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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1] Fighting

[/SIZE][/FONT] Studio: Rogue Pictures
Director: Dito Montiel
Screenwriter: Dito Montiel, Robert Munich
Starring: Channing Tatum, Terrence Howard, Brian White, Luis Guzman, Zulay Henao
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for intense fight sequences, a sex scene and brief strong language)
Official Website: Fightingmovie.net

Plot Summary: Small-town boy Shawn MacArthur (Channing Tatum) has come to New York City with nothing. Barely earning a living selling counterfeit goods on the streets, his luck changes when scam artist Harvey Boarden (Terrence Howard) sees that he has a natural talent for streetfighting. When Harvey offers Shawn help at making the real cash, the two form an uneasy partnership.

As Shawn's manager, Harvey introduces him to the corrupt bare-knuckle circuit, where rich men bet on disposable pawns. Almost overnight, he becomes a star brawler, taking down professional boxers, mixed martial arts champs and ultimate fighters in a series of staggeringly intense bouts. But if Shawn ever hopes to escape the dark world in which he's found himself, he must now face the toughest fight of his life.


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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1] The Informers

[/SIZE][/FONT] Studio: Senator Distribution
Director: Gregor Jordan
Screenwriter: Bret Easton Ellis, Nicholas Jarecki
Starring: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/talentnews.php?id=23427Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Winona Ryder, Lou Taylor Pucci, Amber Heard, Rhys Ifans, Brad Renfro, Jon Foster
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for strong sexual content, nudity, drug use, pervasive language and some disturbing images)
Official Website: TheInformers.com

Plot Summary: In such works as "Less Than Zero" and "American Psycho," Brett Easton Ellis brilliantly dissects contemporary American society, a culture in which too much is never enough. Now, adapting his own acclaimed novel for the screen, he returns to the Los Angeles of the early 1980's with a multi-strand narrative that deftly balances a vast array of characters who represent both the top of the heap (a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star, an aging newscaster) and the bottom (a voyeuristic doorman, an amoral ex-con).

Connecting all his intertwining strands are the quintessential Ellis protagonists—a group of beautiful, blonde young men and women who sleep all day and party all night, doing drugs—and one another—with abandon, never realizing that they are dancing on the edge of a volcano.

Filmed with uncommon glamour and grit by acclaimed Australian director Gregor Jordan ("Ned Kelly," "Buffalo Soldiers"), The Informers" is an alternately blistering and chilling portrait of hedonism run amuck.


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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1] Mutant Chronicles

[/SIZE][/FONT] Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Director: Simon Hunter
Screenwriter: Philip Eisner
Starring: Thomas Jane, Ron Perlman, Devon Aoki, John Malkovich
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci Fi
MPAA Rating: R (for strong bloody violence and language throughout)
Official Website: MutanChroniclestheMovie.com

Plot Summary: At the end of the Ice Age, The Machine came from the outer space with the purpose to change men into mutants. However, a hero defeated the device and a great seal was laid over The Machine. In 2707, the depleted world is ruled by four Corporations: Mishima, Bauhaus, Capitol and Imperial that are in constant war. During a battle between Capitol and Bauhaus, the great seal is broken and The Machine works again transforming soldiers and civilians in hordes of mutants. A small part of the population escapes to Mars, leaving millions of people behind. The man of faith and leader of an ancient brotherhood Brother Samuel is a believer of God and the Chronicles, a bible about the mutants. With the city under siege of the mutants, he visits the Corporations' leader Constantine asking for an aircraft and twenty men for a suicide mission to destroy The Machine, planting a bomb and a detonator following the knowledge of the Chronicles. He recruits the tough Major 'Mitch' Hunter; the Bauhaus Lieutenant Maximillian von Steiner; the keeper of the Chronicles Severian that is under a vow of silence; the gorgeous and lethal Corporal Valerie Duval; Corporal Juba Kim Wu; Captain John McGuire; and Corporal Jesus 'El Jesus' de Barrera. Together they become the last hope of Earth against the evil mutants.

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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1] Obsessed

[/SIZE][/FONT] Studio: Screen Gems (Sony)
Director: Steve Shill
Screenwriter: David Loughery
Starring: Idris Elba, Beyonce Knowles, Ali Larter, Bruce McGill, Jerry O'Connell, Christine Lahti
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sexual material including some suggestive dialogue, some violence and thematic content)
Official Website: AreYouObsessed.com

Plot Summary: Derek Charles (Idris Elba), a successful asset manager who has just received a huge promotion, is blissfully happy in his career and in his marriage to the beautiful Sharon (Beyoncé Knowles). But when Lisa (Ali Larter), a temp worker, starts stalking Derek, all the things he's worked so hard for are placed in jeopardy.

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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1] The Soloist

[/SIZE][/FONT] Studio: DreamWorks Pictures (Paramount)
Director: Joe Wright
Screenwriter: Susannah Grant
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Keener, Tom Hollander, Lisa Gay Hamilton
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for thematic elements, some drug use and language)
Official Website: Soloistmovie.com

Plot Summary: In "The Soloist," an emotionally soaring drama about the redemptive power of music, journalist Steve Lopez (Oscar® nominee Robert Downey Jr.) discovers Nathaniel Anthony Ayers (Oscar® winner Jamie Foxx), a former classical music prodigy, playing his violin on the streets of L.A. As Lopez endeavors to help the homeless man find his way back, a unique friendship is formed, one that transforms both their lives. "The Soloist" is directed by Joe Wright (Golden Globe winner for Best Drama and Oscar® nominee for Best Picture "Atonement").

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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1] Tyson

[/SIZE][/FONT] Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Director: James Toback
Screenwriter: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/talentnews.php?id=24709James Toback
Starring: Mike Tyson
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: R (for language including sexual references)
Official Website: SonyClassics.com/Tyson

Plot Summary: "Tyson" is acclaimed indie director James Toback's stylistically inventive portrait of a mesmerizing Mike Tyson. Toback allows Tyson to reveal himself without inhibition and with eloquence and a pervasive vulnerability. Through a mixture of original interviews and archival footage and photographs, a startlingly complex, fully-rounded human being emerges. The film ranges from Tyson's earliest memories of growing up on the mean streets of Brooklyn through his entry into the world of boxing, to his rollercoaster ride in the funhouse of worldwide fame and fortunes won and lost. It is the story of a legendary and uniquely controversial international athletic icon, a figure conjuring radical questions of race and class. In its depiction of a man rising from the most debased circumstances to unlimited heights, destroyed by his own hubris, "Tyson" emerges as a modern day version of classic Greek tragedy.

Baby on Board


Studio: Angry Monkey Entertainment
Director: Brian Herzlinger
Screenwriter: Michael Hamilton-Wright, Russell Scalise
Starring: Heather Graham, Jerry O'Connell, John Corbett, Lara Flynn Boyle, Katie Finneran
Genre: Comedy, Romance
MPAA Rating: R (for crude and sexual content, nudity and language)
Official Website: Not Available

Plot Summary: "Baby on Board" stars Heather Graham, Jerry O'Connell, John Corbett, Lara Flynn Boyle and Katie Finneran in the story of a professional woman (Graham) whose career and personal life are turned upside-down by an unexpected pregnancy.

A series of misunderstandings among two couples escalate into a battle of the sexes, as Graham and Finneran find themselves in a struggle to save-or get-out-of-their marriages to divorce attorney spouses O'Connell and Corbett. Meanwhile, Graham worries that her job is in jeopardy as she strives to please her over-demanding boss, played by Flynn Boyle, while hiding her pregnancy.


Empty Nest


Studio: Outsider Pictures
Director: Daniel Burman
Screenwriter: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/talentnews.php?id=27208Daniel Burman
Starring: Oscar Martinez, Cecilia Roth
Genre: Drama

Plot Summary: Cultured, prosperous, blessed with three children and many friends, Leonardo and Martha are a truly enviable example of the species "married couple". Leonardo is an author of considerable repute; Martha, a hyperactive housewife with academic interests.

Leonardo sits back and observes; Martha forges ahead and acts. An enviable couple? They both begin to question their happiness when Julia, their youngest, marries and leaves Buenos Aires.

The house is empty, the children scattered all over the world. For Leonardo and Martha, there are no more excuses for not addressing all those little grievances and annoyances that have piled up over the years. Martha seeks release by going back to the university and surrounding herself with people. Leonardo takes refuge in fantasies that become so real that he can't distinguish them from reality.
 
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