Protection
A disgraced former American special forces operative follows a dangerous “coyote” route from Mexico to the U.S. in order to rescue the daughter of an assassinated judge and clear his own name. Set on the streets of gang-controlled Phoenix, PROTECTION introduces us to a 21st century breed of street hero.

Cast:
Paul Walker (The Fast and The Furious franchise)

Genre: Action
Status: In Pre Production

Directed by: Simon West (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Con-Air, When a Stranger Calls, The General’s Daughter)
Written by: Brandon Noonan
Produced by: Robert Lawrence (Die Hard: With a Vengeance)

Blink
Born with an extraordinary ability to make the right choice in the blink of an eye, Teddy has floated through life -- observing more than living. He expertly absorbs everything that goes on around him but lacks an overall sense of purpose in life. Everything changes when his charismatic multi-millionaire, many-times-married father Redmond (Al Pacino) comes back after years of absence. Father and son disagree about everything, but with Redmond profiting from Teddy’s astonishing insight, opposites attract. The two make a powerhouse real world combination. Still, Teddy senses a deal with a devil: following his father’s lead could betray what is best about him. With razor sharp dialogue, bracing confrontation and unexpected surprise, the tables get turned and Teddy becomes his own man. In the spirit of “The Graduate,” BLINK is an acerbic but heartwarming tale of a young man at a crossroads. At its center is a relationship as unique and often hilarious as anything audiences have seen since “Rain Man.”

Cast:
Academy Award Winner Al Pacino (Righteous Kill, Insomnia, Any Given Sunday, The Insider, The Devil’s Advocate, Donnie Brasco, Heat, Carlito’s Way, Scent of a Woman, Frankie and Johnny, Sea of Love, Scarface, The Godfather trilogy)

Genre: Comedy
Status: In Pre-Production

Written and Directed by: Academy Award Winner Stephen Gaghan (Syriana, Traffic)
Produced by: Appian Way/Leonardo DiCaprio

The Company Men
THE COMPANY MEN, from acclaimed writer/director John Wells, creator of the groundbreaking international television series ER, brings the same momentum and character intensity to the high powered business battleground of today’s corporate world. As massive enterprises collapse overnight and fortunes begin to vanish, once powerful executives confront searing human consequences in a brave new world. When the successful corporation that he helped build is wrenched from underneath him, calm, cool veteran Gene (Tommy Lee Jones) clashes with his partners trying to protect his long-time co-worker Phil (Chris Cooper) and seeks solace in an affair with his dazzling colleague, Sally (Maria Bello). Sleek, arrogant sales warrior Bobby (Ben Affleck) is taken by surprise when he’s fired by Sally – he clings to the symbols of his success, his Porsche, his swanky Country Club membership and his estate home, until he’s pushed to face his new reality. Forced to take a job grudgingly offered by his hard-working brother-in-law, Jack (Kevin Costner), Bobby is pushed beyond his limits, and Jack, despite his distrust in Bobby’s work ethic, encourages Bobby to become the man he knows he can be. When corporate firestorms threaten these men, they must summon strength to combat betrayal, infidelity and backstabbing, and find their true course as Company Men.

Cast:
Academy Award Winner Tommy Lee Jones (No Country for Old Men, The Fugitive)
Academy Award Winner Ben Affleck (State of Play, The Sum of All Fears, Good Will Hunting)
Academy Award Winner Kevin Costner (Dances With Wolves, The Untouchables, The Guardian)
Academy Award Winner Chris Cooper (Breach, The Bourne Identity, American Beauty)
Maria Bello (The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emporer, A History of Violence, Thank You for Smoking)
Craig T. Nelson (The Proposal, Blades of Glory)
Rosemarie DeWitt (Rachel Getting Married)
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins (No Country for Old Men, O Brother, Where Art Thou?)

Genre: Drama
Status: In Production

Directed by: Academy Award Winner John Wells (ER, The West Wing)
Written by: Academy Award Winner John Wells (ER, The West Wing)
Produced by: Claire Rudnick Polstein (Wag The Dog), Paula Weinstein (Blood Diamond, The Perfect Storm), and John Wells

Bitch Slap
3 Bad Girls, 1 Desert, 1 Supercharged Thunderbird, 1,473 Exotic Weapons, 1 Ruthless Crimelord, $206 Million in Stolen Goods, A Cop Who May Not be a Cop, Hundreds More Cops who are Cops (Maybe…), A Pair of Mentally-Challenged Contract Killers, 1 Device That Could Snuff Out Life on Earth, More Cleavage than you can Shake a Stick At and Kidney Rattling Erotic Displays of Carnal Prowess Heretofore Unimagined… I don’t know about you, but I want a piece of that!

Cast:
Julia Voth, Erin Cummings, America Olivo, Lucy Lawless

Genre: Action
Status: Completed

Directed by: Rick Jacobson
Written by: Rick Jacobson, Eric Gruendemann
Produced by: Rick Jacobson, Eric Gruendemann

St. Vincent
Hitman Vincent Novena (Mickey Rourke) goes deep undercover portraying a priest to get close enough to kill his gangland traitor target. He soon discovers that playing the part of a good man is more dangerous than being a mob killer ever was. No good deed goes unpunished. The more Vincent opens up, the more vulnerable he becomes. Yet he never completely loses his cutting edge. A taut and explosive crime drama fueled by irony and laced with wry humor, ST. VINCENT provides master American action director Walter Hill with dynamic opportunity to explore the contradictions of violence. For resurgent Mickey Rourke, the saint-and-sinner lead role builds upon his spectacular performance in The Wrestler, probing the heart and soul of an archetypal warrior, a hunter who gets captured by a violent game.

Cast: Golden Globe Winner and Academy Award Nominee Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)

Genre: Crime Thriller
Status: In Pre Production

Directed by: Walter Hill (48 Hours, Southern Comfort, The Warriors)
Written by: Cameron Young
Produced by: Occupant Films (The Wackness, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane)

Area 51
A shocking new experiment-in-terror from the innovative director of Paranormal Activity (the breakthrough movie that has already garnered sensational distributor reaction and a high-profile US acquisition), Area 51 employs a visceral visual strategy to probe the horrors hidden inside America’s infamous top-secret desert sanctuary.

Cast: TBA

Genre: Supernatural Thriller
Status: In Pre Production

Directed by: Oren Peli (Paranormal Activity)
Written by: Oren Peli
Produced by: Solana Films (Paranormal Activity), Blumhouse Productions (Paranormal Activity, Tooth Fairy, Hysterical Blindness), and Room 101, Inc. (Paranormal Activity)

After.Life
AFTER.LIFE is a psychological thriller with the sensibility of a 21st century Psycho. In this intriguing journey into seductive terror, Anna (Christina Ricci) is a young woman trapped between life and death, and Eliot (Liam Neeson) is a funeral director who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead, but who might be a psychopath intent on burying her alive. Director Agnieszka Vosloo trained with modern masters such as Roman Polanski and Krzysztof Kieslowski, and has recently been listed in Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces to Watch."

Cast:
Liam Neeson (Taken, Batman Begins, Gangs of New York, Schindler’s List)
Christina Ricci (Sleepy Hollow, Speed Racer)
Justin Long (She's Not That Into You, Drag Me to Hell, Live Free or Die Hard)

Genre: Psychological Thriller
Status: In Post-Production

Directed by: Agnieszka Vosloo
Written by: Agnieszka Vosloo
Produced by: Bill Perkins
Celine Rattray (New York, I Love You, The Bell Jar)
Brad Gilbert (The Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond)

Battle for Terra 3D
Mala (Evan Rachel Wood) is a precocious girl living on the beautiful planet Terra, a place where peace and tolerance are celebrated. However, the last inhabitants of Earth have exhausted the resources of their planet and are now searching for a new home. This Earthforce has discovered that the use of a Terraformer will make Terra habitable for humans but poisonous for Terrians. When the Earthlings embark on a hostile invasion of Terra, Mala's father, Roven (Dennis Quaid), is kidnapped. Hoping to save her father, Mala captures and hides a crashed human pilot named Jim (Luke Wilson). While Mala nurses Jim back to health, the two forge a friendship and a plan that could save both the human race and the planet of Terra.
U.S. Release: Lionsgate, May 1, 2009

Cast:
(Featuring the voices of)
Evan Rachel Wood (The Upside Of Anger, Pretty Persuasion)
Luke Wilson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Old School)
Brian Cox (Troy, Braveheart)
Dennis Quaid (Far From Heaven, Any Given Sunday)
Rosanna Arquette (Pulp Fiction, The Whole Nine Yards)
Chris Evans (Fantastic Four, Sunshine)
James Garner (The Notebook, The Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood)
Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon, Dreamgirls)
Mark Hamill (Star Wars, Sleepwalkers)
Justin Long (Live Free Or Die Hard, The Break-Up)
Amanda Peet (Something’s Gotta Give, Melinda And Melinda)
Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Bunraku)

Genre: Animated RealD 3D
Status: Completed

Directed by: Aristomenis Tsirbas
Written by: Evan Spiliotopoulos
Produced by: Keith Calder (All The Boys Love Mandy Lane, Bunraku, The Wackness)
Dane Allan Smith
Jessica Wu
Ryan Colucci

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Pippa Lee is the devoted wife of a brilliant publisher thirty years her senior, proud mother of successful twins and an adored friend and neighbor.  Although Pippa's past offered her more than a fair share of the wild side of life, she finally found love and security in a family of her own.  When her husband spontaneously decides that they should leave New York for a retirement home and has an affair with someone even younger than she, Pippa finds her virtuous persona unraveling in alarming ways. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee carries her through an open door to a whole world that Pippa never knew existed.

Cast:
Robin Wright Penn (Forrest Gump, Beowulf)
Keanu Reeves (The Matrix, Speed)
Blake Lively (Gossip Girl, The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants)
Julianne Moore (The Hours, Children of Men)
Winona Ryder (Girl, Interrupted, Little Women)
Maria Bello (A History Of Violence, World Trade Center)
Academy Award Winner Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine, Gattaca)
Monica Bellucci (The Matrix, The Passion Of The Christ)

Genre: Drama
Status: Completed

Directed by: Rebecca Miller (The Ballad of Jack And Rose, Personal Velocity: Three Portraits)
Written by: Rebecca Miller (Proof)
Produced by: Plan B (The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, A Mighty Heart)
Lemore Syvan (SherryBaby)

A Single Man
Torn apart by the shattering impact of the death of his longtime lover, college professor George Falconer (Colin Firth) experiences the most transformative day of his life, blending past and present, desire and despair, and discovering that love persists even after the object of love is gone. Set in a sun-drenched 1960s California coastal canyon, featuring revealing performances by Julianne Moore and Matthew Goode, A SINGLE MAN marks the breakthrough directorial debut of internationally influential American fashion icon Tom Ford. Targeting indelible images of love, loss and rebirth, the film is a personal testament, filled with deep emotional resonance.

Cast:
Colin Firth (Bridget Jones’s Diary, Love Actually)
Academy Award Nominee Julianne Moore (The Hours, Children of Men)
Matthew Goode (Watchmen, Matchpoint)

Genre: Drama
Status: In Post Production

Directed by: Tom Ford
Written by: David Scearce & Tom Ford (Based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood)
Produced by: Chris Weitz (American Pie, In Good Company)
Robert Salerno (21 Grams)
Andrew Miano (The Golden Compass)

Bunraku
A mysterious drifter (Josh Hartnett) and an ardent young Japanese warrior Yoshi (Gackt) both arrive in a town that is terrorized by outrageous and virulent criminals. Each is obsessed with his separate mission, and guided by the wisdom of The Bartender (Woody Harrelson) at the Horseless Horseman Saloon, the two eventually join forces to bring down the corrupt and contemptuous reign of Nicola (Ron Perlman), the awesomely evil "woodcutter" and his lady Alexandra (Demi Moore), a femme fatale with a secret past. This classic tale is re-vitalized and re-imagined in an entirely fresh visual context, set in a unique world that mixes skewed reality with shadow-play fantasy, a place where even the landscape can betray you. Heroes triumph here only because the force of their will transforms and transcends both space and time. The world of BUNRAKU is past and present, fantasy and reality, Samurai and Western all combined. Like "Sin City" and "300", it gives classic conflict a whole new graphically supercharged dynamic. Resonating through a wide range of cultures and showcasing a mind-blowing array of martial arts disciplines, BUNRAKU is a fresh arena for breath-taking fight action.

Cast:
Josh Hartnett (Thirty Days of Night, Sin City)
Demi Moore (Mr. Brooks, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle)
Woody Harrelson (No Country for Old Men, Natural Born Killers)
Ron Perlman (Hellboy)
Gackt (Moon Child, New Fist of the North Star)
Shun Sugata (Kill Bill: Vol. 1, The Last Samurai)
Jordi Molla (Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Blow)
Kevin McKidd (Made of Honor)
Introducing Emily Kaiho

Genre: Action/Live Animation
Status: In Post Production

Directed by: Guy Moshe
Written by: Guy Moshe (Holly)
Produced by: Keith Calder (The Wackness, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane) Jessica Wu, Ram Bergman (Brothers Bloom, Brick), Nava Levin (Holly)

Shelter
Single mother and dedicated psychiatrist Cara Jessup (Julianne Moore) centers her professional reputation on debunking the idea of multiple personality syndrome, until she encounters a criminal mental patient (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) whose powers defy rational explanation. This eerie contact with evil shatters her world, turning a cynic into an embattled true believer. Following her father's mystifying sudden death, Cara intuits that her own daughter faces grave danger. Directed by the innovative team of Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein (Storm), and giving a mountain voodoo tinge to the occult genre, SHELTER is a sophisticated and disturbing voyage into the heart of darkness. Producers Macari and Edelstein (whose credits include Mulholland Drive and The Ring) will bring their unique brand of psychological spine chilling to the big screen once again in 2008.

Cast:
Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore (Children of Men, The Hours, Boogie Nights)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Match Point, Mission Impossible III)

Genre: Supernatural Thriller
Status: Completed

Directed by: Mans Marlind and
Bjorn Stein (Storm)
Written by: Michael Cooney (Identity)
Produced by: Macari Edelstein Films (Amusement, The Invisible, The Ring) and Nala Films (In The Valley of Elah, Dan In Real Life, The Air I Breathe)

44 Inch Chest
Provocative, outrageously profane and surprisingly tender amidst an explosion of unbridled testosterone, 44 INCH CHEST is a visceral and darkly comic exploration of the masculine ego at breaking point, testing whether fear is stronger than love. Colin (Ray Winstone) is in agony, shattered by his wife’s (Joanne Whalley) infidelity. However, he has friends who do more than stand by - they kidnap the wife's French lover (Melvil Poupaud) and hold him prisoner so that Colin can restore his manhood with revenge. Old Man Peanut (John Hurt), is the Biblical patriarch of the group, with a mean streak; Meredith (Ian McShane), is stylish and tough - a fashion victim with a cutting edge; Mal (Stephen Dillane), is a man who lives in the shadows and explodes with telling, quick violence. As the hostage situation escalates, so do the emotional stakes for each of these damaged, prideful men. Combining the coruscating menace and wit of Sexy Beast with the bold storytelling of Trainspotting and the razor-sharp conflicts of Reservoir Dogs, 44 INCH CHEST marks the debut feature of noted photographer and filmmaker Malcolm Venville, and is produced by Richard Brown and Steve Golin, who with Babel, Being John Malkovich, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, among many others, has specialized in innovative pictures that take challenging risks to reap major rewards.

Cast:
Ray Winstone (Sexy Beast, The Departed, Indiana Jones 4)
Ian McShane (Sexy Beast, Agent Cody Banks, Deadwood)
Academy Award nominee John Hurt (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, V For Vendetta, Elephant Man)
Academy Award nominee Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton, Valkyrie)
Stephen Dillane (The Hours)
Melvil Poupaud (Speed Racer, Broken English)
Joanne Whalley (Scandal, A Good Man in Africa)

Genre: Drama
Status: Completed

Directed by: Malcolm Venville
Written by: Louis Mellis and David Scinto (Sexy Beast)
Produced by: Steve Golin (Babel, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich)

Religulous
Flush from the success of Borat, Larry Charles brings us a satirical, insightful, and controversial look at the role of institutional religion around the world. As seen through the eyes and mind of Charles and comedian Bill Maher, RELIGULOUS has become the top grossing documentary of 2008.

Cast:
Bill Maher

Genre: Documentary
Status: Completed

Directed by: Larry Charles (Borat)
Produced by: Palmer West and Jonah Smith (A Scanner Darkly, The Clearing, Waking Life)

The Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond
In this rediscovered original screenplay by Tennessee Williams, a young and rebellious socialite Fisher Willow (Bryce Dallas Howard), tainted by a family scandal, boldly hires farm hand Jimmy Dobyne (Chris Evans) to be her escort for the elaborate party season. As her passion for Jimmy grows, Fisher defies social convention and the burden of history to risk everything for a chance at real love...until the loss of a priceless diamond sets off a series of accusations and betrayals that threaten to shatter their hopes for the future. With his indelible characters and breathtaking Southern backdrops, Williams paints a heartbreaking new tale of seduction and loss.

Cast:
Bryce Dallas Howard (Spider-Man 3, The Village)
Chris Evans (Fantastic Four, The Nanny Diaries)
Academy Award winner Ellen Burstyn (The Fountain, Requiem For A Dream)
Academy Award nominee Ann-Margret (The Break-Up, Carnal Knowledge)
Mamie Gummer (Evening, Stop Loss)

Genre: Drama
Status: Completed

Directed by: Jodie Markell
Written by: Tennessee Williams
Produced by: Constellation Entertainment

Paranormal Activity
This frightening supernatural shockumentary portrays Katie and Micah, a carefree couple who become haunted by an unseen presence in their house. They decide to investigate the increasingly bizarre and escalating intrusions by setting up a video camera to capture evidence of the demonic presence in their house, only to find much more than they ever imagined. "A breakout success story after rave receptions at ScreamFest and this year's Slamdance Film Festival, the film will be distributed in the U.S. by Paramount".

Cast:
Katie Featherston (Mutation)
Micah Sloat

Genre: Supernatural Thriller
Status: Completed

Directed by: Oren Peli
Produced by: Jason Blum (Griffin & Phoenix) and Steven Schneider (White Noise 2: The Light)