Slideshow: 22-Image Gallery From ‘Knowing’ With Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne

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Rose Byrne and Nicolas Cage star in Knowing, a Summit Entertainment release.

CHICAGO – This 22-image slideshow contains the available press images for Summit Entertainment’s “Knowing,” starring Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury, and Lara Robinson. The film, written by Alex Proyas, Stuart Hazeldine (“Riverworld”), Ryne Douglas Pearson (Mercury Rising), Juliet Snowden & Stiles White (The Need, Boogeyman) and Richard Kelly (Southland Tales, Donnie Darko), and directed by Proyas, opens on Friday, March 20th, 2009.

Synopsis: “Academy Award® winner Nicolas Cage (National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in Knowing, a gripping action-thriller of global proportions about a professor who stumbles on terrifying predictions about the future and sets out to prevent them from coming true.

Rose Byrne (Troy, “Damages”), Chandler Canterbury (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Repossession Mambo) and Lara Robinson (“Saved”) also star in director Alex Proyas’ (I, Robot) riveting feature about a father’s desperate battle to save his child—and the world.

In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures of what they think the future will look like. Their drawings will be sealed into a time capsule and stored for 50 years. But one mysterious girl fills her paper with rows of apparently random numbers, which she says are being whispered to her by unseen people.

A half-century later, a new generation of students examines the capsule’s contents and the girl’s cryptic message ends up in the hands of young Caleb Koestler (Chandler Canterbury), but it’s Caleb’s father, astrophysics professor John Koestler (Nicolas Cage), who makes a startling discovery: the encoded message predicts the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years with pinpoint accuracy. As he further unravels the document’s secrets, John discovers that it foretells three additional catastrophes—the last of which hints at destruction on a global scale.

John’s efforts to alert the authorities about the impending catastrophes fall on deaf ears and his fears intensify with the realization that Caleb is somehow connected to the mystery. Enlisting the help of Diana Whelan (Rose Byrne) and Abby (Lara Robinson), the daughter and granddaughter of the prophetic message’s author, he embarks on a heart-pounding race against time to prevent the ultimate disaster.”

You can click “Next” and “Previous” to scan through this slideshow or jump directly to individual photos with the captioned links below. All photos are credited to Vince Valitutti and Summit Entertainment. All rights reserved.

1. Knowing_01: Nicolas Cage stars in Knowing, a Summit Entertainment release.
   
   
2. Knowing_02: Nicolas Cage and Chandler Canterbury star in Knowing, a Summit Entertainment release.
   
   
3. Knowing_03: Nicolas Cage and Rose Byrne star in Knowing, a Summit Entertainment release.
   
   
4. Knowing_04: Nicolas Cage stars in Knowing, a Summit Entertainment release.
   
   
5. Knowing_05: Nicolas Cage stars in Knowing, a Summit Entertainment release.
   
   
6. Knowing_06: Nicolas Cage (far right) stars in Knowing, a Summit Entertainment release.
   
   
7. Knowing_07: Nicolas Cage and Rose Byrne star in Knowing, a Summit Entertainment release.
   
   
8. Knowing_08: Rose Byrne and Nicolas Cage star in Knowing, a Summit Entertainment release.
   
   
9. Knowing_09: Rose Byrne and Nicolas Cage star in Knowing, a Summit Entertainment release.
   
   
10. Knowing_10: Nicolas Cage stars in Knowing, a Summit Entertainment release.
    
    
11. Knowing_11: Lara Robinson stars in Knowing, a Summit Entertainment release.
    
    
12. Knowing_12: Lara Robinson stars in Knowing, a Summit Entertainment release.
    
    
13. Knowing_13: Chandler Canterbury stars in Knowing, a Summit Entertainment release.
    
    
14. Knowing_14: Knowing, a Summit Entertainment release.
    
    
15. Knowing_15: (Left to right) Chandler Canterbury and Lara Robinson star in Knowing, a Summit Entertainment release.
    
    
16. Knowing_16: Rose Byrne (left) and Lara Robinson star in Knowing, a Summit Entertainment release.
    
    
17. Knowing_17: Rose Byrne stars in Knowing, a Summit Entertainment release.
    
    
18. Knowing_18: Rose Byrne stars in Knowing, a Summit Entertainment release.
    
    
19. Knowing_19: Director Alex Proyas on the set of Knowing, a Summit Entertainment release.
    
    
20. Knowing_20: Director Alex Proyas on the set of Knowing, a Summit Entertainment release.
    
    
21. Knowing_21: DP Simon Dugan (center left) and director Alex Proyas (center right) on the set of Knowing, a Summit Entertainment release.
    
    
22. Knowing_22: Lara Robinson (left) with director Alex Proyas (center) and Chandler Canterbury (right) on the set of Knowing, a Summit Entertainment release.
    
    

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