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January 15
Captive Budget: 2,000 Budget: 30 million
Ivy league graduate, heir to a bank fortune, and recently engaged Emily (Natalie Portman) should have it all, yet her life lacks action and unpredictably. All that changes when she is kidnapped from her father’s (Alan Arkin) mansion, and taken captive by a group of criminals lead by unstable, chain-smoking, Irishman Terry (Colin Farrell). Their goal is to pull off a large heist at the bank’s headquarters, using Emily’s knowledge of the bank. Darren (Michael Vartan) is refined and sly, completely opposite of Terry, which is why they work so well together, while Maria (Michelle Rodriguez) knows all about breaking locks and codes, but is fiery and temperamental. Emily is surprisingly more than willing to help, and not that scared of her kidnappers, she in fact feels free. The story of Emily’s kidnapping is the story everyone is talking about, and Detective Richards (Kevin Dillon) is convinced that they are planning to rob the bank’s headquarters. This heist action comedy will leave you guessing until the very end.
February 12
It’s Not You, It’s Me Theaters: 3,400 Budget: 60 million
In New York City everybody is searching for success, happiness and most of all love. A group of intertwining New Yorkers struggle with love, life and happiness in a city where dating is harder than ever. Enter the lifelong friendship between Neil and Connor. Neil (Chris Pine) is the well-off manger at a trendy restaurant who is cynical about love but knows how to work women. Conner (James Franco) is the extremely popular gay New York newspaper columnist who believes in true love just the way Neil doesn't. Although they may not bat for the same team, they help each other out with their relationships while many confuse them as a couple.
Neil has many women who he sees, yet ambitious and beautiful lawyer Paige (Claire Danes) is the one he truly desires, yet Paige’s heart belongs to the head lawyer at her firm, Greg (Mark Wahlberg) who she is having an affair with. Greg is married to Kenley (Jennifer Aniston), who was once a free spirit but finds herself trapped as yet another uptight upper eastside mother. Kenley’s younger sister, Ashley (Amy Adams) is the girl who is everyone’s best friend, sweet, fun yet completely hopeless in love. Ashley’s best friend and co-worker is outspoken Liv (Sophia Bush) who is in a 3 year relationship with charming Ethan (James Marsden), yet despite agreeing on never settling down, Liv’s mind has changed. Ashley’s other co-worker and friend Lucas (Gabriel Macht) is in a relationship with Connor, yet is inability to come out holds them back. Lucas introduces Ashley to Neil completing the complicated circle of intertwined lives in New York. Neil must break all his rules of dating as he juggles relationships with Ashley and Paige, and must finally figure out what he wants out of his life. It’s Not You, It’s Me is an insightful and hilarious romantic comedy about what it takes to find love.
March 5
Web of Lies Theaters: 3,300 Budget: 80 million
Washington DC based CIA Analyst Rachel Evans (Academy Award Winner Nicole Kidman) becomes the center of a money laundering scheme within the US government, among several high-ranking government officials, including an official in the department of treasury (Liev Schreiber). CIA Agent Darrow (Hugh Jackman) and his young partner (Jennifer Garner) believe Rachel especially after a series of bizarre murders, putting the woman who is used to analyzing numbers at the center of a major conspiracy. Rachel learns quickly that no one can be trusted, and in this financial scheme the truth is irrelevant. Web of Lies is a fast-paced, smart financial and political thriller.
March 19
Gen X Theaters: 2,100 Budget: 20 million
Welcome to 1992. The music is grunge, flannel is the look, and Nirvana is on everyone’s mind. Life is good, well at least it was good, for Jesse (Anton Yelchin). Jesse’s future was looking bright with early acceptance into Harvard, but when financial aid is denied, it is too late to apply for fall semester to any school. So Jesse keeps living at home with his parents (JK Simmons and Hope Davis), and gets a job at Fox Record store in downtown Newark. The store is owned by an uptight music snob (Paul Rudd) and employs an array of characters from an out-of-touch pothead (Rainn Wilson) to a weird music freak (Jeremy Howard). Also working at the store is talented bi-curious musician Gram (Teddy Geiger), college flunk out Jimmy (Aaron Yoo), wild pretty Lisa (Ari Graynor) and the shy troubled punky awkwardly beautiful October (Kristen Stewart) who seems nearly out of reach for nice guy Jesse. For Jesse Fox Records starts out as a summer job, yet his funny often awkward experience at the store forever changes his life. Gen X takes place in the music scene of an often forgotten era, following a group of social outcasts during an unsure time in history, with an awesome soundtrack, but ultimately it’s a light coming-of-age comedy about the small things that change lives, first loves and finding passion.
April 2
Prince Charming Theaters: 3,600 Budget: 80 million
For Claire (Academy Award Winner Rachel Bilson) nothing is ever good enough. Her boyfriend (James McAvoy) can never give her enough, her Brooklyn apartment isn’t big enough, her friends and especially her best friend (Ginnifer Goodwin) are never helpful enough, her boss (Helen Mirren) is always too tough and her job as an advertising executive never high paying enough. After breaking up with her boyfriend, she falls asleep crying reading a fairytale book her father gave her before he died. She wishes for her Prince Charming with fairy dust that was in the book from when she was a child, and when she awakes in her apartment Prince Charming (Cheyenne Jackson) is there, straight for the storybook. Although at first she likes the idea, after a while his overinflated British talking, lack of knowledge of the modern world and grand love gestures become grating, especially when other fairytale characters begin to show up. It will take the help of her ex-boyfriend and her best friend to help her keep her sanity, job and life, as well as getting rid of her so-called Prince Charming. Claire discovers that sometimes the most magical things in life are right in front of her eyes, in this witty high-adventure comedy.
April 30
Airspace Theaters: 3,000 Budget: 40 million
Air traffic controller Christine Morris (Academy Award Winner Kate Winslet) is a single mom with few connections in LA, making her the perfect target. On a normal Tuesday night at work, she receives an alarming call from a man who she believes is a pilot of a plane. Before she can alert her boss, a terrorist (Sam Rockwell) is on the other line piloting a plane, who had targeted Christine knowing her past and that the way to get to her is by kidnapping her young son. Now Christine is at the center of a terror plot, as her fellow air traffic controller (Jay Hernandez) tries to stop the plane before any true damage can be done, and Christine is pulling strings for a terrorist for the life of her son. Airspace is an action-packed thriller about manipulation and fear in modern day America.
May 14
Rogue Theaters: 4,100 Budget: 115 million
What does the government do when a CIA agent uncovers the truth about something they don’t want coming out? They declare him a rogue agent. Agent Jaime Foster (Jake Gyllenhaal) has dedicated his life to serving his country, although he does have secrets buried in his past. When he uncovers top secret information about German intelligence, another CIA agent declares him a rogue agent who is spying for Germany. They erase his very existence as he goes on the run, pulling in favors with Sophie (Zoe Saldana) the one woman in the CIA who still believes him. Now Jaime must use the discipline, courage and training he was taught by the CIA against them to clear his name. Rogue is a slick, edgy action movie with twists you’ll never see coming.
June 11
Things Worth Saving Theaters: 2,500 Budget: 40 million
For architect Campbell West (Matthew McConaughey) life in Pennsylvania with his wife Jennifer (Cameron Diaz) and their three kids Damon age 16 (Connor Paolo), Cheyenne age 14 (Dakota Blue Richards) and Tatum age 9 (Elle Fanning) is nearly idyllic. Like all families there are struggles and triumphs, but when Jennifer is diagnosed with a rare cancer the family is truly tested. Jennifer’s best friend (Brooke Langton) helps out around their house and with the kids since Jennifer has trouble. Jennifer’s new condition and needs leave the family troubled financially and emotionally, and when information is provided that it was perhaps the doctor’s fault that the cancer has spread, they decide to sue the doctor for medical malpractice. Yet this is complicated by the fact that the doctor is Campbell’s lifelong friend (Lee Tergesen) who is an alcoholic. As the family faces increasing bills that insurance doesn’t cover, the foundation of their idyllic life begins crack. Things Worth Saving is a drama about the meaning of family through the best of times and the worst of times, and what happens to the entire family when life is falling apart.
June 25
Letters from the Apocalypse Theaters: 4,300 Budget: 205 million
In the years following the mass extinction of human beings by aliens, the planet is destroyed and becomes a nearly vast wasteland. Jason Caldwell (Brad Pitt), a former military slacker and unemployed father lives in a destroyed Los Angeles with his young daughter (Ariel Winter) fighting off starvation, searching for food and hiding from aliens in their cave. He believes there are other people alive on the planet, and gets a Morse code message from Stevi (Emily Blunt) a doctor in San Francisco who is one of the few surviving people in hiding. She claims to have discovered how to kill the aliens. He now must wander the wasteland with his daughter trying to make it 350 miles fighting off aliens and starvation. The film features constant flashbacks to life before the apocalypse and what it was like during the mass extinction.
July 9
Twelve Minutes Theaters: 500 Budget: 5 million
Can Twelve minutes change your life forever? 5 strangers are all at a Baltimore diner one night, a school teacher (Drew Barrymore), a drug dealer (Ryan Gosling), a well-to-do housewife (Susan Sarandon), a closeted lawyer (Kevin Bacon), and a waiter at the diner (Ed Harris). A man enters the diner and attempts to kill everyone in the diner before fleeing. The courses of these 5 strangers lives drastically change as they all are connected by this one event. The film slowly reveals what happened at the diner, while tracking the current lives of the 5 survivors.
July 16
Imaginary Friends Theaters: 3,700 Budget: 75 million
Imaginary Friends is a fantasy comedy about Drew Liman (Adam Sandler) a recently divorced lawyer who is stressed out because he has to take care of his ex-wife (Kristen Johnston), down on his luck best friend (Paul Rudd) and his children, as well as trying to climb higher at his job. Recently he’s been hanging out a lot with Sloane (Russell Brand), an outrageous British man. There’s just one thing: Sloane is a complete figment of his imagination. Drew has recently developed tumor that causes him to see things that aren’t there. Sloane acts like a bad influence on Drew, and Drew increasingly acts out when he imagines floods, dwarfs and crazy fantasies. When he starts dating Linda (Leslie Bibb), he has to keep from revealing the fact that he has become increasingly crazy while trying to find a way to remove his tumor.
August 6
Knowing Charlie Dillon Theaters: 2,800 Budget: 50 million
From Cameron Crowe the director of Say Anything, Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous, comes the new dramedy Knowing Charlie Dillon. Charlie Dillon (Benjamin McKenzie) is a wildly successful Hollywood talent agent. He talks fast, understands his job, and knows people, but does anyone really know Charlie Dillon? His best friend since childhood Pete (Scott Bailey) is his only real friend and may just be the only person who truly knows Charlie, much more than Charlie’s fiancé. When Pete tragically dies in a car crash, Charlie finds little meaning left in his shallow life and few people who care about him. His fiancé leaves him, he quits his job in a dramatic fashion and becomes emotionally unstable. Pete’s widow Nikki (Rachel McAdams) with nowhere left to turn, falls into Charlie’s arms. They both have to restart their lives at 30. As they navigate through their grief, the truth of Pete and Charlie’s past together and the bumpy waters ahead, they both try to realize who they are without Pete and find out what they want out of life. Nikki is trying to know Charlie Dillon at the exact same time he is finally getting to know himself.
August 20
The Salem Chronicles Theaters: 2,400 Budget: 25 million
Teenager Zander Berk (Taylor Lautner) has always fallen under the radar at school in Salem Massachusetts, but when he turns 16 his body changed and he began developing powers. When the most popular guy in school Derrick (Logan Lermann) befriends Zander, he is suspicious. Until Derrick reveals to Zander that they are both powerful male witches, a trait that rarely occurs in Salem teens. Derrick’s girlfriend Sydney (Dianna Agron) is also a very powerful witch. This leaves Zander’s best friend since childhood Kayla (Sarah Hyland) wondering why he is hanging out with the popular crowd. The head of the witches is Alexander (Edward Burns) who tells Zander that the main goal of witches is to hunt vampires and werewolfs, and protect the town.
When random murders begin to occur in town, it is clear that vampires have returned to town. Stunningly beautiful and tempting Jen (Jessica Lowndes) is new in town, and every guy at school wants her, but she is in fact a vampire. When Zander falls in love with her, and gets to know her fellow vampire the wild and hostile TC (Alex Pettyfer) he finds out the truth that not all vampires are bad. Zander’s fellow witches are suspicious of his new friends and believes they may be vampires and responsible for the murders. Jen and TC tell Zander that the bad vampires have returned to town to take over the body of his mortal friend Kayla because she holds key to the future of their kind. Zander loves both Kayla and Jen, which creates competition. Friendship between vampires and witches are unheard of, and with the coming war no one knows who to trust.
September 17
Poisonwood Bible Theaters: 1,800 Budget: 25 million
In the late 1950’s, Nathan Price (Academy Award Winner Don Cheadle) takes his family, including his once nature-loving and carefree wife Orleanna Price (Academy Award Winner Halle Berry) and his four daughters to Congo in an unsanctioned attempt to convert the natives of Congo to Christianity. Fanatic and sanctimonious, Nathan is a domestic monster, too, a physically and emotionally abusive, misogynistic husband and father. He refuses to understand how his obsession with river baptism affronts the traditions of the villagers of Kalinga, and his stubborn concept of religious rectitude brings misery and destruction to all. Cast with her young children into primitive conditions but trained to be obedient to her husband, Orleanna is powerless to mitigate their situation. Rachel (Keke Palmer), the eldest, is a self-absorbed teenager who will never outgrow her selfish view of the world or her tendency to commit hilarious malapropisms. The three other daughters over the course of decades view the country and their fathers abusiveness, beginning as silent victims turning into intelligent women. As the girls become acquainted with the villagers, especially the young teacher Anatole (Jean Luc-Bilodeau), they begin to understand the political situation in the Congo: the brutality of Belgian rule, the nascent nationalism briefly fulfilled in the election of the short-lived Patrice Lumumba government, and the secret involvement of the Eisenhower administration in Lumumba's assassination and the installation of the villainous dictator Mobutu. Poisonwood Bible is a compelling family saga, a sobering picture of the horrors of fanatic fundamentalism and an insightful view of an exploited country crushed by the heel of colonialism and then ruthlessly manipulated by a bastion of democracy.
October 1
The Lost Ones Theaters: 2,200 Budget: 25 million
Social worker Deliah Reynolds (Kate Beckinsale) can see kids passing through her hands, and every year she works at her job it gets harder. After the death of her 7 year old daughter and with her marriage dissolving, she is viewed as unstable. She takes on the case of a troubled but beautiful teen Caitlyn (Amanda Seyfrield) who is now under the care of a nice upper-middle class couple. Yet Caitlyn convinces Deliah that the couple murdered another girl under their care. The only problem is no record of this girl exists, and Deliah is simply going by instinct and what Caitlyn said. Caitlyn is known for doing drugs and sneaking out to party, which doesn’t bode well for her accusations. Most think Deliah is suffering from an emotional breakdown and becoming delusional but Deliah has been convinced by Caitlyn that the foster parents murdered the other girl. The Lost Ones is a horror thriller that is both scary and intense.
October 22
Man’s Fate Theaters: 3,300 Budget: 105 million
From Academy Award Winning Director Martin Scorsese comes Man’s Fate. Man’s Fate is set in 1927 Shanghai China during the Communist Revolution and tells the story of several Europeans (Daniel Day-Lewis, Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Naomi Watts and John Malkovich), their complex relationships and the deep emotional bonds that develop between them during this time. Although a period piece revolving around fighting and a failed revolution, Man’s Fate is about the choosing of one’s own being.
November 12
Broken Glass Budget: 55 million Theaters: 2,800
New York sculptor Bridgette Peet (Nicole Kidman) and her fast-talking lobbyist husband Grant (Clive Owen) are madly in love, have a large circle of friends, and have a great apartment in Manhattan. When Bridgette is unable to conceive, she adopts a 2 year old daughter she names Jordan who brings more laughs and joy to her life and art. After raising Jordan for 7 years, Bridgette gets a call that changes her life forever. Her daughter is believed to be a missing person from years earlier. The girl’s birth parents are a Delaware couple with three other children whose marriage has been torn apart over the disappearance of Jordan, who they know as Grace. Cynthia (Uma Thurman), her birth mother, is a suburban mom who has always believed her daughter is alive and tucked away the pain while raising her other children. Her real father Will (Peter Sarsgaard) is a doctor who is cheating on Cynthia because their relationship has suffered. Jordan legally is the daughter of Cynthia and Will, and she is forced to live with them by the court; it kills Cynthia when her daughter has no clue who she even is. Broken Glass is the story of two women brought together by extreme circumstances as they fight for the right to raise their daughter and come to an understanding about the meaning of love and what it is to be a family. The film ultimately asks the question what if the best thing that happened in your life was the worst thing in someone else's?
November 24
Home for the Holidays Budget: 70 million Theaters: 3,500
The Pratt siblings have never exactly been close. Even during the holiday season all the kids make excuses so they don’t have to return home to New England, but this year is different. Danni (Reese Witherspoon) is an ambitious, cold and cutthroat New York attorney who never appreciates what she has and looks down on the New England town she came from. She’s engaged to nice-guy Shawn (Bryan Greenberg) who she is cheating on. She goes home for Christmas for the first time in 8 years when all foreign flights are cancelled and has to duke it out with her mom and sister. Brother Dylan (Ben Affleck) was going to be a basketball star when an injury ruined his career, and he’s worked as a successful investment banker ever since. This year he has a girlfriend Briana (Elizabeth Banks) to bring home and show off. Earthy and sweet oldest sister Alicia (Julia Roberts) is recently divorced and a loving mother to 3 kids, including a hard to handle teenage daughter (Lucy Hale). Youngest brother Cam (Josh Hartnett) is a free-spirited artist who lives in California and works odd jobs, still searching for his calling. With these polar opposite siblings, going Home for the Holidays will be anything but easy. Their parents (Jessica Lange and Michael Douglas) are happy to have them, but when Dylan’s girlfriend Briana falls in love with Cam, Danni’s fiancé finds out about her affair and Alicia reveals a secret to her children and family, they realize this holiday will be anything but happy. Through the laughs, through the tears, through the good times and the bad times, family is for all times. Home for the Holidays is a festive comedy about 4 siblings who have nothing in common, but share everything together.
December 10
Dragon Fire: The Genostian Crown Budget: 140 million Theaters: 4,400
The war for the kingdom comes to an epic end as Paul (Johnny Depp) leads an army along with his friends (Don Cheadle and James Marsden) in the final battle to castle of darkness and the volcanic hills of Genostian. The king (Donald Sutherland) is at home dying along with soldiers, while his daughter (Ali Larter) is still under the control of the Lord of the Darkness (Sean Connery). Facing dragons, destroyers and former friends (Paul Walker), Paul and the army must fight against the Lord of Darkness for the crown to regain control of the Kingdom of Genostian.
December 22
West End Budget: 90 million Theaters: 2,700
After the death of Maximilian Donald (Patrick Wilson) the owner of England's most succesful and esteemed theater in the 1930's, Detective Erroll Wilson (Hugh Jackman), a unethical former actor who views life like a great musical, is put on the case to solve England's biggest mystery. He is comptely caught off guard by the four main suspects: Maximilian's powerful and suspiciously kind wife Joyce (Minnie Driver), the star of nearly all his plays is the aging diva Catherine (Michelle Pfeiffer), his troubled but beautiful mistress Marilyn (Scarlett Johanssen) and Anna (Anne Hathaway) a costume designer. The head of the theaters latest play (Jim Broadbent) is eager to get the case solved, putting strain on the police and especially Detective Erroll. Detective Erroll starts torrid and dangerous relationships with all the women, just as torrid and dangerous of Maximilian's relationships with them. A roaring rock musical about a detective whose biggest case turns into a love triangle.
Captive Budget: 2,000 Budget: 30 million
Ivy league graduate, heir to a bank fortune, and recently engaged Emily (Natalie Portman) should have it all, yet her life lacks action and unpredictably. All that changes when she is kidnapped from her father’s (Alan Arkin) mansion, and taken captive by a group of criminals lead by unstable, chain-smoking, Irishman Terry (Colin Farrell). Their goal is to pull off a large heist at the bank’s headquarters, using Emily’s knowledge of the bank. Darren (Michael Vartan) is refined and sly, completely opposite of Terry, which is why they work so well together, while Maria (Michelle Rodriguez) knows all about breaking locks and codes, but is fiery and temperamental. Emily is surprisingly more than willing to help, and not that scared of her kidnappers, she in fact feels free. The story of Emily’s kidnapping is the story everyone is talking about, and Detective Richards (Kevin Dillon) is convinced that they are planning to rob the bank’s headquarters. This heist action comedy will leave you guessing until the very end.
February 12
It’s Not You, It’s Me Theaters: 3,400 Budget: 60 million
In New York City everybody is searching for success, happiness and most of all love. A group of intertwining New Yorkers struggle with love, life and happiness in a city where dating is harder than ever. Enter the lifelong friendship between Neil and Connor. Neil (Chris Pine) is the well-off manger at a trendy restaurant who is cynical about love but knows how to work women. Conner (James Franco) is the extremely popular gay New York newspaper columnist who believes in true love just the way Neil doesn't. Although they may not bat for the same team, they help each other out with their relationships while many confuse them as a couple.
Neil has many women who he sees, yet ambitious and beautiful lawyer Paige (Claire Danes) is the one he truly desires, yet Paige’s heart belongs to the head lawyer at her firm, Greg (Mark Wahlberg) who she is having an affair with. Greg is married to Kenley (Jennifer Aniston), who was once a free spirit but finds herself trapped as yet another uptight upper eastside mother. Kenley’s younger sister, Ashley (Amy Adams) is the girl who is everyone’s best friend, sweet, fun yet completely hopeless in love. Ashley’s best friend and co-worker is outspoken Liv (Sophia Bush) who is in a 3 year relationship with charming Ethan (James Marsden), yet despite agreeing on never settling down, Liv’s mind has changed. Ashley’s other co-worker and friend Lucas (Gabriel Macht) is in a relationship with Connor, yet is inability to come out holds them back. Lucas introduces Ashley to Neil completing the complicated circle of intertwined lives in New York. Neil must break all his rules of dating as he juggles relationships with Ashley and Paige, and must finally figure out what he wants out of his life. It’s Not You, It’s Me is an insightful and hilarious romantic comedy about what it takes to find love.
March 5
Web of Lies Theaters: 3,300 Budget: 80 million
Washington DC based CIA Analyst Rachel Evans (Academy Award Winner Nicole Kidman) becomes the center of a money laundering scheme within the US government, among several high-ranking government officials, including an official in the department of treasury (Liev Schreiber). CIA Agent Darrow (Hugh Jackman) and his young partner (Jennifer Garner) believe Rachel especially after a series of bizarre murders, putting the woman who is used to analyzing numbers at the center of a major conspiracy. Rachel learns quickly that no one can be trusted, and in this financial scheme the truth is irrelevant. Web of Lies is a fast-paced, smart financial and political thriller.
March 19
Gen X Theaters: 2,100 Budget: 20 million
Welcome to 1992. The music is grunge, flannel is the look, and Nirvana is on everyone’s mind. Life is good, well at least it was good, for Jesse (Anton Yelchin). Jesse’s future was looking bright with early acceptance into Harvard, but when financial aid is denied, it is too late to apply for fall semester to any school. So Jesse keeps living at home with his parents (JK Simmons and Hope Davis), and gets a job at Fox Record store in downtown Newark. The store is owned by an uptight music snob (Paul Rudd) and employs an array of characters from an out-of-touch pothead (Rainn Wilson) to a weird music freak (Jeremy Howard). Also working at the store is talented bi-curious musician Gram (Teddy Geiger), college flunk out Jimmy (Aaron Yoo), wild pretty Lisa (Ari Graynor) and the shy troubled punky awkwardly beautiful October (Kristen Stewart) who seems nearly out of reach for nice guy Jesse. For Jesse Fox Records starts out as a summer job, yet his funny often awkward experience at the store forever changes his life. Gen X takes place in the music scene of an often forgotten era, following a group of social outcasts during an unsure time in history, with an awesome soundtrack, but ultimately it’s a light coming-of-age comedy about the small things that change lives, first loves and finding passion.
April 2
Prince Charming Theaters: 3,600 Budget: 80 million
For Claire (Academy Award Winner Rachel Bilson) nothing is ever good enough. Her boyfriend (James McAvoy) can never give her enough, her Brooklyn apartment isn’t big enough, her friends and especially her best friend (Ginnifer Goodwin) are never helpful enough, her boss (Helen Mirren) is always too tough and her job as an advertising executive never high paying enough. After breaking up with her boyfriend, she falls asleep crying reading a fairytale book her father gave her before he died. She wishes for her Prince Charming with fairy dust that was in the book from when she was a child, and when she awakes in her apartment Prince Charming (Cheyenne Jackson) is there, straight for the storybook. Although at first she likes the idea, after a while his overinflated British talking, lack of knowledge of the modern world and grand love gestures become grating, especially when other fairytale characters begin to show up. It will take the help of her ex-boyfriend and her best friend to help her keep her sanity, job and life, as well as getting rid of her so-called Prince Charming. Claire discovers that sometimes the most magical things in life are right in front of her eyes, in this witty high-adventure comedy.
April 30
Airspace Theaters: 3,000 Budget: 40 million
Air traffic controller Christine Morris (Academy Award Winner Kate Winslet) is a single mom with few connections in LA, making her the perfect target. On a normal Tuesday night at work, she receives an alarming call from a man who she believes is a pilot of a plane. Before she can alert her boss, a terrorist (Sam Rockwell) is on the other line piloting a plane, who had targeted Christine knowing her past and that the way to get to her is by kidnapping her young son. Now Christine is at the center of a terror plot, as her fellow air traffic controller (Jay Hernandez) tries to stop the plane before any true damage can be done, and Christine is pulling strings for a terrorist for the life of her son. Airspace is an action-packed thriller about manipulation and fear in modern day America.
May 14
Rogue Theaters: 4,100 Budget: 115 million
What does the government do when a CIA agent uncovers the truth about something they don’t want coming out? They declare him a rogue agent. Agent Jaime Foster (Jake Gyllenhaal) has dedicated his life to serving his country, although he does have secrets buried in his past. When he uncovers top secret information about German intelligence, another CIA agent declares him a rogue agent who is spying for Germany. They erase his very existence as he goes on the run, pulling in favors with Sophie (Zoe Saldana) the one woman in the CIA who still believes him. Now Jaime must use the discipline, courage and training he was taught by the CIA against them to clear his name. Rogue is a slick, edgy action movie with twists you’ll never see coming.
June 11
Things Worth Saving Theaters: 2,500 Budget: 40 million
For architect Campbell West (Matthew McConaughey) life in Pennsylvania with his wife Jennifer (Cameron Diaz) and their three kids Damon age 16 (Connor Paolo), Cheyenne age 14 (Dakota Blue Richards) and Tatum age 9 (Elle Fanning) is nearly idyllic. Like all families there are struggles and triumphs, but when Jennifer is diagnosed with a rare cancer the family is truly tested. Jennifer’s best friend (Brooke Langton) helps out around their house and with the kids since Jennifer has trouble. Jennifer’s new condition and needs leave the family troubled financially and emotionally, and when information is provided that it was perhaps the doctor’s fault that the cancer has spread, they decide to sue the doctor for medical malpractice. Yet this is complicated by the fact that the doctor is Campbell’s lifelong friend (Lee Tergesen) who is an alcoholic. As the family faces increasing bills that insurance doesn’t cover, the foundation of their idyllic life begins crack. Things Worth Saving is a drama about the meaning of family through the best of times and the worst of times, and what happens to the entire family when life is falling apart.
June 25
Letters from the Apocalypse Theaters: 4,300 Budget: 205 million
In the years following the mass extinction of human beings by aliens, the planet is destroyed and becomes a nearly vast wasteland. Jason Caldwell (Brad Pitt), a former military slacker and unemployed father lives in a destroyed Los Angeles with his young daughter (Ariel Winter) fighting off starvation, searching for food and hiding from aliens in their cave. He believes there are other people alive on the planet, and gets a Morse code message from Stevi (Emily Blunt) a doctor in San Francisco who is one of the few surviving people in hiding. She claims to have discovered how to kill the aliens. He now must wander the wasteland with his daughter trying to make it 350 miles fighting off aliens and starvation. The film features constant flashbacks to life before the apocalypse and what it was like during the mass extinction.
July 9
Twelve Minutes Theaters: 500 Budget: 5 million
Can Twelve minutes change your life forever? 5 strangers are all at a Baltimore diner one night, a school teacher (Drew Barrymore), a drug dealer (Ryan Gosling), a well-to-do housewife (Susan Sarandon), a closeted lawyer (Kevin Bacon), and a waiter at the diner (Ed Harris). A man enters the diner and attempts to kill everyone in the diner before fleeing. The courses of these 5 strangers lives drastically change as they all are connected by this one event. The film slowly reveals what happened at the diner, while tracking the current lives of the 5 survivors.
July 16
Imaginary Friends Theaters: 3,700 Budget: 75 million
Imaginary Friends is a fantasy comedy about Drew Liman (Adam Sandler) a recently divorced lawyer who is stressed out because he has to take care of his ex-wife (Kristen Johnston), down on his luck best friend (Paul Rudd) and his children, as well as trying to climb higher at his job. Recently he’s been hanging out a lot with Sloane (Russell Brand), an outrageous British man. There’s just one thing: Sloane is a complete figment of his imagination. Drew has recently developed tumor that causes him to see things that aren’t there. Sloane acts like a bad influence on Drew, and Drew increasingly acts out when he imagines floods, dwarfs and crazy fantasies. When he starts dating Linda (Leslie Bibb), he has to keep from revealing the fact that he has become increasingly crazy while trying to find a way to remove his tumor.
August 6
Knowing Charlie Dillon Theaters: 2,800 Budget: 50 million
From Cameron Crowe the director of Say Anything, Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous, comes the new dramedy Knowing Charlie Dillon. Charlie Dillon (Benjamin McKenzie) is a wildly successful Hollywood talent agent. He talks fast, understands his job, and knows people, but does anyone really know Charlie Dillon? His best friend since childhood Pete (Scott Bailey) is his only real friend and may just be the only person who truly knows Charlie, much more than Charlie’s fiancé. When Pete tragically dies in a car crash, Charlie finds little meaning left in his shallow life and few people who care about him. His fiancé leaves him, he quits his job in a dramatic fashion and becomes emotionally unstable. Pete’s widow Nikki (Rachel McAdams) with nowhere left to turn, falls into Charlie’s arms. They both have to restart their lives at 30. As they navigate through their grief, the truth of Pete and Charlie’s past together and the bumpy waters ahead, they both try to realize who they are without Pete and find out what they want out of life. Nikki is trying to know Charlie Dillon at the exact same time he is finally getting to know himself.
August 20
The Salem Chronicles Theaters: 2,400 Budget: 25 million
Teenager Zander Berk (Taylor Lautner) has always fallen under the radar at school in Salem Massachusetts, but when he turns 16 his body changed and he began developing powers. When the most popular guy in school Derrick (Logan Lermann) befriends Zander, he is suspicious. Until Derrick reveals to Zander that they are both powerful male witches, a trait that rarely occurs in Salem teens. Derrick’s girlfriend Sydney (Dianna Agron) is also a very powerful witch. This leaves Zander’s best friend since childhood Kayla (Sarah Hyland) wondering why he is hanging out with the popular crowd. The head of the witches is Alexander (Edward Burns) who tells Zander that the main goal of witches is to hunt vampires and werewolfs, and protect the town.
When random murders begin to occur in town, it is clear that vampires have returned to town. Stunningly beautiful and tempting Jen (Jessica Lowndes) is new in town, and every guy at school wants her, but she is in fact a vampire. When Zander falls in love with her, and gets to know her fellow vampire the wild and hostile TC (Alex Pettyfer) he finds out the truth that not all vampires are bad. Zander’s fellow witches are suspicious of his new friends and believes they may be vampires and responsible for the murders. Jen and TC tell Zander that the bad vampires have returned to town to take over the body of his mortal friend Kayla because she holds key to the future of their kind. Zander loves both Kayla and Jen, which creates competition. Friendship between vampires and witches are unheard of, and with the coming war no one knows who to trust.
September 17
Poisonwood Bible Theaters: 1,800 Budget: 25 million
In the late 1950’s, Nathan Price (Academy Award Winner Don Cheadle) takes his family, including his once nature-loving and carefree wife Orleanna Price (Academy Award Winner Halle Berry) and his four daughters to Congo in an unsanctioned attempt to convert the natives of Congo to Christianity. Fanatic and sanctimonious, Nathan is a domestic monster, too, a physically and emotionally abusive, misogynistic husband and father. He refuses to understand how his obsession with river baptism affronts the traditions of the villagers of Kalinga, and his stubborn concept of religious rectitude brings misery and destruction to all. Cast with her young children into primitive conditions but trained to be obedient to her husband, Orleanna is powerless to mitigate their situation. Rachel (Keke Palmer), the eldest, is a self-absorbed teenager who will never outgrow her selfish view of the world or her tendency to commit hilarious malapropisms. The three other daughters over the course of decades view the country and their fathers abusiveness, beginning as silent victims turning into intelligent women. As the girls become acquainted with the villagers, especially the young teacher Anatole (Jean Luc-Bilodeau), they begin to understand the political situation in the Congo: the brutality of Belgian rule, the nascent nationalism briefly fulfilled in the election of the short-lived Patrice Lumumba government, and the secret involvement of the Eisenhower administration in Lumumba's assassination and the installation of the villainous dictator Mobutu. Poisonwood Bible is a compelling family saga, a sobering picture of the horrors of fanatic fundamentalism and an insightful view of an exploited country crushed by the heel of colonialism and then ruthlessly manipulated by a bastion of democracy.
October 1
The Lost Ones Theaters: 2,200 Budget: 25 million
Social worker Deliah Reynolds (Kate Beckinsale) can see kids passing through her hands, and every year she works at her job it gets harder. After the death of her 7 year old daughter and with her marriage dissolving, she is viewed as unstable. She takes on the case of a troubled but beautiful teen Caitlyn (Amanda Seyfrield) who is now under the care of a nice upper-middle class couple. Yet Caitlyn convinces Deliah that the couple murdered another girl under their care. The only problem is no record of this girl exists, and Deliah is simply going by instinct and what Caitlyn said. Caitlyn is known for doing drugs and sneaking out to party, which doesn’t bode well for her accusations. Most think Deliah is suffering from an emotional breakdown and becoming delusional but Deliah has been convinced by Caitlyn that the foster parents murdered the other girl. The Lost Ones is a horror thriller that is both scary and intense.
October 22
Man’s Fate Theaters: 3,300 Budget: 105 million
From Academy Award Winning Director Martin Scorsese comes Man’s Fate. Man’s Fate is set in 1927 Shanghai China during the Communist Revolution and tells the story of several Europeans (Daniel Day-Lewis, Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Naomi Watts and John Malkovich), their complex relationships and the deep emotional bonds that develop between them during this time. Although a period piece revolving around fighting and a failed revolution, Man’s Fate is about the choosing of one’s own being.
November 12
Broken Glass Budget: 55 million Theaters: 2,800
New York sculptor Bridgette Peet (Nicole Kidman) and her fast-talking lobbyist husband Grant (Clive Owen) are madly in love, have a large circle of friends, and have a great apartment in Manhattan. When Bridgette is unable to conceive, she adopts a 2 year old daughter she names Jordan who brings more laughs and joy to her life and art. After raising Jordan for 7 years, Bridgette gets a call that changes her life forever. Her daughter is believed to be a missing person from years earlier. The girl’s birth parents are a Delaware couple with three other children whose marriage has been torn apart over the disappearance of Jordan, who they know as Grace. Cynthia (Uma Thurman), her birth mother, is a suburban mom who has always believed her daughter is alive and tucked away the pain while raising her other children. Her real father Will (Peter Sarsgaard) is a doctor who is cheating on Cynthia because their relationship has suffered. Jordan legally is the daughter of Cynthia and Will, and she is forced to live with them by the court; it kills Cynthia when her daughter has no clue who she even is. Broken Glass is the story of two women brought together by extreme circumstances as they fight for the right to raise their daughter and come to an understanding about the meaning of love and what it is to be a family. The film ultimately asks the question what if the best thing that happened in your life was the worst thing in someone else's?
November 24
Home for the Holidays Budget: 70 million Theaters: 3,500
The Pratt siblings have never exactly been close. Even during the holiday season all the kids make excuses so they don’t have to return home to New England, but this year is different. Danni (Reese Witherspoon) is an ambitious, cold and cutthroat New York attorney who never appreciates what she has and looks down on the New England town she came from. She’s engaged to nice-guy Shawn (Bryan Greenberg) who she is cheating on. She goes home for Christmas for the first time in 8 years when all foreign flights are cancelled and has to duke it out with her mom and sister. Brother Dylan (Ben Affleck) was going to be a basketball star when an injury ruined his career, and he’s worked as a successful investment banker ever since. This year he has a girlfriend Briana (Elizabeth Banks) to bring home and show off. Earthy and sweet oldest sister Alicia (Julia Roberts) is recently divorced and a loving mother to 3 kids, including a hard to handle teenage daughter (Lucy Hale). Youngest brother Cam (Josh Hartnett) is a free-spirited artist who lives in California and works odd jobs, still searching for his calling. With these polar opposite siblings, going Home for the Holidays will be anything but easy. Their parents (Jessica Lange and Michael Douglas) are happy to have them, but when Dylan’s girlfriend Briana falls in love with Cam, Danni’s fiancé finds out about her affair and Alicia reveals a secret to her children and family, they realize this holiday will be anything but happy. Through the laughs, through the tears, through the good times and the bad times, family is for all times. Home for the Holidays is a festive comedy about 4 siblings who have nothing in common, but share everything together.
December 10
Dragon Fire: The Genostian Crown Budget: 140 million Theaters: 4,400
The war for the kingdom comes to an epic end as Paul (Johnny Depp) leads an army along with his friends (Don Cheadle and James Marsden) in the final battle to castle of darkness and the volcanic hills of Genostian. The king (Donald Sutherland) is at home dying along with soldiers, while his daughter (Ali Larter) is still under the control of the Lord of the Darkness (Sean Connery). Facing dragons, destroyers and former friends (Paul Walker), Paul and the army must fight against the Lord of Darkness for the crown to regain control of the Kingdom of Genostian.
December 22
West End Budget: 90 million Theaters: 2,700
After the death of Maximilian Donald (Patrick Wilson) the owner of England's most succesful and esteemed theater in the 1930's, Detective Erroll Wilson (Hugh Jackman), a unethical former actor who views life like a great musical, is put on the case to solve England's biggest mystery. He is comptely caught off guard by the four main suspects: Maximilian's powerful and suspiciously kind wife Joyce (Minnie Driver), the star of nearly all his plays is the aging diva Catherine (Michelle Pfeiffer), his troubled but beautiful mistress Marilyn (Scarlett Johanssen) and Anna (Anne Hathaway) a costume designer. The head of the theaters latest play (Jim Broadbent) is eager to get the case solved, putting strain on the police and especially Detective Erroll. Detective Erroll starts torrid and dangerous relationships with all the women, just as torrid and dangerous of Maximilian's relationships with them. A roaring rock musical about a detective whose biggest case turns into a love triangle.