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Release Date: May 5, 2009

CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Chia Hui Liu, Mithun Chakraborty, Roger Yuan

Synopsis: Chandni Chowk To China, the first ever Bollywood Kungfu comedy takes you on a madcap Journey from the by-lanes of Chandni Chowk in Delhi, to Shanghai, the Great Wall and rural China, marrying in its wake hilarious gags, breathtaking action, spectacular locations, and heart stirring emotions.

FRANKENHOOD

Cast: Drew Sidora, Bob Sapp, Charlie Murphy, DeRay Davis, Jasper Redd

Synopsis: Motown (DeRay Davis, Semi Pro) and Darius (Jasper Redd, Totally Baked: A Pot-U-Mentary) work in a morgue, trading put-downs and toiling among the most undemanding of customers. Outside of their decidedly dreary jobs, the two dream of bigger and better things. If only they could win the $25,000 prize that will go to the winners of the upcoming 3-on-3 Streetball Tournament. One night, having been demoted to the graveyard shift, they catch their semi-sane colleague Franklin (Charlie Murphy, TV's 'Chappelle's Show') in a dark alley using the auto battery of Motown's precious Gremlin to bring to life a monstrous dead man (Bob Sapp, The Longest Yard) whose heart Franklin has just replaced. Now if they can just get their new mutant friend to play basketball, the basketball tournament is theirs!

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

Cast: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Julia Ormond, Taraji Henson, Tilda Swinton

Synopsis: 'I was born under unusual circumstances.' And so begins 'Benjamin Button,' adapted from the classic 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards. A man, like any of us, unable to stop time. We follow his story set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918, into the twenty-first century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Tilda Swinton, Taraji P. Henson, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, 'Benjamin Button,' is a time traveler's tale of the people and places he bumps into along the way, the loves he loses and finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.

LAST CHANCE HARVEY

Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, James Brolin, Richard Schiff, Kathy Baker

Synopsis: Academy Awards® winners Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man) and Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility) reunite in Last Chance Harvey, a hopeful romance that celebrates new beginnings at any age. The film is directed and written by Joel Hopkins (Jump Tomorrow).
New Yorker Harvey Shine (Dustin Hoffman) is on the verge of losing his dead-end job as a jingle writer. Warned by his boss (Richard Schiff) that he has just one more chance to deliver, Harvey goes to London for a weekend to attend his daughter's (Liane Balaban) wedding but promises to be back on Monday morning to make an important meeting or else.
Harvey arrives in London only to learn his daughter has chosen to have her stepfather (James Brolin) walk her down the aisle instead of him. Doing his best to hide his devastation, he leaves the wedding before the reception in hopes of getting to the airport on time, but misses his plane anyway. When he calls his boss to explain, he is fired on the spot.
Drowning his sorrows at the airport bar, Harvey strikes up a conversation with Kate (Emma Thompson), a slightly prickly, 40-something employee of the Office of National Statistics. Kate, whose life is limited to work, the occasional humiliating blind date and endless phone calls from her smothering mother (Eileen Atkins), is touched by Harvey, who finds himself energized by her intelligence and compassion.
The growing connection between the pair inspires both as they unexpectedly transform one another's lives.

A PLUMM SUMMER

Cast: Brenda Strong, Henry Winkler, Jeff Daniels, William Baldwin, Lisa Guerrero

Synopsis: The innocence of an idyllic small town is torn apart when famous TV puppet 'Froggy Doo' is kidnapped and held for ransom. A Plumm Summer tells the remarkable true tale of two young brothers, Elliott and Rocky Plumm, who go head to head with the FBI in order to crack the 'frog-napping' case and get their beloved Froggy Doo back on the air, all the while becoming local heroes and best friends.

SMOTHER

Cast: Dax Shepard, Diane Keaton, Liv Tyler, Sarah Lancaster, Mike White

Synopsis: After he's fired from his job, an everyday guy (Shepard) faces pressure from his wife to have a baby and from his mom, who has decided to move in with the young couple.

WENDY AND LUCY

Cast: Michelle Williams, John Robinson, Larry Fessenden, Walter Dalton, Will Oldham

Synopsis: Proving why she is one of the most highly-regarded auteurs of current cinema, Kelly Reichardt's ('Old Joy') subtle storytelling technique uses a formal minimalist style to weave together a unique emotional and political road film. Wendy Carroll (Michelle Williams) is driving to Ketchikan, Alaska, in hopes of a summer of lucrative work at the Northwestern Fish cannery, and the start of a new life with her dog, Lucy. When her car breaks down in Oregon, however, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart, and she confronts a series of increasingly dire economic decisions, with far-ranging repercussions for herself and Lucy. 'Wendy and Lucy' addresses issues of sympathy and generosity at the edges of American life, revealing the limits and depths of people's duty to each other in tough times.

JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY

Cast: Anders W. Berthelse, Charlotte Fich, Dejan Cukic, Ditte Hansen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas

Synopsis: Nightwatch director Ole Bornedal returns to quicken the pulse of thriller fans with this genre-bending tale of a crime scene photographer and family man who is violently shaken out of his suburban malaise following a fateful car accident. Jonas makes his living by capturing gruesome crime scenes in all of their lurid detail, yet lately the beleaguered shutterbug has grown increasingly despondent in both his career and his personal life. One day, while driving through the city, Jonas is involved in a car accident with a young woman named Julia. Unconscious due to the impact of the crash, Julia is rushed to the hospital. Later, a concerned Jonas makes a special trip to check in on Julia, and finds her comatose in her hospital bed and surrounded by loved ones. Having never actually met her boyfriend Sebastian, Julia's family immediately assumes that Jonas is the man they've all heard so much about as of late. While Jonas is all too willing to step into the role for the time being, his ruse grows complicated when Julia awakens with amnesia, and the real Sebastian begins to grow curious about the intruder that has stolen his identity.

LOOK

Cast: Rhys Coiro, Giuseppe Andrews, Hayes MacArthur, Heather Hogan, Spencer Redford

Synopsis: The Post 9/11 world has forever changed the notion of privacy. There are now approximately 30 million surveillance cameras in the United States generating more than 4 billion hours of footage every week. And the numbers are growing. The average American is now captured over 200 times a day, in department stores, gas stations, changing rooms, even public bathrooms. No one is spared from the relentless, unblinking eye of the cameras that are hidden in every nook and cranny of day-to-day life.

Source: CelebrityWonder.com

| Tuesday, May 5, 2009

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