Coming up on Saturday AT The Described Movies: The Island, and The Cat From Outer Space.
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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies The Island from 2005, and The Cat from Outer Space from 1978.
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Enjoy the movies and see the movie information below.
Movie 1, The Island
The Island is a 2005 American science fiction action film directed and co-produced by Michael Bay and written by Caspian Tredwell-Owen, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci, from a story by Tredwell-Owen.
The film is about Lincoln Six Echo who struggles to fit into the highly structured world in which he lives, isolated in a compound, and the series of events that unfold when he questions how truthful that world is.
After Lincoln learns the compound inhabitants are clones used for organ harvesting as well as surrogates for wealthy people in the outside world, he attempts to escape with Jordan Two Delta and expose the illegal cloning movement.
The Island cost $126 million to produce.
The original score was composed by Steve Jablonsky, who went on to score Bay's further works.
It opened on July 22, 2005, by DreamWorks Pictures in North America and internationally by Warner Bros. Pictures, to mixed reviews, earning $36 million at the United States box office and $127 million overseas for a $162 million worldwide total.
Directed by: Michael Bay.
Produced by: Walter F. Parkes, Michael Bay, and Ian Bryce.
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Steve Buscemi
Cinematography: Mauro Fiore.
Edited by: Paul Rubell, Christian Wagner, Roger Barton, John Murray, Tom Muldoon, Nina Lucia, and Todd Douglas Miller.
Release date: 22 July 2005.
File Length: 130 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Movie 2, The Cat from Outer Space
The Cat from Outer Space is a 1978 American science fiction comedy film directed by Norman Tokar (his final film before his death the following year).
Produced by Walt Disney Productions, it was shot at the studio's Golden Oak Ranch and Santa Clarita, California.
It paired Harry Morgan with McLean Stevenson whom Morgan had replaced on M*A*S*H three years prior.
Directed by: Norman Tokar.
Written by: Ted Key.
Produced by: Ron Miller .
Starring: Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, Harry Morgan, Ronnie Schell, Roddy McDowall, and McLean Stevenson.
Cinematography: Charles F. Wheeler.
Edited by: Cotton Warburton.
Music by: Lalo Schifrin.
Distributed by: Buena Vista Distribution.
Release date: 30 June 1978 (New York)
File Length: 104 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $3.5 to 4 million.