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Doomsday (2008)
Budget: N/A
Opening: $4M
Gross: $11M
After a virus spreads through the British Isles, hundreds of millions of people get infected and die. Fear and chaos is rampant and the authorities in control quarantine those who are still safe. The virus is contained for about thirty years, when it rears its ugly head again. A team of specialists must venture through a no man's land to find a cure before the virus sweeps again. Their journey turns into a brutal nightmare.
28 Weeks Later (2007)
Budget: N/A
Opening: $9M
Gross: $28M
This was the sequel to the well-liked 28 Days Later. This film picks up six months after the first one ends where the survivors repopulate in a safe area of quarantined London. Everything is hunky dory until someone unknowingly passes off the virus which begins to spread again, only this time stronger and deadlier.
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Munich (2005)
Budget: $70M
Opening: $7M
Gross: $47M
Eric Bana is the Israeli officer in charge of hunting down the perpetrators of the massacres of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. His mission of death becomes a lonely one as he ends up paying with his life to the organization that hired him. Kassovitz plays one of the Mossad agents.
Gothika (2003)
Budget: $40M
Opening: $19M
Gross: $59M
Halle Berry donned zero makeup and psych ward garb after waking up as a patient in the mental institution when she was employed. A bad day at work turns into a living nightmare when she is unable to remember how she got there. Penelope Cruz also stars as an inmate at the asylum who may have clues as to what happened.
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Children of Men (2006)
Budget: $76M
Opening: $10M
Gross: $35M
Clive Owen was gallant as he beat himself ragged trying to save the only pregnant woman on the planet. The human race had been incapable of reproducing due to pollution and other factors. When one young girl becomes pregnant, her safety becomes everyone's concern. This film presented a world devoid of hope and full of chaos. But poor Owen went through hell in order to bring some light to the spreading darkness.
Ultraviolet (2006)
Budget: $30M
Opening: $9M
Gross: $18M
Milla Jovovich plays a woman known as a hemophage who is infected with a virus that gives her superhuman powers. She becomes the protector of a young boy who is thought to have antigens which can kill all hemophages.
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