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The Women

In New York City’s modern whirl of fashion and publishing, Mary Haines seems to have it all–a beautiful country home, a rich financier husband, an adorable 11-year-old daughter and a part-time career creating designs for her father’s venerable clothing company. Her best friend, Sylvie Fowler, leads another enviable life–as a happily single editor of a prominent fashion magazine, a possessor of a huge closet of designer clothes and a revered arbiter of taste and style poised on New York’s cutting edge. But when Mary’s husband enters into an affair with Crystal Allen, a sultry “spritzer girl” lurking behind the Saks Fifth Avenue perfume counter, all hell breaks loose. Mary and Sylvie’s relationship is tested to the breaking point while their tight-knit circle of friends, including mega-mommy Edie Cohen and author Alex Fisher, all start to question their own friendships and romantic relationships as well.

Also Known As:
The Women (Inferno)

Production Status:
Released

Logline:
The story centers around bickering, divorce and competition amongst a supposed group of friends.

Genres:
Comedy, Drama, Adaptation and Remake

Release Date:
September 12th, 2008 (wide)

MPAA Rating:
PG-13 for sex-related material, language, some drug use and brief smoking.

Distributors:
Picturehouse

Bangkok Dangerous

The life of Joe, an anonymous assassin, takes an unexpected turn when he travels to Thailand to complete a series of contract killings. Joe, a remorseless hitman, is in Bangkok to execute four enemies of a ruthless crime boss named Surat. He hires Kong, a street punk and pickpocket, to run errands for him with the intention of covering his tracks by killing him at the end of the assignment. Strangely, Joe, the ultimate lone wolf, finds himself mentoring the young man instead whilst simultaneously being drawn into a tentative romance with a local shop girl. As he falls further under the sway of Bangkok’s intoxicating beauty, Joe begins to question his isolated existence and let down his guard–just as Surat decides it’s time to clean house.

Also Known As:
A Time to Kill
Bangkok Dangerous (Remake)
Big Hit in Bangkok
Time to Kill

Production Status:
Released

Genres:
Action/Adventure, Thriller, Crime/Gangster and Remake

Release Date:
September 5th, 2008

MPAA Rating:
R for violence, language and some sexuality.

Distributors:
Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, Lionsgate

The Duchess

A vibrant beauty and celebrity of her time is trapped in an unhappy triangle with her husband and his live-in mistress. She falls passionately in love with an ambitious young politician, and the affair causes a bitter conflict with her husband and threatens to erupt into a scandal.

Also Known As:
Georgiana
Georgiana: Dutchess of Devonshire

Production Status:
Released

Genres:
Art/Foreign, Drama, Adaptation and Biopic

Release Date:
September 19th, 2008 (limited)

MPAA Rating:
PG-13 for sexual content, brief nudity and thematic material.

Distributors:
Paramount Vantage

DISASTER MOVIE

In DISASTER MOVIE, the filmmaking team behind the hits “Scary Movie,” “Date Movie,” “Epic Movie” and “Meet The Spartans” this time puts its unique, inimitable stamp on one of the biggest and most bloated movie genres of all time — the disaster film. DISASTER MOVIE follows the comic misadventures of a group of ridiculously attractive twenty-somethings during one fateful night as they try to make their way to safety while every known natural disaster and catastrophic event — asteroids, twisters, earthquakes, the works — hits the city and their path as they try to solve a series of mysteries to end the rampant destruction. Taking aim at everything and everyone, from “Indiana Jones” and “Iron Man” to Amy Winehouse and “High School Musical,” DISASTER MOVIE lampoons the blockbuster movie, pop culture icons and public figures along the way as Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer satirize everything as only they can.

Release Date:
August 29th, 2008 (wide)

MPAA Rating:
PG-13 for crude and sexual content througout, language, drug references and comic violence.

Distributors:
Lionsgate Films

Death Race

Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the U.S. penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the ‘Death Race’, the world’s biggest, most brutal sporting event. Five-time NASCAR champion Jensen Ames is a man who has become an expert at survival. After eight years of hard time, he has only six weeks before reuniting with his family. But when Weyland demands a driver to headline the big game, Ames is forced to submit. Donning the costume of mythical rider Frankenstein, the racer becomes an instant crowd favorite, an unequaled sporting superstar. His face hidden by a metallic black mask, one convict will be put through a brutal three day challenge, with the trophy being the ultimate prize: freedom. The only catch is that he must survive a gauntlet of the most vicious criminals in this post-industrial wasteland to claim it. Driving a monster car outfitted with machine guns, flamethrowers and grenade launchers, Ames must now kill or be killed to win the most treacherous spectator sport on Earth: ‘Death Race’.

Also Known As:
Death Race 3000

Production Status:
Released

Logline:
In the year 2020, a series of race car drivers compete in an ultraviolent race using heavily armed cars.

Genres:
Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Thriller, Remake and Sports

Release Date:
August 22nd, 2008 (wide)

MPAA Rating:
R for strong violence and language.

Distributors:
Universal Pictures