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Release Date: August 5, 2008

NIM'S ISLAND

Cast: Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler, Alphonso McAuley, Michael Carman

Synopsis: Anything can happen on Nim's Island, a place where imagination runs wild and adventure rules. Here, a feisty young girl named Nim (Abigail Breslin), surrounded by her exotic animal friends and inspired by legends and books, leads an amazing tropical existence that mirrors that of her favorite literary hero: Alex Rover, the world’s greatest adventurer. When her island is threatened she reaches out to her hero for help. But what Nim doesn’t know is that the acclaimed author of the Rover books is, in fact, Alexandra Rover (Jodie Foster), a retiring, fainthearted recluse locked away in a big city apartment. Now, as Alexandra nervously ventures forth into the world and Nim faces the biggest challenge of her exciting young life, they must both draw courage from the fictional gallantry of Alex Rover, and find strength in one another to save Nim’s Island. An adventure comedy, Nim's Island is about becoming the hero of your own story -- as a girl who thought she was alone and a grown woman who thought she was scared of the world discover they can be so much more than they ever dreamed.

THE COUNTERFEITERS

Cast: August Diehl, August Zirner, Devid Striesow, Karl Markovics, Martin Brambach

Synopsis: The true story of Salomon Sorowitsch, counterfeiter extraordinaire and bohemian. After getting arrested in a German concentration camp in 1944, he agrees to help the Nazis in an organized counterfeit operation set up to help finance the war effort.
It was the biggest counterfeit money scam of all times. Over 130 million pound sterling were printed, under conditions that couldn't have been more tragic or spectacular. During the last years of the war, as the German Reich saw that the end was near, the authorities decided to produce their own banknotes in the currencies of their major war enemies. They hoped to use the duds to flood the enemy economy and fill the empty war coffers. At the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, two barracks were separated from the rest of the camp and the outside world, and transformed into a fully equipped counterfeiters workshop. 'Operation Bernhard' was born. Prisoners were brought to Sachsenhausen from other camps to implement the plan: professional printers, fastidious bank officials and simple craftsmen all became members of the top-secret counterfeiter commando. They had the choice: if they cooperated with the enemy, they had a chance to survive, as first-class prisoners in a 'golden cage' with enough to eat and a bed to sleep in. If they sabotaged the operation, a sure death awaited them. For THE COUNTERFEITERS, it was not only a question of saving their own lives, but also about saving their conscience as well...

MISS CONCEPTION

Cast: Heather Graham, Mia Kirshner, Tom Ellis, Orlando Seale, Will Mellor

Synopsis: Georgina Scott (Heather Graham) is a broody 33 year-old who sends her partner packing when it becomes obvious that he doesn’t share her desire for a bundle of joy. Zak (Tom Ellis) was going away on a documentary shoot anyway and he hopes that she’ll cool off in his absence. But Georgina discovers that early menopause runs in her family and heads for a specialist with her reluctant best friend Clem (Mia Kirshner) in tow. Learning that her baby making days are numbered and her next cycle will be her last, Georgina enlists the help of Clem and their camp pal, Justin, to make the most of it. A battle plan is drawn up but their escapades become increasingly frantic and elaborate as Georgina explores internet sperm donors, night clubbers, builders and funeral-goers in her desperate and hilarious attempts to beat the biological clock.

MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD

Cast: Angela Finocchiaro, Diane Fleri, Elio Germano, Massimo Popolizio, Riccardo Scamarcio

Synopsis: Already a smash in its native Italy, MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD, which was presented at this year's Cannes and Toronto film festivals, reunites director Luchetti with longtime collaborators Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli, best known as screenwriters of the highly acclaimed 'The Best of Youth.'
Set in a small Italian town in the 60's and 70's, the film tells the story of two brothers who want to change the world - but in completely different ways. The elder, Manrico (Riccardo Scarmaccio), is a handsome, charismatic firebrand who becomes the prime mover in the local Communist party. Accio, (Elio Germano) the younger, more rebellious brother, finds his own contrarian voice by joining the reactionary Fascists. What starts as a typical tale of sibling rivalry becomes the story of the polarizing and paralyzing politics of those turbulent times and, the rift between the brothers is further intensified when Accio realizes that he loves his brother's girlfriend, Francesca (Diane Fleri) who, like everyone else, is blind to Manrico's increasingly dangerous ideas.
An intensely cinematic and incredibly incisive film about the dreams and disillusionments of the 60's and 70's, MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD is set in the exact era of the groundbreaking early classics of Bernardo Bertolucci and Marco Bellochio. Not only does Luchetti pay explicit homage to those films - 'Before the Revolution,' 'Fist in the Pocket,' and 'China is Near' - he comes very close to matching their beauty, intelligence, and youthful exuberance.

ROGUE

Cast: Michael Vartan, Radha Mitchell, John Jarrat, Sam Worthington, Stephen Curry

Synopsis: Greg McLean's first acclaimed tour de force, Wolf Creek, took audiences on a fact-based road trip through the darkest parts of the Australian Outback. Journeying home again, this time to the crocodile infested waters of Australia's remote wetlands, the director's wild life boat tour is more a down-under Jaws than Crocodile Dundee. Joining a beautiful local tour guide (Radha Mitchell) and an American writer on assignment (Michael Vartan), the rest of this thriller's food chain is rounded out by a group of tourists and adventure seekers. Waiting in vain to be rescued on an ever-disappearing parcel of dry land, you will never guess their next move...as terror lies just beneath the surface.

THE KILLING OF JOHN LENNON

Cast: Gail Kay Bell, Gunter Stern, Jonas Ball, Krishna Fairchild, Mie Omori

Synopsis: The Killing of John Lennon is a chilling insight into the mind of Mark David Chapman, the 25 year old narcissist who gunned down John Lennon outside his Dakota apartment in New York in 1980. Meticulously researched and filmed on actual locations where events occurred it is a gritty and imagistic examination of a celebrity stalker’s mind leading up to the kill - and his descent into madness and exorcism.
Independently financed and filmed over three years in Hawaii, Decatur Georgia and New York it is unflinching in its presentation of the truth. It does not set out to condone or exonerate the shooting death of Lennon or his killer’s desire for fame. Its theme of bombticking loneliness and, by extension, the notion that America is a nation of angry strangers who vent paranoid resentment toward public figures couldn’t be more resonant today.

Source: CelebrityWonder.com

| Tuesday, August 5, 2008

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