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College Road Trip

Director: Roger Kumble
Stars: Raven-Symoné, Martin Lawrence (Full Cast)
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

The Plot: When an overachieving high school student (Raven) decides to travel around the country to choose the perfect college, her overprotective cop father (Lawrence) decides to accompany her in order to keep her on the straight and narrow.

THE BUZZ: From the director of Cruel Intentions comes the safest ... road trip ... ever. Put another way: If there were an evil hitchhiker in this movie, it would be played by Zac Efron, and he'd end up going pre-med.

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10,000 B.C.

Director: Roland Emmerich
Stars: Camilla Belle, Steven Strait, Marco Khan (Full Cast)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

The Plot: A young mammoth hunter journeys through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.

THE BUZZ: As much as we wish it were, this is not a remake of One Million Years B.C., where Raquel Welch wore, as the ads breathlessly intoned, "MANKIND'S FIRST BIKINI!" No, this is Roland Emmerich doing his epic, big-budget, quasi-sci-fi thing, and you know what that means: huge special effects, far-fetched plot arcs, a gamut of emotions from A (amazed!) to B (breathless!), and a cast that's a mix of middling and up-and-coming stars. Oh ... and the slightest whiff of Apocalypto minus the brain cells.

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The Bank Job

Director: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows (Full Cast)
Studio: Lionsgate

The Plot: Based on one of the biggest crimes in British history, a group of unseasoned criminals are lured into a heist, thinking they are going to rip off the safety deposit boxes of some of London's wealthiest citizens. Instead, they are unknowing recruits on a top-secret mission to steal photos of a Royal princess who was snapped in some compromising situations.

THE BUZZ: This movie was called Baker Street way back in its early development stage (just so all you Sherlock Holmes fans know) and also D-Notice -- the latter is shorthand for an official government request for newspapers not to comment on select subjects for purposes of national security (or the prevention of national embarrassment). We're always primed for more Jason Statham (Statham + Saffron Burrows = !!!), even if, in an occurrence of art imitating life, there's precious-little buzz about this tale of murder, corruption, and a sex scandal with ties to the Royal Family. Something tells us it might have gone through a serious re-edit? Yahoo! has the trailer ...

Message Boards: I'm really surprised this isn't a Guy Ritchie film? | Rent this movie

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day [limited]

Director: Bharat Nalluri
Stars: Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Ciarán Hinds (Full Cast)
Studio: Focus Features

The Plot: After she is dismissed from her job, a middle-aged London governess (McDormand) gains new employment with American actress and singer Delysia Lafosse (Adams) -- a move that catapults her into a glamorous and dizzying new life.

THE BUZZ: Given its premise and lovely ensemble cast, Miss Pettigrew should enchant older audiences for a long, steady run at the box office. The question mark here is director Bharat Nalluri, who, despite his small-screen successes (MI-5 and Hustle), doesn't seem to be a good fit for the material. Then again, when your stars are the enduring McDormand and everyone's new favorite leading lady, Amy Adams, even the most awkward direction could be obscured. Released in the aftermath of this year's Oscars, I think you will find McDormand and Adams on next year's lists.

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CJ7 [limited]

Director: Stephen Chow
Stars: Stephen Chow, Kitty Zhang Yuqi (Full Cast)
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics

The Plot: A struggling father (Chow) who can't afford to buy his son Dicky a popular new toy unknowingly gifts his child with a garbage-pile discovery: a green orb that, in Dicky's hands, transforms into an alien with special powers that might just turn Dicky into the cool kid at school.

THE BUZZ: Stephen Chow's legion of fans isn't quite sure what to make of their hero's foray into family comedy, the first movie in what Chow hopes will become a potential franchise. Though the film is already a hit throughout Asia (a game version of the film comes preloaded on a series of new cell phones in various countries), the question remains whether Chow's latest will connect with audiences elsewhere in the world; Stateside we can see the hipster parent set wheeling their titanium strollers into their local art house in order to expose their progeny to the filmmaker's take on E.T.. P.S. The son here is actually played by a little girl, newcomer Xu Jiao.

Message Boards: CJ7 Clip on Rotten Tomatoes | Possibly Very Silly Question but...

Snow Angels [limited]

Director: David Gordon Green
Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Michael Angarano (Full Cast)
Studio: Warner Independent Pictures (WIP)

The Plot: A small-town drama set amongst two fractured families, and a single gunshot that connects them to one another.

THE BUZZ: Sorry to be all obtuse, but that's as clear an outline we can offer for Southern auteur David Gordon Green's latest, a satisfying, hard-to-market affair from what we understand. Which is no surprise to DGG fans, who should flock to the rep house (in warm layers) to see Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell, who are best suited for indie-minded productions, turn in ace performances, and to bear witness to Amy Sedaris playing against type. Critics are laureling this one for its bravery and notes of Chekov and nods to The Sweet Hereafter. We wonder if DGG is single ...

Message Boards: Thank God Sundance has discovered another film with no Stars | Snow Angels (the novel)

Married Life [limited]

Director: Ira Sachs
Stars: Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, Rachel McAdams (Full Cast)
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics

The Plot: A 1940s-set drama about a meek man (Cooper) who falls for a younger woman (McAdams) and opts to spare him and his wife (Clarkson) the agony of divorce by concocting a plan to slowly poison her to death.

THE BUZZ: In a more-perfect world, Patricia Clarkson and Rachel McAdams would star in a movie together every year; that said, we're just happy they're both back on the big screen lately. Pop-culture watchdogs who have seen the Ira Sachs's melodrama have compared it to AMC's Mad Men, while a few intellectual types have said it combines elements of that show with Bela Tarr's sublime Prefab People. Sounds snobby. Can't wait!

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Paranoid Park [limited]

Director: Gus Van Sant
Stars: Gabe Nevins, Daniel Liu, Taylor Momsen (Full Cast)
Studio: IFC Films

The Plot: A teenage skateboarder's life begins to fray after he is involved in the accidental death of a security guard.

THE BUZZ: Gus Van Sant, who just wrapped his Harvey Milk biopic here in San Francisco (fun to see Sean Penn in a kimono in the Lower Haight), trolled MySpace in order to cast Park, but what's more interesting than that is the presence of cinematographer Christopher Doyle (subbing in for GVS's on-call DP, Harris Savides) who captures what Slant Magazine brilliantly calls "the Super-8 swirl of skate-kid hero worship and the haze of adolescent panic."

Message Boards: Van Sant movies are like Star Trek movies | Stupid question but i have to know.

Semi-Pro

Director: Kent Alterman
Stars: Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, André Benjamin (Full Cast)
Studio: New Line Cinema

The Plot: Jackie Moon (Ferrell), the owner-coach-player of the American Basketball Association's Flint Michigan Tropics, rallies his teammates in an effort to make their far-fetched NBA dreams come true.

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THE BUZZ: Kent Alterman took leave from his post at New Line Cinema in order to direct Will Ferrell in his latest sports comedy. While Ferrell himself might not be bringing anything particularly new to the court this time around, he at least had the sense to recruit Woody Harrelson, who hasn't dribbled since 1992. Speaking of Harrelson, we hear his character gets harassed by none other than Amy Sedaris in white-trash mode. Fingers crossed this scene makes the cut.

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Vantage Point

Director: Pete Travis
Stars: Dennis Quaid, Forest Whitaker, Matthew Fox (Full Cast)
Studio: Columbia Pictures

The Plot: Five different points-of-view are woven together to chronicle an attempt on the life of the President of the United States.

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THE BUZZ: With its controversial subject matter and Rashomon-styled narrative structure (the 5 POVs will be told in 15-minute increments, by the way), VP seems like a tall order for a director who's only worked for the small-screen and a green screenwriter. Matthew Fox can guide director Pete Travis through those tricky flashback sequences, but let's hope that doesn't leave us with more questions than answers.

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The Spiderwick Chronicles

Director: Mark Waters
Stars: Freddie Highmore, Sarah Bolger, David Strathairn (Full Cast)
Studio: Paramount Pictures

The Plot: Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.

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THE BUZZ: So this is Mark S. Waters' next project and it will be the first big family film of 2008 (though it was originally set for a Christmas 2007 release). Secrecy surrounded the status of the script and casting, until July 2006, when it was announced Freddie Highmore would play both Jared and Simon Grace alongside the emerging Sarah Bolger, who won the role of Mallory. As nearly every studio is looking for a franchise that will appeal to children as well as adults, Spiderwick is Paramount's best optioned bet to date.

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The Other Boleyn Girl

Director: Justin Chadwick
Stars: Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana (Full Cast)
Studio: Columbia Pictures

The Plot: Two sisters (Portman & Johansson) vie for the affections of King Henry VIII (Bana).

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THE BUZZ: We'd call this one a total snoozefest - except that the screenplay is by man-of-the-hour Peter Morgan, who hit the royal jackpot with both The Queen and The Last King of Scotland last year. Can Chadwick, a British TV director with an impressive resume, rise to the material? It'll be nice to see Bana freed from his chains of oppressive solemnity, but we bet Portman and Johansson vie in a pout-it-out contest for most voluptuously angsty.

Message Boards: RAPE SCENE? | okay so you have agree about the book and the movie

Jumper

Director: Doug Liman
Stars: Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Bell (Full Cast)
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

The Plot: Once David Rice (Christensen) discovers he has the power to teleport from one place to another, he uses his ability to search for the man he believes is responsible for the death of his mother. Complicating his mission is the existence of a secret organization who want to exterminate people like David, which causes the young man to enter into a shaky alliance with a fellow "jumper" (Bell).

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THE BUZZ: Can you imagine being dumped for Hayden Christensen? That's what happened to young Brit Tom Sturridge, who was set to play the lead in Doug Lyman's follow-up to Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Christensen, who possesses a formidable business savvy - so bite your tongue, was swapped in when Fox decreed the project needed to find a better-known actor. Pairing him next to another brunette so soon after Awake is kind of tired, but this project is on a whole other level, though we're still somewhat surprised this is a winter release instead of a potential summer blockbuster. We can't solve that mystery, but at least we now know what Jumper's love interest Rachel Bilson has been up to since "The O.C." came to an end: she's kept things on a low simmer, definitely working out and/or not eating, and ready to give Ms. Jessica Alba a run for her money in the former-TV-star-turned-big-screen-knockout dept.

Message Boards: It made Transformers look like a masterpiece! (Spoilers) | EMINEM?!?

Step Up 2 the Streets

Director: Jon Chu
Stars: Robert Hoffman, Briana Evigan, Cassie (Full Cast)
Studio: Touchstone Pictures

The Plot: At the Maryland School of the Arts, students Andie (Evigan) and Chase (Hoffman) look to impress at an underground street-dance competition by forming a crew with the school's best performers.

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THE BUZZ: As someone indicated on our message boards: "Briana Evigan is Wack, not a real BGirl." We totally agreed, until we were secretly captivated by her moves and brassiness in the movie's first trailer, which shows the film is going for a boy-girl version of You Got Served. What's interesting to us (and we're trying real hard here) is whether Disney will luck out and find a male lead that will make young women swoon as much as Channing Tatum did -- one that can brood and look great in a sleeveless undershirt -- sort of like the "High School Musical" version of Ryan from "The O.C." And yes, Tyler, Tatum's bad boy character from the original, does make an appearance here.

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Fool's Gold

Director: Andy Tennant
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson (Full Cast)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

The Plot: A new clue to the whereabouts of a lost treasure rekindles a married couple's sense of adventure -- and their estranged romance.

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THE BUZZ: After Sahara, would you greenlight an action-adventure movie starring Matthew McConaughey? Even if he's co-starring with Kate Hudson? Or would you just convince them both to take a safer bet: That on-again/off-again sequel to How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days?

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No Country for Old Men

Director: Ethan Coen Joel Coen
Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin (Full Cast)
Studio: Miramax Films

The Plot: A series of violent events ensue after a hunter (Jones) decides to keep the heroin and $2 million in cash he discovers amongst a pile of dead men near the Rio Grande.

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THE BUZZ: Can anyone explain why it's taken so many years for the Coen brothers and Tommy Lee Jones to work together? They couldn't have picked a better story for their first venture, as this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel conjures up comparisons to Blood Simple and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada; only the most ineffective studio could muck-up selling audiences on the idea of these three filmmakers coming together for a mystery set on the U.S.-Mexico border. TLJ has never had more momentum, as he follows up In the Valley of Elah with this, another buzz-generating role (he also adapted and stars in In the Electric Mist, Bertrand Tavernier's first English-language picture since 'Round Midnight). Meanwhile, Coen bros. fans can breathe a sigh of relief since it appears that the boys are back on solid ground; they wisely back-burned a pair of lesser-sounding projects for Old Men and Burn After Reading (as of this writing, BAR is currently filming).

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Penelope

Director: Mark Palansky
Stars: Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Reese Witherspoon (Full Cast)
Studio: Summit Entertainment

The Plot: Penelope (Ricci) is a modern-day princess who was born with a pig's snout -- a curse that can only be broken when she finds true love with a prince.

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THE BUZZ: Reese Witherspoon essentially grew up (on screen) in a series of offbeat movies, so we're sure her advice to first-time director Mark Palansky is part of the reason Penelope has received good-to-great reviews for its ability to blend a contemporary fairy tale and a critique of celebrity obsession. It'll be great to see Peter Dinklage back in a higher-profile film; he plays a bottom-feeding journalist whose actions cause Penelope's parents to fake her death, only to reactivate the story and spin it into a tabloid sensation.

Message Boards: Anyone else think the character Lemon... | no true evil characters, how refreshing!

Definitely, Maybe

Director: Adam Brooks
Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Rachel Weisz, Abigail Breslin (Full Cast)
Studio: Universal Pictures

The Plot: As Will Hayes (Reynolds) explains the complexities of his pending divorce to his daughter, Maya (Breslin), he opens up about the three other women with whom he has had relationships -- a process that gets him to reconsider some of his past decisions.

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THE BUZZ: This is easily the date movie of the year, what with Ryan Reynolds mentoring Abigail Breslin (or the other way around) under the guidance of UK rom-com specialist Adam Brooks. Let's just hope he doesn't require R.R. to get too cerebral, or else he might start to regret his career -- and romantic -- choices of late, too. P.S. With a cast that includes potential GFs such as Isla Fisher and Elizabeth Banks, this looks to be way harder than Bridget's quandary concerning Daniel Cleaver and Mark Darcy.

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