The Grey

Release Date: January 27, 2012

Genre: Thriller

MPAA Rating: R

Studio: Open Road Films

Director: Joe Carnahan

Screenwriter: Joe Carnahan, Ian Mackenzie Jeffers

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Movie Website: Facebook.com/TheGreyMovie

Actors/Actresses: Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney, Dallas Roberts, Joe Anderson, James Badge Dale, Nonso Anozie

Plot Summary: In “The Grey,” Liam Neeson leads an unruly group of oil-rig roughnecks when their plane crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness. Battling mortal injuries and merciless weather, the survivors have only a few days to escape the icy elements – and a vicious pack of rogue wolves on the hunt – before their time runs out.

Man on a Ledge

Release Date: January 27, 2012

Genre: Crime, Thriller

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Studio: Summit Entertainment

Director: Asger Leth

Screenwriter: Pablo Fenjves, Erich Hoeber, Jon Hoeber

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Movie Website: ManonaLedge.com

Actors/Actresses: Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell, Anthony Mackie, Ed Harris, Edward Burns, Titus Welliver, Genesis Rodriguez, Kyra Sedgwick

Plot Summary: An ex-cop and now wanted fugitive (Sam Worthington) stands on the ledge of a high-rise building while a hard-living New York Police Department hostage negotiator (Elizabeth Banks) tries to talk him down. The longer they are on the ledge, the more she realizes that he might have an ulterior objective.
Worthington (“Avatar”) and Banks (“The Next Three Days”) star among an ensemble cast including Anthony Mackie (“The Hurt Locker”), who portrays Worthington’s best friend and ally and Jamie Bell (“Billy Elliot”) who is Worthington’s younger brother and ardent supporter. Also along for the ride is four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris (“Pollock”) who plays a powerful businessman, while Edward Burns (“27 Dresses”) is a rival negotiator who tries to swoop in when he believes Banks has a conflict of interest. Newcomer Genesis Rodriguez (“Casa di me Padre”) plays Bell’s girlfriend who along with Bell, tries to prove Worthington’s innocence.

One For The Money

Release Date: January 27, 2012

Genre: Action, Comedy

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Studio: Lionsgate

Director: Julie Ann Robinson

Screenwriter: Stacy Sherman, Karen Ray, Liz Brixius

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Movie Website: Facebook.com/OneForTheMoneyMovie

Actors/Actresses: Katherine Heigl, Jason O’Mara, Daniel Sunjata, John Leguiziamo, Debbie Reynolds, Debra Monk

Plot Summary: Katherine Heigl brings Stephanie Plum – the popular heroine of Janet Evanovich’s worldwide best-selling sixteen-book mystery series – to vibrant life in Lionsgate and Lakeshore Entertainment’s “One for the Money.”

A proud, born-and-bred Jersey girl, Stephanie Plum’s got plenty of attitude, even if she’s been out of work for the last six months and just lost her car to a debt collector. Desperate for some fast cash, Stephanie turns to her last resort: convincing her sleazy cousin to give her a job at his bail bonding company… as a recovery agent. True, she doesn’t even own a pair of handcuffs and her weapon of choice is pepper spray, but that doesn’t stop Stephanie from taking on Vinny’s biggest bail-jumper: former vice cop and murder suspect Joe Morelli – yup, the same sexy, irresistible Joe Morelli who seduced and dumped her back in high school.

Nabbing Morelli would be satisfying payback – and a hefty payday – but as Stephanie learns the ins and outs of becoming a recovery agent from Ranger, a hunky colleague who’s the best in the business, she also realizes the case against Morelli isn’t airtight. Add to the mix her meddling family, a potentially homicidal boxer, witnesses who keep dying and the problem of all those flying sparks when she finds Morelli himself… well, suddenly Stephanie’s new job isn’t nearly as easy as she thought.

Underworld Awakening

Release Date: January 20, 2012 (3D/2D theaters and IMAX 3D)

Genre: Action, Horror

MPAA Rating: R

Studio: Screen Gems (Sony)

Director: Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein

Screenwriter: Len Wiseman, John Hlavin, Allison Burnett, J. Michael Straczynski

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Movie Website: EntertheUnderworld.com

Actors/Actresses: Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Rea, Michael Ealy, Theo James, India Eisley, Charles Dance

Plot Summary: “Underworld Awakening” brings a stunning new dimension to the epic battle between Vampires and Lycans, as the first film in the franchise to shoot in 3D. Kate Beckinsale, star of the first two films, returns in her lead role as the vampire warrioress Selene, who escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Release Date: January 20, 2012 (wide)

Genre: Drama

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Director: Stephen Daldry

Screenwriter: Eric Roth

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Movie Website: ExtremelyLoudmovie.com

Actors/Actresses: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn, Max von Sydow, Viola Davis, John Goodman, Jeffrey Wright, Zoe Caldwell

Plot Summary: Adapted from the acclaimed bestseller by Jonathan Safran Foer, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” is a story that unfolds from inside the young mind of Oskar Schell, an inventive eleven year-old New Yorker whose discovery of a key in his deceased father’s belongings sets him off on an urgent search across the city for the lock it will open. A year after his father died in the World Trade Center on what Oskar calls “The Worst Day,” he is determined to keep his vital connection to the man who playfully cajoled him into confronting his wildest fears. Now, as Oskar crosses the five New York boroughs in quest of the missing lock – encountering an eclectic assortment of people who are each survivors in their own way – he begins to uncover unseen links to the father he misses, to the mother who seems so far away from him and to the whole noisy, dangerous, discombobulating world around him.

Haywire

Release Date: January 20, 2012

Genre: Thriller

MPAA Rating: R

Studio: Relativity Media

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Screenwriter: Lem Dobbs

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Movie Website: Haywiremovie.com

Actors/Actresses: Gina Carano, Channing Tatum, Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender, Antonio Banderas, Bill Paxton, Michael Douglas, Michael Angarano

Plot Summary: Mixed martial arts (MMA) superstar Gina Carano (“American Gladiators”) makes her feature film debut, starring and performing her own high-adrenaline stunts. The film’s talented cast also includes Channing Tatum (“GI Joe: Rise of the Cobr”), Ewan McGregor (“The Ghost Writer”), Michael Fassbender (“X-Men: First Class”), Antonio Banderas (“Desperado”), Bill Paxton (“Titanic”), Michael Douglas (“Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps”) and Michael Angarano (“Almost Famous”).
In “Haywire,” an electrifying tale of espionage and betrayal, a female covert ops specialist (Carano), who works in the deadly world of international operatives, strikes back after discovering she’s been double-crossed by someone close to her in the agency. The film is produced by Gregory Jacobs (“Ocean’s” Trilogy) and written by Lem Dobbs (“The Limey”).

Red Tails

Release Date: January 20, 2012

Genre: Action, Drama, War

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Studio: 20th Century Fox, Lucasfilm

Director: Anthony Hemingway

Screenwriter: John Ridley

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Movie Website: RedTails2012.com

Actors/Actresses: Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Bryan Cranston, Nate Parker, David Oyelowo, Tristan Wilds, Cliff Smith, Kevin Phillips, Rick Otto, Lee Tergesen, Andre Royo, Ne-Yo, Elijah Kelley, Marcus T. Paulk, Leslie Odom Jr., Michael B. Jordan, Jazmine Sullivan, Edwina Finley, Daniela Ruah, Stacie Davis, Gerald McRaney

Plot Summary: 1944. World War II rages and the fate of the free world hangs in the balance. Meanwhile the black pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program are courageously waging two wars at once – one against enemies overseas, and the other against discrimination within the military and back home. Racial prejudices have long held ace airman Martin “Easy” Julian (Nate Parker) and his black pilots back at base – leaving them with little to do but further hone their flying skills – while their white counterparts are shipped out to combat after a mere three months of training. Mistakenly deemed inferior and assigned only second-rate planes and missions, the pilots of Tuskegee have mastered the skies with ease but have not been granted the opportunity to truly spread their wings.

Until now.

As the war in Europe continues to take its dire toll on Allied forces, Pentagon brass has no recourse but to reconsider these under-utilized pilots for combat duty. Just as the young Tuskegee men are on the brink of being shut down and shipped back home, Col. A.J. Bullard (Terrence Howard) awards them the ultimate chance to prove their mettle high above. Undaunted by the prospect of providing safe escort to bombers in broad daylight – a mission so dangerous that the RAF has refused it and the white fighter groups have sustained substantial losses – Easy’s pilots at last join the fiery aerial fray. Against all the odds, with something to prove and everything to lose, these intrepid young airmen take to the skies in a heroic endeavor to combat the enemy – and the discrimination that has kept them down for so long.

Contraband

Release Date: January 13, 2012

Genre: Action, Thriller

MPAA Rating: R

Studio: Universal Pictures

Director: Baltasar Kormákur

Screenwriter: Aaron Guzikowski

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Movie Website: Contrabandmovie.net

Actors/Actresses: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster, Giovanni Ribisi, Caleb Landry Jones, Lukas Haas, Diego Luna, J.K. Simmons

Plot Summary: Mark Wahlberg leads the cast of “Contraband,” a fast-paced thriller about a man trying to stay out of a world he worked so hard to leave behind and the family he’ll do anything to protect. Set in New Orleans, the film explores the cutthroat underground world of international smuggling — full of desperate criminals and corrupt officials, high-stakes and big payoffs — where loyalty rarely exists and death is one wrong turn away.
Chris Farraday (Wahlberg) long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy (Caleb Landry Jones), botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi), Chris is forced back into doing what he does best–running contraband–to settle Andy’s debt. Chris is a legendary smuggler and quickly assembles a crew with the help of his best friend, Sebastian (Ben Foster), to head to Panama and return with millions in counterfeit bills.
Things quickly fall apart and with only hours to reach the cash, Chris must use his rusty skills to successfully navigate a treacherous criminal network of brutal drug lords, cops and hit men before his wife, Kate (Kate Beckinsale), and sons become their target.

Joyful Noise

Release Date: January 13, 2012

Genre: Comedy, Musical

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Director: Todd Graff

Screenwriter: Todd Graff

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Movie Website: JoyfulNoisethemovie.com

Actors/Actresses: Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton, Keke Palmer, Courtney B. Vance, Jeremy Jordan, Kris Kristofferson

Plot Summary: “Joyful Noise” is a funny and inspirational story of music, hope, love and renewal. The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the Divinity Church Choir to lift their spirits by winning the National Joyful Noise Competition. The choir has always known how to sing in harmony, but the discord between its two leading ladies now threatens to tear them apart. Their newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill (Latifah), stubbornly wants to stick with their tried-and-true traditional style, while the fiery G.G. Sparrow (Parton) thinks tried-and-true translates to tired-and-old. Shaking things up even more is the arrival of G.G.’s rebellious grandson, Randy (Jeremy Jordan). Randy has an ear for music, but he also has an eye for Vi Rose’s beautiful and talented daughter, Olivia (Keke Palmer), and the sparks between the two teenagers are causing even more friction between G.G. and Vi Rose. If these two strong-willed women can put aside their differences for the good of the people in their town, they–and their choir–may make the most joyful noise of all.

Beauty and the Beast 3D

Release Date: January 13, 2012 (3D/2D theaters)

Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance

MPAA Rating: G

Studio: Walt Disney Pictures

Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise

Screenwriter: Linda Woolverton

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Movie Website: Disney.com/BeautyandtheBeast

Actors/Actresses: Paige O’Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, Angela Lansbury, Bradley Pierce, Rex Everhart, Jesse Corti, Hal Smith, Jo Anne Worley

Plot Summary: Originally released in 1991, “Beauty and the Beast” is a classic “tale as old as time” that follows the adventures of Belle, a bright young woman imprisoned in the castle of a mysterious beast and his enchanted staff, who must learn the most important lesson of all – that true beauty comes from within. “Beauty and the Beast” was the first animated film ever nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Picture, earning an additional five Oscar® nominations and winning two. It has grossed $380.4 million worldwide.

The Three Musketeers

Release Date: October 21, 2011 (3D/2D theaters)

Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Studio: Summit Entertainment

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson

Screenwriter: Andrew Davies, Alex Litvalk

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Movie Website: ThreeMusketeers-movie.com

Actors/Actresses: Logan Lerman, Milla Jovovich, Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans, Mads Mikkelsen, Gabriella Wilde, Juno Temple, Orlando Bloom, Christoph Waltz

Plot Summary: The hot-headed young D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman) joins forces with three rogue Musketeers (Matthew MacFadyen, Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson) in this reboot of Alexandre Dumas’ story. They must stop the evil Richelieu (Christoph Waltz) and face off with Buckingham (Orlando Bloom) and the treacherous Milady (Milla Jovovich). The action adventure is given a state of the art update in 3D.

Johnny English Reborn

Release Date: October 21, 2011

Genre: Comedy, Thriller

MPAA Rating: PG

Studio: Universal Pictures

Director: Oliver Parker

Screenwriter: Hamish McColl, William Davies

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Movie Website: JohnnyEnglishReborn.com

Actors/Actresses: Rowan Atkinson, Gillian Anderson, Dominic West, Rosamund Pike, Daniel Kaluuya

Plot Summary: Rowan Atkinson returns to the role of the improbable secret agent who doesn’t know fear or danger in the comedy spy-thriller Johnny English Reborn. In his latest adventure, the most unlikely intelligence officer in Her Majesty’s Secret Service must stop a group of international assassins before they eliminate a world leader and cause global chaos.

In the years since MI-7′s top spy vanished off the grid, he has been honing his unique skills in a remote region of Asia. But when his agency superiors learn of an attempt against the Chinese premier’s life, they must hunt down the highly unorthodox agent. Now that the world needs him once again, Johnny English is back in action.

With one shot at redemption, he must employ the latest in hi-tech gadgets to unravel a web of conspiracy that runs throughout the KGB, CIA and even MI-7. With mere days until a heads of state conference, one man must use every trick in his playbook to protect us all. For Johnny English, disaster may be an option, but failure never is.

Paranormal Activity 3

Release Date: October 21, 2011

Genre: Drama, Supernatural Thriller

MPAA Rating: R

Studio: Paramount Pictures

Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman

Screenwriter: Christopher B. Landon

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Movie Website: Paranormalmovie.com

Actors/Actresses: Katie Featherston, Sprague Grayden, Lauren Bittner

Plot Summary: The third film is being envisioned as an origin story set in the 1980s that will follow a new family. In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home.

Moneyball

Release Date: September 23, 2011

Genre: Drama

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony)

Director: Bennett Miller

Screenwriter: Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin

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Movie Website: Moneyball-movie.com

Actors/Actresses: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, Stephen Bishop, Kathyrn Morris, Chris Pratt

Plot Summary: Based on a true story, “Moneyball” is a movie for anybody who has ever dreamed of taking on the system. Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A’s and the guy who assembles the team, who has an epiphany: all of baseball’s conventional wisdom is wrong. Forced to reinvent his team on a tight budget, Beane will have to outsmart the richer clubs. The onetime jock teams with Ivy League grad Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) in an unlikely partnership, recruiting bargain players that the scouts call flawed, but all of whom have an ability to get on base, score runs, and win games. It’s more than baseball, it’s a revolution – one that challenges old school traditions and puts Beane in the crosshairs of those who say he’s tearing out the heart and soul of the game.

Killer Elite

Release Date: September 23, 2011

Genre: Action, Thriller

MPAA Rating: R

Studio: Open Road Films

Director: Gary McKendry

Screenwriter: Gary McKendry, Matt Sherring

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Movie Website: KillerElite.com

Actors/Actresses: Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro, Yvonne Strahovski, Dominic Purcell, Aden Young, Ben Mendelsohn, Lachy Hulme, Firass Dirani, Grant Bowler, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Plot Summary: Based on a true story, “Killer Elite” races across the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East in the action-packed account of an ex-special ops agent (Jason Statham) who is lured out of retirement to rescue his mentor (Robert De Niro). To make the rescue, he must complete a near-impossible mission of killing three tough-as-nails assassins with a cunning leader (Clive Owen).

Abduction

Release Date: September 23, 2011

Genre: Action, Thriller

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Studio: Lionsgate

Director: John Singleton

Screenwriter: Shawn Christensen, Jeffrey Nachmanoff

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Movie Website: Abductionthefilm.com

Actors/Actresses: Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Alfred Molina, Jason Isaacs, Maria Bello, Denzel Whitaker, Michael Nyqvist, Sigourney Weaver

Plot Summary: Taylor Lautner stars as a young man unwittingly thrust into a deadly world of covert espionage in Lionsgate’s action-thriller, “Abduction,” directed by John Singleton.

For as long as he can remember, Nathan Harper (Taylor Lautner) has had the uneasy feeling that he’s living someone else’s life. When he stumbles upon an image of himself as a little boy on a missing persons website, all of Nathan’s darkest fears come true: he realizes his parents are not his own and his life is a lie, carefully fabricated to hide something more mysterious and dangerous than he could have ever imagined.
Just as he begins to piece together his true identity, Nathan is targeted by a team of trained killers, forcing him on the run with the only person he can trust, his neighbor, Karen (Lily Collins). Every second counts as Nathan and Karen race to evade an army of assassins and federal operatives. But as his opponents close in, Nathan realizes that the only way he’ll survive – and solve the mystery of his elusive biological father – is to stop running and take matters into his own hands.

I Don’t Know How She Does It

Release Date: September 16, 2011

Genre: Comedy

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Studio: The Weinstein Company

Director: Douglas McGrath

Screenwriter: Aline Brosh McKenna

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Movie Website: HowSheDoesItMovie.com

Actors/Actresses: Sarah Jessica Parker, Greg Kinnear, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Munn, Seth Meyers, Kelsey Grammer, Christina Hendricks, Jane Curtin

Plot Summary: Kate Reddy (Parker) devotes her days to her job with a Boston-based financial management firm. At night she goes home to her adoring, recently-downsized architect husband Richard (Kinnear) and their two young children. It’s a non-stop balancing act, the same one that Kate’s acerbic best friend and fellow working mother Allison (Christina Hendricks) performs on a daily basis, and that Kate’s super-brainy, child-phobic young junior associate Momo (Olivia Munn) fully intends to avoid. When Kate gets handed a major new account that will require frequent trips to New York, Richard also wins the new job he’s been hoping for—and both will be spreading themselves even thinner. Complicating matters is Kate’s charming new business associate Jack Abelhammer (Brosnan), who begins to prove an unexpected source of temptation. Based on the critically acclaimed bestseller by Allison Pearson.

Drive

Release Date: September 16, 2011

Genre: Action, Thriller

MPAA Rating: R

Studio: FilmDistrict

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn

Screenwriter: Hossein Amini, Nicolas Winding Refn

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Movie Website: Drive-movie.com

Actors/Actresses: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Ron Perlman, Christina Hendricks, Oscar Isaac, Albert Brooks

Plot Summary: “Drive” is the story of a Hollywood stunt driver by day (Ryan Gosling), a loner by nature, who moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver-for-hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA’s most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbor, Irene (Carey Mulligan). When the job goes dangerously awry, the only way he can keep Irene and her son alive is to do what he does best—Drive!

Straw Dogs

Release Date: September 16, 2011

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

MPAA Rating: R

Studio: Screen Gems (Sony)

Director: Rod Lurie

Screenwriter: Rod Lurie

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Movie Website: Facebook.com/StrawDogsMovie

Actors/Actresses: James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgard, Dominic Purcell, Laz Alonso, Willa Holland, James Woods

Plot Summary: David and Amy Sumner (James Marsden and Kate Bosworth), a Hollywood screenwriter and his actress wife, return to her small hometown in the deep South to prepare the family home for sale after her father’s death. Once there, tensions build in their marriage and old conflicts re-emerge with the locals, including Amy’s ex-boyfriend Charlie (Alexander Skarsgård), leading to a violent confrontation.

The Lion King 3D

Release Date: September 16, 2011 (Two weeks only)

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

MPAA Rating: G

Studio: Walt Disney Pictures

Director: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff

Screenwriter: Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, Linda Woolverton

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Movie Website: Disney.go.com

Actors/Actresses: Matthew Broderick, Niketa Calame, Jim Cummings, James Earl Jones, Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, Jeremy Irons, Robert Guillaume, Rowan Atkinson, Moira Kelly, Whoopi Goldberg, Zoe Leader, Cheech Marin, Madge Sinclair, Jonathan Taylor Thomas

Plot Summary: Simba, Mufasa, Nala, Timon and Pumbaa are back and better than ever this fall when Disney’s “The Lion King” roars into theaters and homes in breathtaking 3D. A special two-week theatrical extravaganza kicks off Sept. 16, 2011, showcasing the Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning film on the big screen in Disney Digital 3D for the first time ever, and its highly anticipated home entertainment debut kicks off October 4, celebrating the Diamond Edition release of the epic movie “The Lion King” in high-definition Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D.

Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star

Release Date: September 9, 2011

Genre: Comedy

MPAA Rating: R

Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony)

Director: Tom Brady

Screenwriter: Adam Sandler, Allen Covert, Nick Swardson

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Movie Website: BuckyLarson.com

Actors/Actresses: Nick Swardson, Christina Ricci, Don Johnson, Stephen Dorff

Plot Summary: “Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star” is a new comedy starring Nick Swardson, Christina Ricci, Don Johnson, and Stephen Dorff. Bucky (Swardson) is a small town grocery bagger, going nowhere in life – until he discovers that his conservative parents were once adult film stars! Armed with the belief that he has found his destiny, Bucky packs up and heads out to LA, hoping to follow in his parents’ footsteps.

Warrior

Release Date: September 9, 2011

Genre: Action, Drama

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Studio: Lionsgate

Director: Gavin O’Connor

Screenwriter: Gavin O’Connor, Anthony Tambakis, Cliff Dorfman

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Movie Website: Warriorfilm.com

Actors/Actresses: Joel Edgerton, Tom Hardy, Jennifer Morrison, Nick Nolte, Maximiliano Hernandez, Frank Grillo, Erik “Bad” Apple

Plot Summary: Rising stars Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton command the screen as two estranged brothers facing the fight of a lifetime in Lionsgate’s “Warrior,” a moving, inspirational action drama from acclaimed director Gavin O’Connor (“Miracle”).

Haunted by a tragic past, Marine Tommy Conlon (Hardy) returns home for the first time in fourteen years to enlist the help of his father (Nick Nolte) to train for Sparta, the biggest winner-takes-all event in mixed martial arts history. A former wrestling prodigy, Tommy blazes a path toward the championship while his brother, Brendan (Edgerton), an ex-fighter-turned teacher, returns to the ring in a desperate bid to save his family from financial ruin. But when Brendan’s unlikely, underdog rise sets him on a collision course with the unstoppable Tommy, the two brothers must finally confront each other and the forces that pulled them apart, facing off in the most soaring, soul stirring, and unforgettable climax that must be seen to be believed.

A rousing ode to redemption, reconciliation and the power of the human spirit, “Warrior” is also a moving testament to the enduring bonds of family.

Apollo 18

Release Date: September 2, 2011

Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Studio: The Weinstein Company

Director: Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego

Screenwriter: Brian Miller

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Movie Website: Apollo18movie.net

Plot Summary: Officially, Apollo 17, launched December 17th, 1972 was the last manned mission to the moon. But in December of 1974, two American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage which the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies its authenticity, others say it’s the real reason we’ve never gone back to the moon.

Shark Night 3D

Release Date: September 2, 2011

Genre: Horror, Thriller

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Studio: Relativity Media

Director: David R. Ellis

Screenwriter: Jesse Studenberg, Will Hayes

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Movie Website: IAmRogue.com/SharkNight3D

Actors/Actresses:Sara Paxton, Dustin Milligan, Katharine McPhee, Chris Carmack, Alyssa Diaz, Joel David Moore, Donal Logue, Sinqua Walls, Chris Zylka

Plot Summary: A sexy summer weekend turns into a blood-soaked nightmare for a group of college students trapped on an island surrounded by voracious underwater predators in “Shark Night 3D,” a terrifying thrill ride from director David Ellis (“The Final Destination,” “Snakes on a Plane”), featuring a red-hot young cast including Sara Paxton (“Superhero Movie,” “Last House on the Left”), Dustin Milligan (“90210,” “Slither”), Chris Carmack (“The O.C.”), Joel David Moore (“Avatar”), Chris Zylka (“The Amazing Spider-Man”) and Katharine McPhee (“The House Bunny”).

Arriving by boat at her family’s Louisiana lake island cabin, Sara (Sara Paxton) and her friends quickly strip down to their swimsuits for a weekend of fun in the sun. But when star football player Malik (Sinqua Walls) stumbles from the salt-water lake with his arm torn off, the party mood quickly evaporates. Assuming the injury was caused by a freak wake-boarding accident, the group realizes they have to get Malik to a hospital on the other side of the lake, and fast.
But as they set out in a tiny speedboat, the college friends discover the lake has been stocked with hundreds of massive, flesh-eating sharks! As they face one grisly death after another, Sara and the others struggle desperately to fend off the sharks, get help and stay alive long enough to reach the safety of dry land.

Conan the Barbarian

Release Date: August 19, 2011 (3D/2D theaters)

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

MPAA Rating: R

Studio: Lionsgate

Director: Marcus Nispel

Screenwriter: Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer, Sean Hood

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Movie Website: ConantheBarbarianin3D.com

Actors/Actresses: Jason Momoa, Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang, Rose McGowan, Saïd Taghmaoui, Ron Perlman, Leo Howard, Steve O’Donnell, Raad Rawi Fassir, Nonso Anozie, Bob Sapp, Milton Welsh

Plot Summary: “I live. I love. I slay… I am content.” -Conan The Barbarian
The most legendary Barbarian of all time is back this Summer. Having thrived and evolved for eight consecutive decades in the public imagination – in prose and graphics, on the big screen and small, in games and properties of all kinds- Conan’s exploits in the Hyborian Age now come alive like never before in a colossal 3D action-adventure film.

A quest that begins as a personal vendetta for the fierce Cimmerian warrior soon turns into an epic battle against hulking rivals, horrific monsters, and impossible odds, as Conan realizes he is the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil.
Deftly adapted from the original works of Robert E. Howard and faithful to the mythology and psychology of his iconic character, “Conan the Barbarian” stars Jason Momoa, Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang, Rose McGowan, Said Taghmaoui and Ron Perlman. The film is directed by Marcus Nispel, and written by Thomas Dean Donnelly & Joshua Oppenheimer and Sean Hood.

Fright Night

Release Date: August 19, 2011 (3D/2D theaters)

Genre: Horror

MPAA Rating: R

Studio: DreamWorks Pictures

Director: Craig Gillespie

Screenwriter: Marti Noxon

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Movie Website: WelcometoFrightNight.com

Actors/Actresses: Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, David Tennant, Imogen Poots, Toni Collette

Plot Summary: Senior Charlie Brewster (Anton Yelchin) finally has it all going on: he’s running with the popular crowd and dating the most coveted girl in his high school. In fact, he’s so cool he’s even dissing his best friend. But trouble arrives when Jerry (Colin Farrell) moves in next door. He seems like a great guy at first, but there’s something not quite right-but everyone, including Charlie’s mom (Toni Collette), doesn’t notice. After observing some very strange activity, Charlie comes to an unmistakable conclusion: Jerry is a vampire preying on the neighborhood. Unable to convince anyone, Charlie has to find a way to get rid of the monster himself in this Craig Gillespie-helmed revamp of the comedy-horror classic.

One Day

Release Date: August 19, 2011

Genre: Romance

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Studio: Focus Features

Director: Lone Scherfig

Screenwriter: David Nicholls

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Movie Website: ExperienceOneDay.com

Actors/Actresses: Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Patricia Clarkson, Ken Stott, Romola Garai, Rafe Spall

Plot Summary: Adapted from the internationally praised bestselling novel, “One Day” charts an extraordinary relationship. Emma (Academy Award nominee Anne Hathaway) and Dexter (Jim Sturgess) meet on the night of their college graduation – July 15th, 1988. She is a working-class girl of principle and ambition who dreams of making the world a better place. He is a wealthy charmer who dreams that the world will be his playground. For the next two decades, every July 15th reveals to us how “Em” and “Dex” are faring, as their friendship ebbs and flows with the passing of the years. Through love and loss, heartbreak and success, hopes fulfilled and dreams shattered, they experience the grandeur of life. Somewhere along their journey, these two people realize that what they are searching and hoping for has been there for them all along.

Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D

Release Date: August 19, 2011 (3D/2D theaters)

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family

MPAA Rating: PG

Studio: Dimension Films (The Weinstein Company)

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Screenwriter: Robert Rodriguez

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Movie Website: SpyKidsmovie.net

Actors/Actresses: Jessica Alba, Jeremy Piven, Joel McHale, Rowan Blanchard, Mason Cook, Antonio Banderas, Danny Trejo, Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara

Plot Summary: On the surface, Marissa Cortez Wilson (Jessica Alba) has it all…married to a famous spy hunting television reporter, a new baby and intelligent twin step kids. But in reality, trying to mother Rebecca (Rowan Blanchard) and Cecil (Mason Cook), who clearly don’t want her around, is her toughest challenge yet. Also, her husband, Wilbur (Joel McHale), wouldn’t know a spy if he lived with one which is exactly the case – Marissa’s a retired secret agent.
Marissa’s world is turned upside down when the maniacal Timekeeper (Jeremy Piven) threatens to take over the planet and she’s called back into action by the head of OSS, home of the greatest spies and where the now-defunct Spy Kids division was created. With Armageddon quickly approaching, Rebecca and Cecil are thrust into action when they learn their boring stepmom was once a top agent and now the world’s most competitive ten year olds are forced to put their bickering aside and rely on their wits. With a little help from a couple of very familiar Spy Kids, Carmen (Alexa Vega) and Juni Cortez (Daryl Sabara), and some mind-blowing gadgets, they just may be able to save the world and possibly bring their family together while they’re at it.

Cowboys & Aliens

Release Date: July 29, 2011

Genre: Action, Thriller

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Studio: Universal Pictures

Director: Jon Favreau

Screenwriter: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby

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Movie Website: CowboysandAliensmovie.com

Actors/Actresses: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Adam Beach, Paul Dano, Noah Ringer, Keith Carradine, Clancy Brown, Ana de la Reguera, Abigail Spencer

Plot Summary: Blockbuster filmmaker Jon Favreau directs Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford in an event film for summer 2011 that crosses the classic Western with the alien-invasion movie in a blazingly original way: “Cowboys & Aliens.” Joined by an arsenal of top moviemakers—Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci—he brings an all-new action thriller that will take audiences into the Old West, where a lone cowboy leads an uprising against a terror from beyond our world.

1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger (Craig) with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don’t welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Ford). It’s a town that lives in fear.

But Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one by one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known.

Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. As this gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he’s been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against the alien force. With the help of the elusive traveler Ella (Olivia Wilde), he pulls together a posse comprised of former opponents—townsfolk, Dolarhyde and his boys, outlaws and Apache warriors—all in danger of annihilation. United against a common enemy, they will prepare for an epic showdown for survival.

Crazy, Stupid, Love

Release Date: July 29, 2011

Genre: Comedy

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa

Screenwriter: Dan Fogelman

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Movie Website: CrazyStupidLovemovie.com

Actors/Actresses: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Julianne Moore, Marisa Tomei, Kevin Bacon, John Carroll Lynch, Jonah Bobo, Analeigh Tipton, Josh Groban, Liza Lapira, Joey King

Plot Summary: At fortysomething, straight-laced Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) is living the dream–good job, nice house, great kids and marriage to his high school sweetheart. But when Cal learns that his wife, Emily (Julianne Moore), has cheated on him and wants a divorce, his “perfect” life quickly unravels. Worse, in today’s single world, Cal, who hasn’t dated in decades, stands out as the epitome of un-smooth. Now spending his free evenings sulking alone at a local bar, the hapless Cal is taken on as wingman and protege to handsome, thirtysomething player Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling). In an effort to help Cal get over his wife and start living his life, Jacob opens Cal’s eyes to the many options before him: flirty women, manly drinks and a sense of style that can’t be found at Supercuts or The Gap. Cal and Emily aren’t the only ones looking for love in what might be all the wrong places: Cal’s 13-year-old son, Robbie, is crazy about his 17-year-old babysitter, Jessica, who harbors a crush on Cal. And despite Cal’s makeover and his many new conquests, the one thing that can’t be made over is his heart, which seems to keep leading him back to where he began.

The Smurfs

Release Date: July 29, 2011 (3D/2D theaters)

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family

MPAA Rating: PG

Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony)

Director: Raja Gosnell

Screenwriter: J. David Stem, David N. Weiss, Jay Scherick, David Ronn

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Movie Website: SmurfHappens.com

Actors/Actresses: Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Sofia Vergara, Hank Azaria, Anton Yelchin, Jonathan Winters, Katy Perry, Alan Cumming, Fred Armisen, George Lopez, Paul Reubens, John Oliver, Kenan Thompson, B.J. Novak, Jeff Foxworthy, Wolfgang Puck, Gary Basaraba, Tim Gunn

Plot Summary: Audiences everywhere are in for a Smurfy good time as the Smurfs make their first 3D trip to the big screen. When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world and into ours – in fact, smack dab in the middle of Central Park. Just three apples high and stuck in the Big Apple, the Smurfs must find a way to get back to their village before Gargamel tracks them down.

Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Sofia Vergara, and Hank Azaria star on camera opposite an all-star voice cast. Anton Yelchin will play Clumsy Smurf; comedy legend Jonathan Winters, who voiced roles in the “Smurfs” television series, will voice Papa Smurf; Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Katy Perry will play Smurfette; Alan Cumming will play Gutsy Smurf; “SNL’s” Fred Armisen will voice Brainy Smurf; and George Lopez will play Grouchy Smurf.

In the live-action roles, Azaria will play the Smurfs’ nemesis, the evil wizard Gargamel. Harris and Mays star as an expectant couple whose lives are turned upside down when the Smurfs cross over from their magical village to New York City. Vergara plays Odile, Harris’s boss, a cosmetics executive.