April 20

In the Land of Women

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sexual content, thematic elements and language)

Cast: Adam Brody, Kristen Stewart, Meg Ryan, Olympia Dukakis, Makenzie Vega, Clark Gregg, Elena Anaya

Story: “In the Land of Women” is a romantic comedy/drama about trying to makes sense of love. Adam Brody plays Carter Webb who has just been dumped by his true love Sophia (Elena Anaya). Heartbroken and depressed, Carter escapes Los Angeles to suburban Michigan to care for his ailing grandmother (Olympia Dukakis). Soon after his arrival, Carter stumbles into the lives of the family living directly across the street: Sarah Hardwicke (Meg Ryan), the mother of two daughters: Paige (Makenzie Vega), and older sister Lucy (Kristen Stewart). Through his relationships with these women, as well as with his grandmother, Carter discovers that what felt like an end was only just the beginning of something else…

Director: Jonathan Kasdan

Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Website: MySpace.com/ITLOW

Kickin’ It Old Skool

Genre: Comedy

MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for crude and sexual content and language)

Cast: Jamie Kennedy, Maria Menounos, Christopher McDonald, Mig?el Nuñez, Aris Alvarado, Bobby Lee, Debra Jo Rupp, Alan Ruck, Michael Rosenbaum, Vivica Fox

Story: “Kickin’ It Old Skool” revolves around a 12-year-old breakdancer, who in 1986 hits his head while performing at a talent show and as a result is comatose for 20 years. He awakens to find he is a grown man portrayed by Kennedy. With the mind and experience of a young kid, he attempts to revive his and his dance team’s short-lived career with the hopes of helping support his parents’ failing yogurt shop. Menounos will play Kennedy’s love interest.

Director: Harvey Glazer

Studio: Yari Film Group Releasing

The Nanny Diaries

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti, Donna Murphy, Alicia Keys, Chris Evans

Story: Based on Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin’s popular satirical novel, the film stars Scarlett Johansson as a working-class woman from New Jersey who becomes a nanny to a wealthy Manhattan family.

Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini

Studio: MGM, The Weinstein Company

Website: Not Available

Pathfinder

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

MPAA Rating: R (for strong brutal violence throughout)

Cast: Karl Urban, Moon Bloodgood, Russell Means, Clancy Brown, Jay Tavare, Nathaniel Arcand, Ralf Moeller

Story: An action-adventure set in the time when Vikings tried to conquer North America, “Pathfinder” tells the heroic story of a young Norse boy left behind after his clan shipwrecks on the Eastern shores. Despite his lineage, the boy is raised by the very Indians his kinsmen set out to destroy. Now, as the Vikings return to stage another barbaric raid on his village, the 25 year-old Norse warrior (Karl Urban) wages a personal war to stop the Vikings’ trail of death and destruction. Forging his own path, his destiny is revealed and his identity re-claimed.

Director: Marcus Nispel

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Website: Pathfinderthemovie.com

Rogue

Genre: Horror, Thriller

MPAA Rating: R (for language and some creature violence)

Cast: Michael Vartan, Radha Mitchell, Stephen Curry, John Jarratt, Heather Mitchell, Mia Wasikoska, Sam Worthington

Story: Greg McLean’s first acclaimed tour de force, “Wolf Creek,” took audiences on a frightening, fact based road trip through the darkest parts of Australian Outback and the depraved human mind. Journeying home again, this time to the crocodile infested waters of Australia’s remote wetlands, the director’s wildlife boat tour is more down-under “Jaws” than “Crocodile Dundee.” Joining a beautiful local tour guide (Radha Mitchell) and an American writer on assignment (Michael Vartan), the rest of this thriller’s food chain is composed of tourists and adventure seekers alike. Waiting in vain to be rescued on an ever-disappearing parcel of dry land, you will never guess their next move…as terror lies just beneath the surface.

Director: Greg McLean

Studio: Dimension Films (The Weinstein Company)

Website: Not Available

Vacancy

Genre: Horror, Thriller

MPAA Rating: R (for brutal violence and terror, brief nudity and language)

Cast: Luke Wilson, Kate Beckinsale, Frank Whaley, Ethan Embry

Story: When David (Luke Wilson) and Amy Fox’s (Kate Beckinsale) car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, they are forced to spend the night at the only motel around, with only the TV to entertain them… until they discover that the low-budget slasher movies they’re watching were all filmed in the very room they’re sitting in. With hidden cameras now aimed at them… trapping them in rooms, crawlspaces, underground tunnels… and filming their every move, David and Amy must struggle to get out alive before whomever is watching them can finish their latest masterpiece.

Director: Nimród Antal

Studio: Screen Gems (Sony)

Website: SonyPictures.com

April 27

The Condemned

Genre: Action, Thriller

MPAA Rating: R (for pervasive strong brutal violence, and for language)

Cast: Steve Austin, Vinnie Jones, Robert Mammone, Victoria Mussett, Rick Hoffman, Christopher Baker, Samantha Healy, Madeline West, Luke Pegler

Story: An adrenalin-charged action thriller, “The Condemned” tells the story of Joe Conrad (Stone Cold Steve Austin), who is awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt Central American prison. He is “purchased” by a wealthy television producer and taken to a desolate island where he must fight to the death against nine other condemned killers from all corners of the world, with freedom going to the sole survivor.

Director: Scott Wiper

Studio: Lionsgate

Website:WatchThemDieLive.com

Fracture

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Billy Burke, Rosamund Pike, Embeth Davitz, Valerie Dillman

Story: Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling star in the dramatic thriller Fracture. When a meticulous structural engineer (Hopkins) is found innocent of the attempted murder of his wife (Embeth Davidtz), the young district attorney (Gosling) who is prosecuting him becomes a crusader for justice. “Fracture” is packed with twists and turns that weave in and out of the courtroom as the pair try to outwit each other. The film features an outstanding supporting cast that includes Academy Award-nominee David Strathairn (“Good Night, And Good Luck.”) and Rosamund Pike (“Pride & Prejudice”), is directed by Gregory Hoblit (“Primal Fear”), and written by Dan Pyne (“The Sum of All Fears,” “The Manchurian Candidate”) and Glenn Gers. “Fracture” is scheduled for an April 27, 2007 release.

Director: Gregory Hoblit

Studio: New Line Cinema

Website: Fracturemovie.com

The Invisible

Genre: Supernatural Thriller

MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for violence, criminality, sensuality and language – all involving teens)

Cast: Justin Chatwin, Marcia Gay Harden, Margarita Levieva, Chris Marquette

Story: From the producers of “The Sixth Sense” and the co-writer of “Batman Begins,” “The Invisible” is a supernatural thriller about a writer who finds himself trapped between the world of the living and the dead-completely invisible to the living. Nick (Justin Chatwin) has a bright future until he is brutally attacked and left for dead. Now in limbo, his only chance to live again is to figure out the mystery of what happened to him and why, before his time runs out. But how do you solve a murder, when the victim is you?

Director: David S. Goyer

Studio: Hollywood Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment

Website: MySpace.com/TheInvisiblemovie

The Last Legion

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sequences of intense action violence)

Cast: Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Aishwarya Rai, Thomas Sangster, Rupert Friend, Peter Mullan, Rory James, Lee Ingleby, Owen Teale, Ferdinand Kingsley

Story: As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus (Thomas Sangster) flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.

Director: Doug Lefler

Studio: MGM, The Weinstein Company

Website: Not Available

Next

Genre: Action, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for intense sequences of violent action, and some language)

Cast: Nicholas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel

Story: In “Next,” based on the Philip K. Dick “The Golden Man,” Nicolas Cage plays a man with the unique ability to see future events and affect their outcome. Relentlessly pursued by the FBI, which is seeking to use his abilities to prevent a global terrorist threat, he is ultimately faced with the daunting choice of saving the world or the woman he loves.

Director: Lee Tamahori

Studio: Paramount Pictures

Website: Not Available