Lady In The Water

Movie directed by:
M. Night Shyamalan

Film produced by:
Samuel L. Mercer, M. Night Shyamalan, and John Rusk

Movie starring:
Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Freddy Rodriguez, Jeffrey Wright, and Bob Balaban

Film tagline: Time is running out for a happy ending.

Lady in the Water is a movie about (from this movie site and this movie site):
Cleveland Heep, a modest building manager, rescues a mysterious young woman from danger and discovers she is actually a narf--a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the treacherous journey from our world back to hers. Cleveland and his fellow tenants start to realize that they are also characters in this bedtime story. As Cleveland falls deeper and deeper in love with the woman, he works together with the tenants to protect his new fragile friend from the deadly creatures that reside in this fable and are determined to prevent her from returning home.

Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep (Giamatti) rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.

Monster House

Movie directed by:
Gil Kenan

Film produced by:
Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg, Jason Clark

Movie starring:
Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jon Heder, Kevin James, Jason Lee

Film’s tagline:
There Goes The Neighborhood.

Monster House is a movie about (from this movie site and this movie site):
Although no adults will believe them, three children realize a neighbor's house is really a monster. They must find a way to stop the house and save the neighborhood.

Three kids DJ (Mitchel Musso), Chowder (Sam Lerner), and Jenny (Spencer Locke) discover that the house across the street from DJ's is alive. It eats anything that goes on its property. They try to convince the babysitter (Maggie Gyllenhaal), the police, and some weirdo named Skull (Jon Heder). They try to unravel the mystery of the house and they have to go inside to find that the house is voiced by Kathleen Turner.

John Tucker Must Die

Movie directed by:
Betty Thomas

Film produced by:
Karen Lunder, Michael Birnbaum, and Bob Cooper (IV)

Film starring:
Jesse Metcalfe, Brittany Snow, Ashanti, Sophia Bush, and Arielle Kebbel

John Tucker Must Die is movie about (from this site):
When three popular girls from different cliques discover they've all been dating the school stud, they band together to seek revenge. Despite the jerk's charm and ever-growing popularity, the girls cleverly scheme with the help of the inconspicuous new girl in town, to soil his reputation and break his heart.

Edmond

Film directed by:
Stuart Gordon

Film produced by:
Gary Rubin (II), Steve Hayes, and Felix Werner

Movie starring:
William H. Macy, Julia Stiles, Joe Mantegna, Rebecca Pidgeon, and Mena Suvari

Edmond is a movie about (from this site):
A successful businessman leaves his wife and family after a visit to a fortune teller. He embarks on a journey of self-discovery and redemption heading into New York's underworld where he kills a pimp and a wanna-be actress that lands him in jail.

You, Me, And Dupree

Movie directed by:
Joe Russo, and Anthony Russo

Film produced by:
Aaron Kaplan, and Sean Perrone

Film starring:
Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson, Matt Dillon, Michael Douglas, and Amanda Detmer

You, Me, And Dupree is a movie about (from this site):
Carl and Molly Peterson are just starting their new life together--complete with a cute house, boring neighbors, stable jobs and the routines of newlywed existence. There's just one unfortunate hitch in their perfectly constructed new world. And his name's Dupree. Randy Dupree, Carl's oldest friend and perpetual bachelor, has found himself with nowhere to go after being fired. Carl yanks his jobless/homeless pal out of the bar he's living in and invites him to temporarily crash on the couch--that's just what friends do. At first, Carl is quite pleased to have his good buddy as a permanent couch guest, while Molly bears the brunt of Dupree's immature antics. But, as Carl becomes buried in his grown-up job, he finds it harder and harder to juggle Dupree and his responsibilities as a husband. To make matters worse, Dupree uses his ample spare time to become a great companion for Molly. Even her dad and the neighbors are falling for his carefree wisdom and charm--frustrating Carl to no end. Soon, everyone (but Carl) begins to root for Dupree to stick around. But as Dupree starts to become a fixture in the Peterson's home, three becomes not just a crowd--but a full blown, hilarious catastrophe.

My Super Ex-Girlfriend

Movie directed by:
Ivan Reitman

Film produced by:
Bill Carraro, Gavin Polone, and Arnon Milchan

Film starring:
Luke Wilson, Uma Thurman, Anna Faris, Eddie Izzard, and Wanda Sykes

Movie’s tagline:
He broke her heart. She broke his everything.

My Super Ex-Girlfriend is a movie about (taken from this site and this site):
Everyone's had a painful parting of the ways with a romantic partner. We pick up the pieces and move on. But for one New York guy, it's not going to be so easy. When he breaks up with his girlfriend, he discovers his ex is actually the reluctant superhero, G-Girl. A scorned woman, she unleashes her super powers to humiliate and torment him.

When Matt Saunders meets Jenny Johnson, he thinks he's found the perfect girl. However, he decides to break things off with her when she becomes too needy, controlling, and jealous. Jenny doesn't take it well and decides to get back at him by using her superpowers, as it turns out Jenny is a superhero named G-Girl. Meanwhile, Matt and his co-worker, Hannah start to have a romance with each other which sends Jenny over the edge.

Rocky Balboa

Movie directed by:
Sylvester Stallone

Film produced by:
Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff, and Sylvester Stallone

Film starring:
Sylvester Stallone, Burt Young, Milo Ventimiglia, Antonio Tarver, and Geraldine Hughes

This new Rocky movie is all about what?
(Information taken from this site and this site)
An aging Rocky Balboa comes out of retirement, intending to fight a few low-profile local fighters. He is approached to fight a match with the reigning heavyweight champion, and soon his comeback sets off a media firestorm.

Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) has now been retired for some time, but hard-up for money, he decides to step back into the ring against a few small-time boxers. Everything changes, though, when Rocky is offered the opportunity to step in with the reigning Heavyweight Champion, Mason "The Line" Dixon. Does Rocky still have what it takes to make another Championship comeback?

Rocky Balboa is now a fifty-something widower running a small restaurant in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, the World Boxing Heavyweight Champion, Mason "The Line" Dixon is the dominant force within his sport. Lonely, Rocky feels the ring beckon him once more and he knows he must return to the sport that he loves.

'Rocky Balboa' examines one of America's greatest icons at a vulnerable period in his life--middle age. A former heavyweight boxing champion, known and renown throughout the world for going the distance, Rocky finds a new venture: giving back to his community. This is where he, once more, finds himself at the opposing side of opportunity, not unlike the one he has seen decades ago. Heavyweight champ Mason Dixon and his representation offer Rocky a shot for the title. For Balboa, it'll be one last hurrah he'll never forget.....but with his glory days far behind him can he withstand the inevitabilities of what's to come? A look at going full circle and wanting more, when life turns out how you least expect it and then some.

In this new installment of the Rocky series, Rocky Balboa returns to the ring to fight the present world champion... It's been many years since Rocky Balboa has been in the ring. Through that time his wife Adrian died of cancer, and he and his son, Rocky Jr., have been growing apart. Rocky owns his own deli, and people will come in just to hear his stories. Now ESPN is holding these virtual boxing matches pairing up fighters from different eras, it is a competition. And in the end it showed that if there was a match between "Young" Rocky and the champion Mason "The Line" Dixion, Rocky would win. Seeing this virtual fight makes Rocky remember how much he misses being in the ring. He doesn't miss the winning part, he misses the sport. So he re-registers for his license... This creates a media firestorm, and who should hear about it but Mason himself. Paper View wont pay him anymore because they believe that he is fighting all second rate fighters, and that he's a "paper champion". So his people suggest a fight between him and Rocky. Dixon agrees... The opportunity is brought to Rocky who at first is a little cautious at first, but soon agrees also. Now it is a Battle of the Ages. A true battle of Will v.s. Skill. With the help of Paulie, Tony (his old trainer), and of course his son, it is truly, his final countdown.

Spiderman 3

Movie directed by:
Sam Raimi

Film produced by:
Avi Arad, Stan Lee, and Joseph M. Caracciolo Jr

Film starring:
Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, and James Franco

In this new Spiderman movie, Peter Parker must fave the new challenges still as the masked Spiderman.

Deja-Vu

Movie directed by:
Tony Scott

Film produced by:
Mike Stenson, Chad Oman, and Terry Rossio

Film starring:
Denzel Washington, Jim Caviezel, Paula Patton, Adam Goldberg, and Val Kilmer

What is this movie all about? (from this site)
Everyone has experienced the unsettling mystery of déjà vu--that flash of memory when you meet someone new you feel you've known all your life or recognize a place even though you've never been there before. But what if the feelings were actually warnings sent from the past or clues to the future? It is déjà vu that unexpectedly guides ATF agent Doug Carlin through an investigation into a shattering crime. Called in to recover evidence after a bomb sets off a cataclysmic explosion on a New Orleans Ferry, Carlin is about to discover that what most people believe "is only in their heads" is actually something far more powerful--and will lead him on a mind-bending race to save hundreds of innocent people.

Trade

Movie directed by:
Marco Kreuzpaintner

Film produced by:
Michael Wimer (II), Oswald Von Richthofen, and Peter Landesman

Film starring:
Kevin Kline, Cesar Ramos Ceballos, Alicja Bachleda-Curus, Paulina Gaitan, and Marco Perez

This movie is about (from this site):
Two different girls from very different backgrounds are both sold into prostitution and the sex slave industry. One is a Romanian girl forced into sex slavery after being promised a better life in America. The brother of the other girl--a Mexican girl abducted and forced into the trade--joins forces with a cop and discovers he is the father of a young daughter who is also likely a sex slave.

"Pirates" Reviews Mixed Ahead Of Key Debut

By Bob Tourtellotte (Yahoo!)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Widely hyped movie "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" drew mixed reviews on Wednesday ahead of a weekend debut that Hollywood is anxiously awaiting for a boost to its solid but uninspiring summer box office.

"Too much of what was a good thing," a Los Angeles Times headline said of Disney's swashbuckling sequel, although the full review described the film as "intermittently fun and high-spirited."

The Hollywood Reporter called the special effects "envelope-pushing" and praised Johnny Depp's performance as quirky pirate captain Jack Sparrow, but it panned the story in which Sparrow confronts the evil Davy Jones.

On the Web site rottentomatoes.com, which compiles reviews, the movie scored a 68 percent "fresh" rating.

Richard Horgan, film commentator for Fandango.com, said one of every three advance tickets sold by the online ticket service this week was for "Dead Man's Chest." That is roughly twice the rate posted by its precursor, "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," in 2003.

"Personally, I think it's going to be a monster" at box offices, he said of the sequel.

Hollywood needs a huge hit after a string of major films -- "Mission: Impossible III," "The Da Vinci Code," "X-Men: The Last Stand" and "Cars" -- racked up solid box office but fell short of the eye-popping business generated by the "Spider-Man" and "Star Wars" movies.

Similarly this past week, "Superman Returns" opened over the long Independence Day holiday in the United States to a final tally of $108 million in its first week, according to the Warner Bros. film studio. The number was good, but not super.

"PIRATES" TO THE RESCUE?
"It has not been an exciting summer," said Brandon Gray, president of Boxofficemojo.com. "There is no major blockbuster everyone can get behind. The hope is that 'Pirates' is that blockbuster."

To date, U.S. summer movie ticket sales stand at roughly $1.84 billion, up 2.3 percent from last year but down 9.5 percent from 2004, according to Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc.

Moreover, movie attendance as measured by the number of people buying tickets is down about 1 percent from 2005 and off 15 percent from 2004.

That is an ominous sign because the summer movie season, which runs from the first week of May through August, is typically used by Hollywood to launch its most expensive movies and accounts for as much as 40 percent of total annual ticket sales.

The success of "Dead Man's Chest" is especially pivotal. There seem to be few movies in the next eight weeks capable of matching the commercial clout of 2005's July-August combination of surprise comedy hits "Wedding Crashers" and "The 40 Year Old Virgin," which ended up grossing $209 million and $109 million, respectively, box office watchers said.

Despite "Crashers" and "Virgin," last summer's overall box office ended with revenues totaling $3.62 billion, down 8.5 percent from 2004's $3.96 billion, Exhibitor Relations said.

"Dead Man's Chest" is being released by the Walt Disney Co.. Warner Bros. is a unit of Time Warner Inc. Hollywood's other major studios are owned and operated by units of Viacom Inc, News Corp, Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news) and General Electric Co.

RV

Movie directed by:
Barry Sonnenfeld

Film produced by:
Bobby Cohen, Ryan Kavanaugh, and Aslan Nadery

Film starring:
Robin Williams, Jeff Daniels, Cheryl Hines, Kristin Chenoweth, and Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque

RV is a movie about (taken from this site):
An overworked Bob Munro, his wife Jaime, their 15-year-old daughter Cassie and 12-year-old son Carl are in desperate need of some quality time together. After promising to take them on a family vacation in Hawaii, Bob abruptly changes plans without telling them. Instead of a week in a tropical paradise, they're going on a road trip to Colorado in a recreational vehicle. Dragging his wife and kids kicking and screaming into the RV, Bob's togetherness plan (which is partly a ruse to keep him from losing his job) almost immediately hits a major speed bump. Everything that can go wrong, does. Bob's lame attempts to navigate the unwieldy, oversized vehicle are met with silence and scorn from his resentful family. The RV life is a far cry from their comfortable life in Los Angeles, and every attempt Bob makes to get them into the spirit of the vacation threatens to tear them further apart. At an RV camp, the Munro family is befriended by the Gornicke family--an irritatingly endearing happy-go-lucky clan of full-time RVers. The more they try to elude the Gornickes, the more their paths seem destined to cross. But adversity has a way of uniting even the most dysfunctional family members and each setback the Munros experience inadvertently helps them become a true family again.

The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King

Movie directed by:
Peter Jackson

Film produced by:
Mark Ordesky, Robert Shaye, and Michael Lynne

Film starring:
Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, and Sean Astin

‘The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King’ is a movie about (from this site):Sauron's forces have laid siege to Minas Tirith, the capital of Gondor, in their efforts to eliminate the race of men. The once-great kingdom, watched over by a fading steward, has never been in more desperate need of its king. But can Aragorn answer the call of his heritage and become what he was born to be? In no small measure, the fate of Middle-earth rests on his broad shoulders. With the final battle joined and the legions of darkness gathering, Gandalf urgently tries to rally Gondor's broken army to action. He is aided by Rohan's King Theoden, who unites his warriors for history's biggest test. Yet even with their courage and passionate loyalty, the forces of men--with Eowyn and Merry hidden among them--are no match for the enemies swarming against Gondor. Still, in the face of great losses, they charge forward into the battle of their lifetimes, tied together by their singular goal to keep Sauron distracted and give the Ring Bearer a chance to complete his quest. Their hopes rest with Frodo, a tiny but determined hobbit making a perilous trip across treacherous enemy lands to cast the One Ring into the fires of Mount Doom. The closer Frodo gets to his final destination, the heavier his burden becomes and the more he must rely on Samwise Gamgee. Gollum--and the Ring itself--will test Frodo's allegiances and, ultimately, his humanity.

Heading South

Movie directed by:
Laurent Cantet

Film produced by:
Caroline Benjo, Carole Scotta, and Simon Arnal (II)

Film starring:
Charlotte Rampling, Karen Young, Menothy Cesar, Lys Ambroise, and Louise Portal

‘Heading South’ is a movie about (from this site):
On the sun drenched island of Haiti in the 70's, foreigners idle away their vacations in the palm-fringed paradise of the beach hotels. Brenda, Ellen and Sue, three North American women, converge on the island looking for flirtation, relaxation and respite from their colorless jobs and marriages. They find what they are looking for in Legba an enigmatic local adonis whose beauty and passion has them enthralled. It is this passion that will lead them away from the guilded cage of tourism and will open their eyes to the poverty stricken and dangerous world of Haiti at the end of "Baby Doc" Duvalier's notoriously violent regime.