Movie News: Friday, October 06

Rocky Balboa
    ( Release: Dec. 22, 2006    Details | Trailers | Photos  ) — Sylvester Stallone returns for a sixth time as Rocky Balboa, the tough-as-nails Philadelphia boxing champ. Only now Rocky is old, really old. In this installment of the sports saga, the 54-year-old Balboa is lured out of retirement for one final fight when a computer simulation claims he could beat the current champ, Mason "the Line" Dixon (Antonio Tarver).

Dreamgirls
    ( Release: Dec. 15, 2006    Details | Trailers | Photos  ) — Based on the Tony-winning Broadway musical, this '60s-era story follows three young singers — Effie (Jennifer Hudson), Deena (Beyoncé Knowles) and Lorrell (Anika Noni Rose) — as they try to cross over to the pop charts. They're discovered at a talent competition by an ambitious manager (Jamie Foxx), who offers them the opportunity to become the back-up singers for headliner James "Thunder" Early (Eddie Murphy).

Blood Diamond
    ( Release: Dec. 15, 2006    Details | Photos  ) — In civil war-torn 1990s Sierra Leone, Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), a South African mercenary, and Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou), a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories and their circumstances are as different as any can be — until their fates become joined in a quest to recover a rare pink diamond that can transform their lives.

Arthur and the Invisibles
    ( Release: Dec. 15, 2006   Rated: Rating Pending    Details  ) — After his grandfather disappears, Arthur (Freddie Highmore) sets out to save his family home from emerging real estate developers. Arthur learns that he must follow his grandfather's ancient clues to a vast treasure, and unlock the passageway to a spectacular new world filled with mysterious little people, so tiny they are considered invisible. But once in the magical land, Arthur must join swords with a beautiful princess (Madonna) and a reckless army of defenders to save the land from the evil wizard (David Bowie).

The Good German
    ( Release: Dec. 8, 2006    Details | Photos  ) — In post-WWII Berlin, U.S. Army war correspondent Jake Geismar (George Clooney) becomes involved once again with Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchett), a former lover whose missing husband is the object of a manhunt by both the American and Russian armies. Jake tries to uncover the secrets Lena may be hiding in her desperation to get herself and her husband out of Berlin. Tully (Tobey Maguire), a soldier in the American army motor pool assigned to drive Jake around Berlin, has black-market connections that may be Lena's way out.

DOA: Dead or Alive
    ( Release: Dec. 8, 2006    Details | Photos  ) — Based on the popular Dead or Alive video games, this action flick focuses on a group of gorgeous, highly trained and — to distract their horndog adversaries — scantily clad female fighters.

Apocalypto
    ( Release: Dec. 8, 2006   Rated: N/A    Details | Trailers | Photos  ) — Mel Gibson's historical epic follows the decline of the Mayan civilization 600 years ago, just before Spanish invaders conquered Central America. The story revolves around one man who fights to save his culture from the outsiders.

Turistas
    ( Release: Dec. 1, 2006    Details  ) — After a terrifying bus accident maroons a group of young hottie travelers (Josh Duhamel, Melissa George) in a remote Brazilian beach town, they slowly discover that the white sand beaches and lush jungles are concealing a darker, unsettling secret.

Bug
    ( Release: Dec. 1, 2006    Details | Trailers | Photos  ) — A weirdo war veteran (Michael Shannon) who suffers hallucinations about insects shacks up in an Oklahoma City motel with Agnes (Ashley Judd), a lonely waitress on the run from her abusive husband (Harry Connick Jr.).

The Fountain
    ( Release: Nov. 22, 2006    Details  ) — A man (Hugh Jackman) embarks on a thousand-year struggle to save the woman (Rachel Weisz) he loves. His epic journey begins in 16th century Spain, where conquistador Tomas Creo commences his search for the Tree of Life, the legendary entity believed to grant eternal life to those who drink of its sap. As modern-day scientist Tommy Creo, he desperately struggles to find a cure for the cancer that is killing his beloved wife Isabel. Traveling through deep space as a 26th-century astronaut, Tom begins to grasp the mysteries of life that have consumed him for all these years.

The History Boys
    ( Release: Nov. 21, 2006   Rated: R (MPAA)    Details | Trailers  ) — An unruly class of history students pursue an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master (Richard Griffiths), a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores (Stephen Campbell Moore), a grossly out-numbered history teacher (Frances de la Tour) and a headmaster obsessed with results (Clive Merrison), the boys attempt to sift through it all to pass the daunting university admissions process.

For Your Consideration
    ( Release: Nov. 17, 2006    Details | Trailers  ) — The cast and crew of a small indie movie find themselves inexplicably surrounded by Oscar buzz in the middle of Academy Award season.

Fast Food Nation
    ( Release: Nov. 17, 2006    Details | Trailers | Photos  ) — Don Henderson (Greg Kinnear) is a marketing executive at Mickey's Fast Food Restaurant chain, home of "The Big One." He must uncover how contaminated meat is getting into the frozen patties of the company's best-selling burger.Leaving the confines of the company's Southern California boardroom for the immigrant-staffed slaughterhouses, feedlots and strip malls of Middle America, Don realizes that his company has been serving up some pretty disgusting stuff.

Candy
    ( Release: Nov. 17, 2006    Details | Trailers  ) — Heath Ledger stars as Dan, a reckless young poet who falls in love with Candy (Abbie Cornish), a young art student from a comfortable middle-class family who is attracted to the bohemian lifestyle that Dan has long since embraced. In order to get closer to Dan, Candy, whose previous drug use has been casually experimental, starts shooting up. Yeah, that works out about as well as you'd expect.

The Aura
    ( Release: Nov. 17, 2006    Details | Photos  ) — Espinoza is a shy taxidermist who secretly dreams of executing the perfect robbery. On his first ever hunting trip, Espinoza accidentally kills a man who turns out to be a real criminal and inherits his scheme: the heist of an armored van carrying casino profits.

Stranger Than Fiction
    ( Release: Nov. 10, 2006    Details | Trailers | Photos  ) — An IRS agent (Will Ferrell) hears a mysterious voice narrating his entire life, a voice that seems to know his thoughts and feelings, as well as when and how he'll die. It turns out that the voice is that of an author (Emma Thompson) writing a book in which the agent is a character.

Harsh Times
    ( Release: Nov. 10, 2006    Details | Trailers | Photos  ) — Jim David (Christian Bale) has just been signed on by the DEA to work in Columbia. His friend Mike Alvarez (Freddy Rodriguez), is unemployed and bored. This film follows the friends as they cruise around Los Angeles drinking and being reckless — until things get out of hand and one turns against the other.

F*ck
    (  Details  ) — This documentary takes a look at the history of the word "f---." Talking to celebrities, political figures and other commentators eager to discuss this taboo word, director Steve Anderson crafts a film that manages to combine deep conversation about civil liberties with some highly amusing uses of a word that is still considered shocking to many.

Copying Beethoven
    ( Release: Nov. 10, 2006    Details  ) — An aspiring composer, 23-year-old Anna Holtz (Diane Kruger) is seeking inspiration and career advancement in the world's music capital, Vienna. A student at the music conservatory, she is recommended for a position at a venerated publisher, and, in a fortuitous turn of events, orchestrates an opportunity to work beside Ludwig van Beethoven (Ed Harris).

Babel
    ( Release: Nov. 10, 2006    Details | Photos  ) — Two Morrocan boys set out to look after their family's herd of goats, but when one of them tests his stolen rifle, the bullet finds an unintended target. In an instant, the lives of four separate groups of strangers on three different continents collide. Caught up in the rising tide of an accident that escalates beyond anyone's control are a vacationing American couple (Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett), a rebellious deaf Japanese teenager and her father, and a Mexican nanny who, without permission, takes two American children across the border.

Volver
    ( Release: Nov. 3, 2006   Rated: N/A    Details | Trailers | Photos  ) — In modern-day Madrid's working-class neighborhoods, immigrants from various Spanish provinces live and work together. Among them are three generations of women whose live intertwine.

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
    ( Release: Nov. 3, 2006   Rated: G    Details | Trailers  ) — This time around, Santa (Tim Allen), a k a Scott Calvin, has to fight off Jack Frost (Martin Short), who wants to rule Christmas himself. Making matters more complicated, Scott risks the secret location of his North Pole hideout by inviting his family up for the holiday.

Flushed Away
    ( Release: Nov. 3, 2006    Details | Trailers | Photos  ) — This animated feature tells the story of an uptown rat (Hugh Jackman) who is flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment into the sewers of London, where he has to learn a whole new way of life.

Shut Up and Sing
    ( Release: Oct. 27, 2006    Details  ) — This doc follows bestselling country band The Dixie Chicks through the fallout and fan backlash resulting from comments made by singer Natalie Mains about President Bush.

Catch a Fire
    ( Release: Oct. 27, 2006    Details | Trailers  ) — This dramatic portrayal of terrorism during apartheid in South Africa follows one man's (Derek Luke) battle against the regime.

Sleeping Dogs Lie
    ( Release: Oct. 20, 2006    Details | Trailers  ) — Amy (Melinda Page Hamilton) is a seemingly normal young girl, adored by her parents and golden-boy fianc&ecute;. But when her future husband suggests they tell each other their darkest secrets everything falls apart.

The Prestige
    ( Release: Oct. 20, 2006    Details | Trailers | Photos  ) — In early 20th-century London, a magician (Christian Bale) develops a rivalry with another conjuror (Hugh Jackman) after he devises a seemingly impossible new trick.

Marie Antoinette
    ( Release: Oct. 20, 2006    Details | Trailers | Photos  ) — This historical drama traces the life and times of French royals Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst) and Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman), who both lost their heads during the French Revolution.

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
    ( Release: Oct. 20, 2006   Rated: Rating Pending    Details  ) — On Nov. 18, 1978, more than 900 members of Peoples Temple died in the largest mass suicide-murder in history. What drew so many people across racial and class lines to the Peoples Temple? How could a diverse group of 900 people be convinced to commit suicide? What was a California congregation doing in the jungles of Guyana? And who was Jim Jones to command such loyalty that parents would murder their own children? Using never before seen archival footage and survivor interviews, this doc tells the story of the people who followed Jim Jones from Indiana to California and finally to the remote jungles of South America in a misbegotten quest to build an ideal society.

Flicka
    ( Release: Oct. 20, 2006    Details | Trailers | Photos  ) — On a ranch in Wyoming, young Katie (Alison Lohman) aspires to one day run the family spread, even though her father (Tim McGraw) is grooming her brother for the job. Katie finds and tames a wild horse and names it Flicka.

Flags of Our Fathers
    ( Release: Oct. 20, 2006    Details | Trailers | Photos  ) — In February 1945, the United States closes in on victory in Europe, but the battle in the Pacific still rages on. A photographer captures a photo during the battle of Iwo Jima, an image of men raising the flag that is destined to become a symbol strong enough to raise morale back home. But the surviving flag raisers had no interest in being held up as symbols and did not consider themselves heroes; they wanted only to stay on the front with their brothers in arms who were fighting and dying without fanfare or glory.

Zerophilia
    ( Release: Oct. 13, 2006    Details  ) — Luke, a young man insecure about his masculinity, attempts to solve the mystery of his rare genetic condition, zerophilia, before it turns him into a woman.

The Marine
    ( Release: Oct. 13, 2006    Details | Trailers  ) — WWE wrestler John Cena stars in this story about a marine who returns from Iraq duty only find his girlfriend has been kidnapped by a gang led by the merciless Rome (Robert Patrick).

Man of the Year
    ( Release: Oct. 13, 2006    Details | Trailers | Photos  ) — Many talk show hosts harbor lofty ambitions, but few would go to the extremes of Tom Dobbs (Robin Williams). After entering the race for president as a joke, Dobbs is in for quite a surprise when he proves to be more popular than anyone could have imagined.

Infamous
    ( Release: Oct. 13, 2006    Details | Trailers | Photos  ) — This Truman Capote biopic, not to be confused with Capote, stars unknown Toby Jones as the renowned writer, who became uncomfortably close to the murderers Perry Smith and Dick Hickock while researching his "non-fiction novel" In Cold Blood.

The Grudge 2
    ( Release: Oct. 13, 2006    Details | Trailers | Photos  ) — In Tokyo, the younger sister (Amber Tamblyn) of the woman (Sarah Michelle Gellar) previously haunted by the supernatural force — which fills folks with rage and spreads victim by victim — finds the nasty problem tracking her down, too.

Driving Lessons
    ( Release: Oct. 13, 2006   Rated: Rating Pending    Details | Trailers | Photos  ) — Rupert Grint (Harry Potter) plays a shy teenager with an overbearing mother, but the dorky kid finds solace when he goes to work for a retired actress (Julie Walters).

Deliver Us From Evil
    ( Release: Oct. 13, 2006   Rated: NR    Details | Trailers  ) — Director Amy Berg helms this shocking documentary, which looks at the activities of a priest named Oliver O'Grady. O'Grady had been identified by the Catholic church as a pedophile, but they allowed him to continue to work and molest children throughout the 1970s. Berg draws on interview footage of O'Grady and his victims to tell the unsettling tale.

Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker
    ( Release: Oct. 13, 2006    Details | Trailers | Photos  ) — Alex Rider (Alex Pettyfer), a teenager with unusual talents, is recruited by the British Secret Service to carry out a dangerous mission following the mysterious death of his uncle (Ewan McGregor).

49 Up
    ( Release: Oct. 6, 2006    Details | Tickets | Trailers | Photos | Reviews  ) — Director Michael Apted continues his award-winning series with this look at his group of subjects as they turn 49. Apted has followed the group since they were 7 years old, checking in every seven years to see how their lives have changed.

The Queen
    ( Release: Oct. 6, 2006    Details | Trailers | Reviews  ) — When news of the death of Princess Diana reaches the British public, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Helen Mirren) retreats behind the walls of Balmoral Castle with her family, unable to comprehend the public response to the tragedy. For Tony Blair (Michael Sheen), the popular and newly elected prime minister, the people's need for reassurance and support from the royal family is palpable. As the unprecedented outpouring of emotion grows ever stronger, Blair must find a way to reconnect the queen with the British public.

Little Children
    ( Release: Oct. 6, 2006    Details | Tickets | Trailers | Photos | Reviews  ) — In a suburban town, two 30-somethings (Patrick Wilson, Kate Winslet) have early midlife crises and suffer through personal breakdowns and infidelity. As one would expect, the man's jilted wife (Jennifer Connolly) isn't exactly happy when she finds out about the affair. The situation only gets worse when a child molester moves into the neighborhood.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
    ( Release: Oct. 6, 2006    Details | Tickets | Trailers | Photos | Reviews  ) — Oh, so that's how Leatherface became a murderous psycho! Jordana Brewster and a bunch of other young hot people star in this prequel to the classic horror series.

Employee of the Month
    ( Release: Oct. 6, 2006    Details | Tickets | Trailers | Photos | Reviews  ) — A couple of employees at a Costco-like super-store (Dax Shepard, Dane Cook) compete for the affections of a new co-worker (Jessica Simpson) by trying to win the Employee of the Month award.

Thank You for Smoking
    ( Released: 10/03/2006   Rated: R   Avg. Score: 4.5/5     | Trailers | Photos | Reviews  ) — Nick Naylor (Eckhart) is a Big Tobacco lobbyist with questionable morals but undeniably successful spin skills. His son worships him, his boss loves him and his pro-cigarette publicity campaigns are outlandishly successful. Naylor finds his work increasingly difficult, however, after he's approached by a seductive newspaper reporter (Holmes).

The Departed
    ( Release: Oct. 6, 2006    Details | Tickets | Trailers | Photos | Reviews  ) — Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) is an undercover cop in South Boston assigned to infiltrate a mob syndicate run by a boss named Costello (Jack Nicholson). Meanwhile, a young criminal, Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon), has embedded himself in the police department's Special Investigation Unit. Both their lives become endangered when the two organizations realize they have moles within their ranks.

X-Men: The Last Stand
    ( Released: 10/03/2006   Rated: PG-13 - for intense sequences of action violence, some sexual content and language   Avg. Score: 4.25/5     | Trailers | Photos | Reviews  ) — In X-Men: The Last Stand, a "cure" for the mutant X gene has been discovered, which threatens the very existence of mutants such as Magneto (Ian McKellen) and Professor X (Patrick Stewart). The two leaders have opposing viewpoints on the situation: Magneto insists on a violent revolution to stop humans from exterminating their kind, while the professor prefers tolerance and working with the government on a compromise. But the balance is shifted by the shocking return of Dr. Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), who appeared to die in a great flood at the end of X2. Now she's more powerful than ever as Dark Phoenix, and if Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) can't persuade her not to join Magneto's crew, a war could be at hand.

Changing Times
    ( Released: 10/03/2006    | Photos  ) — Antoine (Gerard Depardieu) is a French engineer who travels to Tangiers to oversee the construction of a TV station. But his real mission is to find Cecile (Catherine Deneuve), a woman he loved and lost 30 years before.

Edmond
    ( Released: 10/03/2006   Rated: R - for violence, strong language, and sexual content including nudity and dialogue   Avg. Score: 3.5/5     | Trailers | Photos | Reviews  ) — A man (William H. Macy) realizes that his life is totally meaningless and decides to embark on a spiritual quest. But instead, he ends up getting mugged and rejected by hookers (Mena Suvari) and strippers (Denise Richards). Before long he's at his wits' end. When a woman (Julia Stiles) curses him, he pretty much loses it. Time for a mental breakdown!

Early Oscar buzz seems fit for 'Queen' (Reuters)
   

Reuters - At the Los Angeles premiere of director Stephen Frears' "The Queen" on Tuesday night, partygoers anointed Helen Mirren as the inevitable best actress Oscar winner for her bravura turn as the dowdily out-of-touch Queen Elizabeth II, but several Miramax Films marketing staffers were looking like deer frozen in headlights.

New Drug Link in Daniel Smith's Death (E! Online)
   

E! Online - A new suspect has been named in the Daniel Smith case: methadone.

Long road from bestselling book to Hollywood hit (Reuters)
   

Reuters - Bestselling books don't always make great blockbuster films, agents and producers warned authors selling rights at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week.

Robert Downey Jr. Is Iron Man (E! Online)
   

E! Online - Robert Downey Jr. is ready to become one serious metalhead--the actor has signed on to play the title role in Iron Man, Paramount Pictures' feature film based on the famed Marvel superhero.

Australia's Noyce looks at apartheid in "Catch a Fire" (Reuters)
   Reuters - Australian director Phillip Noyce is bringing another real-life tale of an ordinary person's heroism to the screen in a new film he hopes will match the success of his critically acclaimed "Rabbit Proof Fence."

Kutcher Kicks Ash at Box Office (E! Online)
   

E! Online - Ashton Kutcher personally punk'd all comers this weekend.

Comic cast seals deal in "Employee of the Month" (Reuters)
   

Reuters - An attempt to carve out "Office Space" in a warehouse store setting, Greg Coolidge's "Employee of the Month" falls short of that inspired Mike Judge mark but manages to retain a certain goofy appeal thanks to the stand-up efforts of its comically adept cast members.

Carrey, Diaz Don't Got "Game" (E! Online)
   

E! Online - The A-listers, who were planning to reunite onscreen for the first time since 1994's smash The Mask, have pulled out of Focus Features' dramedy A Little Game Without Consequence less than a month before filming was set to get underway, the studio confirmed Wednesday.

Jack Black suits up for football comedy (Reuters)
   

Reuters - Universal Pictures has picked up movie rights to a New York Times article with the headline "In College Football, Big Paydays for Humiliation" for comic actor Jack Black to produce.

Costner and the Supremes (E! Online)
   

E! Online - Forget the buffalo, Kevin Costner is doing some legal wrangling in South Dakota these days.

Lau gives 'Departed' an 8 out of 10 (AP)
   

AP - Andy Lau gives "The Departed" — an Americanized version of one of his movies — an eight out of 10. The new Martin Scorsese film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson was inspired by the 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller "Infernal Affairs," which features Lau and Tony Leung.

Brazil's movie industry eyes comeback (AP)
   AP - The 2005 film "The Constant Gardner" won acclaim at film festivals and an Oscar for best supporting actress Rachel Weisz. Now the film's Brazilian director is harnessing his fame to jump-start his country's struggling movie industry.

Altman, Keillor share `Prairie' tales (AP)
   AP - What was it that made "A Prairie Home Companion" such a quintessential Robert Altman movie that also captured the gabby spirit of the Garrison Keillor radio show on which it was based?

Natalie Portman channels Audrey Hepburn (AP)
   

AP - Audrey Hepburn has a clone: Natalie Portman.

Actress Sienna Miller slights Pittsburgh (AP)
   

AP - Sienna Miller apologized Friday for disparaging Pittsburgh in a magazine interview, saying her remarks were taken out of context and that she found the city and residents gracious.

RFK's widow praises new film 'Bobby' (AP)
   

AP - The widow and a daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy give a thumbs-up for "Bobby," an ensemble drama about the 1968 Kennedy assassination directed by Emilio Estevez and set for release next month.

Theaters Balk on Bush Death Film (E! Online)
   

E! Online - Some of the country's biggest theater chains are reportedly refusing to screen Death of a President, the controversial British-made drama that depicts a fictional assassination of President George W. Bush.

Young `Whale Rider' actress pregnant (AP)
   AP - Keisha Castle-Hughes is growing up fast.

Gibson takes redemption tour to `GMA' (AP)
   

AP - Mel Gibson's redemption tour is heading to TV.

Major theaters shun "Death of a President" film (Reuters)
   

Reuters - Two major U.S. theater chains say they will not show a controversial new movie that depicts the assassination of President George W. Bush, while the film's distributor defended it as a thoughtful political thriller.

Flushed Away - Featurette
   Roddy is a decidedly upper-crust “society mouse” who lives the life of a beloved pet in a posh Kensington flat. When a sewer rat named Syd comes spewing out of the sink and decides he’s hit the jackpot, Roddy schemes to rid himself of the pest- but he’s no fool, so it is Roddy who winds up being flushed away into the bustling sewer world of Ratropolis.

Home Of The Brave - Trailer
   The story of four American soldiers nearing the end of their tours of duty in Iraq. Shortly after learning their unit will soon return home, they are sent on one final humanitarian mission to bring medical supplies to a remote Iraqi village. The unit is ambushed and takes heavy losses. The surviving troops suffer both physical and psychological injuries.

Eragon - Trailer G
   Based on the best-selling novel, this epic fantasy-adventure centers on a young man named Eragon whose destiny is revealed with the help of a dragon. Eragon, now a Dragon Rider, is swept into a world of magic and power, discovering that he alone has the power to save or destroy an Empire.

Saw III - Trailer 3a
   Jigsaw has disappeared. With his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon and Jeff are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on his vicious chessboard.

Casino Royale - Trailer 1a
   CASINO ROYALE introduces JAMES BOND before he holds his license to kill. But Bond is no less dangerous, and with two professional assassinations in quick succession, he is elevated to “00” status. Bond’s first 007 mission takes him to Madagascar, where he is to spy on a terrorist, MOLLAKA (Sebastien Foucan).

Sweet Land - Trailer
   When Lars Torvik’s grandmother Inge dies in 2004, he is faced with a decision - sell the family farm on which she lived since 1920, or cling to the legacy of the land. Seeking advice, he turns to the memory of Inge and the stories that she had passed on to him.

Codename: The Cleaner - Trailer 1
   The Cleaner stars Cedric the Entertainer as Jake, a mild-mannered janitor with amnesia who gets himself comically entangled in a government conspiracy. Jake gets in over his head when he is duped into believing that he is an undercover agent who subconsciously holds a key piece of information that could expose an arms conspiracy involving the CIA and FBI.

Deliver Us From Evil - Trailer
   The story of Father Oliver O’Grady, the most notorious pedophile in the history of the modern Catholic Church. A remorseless, and compulsive, sexual predator, O’Grady used his charm and authority as a religious leader to exploit Catholic families and rape dozens of children across Northern California - both physically and spiritually.

Surf’s Up - Teaser 1
   An animated feature that goes behind the scenes of the high-octane world of competitive penguin surfing. The film profiles Cody Maverick, an up-and-coming surfer as he enters his first pro competition. Inspired by his hero, a legendary wave rider named Big Z, Cody leaves his family to travel to Pen-Gu Island for the Big Z Memorial Surf Off.

We Are Marshall - Trailer 1
   We Are Marshall tells an inspiring true story set in Huntington, West Virginia, a small town steeped in the rich tradition of college football. The featurette will be included on “The History of Notre Dame Football” and “The History of University of Texas Football” DVD’s in stores September 5th.

Keeping Mum - Trailer
   Stars Atkinson as an absent-minded vicar of a rural parish who is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his wifes (Thomas) dalliance with her brash golf instructor (Swayze), his daughters parade of new boyfriends, and his young sons regular trouncing by the schools bullies. Enter their charming new housekeeper, Grace.

Blood Diamond - Trailer 1
   Set against the backdrop of civil war and chaos in 1990’s Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond is the story of Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) - a South African mercenary - and Solomon Vandy - a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories as different as any can be, until their fates become joined in a common quest to recover a rare pink diamond.

300 - Trailer 1
   Based on the epic graphic novel by Frank Miller, 300 is a ferocious retelling of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. Facing insurmountable odds, their valor and sacrifice inspire all of Greece to unite.

Alpha Dog - Trailer
   In the sprawling, privileged neighborhoods around L.A., bored teenagers with too much time and too much money string one hazy day into another, looking for the next thrill - doing suburban imitations of the thug life they idolize from rap music, video games and movies. When youre living without any consequences, anything can happen.

...So Goes The Nation - Trailer
   A documentary that examines America’s tumultuous electoral process through the eyes of diverse politicians, activists, and voters. The 2004 presidential election between George W. Bush and John Kerry provides the stage, showing how the voting public is manipulated by both parties’ leaders and their political marketing machines.

The Good Shepherd - Trailer 1
   The untold story of the birth of the CIA - viewed through the life of a man who believed in America and would sacrifice everything he loved to protect it. Edward Wilson understands the value of secrecy - discretion and commitment to honor have been embedded in him since childhood. As a student at Yale, he is recruited to join the secret society Skull and Bones.

El Cortez - Trailer
   The story of an autistic ex-con who attempts to start over, and escape his violent past life. After five years in a prison for the criminally insane, Manny (Lou Diamond Phillips) returns to Reno. He moves into a motel, and takes a job as a clerk at the Hotel El Cortez. He is befriended by Popcorn (Bruce Weitz), a crippled prospector who seeks his help.

Harsh Times - Trailer
   Jim Davis (Christian Bale) is an ex-Army Ranger recently discharged from the military, yet still haunted by nightmares of his former occupation. While seeking a position with the LAPD that will allow him to marry his Mexican girlfriend and bring her to the United States, Jim kills time chilling with his best friend, Mike.

Deck The Halls - Trailer A
   A family comedy about one-upsmanship, jealousy, clashing neighbors, home decoration...and the true spirit of the holidays. Steve (Matthew Broderick), a suburban dad and Christmas enthusiast, leads a well-ordered, well-planned, and well-organized life. His new neighbor, Danny (Danny DeVito), is Steve’s polar opposite: a big personality with big dreams.

8 Films To Die For - Trailer
   A revolutionary, nationwide theatrical release of eight films that are deemed too controversial, too graphic by the mainstream studios. HORROR FEST is an all-weekend horror event featuring celebrity appearances, signings, giveaways, and other special events.

Harsh Times - Trailer
   Jim Davis (Christian Bale) is an ex-Army Ranger recently discharged from the military, yet still haunted by nightmares of his former occupation. While seeking a position with the LAPD that will allow him to marry his Mexican girlfriend and bring her to the United States, Jim kills time chilling with his best friend, Mike.

Deck The Halls - Trailer A
   A family comedy about one-upsmanship, jealousy, clashing neighbors, home decoration...and the true spirit of the holidays. Steve (Matthew Broderick), a suburban dad and Christmas enthusiast, leads a well-ordered, well-planned, and well-organized life. His new neighbor, Danny (Danny DeVito), is Steve’s polar opposite: a big personality with big dreams.

Little Children
    ( Release: Oct. 6, 2006    Details | Tickets | Trailers | Photos | Reviews  ) — In a suburban town, two 30-somethings (Patrick Wilson, Kate Winslet) have early midlife crises and suffer through personal breakdowns and infidelity. As one would expect, the man's jilted wife (Jennifer Connolly) isn't exactly happy when she finds out about the affair. The situation only gets worse when a child molester moves into the neighborhood.