Columbia Pictures continues its slate of new films

Columbia Pictures continues its slate of new films

Already Columbia Pictures and Screen Gems are doing well with their 2001 movies for the current year "Finding Forrester," a wonderful story of friendship; "Snatch," "The "Wedding Planner," a comedy and Saving Silverman" that continued in Chicago area theaters.

"JOE DIRT" starring David Spade, Dennis Miller, Brittany Daniel, Kid Rock, Adam Beach and Erik Per Sullivan is due to premiere March 9. Joe lost his parents when he was a young boy and is now hitting the dirt road searching for them. "Joe Dirt" opens March 9.

SCREEN GEMS', "THE BROTHERS" follows the hilarious path of four African American men as they take on love, sex, friendship and two of life's most terrifying prospects -- commitment and honesty. Smart, successful and sexy, Jackson Smith (Morris Chestnut), Brian Palmer (Bill Bellamy), Derrick West (D.L. Hughley) and Terry White (Shemar Moore) are "The Brothers" who arelifelong friends banded together to weather love's innate terrors and occasional triumphs in this brazenly comic yet painfully true exploration of the battle between the sexes.

Amidst the career track, basketball and bar hopping, "The Brothers" love women-as many as possible, but a shocking revelation tests their friendship and changes their dating habits forever.

Another movie by Columbia Pictures booked for March 30 is "The Tailor of Panama," a spy thriller and Black comedy.

The cast includes Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine McCormack, Leonor Varela and Harold Pinter.

Ruthless, seductive British spy Andy Osnard (Pierce Brosnan) may have been banished to Panama, but he's got a secret weapon -- Harry Pendel (Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush), a Cockney ex-con who has reinvented himself as a popular tailor to the rich and powerful of the country.

Two movies are scheduled for April "The Glass House" April 20 and Screen Gems "The Forsaken," written and directed by J. S. Cardone is classified as a Horror/Thriller opens April 27.

The movie features Kerr Smith as Sean who drives cross-country to deliver a vintage Mercedes. On the way he picks up a hitchhiker. From that moment on, his road trip is transformed into a surreal and terrifying nightmare.

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