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The tale of a young woman overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds to win her Prince Charming has long been a staple of fairy tales but in Penelope, writer Leslie Caveny has given her story a contemporary spin. What if, for instance, the rich and handsome Prince Charming actually turned out to be a total cad, and true love for the heroine rested in the hands of an initially duplicitous card shark? And what if, more importantly, the story was less about a young woman finding true love and more about her learning to love and value herself? [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Website Release Date: February 29, 2008 Genre: Art, Foreign, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi and Fantasy Running Time: 101 min. Distributor(s): IFC Films, Summit Entertainment, LLC Tagline: A fairytale like no other. MPAA Rating: PG for thematic elements, some innuendo and language. Director: Mark Palansky Writer(s): Leslie Caveny - Screenplay Producer(s): Dylan Russell - Executive Producer Robin Greenspun - ...

A reclusive telemarketer, whose dysfunctional friendship with his boss is alleviated when a whimsical co-worker enters his life. But as he begins to sketch his new friend’s portrait, disturbing feelings from his past threaten to lead him down a path of destruction. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Website Release Date: February 8, 2008 Genre: Thriller Running Time: 90 min. Distributor(s): Tagline: You can't paint over the past. MPAA Rating: PG-13 Directors: Joel David Moore - Director Adam Green - Director Writer(s): Joel David Moore - Screenplay Jeremy Danial Boering - Screenplay Producer(s): Joel David Moore - Executive Producer Zachary Levi - Executive Producer Rachelle Ryan - Executive Producer Cory Neal - Producer Jeremy Danial Boering - Producer Kurt Schemper - Co-Producer Movie Casts: Joel Moore - Mason Amber Tamblyn - Amber Zachary Levi - Berkeley Tricia Helfer - Sasha David Muller - Will Annie Neal - Diana Arlene Ancheta - Asian Phone Bank Employee Jeremy D...

A 21st Century American teenager takes a spellbinding, dangerous journey into martial arts legend in the new action-adventure epic FORBIDDEN KINGDOM. Shot on location in China, THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM marks the historic first-ever onscreen pairing of martial arts superstars Jackie Chan (RUSH HOUR, DRUNKEN MASTER) and Jet Li (FEARLESS, ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA), and features the awe-inspiring action choreography of Wo Ping (THE MATRIX, CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON). While hunting down bootleg kung-fu DVDs in a Chinatown pawnshop, Jason (played by Michael Angarano - “24”, “Will and Grace,” LORDS OF DOGTOWN, SEABISCUIT) makes an extraordinary discovery that sends him hurtling back in time to ancient China. There, Jason is charged with a monumental task: he must free the fabled warrior the Monkey King, who has been imprisoned by the evil Jade Warlord. Jason is joined in his quest by wise kung fu master Lu Yan (Jackie Chan) and a band of misfit warriors including Silent Monk (Jet Li). But o...

JAKE TYLER never goes looking for trouble, but it always seems to find him. Since the break-up of his parents' marriage, it's everywhere he turns. Freshly transplanted from a sleepy Iowa town to the heat and flash of new-money Orlando, Florida, Jake seems headed for even more rocky terrain as he is pulled into an underground fighting league — a kind of fight club for teens. With the help of his new group of friends — a fight and life-savvy coach, a free-thinking and adventurous girlfriend, and a scrawny but charming best friend — Jake manages to rise above the chaos around him. But just as he's beginning to feel like he's in control, his world is turned upside down once again by an unrelenting campaign to get him back in the ring. From Jeff Wadlow, director of the stylish teen thriller CRY WOLF and winner of the Chrysler Million Dollar Film Festival for his short film THE TOWER OF BABBLE, comes this ripped-from-the-headlines story, in the tradition of such inspirational...

Animal enthusiast Peter Gaulke (Steve Zahn) and his sidekick Fred Wolf (Allen Covert) host an ailing wildlife TV show "Strange Wilderness," which is in a steep ratings decline. Desperate to save the show, Peter hatches a Hail Mary scheme to find the one animal that could truly turn the show around and change the nature-show landscape forever - Bigfoot. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Website Release Date: February 1, 2008 Genre: Comedy Running Time: Distributor(s): Paramount Pictures Tagline: This ain't March of the Penguins. MPAA Rating: R for non-stop language, drug use, crude and sexual humor. Director: Fred Wolf Writer(s): Peter Gaulke - Screenplay Fred Wolf - Screenplay Producer(s): Happy Madison - Producer Movie Casts: Jake Abel - Conservationist Kevin Alejandro - Hispanic Man #1 Krista Allen - Krista Joe Don Baker - Bill Calhoun Terrence Beasor - Old Man Ernest Borgnine - Milas Sheryl Chambers - Sheryl Blake Clark - Dick Lisa Cornelison - Brenda Al...

Will Ferrell stars in Semi-Pro, an outrageous comedy set in 1976 against the backdrop of the maverick ABA - a fast-paced, wild and crazy basketball league that rivaled the NBA and made a name for itself with innovations like the three-point shot and slam dunk contest. Ferrell plays Jackie Moon, a one-hit wonder who used the profits from the success of his chart-topping song "Love Me Sexy" to achieve his dream of owning a basketball team. But Moon's franchise, the Flint Michigan Tropics, is the worst team in the league and in danger of folding when the ABA announces its plans to merge with the NBA. If they want to survive, Jackie and the Tropics must now do the seemingly impossible - win. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Website Release Date: February 29, 2008 Genre: Comedy and Sports Running Time: Distributor(s): New Line Cinema Tagline: Putting the funk into the dunk. MPAA Rating: Director: Kent Alterman Writer(s): Scot Armstrong - Screenplay Produce...

Antoinette is the Duchess of Langeais, a married coquette who frequents the most extravagant balls in 1820's Paris during The Restoration, where hypocrisy and vanity reign. Upon the handsome general, Armand de Montriveau's first meeting with her, he realized it was true love from that moment on. Flattered by his attentions, the alluring Antoinette orchestrates a calculating game of seduction, but she repeatedly refuses Montriveau. Despite his sincere romantic declarations, Montriveau's passion remains unfulfilled. When the humiliated Montriveau eventually seeks his revenge, Antoinette's love awakens. But it may well be too late for the star-crossed lovers. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Website Release Date: February 22, 2008 Genre: Art, Foreign, Drama, Romance and Adaptation Running Time: 137 min. Distributor(s): First Take (IFC) Tagline: MPAA Rating: Director: Jacques Rivette Writer(s): Christine Laurent - Screenplay (adaptation) Jacques Rivette...

The true story of Salomon Sorowitsch, counterfeiter extraordinaire and bohemian. After getting arrested in a German concentration camp in 1944, he agrees to help the Nazis in an organized counterfeit operation set up to help finance the war effort. It was the biggest counterfeit money scam of all times. Over 130 million pound sterling were printed, under conditions that couldn’t have been more tragic or spectacular. During the last years of the war, as the German Reich saw that the end was near, the authorities decided to produce their own banknotes in the currencies of their major war enemies. They hoped to use the duds to flood the enemy economy and fill the empty war coffers. At the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, two barracks were separated from the rest of the camp and the outside world, and transformed into a fully equipped counterfeiters workshop. “Operation Bernhard” was born. Prisoners were brought to Sachsenhausen from other camps to implement the plan: professional printer...

Among the classic high-school rebels of American movies, there have been truants, delinquents, pranksters and con artists – but there has never been anyone quite like Charlie Bartlett. An optimist, a truth-teller and a fearless schemer, when Charlie slyly positions himself as his new school’s resident “psychiatrist,” dishing out both honest advice and powerful prescriptions, he has no idea the ways in which he will transform his classmates, the school principal and the potential of his own life. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Website Release Date: February 22, 2008 Genre: Comedy and Teen Running Time: 97 min. Distributor(s): MGM Distribution Company Tagline: When he listens, everyone talks. MPAA Rating: R for language, drug content and brief nudity. Director: Jon Poll Writer(s): Gustin Nash - Screenplay Producer(s): Jennifer Perini - Executive Producer William Horberg - Executive Producer Trish Hoffman - Executive Producer Bruce Toll - Executive Producer Jay Roac...

Larry the Cable Guy returns for another comic misadventure as a small town sheriff who unwittingly gets involved in a high profile FBI case in Liongate's new comedy, WITLESS PROTECTION. During a routine day spent patrolling his small town, Larry witnesses a beautiful, high-class woman, Madeleine, being held against her will by four mysterious, black-suited men. Recognizing the opportunity to save the day, Larry kidnaps her, only to learn that Madeleine is actually a key witness in a high-stakes Chicago crime case and her captors are FBI agents assigned to protect her. Madeleine is furious. But Larry, who rightly suspects the agents are crooked and Madeleine is in danger, forces her on a harebrained trip to Chicago to solve the case himself. Together, the hilariously mismatched duo must grapple with angry FBI, agents quack doors and Chicago high society in his funniest, most unpredictable adventure yet. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Website Release Date: Febr...

Me & You, Us, Forever is the story of a 47 year old Christian man who is on the other side of an unwanted divorce. Troubled by it all, he starts to reminisce about his old high school girlfriend, who was his first love, and whom he dated for 2 years, 4 months, and 28 days. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Website Release Date: February 15, 2008 Genre: Drama, Romance, Politics and Religion Running Time: 100 min. Distributor(s): Five & Two Pictures Tagline: ...if you've ever been in love MPAA Rating: Director: Dave Christiano Writer(s): Dave Christiano Producer(s): Movie Casts: Michael Blain-Rozgay - Dave Stacey J. Aswad - Carla Hugh McLean - Paul Jenna Bailey - Sue Karla Droege - Nikki Terry Loughlin - Group Leader Sandi Fix - Mary Kathryn Worsham - Mary - age 16 Kate Leahey - Amanda Leanna Spear - Michelle Genevieve Borden - Ashley Jake Goodchild - Dave

The follow-up to the smash hit “Step Up,” which ignited theaters in August 2006. When rebellious street dancer Andie (BRIANA EVIGAN) lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds herself fighting to fit in while also trying to hold onto her old life. When she joins forces with the school’s hottest dancer Chase (ROBERT HOFFMAN) to form a crew of classmate outcasts to compete in Baltimore’s underground dance battle The Streets, she ultimately finds a way to live her dream while building a bridge between her two separate worlds. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Website Release Date: February 14, 2008 Genre: Drama, Musical, Performing Arts, Sequel and Teen Running Time: Distributor(s): Touchstone Pictures Tagline: It's not where you're from. It's where you're at. MPAA Rating: PG-13 for language, some suggestive material, and brief violence. Director: Jon Chu Writer(s): Toni Ann Johnson - Screenplay Karen Barna - Screenplay Producer(s): Patri...

Ryan Reynolds stars as Will Hayes, a 30-something Manhattan dad in the midst of a divorce when his 10-year-old daughter, Maya (Abigail Breslin), starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love. Will's story begins in 1992, as a young, starry-eyed aspiring politician who moves to New York from Wisconsin in order to work on a presidential campaign. For Maya, Will relives his past as an idealistic young man learning the ins and outs of a big city politics, and recounts the history of his romantic relationships with three very different women. Will hopelessly attempts a gentler version of his story for his daughter and changes the names so Maya has to guess who is the woman her father finally married. Is her mother Will's college sweetheart, the dependable girl next-door Emily (Elizabeth Banks)? Is she his longtime best friend and confidante, the apolitical April (Isla Fisher)? Or is she the ...

Nim's Island is a heartfelt and hilarious adventure that chronicles the exploits of Nim, a young girl living a high-tech Robinson Crusoe existence on an unspoiled tropical island with her scientist father and her best friends—a motherly sea lion, a rambunctious iguana and a sea turtle. When Nim's father embarks on a day of research at sea, she begins an unlikely e-mail communication with an agoraphobic novelist who lives in New York City. When a storm prevents her father's return and unpredictable dangers confront Nim and the Island, she must find the resources to survive. At the same time, the novelist begins to realize that her pen pal is a little girl who is alone and in trouble. She also has to dig down for the courage to leave her safe haven and rescue Nim. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Website Release Date: April 4, 2008 Genre: Action-Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Adaptation Running Time: Distributor(s): Fox Walden, Summit Entertainment, LL...

Nate Cooper has been smitten with Cristabel Abbott since he first laid eyes on her at the impressionable age of six. In the intervening years, there have been other women in Nate's life, but none who could measure up to Cristabel. Convinced Cristabel is the only girl for him, Nate decides to move back to L.A. and track her down. The good news: she's still single and stunning. The bad news: there's a reason she's still single. Cristabel's still best friends with the same ugly little girl from first grade, June Phigg. The two are inseparable. They live together. They go to yoga together. They would even go on double dates together...if only June could get a date. And Cristabel simply refuses to leave dear June home alone. Determined to spend as much time as possible with Cristabel, Nate sets out to find a boyfriend for June. But guys all flee at the sight of her, and it hits him: June needs a makeover. As Nate and June become friends and she emerges from her coco...

VINCE VAUGHN’S WILD WEST COMEDY SHOW: 30 DAYS AND 30 NIGHTS — HOLLYWOOD TO THE HEARTLAND chronicles the journey of Vince Vaughn, star of the hit films FRED CLAUS, THE BREAK-UP, WEDDING CRASHERS, DODGEBALL: A TRUE UNDERDOG STORY, OLD SCHOOL and SWINGERS, and four stand-up comedians as they traverse the country performing in a live variety show. In the spirit of the Old West variety shows, Vaughn plays host to the ensemble of comedians and performs improvisational sketches with surprise celebrity and musical guests. Vaughn hand-picked four national comedians from Los Angeles’ world famous Comedy Store—Ahmed Ahmed, John Caparulo, Bret Ernst and Sebastian Maniscalco—to perform on the tour. The film provides audiences a rare opportunity to experience Vaughn and his team as they travel over 6,000 miles across the heartland of America and perform 30 shows in 30 days. Traveling to cities that don’t ordinarily attract this type of entertainment, Vaughn and his team bring their unique styles and...

Within the FBI, there exists a division dedicated to investigating and prosecuting criminals on the internet. Welcome to the front lines of the war on cybercrime, where special Agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) has seen it all... until now. A tech-savvy internet predator is displaying his graphics murders on his own website - and the fate of each of his tormented captives is left in the hands of the public: the more hits his site gets, the faster his victims die. When this game of cat and mouse becomes personal, Marsh and her team must race against the clock to track down this technical mastermind who is virtually untraceable. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Website Release Date: January 25, 2007 Genre: Thriller Running Time: Distributor(s): Sony Pictures Releasing Tagline: The FBI Cyber Crimes Division hunts down vicious criminals online...but the most dangerous one is hunting them. MPAA Rating: R for some prolonged sequences of strong gruesome violence, and language....

In Columbia Pictures' Vantage Point Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox), are two Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Ashton (William Hurt) at a landmark summit on the global war on terror. When President Ashton is shot moments after his arrival in Spain, chaos ensues and disparate lives collide. In the crowd is Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker) an American tourist video-taping the historic event to show his kids when he returns home. Also there is Rex (Sigourney Weaver) an American TV news producer who is reporting on the conference. It's only as we follow each person's perspective of the same 15 minutes prior to and immediately after the shooting that the terrifying truth behind the assassination attempt is revealed. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Website Release Date: February 22, 2008 Genre: Drama and Thriller Running Time: Distributor(s): Sony Pictures Releasing Tagline: 8 Strangers. 8 Points of View. 1 Truth. M...

A stunning inquiry into the suspicious death of an Afghani taxi driver at Bagram air base in 2002, the film is a fastidiously assembled, uncommonly well-researched examination of how an innocent civilian was apprehended, imprisoned, tortured, and ultimately murdered by the greatest democracy on earth. Intermingling documents and records of the incident with candid testimony from eyewitnesses and participants, the film uncovers an inescapable link between the tragic incidents that unfolded in Bagram and the policies made at the very highest level of the United States government in Washington, D.C. Combining the cool detachment of a forensic expert with the heated indignation of a proud American who holds his country to a high standard, Gibney's film reveals how the Bush administration has systematically betrayed the very ideals it professes to uphold. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Website Release Date: January 18, 2008 Genre: Documentary, Politics, Religion a...

In Bruges was filmed on location; Bruges (pronounced "broozh"), the most well-preserved medieval city in the whole of Belgium, is a welcoming destination for travellers from all over the world. But for hit men Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson), it could be their final destination; a difficult job has resulted in the pair being ordered right before Christmas by their London boss Harry (two-time Academy Award nominee Ralph Fiennes) to go and cool their heels in the storybook Flemish city for a couple of weeks. Very much out of place amidst the gothic architecture, canals, and cobbled streets, the two hit men fill their days living the lives of tourists. Ray, still haunted by the bloodshed in London, hates the place, while Ken, even as he keeps a fatherly eye on Ray's often profanely funny exploits, finds his mind and soul being expanded by the beauty and serenity of the city. But the longer they stay waiting for Harry's call, the more surreal their experien...

Once, not long ago, a small Egyptian Police band arrived in Israel. They came to play at an initiation ceremony but, due to bureaucracy, bad luck, or for whatever reason, they were left stranded at the airport. They tried to manage on their own, only to find themselves in a desolate, almost forgotten, small Israeli town, somewhere in the heart of the desert. A lost band in a lost town. Not many people remember this. It wasn't that important. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Website Release Date: February 8, 2008 Genre: Art, Foreign, Comedy, Drama, Musical and Performing Arts Running Time: 86 min. Distributor(s): Sony Pictures Classics Tagline: Once-not long ago-a small Egyptian police band arrived in Israel. Not many remember this...It wasn't that important. MPAA Rating: PG-13 for brief strong language. Director: Eran Kolirin Writer(s): Eran Kolirin - Screenplay Producer(s): Eilon Ratzkovsky - Producer Ehud Bleiberg - Producer Yossi Uzrad - Producer Koby Ga...

Part romantic comedy, part action adventure, "Fool's Gold" stars Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson, who had previously teamed on the romantic comedy hit "How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days." Ben "Finn" Finnegan (Matthew McConaughey) is a good-natured, surf bum-turned-treasure hunter who is obsessed with finding the legendary 18th century Queen's Dowry - 40 chests of exotic treasure that was lost at sea in 1715. In his quest, Finn has sunk everything he has, including his marriage to Tess Finnegan (Kate Hudson) and his more-rusty-than-trusty salvage boat, "Booty Calls." Just as Tess has begun to rebuild her life, working aboard a mega-yacht owned by billionaire Nigel Honeycutt (Donald Sutherland), Finn discovers a vital clue to the treasure's whereabouts. Certain that his luck will change with the newfound information, Finn maneuvers himself aboard Nigel's yacht and, using his good-natured charm, convinces the tycoon and his Blackberry...

If it only lasted ten seconds, could you forgive her? Tre (Daniel Cariaga), a nihilistic and physically dominant slacker, uses his brains, not his brawn, to seduce a woman seeking revenge against her husband. The woman, a brassy but vulnerable actress/waitress named Nina (Alix Koromzay), moved out of the house after discovering that her husband had kissed another woman…for ten seconds. Nina's more stable and responsible friend Kakela (Kimberly-Rose Wolter) plays host and witness to her illicit affair. Seeing Nina fall from grace, Kakela begins to question her own devotion to her fiance, Gabe (Erik McDowell). It is Tre who proposes the perfect experiment to test Kakela's love for Gabe. The experiment only lasts for ten seconds, but it sparks a chain reaction that could change their lives forever. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Website Release Date: February 1, 2008 Genre: Drama, Thriller and Sequel Running Time: 87 min. Distributor(s): Cinema Libre Studio Tagl...

In Beirut, five women meet regularly in a beauty salon, a colorful and sensual microcosm of the city where several generations come into contact, talk and confide in each other. Layale loves Rabih, but Rabih is married. Nisrine is Muslim and her forthcoming marriage poses a problem; she is no longer a virgin. Rima is tormented by her attraction to women and especially to a lovely client with long hair. Jamale is refusing to grow old. Rose has sacrificed her life to take care of her elderly sister. In the salon, their intimate and liberated conversations revolve around men, sex and motherhood, between haircuts and sugar waxing with caramel. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Website Release Date: February 1, 2008 Genre: Art and Foreign Running Time: 95 min. Distributor(s): Roadside Attractions Tagline: MPAA Rating: PG for thematic elements involving sexuality, language and some smoking. Director: Nadine Labaki Writer(s): Nadine Labaki - Screenplay Rodney Al Haddad - S...

Four short fables in which characters collide with fate - and each other - comprise THE AIR I BREATHE, an ambitious and absorbing drama. In "Happiness", 2006 Best Actor Oscar Winner Forest Whitaker stars as a timid banker who impulsively bets every cent he has, and then some, on a supposedly "sure thing." In "Sorrow", Sarah Michelle Gellar is a rising pop star whose contract falls under the control of a ruthless crime boss (Oscar-nominee Andy Garcia), and his corrupt nephew (Emile Hirsch). In "Pleasure," Brendan Fraser stars as a man who can see into the future of everyone he meets, but is totally blind when it comes to his own; and in "Love," Keven Bacon plays a doctor who pines for a woman he can never possess (Julie Delphy), only to find that he suddenly holds her life in his hands. Though each of the characters believes that his or her life is governed by hazard and chance, their unbridled emotions, impulsive choices, and reckless m...

Twenty years after the last film in the series, John Rambo (SYLVESTER STALLONE) has retreated to northern Thailand, where he's running a longboat on the Salween River. On the nearby Thai-Burma (Myanmar) border, the world's longest-running civil war, the Burmese-Karen conflict, rages into its 60th year. But Rambo, who lives a solitary, simple life in the mountains and jungles fishing and catching poisonous snakes to sell, has long given up fighting, even as medics, mercenaries, rebels and peace workers pass by on their way to the war-torn region. That all changes when a group of human rights missionaries search out the "American river guide" John Rambo. When Sarah (JULIE BENZ) and Michael Bennett (PAUL SCHULZE) approach him, they explain that since last year's trek to the refugee camps, the Burmese military has laid land mines along the road, making it too dangerous for overland travel. They ask Rambo to guide them up the Salween and drop them off, so they can deli...

The warriors of 300 might have been able to hold their own--at least for awhile--against an army of thousands, but can they defend themselves against this satire? From the minds behind EPIC MOVIE, MEET THE SPARTANS tackles everything from the action movie to YOU GOT SERVED to Britney Spears. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Website Release Date: January 25, 2008 Genre: Comedy Running Time: Distributor(s): 20th Century Fox Distribution Tagline: The Bigger The Hit The Harder They Fall. MPAA Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, language and some comic violence. Directors: Jason Friedberg - Director Aaron Seltzer - Director Writer(s): Jason Friedberg - Screenplay Aaron Seltzer - Screenplay Producer(s): Arnon Milchan - Executive Producer Jason Friedberg - Producer Aaron Seltzer - Producer Peter Safran - Producer Mark McNair - Co-Producer Movie Casts: Carmen Electra Diedrich Bader - Traitoro Kevin Sorbo - Captain Sean Maguire - Leonidas Martin Klebba - Mumb...