April 4

Firehouse Dog

Genre: Comedy, Family

MPAA Rating: PG (for sequences of action peril, some mild crude humor and language)

Cast: Josh Hutcherson, Bruce Greenwood, Bree Turner, Dash Mihok, Steven Culp

Story: The world’s most famous and Hollywood’s most pampered pooch is separated from his owner and ends up as the mascot of a hapless fire station. There, he helps a 12- year-old boy and his father, a veteran fire chief, turn the station into the city’s finest.

Director: Todd Holland

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Website: FirehouseDogmovie.com

April 6

Are We Done Yet?

Genre: Comedy, Family

MPAA Rating: PG (for some innuendos and brief language)

Cast: Ice Cube, Nia Long, John C. McGinley, Aleisha Allen, Philip Daniel Bolden

Story: “Are We Done Yet?” is a follow-up to Revolution Studios’ hilarious 2005 family comedy “Are We There Yet?” and picks up where the last story left off. Now married to Suzanne (Nia Long), Nick Persons (Ice Cube) has bought a quiet suburban house to escape the rat race of the big city and to provide more space for his new wife and kids Lindsey and Kevin (Aleisha Allen and Philip Daniel Bolden). But when his new home quickly becomes a costly “fixer upper” and he finds himself at the mercy of an eccentric contractor (John C. McGinley), Nick’s suburban dream soon becomes a riotous nightmare.

Director: Steve Carr

Studio: Columbia Pictures

Website: SonyPictures.com

Grindhouse

Genre: Horror

Cast: “Death Proof” – Kurt Russell, Zoe Bell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Jordan Ladd, Rose McGowan, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Marley Shelton, Tracie Thoms, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michael Bacall, Eli Roth, Omar Doom; “Planet Terror” – Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Jeff Fahey, Michael Parks, Josh Brolin, Michael Biehn, Carlos Gallardo, Tom Savini, Naveen Andrews, Marley Shelton, The Crazy Babysitter Twins, Stacy Ferguson

Story: “Grindhouse” noun A downtown movie theater – in disrepair since its glory days as a movie palace of the ’30s and ’40s – known for “grinding out” non-stop double-bill programs of B-movies. From groundbreaking directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez comes the ultimate film experience: a double-bill of thrillers that will recall both filmmakers’ favorite exploitation films. “Grindhouse” will be presented as one full length feature comprised of two individual films helmed separately by each director. Tarantino’s film, Death Proof, is a rip-roaring slasher flick where the killer pursues his victims with a car rather than a knife, while Rodriguez’s film explores an alien world eerily familiar to ours in Planet Terror. Welcome to the grind house – it’ll tear you in two.

Director: Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez

Studio: Dimension Films (The Weinstein Company)

Website: Grindhousemovie.net

The Reaping

Genre: Supernatural Thriller

MPAA Rating: R (for violence, disturbing images and some sexuality)

Cast: Hilary Swank, David Morrissey, Idris Elba, AnnaSophia Robb, Stephen Rea

Story: In “The Reaping,” Hilary Swank plays a former Christian missionary who lost her faith after her family was tragically killed, and has since become a world renowned expert in disproving religious phenomena. But when she investigates a small Louisiana town that is suffering from what appear to be the Biblical plagues, she realizes that science cannot explain what is happening and she must regain her faith to combat the dark forces threatening the community.

Director: Stephen Hopkins

Studio:Warner Bros. Pictures

Website: TheReapingmovie.com

April 13

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy

MPAA Rating: R (for crude and sexual humor, violent images and language)

Cast: Matt Maiellaro, Dave Willis, Dana Snyder, Carey Means, Andy Merrill, Mike Schatz, Bruce Campbell, Neil Peart

Story: “Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie

Film for Theaters” is an action-adventure epic that reveals the mysterious origins of Meatwad, Frylock and Master Shake. When an immortal piece of exercise equipment threatens the balance of galactic peace, it is up to the Aqua Teen Hunger Force to run away from it. Peril escalates when the Plutonians team up with the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past to strive for ultimate control of the sinister deadly device.

Director: Matt Maiellaro, Dave Willis

Studio: First Look Pictures

Website: AdultSwim.com

Disturbia

Genre: Thriller

MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sequences of terror and violence, and some sensuality)

Cast: Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Sarah Roemer, Carrie-Anne Moss

Story: After his father’s death, Kale (Shia LaBeouf) becomes sullen, withdrawn, and troubled – so much so that he finds himself under a court-ordered sentence of house arrest. His mother, Julie (Carrie-Anne Moss), works night and day to support herself and her son, only to be met with indifference and lethargy. The walls of his house begin to close in on Kale. He becomes a voyeur as his interests turn outside the windows of his suburban home towards those of his neighbors, one of which Kale begins to suspect is a serial killer. But, are his suspicions merely the product of cabin fever and his overactive imagination?

Director: D.J. Caruso

Studio: DreamWorks Pictures (Paramount)

Website: Disturbia.com

Perfect Stranger

Genre: Psychological Thriller

MPAA Rating: R (for sexual content, nutidy, some disturbing violent images and language)

Cast: Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi, Gary Dourdan, Patti D’Arbanville, Clea Lewis

Story: Revolution Studios’ sexy thriller “Perfect Stranger” asks the question: how far would you go to keep a secret? When investigative reporter Rowena Price (Halle Berry) learns that her friend’s murder might be connected to powerful ad executive Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis), she goes undercover with the help of her associate, Miles Hailey (Giovanni Ribisi). Posing as Katherine, a temp at Hill’s agency, and Veronica, a girl Hill flirts with online, Rowena surrounds her prey from all sides, only to discover that she isn’t the only one changing identities. The closer Rowena gets to finding the truth, the more we see how far people will go to protect it.

Director: James Foley

Studio: Columbia Pictures

Website: ActionsHaveConsequences.co

Slow Burn

Genre: Drama, Thriller

MPAA Rating: R (for sexuality, violence and language)

Cast: Ray Liotta, LL Cool J, Jolene Blalock, Nora Timmer, Taye Diggs, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Donny Falsetti, Bruce McGill, Mekhi Phifer Story: A district attorney (Ray Liotta) is involved in a 24-hour showdown with a gang leader (LL Cool J) and is, at the same time, being manipulated by an attractive assistant district attorney (Jolene Blalock) and a cryptic stranger.

Director:Wayne Beach

Studio: Lionsgate

Website: Not Available

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, Migïel 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