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Resident Evil 3: Extiction

The third and final installment of the $100 million RESIDENT EVIL hits, RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION is again based on the wildly popular video game series and picks up where the last film left off. Alice (MILLA JOVOVICH), now in hiding in the Nevada desert, once again joins forces with Carlos Olivera (ODED FEHR) and L.J. (Mike Epps), along with new survivors Claire (Ali Larter), K-Mart (Spencer Locke ) and Nurse Betty (Ashanti) to try to eliminate the deadly virus that threatens to make every human being undead...and to seek justice. Since being captured by the Umbrella Corporation, Alice has been subjected to biogenic experimentation and becomes genetically altered, with super-human strengths, senses and dexterity. These skills, and more, will be needed if anyone is to remain alive.

Written by Paul W.S. Anderson

Directed by Russell Mulcahy

Starring - Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, Mike Epps, Ali Larter, Chris Egan, Ashanti, Iain Glen, Sienna Guillory, Jason O'Mara

Rated - R for strong horror violence throughout and some nudity

Running Time - 1:35 minutes

Genre - Action, Horror

Open in Theaters - September 21st, 20073

Good Luck Chuck

He has to break the curse before she breaks his heart.

It all started when Charlie Logan was ten years old. Breaking the cardinal rules of spin-the-bottle, Charlie refused to lip-lock with a demented Goth girl - and she put a hex on him. Now, twenty-five years later, Charlie (Dane Cook) is a successful dentist...and still cursed. While his plastic surgeon best friend, Stu (Dan Fogler), pursues as many of his patients as possible, Charlie can't seem to find the right girl. Even worse, he discovers at an ex-girlfriend's wedding that every woman he's ever slept with has found true love - with the next guy after him. Before he knows it, Charlie's reputation as a "good luck charm" has women - from sexy strangers to his overweight receptionist - lining up for a quickie. But a life filled with all sex and no love has Charlie lonelier than ever - that is, until he meets Cam (Jessica Alba). An accident-prone penguin specialist, Cam is as hard-to-get as she is beautiful. But when a genuine romance develops, Charlie realizes he's got to find a way to break his good-luck curse...before the girl of his dreams winds up with the next guy she meets.

Written by Josh Stolberg

Directed by Mark Helfrich

Starring - Dane Cook, Jessica Alba, Dan Fogler

Rated - R for sequences of strong sexual content including crude dialogue, nudity, language and some drug use

Running Time - 1:36 minutes

Genre - Comedy

Open in Theaters - September 21st, 2007

Into The Wild

Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, 22 year-old Christopher McCandless (EMILE HIRSCH) instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people. Was Christopher McCandless a heroic adventurer or a naïve idealist, a rebellious 1990s Thoreau or another lost American son, a fearless risk-taker or a tragic figure who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature?

Each strand of his journey is woven into Sean Penn's screen adaptation of Jon Krakauer's acclaimed bestseller, Into the Wild, which is as much about the insatiable yearning for family, home and connection as it is the search for truth and happiness.

McCandless' quest took him from the wheat fields of South Dakota to a renegade trip down the Colorado River to the non-conformists' refuge of Slab City, California, and beyond. Along the way, he encountered a series of colorful characters at the very edges of American society who shaped his understanding of life and whose lives he, in turn, changed. In the end, he tested himself by heading alone into the wilds of the great North, where everything he had seen and learned and felt came to a head in ways he never could have expected.

Written by Sean Penn

Directed by Sean Penn

Starring - Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Catherine Keener, Kristen Stewart, Zach Galifianakis

Rated - R for language and some nudity

Running Time - 2:27 minutes

Genre - Adventure, Drama

Open in Theaters - September 21st, 2007 (NY, LA)

The Jane Austen Book Club

You don't have to know the books to be in the club.

As five women and one enigmatic man meet to discuss the works of Jane Austen, they find their love lives playing out in a 21st century version of her novels. Sylvia (Amy Brenneman), is shocked when her husband Daniel (Jimmy Smits), leaves her after 20 plus years and three children. Jocelyn (Maria Bello), her unmarried best friend, distracts herself from her unacknowledged loneliness by breeding dogs. Prudie (Emily Blunt) is a young French teacher, in possession of a worthy husband yet distracted by persistent fantasies about sex with another man. The many times married Bernadette (Kathy Baker) develops a yearning for one more chance at happiness. Beautiful, risk-taking Allegra (Maggie Grace), Sylvia and Daniel's lesbian daughter, has quit talking to her lover. And Grigg (Hugh Dancy), a young science fiction fan and computer whiz, seems horribly both out of place and obliviously at ease as the only man to be invited into the book circle.

Today's central California may be far removed from Regency England, but some things never change.

We're still every bit as preoccupied with the complexities of marriage, friendship, romantic entanglements, position, and social manners and mores as was Jane Austen at the turn of the 1800s. THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB reveals the lives of an ensemble of present-day friends through the witty prism of their literary heroine.

Six book club members, six Austen books, six interwoven story lines over six months in the busy modern setting of Sacramento, where city and suburban sprawl meet natural beauty. While the contemporary stories never slavishly parallel the Austen plots, the six characters find echoes, predictions, warnings and wisdom about their own trajectories within
Austen's beloved narratives.

Written by Robin Swicord

Directed by Robin Swicord

Starring - Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, Jimmy Smits, Amy Brenneman, Hugh Dancy, Maggie Grace, Kevin Zegers, Lynn Redgrave, Kathy Baker, Marc Blucas

Rated - PG-13 for mature thematic material, sexual content, brief strong language and some drug use

Running Time - 1:43 minutes

Genre - Drama, Romance

Open in Theaters - September 21st, 2007 (Limited show)

The Assassination of Jesse James

Jesse James (BRAD PITT) was one of the country's first bona fide celebrities.
There have been countless books written and tales told about America's most famous outlaw--all of them colorful and fascinating, all focused on his larger-than-life public persona and daring exploits, and most of them bearing only incidental reference to the truth.
To those he robbed and terrorized, and to the families of those he admittedly killed, he may have been just a criminal, but in the sensational newspaper articles and dime novels chronicling the James Gang throughout the 1870s, Jesse was the object of awe and admiration. He was a Robin Hood, they suggested, targeting railroad owners and banks that exploited poor farmers. He was a man with a tragic cause, a wronged and wounded Confederate soldier striking back against the Union that had ruined his life. Most importantly, to an increasingly buttoned-down and citified population leading ordinary lives, he was the last frontiersman -- a symbol of freedom and the American spirit, a charismatic rebel who flouted the law and lived by his own rules...by all accounts, a legend.
Foremost among his admirers was Robert Ford (CASEY AFFLECK), an idealistic and ambitious young man who had devoted his life to the hope of one day riding alongside his idol. He could never have imagined that history would ultimately mark him as the "the dirty little coward" who shot Jesse in the back.
But who was Jesse James, really - behind the folklore and the selling of newspapers? And who was Robert Ford, just nineteen and a member of Jesse's inner circle, who was able to bring down such a formidable figure when lawmen across ten states had tried and failed? How did they come to be friends and what happened between them in the days and hours leading up to the gunshot that would end one man's life and become the definition and sum total of another's?
No one will ever know the whole truth.
Based on the novel by Ron Hansen, "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" delves into the private lives of America's most notorious outlaw and his unlikely assassin to offer a new perspective on a legend and address the question of what really may have transpired in the months before that infamous shooting.
The year is 1881 and Jesse is 34 years old. As he plans his next great robbery, he continues to wage war on his enemies who are trying to collect the reward money and the glory riding on his capture. But the greatest threat to his life could come from those he would trust the most.

Written by Ron Hansen

Directed by Andrew Dominik

Starring - Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeremy Renner, Paul Schneider, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel

Rated - R for some strong violence and brief sexual references

Running Time - 2:40 minutes

Genre - Action, Western

Open in Theaters - September 21st, 2007 (Limited show)

Opened in Theaters on September 5th

I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With

Sometimes love is just a big bowl of wrong

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM'S Jeff Garlin wrote, directed and stars in this poignant and humorous look at a man in search of a soul mate. James (Garlin) is a frustrated and underappreciated Chicago actor who lives with his mother and has only really wanted three things in life: someone to love him, a great part, and to lose weight. Unfortunately, he is 0 for 3. His girlfriend dumps him, he loses the title role in a remake of Paddy Chayefsky's Marty to teen idol Aaron Carter, and he sneaks out of an Overeaters Anonymous meeting only to wind up at an ice cream parlor.

There, he meets Beth (Sarah Silverman) who quickly wins his heart but will this cause James more problems than it solves? Or has he finally found someone to eat cheese with?

Directed and Written by Jeff Garlin

Starring - Jeff Garlin, Bonnie Hunt, Sarah Silverman, Amy Sedaris, Roger Bart, Elle Fanning, Gina Gershon, Tim Kazurinsky, Aaron Carter, Rebecca Sage Allen, Richard Kind, Paul Mazursky

Rated - NONE

Running Time - 80 minutes

Genre - Comedy, Romance

Opening in Theaters - September 5th, 2007 (Limited show)

3:10 to Yuma

Time waits for one man

Following up his critically acclaimed hit "Walk the Line", James Mangold breathes fresh life into the quintessential American genre, the western, with "3:10 to Yuma". An update of the 1957 western based on a story by Elmore Leonard, "3:10 to Yuma" pairs two of today's finest actors, Academy Award winner Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, as an infamous outlaw and the struggling rancher who volunteers to deliver him to justice. A stark parable of good and evil, the film offers a bracingly gritty depiction of life in the mythic Old West, plunging us into a landscape of hastily constructed towns and mean self-interest at the dawning of the transcontinental railroad. "3:10 to Yuma" begins at a gallop and barely lets up, as Mangold combines intense physical action with sharply honed character drama to deliver a supremely satisfying, thoroughly modern entertainment.

Dan Evans (Christian Bale) is an honest man who has spent his life abiding by the rules, and has precious little to show for it. A former Union Army sharpshooter, Dan emerged from the Civil War with a hobbled leg and a small compensation that allowed him to move his wife Alice (Gretchen Mol) and two sons to a modest ranch in the Arizona territory. But hopes of a new beginning have faded amidst the harsh conditions and rampant corruption of the West. An ongoing drought has rendered Dan's land barren, decimating his herd, driving him deeper into debt and leaving his family on the brink of starvation. Meanwhile, the ranch's deed-holder, recognizing an opportunity in the coming railroad, brazenly attempts to drive the Evanses off their property. With time running out, Dan stoically works his land, hoping his luck changes, refusing to descend to the level of his tormentors. But he is painfully aware that he is losing the respect of his oldest son, Will (Logan Lerman), a 14-year-old who thrills to the adventures of the bandits and villains lionized in dime novels of the Wild West. Will increasingly views his father with disdain; even Alice Evans has begun to question her husband's resolve.

Then fortune throws Dan a bone with the capture the notorious outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe), whose violent hold-ups and roguish persona are the stuff of legend. A brilliant strategist and natural leader, Wade commands undying loyalty among his men, particularly his second-in-command, the ruthless Charlie Prince (Ben Foster). Together, Wade and his gang have run roughshod over the Southern Pacific Railroad, making off with enormous sums and killing more than a few men over the course of several dozen robberies.

Arresting Wade is but the first step in bringing him to justice, and certainly the easiest. From the moment he is taken into custody in the town of Bisbee, those guarding him are vulnerable to attack from Wade's gang. Southern Pacific Railroad representative Grayson Butterfield (Dallas Roberts) seeks paid volunteers to join the posse that will take Wade to the town of Contention, a three-day journey. In Contention, Wade will be loaded onto a train equipped with a prison car and bound for Yuma, Arizona where there is a Federal Court.

Seizing the opportunity to save his ranch and his family, Dan hires himself out to the posse. Leading the expedition is veteran bounty hunter Byron McElroy (Peter Fonda), a deadly God fearing mercenary with a burning hatred of Wade. The group also includes Tucker (Kevin Durand), a local thug; and Doc Potter (Alan Tudyk), a gentle veterinarian with little taste for violence.

But even a shackled Ben Wade is a lethal threat. Beneath the charming, attractive exterior lies an incisive student of human nature who can exploit the slightest glimmer of human weakness to his advantage. When Wade sees an opportunity -- be it to escape or to avenge -- he acts.

During the perilous three-day journey to Contention, the posse will gain an uninvited member and men, both good and bad, will fall. As their number dwindles, Dan Evans rediscovers the strengths he thought he'd lost as he fights to complete the mission. And as the clock ticks down, these two men from opposite ends of the moral spectrum take one another's measure and find an unexpected kinship.

By the time the train whistle sounds in its approach to Contention, Dan Evans' last-ditch attempt to save his ranch has become something deeper and more profound: the chance to redeem himself, in his family's eyes and his own. A chance to teach to his son what it is to be a man.

Written by Stuart Beattie, Michael Brandt, Derek Haas

Directed by James Mangold,

Starring - Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Peter Fonda, Gretchen Mol, Dallas Roberts, Ben Foster, Vinessa Shaw

Rated - R for violence and some language

Running Time - 117 minutes

Genre - Western

Opening in Theaters - September 7th, 2007

The Brothers Solomon

They want to put a baby in you.

The Brothers Solomon follows the hapless quest of brothers John (Will Arnett) and Dean Solomon (Will Forte) to find a woman -- any woman -- willing to bear their child and fulfill the wish of their dying father (Lee Majors). After a few dating disasters, it looks as if the brothers may beat the odds and find what they're looking for when Dean meets a woman eager to have his baby. Unfortunately, she is flattened by a passing bus right before his eyes.

Undeterred, the single-minded brothers change tactics, ditching conventional dating to try their luck with, in short succession, a street hooker, an adoption agency and finally, the Craigslist website. Their online ad quickly attracts a response from Janine (Kristen Wiig), who agrees to be a surrogate mother for their child -- for a hefty fee. Janine's pining ex, James (Chi McBride), is none too thrilled about her decision, but a trip to the fertility clinic ensues and before long Janine is with child.

As the pregnancy progresses and the brothers embark on an ill-advised self-study course in parenting, Janine finally begins to warm to the brothers' earnest enthusiasm. Even James, with whom she is now reunited, can't help but laugh at their antics. Perhaps they will make decent dads after all.

But as the birth date looms, Janine gets cold feet and vanishes. For the first time, the brothers' tireless optimism flags and it occurs to them that -- despite the double Ph.D.s they each earned during their home schooling days in the North Pole -- they might be losers after all. But rather than give up, the tenacious siblings decide to do everything within their power to find Janine and fulfill their father's wish.

Directed by Bob Odenkirk

Starring - Will Arnett, Will Forte, Chi McBride, Malin Akerman, Kristin Wiig

Rated - R for language and sexual content

Running Time - Not Available

Genre - Comedy

Opening in Theaters - September 7th, 2007

The Bubble

Three young Israelis, two guys and a girl, share an apartment in Tel Aviv's hippest neighborhood. As they try to put aside political conflicts and focus on their lives and loves, these progressive 20-somethings are often accused of living in an escapist "bubble". Among them are three young Israeli flat mates: headstrong Lulu, who works in a bath products boutique, flamboyant Yali, who manages a trendy café, and brooding music store clerk Noam, who spends his weekends serving in the National Guard at checkpoints.

When Noam meets and falls in love with a young Palestinian man named Ashraf, the young Israelis decide to help Ashraf stay on in Tel Aviv illegally. They dress him in modern Israeli garb, give him a Hebrew name and put him to work in Yali's café. They all decide to celebrate their peaceful coexistence at a beach party calling for an end to the occupation of Palestinian territories. But the young people's utopia is shattered by the political and social realities of the Middle East.

Written by Eytan Fox

Directed by Eytan Fox, Gal Uchovsky

Starring - Ohad Knoller, Alon Friedman, Daniela Virtzer, Yousef 'Joe' Sweid, Miki Kam, Shredi Jabarin, Lior Ashkenazi Zion Barouch, Oded Leopold, Dorin Munir, Zohar Liba, Yael Zafrir, Noa Barkai, Yotam Ishay, Avital Barak

Rated - R for some language

Running Time - 117 minutes

Genre - Drama

Opening in Theaters - September 7th, 2007 (Limited show)

Fierce People

Every family tree has its nuts.

A coming-of-age story about the perils of privilege, Lions Gate Films' FIERCE PEOPLE examines the deceit and betrayal that erupts when a working-class mother and her son move to a wealthy "country club" suburb where social climbing is a blood sport. Starring Oscar nominee Diane Lane (UNFAITHFUL, UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN), Donald Sutherland (COLD MOUNTAIN, THE ITALIAN JOB) and Anton Yelchin (HEARTS IN ATLANTIS), FIERCE PEOPLE is directed by Griffin Dunne and written by Dirk Wittenborn, who adapted the screenplay from his novel.

Trapped in his mother's Lower East Side apartment, sixteen-year-old Finn (Anton Yelchin) wants nothing more than to escape New York and spend the summer in South America studying the Iskanani Indians, or "Fierce People," with the anthropologist father he's never met. But Finn's dreams are shattered when he is arrested in a desperate effort to help his drug-dependent mother, Liz (Diane Lane), who scrapes by working as a masseuse. Determined to get their lives back on track, Liz moves the two of them into a guesthouse on the vast country estate of her ex-client, the aging aristocratic billionaire, Ogden C. Osbourne (Donald Sutherland). In Osbourne's close world of privilege and power, Finn and Liz encounter a tribe fiercer and more mysterious than anything they might find in the South American jungle: the super rich. While Liz battles her substance abuse and struggles to win back her son's love and trust, Finn falls in love with Osbourne's beautiful granddaughter, Maya (Kristin Stewart), befriends her charismatic older brother, Bryce (Chris Evans), and even wins the favor of Osbourne himself. But when a shocking act of violence shatters Finn's ascension within the Osbourne clan, the golden promises of this lush world quickly sour. And both Finn and Liz, caught in a harrowing struggle for their dignity, discover that membership always comes at a price...

Contrasting the mores of high society with the blunt savagery of primitive tribes, FIERCE PEOPLE takes an inside look at the upper classes, examining the darkness that lurks beneath the surface of good manners. Sporting a biting wit, and featuring charismatic performances from Diane Lane and Donald Sutherland, this unflinching drama exposes the trappings of wealth and privilege, and their overwhelming power to both seduce and corrupt.

Written by Dirk Wittenborn

Directed by Griffin Dunne

Starring - Diane Lane, Anton Yelchin, Donald Sutherland, KristenStewart, Elizabeth Perkins, Paz de la Huerta, Blu Mankuma, Chris Evans,Christopher Shyer, Gary Chalk, Ryan McDonald, Kaleigh Dey, Aaron Brooks,Branden Williams, Teach Grant

Rated - R for language, drug use, sexuality/nudity and some violence

Running Time - 107 minutes

Genre - Drama

Opening in Theaters - September 7th, 2007 (NY, LA; top 10 markets: Sept. 14)

Hatchet

When a group of tourists on a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness, their evening of fun and spooks turns into a horrific nightmare.

Written by Adam Green

Directed by Adam Green

Starring - Joel Moore, Tamara Feldman, Deon Richmond, Mercedes McNab, Kane Hodder, Parry Shen, Joleigh Fioreavanti, Joel Murray, Richard Riehle, Patrika Darbo, Robert Englund, Joshua Leonard, Tony Todd, John Carl Buechler, Rileah Vanderbilt

Rated - R for strong bloody horror violence, sexual content, nudity and language

Running Time - Not Available

Genre - Comedy, Horror

Opening in Theaters - September 7th, 2007 (Limited show)

The Hunting Party

How can they find the World's most wanted war criminal when the C.I.A. can't [by actually looking]

"In war what you see, and what really happened, are sometimes two very different things."

TV News reporter Simon Hunt (Richard Gere) and cameraman Duck (Terrence Howard have worked in the world's hottest war zones: from Bosnia to Iraq, from Somalia to El Salvador. Together they have dodged bullets, filed incisive reports and collected Emmy awards. Then one
terrible day in a Bosnian village everything changes. During a live broadcast on national television, Simon has a meltdown. After that, Duck is promoted and Simon just disappears.

Five years later Duck returns to Sarajevo with rookie reporter Benjamin (Jessie Eisenberg) to cover the fifth anniversary of the end of the war. Simon shows up, a ghost from the past, with the promise of a world exclusive. He convinces Duck that he knows the whereabouts of Bosnia's
most wanted war criminal "The Fox." Armed with only spurious information Simon, Duck and Benjamin embark on a dark and dangerous mission that takes them deep into hostile territory.

It's the scoop of a lifetime but will they live to report it?

The movie is based on the Esquire article 'What I Did On My Summer Vacation' by Scott Anderson.

Written by Richard Shepard

Directed by Richard Shepard

Starring - Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Jesse Eisenberg, James Brolin, Diane Kruger, Joy Bryant

Rated - None

Running Time - 103 minutes

Genre - Action, Adventure

Opening in Theaters - September 7th, 2007

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War



A full-throttle, martial arts thriller, Lionsgate's WAR stars Jet Li (FEARLESS, UNLEASHED, THE ONE) and Jason Statham (CRANK, THE ITALIAN JOB) as two adversaries set on a violent collision course in the Asian mob underground. Produced by Steven Chasman, Jim Thompson and Christopher Petzel, WAR is directed by Philip G. Atwell from a script by Lee Anthony Smith and Gregory J. Bradley.

After his partner is brutally murdered by the infamous assassin Rogue (Jet Li), FBI agent Jack Crawford (Jason Statham) vows to find the elusive killer and personally avenge his partner's death. But Rogue proves untraceable until three years later when he resurfaces to ignite a bloody turf war between Chinese mob leader Chang (John Lone) and Japanese Yakuza boss Shiro (Ryo Ishibashi). Eager to capture Rogue once and for all, Crawford leads his team of crime specialists headlong into the conflict. But Crawford's thirst for vengeance jeopardizes his professional judgment, and as the violence escalates, Crawford finally comes face to face with his enemy to discover that nothing about Rogue or his plan is quite what it seems.

Set amidst the violence of America's Asian underworld, Lionsgate's WAR is a high-adrenaline action thriller that examines just how far one man is prepared to go to avenge the death of his best friend. Crawford is a fallen FBI agent who is bent on revenge, and the man he wants is Rogue -- a killer with a hidden agenda and no loyalties, a ruthless, shadowy assassin who seems to materialize at will, wreak havoc in a few silent seconds, and then disappear again like a ghost...
Vengeance is the ultimate weapon. - - - - - One wants justice, the other wants revenge!

Starring: Jet Li, Jason Statham, Nadine Velazquez

Directed by Philip G. Atwell, Lee Anthony Smith, Gregory J. Bradley

Rated: R for sequences of strong bloody violence, sexuality/nudity and language

Running Time - Not Availiable

Genre – Action, Thriller



Right At Your Door



After multiple dirty bombs are detonated, spreading deadly toxic ash across Los Angeles, Brad (Rory Cochrane) inadvertently quarantines his wife, Lexi (Mary McCormack) outside their new home by safely sealing himself inside. With the city under siege and Martial Law in affect, Brad and Lexi struggle to survive with little supply, limited time and no information-all the while separated by thin doors and thinner sheets of plastic. When "help" finally does arrive, it appears to be anything but.
Starring: Mary McCormack, Rory Cochrane, Tony Perez, Jon Huertas, Scotty Noyd Jr., Max Kasch, Will McCormack

Directed by Chris Gorak

Rated: R for pervasive language and some disturbing violent content

Running Time - Not Availiable

Genre - Thriller

Opening in Theaters - Friday, August 24th, 2007 (Limited Shows)



Resurrecting the Champ

Living on the streets of Denver, pushing a shopping cart piled high with all his worldly possessions, the man everyone calls "The Champ" (Samuel L. Jackson) knows he was not the greatest boxer to ever step in the ring, but at least he had a shot at it. After years of succumbing to fighters who ultimately found his glass jaw more often than he landed a winning punch, the Champ went from up-and-coming to mere has-been, with no heavyweight championship under his belt. Now the man who once went by the legendary title of "Battling Bob Satterfield" fights no one but cops and street thugs. Living in the shadow of his former self, this champ is down and halfway out.
Denver Times sports reporter Erik Kernan (Josh Hartnett) knows the feeling. He's been living in the shadow of his famous father Erik the "Wow" man Kernan ever since he too decided to be a journalist. Listening to tapes of his old man's lively radio broadcasts -- Erik is aware that he has some big journalistic shoes to fill. Assigned to cover all the bush-league sporting events, he wants a shot and the big time, but his hard-driving editor Metz (Alan Alda) is quick to tell Erik he's just not cutting it.
"I forget your pieces while I'm reading them," Metz complains. "A lotta typing - not much writing."
Rapidly losing ground at work and at home - his wife Joyce (Kathryn Morris) has asked for a separation - Erik is afraid of becoming an absent father to his son Teddy (Dakota Goyo) just like his father was to him. He needs to make changes, to put heart back into his life and into his work . . . but how?
One night after leaving the paper, as Erik sees a gang of thugs beating up a homeless man. He notices how well the grizzly old fellow can take a punch. He bobs, he weaves, he lands a few good ones himself until Erik chases the thugs away, leaving jeers of how they beat "The Champ" in their wake.
Erik realizes he has just rescued the legendary "Battling Bob Satterfield" and stumbled on the story of a lifetime. But rumor had it Satterfield was dead . . . and yet here he was. An article about the rise, fall and resurrection of a former heavyweight contender could get Erik's career off the ropes and breathe life into his confidence. A story like this could be the title shot he has been waiting for a chance to change his life forever.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Josh Hartnett, Teri Hatcher, Kathryn Morris, Dakota Goyo, Alan Alda, Rachel Nichols, Glenn Hunter, David Paymer, Ryan McDonald, Harry J. Lennix, Peter Coyote, Chris Ippolito, Stephen Strachan, Eugene Clark

Directed by Rod Lurie, Michael Bortman

Rated: PG-13 for some violence and brief language

Running Time – 111 min.

Genre - Drama



September Dawn

On September 11, 1857 in an unspoiled valley of the Utah Territory -- and in the name of God -- 120 men, women and children were savagely murdered. Who ordered the massacre, and why, has been hidden in a cloak of secrecy and conspiracy. And the reputation

"September Dawn" is a fictional Romeo and Juliet relationship love story set against the background of the controversial real-life massacre of 120 men, women and children traveling through Utah in the nineteenth century.

The Mountain Meadows Massacre, as it is known, occurred on September 11, 1857, and was the first known act of religious terrorism on U.S. soil. A group of Mormons, many disguised as Paiute Indians, slaughtered all but 17 small children on a wagon train on its way to California. One man, the adopted son of Mormon leader Brigham Young, was eventually executed for the crime -- 20 years after the event. The film is deemed controversial because it presents a point of view held strongly by hundreds of direct descendants of the massacre: that the iconic Brigham Young had complicity in the massacre, a view denied by the Mormon Church, even today.
Starring: Jon Voight, Trent Ford, Tamara Hope, Terence Stamp, Lolita Davidovich, Dean Cain, John Gries, Taylor Handley, Krisinda Cain, Shaun Johnston

Directed by Christopher Cain, Carole Whang Schutter

Rated: R for violence

Running Time - Not Availiable

Genre - Drama, Romance, Western




The Nanny Diaries

"The Nanny Diaries" tells the story of the emotional and often humorous journey of Annie Braddock (Johansson), a young woman from a working-class neighborhood in New Jersey, struggling to understand her place in the world. Fresh out of college, she gets tremendous pressure from her nurse mother to find a respectable position in the business world although Annie would prefer to trade in her blackberry for an anthropologist's field diary. Through a serendipitous meeting, Annie ends up in the elite and ritualistic culture of Manhattan's Upper East Side -- as remote from Annie's suburban New Jersey upbringing as life in an Amazon tribal village. Choosing to duck out of real life, Annie accepts the position as a nanny for a wealthy family, referred to as simply "the X's." She quickly learns that life is not very rosy on the other side of the tax bracket, as she must cater to the every whim of Mrs. X (Linney) and her precocious son Grayer, while attempting to avoid the formidable Mr. X (Giamatti). Life becomes even more complicated when Annie falls for a gorgeous Park Avenue Hottie (Evans), and she's forced to explore her identity as never before.

Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti, Donna Murphy, Alicia Keys, Chris Evans

Directed by Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini

Rated: PG-13 for language

Running Time - Not Availiable

Genre - Comedy, Drama, Romance