New Delhi: A number of forthcoming Hollywood releases will be seeing reunion of hit pairs. From Titanic's lead pair Leonard DiCaprio and Kate Winslet to the Ocean's 11 stars, they are all coming back together.
Ocean's 11 stars Brad Pitt and George Clooney are back in Burn After Reading, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival recently. Directed by the Oscar-winning Coen brothers, it's a story of two gym employees trying to sell a disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent.
Titanic stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are returning with another love story in Revolutionary Road, directed by Winslet's husband Sam Mendes.
Heat co-stars Robert De Niro and Al Pacino reunite after more than 12 years for Righteous Kill, playing cops tracking a vigilante serial killer.
Meanwhile, Babel stars Cate Blanchett and Brad Pitt share screen space again for David Fincher's, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, based on an F Scott Fitzgerald story about a man who ages backward toward infancy.
And Nicole Kidman is back with Moulin Rouge creator Baz Luhrmann, co-starring with Hugh Jackman in Australia, a tale of a British aristocrat set during World War II.
Infact the second World War has inspired other films. In director Bryan Singer's Valkyrie, Tom Cruise stars as a German colonel, who led a group of insiders in a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a briefcase bomb.
Spike Lee directs Miracle at St Anna, that captures the struggle of an all-black Buffalo Soldier outfit fighting in Italy. These troops had two fight two wars, one against the fascists and the other against racism and prejudice.
Apart from the Bond flick The Quantam of Solace, Daniel Craig also stars in Edward Zwick's Defiance, the story of Jewish brothers who escape the Nazis and set up a community of resistance fighters in Eastern Europe.
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