A remake of the musical that starred Rikki Lake and Harvey Fierstein about a plus-sized girl with a big heart and a passion for dancing who dreams of appearing on a local TV dance party.

Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion–dancing. Her dream is to appear on “The Corny Collins Show,” Baltimore’s hippest dance party on TV. Tracy seems a natural fit for the show except for one not-so-little problem–she doesn’t fit in. Her plus-sized figure has always set her apart from the cool crowd, which she is reminded of by her loving but overly protective plus-sized mother, Edna.

That doesn’t stop Tracy because if there is one thing that this girl knows, it’s that she was born to dance.

Starring John Travolta, Queen Latifah, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, Nicole Blonsky, and Zac Efron. Under the dierction of Adam Shankman.

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry

Adam Sandler and Kevin James star as firefighter buddies who pose as newlyweds to take advantage of insurance benefits.

Chuck Levine and Larry Valentine are the pride of their fire station: two guy’s guys always side-by-side and willing to do anything for each other. Grateful Chuck owes Larry for saving his life in a fire, and Larry calls in that favor big time when civic red tape prevents him from naming his own two kids as his life insurance beneficiaries.

But when an overzealous, spot-checking bureaucrat becomes suspicious, the new couple’s arrangement becomes a citywide issue and goes from confidential to front-page news.

A sure-fire comedy that also stars Jessica Biel, Steve Buscemi, Dan Aykroyd and directed by Dennis Dugan

Goya’s Ghosts

The life and times of celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya, who was a frequent target of the Spanish Inquisition.

A biographical tale told through the eyes of celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya, whose paintings are best known

for their brutality and the colorful depictions of life during the Spanish Inquisition. The drama unfolds as Brother Lorenzo,

an enigmatic member of the powerful Spanish clergy, becomes infatuated with Goya’s beautiful teenage muse, Ines.

Starring Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgard, Randy Quaid, Jose Luis Gomez and directed by Milos Forman.

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Transformers

Your favorite animated adventure comes to life in the big screen. Transformers the movie forges animation and live action scene from a production team headed by Steven Spielberg.

The Earth is caught in the middle of an intergalactic war between two races of robots, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, which are able to change into a variety of objects, including cars, trucks, planes and other technological creations.

Starring Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Bernie Mac, John Turturro, Tyrese Gibson. Directed by Michael Bay.

Evening

A dying woman recalls and conveys to her daughters the defining moments of her lifetime, when she was a young woman in love.

Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters; Constance, a content wife and mother, and Nina, a restless single woman. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other. But who is this “Harris,” wonder her daughters, and what is he to our mother?

While Constance and Nina try to take stock of Ann’s life and their own lives, their mother is tended to by a night nurse as she journeys in her mind back to a summer weekend some fifty years ago.

A heartp-piercing drama starring Academy Award winners Vanessa Redgrave and Meryl Streep, Toni Collette, Claire Danes, and Natasha Richardson. Directed by Lajos Koltai.

License To Wed

Robin Williams stars as a minister leading Mandy Moore and John Krasinski through a disastrous marriage preparation course.

Newly engaged Ben Murphy and his fiancée, Sadie Jones, plan to live happily ever after. The problem is that Sadie’s family church, St. Augustine’s, is run by Reverend Frank, who won’t bless Ben and Sadie’s union until they pass his patented, “foolproof” marriage-prep course.

Consisting of outrageous classes, outlandish homework assignments and some outright invasion of privacy, Reverend Frank’s rigorous curriculum puts Ben and Sadie’s relationship to the test.

Starring Robin Williams, Mandy Moore, John Krasinski, Christine Taylor, Roxanne Hart and directed by Ken Kwapis.

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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

The Fantastic Four gang is back in one of this year’s most awaited adventure movie: Fantastic 4, Rise of the Silver Surfer.

The enigmatic, intergalactic herald, The Silver Surfer, comes to Earth to prepare it for destruction. As the Silver Surfer races around the globe wreaking havoc, Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben must unravel the mystery of the Silver Surfer and confront the surprising return of their mortal enemy, Dr. Doom, before all hope is lost.

Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon. Directed by Tim Story.

DOA: Dead or Alive

Jaime Pressley stars as one of four women, each with unique fighting styles, invited to partake in a world fighting tournament on an exotic island.

The voluptuous girls will partake in the “Dead or Alive” world fighting tournament on a faraway paradise. Who will survive? And who will win, dead or alive?

This sexy action-adveture stars Natassia Malthe, Pressly, Devon Aoki, Brian J. White, and Holly Valance. Directed by Corey Yuen.

Fido

Welcome to Willard, a small town lost in the idyllic world of the 50s, where the sun shines every day, everybody knows their neighbor, and rotting zombies deliver the mail. Years ago, the earth passed through a cloud of space dust, causing the dead to rise with a craving for human flesh. A war began, pitting the living against the dead.

In the ensuing revolution, a corporation was born: ZomCon, who defeated the legions of undead, and domesticated the zombies, making them our industrial workers, our domestic servants–a productive part of society. ZomCon would like the people of Willard to believe they have everything under control–but do they?

But sometimes, it takes a dead man to teach us all what it means to be alive.

Independent art film on limited release starring Henry Czerny, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tim Blake Nelson, Billy Connolly, Dylan Baker and Directed by Andrew Currie.

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A Mighty Heart

Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie stars as the wife of reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered while on assignment in Pakistan in 2002.

On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl’s world changed forever. Her husband Daniel, South Asia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid. The story drew them to Karachi where a go-between had promised access to an elusive source. As Danny left for the meeting, he told Mariane he might be late for dinner. He never returned.

In the face of death, Danny’s spirit of defiance and his unflinching belief in the power of journalism led Mariane to write about his disappearance, the intense effort to find him and his eventual murder in her memoir “A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl.”

Starring Jolie, Dan Futterman, Irrfan Khan, Adnan Siddiqui, and Alyy Khan. Directed by Michael Winterbottom.

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Evan Almighty

Evan Almighty is the sequel to the Jim Carrey original, Bruce Almighty. Steve Carell (The Office) stars as a self-obsessed congressman who is commanded by God to build an ark to prepare for a flood.

And so Evan leaves Buffalo behind and shepherds his family to suburban northern Virginia. Once there, his life gets turned upside-down when God appears and mysteriously commands him to build an ark. But his befuddled family just can’t decide whether Evan is having an extraordinary mid-life crisis or is truly onto something of Biblical proportions.

Also starring Morgan Freeman (reprising his role as God), Lauren Graham, John Goodman, and Jimmy Bennett. Tom Shadyac directs.

Broken English

Parker Posey stars as Nora Wilder, a cynical thirty-something Manhattanite hoping to break out of the same old disastrous patterns in life and love.

Nora plugs away at her job in a posh downtown hotel and can’t help but wonder what it is she has to do to find a relationship as ideal as her friend Audrey’s “perfect marriage.” It doesn’t help that her overbearing mother takes every opportunity to remind Nora that she’s still unattached. After a series of disastrous first dates, she meets Julien, a seemingly devil-may-care Frenchman with a passion for living.

Expecting another disastrous ending, Nora tries to avoid making the same mistakes. Inevitably, Nora has to look inward before she can find a new outlook on life and most importantly, love.

Also stars Drea de Matteo, Gena Rowlands, Justin Theroux, and Josh Hamilton. Directed by Zoe R. Cassavetes.

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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is a 2007 superhero film which is the sequel to the 2005 film Fantastic Four and based upon the comic of the same name. Tim Story returns to direct Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer with Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis, Chris Evans, Ioan Gruffudd, Julian McMahon and Kerry Washington reprising their roles.

The enigmatic, intergalactic herald, the Silver Surfer, comes to Earth to prepare it for destruction. As he races around the globe wreaking havoc, Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben must unravel the mystery of the Silver Surfer and confront the surprising return of their mortal enemy, Dr. Doom, before all hope is lost.

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Warner Bros. and producer Joel Silver are revving up a new version of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe for the big screen. A script is being created for the action figure-turned-animated-hero, but He-Man’s original creator Mattel Toys will have final approval over the script. In the past, Mattel has said no to another proposed film version of their franchise.

The idea this time is to make He-Man in the style of the recent Warner Bros. smash 300, rather than hewing in any way to the 1987 Dolph Lundgren starring flop. That’s something to watch out for…

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In 2003 actor Christopher Lee’s character Saruman was cut from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Redemption but was eventually found via Jackson’s Extended DVD version.

Now, Playbill Magazine is reporting that several ghost characters added into Tim Burton’s film version of the musical Sweeney Todd have been cut out, including a Gentleman Ghost to have been played by Lee. No hard feelings, though, as this time the erstwhile Dracula hasn’t filmed his scenes yet.

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Joan Cusack, Chris O’Donnell and Julia Ormond are on  board Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery, the first movie based on the popular American Girl line of dolls with Abigail Breslin in the title role.

“Kit Kittredge” tells the story of a clever, resourceful 10-year-old who helps her mother (Ormond) run a Cincinnati boardinghouse when her father (O’Donnell) loses his job. Cusack will play a nurse who moves into the boardinghouse. Patricia Rozema will direct and Julia Roberts is an executive producer.

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Katherine Heigl (Grey’s Anatomy) and Seth Rogen are a mismatched couple who find themselvesas parents-to-be after a drunken one-nighter.

Allison Scott (Heigl) is an up-and-coming entertainment journalist whose 24-year-old life is on the fast track. But it gets seriously derailed when a drunken one-nighter with slacker Ben Stone results in an unwanted pregnancy. Faced with the prospect of going it alone or getting to know the baby’s father, Allison decides to give the lovable doof a chance.

Also starring Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, and Jason Segel. Directed by Judd Apatow.

Mr. Brooks

Consider Mr. Brooks: a successful businessman; a generous philanthropist; a loving father and devoted husband. Seemingly, he’s perfect. But Mr. Brooks has a secret–he is an insatiable serial killer, so lethally clever that no one has ever suspected him–until now.

Academy Award winner Kevin Costner stars as a respected family man and model citizen trying to hide a deep, dark secret: the cunning serial killer.

Also in the cast: William Hurt, Demi Moore, Dane Cook, and Matt Schulze. Bruce Evans directs.

Ocean’s 13

What are the odds of getting even? Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and the gang would have only one reason to pull off their most ambitious and riskiest casino heist–to defend one of their own. But they’re going to need more than luck on their side to break The Bank.

Ruthless casino owner Willy Bank (Al Pacino) never imagined that the odds were against him when he double-crossed Danny Ocean’s friend and mentor Reuben Tishkoff, putting the distraught Reuben in a hospital bed in critical condition. But Bank miscalculated–badly.

Ocean’s gang pulls off another high profile gig: to take Bank down on the night of what should be his greatest triumph–the grand opening of his new casino, appropriately named The Bank.

Starring the original Ocean’s 11 and Ocean’s 12 cast: Clooney, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Andy Garcia, Bernie Mac, and Don Cheadle. Plus Ellen Barkin and Al Pacino. Directed by Steven Soderbergh.

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Pan’s Labyrinth

The Oscar-winning foreign film, Pan’s Labyrinth, now comes to DVD. The story of a child Ofelia, drawn to books about fairies, ogres, and other fantastical creatures. She will soon be drawn into a magical place that will challenge her imagination.

A film by Guillermo del Toro, who in 2004 did such an effective job bringing Hellboy to the big screen, has fashioned a film deeply rooted in misogyny, myths, and mysticism. The story is constructed as two parallel tales. One is in the real world: the brutal world of Fascist Spain in 1944. The other exists in a magical kingdom that exists far below our feet.

Starring Maribel Verdu, Sergi Lopez, Ariadna Gil, Alex Angulo, Doug Jones.

The Fountain

Three parallel stories–about love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of existence–as told through the odyssey taken on by one man in his thousand-year struggle to save the woman he loves. His epic journey begins in 16th-century Spain, where, as conquistador Tomas Creo, he commences his search for the ‘Tree of Life’, the legendary entity believed to grant eternal life to those who drink of its sap.

As modern-day scientist Tommy Creo, he desperately struggles to find a cure for the cancer that is killing his beloved wife Isabel. Traveling through deep space as a 26th-century astronaut, Tom begins to grasp the mysteries of life that have consumed him for more than a century.

Starring Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn, Sean Patrick Thomas, and Donna Murphy. Directed by Darren Aronofsky.

Arthur and The Invisibles

Ten-year-old Arthur has a lot on his plate: a real estate developer is about to snap up his grandma’s home–and there’s no way Arthur’s going to hang around for his parents or grandparents to sort out the problem. Maybe the solution lies in his grandpa’s treasure, which is hidden somewhere on the “other side” in the land of the Minimoys.

The creatures that inhabit this world are just a tenth of an inch tall and live in perfect harmony with their environment. Arthur ventures into this world of the Minimoys, where he meets Princess Selenia and her brother Betameche. Together they set off to look for the treasure that will save his grandma.

Featuring the voices of Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow, Calvin ‘Snoop Dogg’ , David Bowie, and Penny Balfour. Directed by Luc Besson.

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As his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry approaches, 15-year-old Harry Potter is in full-blown adolescence, complete with regular outbursts of rage, a nearly debilitating crush, and the blooming of a powerful sense of rebellion.

It’s been yet another infuriating and boring summer with the despicable Dursleys, this time with minimal contact from our hero’s non-Muggle friends from school. Harry is feeling especially edgy at the lack of news from the magic world, wondering when the freshly revived evil Lord Voldemort will strike.

Returning to Hogwarts will be a relief–or will it?

The powerhouse cast returns for Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Michael Gambon, Emma Thompson, Maggie Smith, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, and Ralph Fiennes. Directed by David Yates.

Set for wide release on July 13, 2007.

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Shrek the Third

Everybody’s favorite green ogre is back, voiced by Mike Myers, embarking on a quest to find a suitable replacement King to rule the land of Far Far Away.

When Shrek married Fiona, the last thing he wanted was to rule Far Far Away, but when his frogger-in-law, King Harold, suddenly croaks, Shrek is quickly fitted for the crown. Now, unless the reluctant would-be king can find a suitable replacement, he’ll be royally screwed for the rest of his days. As if Shrek didn’t have enough on his plate, Princess Fiona has another little surprise on the way. With his head spinning and his belly in knots, Shrek sets off on a quest to find the only other possible heir to the throne, Fiona’s long-lost cousin Artie, an underachieving medieval high schooler.

While the ogre is away, his old nemesis Prince Charming rears his handsome head and returns to the kingdom of Far Far Away with redemption on his shallow little mind.

With the voices of Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas, Rupert Everett and Justin Timberlake. This favorite animated film is directed by Chris Miller and Raman Hui.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

Johnny Depp returns as the wily Captain Jack Sparrow for the series’ third installment of swashbuckling high seas adventure.

Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) are allied with Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) in a desperate quest to free Captain Jack Sparrow from his mind-bending trap in Davy Jones’ (Bill Nighy) locker, while the terrifying ghost ship, The Flying Dutchman and Davy Jones, under the control of the East India Trading Company, wreaks havoc across the Seven Seas. See full movie preview >>

This action packed fantasy is directed by Gore Verbinski.

Even Money

Danny DeVito, Kim Basinger and Forest Whitaker star in three intertwining stories of lives shattered by gambling and addiction.

Carolyn Carver (Basinger) is a writer with a gambling addiction that threatens to destroy her marriage and family. She meets a washed-up magician who promises that he can help. Meanwhile, Godfrey Snow is a star college basketball player who shaves points to help his brother, Clyde, get even. A small-time bookie tries to win over the love his life, Veronica. Victor, a sadistic criminal, attempts to control an uncontrollable world. All the while Detective Brunner follows the trail of a mysterious death.

Also stars Nick Cannon, Jay Mohr, Tim Roth and Carla Gugino. Directed by Mark Rydell.

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