Other Movies

Juno

Release Date: December 5, 2007 (limited)
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Director: Jason Reitman
Screenwriter: Diablo Cody
Starring: Allison Janney, Ellen Page, Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner, JK Simmons, Michael Cera, Olivia Thirlby, Rainn Wilson
Genre: Comedy, Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: "Juno" stars Ellen Page as the title character, a whip-smart teen confronting an unplanned pregnancy by her classmate Bleeker (Cera). With the help of her hot best friend Leah (Thirlby), Juno finds her unborn child a "perfect" set of parents: an affluent suburban couple, Mark and Vanessa (Bateman and Garner), longing to adopt. Luckily, Juno has the total support of her parents (Simmons and Janney) as she faces some tough decisions, flirts with adulthood and ultimately figures out where she belongs.

I Am Legend
Release Date: December 14, 2007
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Francis Lawrence
Screenwriter: Mark Protosevich, Akiva Goldsman
Starring: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Willow Smith, Charlie Tahan
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: IAmLegend.com
Plot Summary: Robert Neville (Will Smith) is a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable... and manmade. Somehow immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City... and maybe the world. But he is not alone. He is surrounded by "the Infected"—victims of the plague who have mutated into carnivorous beings who can only exist in the dark and who will devour or infect anyone or anything in their path. For three years, Neville has spent his days scavenging for food and supplies and faithfully sending out radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. All the while, the Infected lurk in the shadows, watching Neville's every move, waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Perhaps mankind's last, best hope, Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood. But his blood is also what The Infected hunt, and Neville knows he is outnumbered and quickly running out of time.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Release Date: December 21, 2007
Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony)
Director: Jake Kasdan
Screenwriter: Jake Kasdan, Judd Apatow
Starring: Jenna Fischer, John C. Reilly, Kristen Wiig, Tim Meadows
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Sony.com/WalkHard
Plot Summary: In Columbia Pictures' new comedy "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," co-written and produced by Judd Apatow ("Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby"; "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy") and co-written, produced, and directed by Jake Kasdan, John C. Reilly stars as the larger-than-life musician and songwriter Dewey Cox.

America loves Cox! But behind the music is the up-and-down-and-up-again story of a musician whose songs would change a nation. On his rock 'n roll spiral, Cox sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 22 kids and 14 stepkids, stars in his own 70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp, and gets addicted to -- and then kicks -- every drug known to man... but despite it all, Cox grows into a national icon and eventually earns the love of a good woman -- longtime backup singer Darlene (Jenna Fischer).

First Sunday

Release Date: January 11, 2008
Studio: Screen Gems (Sony)
Director: David E. Talbert
Screenwriter: David E. Talbert
Starring: Chi McBride, Ice Cube, Katt Williams, Loretta Devine, Malinda Williams, Regina Hall, Tracy Morgan
Genre: Comedy, Crime
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: A caper story about two petty criminals who rob their local church.

Cloverfield/1-18-08
Release Date: January 18, 2008
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Matt Reeves
Screenwriter: Drew Godard
Starring: Michael Stahl-David, Odet Jasmin, Mike Vogel, Lizzy Kaplan
Genre: Not Available
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: 1-18-08.com | EthanHaaswasright.com | EthanHaaswaswrong.blogspot.com
Plot Summary: J.J. Abrams ("Alias," "Lost," "Mission: Impossible III") produces this secret movie directed by Matt Reeves ("Felicity").

Strange Wilderness
Release Date: January 25, 2008
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Fred Wolf
Screenwriter: Peter Gaulke, Fred Wolf
Starring: Steve Zahn, Allen Covert, Jonah Hill, Justin Long, Jeff Garlin, Kevin Heffernan
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R (for non-stop language, drug use, crude and sexual humor)
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: The story follows the hosts (Zahn and Covert) of fictional wildlife TV show "Strange Wilderness," which is headed toward extinction because of bad ratings; they hatch a scheme to find the one animal that can save the show -- Bigfoot.

The Better Man
Release Date: February 8, 2008
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Malcolm D. Lee
Screenwriter: Malcolm D. Lee
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Margaret Avery, Joy Bryant, Michael Clarke Duncan, Mike Epps, Mo'Nique, Nicole Ari Parker, Cedric the Entertainer, James Earl Jones
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: A successful comedian (Lawrence) leaves Los Angeles to reunite with his family in the Deep South.

Vantage Point
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Pete Travis
Screenwriter: Barry L. Levy
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt
Genre: Action, Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: In Columbia Pictures' "Vantage Point," Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox), are two Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Ashton (William Hurt) at a landmark summit on the global war on terror. When President Ashton is shot moments after his arrival in Spain, chaos ensues and disparate lives collide. In the crowd is Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker) an American tourist video taping the historic event to show his kids when he returns home. Also there is Rex (Sigourney Weaver) an American TV news producer who is reporting on the conference. It's only as we follow each person's perspective of the same 15 minutes prior to and immediately after the shooting that the terrifying truth behind the assassination attempt is revealed.

Babylon A.D.
Release Date: February 29, 2008
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Screenwriter: Eric Besnard
Starring: Vin Diesel, Gérard Depardieu, Michelle Yeoh, Charlotte Rampling, Mark Strong, Radek Bruna, Melanie Thierry
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: A veteran-turned-mercenary (Vin Diesel) agrees to escort a woman from Russia to Germany, not realizing that she's the host for an organism that a cult wants to harvest into a genetically-modified Messiah. Based on the novel by Maurice G. Dantec.

Semi-Pro

Release Date: February 29, 2008
Studio: New Line Cinema
Director: Kent Alterman
Screenwriter: Scot Armstrong
Starring: André Benjamin, DeRay Davis, Jackie Earle Haley, Jay Phillips, Josh Braaten, Maura Tierney, Rob Corddry, Will Arnett, Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson
Genre: Comedy, Sports
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: Jackie Moon (Ferrell), the owner-coach-player of the American Basketball Association's Flint Michigan Tropics, rallies his teammates to make their NBA dreams come true.

Spring Breakdown

Release Date: March 14, 2008
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Ryan Shiraki
Screenwriter: Ryan Shiraki
Starring: Amber Tamblyn, Amy Poehler, Jane Lynch, Missi Pyle, Parker Posey, Rachel Dratch, Seth Meyers, Sophie Monk
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: "Spring Breakdown" follows the vacation adventure of Gayle (Amy Poehler), Becky (Parker Posey) and Judi (Rachel Dratch), three thirty-something best friends who've always dreamed of being fabulous, but never grew out of being geeks. So when Becky gets the opportunity to unofficially chaperone her boss' daughter, Ashley (Amber Tamblyn), to the college spring break destination of South Padre Island, the ladies decide to try and turn their tragically un-hip lives around and party with the beer and bikini set. Through keg-stands, hook-ups and foam parties, Becky, Gail, Judi and Ashley are about to discover that it's better to stand out, than to fit in.

Drillbit Taylor

Release Date: March 21, 2008
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Steve Brill
Screenwriter: Chris Brown, Seth Rogen
Starring: Alex Frost, Casey Boersma, Dylan Boersma, Nate Hartley, Owen Wilson, Troy Gentile
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: DrillbitTaylor.com
Plot Summary: After being harrased by a school bully, two teenagers hire a former soldier of fortune (Wilson) as a bodyguard, only to find out that he has his own agenda.

Run, Fat Boy, Run

Release Date: March 28, 2008
Studio: Picturehouse
Director: David Schwimmer
Screenwriter: Michael Ian Black, Simon Pegg
Starring: Simon Pegg, Hank Azaria, Ameet Chana, Dylan Moran, Thandie Newton, Harish Patel
Genre: Comedy, Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some rude and sexual humor, nudity, language and smoking)
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: Five years ago Dennis (Simon Pegg) was at the altar about to marry Libby (Thandie Newton), his pregnant fiancée. He got cold feet and ran for the hills and he's been going in circles ever since. When Dennis discovers Libby's hooked up with high-flying-go-getter Whit (Hank Azaria), he realizes it's now or never. He enters a marathon to show he's more than a quitter but then finds out just how much sweat, strain and tears it takes to run for 26 miles. Nobody gives him a chance but Dennis knows this is his only hope to more than a running joke.

Superhero Movie
Release Date: March 28, 2008
Studio: Dimension Films (The Weinstein Company)
Director: David Zucker
Screenwriter: Craig Mazin
Starring: Not Available
Genre: Action, Comedy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: The comedy will poke fun at the multitude of superhero films.

Henry Poole Is Here

Release Date: April 4, 2008
Studio: MGM
Director: Mark Pellington
Screenwriter: Albert Torres
Starring: Adriana Barraza, George Lopez, Luke Wilson, Radha Mitchell
Genre: Comedy, Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: A man (Luke Wilson) who discovers that he only has six weeks to live, leaves his job, fiancee and overbearing mother and tries to spend his remaining days in seclusion. But he goes through a miracle transformation, and his neighbors disrupt his plan.

The Sophomore

Release Date: April 25, 2008
Studio: Yari Film Group
Director: Brett Simon
Screenwriter: Kevin Jakubowski, Tim Calpin
Starring: Bruce Willis, Josh Pais, Kathryn Morris, Mischa Barton, Reece Thompson, Rumer Willis
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: In this teenage take on "Chinatown," Barton plays the most popular girl in her Catholic high school. She persuades a sophomore reporter to investigate the theft of SAT exams, but after he reveals that the school's president and top jock are responsible, a more sinister conspiracy emerges. Rumer Willis plays the troublemaking sidekick of Barton's character. Bruce Willis plays the school's twisted principal, a Desert Storm veteran who can't let go of his glory days in Kuwait.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Release Date: May 30, 2008
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Nick Stoller
Screenwriter: Jason Segel, Judd Apatow
Starring: Jason Segel, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, Russell Brand, Bill Hader
Genre: Comedy, Romance
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: From the producers of "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up" comes a comic look at one guy's arduous quest to grow up and get over the heartbreak of being dumped -- if he can only make himself start "Forgetting Sarah Marshall."

Struggling musician Peter Bretter (Jason Segel, "How I Met Your Mother") has spent six years idolizing his girlfriend, television star Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell, "Veronica Mars"). He's the guy left holding her purse in paparazzi photos and accidentally omitted from acceptance award speeches. But his world is rocked when she dumps him and Peter finds himself alone. After an unsuccessful bout of womanizing and an on-the-job nervous breakdown, he sees that not having Sarah may just ruin his life.

To clear his head, Peter takes an impulsive trip to Oahu, where he is confronted by his worst nightmare: his ex and her tragically hip new British-rocker boyfriend, Aldous (Russell Brand), are sharing his hotel. But as he torments himself with the reality of Sarah's new life, he finds relief in a flirtation with Rachel (Mila Kunis), a beautiful resort employee whose laid-back approach tempts him to rejoin the world. He also finds relief in several hundred embarrassing, fruity cocktails.

For anyone who has ever had their heart ripped out and cut into a billion pieces comes a hilarious, heartfelt look at relationships -- featuring Paul Rudd, Jonah Hill, Bill Hader and Jack McBrayer. Part romantic comedy, part disaster film, "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" is the world's first romantic disaster comedy.

Starship Dave
Release Date: May 30, 2008
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Brian Robbins
Screenwriter: Bill Corbett, Rob Greenberg
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Gabrielle Union, Ed Helms, Elizabeth Banks
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: A team of tiny aliens try to save their planet from destruction.

The Happening
Release Date: June 13, 2008
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Screenwriter: M. Night Shyamalan
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: Mark Wahlberg stars in the paranoia thriller about a family on the run from an apocalyptic threat to humanity.

The Love Guru

Release Date: June 20, 2008
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Marco Schnabel
Screenwriter: Graham Gordy, Mike Myers
Starring: Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Mike Myers, Romany Malco, Verne Troyer
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: In the comedy, "The Love Guru" (Myers), Pitka is an American who was left at the gates of an ashram in India as a child and raised by gurus. He moves back to the U.S. to seek fame and fortune in the world of self-help and spirituality. His unorthodox methods are put to the test when he must settle a rift between Toronto Maple Leafs star hockey player Darren Roanoke (Malco) and his estranged wife. After the split, Roanoke's wife starts dating L.A. Kings star Jacques Grande (Timberlake) out of revenge, sending her husband into a major professional skid -- to the horror of the teams' owner Jane Bullard (Alba) and Coach Cherkov (Troyer). Pitka must return the couple to marital nirvana and get Roanoke back on his game so the team can break the 40-year-old "Bullard Curse" and win the Stanley Cup.

John Hancock
Release Date: July 2, 2008
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Peter Berg
Screenwriter: Vince Gilligan, Vincent Ngo
Starring: Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman
Genre: Action, Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: "John Hancock" centers on a tortured superhero (Will Smith) who crash-lands in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, and tries to transform himself by romancing an alluring housewife, causing chaos in the city.

Tropic Thunder
Release Date: July 11, 2008
Studio: DreamWorks Pictures (Paramount)
Director: Ben Stiller
Screenwriter: Ben Stiller, Etan Cohen, Justin Theroux
Starring: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Owen Wilson, Nick Nolte, Brandon Jackson, Steve Coogan, Danny McBride, Bill Hader, Jay Baruchel, Matt Levin, Andrea De Oliveira
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: Ben Stiller says "Tropic Thunder" is a "a comedy about five actors who go on location and find themselves relying on their boot camp experiences when they get stuck in a real war-like situation." Black will play Jeff "Fats" Portnoy, an overweight gross-out comedian, who's forced to kick his drug addiction while filming on location in the jungle. Downey Jr. will play Kirk Lazarus, the greatest actor of his generation and a four-time Oscar winner. Baruchel will play Kevin Sandusky, an unknown actor on the set and Stiller plays Speedman.

Valkyrie
Release Date: August 8, 2008
Studio: United Artists
Director: Bryan Singer
Screenwriter: Nathan Alexander, Christopher McQuarrie
Starring: Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Patrick Wilson, Stephen Fry, Tom Wilkinson, Carice van Houten, Eddie Izzard
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: The thriller is based on actual events, as German generals hatch a scheme to assassinate Adolph Hitler at the height of WWII.

G-Force

Release Date: May 1, 2009
Studio: Buena Vista
Director: Hoyt Yeatman
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Steve Buscemi, Tracy Morgan, Bill Nighy, Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Kelli Garner, Gabriel Casseus
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: In the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced live-action/CGI family feature, "G-Force" follows a group of intelligent animal commandoes working for a government agency trying to prevent an evil billionaire from taking over the world.

Avatar
Release Date: May 22, 2009
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: James Cameron
Screenwriter: James Cameron
Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Peter Mensah, Laz Alonso, Wes Studi
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: "Avatar" is the story of a wounded ex-marine, thrust unwillingly into an effort to settle and exploit an exotic planet rich in bio-diversity, who eventually crosses over to lead the indigenous race in a battle for survival.

My All-American

Release Date: TBA 2008
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Company: Important Pictures (Matt Stone and Trey Parker of 'South Park' fame; next up after this will likely be Giant Monsters Attack Japan!)
Cast: None announced yet.
Cast Notes: (8/24/06) Here's what Matt Stone had to say about the potential cast for this movie (and Giant Monsters Attack Japan!) in the initial press release this week, "Neither of these movies feel like vehicles for big stars, but this will be our opportunity to find out if there are any actors left who want to work with us."
Director: Trey Parker ('Orgazmo', 'Cannibal: The Musical', Team America: World Police, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut)
Screenwriter: Jeff Roda (feature film debut)

Premise: (8/24/06) The announcement of this project gave pretty much no clue as to its premise, except that it's a comedy set in high school.

The H-Man Cometh

Release Date: TBA 2008

Director: David O. Russell

Writer: David Cohen, Tony Lord

Starring: Vince Vaughn

Plot Summary: A sarcastic radio call-in show host (Vaughn) starts taking on the qualities of his neurotic patrons.

Inkheart

Release Date: TBA 2008
Studio: New Line Cinema
Director: Iain Softley
Screenwriter: David Lindsay-Abaire
Starring: Andy Serkis, Brendan Fraser, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Paul Bettany, Rafi Gavron, Sienna Guillory
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: "Inkheart" revolves around a girl whose father has the power to bring characters from books to life by reading aloud. When a villainous ruler and his band of rogues from a children's fable kidnap the man, his daughter and her friends, both real and imaginary, must rescue him. Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire penned the bigscreen adaptation of German author Cornelia Funke's fantasy novel, the first of a trilogy. "Inkspell" was published last fall, and "Inkdawn" will be out next year.

The Pineapple Express
Release Date: TBA 2008
Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony)
Director: David Gordon Green
Screenwriter: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg
Starring: Seth Rogen, James Franco, James Remar
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: Follows a pair of pot-smoking buddies who get mixed up with a drug gang.

Big Brothers

Release Date: TBA 2008
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Luke Greenfield
Screenwriter: W. Blake Herron, Timothy Dowling
Starring: Seann William Scott, Paul Rudd, Jane Lynch

Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: Wild behavior forces a pair of beer reps (Paul Rudd & Seann William Scott) to enroll in a Big Brother program.

Giant Monsters Attack Japan!

Release Date: TBA 2009
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Company: Important Pictures (Matt Stone and Trey Parker of 'South Park' fame; first up before this is My All-American)
Cast: None announced yet.
Director: Trey Parker ('Orgazmo', 'Cannibal: The Musical', Team America: World Police, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut)
Screenwriter: J.F. Lawton ('Under Siege', 'Pretty Woman', 'Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death')
Premise: (8/24/06) Not much is known about this movie's premise yet, except that it will be a live-action movie featuring giant monsters (AKA men in rubber suits) attacking Japan.

Ripley's Believe It or Not
Release Date: TBA 2009
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Tim Burton
Screenwriter: Steve Oedekerk, Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
Starring: Jim Carrey, Gong Li
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: "Believe It or Not!" picks up with Ripley at the time when he gained celebrity status through a "Believe It or Not!" column that chronicled his search for the greatest oddities in the world. Along the way, he starts to respect his unusual human discoveries as more than mere conquests to be documented.

Ranger Danger and the Danger Rangers

Release Date: TBA 2009 (estimated)
Distributor: Dimension Films
Production Company: View Askew Productions
Cast: None announced yet.
Cast Notes: (8/21/06) It's likely that the cast will include many of Kevin Smith's regulars, including himself and Jason Mewes.
Director: Kevin Smith (next up before this is a horror project)
Screenwriter: Kevin Smith
Premise: (8/21/06) Not much is known yet about the details of this movie's plot yet, except that it will be a science fiction adventure in the style of 'Flash Gordon', as hinted by the 'Ranger Danger' t-shirt that Randal Graves is seen wearing in 'Clerks II', showing a hero in a jetpack (vaguely and stylistically reminiscent of 'The Rocketeer', or the DC comics character, Adam Strange).

The Fighter

Release Date: TBA 2009
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Screenwriter: Scott Silver
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Brad Pitt
Genre: Drama, Sports
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: "The Fighter" is a drama about boxer Irish Mickey Ward (Mark Wahlberg) and his unlikely path to become world lightweight champion. Brad Pitt plays Dicky Eklund, Mickey's half-brother and a talented fighter who once went the distance with Sugar Ray Leonard in a title fight but then turned to crime and landed in prison. Then he turned his life around and helped his underperforming brother find the spark for a remarkable run that led to the world title.

G.I. Joe

Release Date: TBA 2009
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Stephen Sommers
Screenwriter: Stuart Beattie
Starring: Not Available
Genre: Action, Adventure
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: A live-action feature based on Hasbro's line of action figures. While some remember the character from its gung-ho fighting man '60s incarnation, he's evolved. G.I. Joe is now a Brussels-based outfit that stands for Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity, an international co-ed force of operatives who use hi-tech equipment to battle Cobra, an evil organization headed by a double-crossing Scottish arms dealer. The property is closer in tone to "X-Men" and James Bond than a war film.

Nottingham

Release Date: TBA 2009
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Ridley Scott
Screenwriter: Brian Helgeland
Starring: Russell Crowe
Genre: Action, Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: A love triangle forms between the legendary do-gooder Robin Hood, his Maid Marion and the archer's arch nemesis, the Sheriff of Nottingham.

Crowe stars as the Sheriff of Nottingham in a scenario that sees him more noble lawman than an evil king's right-hand man and facing off with a more shadier Robin Hood in the Sherwood Forest.

Year One

Release Date: TBA
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Harold Ramis
Screenwriter: Gene Stupnitsky, Harold Ramis, Lee Eisenberg
Starring: Jack Black, Michael Cera
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: Jack Black will star in "Year One," a comedy produced by "Knocked Up" director Judd Apatow.

Man-Witch
Release Date: TBA
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Todd Phillips
Screenwriter: Jay Reiss, Josh Stolberg, Bob Florsheim
Starring: Jack Black
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: Jack Black plays a schoolteacher who suddenly discovers he has witch-like abilities. Taken in by a coven, he is persuaded to attend a school for witches, only to discover that his classmates are all girls.

Eagle Eye
Release Date: TBA
Studio: DreamWorks Pictures (Paramount)
Director: D.J. Caruso
Screenwriter: Dan McDermott, Hillary Seitz
Starring: Shia LaBeouf
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: Shia LaBeouf reteams with "Disturbia" director D.J. Caruso playing young slacker whose overachieving twin brother has died mysteriously. When the young man returns home, both he and a single mother find they have been framed as terrorists. Forced to become members of a cell that has plans to carry out a political assassination, they must work together to extricate themselves.

The Wrestler

Release Date: TBA
Studio: Not Available
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Screenwriter: Robert Siegel
Starring: Nicolas Cage
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: Film centers on Randy "The Ram" Robinson, a 1980s-era star pro wrestler who has become a burnt-out shell of his former self. After he has a heart attack during a small-time match, a doctor tells him he could die if he fights again. In an effort to build a new life, Robinson takes a job at a deli, moves in with an aging stripper and tries to build a relationship with her son. But the prospect of a rematch with his old nemesis the Ayatollah proves too tempting to resist, even if it means risking his life.

Untitled Gerard Butler Action Thriller

Release Date: TBA
Studio: Lionsgate
Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Screenwriter: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Starring: Gerard Butler, Kyra Sedgwick, Michael C. Hall, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, John Leguizamo, Amber Valletta, Terry Crews, Logan Lerman, Johnny Whitworth, Zoe Bell
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: The high-concept thriller takes place in the near future, when mind-control technology has taken society by storm. In this dystopian world, the ultimate online simulation environment is humans remote-controlling other humans in mass-scale, multiplayer online gaming.

Butler plays Kable, the No. 1-ranked warrior in the highest-rated game, called "Slayers." With his every move tracked by millions, Kable's ultimate challenge is to regain his identity and bring down the system that has imprisoned him.

The International

Release Date: TBA
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Tom Tykwer
Screenwriter: Eric Singer
Starring: Naomi Watts, Clive Owen
Genre: Action, Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: The plot centers on an obsessive Interpol agent (Owen) who spearheads an investigation into one of the world's most high-profile and powerful banking institutions in an attempt to expose them for worldwide arms brokering, corruption and murder. Watts will play a Manhattan assistant district attorney who partners with the agent to take down the bank.

No Place Like Home

Release Date: TBA
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Gary Auerbach
Screenwriter: Margarte Heidenry, Robert Ramsey
Starring: Vince Vaughn
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: An arrogant, wealthy man in New York finds his life falling apart after he breaks up with his girlfriend and is forced to move back in with his parents, whom he seemingly detests.

The Lost Adventures of Stone Perlmutter Jr.

Release Date: TBA
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Not Available
Screenwriter: Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory
Starring: Jack Black
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: "The Lost Adventures of Stone Perlmutter Jr." is described as a faux documentary made from recently "discovered" footage from 1979 chronicling the disastrous journey of a self-styled Indiana Jones-type adventurer (Black) who traveled the world trying to find the Yeti, El Dorado, the lost tomb of Jesus and other great mysteries.

State of Play

Release Date: TBA
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Screenwriter: Matthew Michael Carnahan
Starring: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Jason Bateman
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: Norton will play a congressman whose speedy political rise is threatened by an investigation into the death of his mistress. Pitt plays a politician-turned-journalist whose relationship with the solon is compromised when he oversees his newspaper's investigation into the murder and develops a relationship with the pol's estranged wife. Adaptation of the British miniseries.

Space Invader

Release Date: TBA
Studio: Fox Atomic
Director: Andrew Currie
Screenwriter: Mike Lisbe, Nate Reger
Starring: Will Arnett
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: "Space Invader" centers on Doug Huggins, the son of a NASA legend, who is terrified of flying. When Huggins learns that his girlfriend, a rising aeronautic star, has been chosen to fly to the International Space Station with Stamp, a spaceman who is God's gift to space travel, he must overcome his fears and travel to space to win her back.

Game

Release Date: TBA
Studio: Lionsgate
Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Screenwriter: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Starring: Gerard Butler, Kyra Sedgwick, Michael C. Hall
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: The high-concept thriller takes place in the near future, when mind-control technology has taken society by storm. In this dystopian world, the ultimate online simulation environment is humans remote-controlling other humans in mass-scale, multiplayer online gaming.

Butler plays Kable, the No. 1-ranked warrior in the highest-rated game, called "Slayers." With his every move tracked by millions, Kable's ultimate challenge is to regain his identity and bring down the system that has imprisoned him.

Yes Man

Release Date: TBA
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Peyton Reed
Screenwriter: David Iserson
Starring: Jim Carrey, Bradley Cooper, Zooey Deschanel
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: A man (Carrey) who finds himself very depressed, and is always saying no. When friends ask him out, he always says no, "Yes Man" will explore what happens when he decides to say YES to everything that comes his way.

Wedding Daze

Release Date: TBA
Studio: MGM
Director: Michael Ian Black
Screenwriter: Michael Ian Black
Starring: Jason Biggs, Isla Fisher, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Consuelos, Chris Diamantopoulos
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R (for sexual content and some language)
Official Website: WeddingDazethemovie.com
Plot Summary: Is it possible to look across a crowded room and find the person you're meant to spend the rest of your life with? Anderson (Jason Biggs) has given up on love following the end of his relationship with the perfect girl. Dared by his best friend (Michael Weston) to get back in the saddle during breakfast at a local diner, Anderson proposes to the first girl he sees: Katie (Isla Fisher), their waitress, who is looking to escape from a passionless future with her orthodontist boyfriend. Katie says yes, and Anderson's life will never be the same.

From learning each other's names to getting to know one another, moving in together and meeting the parents, Anderson and Katie throw aside the conventional rules of courtship in their accelerated pursuit of love at first sight. But through it all, love will find a way.
(formerly titled: "The Pleasure of Your Company")

Leatherheads
Release Date: TBA
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: George Clooney
Screenwriter: George Clooney, Duncan Brantley, Rick Reilly
Starring: George Clooney, Renée Zellweger, John Krasinski
Genre: Comedy, Romance
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: Oscar® winners George Clooney and Renée Zellweger match wits in "Leatherheads," a rapid-fire romantic comedy set against the backdrop of America's pro-football league in 1925.

Clooney plays Dodge Connolly, a swaggering, aging football hero who is determined to guide his team from bar brawls to packed stadiums. But after the players lose their sponsor and the entire league faces certain collapse, Dodge convinces a college football star to join his ragtag ranks. The captain hopes his latest move will help the struggling sport finally capture the country's attention.

Welcome to the team Carter Rutherford (John Krasinski), America's prodigal son. A golden-boy war hero who single-handedly forced multiple German soldiers to surrender in WWI, Carter has dashing good looks and unparalleled speed on the field. But if Dodge thinks this new champ is too good to be true, then Lexie Littleton (Zellweger) can prove that's the case.

A cub journalist playing in the big leagues, Lexie is a spitfire newswoman who sniffs holes in Carter's war story. While she digs, however, the two teammates become off-field rivals for her affections. As the love triangle grows, Dodge fights to get the girl while he tries to keep his guys together. And if Connolly is certain of one thing...it's that you always keep one final play from the defense.

In addition to his duties as director and star, George Clooney serves as one of "Leatherheads'" writers.