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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

The Children of Huang Shi

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Sex and the City: The Movie

The Strangers

The Foot Fist Way

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You Don't Mess with the Zohan

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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Director: Andrew Adamson
Stars: Ben Barnes, Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley (Full Cast)
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

The Plot: The Pevensie children return to Narnia one year after their first adventure in the magical land. Soon after entering the kingdom, however, they learn that 1,000 years has passed here, and all is not well since an evil king ascended to the throne. The children and allies both old and new band together to help restore the kingdom to its rightful heir, Prince Caspian (Barnes).

THE BUZZ: Remember how popular The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was -- how it literally was twice as successful as the Golden Compass worldwide and, of course, how the "Lazy Sunday" video reignited "Saturday Night Live"'s creative streak? How exactly Prince Caspian has failed to generate much advance hype is a question for marketing types to research and blogger types to get snarky about, but I will assert that Wardrobe was a slow, unmemorable movie, and that might be part of the reason there's a general lack of excitement for Caspian. That said, the second chapter's ratcheted-up action might help reignite the franchise, even if Disney's thinking of ending the story after The Voyage of the Dawn Treader ... I have to imagine there'll be lots of talk about future Narnia adventures soon after Caspian's opening-weekend numbers are announced.

Message Boards: How come there are no people of color in the chronicles of Narnia? | Ridiculous for the UK to get the film so late

Reprise [limited]

Director: Joachim Trier
Stars: Anders Danielsen Lie, Espen Klouman-Høiner, Viktoria Winge (Full Cast)
Studio: Red Envelope Entertainment

The Plot: A look at what happens -- and also what could have happened -- after best friends Phillip (Lie) and Erik (Klouman-Høiner) drop their respective manuscripts into the same mailbox, both of them hoping their first novels will be picked up for publication.

THE BUZZ: Norwegian Joachim Trier's first film has impressed the harshest critics and has been called one of the best movies about making art in some time. Twitch Film says: "... Trier proves himself remarkably adept at moving between moods, flitting easily between comedy, romance and tragedy - simply refusing to delineate these different elements into neat little compartments because this is simply not how life happens." Read the rest of their review here and watch the trailer over here

Message Boards: Why is this film 'great'? | the end of the movie?

How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer [limited]

Director: Georgina Riedel
Stars: Elizabeth Peña, America Ferrera, Lucy Gallardo (Full Cast)
Studio: Maya Entertainment

The Plot: Residents of a sleepy Arizona town find plenty to gossip about when three generations of women from a local family experience sexual awakenings over the course of a summer.

THE BUZZ: Short-film director Georgina Riedel finds her 2005 debut feature picked up by fledgling distributor Maya Releasing (who has the Independent Spirit Award-winning August Evening on deck for later this summer). Why? America Ferrara's one of the leads, and Garcia Girls has been compared to the young star's first film, Real Women Have Curves in terms of its themes and overall good cheer.

Message Boards: cant wait!!! | Novel

Sangre de mi sangre [NYC]

Director: Christopher Zalla
Stars: Jesús Ochoa, Armando Hernández (Full Cast)
Studio: IFC Films

The Plot: Juan (Hernandez), while on the run from Mexican mobsters, encounters Pedro (Ochoa), a young boy who is heading to New York City in a van full of other illegal aliens. Pedro's hope to reunite with his long-lost father is derailed when Juan, looking to distance himself from his pursuers, makes off with Juan's ID and belongings.

THE BUZZ: Earlier this year, Christopher Zalla's first film was awarded Sundance's Grand Jury Prize for best dramatic feature. IFC picked it up in one of the festival's lower-profile buys, but something tells me this immigrant drama, with its raft of good reviews, could distance itself from the crowded slate of indie summer films. I just wish the person narrating the trailer didn't sound like a Will Arnett imitation.

Message Boards: Airing on Cinemax on 1/8? Where is the theatrical release? | Great Reception at Sundance!

Iron Man

Director: Jon Favreau
Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard (Full Cast)
Studio: Paramount Pictures

The Plot: While in captivity, industralist Tony Stark (Downey) creates a high-tech suit of armor which he first uses to fight his way to freedom, and then to prevent a dark-minded scientific genius from carrying out his nefarious plot against humankind.

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THE BUZZ: After 15+ years in development, the comic hero first based on Howard Hughes is refashioned as a contemporary industrialist whose technology is being used in the Middle Eastern war effort. (Funny, we can't compare him to any present-day eccentrics, just a list of bad guys come to mind.) Director Jon Favreau was the first name talent associated with project, and any doubt as to his ability to bring in a polished, smart-looking film should have been erased by not only the principal cast he got to sign on, but also his plan for the first film of a proposed trilogy (we hear Downey, Paltrow, and Howard signed 3-picture deals). Here's what we know: Stark is taken prisoner is Afghanistan, and that's where he builds the suit; both the grey suit and the red and gold suit will appear; Stark's alcoholism won't be addressed during the first go-round. And a note to old-school comics fans: It's kind of cool that Stark's old split book counterpart, Steve Rogers (a.k.a Captain America) was greenlighted soon after IM began pre-production. While that project seems to be languishing in development-heck, we imagine IM's initial returns might help get the red, white, and blue balls rolling.

Message Boards: Best Director chosen for any comic book film franchise? | More Middle Eastern stereotypes? Or am I wrong?

What Happens in Vegas...

Director: Tom Vaughan
Stars: Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher (Full Cast)
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

The Plot: Joy (Diaz) and Jack (Kutcher) meet while on a Las Vegas bender, where their drunken nuptials are only part of a larger problem: What to do when Jack wins $3 million with Joy's quarter, and they are forced to spend six months as wife and husband if they are to see a penny of their winnings.

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THE BUZZ: Let's just skip over Ashton (I mean, really) and address the real sad story here: Ms. Diaz, who used to be a movie star and not just someone you see in magazines and print ads, has been absent from the top of the box office in quite some time. Unlucky in work and love, we guess. (Whoa, she's like America's own Nicole Kidman!) And now she and Ashton have to star in a by-the-numbers romantic comedy, the kind that reveals its entire hand in its trailer. Was this even filmed in Las Vegas?

Message Boards: The only reason anyone will go see this | MOVIE WAS AWESOME! ( NO SPOILERS )

Speed Racer

Director: Andy Wachowski Larry Wachowski
Stars: Emile Hirsch, Matthew Fox, Christina Ricci (Full Cast)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

The Plot: Speed Racer (Hirsch), a skilled young car driver who belongs to a family of gearheads, is blackmailed by the head of the nefarious corporation Royalton Industries to participate in The Crucible -- the annual cross-country rally that claimed his brother's life years ago. Behind the wheel of the Mach 5, his father's greatest invention, Speed goes head-to-head with his chief rival, the mysterious-yet-familiar Racer X (Fox).

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THE BUZZ: In an earlier iteration of this project, Vince Vaughn was attached; in another Alfonso Cuarón was set to direct Johnny Depp as the man behind the wheel of the Mach 5 ... The main question mark here is whether Andy Wachowski and his still-a-man brother Larry can make a family film that they themselves would go see? (Our answer: of course, since there's no pressure for the plot to make a shred of sense.) We're definitely not worried about cool visuals, but there a lot of writers present here.

Message Boards: Reminded me of The Sound of Thunder | 'an ice-cream headache of a movie...'

Made of Honor

Director: Paul Weiland
Stars: Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan (Full Cast)
Studio: Columbia Pictures

The Plot: Tom (Dempsey) is a consummate ladies' man. Hannah (Monaghan) is his best friend and the one constant in his life. But when Hannah leaves town for a six-week business trip, allowing Tom to realize his love for her runs deeper than he ever knew, how does he deal with conveying his feelings -- especially when she returns with an engagement ring on her finger, and a request for him to be in her wedding?

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THE BUZZ: Patrick Dempsey is getting the roles that Hugh Grant will no longer consider and for which Hugh Jackman has become too spendy. And we guess this makes Michelle Monaghan the new Sandra Bullock? Anyway, will MoH revive the rom-com genre's failing heart? It's hard to say, especially when the movie will battle Iron Man, which we hear is tracking well with the ladies (not hard to imagine, given the presence of the Gwyneth and RDJ's beefed-up frame). P.S. Whoever first called this 27 Dresses for Guys is clever.

Message Boards: Sexist titles | This Movie is Completely Offensive...

Baby Mama

Director: Michael McCullers
Stars: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sigourney Weaver (Full Cast)
Studio: Universal Pictures

The Plot: A career-driven single woman (Fey) hires a surrogate mother (Poehler) to carry her child to term.

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THE BUZZ: Sorry, Jimmy Fallon, but this is the "Weekend Update" reunion we've been waiting for. After proving themselves week-in and week-out behind the SNL news desk (the last time that program was truly worth watching), it's about time these ladies get their big-screen due. (Not that we're asking for an Amber, the One-Legged Hypoglycemic movie or anything.) We love the supporting cast here, which includes Greg Kinnear as a juice-shop owner and Maura Tierney as Tina Fey's sister; Sigourney Weaver adds to her ever-diversifying recent character choices as the owner of the surrogate agency. Our baby is kicking as we speak. Though it's too bad Ms. Fey didn't write Mama's screenplay ... maybe that's why the reviews have been less than stellar ...

Message Boards: does anyone know when | The VERY End...

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Director: Nicholas Stoller
Stars: Kristen Bell, Jason Segel, Paul Rudd (Full Cast)
Studio: Universal Pictures

The Plot: Peter (Segel) jets off to Hawaii for a vacation that is supposed to help him deal with his recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah (Bell). Little does he know Sarah's traveling to the same resort as her ex ... and she's bringing along her new boyfriend.

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THE BUZZ: The magical name of Judd Apatow hangs over this film, as the Knocked Up comedy guru is producing, with Apatow acolytes Nicholas Stoller (directing) and Jason Segel (writing and starring) on board. Who's Segel? He's the lovable lunk on the did-I-ever-watch-that-I-think-I-did-and-it-was-funny-I-think CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother." Most exciting, however, is the post-Veronica Mars appearance of Kristen Bell as famous girlfriend Sarah, leaving us all atwitter. Do you think she'll remember we used to be friends... a long time ago...?

Message Boards: Boring Movie | Two beautiful young girls...and Segal is the one naked?

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

Director: Jon Hurwitz Hayden Schlossberg
Stars: John Cho, Kal Penn, Neil Patrick Harris (Full Cast)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

The Plot: Aboard their flight to Amsterdam, Harold (Cho) and Kumar (Penn) are caught trying to sneak a bong onboard, the first step in a misadventure that finds them mistaken for terrorists and sent to Guantanamo Bay.

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THE BUZZ: Why New Line didn't release this film on Sunday, April 20th is beyond us, but we all know the troubles the once-powerful studio has had of late (and if you aren't aware, here's a primer). May H&K's ever-growing cult bring some cheer to those left at the studio, and we hope the movie's suer-shot success will serve as a blueprint for New Line's future projects (we understand they'll be focusing on smaller-budget comedies and genre pics).

H&K 2 rocked the SXSW festival this year -- right alongside recent box-office champ 21 -- and fans should be stoked to hear that very few instances of the naughty stoner antics were trimmed for the theatrical release. So get ready for plenty of nude women, bong toting, and Neil Patrick Harris chasing unicorns while 'shrooming.

Message Boards: all the naked women is horrible | Where's your Ko-ran now?

The Forbidden Kingdom

Director: Rob Minkoff
Stars: Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michael Angarano (Full Cast)
Studio: Lionsgate

The Plot: A discovery made by a kung-fu obsessed American teen (Angarano) transports him back to ancient China, where he joins up with a band of martial-arts warriors in order to free an imprisoned king.

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THE BUZZ: Jackie Chan and Jet Li unite for the first time for a kung-fu family comedy based on the Chinese legend of the Monkey King. A lot of people are asking who Michael Angarano is and why he was selected for the role (maybe the producers had foreknowledge of Shia LaBeouf's coming fame - he and Angarano look like brothers from the same mother); others are asking why Chan and the I'm-retired-from-kung-fu-films Li have come together for something so PG-13 (easy: both of them have officially cashed in on their global fame). Still, I think the trailer looks fun; a sort-of update on Time Bandits and The Karate Kid?

Message Boards: Jet Li's Last Martial Arts film | Was Jet Li's monk actually a clone of the Monkey King?

Nim's Island

Director: Jennifer Flackett Mark Levin
Stars: Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler, Abigail Breslin (Full Cast)
Studio: Fox-Walden

The Plot: A popular author (Foster) teams up the adventure-loving Alex Rover (Butler) in order to help her number-one fan (Breslin), a young girl who lives on a secret island where her father has gone missing. Two problems the author faces: her crippling fear of leaving her house, and the fact that Alex is merely the main character in her best-selling novels.

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THE BUZZ: Finally, there's an Indiana Jones for girls, and who better to star in it (and receive top billing) than little miss Abigail Breslin, last seen being a touch too dreary in No Reservations. One peek at Nim's trailer reveals a promising springtime family adventure, with Jodie Foster taking a much-needed timeout from high-drama roles in order to showcase her comedic talents (truly, she's a major spazz and looks great with a smile on her face). Meanwhile, Gerard Butler looks to expand his appeal with a goofy/sweet performance as Nim's dad and Alex's life coach. P.S. Don't squint your eyes or you will think you see Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman.

Message Boards: View content advisory for parents | Gerry Butler and Jodie Foster.

Prom Night

Director: Nelson McCormick
Stars: Brittany Snow (Full Cast)
Studio: Screen Gems

The Plot: A group of high school students are stalked on their prom night by a vengeful killer who years ago witnessed the same kids cause a young girl's accidental death.

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THE BUZZ: Once-hot screenwriter Stephen Susco finally got one of his post-Grudge ideas to stick, but this remake got the green light before the R-rated horror backlash. And if you want to proof of how Grindhouse and Hostel: Part Deux's respective failures have affected upcoming projects, take a look at this ... So if we're to expect less violence and more stalking from this PG-13 affair, I guess we can stop imagining, contrary to what the trailer might have us believe, this one doesn't exactly play out like the cast of High School Musical picked off one by one by a scorned Wildcat.

Message Boards: 250 Things We Learned From 'Prom Night' | The Killer Was Fine!!