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Release date: Friday February 27, 2009
Genre: Documentary/Musical
Running time: 1 hour 16 minutes
Director: Bruce Hendricks
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures, Walden Media
Producer(s): Alan Sacks, Art Repola, Johnny Wright, Kevin Jonas, Philip McIntyre
Cast: Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas
Official Site: disney.go.com/disneypictures/jonasbrothers3d
Rating: G
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Synopsis
In this concert film, from the same director as “Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour,” you follow the Jonas Brothers as they cross the country on their “Burning Up Tour”. The film was filmed in Disney Digital 3-D and will only be shown in Digital 3D. Demi Lovato and Taylor Swift guest star and perform a song with the band. You will see backstage adventures with the Jonas Brothers, and you’ll follow them as they prepare for the tour. A new song by the Jonas Brothers will premiere in the film as well. This was filmed July 12 and 13 in Anaheim, California at the Honda Center, and August 10 and 11 in New York City, New York in Madison Square Garden.

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Release date: February 27th, 2009
Genre: Drama
Running time: 1 hour 53 minutes
Director: Wayne Kramer
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Screenplay: Wayne Kramer
Producer(s): Charles Weinstock, Matt Gross, Peter Jaysen
Cast:Harrison Ford, Cliff Curtis, Ashley Judd, Sean Penn, Ray Liotta, Alicia Braga, Alice Eve, Jim Sturgess
Official Site: weinsteinco.com/#/film/crossingover
Rating: R for pervasive language, some strong violence and sexuality/nudity
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Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In “Crossing Over,” writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality that immigrants find – and create — in 21st century L.A.

Kramer’s (“The Cooler”) intersecting stories, both cathartic and tragic, are brought to life by an international ensemble. The film stars Academy Award® nominee Harrison Ford, Academy Award® winner Sean Penn, Ray Liotta (“Good Fellas”) Ashley Judd (“Double Jeopardy”), Cliff Curtis (“Whale Rider”), Jim Sturgess (“Across the Universe”), Alice Eve (“Starter for Ten”), Alice Braga (“City of God”), Justin Chon (“Gary the Tennis Coach”) and Summer Bishil (“Nothing is Private”).

Frank Marshall (Seabiscuit) is producing “Crossing Over” for The Weinstein Company. Michael Beugg (“Little Miss Sunshine”) is executive producer and Gregg Taylor (“Austin Powers in Goldmember”) co-producer.

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Release date: Friday February 20, 2009
Genre: Comedy
Running time: 90 min.
Director: Will Gluck
Studio: Screen Gems (Sony)/Columbia Pictures
Screenplay: Freedom Jones
Producer(s): Charles Weinstock, Matt Gross, Peter Jaysen
Cast: Nicholas D’Agosto, Eric Christian Olsen, Sarah Roemer, Molly Sims, Danneel Harris, Adhir Kalyan, Annalynne McCord, Philip Baker Hall, John Michael Higgins
Official Site: sonypictures.com/movies/firedup
Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, partial nudity, language and some teen partying
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Shawn (Nicholas D’Agosto) and Nick (Eric Christian Olsen) are top scorers on the Ford High School football team… both on and off the field. When they hatch a scheme to trade their footballs for pom poms and join the school’s most beautiful girls at cheer camp, the new team members actually give the girls’ historically awful cheer squad a chance at success. And when Shawn falls for the head cheerleader (Sarah Roemer), the boys must learn some new moves and unleash their inner spirit to prove their intentions before the all-important cheer competition finals.

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Teenager Molly Hartley bravely tries to start her life all over again after surviving her mother’s bizarre attack on her in the midst of a psychotic breakdown. Now, in her posh new private school, Molly is finally starting to fit in, as she draws the thrilling attention of super popular rich-kid, Joseph (Chace Crawford). But even as she is thrust into a realm of hot parties and hallway gossip, she is haunted by creepy visions and eerie experiences that have her wondering just what is really happening to her.

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Eighteen-year-old Ian Lafferty sets out on a cross country drive with his best friends Lance and Felicia in order to lose his virginity to a red-hot babe he met on the Internet. But the journey, filled with hilarious misadventures and raunchy escapades, teaches all three more than they expected about life and love. Randy, raucous and unexpectedly romantic, Sex Drive follows three friends on the road trip of a lifetime

Cast: James Marsden, Katrina Bowden, Dave Sheridan, Michael Cudlitz; Directed by: Sean Anders

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Release date: Friday February 20, 2009
Genre: Comedy
Director: Tyler Perry
Studio: Lionsgate/Maple Pictures
Screenplay: Brian Helgeland
Producer(s): Reuben Cannon
Cast: Tyler Perry, Derek Luke, Keshia Knight Pulliam, David Mann, Tamala Mann
Official Site: madeagoestojailmovie.com
Rating: PG-13 for mature thematic material, drug content, some violence and sexual situations
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At long last, Madea returns to the big screen in “Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail.” This time America’s favorite irreverent, pistol-packin’ grandmomma is raising hell behind bars and lobbying for her freedom…Hallelujer!

After a high-speed freeway chase puts Madea (Tyler Perry) in front of the judge, her reprieve is short-lived as anger management issues get the best of her and land her in jail. A gleeful Joe (Tyler Perry) couldn’t be happier at Madea’s misfortune. But Madea’s eccentric family members the Browns (David and Tamala Mann) rally behind her, lending their special “country” brand of support.

Meanwhile, Assistant District Attorney Joshua Hardaway (Derek Luke) is on the fast track to career success. But Hardaway lands a case too personal to handle – defending young prostitute and former drug addict Candace Washington (Keisha Knight Pulliam) – and asks his fiancée and fellow ADA Linda Holmes (Ion Overman) to fill in on his behalf. When Candace ends up in jail, Madea befriends the young woman, protecting her in a “motherly” way as only Madea can.

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Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail (Comedy)
Our favourite delinquent grandmomma returns to the big screen and this time she is raising hell from behind bars.

Cast: Derek Luke, Tyler Perry, Vanessa Ferlito, Sofía Vergara, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Keke Palmer, Drew Sidora, David Mann; Directed by: Tyler Perry

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Fired Up (Comedy)
Nicholas D’Agosto (Shawn Colfax) and Eric Christian Olsen (Nick Brady) team up to play high school football stars, who have no trouble scoring either on or off the field. Dreading the prospects of another summer at football camp, Nick comes up with a brilliant scheme for the two of them to join the their school’s cheerleaders at cheer camp. While having the time of lives being among a bevy of gorgeous young women, Shawn falls for the beautiful head cheerleader, Carly (Sarah Roemer). The problem is that Carly is suspicious of Shawn and Nick’s motives.

Cast: AnnaLynne McCord, Molly Sims, Sarah Roemer, Danneel Harris, Eric Christian Olsen, John Michael Higgins; Directed by: Will Gluck

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Eleven Minutes (Documentary)
This documentary chronicles Jay McCarroll’s (winner of reality TV’s Project Runway) year-long journey as he prepares his first independent runway show for New York’s Fashion Week in Bryant Park.

Cast: Jay McCarroll, Kelly Cutrone; Directed by: Michael Selditch, Robert Tate

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The staff of IGN visits The Watchmen’s set and they have some good stuff.

All it takes is the most cursory stroll through the “brownstone” belonging to Dan Dreiberg (a.k.a. Nite Owl II) to realize that something special is happening on the set of Watchmen.

Everywhere you look there’s some new, telling detail in the environment of the reluctantly retired, slightly gone-to-seed superhero. Owlish and avian-themed tchokes dominate in the form of clocks, bookends, statuettes and other objects d’art, suggesting that Dreiberg’s costumed alter ego is never far from his mind. Framed photographs and old news clipping line his mantle – not just snapshots of his own adventuring as Nite-Owl, but nostalgic black and white glimpses of the very first superheroes, the Minutemen, that evoke Dreiberg’s enduring nostalgia.

And next to his reading chair sits a stack of 1985 comic books, authentic to the story’s era, indicating that fantasy and escapism is never more than an arm’s reach away.

Of course, when Watchmen – the ultimate post-modern take on the superhero phenomenon based on the 1986 comic book miniseries by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons, which was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 best novels from 1923 to the present – finally makes its long trek from printed page to the big screen, only a handful of these minute details may get a few seconds of screen time.

But showing off every nuance in the detail-drenched environment isn’t what director Zack Snyder (300) has in mind. Instead, he’s chosen to soak his set in tiny but evocative minutiae simply because it adds that much more atmosphere to the proceedings – if audiences happen to catch a glimpse in repeated viewings, the same way similar details revealed themselves to readers exploring the book a second, third, tenth time, he’s just fine with that.

“In this movie there’s so much stuff to photograph, whether it be a button or a Gunga Diner container,” says Snyder, who considers himself just one of the cult of Watchmen worshippers hungry to see the comic book’s world fully realized. “Everything has fetish relevance.”

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Release date: Friday May 1, 2009
Genre: Comedy/Romance
Director: Mark S. Waters
Studio: New Line Cinema/Alliance Films
Screenplay: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
Producer(s): Brad Epstein, Jon Shestack
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Breckin Meyer, Lacey Chabert, Anne Archer, Amanda Walsh, Emma Stone, Michael Douglas, Robert Forster, Noureen DeWulf, Christa B. Allen
Official Site: ghostsofgirlfriendspastmovie.com
Rating: PG-13 for sexual content throughout, some language and a drug reference
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Celebrity photographer Connor Mead loves freedom, fun and women…in that order. A committed bachelor who thinks nothing of breaking up with multiple women on a conference call, Connor’s mockery of romance proves a real buzz-kill for his kid brother, Paul, and a houseful of well wishers on the eve of Paul’s wedding. Just when it looks like Connor may single-handedly ruin the wedding, he is visited by the ghosts of his former jilted girlfriends, who take him on a revealing and hilarious odyssey through his failed relationships–past, present and future. Together they attempt to find out what turned Connor into such an insensitive jerk and whether there is still hope for him to find true love…or if he really is the lost cause everyone thinks he is.

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Based on Washington Post columnist David Ignatius’ 2007 novel about a CIA operative, Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio), who uncovers a lead on a major terrorist leader suspected to be operating out of Jordan. When Ferris devises a plan to infiltrate his network, he must first win the backing of cunning CIA veteran Ed Hoffman (Russell Crowe) and the collegial, but perhaps suspect, head of Jordanian intelligence. Although ostensibly his allies, Ferris questions how far he can really trust these men without putting his entire operation – and his life – on the line.

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“High School Musical 3: Senior Year” finds high school seniors Troy (Zac Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) facing the prospect of separation as they head off to different colleges. Joined by the rest of the Wildcats, they stage an elaborate spring musical reflecting their experiences, hopes and fears about the future. With incredible new music and exciting dance numbers designed to take maximum advantage of the big screen, this motion picture extravaganza delivers plenty of high-energy entertainment from East High’s talented ensemble.
William R. Borden and Barry Rosenbush are producing.

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Sidney Young (Simon Pegg) is a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamour. His alternative magazine, Post Modern Review, pokes fun at the media obsessed stars and bucks trends, and so when Young is offered a job at the diametrically opposed conservative New York based Sharps magazine its something of a shock!

It seems Sharps editor Clayton Harding is amused by Young’s disruption of a post–BAFTA party with a pig posing as Babe. Thus begins Sidney’s descent into success –– his gradual move from derided outsider to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes (Megan Fox) –– and a love affair with colleague Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst), that will either make him or break him.

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Religulous (Documentary) – Cast: Bill Maher, Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda; Directed by: Larry Charles

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Release date: Friday June 12, 2009
Genre: Thriller/Drama
Director: Tony Scott
Studio: Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures
Screenplay: Brian Helgeland
Producer(s): Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch, Todd Black, Tony Scott
Cast: Denzel Washington, John Travolta, John Turturro, Luis Guzman, Michael Rispoli, James Gandolfini
Official Site: None
Rating: R violence and pervasive language
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In “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3,” Denzel Washington stars as New York City subway dispatcher Walter Garber, whose ordinary day is thrown into chaos by an audacious crime: the hijacking of a subway train. John Travolta stars as Ryder, the criminal mastermind who, as leader of a highly-armed gang of four, threatens to execute the train’s passengers unless a large ransom is paid within one hour. As the tension mounts beneath his feet, Garber employs his vast knowledge of the subway system in a battle to outwit Ryder and save the hostages. But there’s one riddle Garber can’t solve: even if the thieves get the money, how can they possibly escape?

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