Release date: Friday May 28, 2010
Genre: Action
Director: Mike Newell
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Screenplay: Carlo Bernard, Jordan Mechner, Doug Miro, Boaz Yakin
Producer(s): Jerry Bruckheimer
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley, Gemma Arterton, Alfred Molina, Toby Kebbell
Official Site: adisney.go.com/disneypictures/princeofpersia/index2.html
Rating: This Film is Not Yet Rated
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Synopsis
From the team that brought the “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy to the big screen, Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films present “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time,” an epic action-adventure set in the mystical lands of Persia. A rogue prince (Jake Gyllenhaal) reluctantly joins forces with a mysterious princess (Gemma Arterton) and together, they race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time—a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.

Release date: Friday January 29, 2010
Genre: Thriller
Director: Martin Campbell
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Screenplay: William Monahan, Andrew Bovell
Producer(s): Michael Wearing, Graham King
Cast: Mel Gibson, Danny Huston, Ray Winstone, Shawn Roberts, Denis O’Hare, Bojana Novakovic
Official Site: darkness.warnerbros.com
Rating: This Film is Not Yet Rated
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Synopsis
The British government’s nuclear policy is in for a royal drubbing in the tense BBC TV miniseries Edge of Darkness. Bob Peck stars as London police detective Ron Craven, whose political-activist daughter is murdered right before his eyes. Meticulously following the trail of clues, Craven uncovers a dark conspiracy involving the government and the powerful American CEO of a nuclear power plant. Joe Don Baker and a young Joanne Whalley co-star. The six-part series became a cult favorite in England, where it originally aired in November and December of 1985.

Release date: Friday October 23, 2009
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Running time: 109
Director: Paul Weitz
Studio: Universal Pictures
Screenplay: Paul Weitz, Brian Helgeland
Producer(s): Lauren Shuler Donner, Paul Weitz, Ewan Leslie
Cast: John C. Reilly, Ken Watanabe, Chris Massoglia, Josh Hutcherson, Patrick Fugit, Ray Stevenson, Michael Cerveris, Frankie Faison, Jane Krakowski, Orlando Jones, Kristen Schaal, Salma Hayek
Official Site: thevampiresassistant.net
Rating: PG-13 for sequences of intense supaernatural violence and action, disturbing images, thematic elements and some language
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Synopsis
The Vampire’s Assistant tells the frightening tale of a boy who unknowingly breaks a 200-year-old truce between two warring factions of vampires. Pulled into a fantastic life of misunderstood sideshow freaks and grotesque creatures of the night, one teen will vanish from the safety of a boring existence and fulfill his destiny in a place drawn from nightmares.

14-year-old Darren (Chris Massoglia) was like most kids in his suburban neighborhood. He hung out with his best friend, got decent grades and usually stayed out of trouble. But when he and his buddy stumble upon a traveling freak show, things begin to change inside Darren. That’s the exact moment when a vampire named Larten Crepsley (John C. Reilly) turns him into something, well, bloodthirsty. –© Universal

Release date: Friday December 4, 2009
Genre: Drama
Director: Jason Reitman
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Screenplay: Jason Reitman
Producer(s): Jeff Clifford, Ivan Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki, Jason Reitman
Cast: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Jason Bateman, Tamala Jones, Anna Kendrick
Official Site: theupintheairmovie.com
Rating: R for language and some sexual content
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Synopsis
Juno’s Jason Reitman heads into corporate America territory once again with this adaptation of Walter Kirn’s novel Up in the Air for Montecito Pictures. The plot surrounds a human resource administrator (George Clooney) whose life up in the friendly skies becomes his only world as he works to reach his one-millionth frequent flyer mile. Jason Bateman and Vera Farmiga co-star in the Paramount Pictures production.

Release date: Friday August 14, 2009
Genre: Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama
Director: Robert Schwentke
Studio: Alliance Films
Screenplay: Bruce Joel Rubin
Producer(s): Dede Gardner, Nick Wechsler
Cast: Rachel McAdams, Eric Bana, Arliss Howard, Ron Livingston, Jane McLean
Official Site: thetimetravelerswifemovie.com
Rating: PG-13 for thematic elements, brief disturbing images, nudity and sexuality
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Synopsis
“The Time Traveler’s Wife” is based on the best-selling book about a love that transcends time. Clare (Rachel McAdams) has been in love with Henry (Eric Bana) her entire life. She believes they are destined to be together, even though she never knows when they will be separated: Henry is a time traveler—cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life on a shifting timeline, skipping back and forth through his lifespan with no control. Despite the fact that Henry’s travels force them apart with no warning, Clare desperately tries to build a life with her one true love.

“The Time Traveler’s Wife” was directed by Robert Schwentke (“Flightplan”) from a screenplay by Academy Award® winner Bruce Joel Rubin (“Ghost”), based on the novel by Audrey Niffenegger. Nick Wechsler and Dede Gardner produced the film, with Brad Pitt, Richard Brener, Michele Weiss and Justis Greene serving as executive producers. The co-producer is Kristin Hahn.

Heading the film’s cast as Clare and Henry are Rachel McAdams (“Red Eye,” “The Notebook”) and Eric Bana (“Star Trek,” “Munich”). “The Time Traveler’s Wife” also stars Arliss Howard, Ron Livingston and Stephen Tobolowsky.

The behind-the-scenes creative team includes director of photography Florian Ballhaus (“Marley & Me”), production designer Jon Hutman (upcoming “My Sister’s Keeper”), Academy Award®-winning editor Thom Noble (“Witness”) and Academy Award®-nominated costume designer Julie Weiss (“Frida,” “12 Monkeys”). The music is by Mychael Danna (“Lakeview Terrace”).

Release date: Friday September 18, 2009
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Screenplay: Scott Z. Burns
Producer(s): Gregory Jacobs, Howard Braunstein, Jennifer Fox, Kur Eichenwald
Cast: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey
Official Site: theInformantmovie.com
Rating: R for language
Available film art: The Informant movie posters

Synopsis
What was Mark Whitacre thinking? A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion. But before all that can happen, the FBI needs evidence, so Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a kind of de facto secret agent. Unfortunately for the FBI, their lead witness hasn’t been quite so forthcoming about helping himself to the corporate coffers. Whitacre’s ever-changing account frustrates the agents and threatens the case against ADM as it becomes almost impossible to decipher what is real and what is the product of Whitacre’s rambling imagination. Based on the true story of the highest-ranking corporate whistleblower in U.S. history.

Release date: Friday October 16, 2009
Genre: Horror
Director: Nelson McCormick
Studio: Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems (Sony
Screenplay: J. S. Cardone
Producer(s): Greg Mooradian, Mark Morgan
Cast: Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward, Penn Badgley, Amber Heard, Jon Tenney
Official Site: welcometothefamily.com
Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence, disturbing images, mature thematic material and brief sensuality
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Synopsis
Dylan Walsh stars as David Harris, very much a “family values” man who mysteriously comes into the lives of single mothers with children and becomes the dream man they always wanted. When he woos Susan Harding (Sela Ward) and eventually moves in with her family, her teenage son Michael (Penn Bagdley) begins to suspect that David is not quite the dream man he pretends to be. Along with his girlfriend Kelly (Amber Heard) and Susan’s friends (Paige Turco and Sherry Stringfield) they slowly start to piece together the mystery of the man who is set to become their stepfather, but they may be too late in getting to the truth.

Release date: Friday March 5, 2010
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Adventure
Director: Tim Burton
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Screenplay: Linda Woolverton
Producer(s): Jennifer Todd, Joe Roth, Richard D. Zanuck, Suzanne Todd, Tim Burton
Cast: Mia Waskikowska, Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Sheen, Crispin Glover, Christopher Lee, Alan Rickman, Eleanor Tomlinson
Official Site: disney.go.com/disneypictures/aliceinwonderland
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Available film art: Alice in Wonderland movie posters

Synopsis
Based on the classic Lewis Carroll story, this adaptation will combine live-action footage with performance-capture technology.