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Release Date: November 10, 2006

A GOOD YEAR

Cast: Russell Crowe, Albert Finney, Marion Cotillard, Mitchell Mullen, Tom Hollander

Synopsis: Director Ridley Scott reunites with Oscar winner Russell Crowe in a comedy about a highly successful investment expert Max Skinner, who returns to the vineyard of his childhood when his estranged uncle dies. Intending to put his past behind him and sell the vineyard as quickly as possible, he instead discovers a part of himself that he'd lost since childhood.

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HARSH TIMES


Christian Bale, Eva Longoria and Freddy Rodriguez at the LA premiere of 'Harsh Times' held at The Crest Theatre. Los Angeles, California - 05.11.06

Cast: Christian Bale, Eva Longoria, Freddy Rodriguez, Tammy Trull, Adriana Millan

Synopsis: From the creator of TRAINING DAY comes HARSH TIMES, a gritty look at friendship, loyalty and ambition set on the extremely rough streets of south central Los Angeles. Jim Davis (Christian Bale) is an ex-Army Ranger recently discharged from the military, yet still haunted by nightmares of his former occupation. While seeking a position with the LAPD that will allow him to marry his Mexican girlfriend and bring her to the United States, Jim kills time chilling with his best friend, Mike (Freddy Rodriguez). Mike is feeling the heat from his longtime girlfriend, Sylvia (Eva Longoria): either get a job or get out. But the love of a beautiful woman can't compare to the bonds of friendship, and Jim and Mike are soon cruising the streets of South Central, slipping back into a deceitful life of drugs, violence and petty crime, just like when they were kids.Christian Bale ('Batman Begins'), Freddy Rodriguez ('Six Feet Under') and Eva Longoria ('Desperate Housewives') star in HARSH TIMES, written and directed by David Ayer ('Training Day,' 'The Fast and the Furious')

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THE RETURN

Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Adam Scott, Kate Beahan, Peter O'Brien, Sam Shepard

Synopsis:A new supernatural thriller starring Sarah Michelle Gellar ('The Grudge,' 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer') as Joanna Mills, a tough young Midwesterner determined to learn the truth behind the increasingly terrifying supernatural visions that have been haunting her. Joanna has made a successful carrer for herself, as sales representative for a trucking company. But her private life has been difficult, estranged from her father (Sam Shepard), stalked by an obsessed ex-boyfriend (Adam Scott), and with few friends. Joanna fears that she is losing control. She sees and fells brutal murder of young woman she's never met, at the hand of a heartless killer – a man who appears to be making Joanna his next target. Determined to fight back, Joanna is guided by her nightmares to the murdered woman's hometown. Once there she will discover that some secrets can't be buried; some spirits never die; and that the murder she is trying to solve may be her own.

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STRANGER THAN FICTION


Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman at the Los Angeles premiere of 'Stranger than Fiction' held at the Mann Village Theatre. Los Angeles, California- 30.10.06

Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Kristin Chenoweth, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Queen Latifah, Will Ferrell

Synopsis: In Columbia Pictures' and Mandate Pictures' Stranger Than Fiction, Will Ferrell plays Harold Crick, an IRS Agent whose world is turned upside-down when he begins to hear his life being chronicled by a narrator only he can hear. The Narrator, Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson), a nearly forgotten author of tragic novels, is struggling to complete her latest and best book, unaware that her protagonist is alive and uncontrollably guided by her words. Fiction and reality collide when the bewildered and hilariously resistant Harold hears the Narrator say that events have been set in motion that will lead to his imminent death. Desperate to escape his fate, Harold seeks help from eccentric English professor Dr. Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman) and finds unexpected comfort in a burgeoning romance with a defiant audit subject, Ana Pascal (Maggie Gyllenhaal). Unluckily for Harold, Kay's impatient publishers have unleashed a stern assistant named Penny Escher (Queen Latifah) to help the author finish her book and finish off Harold Crick. Stranger Than Fiction was directed by Marc Forster and written by Zach Helm.

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