Takers
Crime, Thriller

"Takers," directed by John Luessenhop, revolves around a notorious group of criminals (Idris Elba, Paul Walker, T.I., Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen and Michael Ealy) who continue to baffle police by pulling off perfectly executed bank robberies. They are in and out like clockwork, leaving no evidence behind and laying low in between heists. But when they attempt to pull off one last job with more money at stake than ever before, the crew may find their plans interrupted by a hardened detective (Matt Dillon) who is hell-bent on solving the case.

MPAA Rating: None
Starring: Paul Walker, Hayden Christensen, Matt Dillon, Idris Elba, Chris Brown, T.I., Michael Ealy, Steve Harris, Jay Hernandez, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Zoe Saldana, Johnathon Schaech, Gaius Charles
Writers: John Luessenhop, Avery Duff, Gabriel Casseus, Peter Allen
Produced by: Chris Brown, Gabriel Casseus, Morris Chestnut, George Flynn, Glenn S. Gainor, Jason Geter, William Packer, Nicolas Stern, T.I.
Directed by: John Luessenhop
Distributor: Screen Gems (Sony)

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For Love Of Liberty
Documentary

The film is a powerful, four-hour, two-part, HD production hosted by Halle Berry, narrated by Avery Brooks, introduced by General Colin Powell and featuring more than 50 of America's leading entertainers, including Morgan Freeman, Danny Glover, Delroy Lindo, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Angela Bassett, and many others.

Ten years in the making, For Love of Liberty dramatically brings to life the tragedies and triumphs of African Americans who bravely fought to serve this country while fighting for the right to serve. Their gripping personal stories paint a deeply moving chronicle of sacrifice and service, from the Revolutionary War to the current battle against global terrorism. For Love of Liberty is an epic saga of perseverance and triumph. Its theme, the price of liberty, is timeless.

MPAA Rating:
Starring:
Writers: James Crite, Frank Martin, Jeff Stetson
Produced by: Kevin Clark, Dennis Considine, James Crite, Hillard Elkins, David Glover, Louis Gossett Jr., Kevin Hershberger, Mary Holm, Richard Hull, Jennifer Knott, Frank Martin, Rudy Poe
Directed by: Frank Martin
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Legion
Action, Horror, Thriller

God loses faith in humanity and sends his legion of angels to wipe out the human race for the second time. Mankind’s only hope lies in a group of misfits holed up in a diner in the desert who are aided by the archangel Michael.

MPAA Rating: R
Starring: Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson, Doug Jones, Jon Tenney, Charles S. Dutton, Lucas Black, Kate Walsh, Adrianne Palicki, Kevin Durand, Willa Holland
Writers: Peter Schink, Scott Stewart
Produced by: Neishaw Ali, Steve Beswick, Garrick Dion, David Lancaster, Michel Litvak, Garth Pappas, Marc Sadeghi, Peter Schink, Brad Southwick, Gary Michael Walters
Directed by: Scott Stewart
Distributor: Screen Gems

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Tooth Fairy
Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

“The Rock” will star as an ordinary man who’s brought in to try to save the tooth fairy kingdom.

MPAA Rating: PG
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Judd, Julie Andrews, Chase Ellison, Billy Crystal
Writers: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Joshua Sternin, Jeffrey Ventimilia
Produced by: Jason Blum, Mark Ciardi, Gordon Gray, Kevin Halloran, Jim Piddock, Emma Watts
Directed by: Michael Lembeck
Distributor: 20th Century Fox

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The Book of Eli
Drama

The drama revolves around a lone hero who fights his way across the wasteland of post-apocalyptic America. He’s the protector of a sacred book that may hold the key to saving humanity.

MPAA Rating: R
Starring: Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals, Evan Jones
Writers: Gary Whitta, Anthony Peckham
Produced by: Brad Arensman, Yolanda T. Cochran, Susan Downey, Broderick Johnson, Andrew A. Kosove, Erik Olsen, Steve Richards, Joel Silver, David Valdes, Denzel Washington, John David Washington, Richard D. Zanuck
Directed by: Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
Comedy, Family

Pop sensations Alvin, Simon and Theodore end up in the care of Dave Seville's twenty-something nephew Toby (Levi). The boys must put aside music superstardom to return to school, and are tasked with saving the school's music program by winning the $25,000 prize in a battle of the bands. But the Chipmunks unexpectedly meet their match in three singing chipmunks known as The Chipettes -– Brittany, Eleanor and Jeanette. Romantic and musical sparks are ignited when the Chipmunks and Chipettes square off. Written by 20th Century Fox

MPAA Rating: PG
Starring: Jason Lee, Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, Anna Faris, Christina Applegate, Amy Poehler
Writers: Jon Vitti, Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger
Produced by: Ross Bagdasarian Jr., Michele Imperato, Janice Karman, Arnon Milchan, Karen Rosenfelt, Steve Waterman
Directed by: Betty Thomas
Distributor: 20th Century Fox

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The Princess and The Frog
Animation, Musical

Walt Disney Animation Studios presents the musical ”The Princess and the Frog,” an animated comedy set in the great city of New Orleans. From the creators of “The Little Mermaid” and “Aladdin” comes a modern twist on a classic tale, featuring a beautiful girl named Tiana (Anika Noni Rose), a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again, and a fateful kiss that leads them both on a hilarious adventure through the mystical bayous of Louisiana.

“The Princess and the Frog” marks the return to hand-drawn animation from the revered team of John Musker and Ron Clements, with music by Oscar®-winning composer Randy Newman (“Monsters, Inc.,” “Cars,” “Toy Story”).

MPAA Rating: None
Starring: Anika Noni Rose, Keith David, Jenifer Lewis, John Goodman, Bruno Campos
Writers: John Musker, Ron Clements
Produced by: Peter Del Vecho, Paul D. Lanum, John Lasseter, Craig Sost
Directed by: John Musker, Ron Clements
Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

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Invictus
Drama

The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa’s underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.

MPAA Rating: PG
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon
Writers: Anthony Peckham
Produced by: Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Genevieve Hofmeyr, Robert Lorenz, Lori McCreary, Tim Moore, Mace Neufeld
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

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Armored
Drama

A crew of officers at an armored transport security firm risk their lives when they embark on the ultimate heist... against their own company. Armed with a seemingly fool-proof plan, the men plan on making off with a fortune with harm to none. But when an unexpected witness interferes, the plan quickly unravels and hell breaks loose; all bets are off and each man must fight to survive on a dog-eat-dog battleground made of steel.

MPAA Rating: PG-13
Starring: Matt Dillon, Jean Reno, Laurence Fishburne, Skeet Ulrich, Amaury Nolasco, Andre Jamal Kinney, Milo Ventimiglia, Fred Ward, Columbus Short
Writers: James V. Simpson
Produced by: Joshua Donen, Dan Farah, Luis Guerrero, Russell Hollander, Trae Ireland, Debra James, Chris Lemos, Sam Raimi
Directed by: Nimrod Antal
Distributor: Screen Gems (Sony)

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The Blind Side
Drama

In football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play.

The young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. When we first meet him, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school-such as, say, how to read or write. Nor has he ever touched a football.

What changes? He takes up football, and school, after a rich, Evangelical, Republican family plucks him from the mean streets. Their love is the first great force that alters the world's perception of the boy, whom they adopt. The second force is the evolution of professional football itself into a game where the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist turns out to be the priceless combination of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback's greatest vulnerability: his blind side.

MPAA Rating: PG-13
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Michael Oher, Kathy Bates
Writers: John Musker, Ron Clements
Produced by: Timothy M. Bourne, Yolanda T. Cochran, Broderick Johnson, Andrew A. Kosove, Gil Netter, Molly Smith, Erwin Stoff
Directed by: John Musker, Ron Clements
Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

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Precious
Drama

Set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Claireece “Precious” Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), a sixteen-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. She’s pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother (Mo’Nique), a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is a place of chaos, and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and an awful secret: she can neither read nor write.

Precious may sometimes be down, but she is never out. Beneath her impassive expression is a watchful, curious young woman with an inchoate but unshakeable sense that other possibilities exist for her. Threatened with expulsion, Precious is offered the chance to transfer to an alternative school, Each One/Teach One. Precious doesn’t know the meaning of “alternative,” but her instincts tell her this is the chance she has been waiting for. In the literacy workshop taught by the patient yet firm Ms. Rain (Paula Patton), Precious begins a journey that will lead her from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, love and self-determination.

MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Starring: Gabourey ‘Gabby‘ Sidibe, Paula Patton, Mo’Nique, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz
Writers: Damien Paul, Sapphire
Produced by: Frederik Du Chau, Genevieve Hofmeyr, James Morcan, Lance Morcan, Philip A. Patterson
Directed by: Lee Daniels
Distributor: Lionsgate

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This Is It
Documentary, Music

'Michael Jackson's This Is It' will offer Jackson fans and music lovers worldwide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, created and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts that would have taken place beginning this summer in London's O2 Arena. Chronicling the months from April through June, 2009, the film is produced with the full support of the Estate of Michael Jackson and drawn from more than one hundred hours of behind-the-scenes footage, featuring Jackson rehearsing a number of his songs for the show. Audiences will be given a privileged and private look at Jackson up close and personal. In raw and candid detail, 'Michael Jackson's This Is It' captures the singer, dancer, filmmaker, architect, creative genius and great artist at work as he creates and perfects his final show. Kenny Ortega, who was both Michael Jackson's creative partner and the director of the stage show is also directing the film, which is being produced by Randy Phillips, Kenny Ortega and Paul Gongaware.

MPAA Rating: PG
Starring: Michael Jackson
Writers:
Produced by:Chantal Feghali, Paul Gongaware, Randy Phillips
Directed by: Kenny Ortega
Distributor: Columbia Pictures

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Where the Wild Things Are
Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy

Maurice Sendak’s classic book comes to the big screen in an adventure tale for every generation. “Where the Wild Things Are” follows the adventure of Max (Max Records), a mischievous young boy who is sent to his room after rebelling against his mother (Catherine Keener). Max’s imagination is free to roam, and it soon transports him to a thriving forest bordering a vast sea. Delighted, he sets sail for the land of the Wild Things, where mischief reigns and Max rules. In bringing this imaginative fantasy to life, Jonze leads a team of filmmakers incorporating the most dynamic elements of voice performance, live-action puppetry and computer animation.

MPAA Rating: PG
Starring: Catherine Keener, Benicio Del Toro, Forest Whitaker, Lauren Ambrose, Catherine O’Hara, Tom Noonan, Michael Berry, James Gandolfini
Writers: Dave Eggers, Spike Jonze
Produced by: Bruce Berman, John B. Carls, Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks, Jon Jashni, Vincent Landay, Scott Mednick, Maurice Sendak, Thomas Tull
Directed by: Spike Jonze
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

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Law Abiding Citizen
Thriller

“Law Abiding Citizen” follows a successful assistant D.A. (Butler) who finds himself at the center of a vigilante plot hatched by a traumatized victim of the legal system (Foxx). Foxx’s character is devastated to learn that, because of a plea bargain, one of his wife and daughter’s murderers will be set free. So he unleashes revenge on the killers and those who made the deal.

MPAA Rating: R
Starring: Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Viola Davis, Bruce McGill, Leslie Bibb, Colm Meaney, Regina Hall, Michael Irby
Writers: Kurt Wimmer, Frank Darabont, Sheldon Turner, David Ayer
Produced by: Gerard Butler, Lucas Foster, Dave Gare, Mark Gill, Michael Goguen, Robert Katz, Neil Sacker, Alan Siegel, Ian Watermeier, Jeff G. Waxman, Kurt Wimmer
Directed by: F. Gary Gray
Distributor: Overture Films

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