth finally sees the remarkable red planet. But when the cameras are turned off, and the astronauts search for life forms: they have surprises in storm. They find an oasis, liveable and breathable for humans to call home...but its what else is living in the oasis could stop them from returning home.
Coming: December 25, 2006

[Charles Productions]

[glow=blue,2,300]2007 Release (No Dates Determined): [/glow]We estimate to have 15 films next year

[glow=red,2,300]The Sea of Trolls[/glow]
Jack, a Bard's apprentice, is kidnapped by a band of marauding Vikings. The year is A.D. 793. He can expect to be sold into slavery, or to serve his kidnappers for the rest of his life. He can expect never to see his home in Saxon Britain again. What he does not expect is the magical adventure that will take him into the hearts and minds of his captors, and ultimately to the roots of the world tree Yggdrasil.

[glow=red,2,300]Digital Fortress[/glow]
When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage--not by guns or bombs -- but by a code so complex that if released would cripple U.S. intelligence. Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves.

[glow=red,2,300]Sixty-Six[/glow]
From the writers and directors of "Diner"! Welcome to Baltimore, 1966, a quiet Eastern city of row houses, blue-collar neighborhoods, and burgeoning suburbs, a place as yet untouched by the upheavals of 1960''s America.

A place where everything is about to change.

What was once so simple now seems complicated. Delicatessens that served delicious slabs of pastrami are now serving sprouts. Song lyrics are angry and raw. Acid is being dropped and the normal life paths—school, marriage, a safe career—seem irrelevant. Or, worse, boring.

Even friendship is more complicated.

As society''s shifts begin to take hold, the people at the heart of Sixty-Six know they have something to hold on to: each other . . . Bobby Shine, an intern at the local television station; the soulful and rebellious Neil; Ben Kallin, the "King of the Teenagers"; Turko and Eggy, comic philosophers extraordinaire. They spend their time together hanging out at the Hilltop Diner, wisecracking, coping, falling in and out of love, planning for a glorious future.

As the decade explodes, however, these young people are caught between the staid and traditional values of the fifties, and the confusion, turbulence, and exhilaration of the sixties. As the fighting in Vietnam escalates and the antiwar movement at home reaches fever pitch, their insular world will be rocked by violence and tragedy. As the growing Civil Rights movement sweeps across the country, they will see the best and worst of their parents’ generation. And as the hippie movement rockets across the cultural landscape, they will both embrace and be torn apart by the new freedoms afforded them. Together, they will have to confront as bewildering and wrenching a set of transformations as America has ever faced_—and each one of them will leave 1966 changed forever.

[glow=red,2,300]Velocity[/glow]
Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. But that is about to change. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. If you don’t take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have four hours to decide. The choice is yours.

It seems like a sick joke, and Bill’s friend on the police force, Lanny Olson, thinks so too. His advice to Bill is to go home and forget about it. Besides, what could they do even if they took the note seriously? No crime has actually been committed. But less than twenty-four hours later, a young blond schoolteacher is found murdered, and it’s Bill’s fault: he didn’t convince the police to get involved. Now he’s got another note, another deadline, another ultimatum…and two new lives hanging in the balance.

Suddenly Bill’s average, seemingly innocuous life takes on the dimensions and speed of an accelerating nightmare. Because the notes are coming faster, the deadlines growing tighter, and the killer becoming bolder and crueler with every communication–until Bill is isolated with the terrifying knowledge that he alone has the power of life and death over a psychopath’s innocent victims. Until the struggle between good and evil is intensely personal. Until the most chilling words of all are: The choice is yours.

[glow=red,2,300]Outlander[/glow]
Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another...

In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon—when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an "outlander"—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord...1743.

Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire''s destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life ...and shatter her heart. For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

[glow=red,2,300]Chill Factor[/glow]
A successful magazine editor is trapped in her remote cabin with a man believed to be a serial killer.