THE GOLDEN COMPASS

Release Date: December 7, 2007
Distributor: New Line Cinema
Director: Chris Weitz
Screenwriter: Chris Weitz
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Dakota Blue Richards, Sam Elliott, Eva Green, Tom Courtenay, Ben Walker, Adam Godley, Simon McBurney, Nonso Anozie, Jim Carter, Clare Higgins, Jack Shepherd, Magda Szubanski, Ian McShane, Daniel Craig

Website: http://www.goldencompassmovie.com/

Synopsis: Based on author Philip Pullman's bestselling and award-winning novel, "The Golden Compass" tells the first story in Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy. "The Golden Compass" is an exciting fantasy adventure, set in an alternative world where people's souls manifest themselves as animals, talking bears fight wars, and Gyptians and witches co-exist. At the center of the story is Lyra (played by newcomer Dakota Blue Richards), a 12-year-old girl who starts out trying to rescue a friend who's been kidnapped by a mysterious organization known as the Gobblers - and winds up on an epic quest to save not only her world, but ours as well.

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THE PERFECT HOLIDAY

Release Date: December 14, 2007
Distributor: Yari Film Group
Director: Lance Rivera
Producers: Shakim Compere, Queen Latifah, Marvin Peart, Leifur B. Dagfinnsson, Mike Elliot, and Joe Genier
Screenwriters: Lance Rivera and Marc Calixte
Cast: Morris Chestnut, Gabrielle Union, Queen Latifah, Charlie Murphy, Terrence Howard, Faizon Love, Rachel True, Katt Williams, Jill Marie Jones, Malik Hammond, Khail Bryant, & Jeremy Gumbs
Genre: Family Comedy

Synopsis:

THE PERFECT HOLIDAY is a heart-warming holiday story of Nancy (played by Gabrielle Union - "Daddy's Little Girl" & “Bring it On”), a loving single mother of three who falls for Benjamin (Morris Chestnut – “Best Man", “Like Mike” & “Breakin’ All the Rules”), a talented but struggling songwriter who is working part-time as a mall Santa. Conflicts arise when her oldest son, 10 year old John-John, convinces his younger brother and sister to join him in mischievous plots and schemes against their mother’s new boyfriend in the hopes that she will reunite with his hero - their rap-mogul father J-Jizzy (Charlie Murphy). Being narrated by Queen Latifah in a magical role of “Mother Christmas” opposite Terrence Howard, who plays a hard-to-dislike Scrooge-ish character named “Bah-Humbug”, THE PERFECT HOLIDAYsuccessfully brings together all the elements that will make this a Holiday Classic.

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I AM LEGEND

Release Date: December 14, 2007
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Francis Lawrence
Screenwriter: Akiva Goldsman, Mark Protosevich
Starring: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Salli Richardson, Willow Camille Reign Smith

Synopsis: Based on the Richard Matheson book, Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood. By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn. How long can one man survive in a world full of vampires?

Will Smith will be playing the role of Robert Neville. Salli Richardson plays Ginny, his wife, while Alice Braga plays Anna. Smith's real-life daughter, Willow Camille Reign Smith, will be making her film debut as his Robert and Ginny's daughter.

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NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS

Release Date: December 21, 2007
Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Screenwriter: Gregory Poirier, Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Wibberley
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Helen Mirren, Ed Harris, Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, Alicia Coppola, Joel Gretsch
Website: http://www.nationaltreasure.com/

Synopsis:
National Treasure: Book of Secrets revolves around the notion that Ben Gates' (Cage) family is somewhat implicated in the greatest assassination in the history of the United States - the murder of Abraham Lincoln; and truth lies in the eighteen missing pages of the assassin John Wilkes Booth's diary supposedly containing secret information describing the assassination details as well as on a world-wide conspiracy.

In trying to clear his family's name, Ben gathers his team of fellow treasure hunters, historian Abigail Chase (Kruger) and the hilarious Riley Poole (Bartha), who embark on a worldwide adventure that takes them from breaking into the Buckingham Palace in the pursuit of clues, to the stealing of a page from the esoteric Book of Secrets in the President's Oval office, and ultimately leads them to discovering one of the greatest hidden treasure mysteries of our time..

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HONEYDRIPPER

Release Date: December 28, 2007
Distributor: Emerging Pictures
Director: John Sayles
Producer: Maggie Renzi
Screenwriter: John Sayles
Cinematographer: Dick Pope
Composer: Mason Daring
Cast: Danny Glover, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Charles S. Dutton, Sean Patrick Thomas, Vondie Curtis Hall, Keb Mo, Kel Mitchell, Stacy Keach, Mary Steenburgen, Yaya DaCosta, and introducing Gary Clark, Jr.

Synopsis:

1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man, the chicken man, and the landlord, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint, away from Touissant’s, the rival joint across the way.

After laying off his regular talent, blues singer Bertha Mae, Tyrone announces to his sidekick Maceo that he has hired the famous electric guitar player, Guitar Sam, for a special one night only gig:pack em in and save the club.

On the day of the show, the train arrives and Guitar Sam is no where to be found. Tyrone is forced to take drastic action. He makes a deal with Sheriff Pugh to release Sonny, the kid who hopped off a freight car here in Harmony, and turned up in the club claiming he could play the guitar as well as any Guitar Sam.

Tyrone cleans Sonny up and launches a last ditch scheme to pass off the young guitar picker as Guitar Sam just long enough to cut the lights and run off with cash box. When Sonny takes the stage and launches into his first scalding electric licks, Tyrone will learn if it’s lights out for the Honeydripper or if his luck has changed: he might just be another man saved by rock n' roll.

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