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Fri Feb 03, 2012
Wide Release - Universal Pictures
Director(s): Ken Kwapis
Written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler, and based on the nonfiction book "Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World's Greatest Non-Event" by Tom Rose, set in Cold War-era 1988, "Everybody Loves Whales" tells the true story of a small-town news reporter (Krasinski) and a Greenpeace volunteer (Barrymore) who enlist the help of rival superpowers to save three majestic gray whales trapped under the ice of the ...
Fri Feb 03, 2012
NY and/or LA - eOne Films US
Director(s): Dori Berinstein
The story of legendary performer Carol Channing's life is as colorful as the lipstick on her big, bright smile. This captures the magic and vivacity of the 90-year-old icon – both onstage and off...past and present. The film is both an intimate love story and a rarefied journey inside Broadway's most glamorous era. ...
Fri Feb 03, 2012
Wide Release - 20th Century Fox
Director(s): Josh Trank
Written by Max Landis, this is about three Portland high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to them developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities, and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and their darker sides begin to take over. ...
Fri Feb 03, 2012
NY and/or LA - Magnolia Pictures
Director(s): Ti West
After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees -Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy) - are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England's most haunted hotels. As the Inn’s final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming even ...
Fri Feb 03, 2012
NY and/or LA - IFC Midnight
Director(s): Ben Wheatley
Eight months after a botched job in Kiev, Jay (Neil Maskell) is an out-of-work hitman with no job, money, health insurance and a wife constantly on his case. But when his business partner Gal (Michael Smiley) comes over for dinner and pressures Jay into taking a new assignment, Jay quickly finds himself back in the game with the promise of a big payoff after three assassinations. Although the hits start off without i ...
Fri Feb 03, 2012
NY and/or LA - IFC Films
Director(s): David Mackenzie
Scripted by Kim Fupz Aakeson, formerly titled "The Last Word", this is a story about two people who fall in love as the world begins to fall apart. ...
Fri Feb 03, 2012
NY and/or LA - First Run Features
Director(s): Laura Israel
Wind power: it’s clean; it’s green; it’s good. Or is it? Wind power…it’s sustainable…it burns no fossil fuels…it produces no air pollution. What’s more, it cuts down dependency on foreign oil. That’s what the residents of Meredith, New York first thought when a wind developer looked to supplement the rural farm town’s failing economy with a farm of their own – that of 40 industrial wind turbines ...
Fri Feb 03, 2012
Wide Release - CBS Films
Director(s): James Watkins
Based on Susan Hill’s novel, written by Jane Goldman, this follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps (Radcliffe), who is ordered to travel to a remote corner of the UK and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in an old and isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover its tragic secrets, and his unease grows when he discovers that the local village is held hostage by the ghost of a scorned woman s ...
Fri Feb 10, 2012
NY and/or LA - Gkids - Luma Films
Director(s): Fernando Trueba
Cuba, 1948. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey – in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero – brings heartache and torment. From Havana to New York, Paris, Hollywood and Las Vegas, two passionate individuals battle impossible odds to unite in music and love. ...
Fri Feb 10, 2012
NY and/or LA -
Director(s): Alison Bagnall
Rose, a woman descending into an emotional tailspin after her husband admits to an affair. Hell-bent on revenge, she drives to a boarded-up Delaware beach town to hunt down the other woman. Instead, she discovers a stranded British teenage boy (Olly Alexander) marooned on the beach. This lost boy becomes her constant companion and caretaker. The mismatched pair stumbles through a series of small adventures that build ...
Fri Feb 10, 2012
NY and/or LA - Sony Pictures Classics
Director(s): Agnieszka Holland
Written by David F. Shamoon, set in 1943, the Polish town of Lvov is occupied by the Nazis. Poverty grows. One day the selfish thief and burglar Leopold Socha encounters a group of Jewish refugees – and hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town’s sewers. At first only interested in lucrative business the whole thing reaches more and more Socha’s conscience. The Polish small-time crook makes up his mind ...
Fri Feb 10, 2012
Wide Release - New Line Cinema (Warner Bros.)
Director(s): Brad Peyton
The new journey begins when Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcherson) receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist — a place of strange life forms, mountains of gold, deadly volcanoes, and more than one astonishing secret. The secret is rumored to involve Sean's missing grandfather, Alexander Anderson (Michael Caine). Unable to stop him from going, Sean's new stepfather (Dwayne Johns ...
Fri Feb 10, 2012
NY and/or LA - Dada Films
Director(s): Liza Johnson
Written by Liza Johnson, back from a tour of duty, Kelli (Cardellini) can't wait to rejoin her old life in the rust belt town she's always lived in. She's ready to experience the feelings of everyday life-- the carpet under her bare feet, a cold beer in front of the television, the smell of her baby's head. Slowly, though, she realizes that her everyday life doesn't resemble the one she left. A gap opens up with her ...
Fri Feb 10, 2012
Wide Release - Universal Pictures
Director(s): Daniel Espinoza
Scripted by David Guggenheim, the film centers on a house sitter of a CIA-run safe house (Reynolds) who must help a criminal (Washington), who's being hidden there, avoid being killed as they flee to another secure facility when the first house is destroyed by villains who want the witness dead. ...
Fri Feb 10, 2012
NY and/or LA - The Cinema Guild
Director(s): Béla Tarr
Co-written by Tarr and Laszlo Krasznahorkai, the film is freely inspired by an episode that marked the end of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s career. On January 3,1889, on the piazza Alberto in Turin, a weeping Nietzsche flung his arms around an exhausted and ill-treated carriage horse, then lost consciousness. After this event, the philosopher never wrote again and descended into madness and silence. From this s ...
Fri Feb 10, 2012
NY and/or LA - The Weinstein Company
Director(s): Dan Lindsay, TJ Martin
Set in the inner-city of Memphis, Undefeated chronicles the Manassas Tigers’ 2009 football season, on and off-the-field, as they strive to win the first playoff game in the high school’s 110-year history. A perennial whipping boy, in recent decades Manassas had gone so far as to sell their home games to the highest bidder, but that all changed in the spring of 2004 when Bill Courtney, a former high school foot ...
Fri Feb 10, 2012
Wide Release - Screen Gems (Sony)
Director(s): Michael Sucsy
Scripted by Michael Sucsy, Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, the film tells the real-life story of a newlywed New Mexico couple, played by McAdams and Tatum, who end up in a car crash. The wife is put in a coma, where she is cared for by her devoted husband. When she comes to, without any memory of her husband or their marriage, the husband woos her and attempts to wins her heart again. ...
Tue Feb 14, 2012
Wide Release - 20th Century Fox
Director(s): McG
This is the story of two best friends (Pine and Hardy), inseparable since childhood, who fall in love with the same woman (Witherspoon). The two men's bond disintegrates and their ensuing battle escalates to mammoth proportions, with New York City demolished in their wake. ...
Wed Feb 15, 2012
NY and/or LA - Strand Releasing
Director(s): Markus Schleinzer
The eponymous subject is a timid insurance agent, a 35-year-old milquetoast loner with a terrifying secret: Michael (Michael Fuith), a seemingly meek insurance agent, has a secret: he's holding 10-year-old Wolfgang (David Rauchenberger) captive in a locked room in his basement. Chronicling a five month period, this is a tense portrait of how seemingly mundane lives can hide the darkest secrets. ...
Fri Feb 17, 2012
NY and/or LA - Drafthouse Films
Director(s): Michael R. Roskam
Domineering cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille (Matthias Schoenaerts), constantly pumped on steroids and hormones, initiates a shady deal with a notorious mafioso meat trader. When an investigating federal agent is assassinated and a woman from his traumatic past resurfaces, Jacky must confront his demons and face the far-reaching consequences of his decisions. ...
Fri Feb 17, 2012
Wide Release - Columbia Pictures
Director(s): Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine
Samhain. Every October 31st, the boundary between this world and the next becomes a hair’s breadth. On that night, if the devil finds a host strong enough to hold his entire spirit -- one that is both of this world and the next -- If he finds such a host and has his shadow fall over theirs by the fires of Hell, the devil will take that host and walk the earth. Blaze is visited by Moreau, the Summoner Excelsis from ...
Fri Feb 17, 2012
NY and/or LA -
Director(s): Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
This is about two teenage boys who have grown up like brothers go about their lives in the comfortable claustrophobia of an isolated Alaskan town. Early one morning, on a seal hunt with another teenager, an argument between the three boys quickly escalates into a tragic accident. Bonded by their dark secret, the two best friends are forced tocreate one fabrication after another in order to survive. The shocked boys ...
Fri Feb 17, 2012
Director(s): Lise Birk Pedersen
PUTIN'S KISS portrays contemporary life in Russia through the coming-of-age story of Masha, a middle-class, 19-year-old Russian girl and a member of Nashi, a political youth organization that is connected with the Kremlin. Extremely ambitious, the young Masha quickly ascends to the top of Nashi, which allows her to become the protégé of the Minister of Youth. She is rewarded for her loyalty with an apartment while ...
Fri Feb 17, 2012
Limited Release - Walt Disney Pictures
Director(s): Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Based on Mary Norton's acclaimed children's book series "The Borrowers", residing quietly beneath the floorboards are little people who live undetected in a secret world to be discovered, where the smallest may stand tallest of all. Arrietty, a tiny but tenacious 14-year-old, lives with her parents in the recesses of a suburban garden home, unbeknownst to the homeowner and her housekeeper. Like all little people, Arr ...
Fri Feb 17, 2012
NY and/or LA - ATO Pictures
Director(s): Jill Sprecher
Formerly titled "The Convincer", scripted by Jill and Karen Sprecher, Mickey Prohaska (Greg Kinnear) is a small-time insurance agent looking for a way to jump-start his business, reunite with his estranged wife (Lea Thompson) and escape the frigid Wisconsin weather. This self-proclaimed master of spin believes that salesmanship is about selling a story — all he needs is a sucker willing to buy it. He hits pay dirt ...
Fri Feb 24, 2012
Wide Release - Relativity Media
Director(s): Mike McCoy, Scott Waugh
An unprecedented blend of real-life heroism and original filmmaking, Act of Valor stars a group of active-duty Navy SEALs in a powerful story of contemporary global anti-terrorism. Inspired by true events, the film combines stunning combat sequences, up-to-the minute battlefield technology and heart-pumping emotion for the ultimate action adventure. Act of Valor takes audiences deep into the secretive world of the mo ...
Fri Feb 24, 2012
NY and/or LA - IFC Films
Director(s): Joshua Marston
This focuses on an Albanian family caught up in a blood feud. Nik (Tristan Halilaj) is a carefree teenager in a small town with a crush on the school beauty and ambitions to start his own internet café. His world is suddenly up-ended when his father and uncle become entangled in a land dispute that leaves a fellow villager murdered. According to a centuries-old code of law, this entitles the dead man's family to tak ...
Fri Feb 24, 2012
Wide Release - Summit Entertainment
Director(s): Heitor Dhalia
Jill Parrish (Amanda Seyfried) comes home from a night shift to discover her sister Molly has been abducted. Jill, who had escaped from a kidnapper a year before, is convinced that the same serial killer has come back for her sister. Afraid that Molly will be dead by sundown, Jill embarks on a heart-pounding chase to find the killer, expose his secrets and save her sister. ...
Fri Feb 24, 2012
NY and/or LA - Kino Lorber
Director(s): Bruno Romy, Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel
Dom works the night shift in a small hotel near the industrial sea port of Le Havre. One night, a woman arrives with no luggage and no shoes. Her name is Fiona. She tells Dom she is a fairy and grants him three wishes. Fiona makes two wishes come true then mysteriously disappears. Dom, who by then has fallen in love with Fiona, searches for her everywhere… ...
Fri Feb 24, 2012
NY and/or LA - Tribeca Film
Director(s): Paco Cabezas
Full of style and wild humor, NEON FLESH is a high-energy crime thriller centered around Ricky and the underground world that he lives in. His prostitute mother, Pura, abandoned him when he was 12. Now a young man, he wants to honor her by opening up a brothel when she is released from prison. For help he enlists a pimp, his junkie girlfriend, and a transsexual who believes that she's royalty, but when he finally pic ...
Fri Feb 24, 2012
NY and/or LA - Freestyle Releasing
Director(s): Stuart Beattie
Based on the young-adult novel series of seven written by Australian John Marsden and published from 1994-99, this follows the journey of eight high school friends in an Australian coastal town whose lives are suddenly and violently upended by an invasion that no one saw coming. Caitlin Stasey stars as 17 year old Ellie Linton, a precocious teen who leads her best friends including Corrie (Rachel Hurd-Wood) and Kevin ...
Fri Feb 24, 2012
Wide Release - Lionsgate Films
Director(s): Tyler Perry
A successful, wealthy businessman, Wesley Deeds (Tyler Perry) has always done what’s expected of him, whether it’s assuming the helm of his father’s company, tolerating his brother’s misbehavior at the office or planning to marry his beautiful but restless fiancée, Natalie (Gabrielle Union). But Wesley is jolted out of his predictable routine when he meets Lindsey (Thandie Newton), a down-on-her-luck single ...
Fri Feb 24, 2012
Wide Release - Universal Pictures
Director(s): David Wain
Co-written by David Wain and Ken Marino, Linda (Jennifer Aniston) and George (Paul Rudd), a married couple who finds they are unable to afford their Manhattan home after George loses his job. As a result they are forced to drive to Atlanta to move in with George’s brother. However, along the way, they find themselves in a commune instead of what they thought was a bed and breakfast. Linda and George decide to take ...
Wed Feb 29, 2012
NY and/or LA -
Director(s): Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmas
This film tells how, for months, Jafar Panahi waited for the verdict of his court appeal. Through the depiction of a day in his life, Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb (a documentary filmmaker and former assistant director) offer us an overview of the current situation of Iranian cinema. ...