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25‑Jul	Step Brothers (Sony) Comedy - Rated R Target Market: Teens Two spoiled guys become competitive stepbrothers after their single parents get hitched. Step Brothers The X-Files: I Want to Believe (20th Fox) Sci-Fi/Thriller - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Adults 20-55 The X-Files: I Want to Believe American Teen (Paramount Vantage) Documentary - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Young Adult Art House 18-35 A documentary on seniors at a high school in a small Indiana town and their various cliques. American Teen Brideshead Revisited (Miramax) Drama - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Females 30+ The memoirs of Captain Charles Ryder who is stationed at Brideshead Castle during WWII and remembers his involvement with the owners of the Brideshead estate: the aristocratic yet Catholic Flyte family and in particular brother and sister Sebastian and Julia. Brideshead Revisited CSNY Déjà Vu (Roadside Attractions) Documentary - Rated R Target Market: CSNY Fans The war in Iraq is the backdrop as the Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young "Freedom of Speech Tour" crisscrosses North America. Echoes of Vietnam-era anti-war sentiment abound as the band connects with today's audiences. CSNY Déjà Vu Man on Wire (Magnolia) Documentary Target Market: Adult Art House A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century." Man on Wire
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1‑Aug	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Universal) Action/Adv. - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Young Adults 12-30 In the Far East, trouble-seeking father-and-son duo Rick and Alex O'Connell unearth the mummy of the first Emperor of Qin -- a shape-shifting entity who was cursed by a wizard centuries ago. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Swing Vote (Buena Vista) Comedy - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Adults 30+ In a remarkable turn-of-events, the result of the presidential election comes down to one man's vote. Swing Vote Frozen River (Sony Classics) Drama - Rated R Target Market: Adult Art House A dramatic feature film which takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Here, the lure of fast money from smuggling presents a daily challenge to single moms who would otherwise be earning minimum wage. Two women- one white, one Mohawk, both single mothers faced with desperate circumstances- are drawn into the world of border smuggling across the frozen water of the St. Lawrence River. Frozen River The Midnight Meat Train (Lionsgate) Horror - Rated R Target Market: Teens A New York photographer hunts down a serial killer The Midnight Meat Train America the Beautiful (First Independent) Documentary - Rated R Target Market: Female Art House 25+ In a society where "celebutantes" like Paris Hilton dominate newsstands and models who weigh less than 90 pounds die from malnutrition, female body image is one of the more dire problems facing today's society. "America the Beautiful" illuminates the issue by covering every base. Child models, plastic surgery, celebrity worship, airbrushed advertising, dangerous cosmetics - no rock is left unturned. America the Beautiful Sixty Six (First Independent) Drama/Com - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Adult Art House 30+ A boy's barmitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final. Sixty Six In Search of a Midnight Kiss (IFC Films) Romantic Comedy Target Market: Young Adult Date Crowd In Search of a Midnight Kiss is a rollicking comic ride and tender journey though love, sex, and modern romance in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve. Wilson, a twenty-nine-year old guy who has just had the worst year of his life, is new to Los Angeles, has no date, no concrete plans and every intention of locking the doors and forgetting the last year ever happened. That is until his best friend, Jacob, browbeats him into posting a personal ad on Craig's List. When Vivian, a strong-willed woman hell bent on being with the right guy at the stroke of midnight responds, a chaotic, sometimes hilarious, sometimes touching journey through the black and white streets of L.A. begins. In the waning hours of the year, emotional vulnerability and bitterly honest humor seem to be waiting around every corner. In Search of a Midnight Kiss
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6‑Aug	Pineapple Express (Sony) Comedy - Rated R Target Market: Young Adults 13-35 Lazy stoner Dale Denton has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver: to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop and the city's most dangerous drug lord, he panics and dumps his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale now has another reason to visit Saul: to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to him. And it is. As Dale and Saul run for their lives, they quickly discover that they're not suffering from weed-fueled paranoia; incredibly, the bad guys really are hot on their trail and trying to figure out the fastest way to kill them both. Pineapple Express The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (Warner Bros.) Drama/Com - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Females 6-25 The further adventures of the teenage girl foursome The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
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8‑Aug	Hell Ride (Third Rail Releasing) Action - Rated R Target Market: Fanboys The story deals with the characters Pistolero, the Gent and Comanche and the deadly, unfinished business among them. Hell Ride Bottle Shock (Freestyle Releasing) Drama Target Market: Adult Art House The story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as "Judgment of Paris". Bottle Shock Beer for My Horses (Roadside Attractions) Comedy Target Market: Males 20-55 "Beer for My Horses" tells the story of two best friends that work together as deputies in a small town. The two defy the Sheriff and head off on an outrageous road trip to save the protagonist's girlfriend from drug lord kidnappers. Beer for My Horses Red (Magnolia) Drama/Thriller - Rated R Target Market: Adults 25-55 An older, reclusive man's best friend is his dog RED. When three teens kill his dog for no reason, the man sets out for justice and redemption within whatever means possible, legal or otherwise. Red Greetings From the Shore (NewStyle Releasing) Drama Target Market: Adults 35+ Still reeling from the death of her father, a young girl spends one last summer at the Jersey Shore before heading off to college. But when her plans fall apart, the girl stumbles into a mysterious world of Russian sailors, high-stakes gambling, and unexpected love. Greetings From the Shore
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13‑Aug	Tropic Thunder (Paramount) Comedy - Rated R Target Market: Males 13-55 Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying. Tropic Thunder
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15‑Aug	Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Warner Bros.) Animated - Rated PG Target Market: Star Wars Fans Star Wars: The Clone Wars Mirrors (20th Fox) Horror Target Market: Young Adults 15-30 A mall security guard becomes wrapped up in a mystery involving a particular department store's mirrors which seem to bring out the worst in people. Mirrors Fly Me to the Moon (Summit Entertainment) Animated - Rated G Target Market: Kids Three young houseflies stow away aboard the Apollo 11 flight to the moon. Fly Me to the Moon Vicky Cristina Barcelona (MGM) Drama/Rom. - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Adult Art House 30+ A painter enters a relationship with two American tourists. Conflict begins with the painter's jealous ex-girlfriend. Vicky Cristina Barcelona Henry Poole is Here (Overture Films) Drama/Com - Rated PG Target Market: Young Adults After discovering he has a mere six weeks to live, a guy retreats from his everyday life for the comfort of booze, junk food, and solitude ... until an apparent miracle and his oddball neighbors look to intervene. Henry Poole is Here A Girl Cut in Two (IFC Films) Foreign Target Market: Adult Art House A black comedy centered around a TV weather girl and the two very different men who pursue her. A Girl Cut in Two
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20‑Aug	The Rocker (20th Fox) Comedy - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Males 18-30 The Rocker tells the story of a failed, drummer who gets a second chance at fame. Robert "Fish" Fishman is the extremely dedicated and astoundingly passionate (not to mention sweaty) drummer for the eighties hair band Vesuvius who is living the rock 'n' roll dream until he is unceremoniously kicked out of the group. Unfortunately for Fish, this happens right before Vesuvius becomes one of the biggest bands in the world. Fish is then forced to get a 'real' job and abandon his dream until an unlikely opportunity arises. Twenty years after getting booted out of the band he helped create, just when Fish has finally given up hope, all of his wildest fantasies come true. The Rocker
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22‑Aug	The Longshots (MGM) Drama Target Market: Families The true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of eleven, became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history. The Longshots Crossing Over (MGM) Drama Target Market: Adults 30-60 Crossing Over is a multi-character canvas about immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles. The film deals with the border, document fraud, the asylum and green card process, work-site enforcement, naturalization, the office of counter terrorism and the clash of cultures. Crossing Over The House Bunny (Sony) Comedy - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Teens When Shelly, a Playboy bunny, is tossed out of the mansion, she has nowhere to go until she falls in with the sorority girls from Zeta Tau Zeta. The members of the sorority - who also have got to be the seven most socially clueless women on the planet - are about to lose their house. They need a dose of what only the eternally bubbly Shelley can provide... but they will each learn on their own to stop pretending to be what others want them to be and start being themselves. The House Bunny Death Race (Universal) Sci-Fi/Action - Rated R Target Market: Males 13-45 A no-holds-barred, ultraviolent car race, set in 2020. Death Race The Fifth Commandment (Freestyle Releasing) Action/Crime Target Market: Males 15-35 In Bangkok, an assassin who turns down a job that hits too close to home finds himself targeted by the elite members of his profession. The Fifth Commandment Hamlet 2 (Focus Features) Comedy - Rated R Target Market: Young Adults 15-30 A high school drama teacher looks to motivate his students and save his department by writing a sequel to Shakespeare's "Hamlet". Hamlet 2 I Served the King of England (Sony Classics) Foreign - Rated R Target Market: Adult Art House 30+ A look at the glamorous life at an old-world Prague hotel. I Served the King of England I.O.U.S.A. (Roadside Attractions) Documentary Target Market: Adult Art House 30+ I.O.U.S.A. boldly examines the rapidly growing national debt and its consequences for the United States and its citizens. As the Baby Boomer generation prepares to retire, will there even be any Social Security benefits left to collect? Burdened with an ever-expanding government and military, increased international competition, overextended entitlement programs, and debts to foreign countries that are becoming impossible to honor, America must mend its spendthrift ways or face an economic disaster of epic proportions. Throughout history, the American government has found it nearly impossible to spend only what has been raised through taxes. The film follows U.S. Comptroller General David Walker as he crisscrosses the country explaining America's unsustainable fiscal policies to its citizens. With surgical precision, Creadon interweaves archival footage and economic data to paint a vivid and alarming profile of America's current economic situation. The ultimate power of I.O.U.S.A. is that the film moves beyond doomsday rhetoric to proffer potential financial scenarios and propose solutions about how we can recreate a fiscally sound nation for future generations. I.O.U.S.A. Trouble the Water (Zeitgeist) Documentary Target Market: Adult Art House 20-40 An aspiring rap artist and her streetwise husband, armed with a video camera, show what survival is all about when they are trapped in New Orleans by deadly floodwaters, and seize a chance for a new beginning. Trouble the Water
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27‑Aug	Traitor (Overture Films) Thriller - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Adults 25+ When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn. A mysterious figure with a web of connections to suspect organizations, Horn has a knack for emerging on the scene just as a major operation goes down. The inter-agency task force looking into the case meets with Carter, a veteran CIA contractor who seemingly has his own agenda and Max Archer, a fellow FBI agent. The task force links Horn to a bombing in Nice and a raid in London, but a tangle of contradictory evidence emerges, forcing Clayton to question whether his quarry is a man without loyalties or something far more complicated. Obsessed with discovering the truth, Clayton tracks Horn across the globe as the elusive ex-soldier burrows deeper and deeper into a world of shadows and intrigue. Traitor
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29‑Aug	Babylon A.D. (20th Fox) Sci-Fi/Action - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Males 15+ Veteran-turned-mercenary Thoorop takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman from Russia to China. Little does he know that she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a genetically modified Messiah. Babylon A.D. Disaster Movie (Lionsgate) Spoof Target Market: Teens Over the course of one evening, an unsuspecting group of twenty-somethings find themselves bombarded by a series of natural disasters and catastrophic events. Disaster Movie College (MGM) Comedy - Rated R Target Market: Young Adults 15-23 A wild weekend is in store for three high school seniors who visit a local college campus as prospective freshmen. College Sukiyaki Western Django (First Look) Foreign - Rated R Target Market: Male Art House 20+ Set during "The Genpei Wars" at the end of the 1100s, the Minamoto and Taira gangs face off in a town named Yuda, while a deadly gunman (Ito Hideaki) comes to the aid of the townsfolk. Sukiyaki Western Django House of the Sleeping Beauties (First Run) Foreign Target Market: Adult Art House Edmond, a man in his sixties whose wife has recently passed away, is told about a secret establishment where men can spend an entire night in bed alongside beautiful, sleeping young women, who stretch, roll over and dream, but never awaken. Bedazzled by their seductive yet innocent tenderness, but distressed about the reason for their deep sleep, he delves into the mystery of the house of sleeping beauties. House of the Sleeping Beauties
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Fall 2008	The Escapist (ThinkFilm) Thriller Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined he make peace with her before it's too late. He develops an ingenious escape plan, and recruits a dysfunctional band of escapists - misfits with a mutual dislike for one other but united by their desire to escape their hell hole of an existence. Much of the action takes place within the tunnels, sewers and underground rivers of subterranean London. The Escapist The Fox and the Child (Picturehouse) Documentary It has been described as both a nature doc and "fairy tale" look at the story of young girl and her friendship with a fox. The Fox and the Child
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5‑Sep	Bangkok Dangerous (Lionsgate) Action - Rated R Target Market: Males 15-50 A hitman in Bangkok to pull off a series of jobs falls for a local woman and bonds with his errand boy. Bangkok Dangerous The Accidental Husband (Yari Film Group) Com/Romance - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Date Crowd 25-50 When talk radio host Emma Lloyd advises one of her listeners to break up with her boyfriend, the jilted ex sets about getting his revenge. The Accidental Husband Hounddog (Empire) Drama Target Market: Adult Art House 30-45 A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley. Hounddog Mister Foe (Magnolia) Drama - Rated R Target Market: Adult Art House The seventeen year-old Hallam Foe is a weird teenager that misses his mother, who committed suicide, drowning in a lake nearby their house in Edinburgh after an overdose of sleeping pills. Hallam spends his spare time peeping at the locals and blames his stepmother Verity Foe, accusing her of killing his mother. After a discussion with his father Julius Foe, Hallam sneaks out from his house and travels to Edinburgh, where he sees Kate Breck and becomes obsessed with her because of her resemblance to his mother. Kate hires Hallam to work in the kitchen of the hotel where she works and they have a strange romance, while Hallam reaches his maturity the hardest way. Mister Foe Everybody Wants to Be Italian (Roadside Attractions) Com/Romance - Rated R Target Market: Italian American Date Crowd It's a case of mistaken ethnicity, where two non-Italians pretend to be Italian to win each others hearts in Boston's North End. Everybody Wants to Be Italian Ping Pong Playa (IFC Films) Drama - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Young Adult Art House A kid dreams of playing professional basketball in order to escape his dead-end job, living in the suburbs, his bossy older brother and running his Mom's ping pong classes. Ping Pong Playa The Secret (Strand Releasing) Foreign/Drama Target Market: Adult Art House 25+ A 15-year-old boy unearths a shocking family secret. The Secret Save Me (First Run) Drama Target Market: Gay Art House 20+ A sex and drug addicted young man who is forced into a Christian-run ministry in an attempt to cure him of his "gay affliction", where instead he is faced with the truth in his heart and spirit. Save Me