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Director: Michael Spierig Peter Spierig
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill (Full Cast)
Studio: Lionsgate

The Plot: In the year 2017, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher (Hawke) works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.

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	$Daybreakers (2009) -- In the year 2017, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher (Hawke) works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.$

THE BUZZ: I mean, why not try your luck at releasing a vampire movie this year? Beyond the Twilight saga, even the third Underworld movie proved it could make an equal profit to its predecessors. And distributor Lionsgate, who is refining its box-office prospects to focus more on horrors and thrillers, acquired this Australian production with the intriguing premise and cast -- though I'm not sure if this one will receive a Saw-like marketing push since the studio has vowed to keep marketing expenditures at a minimum. While I am all for this movie's success, directors the Spierig Brothers could be in for a come-and-go experience similar to their first slash at American success, the underseen Undead.

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Youth in Revolt

Director: Miguel Arteta
Stars: Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Ray Liotta (Full Cast)
Studio: Dimension Films

The Plot: Like most teens, young Nick Twisp (Cera) is ruled by his libido. And from the recesses of a trailer park in Northern California, Twisp concocts a plan -- make that multiple schemes -- to lose his virginity to a local girl, the precocious Sheeni Saunders (Doubleday).

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THE BUZZ: Portia Doubleday, who lost her part on "The United States of Tara" as it went to series, won the coveted (?) role as Sheeni Saunders, which could give rise to Ellen Page-like sudden fame. The young actress joins a phenomenal cast that includes Steve Buscemi, Jean Smart, and Zach Galifianakis in this year-starting comedy (originally slated for December of 2008) that is sort of like a boy version of Juno? OK, enough with the Diablo Cody references ... Michael Cera's role here should be a natural extension of the characters he's played thus far, seeing that YiR plays a bit more with teen identity and the imaginable embarrassments that come to those who try to find a place to masturbate while living with dysfunctional parents in an RV. (Is that more difficult than having a crush on your cousin? Hard to say.) Though Twisp is written as a 14 year old, I imagine his age will be blurred to be more Cera-appropriate.

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The Book of Eli

Director: Albert Hughes Allen Hughes
Stars: Denzel Washington, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson (Full Cast)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

The Plot: In a post-apocalyptic United States, a lone man (Washington) fights his way across the country in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.

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THE BUZZ: From Hell was the last Hughes Bros, movie, and that was back in 2001, a time when not every movie seemed to be adapted from a comic book or video game. 8 years later, they're back with an original screenplay, an increasingly rare occurrence these days. I'm hoping to be recovered from The Road before taking another post-apocalyptic trip, that said, if Viggo Mortensen's perilous TransAmerican trek charts with audiences, look for Warner Bros. to piggyback on the momentum and push the action angle here. This movie, and Sherlock Holmes, could be returns-to-form for producer Joel Silver, who has been taking a beating from industry watchers since he landed his last hit, V for Vendetta.

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The Spy Next Door

Director: Brian Levant
Stars: Jackie Chan, George Lopez, Amber Valletta (Full Cast)
Studio: Lionsgate

The Plot: Former CIA spy Bob Ho (Chan) takes on his toughest assignment to date: looking after his girlfriend's three kids, who haven't exactly warmed to their mom's beau. And when one of the youngsters accidentally downloads a top-secret formula, Bob's longtime nemesis, a Russian terrorist, pays a visit to the family.

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THE BUZZ: The presence of director Brian Levant (Are We There Yet?, and a flood of '90s family movies) suggests this one is PG all the way, eliciting a ho-hum from those of us who prefer Chan in more fantastic situations. Good thing his Chinese-language projects continue to inspire hope.

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Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil

Director: Mike Disa
Stars: Hayden Panettiere, Glenn Close, Patrick Warburton (Full Cast)
Studio: Kaleidoscope TWC

The Plot: In their second adventure, Red Riding Hood (Panettiere) and the Wolf (Warburton) investigate the disappearance of Hansel and Gretel.

THE BUZZ: "Hi, Hayden? You answer your own phone again? Cool, listen, would you like to step in for Anne Hathaway, who suddenly become unavailable for a sequel to ... no, not Prada ... no, umm, Brokeback Mountain didn't have a part two ..."

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Tooth Fairy

Director: Michael Lembeck
Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Judd, Julie Andrews (Full Cast)
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

The Plot: A bad deed on the part of a tough minor-league hockey player (Johnson) results in an unusual sentence: He must serve one week as a real-life tooth fairy.

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Tooth Fairy (2010) -- A bad deed on the part of a tough minor-league hockey player (Johnson) results in an unusual sentence: He must serve one week as a real-life tooth fairy.

Tooth Fairy (2010) -- Trailer for this comedy about a mean hockey player who is forced to spend time as a tooth fairy

Tooth Fairy (2010) -- kino-zeit.de - Trailer (Flash)

THE BUZZ: Sight unseen, I think Fairy might have worked better as a segment of Bedtime Stories. Feels like The Rock in Kindergarten Cop mode to me -- though the presence of Julie Andrews and Stephen Merchant in the cast is not going unnoticed!

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Legion

Director: Scott Stewart
Stars: Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Charles S. Dutton (Full Cast)
Studio: Screen Gems

The Plot: At a remote truck stop diner, in the wake of a biblical apocalypse, a group of strangers unwittingly become humanity's last line of defense when they discover the diner's young waitress is pregnant with the messiah.

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THE BUZZ: Paul Bettany as an archangel; Doug Jones as an ice cream man (Jones compares his character to a "clown with a knife behind his back". This just sounds outrageously awesome. And we'll have word on the film from Comic-Con. Stay tuned.

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Extraordinary Measures

Director: Tom Vaughan
Stars: Brendan Fraser, Keri Russell, Harrison Ford (Full Cast)
Studio: CBS Films

The Plot: A drama centered on the efforts of John and Aileen Crowley (Fraser and Russell) to find a researcher (Ford) to develop a potential cure for their two children's rare genetic disorder.

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THE BUZZ: While I personally don't gravitate towards films which dramatize illness -- why not just make a documentary on the subject? -- I find the real-life efforts of John Crowley inspiring. If you're unfamiliar with the Crowley family's ordeal, watch the featurette we have online. In the meantime, I have my eye on CBS Films and their inaugural feature; next up (I think) from the company is The Back-Up Plan, the artificial insemination rom-com (what a mouthful!) starring J-Lo-Wah-Wah and Alex O'Loughlin (boing!).

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When in Rome

Director: Mark Steven Johnson
Stars: Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel (Full Cast)
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

The Plot: Beth (Bell) is a young, ambitious New Yorker who is completely unlucky in love. However, when she impulsively steals some coins from a reputed fountain of love during a whirlwind trip to Rome, she finds herself aggressively pursued by a band of suitors.

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THE BUZZ: Spotted: Kristen Bell trying the Amy Adams approach to mainstream success, embracing a Disney-fied take on romance in NYC. What will Upper East Siders have to say about this, as well as Bell's rabid cult audience? Her fortune is shining in the Eternal City, though it's unlikely she'll ever head back to Neptune, CA for the once-promising "Veronica Mars" movie. In fact, I feel like this fantasy comedy mirrors Ms. Bell's career, since she's found luck on TV with as a guest star on "Heroes" and the titular narrator of "Gossip Girl", but she has yet to find a big-screen vehicle for her considerable success. Something tells me she might have pitched a coin or two when the cameras weren't rolling.

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Edge of Darkness

Director: Martin Campbell
Stars: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston (Full Cast)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

The Plot: As homicide detective Thomas Craven (Gibson) investigates the death of his activist daughter, he uncovers not only her secret life, but a corporate cover-up and government collusion that attracts an agent (Winstone) tasked with cleaning up the evidence.

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THE BUZZ: This movie radiates tension in and out! Packaged by super-producer Graham King (The Departed) right before the Screen Actor's Guild strike in 2008, Edge had trouble finding a studio, which was attributed, of course, to Mel Gibson being blacklisted by Hollywood. Not so! Said King. And then Robert De Niro backed out of the co-starring role right as filming began. To me, this is all merely early publicity for a project that doesn't fully engage me otherwise. In truth, De Niro being replaced by Ray Winstone drew my attention back to the film, and I'm primed to see how another terrific actor, Danny Huston, fits into the plot, which promises to twist until the end thanks to William Monahan, Graham King's Oscar-winning screenwriter from The Departed.

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