Monthly Archives: February 2009

firedup_teaserShawn Colfax and Nick Brady, the stars of the Gerald R. Ford High School football team, are dreading the prospect of another summer at football camp. When Nick hatches a scheme for the two to join their school’s cheerleaders at cheer camp instead, they find themselves awash in a sea of gorgeous young women. It all goes great until Shawn falls for Carly, the beautiful head cheerleader who sees right through them.

Also Known As:

FU
Fired Up

Production Status: In Production/Awaiting Release
Logline: The two most popular guys in high school decide to ditch football camp for cheerleader camp. For the girls and for the glory.
Genres: Comedy and Teen
Running Time: 1 hr. 34 min.
Release Date: February 20th, 2009 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, partial nudity, language and some teen partying.
Distributors:

Sony Pictures Releasing

Production Co.:

Gross Entertainment

Studios:

Screen Gems

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California USA
Los Angeles, California, USA

Produced in: United States

twolovers_posterLeonard, a charismatic but troubled young man, moves back into his childhood home following a recent heartbreak. While recovering under the watchful eye of his parents, Leonard meets two women in quick succession: Michelle, a mysterious and beautiful neighbor who is exotic and out-of-place in Leonard’s staid world, and Sandra, the lovely and caring daughter of a businessman who is buying out his family’s dry-cleaning business. Leonard becomes deeply infatuated by Michelle, who seems poised to fall for him, but is having a self-destructive affair with a married man. At the same time, mounting pressure from his family pushes him towards committing to Sandra. Leonard is forced to make an impossible decision – between the impetuousness of desire and the comfort of love – or risk falling back into the darkness that nearly killed him.

Also Known As:

2 Lovers

Production Status: In Production/Awaiting Release
Logline: A Brooklyn man is torn between a family friend his parents wish he would marry and the beautiful but volatile new neighbor with whom he falls in love.
Genres: Drama and Romance
Running Time: 1 hr. 48 min.
Release Date: February 13th, 2009 (limited)
MPAA Rating: R for language, some sexuality and brief drug use.
Distributors:

Magnolia Pictures

Production Co.:

2929 Productions, Wild Bunch, Tempesta Films

Filming Locations:

New York, USA
New York, USA
New Jersey, USA
New Jersey, USA

Produced in: United States

push_posterThe Division, a shadowy government agency, is genetically transforming citizens into an army of psychic warriors–and brutally disposing of those unwilling to participate. Nick Gant, a second-generation telekinetic or “mover,” has been in hiding since the Division murdered his father more than a decade earlier. He has found sanctuary in densely populated Hong Kong–the last safe place on earth for fugitive psychics like him–but only if he can keep his gift a secret. Nick is forced out of hiding when Cassie Holmes, a 13-year-old clairvoyant or “watcher,” seeks his help in finding Kira, an escaped “pusher” who may hold the key to ending the Division’s program. Pushers possess the most dangerous of all psychic powers: the ability to influence others’ actions by implanting thoughts in their minds. But Cassie’s presence soon attracts the attention of the Division’s human bloodhounds, forcing Nick and Cassie to flee for their lives. With the help of a team of rogue psychics, the unlikely duo traverses the seedy underbelly of the city, trying to stay one step ahead of the authorities as they search for Kira. But they find themselves square in the crosshairs of Division Agent Henry Carver, a pusher who will stop at nothing to keep them from achieving their goal.

Production Status: In Production/Awaiting Release
Logline: A group of young American expats with telekinetic and clairvoyant abilities hide from a U.S. government agency in Hong Kong, using their different talents to band together for a final job to escape the agency forever.
Genres: Science Fiction/Fantasy and Thriller
Running Time: 2 hrs. 1 min.
Release Date: February 6th, 2009 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, brief strong language, smoking a scene of teen drinking.
Distributors:

Summit Entertainment, LLC

Production Co.:

Infinity Media, Inc., Icon Productions, Infinity Features

Financiers:

Co-Financier: Summit Entertainment, LLC, Icon Entertainment International

Filming Locations:

Hong Kong

Produced in: United States

taken_posterFormer government operative Bryan Mills begins the longest 96-hours of his life–and the hunt for the fearsome organization that has taken his daughter Kim. Mills had only recently given up his government career as what he calls a “preventer” to be near Kim, who lives with Bryan’s ex-wife Lenore and her new husband. To make ends meet, Bryan joins some former colleagues for special security details (like guarding a pop diva), but most of his time and energy are spent re-connecting with Kim. Bryan’s familial goal is nearly derailed when Kim requests his permission to spend time in Paris with a friend. All too aware of the dangers that could lie ahead for Kim in a foreign land, Bryan says no, but Kim’s disappointment leads him to very reluctantly relent. Bryan’s worst fears are realized when Kim and her friend Amanda are suddenly abducted–in broad daylight–from the Paris apartment at which they’ve just arrived. Moments before Kim is dragged away by the as yet unseen and unknown assailants, she manages to phone Bryan, who begins to expertly piece together clues that will take him to the darkness of Paris’s underworld, and to the City of Light’s plushest mansions. He will face nightmares worse than anything he experienced in black ops–and let nothing and no one stop him from saving his daughter.

Production Status: Released
Genres: Action/Adventure, Art/Foreign, Drama and Thriller
Running Time: 1 hr. 34 min.
Release Date: January 30th, 2009 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence, disturbing thematic material, sexual content, some drug references and language.
Distributors:

20th Century Fox Distribution

Production Co.:

EuropaCorp, M6 Films, Grive Productions

Financiers:

Studio Canal, TPS Star

U.S. Box Office: $24,625,000
Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Produced in: France

theclass_posterBased on an autobiographical novel by Francois Begaudeau, a drama that follows the year in the life of a French schoolteacher working at a high-school in a tough neighborhood of Paris. Ethnicities, cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom. As amusing and inspiring as the teenage students can be, their difficult behavior can still jeopardize any teacher’s enthusiasm for the low-paying job. Francois insists on an atmosphere of respect and diligence. Neither stuffy nor severe, his extravagant frankness often takes the students by surprise. But his classroom ethics are put to the test when his students begin to challenge his methods.

Also Known As:

Entre les murs

Production Status: Released
Logline: About a young high-school teacher in a rough Parisian neighborhood who does not hesitate to push his students in order to motivate them.
Genres: Art/Foreign, Drama and Adaptation
Running Time: 2 hr. 9 min.
Release Date: January 30th, 2009 (limited)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for language.
Distributors:

Sony Pictures Classics

Production Co.:

Haut et Court, France 2 Cinema

Financiers:

France 2, Studio Canal, CineCinema, Cofinova 4, Sofica Soficinema, Centre National de la Cinematographie (CNC), Fonds Images de la Diversite, La Region Ile de France

Produced in: France