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Director: Julie Anne Robinson
Stars: Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth (Full Cast)
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

The Plot: A drama centered on a rebellious young woman (Cyrus) who is sent to spend the summer with her estranged father, who abandoned his family in the past.

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THE BUZZ: TV director Julie Anne Robinson, who has worked on awesome shows from "Pushing Daisies" to "Weeds," makes her feature debut as Miley Cyrus her first non-Hannah appearance since Big Fish (sorry, voice roles don't count). Taking a quick glance at the storyline, the first original screenplay written by Notebook novelist Nicholas Sparks, it's clear this is a custom-fit tale for Ms. Cyrus and her audience, who are getting ready to graduate from standard Disney fare. Let's hope this one embraces the rebellious spirit and channels it effectively for all involved. We like Miley, and we hope in real life she pushes out on her own. Pull a My Sister's Keeper and emancipate yourself, kid!

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Director: Thor Freudenthal
Stars: Zachary Gordon (Full Cast)
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

The Plot: Seventh grader Greg Heffle (Gordon) outlines the events and adventures of his daily life in the diary his mother forces him to keep.

THE BUZZ: Writer Jeff Kinney created Wimpy as a web-comic in 2004, and the pop-culture phenomenon quickly grew into a daily online strip and, ultimately, a series of novels that rival Twilight in popularity. We'll see how it translates as the first movie in a potential franchise.

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Why Did I Get Married Too

Director: Tyler Perry
Stars: Janet Jackson, Tyler Perry, Jill Scott (Full Cast)
Studio: Lionsgate

The Plot: Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their intimate week in the Bahamas is disrupted by the arrival of an ex-husband determined to win back his recently remarried wife.

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Why Did I Get Married Too (2010) -- Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their intimate week in the Bahamas is disrupted by the arrival of an ex-husband determined to win back his recently remarried wife.

Why Did I Get Married Too (2010) -- MovieMaze.de - Trailer (Quicktime & Flash)

THE BUZZ: The first therapeutic vacation resulted in one of Tyler Perry's biggest non-Madea movies, so look for bigger, more melodramatic story arcs in part two which, coupled with Jackson-family mania, could attract movie-goers who have yet to have their first TP experience.

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Repo Men

Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Stars: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga (Full Cast)
Studio: Universal Pictures

The Plot: Set in a world where artificial organs are readily available for purchase, a man (Law) who makes his living repossessing organs from those who fail to make their payments first finds himself outfitted with a new heart, then forced to go on the run when he falls on hard financial times.

THE BUZZ: Leonardo DiCaprio was once set to star alongside Jude Law in this adaptation of Matchstick Men writer Eric Garcia's novel (Garcia wrote the screenplay with "House M.D." scribe Garrett Lerner). We love that Universal, who put out Cirque du Freak at the end of 2009, is taking chances with their projects, even if Repo! A Genetic Opera bombed (despite its cult status) and Repo Man's Alex Cox is having a title fight with the studio.

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Furry Vengeance

Director: Roger Kumble
Stars: Brendan Fraser, Brooke Shields (Full Cast)
Studio: Summit Entertainment

The Plot: An arrogant real estate agent gets in way over his head after he agrees to develop property on an Oregon forest and the area's animals sabotage his plans.

THE BUZZ: Originally set to star Jeremy Piven, then Steve Carell before going with Fraser. We're fine with BF channeling his Loony Tunes: Back in Action slapstick side again as long as the critters in this flick don't go all G-Force on us.

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Date Night

Director: Shawn Levy
Stars: Steve Carell, Tina Fey (Full Cast)
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The Plot: In New York City, a case of mistaken identity turns a bored married couple's attempt at a glamorous and romantic evening into something more thrilling and dangerous.

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Date Night (2010) -- In New York City, a case of mistaken identity turns a bored married couple's attempt at a glamorous and romantic evening into something more thrilling and dangerous.

Date Night (2010) -- Cine.gr - Trailer (Flash)

THE BUZZ: We hope Tina Fey and Steve Carrell made squeaky clean director Sean Levy (he most recently made the Night at the Museum sequel) tell 1,000 dirty jokes before cameras rolled on this adventure-comedy. We love both leads, and while we can guess how Farrell is going to play his character, we're in rapture wondering if Fey will be, like, Liz Lemon in action-hero mode? Swooning. And you couldn't really ask for a better supporting cast?

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The Losers

Director: Sylvain White
Stars: Idris Elba, Zoe Saldana, Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Full Cast)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

The Plot: After being betrayed and left for dead, members of a CIA black ops team root out those who targeted them for assassination.

THE BUZZ: Andy Diggle is one of the most treasured contemporary sci-fi comics writers, and Warner Bros., who undoubtedly learned a series of lessons from the non-event that was the Watchmen, has outfitted the characters from Eisner nominated espionage series with a cast cultivated for crossover appeal (though, yes, we think it's curious to have Jeffrey Dean Morgan in another comics adaptation). And there's the odd/cool couple of director Sylvain White (Stomp the Yard) and screenwriter Peter Berg (The Kingdom), who is more familiar with the genre. If you'd like to download the first issue of the comic, go here.

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Kick-Ass

Director: Matthew Vaughn
Stars: Aaron Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Chloe Moretz (Full Cast)
Studio: Lionsgate

The Plot: Despite the fact that he has zero superpowers, teenage fanboy Dave Lizewski (Johnson) looks to reincarnate himself as a crime-fighting superhero named Kick-Ass, a decision that will inspire a subculture of copy cats, put his life in danger, and unite him with a similarly minded father-daughter duo (Cage and Moretz).

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THE BUZZ: Aaron Johnson and Chloe Moretz could become two of the hottest young stars this year if their respective projects live up to the advance hype; aside from this comic adaptation, Johnson is playing John Lennon in Nowhere Boy while Ms. Moretz will appear in Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Let Me In. Perhaps they should start dating one another to really cause a tabloid frenzy. Anyway, back to this adaptation of the comics by Mark Millar (he's the guy behind Wanted, too). You might remember that director Matthew Vaughn raised the cash for the production independently since the major studios feared the comic's level of hyper-violence; if I recall correctly, this was right before the Iron Man era, when the idea of developing "unknown" comics wasn't an option in Hollywood. Fast forward to Comic-Con 2009, with Lionsgate on board and knockout footage that was received better than Avatar and other major league projects, and an online sensation was born. The question of whether or not this one goes mainstream might not matter; with such a low budget, a built-in audience, and a storyline that naturally leads to a sequel -- which already has a premise, according to Millar -- a second chapter here could be more of a sure thing than Wanted 2.

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Piranha 3-D

Director: Alexandre Aja
Stars: Elisabeth Shue, Jerry O'Connell, Richard Dreyfuss (Full Cast)
Studio: Dimension Films

The Plot: A tremor under the surface of Lake Victoria unleashes scores of prehistoric piranhas, an event which rallies the local sheriff (Shue) who will risk everything to save her townsfolk.

THE BUZZ: New rule: From now on, if you're going to remake a movie, it has to be in 3D. Oh, and the original has to be bad. And by bad, we mean terrible. Elsewhere, Richard Dreyfuss returns to scary waters in what might be the best cheapie horror flick casting since Betty White in Lake Placid (but let's hope the supporting players and cameo appearances don't end with Christopher Lloyd or Eli Roth). Other questions: Is Alexandre Aja embracing his camp side? Will this level of gore make it to the big screen intact?

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Death at a Funeral

Director: Neil LaBute
Stars: Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence (Full Cast)
Studio: Screen Gems

The Plot: A patriarch's funeral leads to a series of family arguments, revealing dark secrets and possibly murder.

THE BUZZ: If you've not seen the original 2007 comedy directed by Frank Oz, do it. Then, compare for yourself. Surprisingly hilarious turns from Peter Dinklage and Alan Tudyk are a tough acts to follow -- let alone, remake.

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MacGruber

Director: Jorma Taccone
Stars: Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Val Kilmer (Full Cast)
Studio: Rogue Pictures

The Plot: '80s TV action icon MacGyver gets the full-on parody treatment as Saturday Night Live's Forte uses his tools of household materials and a perfectly coifed mullet in order to save the world...in only ten seconds!!

THE BUZZ: We're just as amazed as you are that they were able to crank out an entire movie out of this seemingly one-joke SNL sketch. Even more so that it beat the original TV series it's based on to the big screen (maybe Richard Dean Anderson will have better luck with that Stargate movie). But, they were able to eek out two movies from Wayne & Garth, and who saw that coming? Meanwhile, we're curious to know how this would've played as a summer comedy, particularly in a double-bill with The A-Team.

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Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps

Director: Oliver Stone
Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Michael Douglas, Carey Mulligan (Full Cast)
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

The Plot: Fallen stockbroker Gordon Gekko (Douglas) teams up with a young Wall Street trader (LaBeouf), who's mentor was recently murdered, to track down the killer and warn others about an impending massive financial meltdown.

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THE BUZZ: Apparently, greed is good enough for a sequel? How else was Oliver Stone able to convince Gordon Gekko and co. to return for this one. We're still trying to figure that out. If it's to get us to watch the original again, we're all for it. If it's to warn us about bailouts and Bernie Madoff, then too late -- Michael Moore already bummed us out about that.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

Director: Samuel Bayer
Stars: Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner (Full Cast)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

The Plot: Disfigured serial killer Freddy Krueger (Haley) stalks a group of young people in their dreams, forcing them to remain awake as the only alternative to death.

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THE BUZZ: This might be the most appealing horror remake to date, merely due to the casting of Jackie Earle Haley as the sweatered one. And in the world of music video directors turned auteurs, here's hoping Samuel Bayer ("Smells Like Teen Spirit") is more Michel Gondry/Spike Jonze than McG/Joseph Khan. Have to admit I dug the teaser trailer, and I'm into the other cast members, especially Kyle Gallner (the most successful ex-"Veronica Mars" star?), Rooney Mara (potential new scream queen action), and Thomas Dekker (who should be seen this year in All About Evil, the first midnight movie directed by a drag queen).

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