The Runaways

Release Date: March 19, 2010 (limited; wide: Apr. 9)
Studio: Apparition
Director: Floria Sigismondi
Screenwriter: Floria Sigismondi
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Michael Shannon, Danielle Riley Keough, Scout Taylor-Compton, Stella Maeve, Tatum O’Neal
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
MPAA Rating: R (for language, drug use and sexual content - all involving teens)
Official Website: Runawaysmovie.com

Plot Summary: Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning star in this music-fueled story of the ground-breaking, all girl, teenage rock band of the 1970s: The Runaways. The film follows two friends, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, as they rise from rebellious Southern California kids to rock stars of the now legendary group that paved the way for future generations of girl bands. Joan and Cherie fall under the Svengali-like influence of rock impresario Kim Fowley, played by Michael Shannon, who turns the group into an outrageous success and a family of misfits. With its tough-chick image and raw talent, the band quickly earns a name for itself—and so do its two leads: Joan is the band’s pure rock ‘n’ roll heart, while Cherie, with her Bowie-Bardot looks, is the sex kitten. Written and directed by Floria Sigismondi, the film chronicles Joan and Cherie’s tumultuous relationship on and off stage, as the band starts to break out.

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The Good Heart

Release Date: April 30, 2010 (limited)
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Director: Dagur Kari
Screenwriter: Dagur Kari
Starring: Brian Cox, Paul Dano, Isild Le Besco
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for language and a disturbing image)
Official Website: Not Available

Plot Summary: “The Good Heart” stars Cox as Jacques, the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking himself to death when he meets Lucas (Dano), a homeless young man who Jacques decides will be a fitting heir to the bar after his own inevitable passing.

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Furry Vengeance

Release Date: April 30, 2010
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Director: Roger Kumble
Screenwriter: Michael Carnes, Josh Gilbert
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Brooke Shields, Dick Van Dyke, Ken Jeong, Samantha Bee
Genre: Comedy, Family
MPAA Rating: PG (for some rude humor, mild language and brief smoking)
Official Website: FurryVengeance-movie.com

Plot Summary: “Furry Vengeance” is a live action family comedy in which an ambitious young real estate developer, Dan Sanders, faces off with a band of angry animals when his new housing subdivision pushes too far into a pristine part of the wilderness. Led by an incredibly clever raccoon, the animals stymie the development and teach our hero about the environmental consequences of man’s encroachment on nature.

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David Duchovny, Demi Moore and Amber Heard will form the perfect family in The Joneses, a drama with comedic elements that Derrick Borte is directing from his own script, says The Hollywood Reporter. Gary Cole has also been cast.

The story, a social commentary, centers on a picture-perfect family that moves into a suburban neighborhood and immediately becomes the toast of the town, loved and envied by all. But the reality is they are a commissioned fake family put together by a marketing company as a way to introduce new luxury-level products to neighborhoods around the world.

Duchovny plays the fake father, a man undergoing a crisis of confidence because he is living a lie.

Moore is the mother, a career-driven woman who struggles with her growing feelings toward her fake husband.

Heard plays the fake daughter who is trying to seduce her fake dad while looking for a rich man.

Cole plays a neighbor.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

Release Date: April 30, 2010
Studio: New Line Cinema (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Director: Samuel Bayer
Screenwriter: Wesley Strick, Eric Heisserer
Starring: Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Thomas Dekker, Kellan Lutz, Katie Cassidy, Connie Britton
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: NightmareonElmStreet.com

Plot Summary: Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley) returns in “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” a contemporary re-imagining of the horror classic. A group of suburban teenagers share one common bond: they are all being stalked by Freddy Krueger, a horribly disfigured killer who hunts them in their dreams. As long as they stay awake, they can protect one another…but when they sleep, there is no escape.

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Mike Markus has sent me this new poster for Kick Ass. Thanks Mike.

Kick-Ass

Release Date: April 16, 2010
Studio: Lionsgate
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Screenwriter: Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Aaron Johnson, Lyndsy Fonseca, Mark Strong, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloe Moretz
Genre: Action, Adventure
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available

Plot Summary: “Kick-Ass” tells the story of average teenager Dave Lizewski (Johnson), a comic-book fanboy who decides to take his obsession as inspiration to become a real-life superhero. As any good superhero would, he chooses a new name — Kick-Ass — assembles a suit and mask to wear, and gets to work fighting crime. There’s only one problem standing in his way: Kick-Ass has absolutely no superpowers.

His life is forever changed as he inspires a subculture of copy cats, is hunted by assorted violent and unpleasant characters, and meets up with a pair of crazed vigilantes, including an 11-year-old sword-wielding dynamo, Hit Girl (Moretz) and her father, Big Daddy (Cage).

“Kick-Ass” is based on the groundbreaking, best-selling comic by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.

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The Killer Inside Me

Release Date: Summer 2010 (limited)
Studio: IFC Films
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Screenwriter: Robert Weinbach, John Curran
Starring: Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson, Elias Koteas, Bill Pullman, Ned Beatty, Simon Baker
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available

Plot Summary: The story follows a West Texas sheriff (Affleck) and his downward spiral from a boring small-town cop into a ruthless, sociopathic murderer. Alba plays a prostitute.

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Get Him to the Greek

Release Date: June 4, 2010
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Nicholas Stoller
Screenwriter: Nicholas Stoller, Rodney Rothman
Starring: Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, Rose Byrne, Sean Combs, Elisabeth Moss
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R (for strong sexual content and drug use throughout, and pervasive language)
Official Website: GetHimtotheGreek.net

Plot Summary: “Get Him to the Greek” reunites Jonah Hill and Russell Brand with “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” director Nicholas Stoller in the story of a record company intern with two days to drag an uncooperative rock legend to Hollywood for a comeback concert. The comedy is the latest film from producer Judd Apatow (”The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” “Knocked Up,” “Funny People”).

Aaron Green (Hill) gets things done. The ambitious 23-year-old has exaggerated his way into a dream job just in time for a career-making assignment. His mission: Fly to London and escort a rock god to L.A.’s Greek Theatre for the first-stop on a $100-million tour. His warning: Turn your back on him at your own peril.

British rocker Aldous Snow (Brand) is both a brilliant musician and walking sex. Weary of yes men and piles of money, the former front man is searching for the meaning of life. But that doesn’t mean he can’t have a few orgies while he finds it. When he learns his true love is in California, Aldous makes it his quest to win her back… right before kick-starting his world domination.

As the countdown to the concert begins, one intern must navigate a minefield of London drug smuggles, New York City brawls and Vegas lap dances to deliver his charge safe and, sort of, sound. He may have to coax, lie to, enable and party with Aldous, but Aaron will get him to the Greek.

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Grown Ups

Release Date: June 25, 2010
Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony)
Director: Dennis Dugan
Screenwriter: Adam Sandler, Fred Wolf
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, David Spade, Salma Hayek, Maria Bello, Maya Rudolph
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: GrownUps-movie.com

Plot Summary: “Grown Ups,” starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, and David Spade, is a comedy about five friends and former teammates who reunite years later to honor the passing of their childhood basketball coach. With their wives (Salma Hayek, Maria Bello, Maya Rudolph) and kids in tow, they spend the Fourth of July holiday weekend together at the lake house where they celebrated their championship years earlier. Picking up where they left off, they discover why growing older doesn’t mean growing up.

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Mike Markus has set me this 2 new poster for Alice In Wonderland. Tanks Mike.

Alice in Wonderland

Release Date: March 5, 2010 (Disney Digital 3D and IMAX 3D)
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Director: Tim Burton
Screenwriter: Linda Woolverton
Starring: Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, Matt Lucas, Mia Wasikowska, Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Christopher Lee, Paul Whitehouse, Barbara Windsor
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Disney.com

Plot Summary: From Walt Disney Pictures and visionary director Tim Burton comes an epic 3D fantasy adventure “Alice in Wonderland,” a magical and imaginative twist on some of the most beloved stories of all time. Johnny Depp stars as the Mad Hatter and Mia Wasikowska as 19-year-old Alice, who returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl, reuniting with her childhood friends: the White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Dormouse, the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, and of course, the Mad Hatter. Alice embarks on a fantastical journey to find her true destiny and end the Red Queen’s reign of terror. The all-star cast also includes Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter and Crispin Glover; Linda Woolverton wrote the screenplay. Capturing the wonder of Lewis Carroll’s beloved “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865) and “Through the Looking-Glass” (1871) with stunning, avant-garde visuals and the most charismatic characters in literary history, “Alice in Wonderland” comes to the big screen in Disney Digital 3D™ on March 5, 2010.

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My friend Mike Markus has sent me 2 new posters for The Last Airbender. Thanks Mike.

The Last Airbender

Release Date: July 2, 2010
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Screenwriter: M. Night Shyamalan
Starring: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel, Jessica Jade Andres, Aasif Mandvi, Shaun Toub, Cliff Curtis, Keong Sim
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: TheLastAirbendermovie.com

Plot Summary: Air, Water, Earth, Fire. Four nations tied by destiny when the Fire Nation launches a brutal war against the others. A century has passed with no hope in sight to change the path of this destruction. Caught between combat and courage, Aang (Noah Ringer) discovers he is the lone Avatar with the power to manipulate all four elements. Aang teams with Katara (Nicola Peltz), a Waterbender, and her brother, Sokka (Jackson Rathbone), to restore balance to their war-torn world.

Based on the hugely successful Nickelodeon animated TV series, the live-action feature film “The Last Airbender” is the opening chapter in Aang’s struggle to survive.

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