Adapted from the Will Eisner’s graphic novels, “The Spirit” tells the story of a man who fakes his own death and fights crime from the shadows of Central City. The Octopus — who kills anyone unfortunate enough to see his face — has other plans. He’s going to wipe out the entire city. The Spirit tracks this coldhearted killer from the city’s rundown warehouses, to the damp catacombs, to the windswept waterfront…all the while facing a bevy of beautiful women who either want to seduce, love or kill the masked crusader.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Thriller, Crime/Gangster and Adaptation
Release Date: December 25th, 2008 (wide)

After Kevin, a high school senior, gets dumped by his girlfriend for being too boring, he doesn’t want to go to the freshman orientation weekend at Fairmont University, where they had planned to go together. But his best friends, Cater and Morris, convince him that the weekend away will help get his mind off her. Once there, one of the rowdiest fraternities on campus decides to recruit them as “pledges” in return for granting them access to the college party scene. Though forced to put up with the disgusting antics of fraternity brothers Teague, Bearcat, and Cooper, the guys meet sorority girls Kendall, Heather, and Amy, and sparks fly all around. But once Teague feels threatened by Kevin’s new relationship with Kendall, he takes the pre-frosh humiliation to a greater level, and the guys decide to fight back, pulling a huge prank that lands them on top.

Genres: Comedy and Teen
Release Date: August 29th, 2008 (wide)

A failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama teacher rallies his Tucson, AZ students as he conceives and stages a politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Genres: Comedy and Musical/Performing Arts
Release Date: August 22nd, 2008 (limited)

New York firefighter Patrick Sullivan had no idea his seemingly idyllic life was about to go up in smoke–especially as the unwitting, second-hand recipient of advice from famed love expert and radio host Dr. Emma Lloyd. One day he is a happy, go-lucky guy looking forward to a life with his soon-to-be-bride. The next thing you know, his fiancee Sophia is seeking couples counseling on the radio from Dr. Lloyd. The no-nonsense, ever practical Dr. Lloyd questions Sophia’s concept of romantic love and advises her to break their engagement, which she swiftly does. But when Patrick and his computer-savvy neighbor decide to give Dr. Lloyd a taste of her own medicine and “accidentally” join them in holy matrimony–something that doesn’t go over too well with her fiancee–it isn’t long before they learn that sometimes even an expert in love needs a second opinion…

Genres: Comedy
Release Date: August 22nd, 2008 (wide)

A massive fireball from space hits New York’s Central Park and an ordinary man emerges unscathed. The man turns out to be a spaceship operated by 100 human-looking aliens who are one-quarter inch tall and seeking a way to save their planet; complications ensue when their captain falls in love with an Earth woman who’s always picked losers for previous romances.

Genres: Comedy and Science Fiction/Fantasy
Release Date: July 11th, 2008 (wide)

Two NASA chimps are sent to a galaxy far, far away. One chimp has ‘The Right Stuff,’ and the other, a good natured goofball, has ‘The Wrong Stuff.’ The two chimps find themselves on a strange, uncharted planet, where they embark on a fantastical journey to save its inhabitants from a tyrannical leader.

Genres: Action/Adventure and Animation
Release Date: July 18th, 2008 (wide)

Three mysterious strangers terrorize a young couple in a remote house after they return from a wedding.

Genres: Suspense/Horror and Thriller
Release Date: May 30th, 2008 (wide)

In a downtown Los Angeles apartment building, a deadly strain of rabies breaks out.

Genres: Suspense/Horror, Thriller and Remake

A young interracial couple move into their dream home and are increasingly harassed by their next-door neighbor, a tightly wound black LAPD officer. When the couple decides to fight back the feud turns deadly.

Genres: Thriller and Crime/Gangster
Release Date: September 19th, 2008 (wide)

When a man discovers that he has only six weeks to live, he leaves his job, his fiancee and his overbearing mother and tries to spend his remaining days in seclusion. But when a miracle transforms his life, his quirky neighbors disrupt his plan to live out his days in quiet desperation.

Release Date: July 25th, 2008 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG for thematic elements and some language.

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.

Genres: Art/Foreign, Drama, Thriller and Adaptation
Release Date: September 19th, 2008 (wide)

Tank, a guy hired to take girls on horrible dates so they crawl back to the boyfriends they dumped, struggles with his libido and the meaning of friendship when his best pal needs his help with the girl who dumped him.

Genres: Comedy

STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS showcases an entirely new look and feel to the galaxy far, far away - combining the expansive scope of the Star Wars Saga with state-of-the-art computer-generated animation. On the front lines of an intergalactic struggle between good and evil, fans young and old will join such favorite characters as Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Padme Amidala, along with brand-new heroes like Anakin’s padawan learner, Ahsoka. Sinister villains - led by Palpatine, Count Dooku and General Grievous - are poised to rule the galaxy. Stakes are high, and the fate of the Star Wars universe rests in the hands of the daring Jedi Knights. Their exploits lead to the action-packed battles and astonishing new revelations that fill STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS.

Genres: Science Fiction/Fantasy and Animation
Release Date: August 15th, 2008 (wide)

A woman’s husband collides with his brother in a freak car accident, landing both of them into comas. Complications arise when the brother wakes and believes that he is the woman’s husband.

Genres: Science Fiction/Fantasy, Thriller and Remake
Release Date: March 28th, 2008 (wide)

An assassin is assigned to kill a Middle East oil minister. His cover is that he’s producing a big trade show that includes a wedding between a local pop star and a politico, but complications ensue.

Genres: Comedy and Politics/Religion
Release Date: May 23rd, 2008 (NY/LA)

Shelley Darlington has lived at the Playboy mansion for the last nine years. She is Hef’s favorite and acts like a den mother to the other girls. On her birthday, she is unceremoniously evicted from Hef’s pad for ‘being too old.’ Homeless and without essential skills, Shelley wanders around L.A. until she finds a new job–the housemother at the most unpopular sorority on campus.

Genres: Comedy
Release Date: August 22nd, 2008

25-year-old Wes was the most disaffected, cube-dwelling drone the planet had ever known. His boss chewed him out hourly, his girlfriend ignored him routinely and his life plodded on interminably. Everyone was certain this disengaged slacker would amount to nothing. There was little else for Wes to do but wile away the days and die in his slow, clock-punching rut. Until he met a woman named Fox. After his estranged father is murdered, the deadly sexy Fox recruits Wes into the Fraternity, a secret society that trains Wes to avenge his dad’s death by unlocking his dormant powers. As she teaches him how to develop lightning-quick reflexes and phenomenal agility, Wes discovers this team lives by an ancient, unbreakable code: carry out the death orders given by fate itself. With wickedly brilliant tutors–including the Fraternity’s enigmatic leader, Sloan–Wes grows to enjoy all the strength he ever wanted. But, slowly, he begins to realize there is more to his dangerous associates than meets the eye. And as he wavers between newfound heroism and vengeance, Wes will come to learn what no one could ever teach him: he alone controls his destiny.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Crime/Gangster and Adaptation
Release Date: March 28th, 2008 (wide)

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. All aboard the Pineapple Express.

Genres: Action/Adventure and Comedy
Release Date: August 8th, 2008 (wide)

The story of Mike Terry, a Jiu-jitsu master who has avoided the prize fighting circuit, choosing to instead pursue a life of honor and education by operating a self-defense studio in Los Angeles. Terry’s life is dramatically changed however when he is conned by a cabal of movie stars and promoters. In order to pay off his debts and regain his honor Terry must step into the ring for the first time in his life.

Genres: Action/Adventure and Crime/Gangster
Running Time: 1 hr. 39 min.
Release Date: May 2nd, 2008 (limited)

A pair of veteran New York City police detectives are on the trail of a vigilante serial killer. After 30 years as partners in the pressure cooker environment of the NYPD, highly decorated Detectives David Fisk and Thomas Cowan should be ready for retirement, but aren’t. Before they can hang up their badges, they are called in to investigate the murder of a notorious pimp, which appears to have ties to a case they solved years before. Like the original murder, the victim is a suspected criminal whose body is found accompanied by a four line poem justifying the killing. When additional crimes take place, it becomes clear the detectives are looking for a serial killer, one who targets criminals that have fallen through the cracks of the judicial system. His mission is to do what the cops can’t do on their own–take the culprits off the streets for good. The similarities between the recent killings and their earlier case raise a nagging question: Did they put the wrong man behind bars?

Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama and Thriller
Release Date: Septembe 12th, 2008 (wide)

Scientist Bruce Banner desperately hunts for a cure to the gamma radiation that poisoned his cells and unleashes the unbridled force of rage within him: The Hulk. Living in the shadows–cut off from a life he knew and the woman he loves, Betty Ross–Banner struggles to avoid the obsessive pursuit of his nemesis, General Thunderbolt Ross, and the military machinery that seeks to capture him and brutally exploit his power. As all three grapple with the secrets that led to The Hulk’s creation, they are confronted with a monstrous new adversary known as The Abomination, whose destructive strength exceeds even The Hulk’s own. To stop it, one scientist must make an agonizing final choice: accept a peaceful life as Bruce Banner or find heroism in the creature he holds inside–The Incredible Hulk.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Adaptation and Sequel
Release Date: June 13th, 2008 (wide)

Pitka (Mike Myers) is an American who was left at the gates of an ashram in India as a child and raised by gurus. He moves back to the U.S. to seek fame and fortune in the world of self-help and spirituality. His unorthodox methods are put to the test when he must settle a rift between Toronto Maple Leafs star hockey player Darren Roanoke (Romany Malco) and his estranged wife. After the split, Roanoke’s wife starts dating L.A. Kings star Jacques Grande (Justin Timberlake) out of revenge, sending her husband into a major professional skid - to the horror of the teams’ owner Jane Bullard (Jessica Alba) and Coach Cherkov (Verne Troyer). Pitka must return the couple to marital nirvana and get Roanoke back on his game so the team can break the 40-year-old “Bullard Curse” and win the Stanley Cup.

Genres: Comedy
Release Date: June 20th, 2008 (wide)

A cold-blooded hit man heads to Bangkok to pull off four jobs, and winds up falling in love with a local girl and bonding with his errand boy.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Thriller and Remake
Release Date: August 22nd, 2008

Stan Aubrey is a veteran cop investigating a serial killer, who may be a copycat killer based on a famous murderer Stan allegedly disposed of five years ago. As the killings go on, Stan’s partner Carl Unger begins to suspect that Stan didn’t do his due dilligence five years ago when he pronounced the killer dead.

Genres: Drama, Thriller and Crime/Gangster
Release Date: April 18th, 2008 (NY)

Two coddled guys live with their respective single parents. Their folks fall in love and marry, making the guys stepbrothers.

Genres: Comedy
Release Date: July 25th, 2008 (wide)

Will Smith blends his talents for action and comedy with this superhero film from director Peter Berg (THE KINGDOM). Boasting a lack of motivation, a week’s worth of stubble, and the ability to fly, Hancock (Smith) struggles with his superhero status even though his talents are needed.

Release Date: July 2nd, 2008 (wide)

After an ancient truce existing between humankind and the invisible realm of the fantastic is broken, hell on Earth is ready to erupt. A ruthless leader who treads the world above and the one below defies his bloodline and awakens an unstoppable army of creatures. Now, it’s up to the planet’s toughest, roughest superhero to battle the merciless dictator and his marauders.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Suspense/Horror and Sequel
Release Date: July 11th, 2008 (wide)

A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film. But after ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.

Genres: Comedy
Release Date: August 15th, 2008 (wide)

In 1957, Indiana Jones is thrust back in action, venturing into the jungles of South America in a race against Soviet agents to find the mystical Crystal Skull.

Genres: Action/Adventure and Sequel
Release Date: May 22nd, 2008 (wide)

Imperious, testy, acerbic, monumentally tactless, and maddeningly self-absorbed Victorian Literature professor Lawrence Wetherhold is a middle-aged intellectual bully, whose cutting tongue has alienated his son James and made his daughter Vanessa into an unhappy, friendless Teen. When he falls for Janet, a former student, he’ll have to deconstruct all his elaborate intellectual armor if he’s to win her heart.
Genres: Comedy and Drama
Running Time: 1 hr. 33 min.
Release Date: April 11th, 2008 (limited)
MPAA Rating: R for language, brief teen drug and alcohol use and for some sexuality.

A very gentle middle-aged man is married, but when he falls in love with another woman, he decides that to divorce his wife will be to humiliate her too much. So instead he decides to kill her.
Genres: Drama, Thriller and Adaptation
Running Time: 1 hr. 30 min.
Release Date: March 7th, 2008 (limited)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some thematic elements and a scene of sexuality.

A Mossad agent fakes his own death so he can move to New York and become a hair stylist.
Genres: Action/Adventure and Comedy
Release Date: June 6th, 2008 (lwide)

Four Jewish brothers living in Nazi occupied Poland escape into the forest where they join up with Russian resistance fighters in battling the Nazis. Throughout the war they built a village inside the forest and saved the lives of more than 1200 other Jews. Based on a true story.
Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Adaptation and War
Release Date: December 2008 (limited)

In the world of violent, high-speed racing, brothers Rex and Speed Racer become rivals as powerful racer Mondragan manipulates their careers in order to kill them both during the world championships, but the brothers learn its all just an act of vengeance against Pops Racer, who caused the death of Mondragan’s father in a race long ago.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Adaptation
Release Date: May 9th, 2008 (wide)

Tony Stark, a billionaire industrialist and inventor, is kidnapped and forced by his captors to design and build a weapon. Secretly, Stark instead creates a mechanized suit of armor and escapes. Returning to the U.S., he discovers a dangerous plot and becomes Iron Man to stop it.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Adaptation
Release Date: May 2nd, 2008 (wide)

Cast and Credits
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges, Shaun Toub
Directed by: Jon Favreau
Produced by: Stan Lee, Ari Arad, Jon Favreau

The sequel to 2005’s ‘Batman Begins,’ with the Caped Crusader protecting Gotham City from his arch-nemesis, The Joker.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Crime/Gangster, Adaptation and Sequel
Release Date: July 18th, 2008 (wide)

What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? Wall-E, spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will discover what he was meant for, as he adventures across the galaxy chasing his dream.

Genres: Comedy, Kids/Family, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Animation
Release Date: June 27th, 2008 (wide)