Release date: Friday March 19, 2010
Genre: Comedy
Director: Thor Freudenthal
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Screenplay: Jackie Filgo, Jeff Filgo, Gabe Sachs, Jeff Judah
Producer(s): Nina Jacobson, Bradford Simpson
Cast: Zachary Gordon, Robert Capron, Rachael Harris, Steve Zahn, Devon Bostick, Chloë Grace Moretz, Grayson Russell
Official Site: diaryofawimpykidmovie.com
Rating: PG for For some rude humor and language.
Runtime: 2 hours
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Synopsis
To Greg Heffley (Zachary Gordon), middle school is the dumbest idea ever invented. It’s a place rigged with hundreds of social landmines, not the least of which are morons, wedgies, swirlies, bullies, lunchtime banishment to the cafeteria floor—and a festering piece of cheese with nuclear cooties. To survive the never-ending ordeal and attain the recognition and status he feels he so richly deserves, Greg devises an endless series of can’t-miss schemes, all of which, of course, go awry. And he’s getting it all down on paper, via a diary—”it’s NOT a diary, it’s a journal!” Greg insists, preferring the less-sissyfied designation—filled with his opinions, thoughts, tales of family trials and tribulations, and (would-be) schoolyard triumphs. “One day when I’m famous,” writes Greg, “I’ll have better things to do than answer peoples’ stupid questions all day.” So was born the Wimpy Kid’s diary.

Based on the best-selling illustrated novel “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” by Jeff Kinney.

Release date: Friday June 25, 2010
Genre: Comedy
Director: Dennis Dugan
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Screenplay: Adam Sandler, Fred Wolf
Producer(s): Jack Giarraputo, Adam Sandler
Cast: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, David Spade, Salma Hayek, Maria Bello, Maya Rudolph
Official Site: grownups-movie.com
Rating: Not yet rated
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Synopsis
Thirty years after graduating from high school, five former basketball teammates gather at the lake house where they celebrated their biggest victory to mourn the passing of their late coach. Over the course of the Fourth of July weekend, the five friends realize that just because they’ve all grown up and started families doesn’t mean that they’ve lost that old spark. Adulthood is what you make of it, and no one at the lake house is eager to be the grown-up of the gang. Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade, and Rob Schneider star in a film written by Sandler and Fred Wolf, and directed by Dennis Dugan (I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, You Don’t Mess with the Zohan). Maria Bello, Salma Hayek, and Maya Rudolph co-star.

Release date: Friday March 19, 2010
Genre: Comedy, Action
Director: Andy Tennant
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Screenplay: Columbia Pictures
Cast: Gerard Butler, Jennifer Aniston, Christine Baranski, Jason Sudeikis, Dorian Missick
Official Site: thepursuitbegins.com
Rating: PG-13 for For for sexual content including suggestive comments, language and some violence.
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Synopsis
Milo Boyd (Gerard Butler), a down-on-his-luck bounty hunter, gets his dream job when he is assigned to track down his bail-jumping ex-wife, reporter Nicole Hurly (Jennifer Aniston). He thinks all that’s ahead is an easy payday, but when Nicole gives him the slip so she can chase a lead on a murder cover-up, Milo realizes that nothing ever goes simply with him and Nicole. The exes continually one-up each other – until they find themselves on the run for their lives. They thought their promise to love, honor and obey was tough – staying alive is going to be a whole lot tougher. Andy Tennant (”Hitch,” “Sweet Home Alabama”) directs.

Release date: Wednesday June 30, 2010
Genre: Horror/Thriller/Drama/Fantasy
Director: David Slade
Studio: E1 Entertainment Canada
Screenplay: Melissa Rosenberg
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Billy Burke, Taylor Lautner, Peter Facinelli, Nikki Reed, Elizabeth Reaser, Kellan Lutz, Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone, Bryce Dallas Howard
Official Site: Not available
Rating: Not yet rated
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Synopsis
The third chapter in the “Twilight” franchise. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob—knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?

Release date: Friday July 16, 2010
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Director: Christopher Nolan
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Screenplay: Christopher Nolan
Producer(s): Emma Thomas
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Michael Caine
Official Site: inceptionmovie.warnerbros.com
Rating: Not yet rated
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Synopsis
The film is describe as a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind from “Dark Knight” director Christopher Nolan. Nolan wrote the original screenplay and hopes to shoot the sci-fi action film in the summer for a release during summer 2010.

Release date: Friday April 16, 2010
Genre: Comedy
Director: Neil LaBute
Studio: Columbia Pictures, Screengems (Sony)
Screenplay: Dean Craig
Producer(s): William Horberg, Laurence Malkin, Chris Rock, Sidney Kimmel, Share Stallings
Cast: Loretta Devine, Peter Dinklage, Danny Glover, Regina Hall, Martin Lawrence, James Marsden, Tracy Morgan, Chris Rock, Zoe Saldana, Columbus Short, Luke Wilson
Official Site: sonypictures.com
Rating: Not yet rated
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Synopsis
A re-imagining of “Death at a Funeral,” the 2007 MGM comedy directed by Frank Oz. The plan is to make an ensemble comedy about a funeral ceremony that leads to the digging up of shocking family secrets, as well as misplaced cadavers and indecent exposure. While the original was set in Britain, the new film will take place in an urban American setting.

Release date: Friday May 28, 2010
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Patrick King
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Screenplay: Michael Patrick King
Producer(s): John Melfi, Michael Patrick King, Sarah Jessica Parker
Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis
Official Site: sexandthecitymovie.com
Rating: Not Yet Rated
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Synopsis
In the film, Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda take another bite out of the Big Apple in the sequel to the 2008 summer blockbuster. The original Sex and the City is based on the popular HBO show.

Release date: Friday December 18, 2009
Genre: Action/Sci/Fi/Thriller
Director: James Cameron
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Screenplay: James Cameron
Producer(s): James Cameron, Jon Landau
Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Peter Mensah, Laz Alonso, Wes Studi, Stephen Lang, Matt Gerald
Official Site: avatarmovie.com
Rating: Not Yet Rated
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Synopsis
“Avatar,” a live action film with a new generation of special effects, takes us to a spectacular world beyond imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery as he leads an epic battle to save a civilization. James Cameron, the Oscar-winning director of “Titanic,” first conceived the film years ago, when the means to realize his vision did not yet exist. Now, after four years of actual production work, “Avatar” delivers a fully immersive cinematic experience of a new kind, where the revolutionary technology invented to make the film disappears into the emotion of the characters and the sweep of the story.

The story’s hero is Jake Sully, a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. Bitter and disillusioned, he’s still a warrior at heart. All Jake ever wanted was something worth fighting for, and he finds it in the place he least expected: on a distant world. Jake has been recruited to join an expedition to the moon Pandora, which corporate interests are strip-mining for a mineral worth $20 billion per kilogram on Earth. To facilitate their work, the humans use a link system that projects a person’s consciousness into a hybrid of humans and Pandora’s indigenous humanoids, the Na’vi. This human-Na’vi hybrid – a fully living, breathing body that resembles the Na’vi but possesses the individual human’s thoughts, feelings and personality – is known as an “avatar.”

In his new avatar form, Jake can once again walk. His mission is to interact with and infiltrate the Na’vi with the hope of enlisting their help – or at least their acquiescence – in mining the ore. A beautiful Na’vi female, Neytiri, saves Jake’s life, albeit reluctantly, because even in his avatar body, Jake represents to her the human encroachment on the Na’vi’s unspoiled world.

As Jake’s relationship with Neytiri deepens, along with his respect for the Na’vi, he faces the ultimate test as he leads an epic conflict that will decide nothing less than the fate of an entire world.

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.