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Release Date: February 26, 2008

30 DAYS OF NIGHT

Cast: Ben Foster, Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston, Mark Boone Junior, Mark Rendall

Synopsis: Josh Hartnett (The Black Dahlia, Pearl Harbor) crosses over to the dark side in this bone-chilling adaptation of the cult-hit graphic novel, brought to the screen in all its demonic glory. In a small Alaskan town, thirty days of night is a natural phenomenon. Very few outsiders visit, until a band of bloodthirsty, deathly pale vampires mark their arrival by savagely attacking sled dogs. But soon they find there are much more satisfying thirst-quenchers about: human beings. One by one, the townspeople succumb to a living nightmare, but a small group survives -- at least for now. The vampires use the dark to their advantage, and surviving this cold hell is a game of cat and mouse...and screams.

THE DARJEELING LIMITED

Cast: Adrien Brody, Anjelica Huston, Natalie Portman, Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman

Synopsis: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Jason Schwartzman star as three brothers who have drifted apart over the years and try to re-forge their sibling bonds on a hilarious adventure across India. The Royal Tennenbaums meets Lost in Translation.

DAY ZERO

Cast: Ally Sheedy, Chris Klein, Elijah Wood, Ginnifer Goodwin, Elisabeth Moss

Synopsis: DAY ZERO stars Elijah Wood, Jon Bernthal, Chris Klein, and Ginnifer Goodwin. DAY ZERO is a timely political and personal story of three young men as the military draft is reinstated. Three best friends, George (Chris Klein) a successful lawyer, Dixon (Jon Bernthal) a tough-as-nails cab driver, and Feller (Elijah Wood) a writer with a host of insecurities, are drafted and given 30 days to report for duty. In that time they're forced to confront everything they believe about courage, duty, love, friendship and honor.

DEATH AT A FUNERAL

Cast: Alan Tudyk, Peter Dinklage, Daisy Donovan, Matthew Macfadyen, Rupert Graves

Synopsis: From acclaimed director Frank Oz (In & Out, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) comes 'a fast, furious and riotously funny farce' (Maxim) that'll have you dying with laughter! As the mourners and guests at a British country manor struggle valiantly to 'keep a stiff upper lip,' a dignified ceremony devolves into a hilarious, no-holds-barred debacle of misplaced cadavers, indecent exposure, and shocking family secrets. Packed with extras including audio commentaries and an uproarious gag reel, Death at a Funeral blows the lid off the proverbial coffin as 'the film's delicious comic flourishes... sight gags, slapstick, flawless timing... are served up by an outstanding cast' (O, The Oprah Magazine).

GOYA'S GHOST

Cast: Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Blanca Portillo, Randy Quaid, Stellan Skarsgard

Synopsis: From Academy Award® - winning director Milos Forman (1976 Best Director, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST; 1985 Best Director, AMADEUS) comes an epic drama of power, passion and betrayal set during the Spanish Inquisition. Stellan Skarsgård (PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 2 & 3) plays celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya, who's drawn into a web of deception when his muse and inspiration Ines played by Natalie Portman (Best Supporting Actress, Closer, 2004), is imprisoned for heresy against the Church. Goya seeks to free her with the aid of Inquisitor Brother Lorenzo, portrayed by Javier Bardem (Best Supporting Actor, No Country for Old Men, 2007). Bewitched by Ines' beauty, the duplicitous monk commits the unthinkable, leaving Goya to make sense of a world gone mad.

SILK

Cast: Alfred Molina, Keira Knightley, Michael Pitt, Mark Rendall, Koji Yakusho

Synopsis: Based on the beloved, best-selling novel by Alessandro Baricco, this visually stunning film tells the story of a married French smuggler whose perilous and solitary travels lead him to the strange and captivating new world of the west to collect his materials. While there, he is unexpectedly tempted by the beauty of another woman, and his heart quickly becomes torn between the ideals and comfort of his devoted wife at home and the mystery and beauty of a new love halfway around the world. Silk also stars Alfred Molina (Magnolia, Boogie Nights) and is directed by Francois Girard (The Red Violin).

JESSE STONE: SEA CHANGE

Cast: Sean Young, Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, Mika Boorem, William Sadler

Synopsis: Tom Selleck stars as Jesse Stone, a down-and-out former L.A. police detective whose biggest battle is now against the bottle, as the demons of his past rise to haunt him while he drives himself in distraction by pursuing a decade-old murder case.

Clips (Windows Media):
Feeling Regret
Don't Follow Me
Know But Can't Prove
Had a Feeling

COMANCHE MOON: THE SECOND CHAPTER IN THE LONESOME DOVE SAGA

Cast: Elizabeth Banks, Karl Urban, Linda Cardellini, Steve Zahn, Val Kilmer

Synopsis:In the highly anticipated prequel to the Emmy Award-winning mini-series, LONESOME DOVE, Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae (Steve Zahn)and Woodrow F. Call (Karl Urban) are now young men dealing with the ever increasing tensions of adult life - Gus with his great love, Clara (Linda Cardellini), and Call with Maggie (Elizabeth Banks), the young prostitute who is in love with him. McCrae and Call join a Ranger troop in pursuit of three outlaws: Comanche Chief Buffalo Hump (Wes Studi), Comanche horse thief Kicking Wolf (Jonathan Joss) and Ahumado (Sal Lopez), the deadly Mexican bandit king with a penchant for slow torture. Together they struggle to protect an advancing western frontier against the defiant Comanches who are determined to defend their territory and their way of life. The cast also includes Val Kilmer as Captain Inish Scull, a Yankee aristocrat and Mexican war hero, and Rachel Griffiths as the captain's sexy wife.

Trailer (Windows Media)

Clips (Windows Media):
Recent News
Captain Scull
1000 Head of Cattle
Missing Parker Girl
Buggy Ride

SLIPSTREAM

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Christian Slater, John Turturro, Michael Clarke Duncan, Camryn Manheim

Synopsis: Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer (Hopkins) has lived his life in two states of existence: reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder mystery screenplay, Felix becomes baffled as his characters start appearing in his life, and his life starts slipping into his characters. Soon, he is thrown into a vortex where dreams, time and reality collide in an increasingly whirling slipstream.

Trailer (Windows Media)

Clips (Windows Media):
On High
I Know You
Pain

Source: CelebrityWonder.com

| Tuesday, February 26, 2008

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