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OCTOBER 19th:

30 Days of Night

Rendition

Things We Lost in the Fire

Reservation Road

The Nightmare Before Christmas

OCTOBER 26th:

Dan in Real Life

Saw IV

Rails & Ties

Dark Blue Almost Black

NOVEMBER 2nd:

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

NOVEMBER 9th:

Lions for Lambs

No Country for Old Men

Fred Claus

Southland Tales

Om Shanti Om

We Own the Night

Director: James Gray
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes (Full Cast)
Studio: Columbia Pictures

The Plot: Though nightclub owner Bobby (Phoenix) and his police officer brother Joseph (Wahlberg) haven taken decidedly different paths in life, a near-fatal incident causes them to unite in a deadly confrontation with the mobsters who run Bobby's club.

THE BUZZ: It's like The Departed -- except they're brothers! And they know it! Anyone jonesing for some post-"Sopranos" mafia action should get their fix with this one. Although director Gray's serving up more borscht than spaghetti, as his Yards crew reunites to take on the Russians and a bad guy who looks like he should be fronting Gogol Bordello. Phoenix, who had us at "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash," looks equally sneering and sweaty here, while fellow Oscar nom Wahlberg has come a long way since the Funky ... See? We can't even say it. Adding Duvall as their daddy makes this one of the most perfectly solid casts we've seen all year; from what we've heard, they have to work extra hard to make up for the story's many plot holes and anachronisms.

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Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Director: Shekhar Kapur
Stars: Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush (Full Cast)
Studio: Universal Pictures

The Plot: England's Queen Elizabeth (Blanchett) struggles to maintain her powerful reign in the face of conspiracies to overthrow her and a budding relationship with explorer Sir Walter Raleigh (Owen).

THE BUZZ: O, how Hollywood loves a sequel. And, in a year of formulaic follow-ups, it's safe to say, few saw this one coming. Alas, if any period piece is worthy of a lavish second helping, Kapur's 1998 visual masterpiece 'tis one. Elizabeth earned a slew of Oscar noms, including Best Picture and a nod for Blanchett as the Virgin queen. If this one doesn't do the same, heads are gonna roll.

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Michael Clayton

Director: Tony Gilroy
Stars: George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson (Full Cast)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

The Plot: An in-house "fixer" (Clooney) at a top New York law firm risks his career, and his life, on a sabotaged class action suit that pits him against a rival litigator (Swinton).

THE BUZZ: Someone has to start taking all the lawyer roles for which Richard Gere has become too old ... We like Clooney in thriller-mode, and we love that he's inching closer and closer to his prime. (Love those greying temples.) As for Clayton's plot details, we're happy to remain in the dark here, especially after watching the trailer. You'll know what a "fixer" does if you remember you recall Jodie Foster in Inside Man. The idea of Clooney navigating his way through a scenario written and directed by Tony Gilroy (you love his work on the two Jason Bourne movies) and squaring off against Twilda Swinton -- it's just too promising.

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Lars and the Real Girl

Director: Craig Gillespie
Stars: Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider (Full Cast)
Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

The Plot: A delusional young guy (Gosling) strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet.

THE BUZZ: Wow, Ryan Gosling in his first comedy ... Internet romances usually bum us out (in real life, and in the movies) and the presence of director Gillespie gives us pause (he's the one who mucked-up Mr. Woodcock so bad that David Dobkin had to essentially remake the film), but the 4 leads here -- Kelli Garner rounds out the principal cast -- could stage a reading of the lamest screenplay ever and I'd still watch and listen for 90 minutes.

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Sleuth [limited]

Director: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Michael Caine, Jude Law (Full Cast)
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics

The Plot: A wealthy mystery writer (Caine) engages in a twisted game of cat and mouse with his wife's lover (Law).

THE BUZZ: Fans of the original will be hard-pressed to find faults with this remake, especially considering the Caine factor (hint: he's in both). Law, Branagh and Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter add a touch of class that almost makes us take the word "re-imagining" seriously. Although, there should be a rule for remaking classics that requires the studio to re-release the original on DVD. Get a clue, guys.

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Why Did I Get Married?

Director: Tyler Perry
Stars: Tyler Perry, Janet Jackson, Sharon Leal (Full Cast)
Studio: Lionsgate

The Plot: An adulterous incident causes four couples to take a hard look at their respective marriages during their annual week-long vacation in the Colorado mountains.

THE BUZZ: If Daddy's Little Girls taught Tyler Perry anything, it's that his audience wants to see him in front of the camera, not just behind it. But how will they react to him fully out of drag? If this one underperforms like DLG, fear not, for Madea will be back in early 2008 in Meet the Browns.

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Control

Director: Anton Corbijn
Stars: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Craig Parkinson (Full Cast)
Studio: Weinstein Company, The

The Plot: A profile of Ian Curtis (Riley), the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23.

THE BUZZ:
Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist,
Behind his eyes he says, "I still exist."

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Terror's Advocate [LA/NY]

Director: Barbet Schroeder
Stars: Jacques Vergès, Klaus Barbie, Barbet Schroeder (Full Cast)
Studio: Magnolia Pictures

The Plot: A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla who has defended figures such as Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy.

THE BUZZ: Head over to the IFC blog to read a sharp-tongued-and-titled review of this film, snarkily called a "Cannes remnant," and reference this list of playdates, which is sure to expand in the coming weeks.

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The Final Season

Director: David M. Evans
Stars: Sean Astin, Powers Boothe, Rachael Leigh Cook (Full Cast)
Studio: Yari Film Group Releasing

The Plot: The residents of Norway, Iowa rally behind their championship high school baseball team -- the Varsity Norway Tigers, coached by the legendary Jim Van Scoyoc (Boothe) -- during their last season before their school is merged into another.

THE BUZZ: Sean Astin, whose post-LotR luster has dulled over the past few years, leads the cast of this true-story sports drama into a wide release, where it should benefit from ultra-targeted marketing. The director of The Sandlot offers up a solid genre exercise with no surprises in store, especially if you are familiar with the bittersweet tale. Click on the hard-to-locate movie ticket here to see if it's playing in your town.

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The Game Plan

Director: Andy Fickman
Stars: The Rock, Kyra Sedgwick, Madison Pettis (Full Cast)
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures

The Plot: As he pushes his team toward the NFL championships, superstar quarterback Joe Kingman (The Rock) discovers that he has a 7-year-old daughter (Pettis) from a previous relationship. Turning to his hard-nosed agent (Sedgwick), the parentally challenged duo try to turn a serial bachelor into a responsible father.

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THE BUZZ: When his action-star sheen started to fade, The Rock a) began to embrace his birth name and b) sought to diversify his movie roles. Two smart moves. Following up the well-received Gridiron Gang with a flat-out family picture proves the former wrestler's savvy, but whether this plan leads to his biggest box office success is an unknown. It certainly will depend on the extent of Disney's marketing push, and the studio has found a primo release date -- no other family movies in sight thus far -- and they got the trailer online and in theaters by early summer. Why are we rooting for this? Partly because the young lady playing The Rock's daughter isn't some little blonde girl ... Like most of you, we're more curious as to how Dwayne Johnson handles the shaky-sounding premise offered in the upcoming Southland Tales.

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The Heartbreak Kid

Director: Bobby Farrelly Peter Farrelly
Stars: Ben Stiller, Michelle Monaghan, Malin Akerman (Full Cast)
Studio: Paramount Pictures

The Plot: A newlywed (Stiller) regrets marrying his wife and ends up meeting the girl of his dreams (Monaghan) while on his honeymoon.

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THE BUZZ: Few have ever heard of Neil Simon and Elaine May's original 1972 Heartbreak. Even fewer remember how hilarious it is. Not a bad game plan for the Farrelly Brothers, who really need to remind audiences how capable they are at getting guffaws. Same can't be said for Stiller, though, who hasn't played the nebbish male lead caught in insanely awkward situation since, well, his last film. Still, we're curious to see what all the pillow talk is about and why it was supposedly "too hot for Comic-Con".

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The Kingdom

Director: Peter Berg
Stars: Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner (Full Cast)
Studio: Universal Pictures

The Plot: An FBI agent (Foxx) and his team are dispatched to a formerly off-limits Middle Eastern kingdom to find those responsible for a bombing that claimed the lives of American workers in Riyadh.

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THE BUZZ: Jamie Foxx and Chris Cooper return to the Middle Eastern desert (really, an elaborate set in Arizona) for a story conceived by Michael Mann and written by Joe Carnahan's brother, Matthew. Frankly, we're surprised the project's release strategy is more United 93 than Jarhead, as they have two Oscar-winners in starring roles.

Update: Reactions to initial test screenings, which were held this past winter, were so overwhelmingly positive that Universal has now positioned their film as a marquee release for the fall, where it joins U's other two prestige films, American Gangster and Charlie Wilson's War.

Final thought:We're wondering how the movie-going public will react to this major release, especially as Warner Bros. takes their time in rolling out In the Valley of Elah. Something tells us it could be old news by the time Rendition, the next war-related bummer, arrives!

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Resident Evil: Extinction

Director: Russell Mulcahy
Stars: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Oded Fehr (Full Cast)
Studio: Screen Gems

The Plot: Led by the tough, sharp-minded Claire (Larter), survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to safety in Alaska. Their chances are improved when Alice (Jovovich) joins the caravan and their fight against the Umbrella Corporation.

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THE BUZZ: Where's Jill? Good question, but maybe Sienna Guillory just got tired of her character being misinterpreted by Paul W.S. Anderson from the get-go ... We're just thinking out loud. But what everyone, including Milla Jovovich, should be worried about is the decision to bring on Russell Mulcahy as the director of this game-to-movie franchise's third installment. This is Russell Mulcahy of The Shadow, just so you know. Of Blue Ice and Ricochet. Considering the quality of Resident Evil: Apocalypse, we're still amazed it bested its predecessor; we'll be stumped if Extinction pulls off a bigger box office feat. No matter what, we'd rather see the RE story continue over, say, AVP. As the release date inches near, we're kinda loving the whole female Mad Max idea ...

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The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising

Director: David L. Cunningham
Stars: Alexander Ludwig, Ian McShane, Christopher Eccleston (Full Cast)
Studio: Fox-Walden

The Plot: The life of young Will Stanton (Ludwig) is turned upside down when he learns that he is the last of a group of immortal warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of the dark.

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THE BUZZ: The relatively unknown Alexander Ludwig, like Edward Speleers before him, has the honor/dubious task of protecting the world from dark forces. But without dragons. Or the faux-medieval outfits. Deadwood's Ian McShane, who is like the new Christopher Walken (the man is everywhere), will have Ludwig's back, though.

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Good Luck Chuck

Director: Mark Helfrich
Stars: Dane Cook, Jessica Alba, Dan Fogler (Full Cast)
Studio: Lionsgate

The Plot: In order to keep the woman of his dreams (Alba) from falling for another guy, Charlie Logan (Cook) has to break the curse that has made him wildly popular with single women: Sleep with Charlie once, and the next man you meet will be your true love.

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THE BUZZ: Dude comedy abounds this summer, because every studio is jonesing for the next Wedding Crashers-level hit. Given the ascension of Judd Apatow and his smarterpants, male-centric point-of-view, is there room left for Dane Cook's aloof sense of humor? Meanwhile, is Jessica Alba gunning to become the new Cameron Diaz?

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3:10 to Yuma

Director: James Mangold
Stars: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Ben Foster (Full Cast)
Studio: Lionsgate

The Plot: Small-time rancher Dan Evans (Bale) agrees to transport captured outlaw Ben Wade (Crowe) to a nearby town until the daily train can take him to Yuma for trial. Holed up in the same hotel, the two men engage in a battle of wills as the hours tick by ...

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THE BUZZ: Trapped in development hell for years, Mangold's follow-up to Walk the Line almost didn't happen after Tom Cruise detatched from the project and Sony put it out to pasture. Now, with Crowe and Bale on board, the remake is positioned as the first Western out of the gate, with No Country for Old Men and The Assassination of Jesse James on their heels. We hear Lionsgate already has their Oscar campaign in place, complete with a January '08 DVD release date.

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Feel the Noise

Director: Alejandro Chomski
Stars: Omarion Grandberry, Giancarlo Esposito, Melonie Diaz (Full Cast)
Studio: Sony BMG Feature Films

The Plot: A young man from the South Bronx (Grandberry) dreams of making it as a rapper, until a run-in with local thugs forces him to hide in Puerto Rico with the father he never knew (Esposito).

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THE BUZZ: Where's Omarion Grandberry been, anyway? The former B2K pin-up sure is taking a lot of heat for scoring a role that people apparently feel should be portrayed by a Latino. For a film steeped in Reggaeton culture, the filmmakers could have plucked one that scene's stars for this low budget drama. Or, um, at the very least, they could have kept the title Reggaeton. Whatever the case, the film represents J-Lo's third attempt at a big-screen comeback this year (she's just producing here, though, no cameos). But this looks like a boy version of Honey, and nothing more.

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Mr. Woodcock

Director: Craig Gillespie
Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Seann William Scott, Susan Sarandon (Full Cast)
Studio: New Line Cinema

The Plot: John Farley (Scott) returns home in an effort to stop his mom (Sarandon) from marrying his old high school gym teacher (Thornton), a man who has made high school hell for generations of students.

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THE BUZZ: Are they letting Sean William Scott title his films now? New Line almost buried this one after test screenings proved frosty. David Dobkin (The Wedding Crashers) was recruited for reshoots, and we hear more than half the film has been reworked, though Craig Gillespie will still be credited as director. This is one in an ever increasing log jam of common denomenator comedies featuring Scott, who's not getting any younger. Neither is Bad Santa, who here dons short-shorts to match with his acerbic wit. Meanwhile, best of luck to Gillespie on his second film, the suspicious sounding Lars and the Real Girl, starring Ryan Gosling.

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The Brave One

Director: Neil Jordan
Stars: Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Naveen Andrews (Full Cast)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

The Plot: New York radio host Erica Bain (Foster) looks to recover from a brutal attack, one that left her severely wounded and her fiancé dead, by setting out on a mission for revenge. With her anonymous exploits earning their fair share of public attention, and a detective inching closer to naming a suspect, she begins to question if the path she's on is the right one.

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THE BUZZ: Jodie Foster gets stressy yet again, this time for artisan Neil Jordan, who will be the Spike Lee of 2007 (wherein an indie director guides a Hollywood product over the $100 million mark). It's a bit early in the year to release a Best Actress candidate, but have you seen what the rest of the year looks like for female leads? Weak ... We've seen some unauthorized photos of Jodie in action; all we can say is she looks fab with her shaped hair and vintage wardrobe. Shiny!

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