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Release Date: March 4, 2008

AWAKE

Cast: Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Lena Olin, Terrence Dashon Howard, Christopher McDonald

Synopsis: Clay (Christensen) suffers “Anesthetic Awareness,” leaving him fully conscious during open heart surgery, but unable to alert the surgical team surrounding him. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife Sam (Alba) must make life-altering decisions while he faces a far greater pain.

MR. MAGORIUM'S WONDER EMPORIUM

Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman, Jason Bateman, Ted Ludzik, Zach Mills

Synopsis: Mr. Magorium (Dustin Hoffman) owns and runs the most magical store in the universe, where all of the toys for sale are alive. But, when the aging shopkeeper decides to retire and sell the business to his faithful cashier (Natalie Portman), he hires an uptight accountant (Jason Bateman) to get his affairs in order.

MY KID COULD PAINT THAT

Cast: Amir Bar-Lev, Elizabeth Cohen, Laura Olmstead, Mark Olmstead, Marla Olmstead

Synopsis: In the span of only a few months, 4-year-old Marla Olmstead rocketed from total obscurity into international renown – and sold over $300,000 dollars worth of paintings. She was compared to Kandinsky and Pollock, and called 'a budding Picasso.' Inside Edition, The Jane Pauley Show, and NPR did pieces, and The Today Show and Good Morning America got in a bidding war over an appearance by the bashful toddler. There was talk of corporate sponsorship with the family fielding calls from The Gap and Crayola.
But not all of the attention was positive. From the beginning, many faulted her parents for exposing Marla to the glare of the media and accused the couple of exploiting their daughter for financial gain. Others felt her work was, in fact, comparable to the great abstract expressionists – but saw this as emblematic of the meaninglessness of Modern Art. 'She is painting exactly as all the adult paintings have been in the past 50 years, but painting like a child, too. That is what everybody things but they don't dare to say it,' said Oggi, the leading Italian weekly. Through no intention of her own, Marla revived the age-old question, 'what is art?'
And then, five months into Marla's new life as a celebrity and just short of her fifth birthday, a bombshell dropped. CBS' 60 Minutes aired an exposé suggesting strongly that the paintings were painted by her father, himself an amateur painter. As quickly as the public built Marla up, they tore her down. The New York Post asked whether 'the juvenile Jackson Pollock may actually be a full-fledged Willem de Frauding,' the Olmsteads were barraged with hate mail, ostracized around town, sales of the paintings dried up, and Marla's art dealer considered moving out of Binghampton. Embattled, the Olmsteads turned to the filmmaker to clear their name. Torn between his own responsibility as a journalist and the family's desire to see their integrity restored, the director finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a situation that can't possibly end well for him and them, and could easily end badly for both.

THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE

Cast: Alison Lohman, Benicio Del Toro, David Duchovny, Halle Berry, Sam Mendes

Synopsis: Academy Award®-winners Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro star in 'Things We Lost in the Fire,' a compelling drama about two people brought together by fate. Audrey Burke's (Berry) life has been shattered by the sudden death of her husband. In grief, she turns to one of his life-long friends, Jerry Sunborne (Del Toro), a former lawyer who is on a serious downward spiral. Together, they work to repair their lives. Produced by Oscar®-winner Sam Mendes and Sam Mercer and helmed by acclaimed Oscar®-nominated Danish Director Susanne Bier.

INTO THE WILD

Cast: Catherine Keener, Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, Vince Vaughn, William Hurt

Synopsis: This is the true story of Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch). Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, McCandless 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 -- a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature.

AUTOMATON TRANSFUSION

Cast: Ashley Elizabeth Pierce, Garrett Jones, Juliet Reeves, Rowan Bousaid, William Howard Bowman

Synopsis: The United States Army began developing a procedure to bring back the dead with the purpose of having them fight instead of the living. The testing takes a horrific turn and an experimental town quickly becomes overtaken by zombies. Three desperate high school students decide to fight back in a battle for survival.

PISTOL WHIPPED

Cast: Steven Seagal, Lance Henriksen, Mark Elliot Wilson, Paul Calderon, Renee Goldsberry

Synopsis: Steven Seagal stars in this gritty, no holds barred action film as an elite ex-cop with a gambling problem and a mountain of debt. When a mysterious man offers to clear his debts in exchange for the assassination of the city's most notorious gangsters, Matt (Seagal) makes a decision that will change his life?forever. The only man who has Matt's back is married to his ex-wife and has legal custody of his daughter. Even worse, Matt's heavy drinking and excessive gambling continually ruin his attempts to be a decent father. Matt gets a chance at a fresh start when a mysterious old man buys up all of his outstanding gambling debts. However, in return he must pledge his absolute loyalty and use his talents to kill the city's most notorious criminals. Matt must learn the politics of the underworld and grapple with his role as hired muscle. He soon realizes that there is more going on than meets the eye. As the pressures of his new world come crashing down around him, he finally finds the redemption he's been searching for.

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THE SHEPHERD: BORDER PATROL

Cast: Jean Claude Van Damme, Gary McDonald, Natalie J. Robb, Scott Adkins, Stephen Lord

Synopsis:Van Damme delivers the action once again in THE SHEPHERD: BORDER PATROL! A rogue American Special Forces unit schemes to smuggle $35 million worth of heroin into the United States, and all that stands in its way is border patrol agend Jack Robideaux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), and ex-homicide cop with a hidden agenda. Taking on suicide bombers, sadistic torturers and traitorous officials on both sides of the border, Jack shows no mercy as he single-handedly attempts to destroy the cartel in this explosive action thriller.

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| Tuesday, March 4, 2008

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