Starpulse Entertainment News Blog - Movies Opening This Week

Opening May 9: Speed Racer

Tue, 06 May 2008 14:34:46 +0000

The Matrix masterminds Andy and Larry Wachowski usher anime icon Tatsuo Yoshida's classic 1960s-era hit into the new millennium with this family-friendly story of a young racecar driver who takes on the mysterious Racer X in a custom-made, gadget-loaded speed machine named the Mach 5. Continue Summary

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Opening May 9: What Happens in Vegas

Tue, 06 May 2008 14:28:44 +0000

Two strangers (Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher) find themselves wed and in bed after a wild night of Las Vegas shenanigans in this 20th Century Fox comedy. When they both recover to find that one of them won a jackpot the night before... Continue Summary

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Opening May 2: Iron Man

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:58:23 +0000

From Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures comes Iron Man, an action-packed take on the tale of wealthy philanthropist Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), who develops an invulnerable robotic suit to fight the throes of evil. In addition to being filthy rich, billionaire industrialist Tony Stark... Continue Summary

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Opening May 2: Made of Honor

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:52:13 +0000

When a lovelorn man is asked to serve as the maid of honor in the wedding of the woman with whom he has fallen deeply in love, he accepts the offer in hopes of winning her heart and proving his undying love. Patrick Dempsey stars in a romantic comedy that takes a look at love from the male perspective.

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Opening May 2: Son of Rambow

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:49:33 +0000

As the summer sun shines down on England in the early 1980s, two boys who couldn't be more different are brought together by a mutual love of cinema and a desire to emulate their favorite action movie icon. Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) is a well-mannered schoolboy being raised... Continue Summary

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Opening May 2: Redbelt

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:46:34 +0000

Tim Allen and Chiwetel Ejiofor star in writer/director David Mamet's martial arts drama concerning a jujitsu master who becomes corrupted by the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. When a respected jujitsu master (Ejiofor) eschews a lucrative prizefighting career in favor of opening a self-defense dojo, it appears... Continue Summary

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Opening April 25: Baby Mama

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:42:26 +0000

Former Saturday Night Live "Weekend Update" co-anchors Tina Fey and Amy Poehler co-star in this baby-fever comedy about a single, career-oriented woman who previously put parenthood on hold, and is forced to hire a surrogate mother... Continue Summary

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Opening April 25: Deception

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:37:24 +0000

A disconnected accountant finds his mundane life injected with a new sense of urgency after striking up a friendship with a charismatic attorney in director Marcel Langenegger's sexually charged action thriller. Jonathan (Ewan McGregor) is an accountant who has lost his passion in life. Continue Summary

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Opening April 25: Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:36:24 +0000

After successfully seeking out the ultimate slider in the 2004 stoner comedy Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, the cannabis-craving twosome return in this high-flying sequel that finds them labeled terrorists for attempting to sneak a marijuana-smoking implement on a flight to Amsterdam. Continue Summary

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Opening April 18: Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:41:04 +0000

In desperate need of a vacation after being unceremoniously dumped by his sitcom-star girlfriend, a man travels to a lavish Hawaiian resort to nurse his wounds and forget his heartache, only to discover that his ex and her handsome new boyfriend are currently staying at the exact same island hotspot. Peter Bretter (Jason Segel) may be just another struggling musician, but for the past six years he's been dating Sarah Marshall... Continue Summary

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Opening April 18: The Forbidden Kingdom

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:30:30 +0000

Legendary martial arts stars Jackie Chan and Jet Li come together onscreen for the first time ever in director Rob Minkoff's time-traveling take on the Monkey King fable that finds an American teen transported back to ancient China after wandering into a pawn shop and discovering the king's fighting stick. Once there, the adventurous teen joins an army of fierce warriors... Continue Summary

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Opening April 18: 88 Minutes

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:12:49 +0000

Jon Avnet directs Al Pacino in the thriller 88 Minutes. Pacino plays a university professor who occasionally assists the FBI in matters of forensic psychiatry. As the film opens, the professor learns that someone plans to kill him in 88 minutes. As with the like-minded thriller D.O.A. (both the original and the remake), the protagonist must use his skills in order to track down who has hatched this evil plot and hopefully prevent his own demise. Continue Summary

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Opening April 18: Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:46:10 +0000

After revealing just what a diet of Big Macs can do to a person, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock takes a tongue-in-cheek look at another threat to our collective well-being in this witty documentary from the maker of Super Size Me. When Spurlock learns that he and his wife are expecting a baby, he decides that he wants the child to grow up in a safer... Continue Summary

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Opening April 11: Smart People

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:03:55 +0000

Commercial director Noam Murro makes the leap to feature films with this drama concerning an aging professor-turned-bitter eccentric due to the death of his longtime wife. Ever since his wife passed away, Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) has become overly acerbic and self-absorbed. Continue Summary

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Opening April 11: Prom Night

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:59:35 +0000

One of the most notorious slasher films of the 1980s returns to terrorize filmgoers with this blood-soaked remake that proves just how horrifying high school dances can truly be.

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Opening April 11: Street Kings

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:54:43 +0000

In the wake of the L.A. riots, an LAPD cop (Keanu Reeves) who always went above and beyond the call of duty to keep the streets safe receives a startling wake-up call that leaves him convinced that he can no longer employ the tactics that made him so effective in his work.

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Opening April 11: The Visitor

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:49:43 +0000

A lonesome widower and college economics professor finds his mundane existence suddenly shaken up when he befriends a pair of illegal immigrants, one of whom has recently been threatened with deportation by U.S. immigration authorities, in the sophomore feature from The Station Agent director Tom McCarthy.

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Opening April 4: 'Leatherheads'

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:01:22 +0000

Good Night, and Good Luck director George Clooney pulls double duty once again in this sports-oriented romantic comedy set against the formation of professional football in the 1920s. Dodge Connelly (Clooney) is a brash and handsome gridiron giant who is equally comfortable leading his team in a barroom brawl or charging for a touchdown in a packed... Continue Summary

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Opening April 4: 'Nim's Island'

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:57:10 +0000

A young girl living on a tropical island with her scientist father is left to fend for herself after dad's boat leaves him stranded far away and careless tour companies wreck havoc on the secluded paradise in directors Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett's adaptation of the popular children's book by author Wendy Orr. Continue Summary

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Opening April 4: 'The Ruins'

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:52:02 +0000

Based on the novel by -A Simple Plan author Scott Smith, director Carter B. Smith's Yucatan-set thriller follows four American tourists as they unwisely venture off the beaten path while vacationing in Cancun. When a friendly German tourist implores the Americans to help search the jungle for his missing brother, the group becomes hopelessly trapped... Continue Summary

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Opening April 4: 'Shine A Light'

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:44:11 +0000

After exploring the careers of The Band and Bob Dylan in The Last Waltz and No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, respectively, acclaimed director Martin Scorsese turns his lens on rock & roll legends the Rolling Stones for this documentary focusing on two concerts from the band's 2006 A Bigger Bang tour. Continue Summary

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Opening March 28: 21

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:26:08 +0000

Director Robert Luketic adapts Ben Mezrich's best-seller -Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions to tell the true-life tale of six genius students who used their brains to beat considerable odds. Laurence Fishburne stars as the Sin City security chief who catches on to the group and makes it his mission to expose their lucrative blackjack scam.

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Opening March 28: Stop-Loss

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:19:44 +0000

After serving his tour of duty in Iraq, a young American soldier who is ordered to return to the front lines as part of the military's controversial stop-loss opts instead to go AWOL in a thought-provoking military drama directed by Kimberly Peirce. Sgt. Brandon King (Ryan Philippe) is a decorated Iraq War veteran who once served his country... Continue Summary

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Opening March 28: Run Fat Boy Run

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:15:55 +0000

An overweight man leaves his fiancée on their wedding day, only to realize years later that she's the one and only woman of his dreams in a romantic comedy that reunites Big Nothing co-stars Simon Pegg and David Schwimmer, this time with Schimmer in the director's chair. It's not easy to win back a woman after leaving her at the alter... Continue Summary

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Opening March 28: Superhero Movie

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:12:06 +0000

After spoofing disaster films in Airplane!, police shows in The Naked Gun, and Hollywood horrors in Scary Movie 3 and 4, producer David Zucker sets his satirical sights on the superhero genre with this anarchic comedy lampooning everything from Spider-Man to X-Men and Superman Returns. Shortly after being bitten by a genetically altered dragonfly... Contiinue Summary

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Opening March 21: Drillbit Taylor

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:39:24 +0000

When two high-school freshmen hire a man whom they believe to be a low-rent soldier of fortune to protect them from the most sadistic bully in school, they soon find out just how deceptive appearances can be in this comedy featuring a script by Seth Rogen and Kristofor Brown. Owen Wilson stars as the presumed mercenary in a film produced by Judd Apatow.

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Opening March 21: Shutter

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:35:27 +0000

Infection director Masayuki Ochiai takes the helm for this remake of the 2004 horror hit from Thailand concerning a photographer and his girlfriend who are involved in a tragic auto accident, and subsequently begin to notice ghostly figures in the backgrounds of their pictures. Joshua Jackson and Rachael Taylor star in this supernatural frightener.

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Opening March 21: Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:30:46 +0000

Prolific playwright Tyler Perry adapts his popular stage play of the same name in this family-oriented comedy concerning a desperate mother who connects with the family she never knew. Brenda is a single Chicago mother of three who has been struggling for years to keep her kids off of the streets. Suddenly let go from her job with no warning... Continue Summary

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Opening March 21: Under the Same Moon

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:25:18 +0000

The debut feature from director Patricia Riggen, this drama centers on a young boy's journey across the U.S./Mexico border to be reunited with his mother. Adrian Alonso stars as Carlitos, a Mexican adolescent living with his grandmother while his mother works as a maid in the U.S., hoping someday to send for her child. Continue Summary

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Opening March 14: Doomsday

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:49:04 +0000

Three decades after a major country is quarantined in hopes of containing a lethal and highly contagious virus nicknamed "Reaper," signs that the super-bug has resurfaced in a major city prompt desperate specialists to race back into the infected zone to find a cure in director Neal Marshall's (The Descent) miasmic speculative sci-fi thriller. Continue Summary

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