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First Look: Movie Openings This Week
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The following is a list of box office releases for Nov. 6th, 2009.
THE BOX
Cameron Diaz and James Marsden are an unhappy couple who receive a mysterious box that brings instant wealth at a deadly cost.
Rated PG-13.
DISNEY'S A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Jim Carrey is the voice of Ebenezer Scrooge in a new animated adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic holiday tale.
Rated PG.
THE FOURTH KIND
Milla Jovovich stars as a psychologist who discovers disturbing evidence of alien abductions in small town Alaska.
Rated PG-13.
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SAW VI
In this latest installment of the horror saga, Detective Hoffman emerges as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy of terror.
Rated R.
ASTRO BOY
A young robot boy endowed with incredible powers embarks on a journey of acceptance and learns what it means to be a hero.
Rated PG.
CIRQUE DU FREAK: THE VAMPIRE'S ASSISTANT
A teenage boy finds his destiny when he stumbles upon a vampire and his traveling freak show.
Rated PG-13.
AMELIA
Hilary Swank stars in the story of pioneering aviatrix Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
Rated PG.
WHERE THE WILDS THINGS ARE
A rambunctious boy named Max escapes to an island where he meets mysterious and strange creatures who crown him their king.
Rated PG
LAW ABIDING CITIZEN
Gerard Butler stars as a criminal mastermind out for revenge, sending an entire city into chaos from the confines of his prison cell.
Rated R
THE STEPFATHER
A young man grows suspicious of his mother's new boyfriend -- is he really the man of her dreams or could he be hiding a dark side?
Rated PG-13.
COUPLES RETREAT
Four couples embark on a tropical island vacation, only to discover that participation in the resort's couples therapy is mandatory.
Rated PG-13.
THE INVENTION OF LYING
In an alternate reality where lying doesn't exist, Ricky Gervais is a down-on-his-luck loser who suddenly develops the ability to lie.
Rated PG-13.
TOY STORY & TOY STORY 2
Woody, Buzz Lightyear and the rest of the gang from Pixar's toy chest return for their original adventures, this time in 3-D!
Rated G.
WHIP IT
Ellen Page stars as a teenage beauty pageant reject who finally finds herself after joining a fierce female roller derby team.
Rated PG-13.
ZOMBIELAND
A ragtag group joins forces to survive against worldwide zombie mayhem, and must determine what's worse: the zombies or each other.
Rated R.
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS
Based on popular children's book, a scientist tries to solve world hunger only to see things go completely awry as food falls from the sky in abundance.
Rated PG.
LOVE HAPPENS
Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart star in the story of a self-help author who meets the woman who might finally help him help himself.
Rated PG-13.
JENNIFER'S BODY
Megan Fox stars as a high school cheerleader who becomes possessed and begins killing the unsuspecting boys of her small town.
Rated R.
ALL ABOUT STEVE
Sandra Bullock falls head over heels with a news cameraman after one blind date, and follows him around the country in a bid to win his love.
Rated PG-13.
EXTRACT
Jason Bateman is a flower extract plant owner dealing with workplace issues and a stream of bad luck, including his wife's affair with a gigolo.
Rated R.
GAMER
Gerard Butler stars as a futuristic gladiator imprisoned against his will in an ultra-violent mind-controlled first person shooter game.
Rated R.
THE FINAL DESTINATION
A group of friends escape a deadly accident thinking they've cheated death, only to get killed off one-by-one in increasingly gruesome ways.
Rated R.
HALLOWEEN II
Director Rob Zombie picks up right where he left off, with the next terrifying chapter of Michael Myers' murderous rampage.
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
Brad Pitt stars in Quentin Tarantino's violent WWII tale of soldiers, peasants and resistance fighters who collide in Nazi-occupied France.
Rated R.
POST GRAD
Alexis Bledel is a college grad whose big plans for the future take a detour when she's forced to move back in with her crazy family.
Rated PG-13
SHORTS
A small town is thrown into chaos when a mysterious rainbow-colored rock falls from the sky, granting to wishes to anyone who holds it.
Rated PG.
G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF THE COBRA
A Real American Hero, based on the 1980s cartoon/action figures, comes to life to battle the evil forces of Cobra.
Rated PG-13.
JULIE & JULIA
Meryl Streep and Amy Adams star in parallel true stories of famed chef Julia Child and a young woman trying who embarks on a culinary quest.
Rated PG-13.
A PERFECT GETAWAY
A young newlywed couple goes backpacking in a remote island paradise, only to be thrust into brutal battle for survival.
Rated R.
FUNNY PEOPLE
In the latest from director Judd Apatow, Adam Sandler stars as a veteran stand-up comedian who has a near-death experience.
Rated R.
ALIENS IN THE ATTIC
A group of kids must fight off an alien attack when knee-high extraterrestrials invade the family vacation home.
Rated PG.
G-FORCE
An elite team of highly trained secret agent guinea pigs is the world's last hope against an evil plot to take over the world.
Rated PG.
ORPHAN
A mourning couple decides to adopt a child, only to discover that the seemingly sweet angelic little girl is not what she appears to be.
Rated R.
Click here to see movie trailer for "Orphan".
THE UGLY TRUTH
Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler team up as TV morning show producers searching for the ugly truth on what makes men and women tick.
Rated R.
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE
Daniel Radcliffe returns as the teen wizard, back at Hogwarts and facing his darkest threat yet.
Rated PG.
Click here to see movie trailer for Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince.
ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS
Manny, Sid, Diego and the rest of the computer- animated critter crew are back for their third prehistoric adventure -- this time in 3D!
Rated PG.
PUBLIC ENEMIES
Johnny Depp stars as notorious depression-era gangster John Dillinger, whose charismatic crime spree made him a folk hero to the masses.
Rated R.
TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN
Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf return to join with the Autobots' battle against the evil Decepticons.
Rated PG-13.
Click here to watch the movie trailer for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
MY SISTER'S KEEPER
A young girl, conceived to provide a donor match for her leukemia-stricken older sister, seeks to earn medical emancipation from her parents.
Rated PG-13
THE PROPOSAL
Sandra Bullock is a high-powered exec who fakes an engagement with her assistant to avoid deportation to her native Canada.
Rated PG-13.
YEAR ONE
Jack Black and Michael Cera are a pair of village idiots on the first road trip ever, wandering through early civilization in biblical times.
Rated PG-13.
IMAGINE THAT
Eddie Murphy is a troubled financial exec who finds the solution to all his problems in his daughter's imaginary world.
Rated PG.
THE TAKING PELHAM 1 2 3
Denzel Washington is a civil servant who must outwit John Travolta, a criminal mastermind who hijacks a subway train.
Rated R.
UP
In Pixar's latest, a twist of fate (and a persistent Junior Wilderness Explorer) sends a 78-year-old man on an adventure beyond his wildest dreams.
Rated PG.
DRAG ME TO HELL
An ambitious loan officer shames a mysterious old woman and becomes the unwitting recipient of a powerful supernatural curse.
Rated PG-13.
ANGELS AND DEMONS
Tom Hanks returns as symbologist Robert Langdom, this time on the trail of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati.
Rated PG-13.
Click here to watch the movie trailer for Angels and Demons.
STAR TREK
Kirk, Spock, Bones and the rest of the Enterprise crew boldly go where no one has gone before in J.J. Abrams re-imagining of the final frontier.
Rated PG-13.
Click here to watch the movie trailer for Star Trek.
NEXT DAY AIR
Things get wildly out of control when two bumbling criminals accidentally receive a package of grade-A cocaine.
X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE
Hugh Jackman returns to action as Logan, in the story behind the X-Men's adamantium-clawed mutant superhero.
Rated PG-13.
BATTLE FOR TERRA
After the destruction of Earth, mankind searches space for a hospitable home then invades a peaceful planet when they find it.
Rated PG.
GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST
Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner star in the tale of a perpetual bachelor who is haunted by the women of his past relationships.
Rated PG-13.
THE SOLOIST
Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. star in the true story of a former classical music prodigy living on the streets of Los Angeles.
Rated PG-13.
OBSESSED
Beyonce Knowles and Ali Larter star in a thriller about an unhinged stalker who threatens to destroy a happy family and career.
Rated PG-13.
FIGHTING
Channing Tatum is a small-town boy with a natural talent for fighting who gets caught up in the underground bare-knuckle circuit.
Rated PG-13.
EARTH
Documents a year in the life of our planet, following the story of three animal families and their amazing journeys.
Rated G.
FAST & FURIOUS
Vin Diesel and Paul Walker are former rivals who reunite for the fourth installment of the supercharged auto action franchise.
Rated PG-13.
ADVENTURELAND
An uptight recent college grad realizes he can't afford his dream vacation, and is forced to take a minimum-wage job at a local amusement park.
Rated R.
DUPLICITY
Julia Roberts and Clive Owen are former government intelligence agents who team up to stage an elaborate corporate con.
Rated PG-13.
I LOVE YOU, MAN
Paul Rudd realizes he has no male friend close enough to serve as best man at his wedding, and embarks on a series of "man-dates" to find one.
Rated R.
KNOWING
Nicolas Cage stumbles upon a time-capsule with terrifying predictions about the future -- and sets out to prevent them from coming true.
Rated PG-13.
RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN
Dwayne Johnson is a taxi driver who gets more than he bargained for when he picks up two teen runaways with supernatural powers.
Rated PG.
Click here to watch the trailer for "Race To Witch Mountain"
THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT
Two ordinary parents exact revenge on the group of vicious sociopaths who harmed their daughter and left her dead.
Rated R.
MISS MARCH
A young man awakens from a four-year coma to hear that his once virginal high-school sweetheart has since become a centerfold in Playboy.
Rated R.
WATCHMEN
From the director of '300,' Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' dark, critically-acclaimed graphic novel of costumed crimefighters comes to life.
Rated R.
FIRED UP
The two most popular guys in high school hatch a scheme to ditch football camp and join the cheerleaders at cheer camp.
Rated PG-13.
TYLER PERRY'S MADEA GOES TO JAIL
Anger management issues get the best of Madea and land her behind bars, where she befriends a troubled young woman.
Rated PG-13.
CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC
A New York City girl's compulsive shopping and growing debt issues threaten to destroy her love life and derail her career.
Rated PG.
FRIDAY THE 13TH
In this remake of the slasher classic, a mysterious masked killer is out to slaughter the teenage counselors at Camp Crystal Lake.
Rated R.
THE INTERNATIONAL
Clive Owen and Naomi Watts follow the money and uncover a conspiracy behind one of the world's most powerful banks.
Rated R.
CORALINE
An animated story of a young girl who unlocks a mysterious door in her new home, and enters into an adventure in a parallel reality.
Rated PG.
HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU
Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly and Drew Barrymore star in a comedy about relationships and married life.
Rated PG-13.
THE PINK PANTHER 2
Steve Martin returns as Inspector Jacques Clouseau, who teams up with a squad of detectives to catch a globe-trotting thief.
Rated PG
PUSH
A group of young Americans expats possessing supernatural abilities are on the run from a shadowy government agency in Hong Kong.
PG-13.
NEW IN TOWN
Renee Zellweger is a Miami businesswoman who is transferred to rural Minnesota and is forced to re-evaluate her big-city values.
Rated PG.
TAKEN
Liam Neeson is a former government operative who uses his training to rescue his daughter from a slave trade operation.
Rated PG-13.
THE UNINVITED
After the death of their mother, two sisters try to convince their father that his current fiancee is not who she pretends to be.
Rated PG-13.
INKHEART
Brendan Fraser is a father with the magical ability to bring characters from books to life when he reads them aloud.
Rated PG.
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are a young couple in the 1950s trying to find fulfillment in an age of conformity.
Rated R.
UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS
Prequel exploring the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the vampires and their onetime slaves, the Lycans.
Rated R.
DEFIANCE
Daniel Craig in the true story of Jewish brothers living in Nazi- occupied Poland who escape to become resistance fighters.
Rated R.
HOTEL FOR DOGS
A teen secretly transforms a vacant house into a magical dog paradise after her new guardians forbid her from having a pet.
Rated PG.
MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3-D
In the small town of Harmony, a deranged murderer takes his deadly revenge, killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day.
Rated R.
PAUL BLART: MALL COP
Kevin James stars as New Jersey's most formidable mall cop, who steps into action when a heist shuts down the megaplex.
Rated PG.
BRIDE WARS
Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson are best friends who become bridal rivals when their weddings are scheduled on the same day.
Rated PG.
GRAN TORINO
Clint Eastwood stars as a grumpy Korean War veteran who
must protect the neighborhood from the threat of street gangs.
Rated R.
NOT EASILY BROKEN
A couple's love and faith are tested when the wife is injured in a car crash and the husband becomes attracted to another woman.
Rated PG-13.
THE UNBORN
A woman is haunted by a dybbuk--the soul of the dead barred from heaven--in the form of a boy who perished in Auschwitz.
Rated PG-13.
BEDTIME STORIES
Adam Sandler's life is turned upside down when the imaginative bedtime tales he tells his niece and nephew become reality.
Rated PG.
Click here to watch a trailer for Bedtime Stories.
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
Brad Pitt stars in the peculiar story of a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards, becoming younger through time.
Rated PG-13.
Click here to watch a trailer for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
MARLEY AND ME
Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson are a couple who adopt a puppy that becomes a rollicking force of nature in their lives.
Rated PG.
THE SPIRIT
A man fakes his own death and fights crime from the shadows
of Central City as the masked crusader known as The Spirit.
Rated PG-13.
VALKYRIE
Tom Cruise stars in the true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and the daring plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
Rated PG-13.
Click here to watch a trailer for Valkyrie.
SEVEN POUNDS
Will Smith is an IRS agent with a secret who embarks on a journey of redemption by changing the lives of seven strangers.
Rated PG-13.
THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX
A tiny mouse with the courage of a knight in shining armor is the only one in the kingdom who can rescue a kidnapped princess.
Rated G.
Click here to watch a trailer for The Tale Of Despereaux
YES MAN
Jim Carrey's life is radically transformed when he decides to live by one simple principle: say yes to everything and anything.
Rated PG-13.
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
Keanu Reeves stars as an alien who comes to Earth with a warning message for all humans: live in peace or be destroyed.
Rated PG-13.
Click here to watch a trailer for "The Day The Earth Stood Still"
DELGO
A fantasy epic about a teenager who must rally his friends to protect their world from conflict between two warring nations.
Rated PG.
NOTHING LIKE THE HOLIDAYS
Secrets are revealed and bonds are tested when the far-flung members of the Rodriguez family reunites for the holidays.
Rated PG-13.
Click here to watch a trailer for "Nothing Like The Holidays"
AUSTRALIA
Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman star as cattle ranchers in a World War II-era outback epic directed by Baz Luhrman.
Rated PG-13.
Click here to watch a trailer for "Australia."
FOUR CHRISTMASES
Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn are a couple forced to spend Christmas with their four different dysfunctional families.
Rated PG-13.
TRANSPORTER 3
Jason Statham is back in action as Frank Martin, the ex-Special Forces operative who is hired to deliver a very special 'package.'
Rated PG-13.
BOLT
The canine star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to the very real world of New York City.
Rated PG.
Click here to watch a trailer for "Bolt."
TWILIGHT
Bella, the new girl in town, is swept up in a passionate and dangerous romance with Edward, a mysterious teen vampire.
Rated PG-13.
Click here to watch a trailer for "Twilight."
QUANTUM OF SOLACE
Daniel Craig is back in action as Agent 007, out for revenge and determined to thwart a mysterious organization's sinister plan.
Rated PG-13.
Click here to watch a trailer for Quantum of Solace.
MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA:
After hatching a crazy plan to return to New York aboard a penguin-piloted plane, the zoo crew crash lands in Africa.
Rated PG.
Click here to watch a trailer for "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa"
ROLE MODELS
Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott are forced to sign up to be Big Brothers as part of their court-mandated community service.
Rated R.
SOUL MEN
Bernie Mac and Samuel L. Jackson are former members of a '70s soul band who reunite for a musical tribute at the Apollo Theater.
ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO
Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks star as lifelong platonic friends who, strapped for cash and in debt, decide to make an adult film.
Rated R.
THE HAUNTING OF MOLLY HARTLEY
A teenage girl learns that her parents once made a pact with the devil to save her life, and now, the devil has returned to collect.
Rated PG-13.
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3: SENIOR YEAR
Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens and the rest of Wildcat gang leap
to the big screen to produce one last musical before graduation.
Rated G.
Click here to watch a trailer for "HSM: Senior Year."
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