Red Tails
Action, Drama, War

First Weekend date: January 20th, 2012

1944. World War II rages and the fate of the free world hangs in the balance. Meanwhile the black pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program are courageously waging two wars at once – one against enemies overseas, and the other against discrimination within the military and back home. Racial prejudices have long held ace airman Martin Easy Julian (Nate Parker) and his black pilots back at base - leaving them with little to do but further hone their flying skills - while their white counterparts are shipped out to combat after a mere three months of training. Mistakenly deemed inferior and assigned only second-rate planes and missions, the pilots of Tuskegee have mastered the skies with ease but have not been granted the opportunity to truly spread their wings.

MPAA Rating: None
Starring: Bryan Cranston, Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, David Oyelowo, Daniela Ruah, Michael B. Jordan
Writer: George Lucas, John Ridley
Produced by: Chas. Floyd Johnson, Ales Komárek, George Lucas, Rick McCallum
Directed by: Anthony Hemingway
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Joyful Noise
Musical, Comedy, Drama

Story centers on an unlikely partnership between two strong-minded women who are forced to work together to save a small town gospel choir after budgetcuts threaten to shut them down.

Latifah will play a no-nonsense mother put in charge of the choir after the untimely death of the choir director. Her character's faced with the challenges of raising two teens while her husband is away in the military and getting the choir ready for a national competition if she hopes to keep the program afloat.

Parton will play the widow of the choir director who had assumed she would take her late husband's position of leading the choir. Production will start in January.

MPAA Rating: None
Starring: Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton, Courtney B. Vance, Keke Palmer
Writer: Todd Graff
Produced by: Timothy M. Bourne, Yolanda T. Cochran, Joseph Farrell, K.C. Hodenfield, Broderick Johnson, Andrew A. Kosove, Michael G. Nathanson, Catherine Paura
Directed by: Todd Graff
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Pariah
Drama

A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

MPAA Rating: None
Starring: Adepero Oduye, Kim Wayans and Aasha Davis
Writer: Dee Rees
Produced by: Ann Bradley, Joey Carey, Nekisa Cooper, Spike Lee, Susan Lewis, Miles Maker, Sam Martin, Stefan Nowicki, Jeff Robinson, Mary Jane Skalski, Benjamin Weber
Directed by: Dee Rees
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Tower Heist
Comedy, Crime

Ben Stiller will star in Tower Heist, about a group of con-men who devise a plan to swindle the residents of New York's upscale Trump Tower, where they also work.

MPAA Rating: None
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller and Casey Affleck, Gabourey Sidibe, Michael Peña, Matthew Broderick
Writer: Noah Baumbach, Bill Collage, Jeff Nathanson
Produced by: Bill Carraro, Brian Grazer, Karen Kehela, Eddie Murphy, Kim Roth
Directed by: Brett Ratner
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The Guard
Thriller

An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is teamed up with an uptight FBI agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring.

MPAA Rating: PG-13
Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle and Mark Strong
Writer: John Michael McDonagh
Produced by: Paul Brett, Don Cheadle, Chris Clark, Elizabeth Eves, Flora Fernandez-Marengo, Ed Guiney, Ralph Kamp, Andrew Lowe, Lee Magiday, Martin McDonagh, Paul Myler, David Nash, Tim Smith, Lenore Zerman
Directed by: John Michael McDonagh
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The Help
Drama

Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, “The Help” stars Emma Stone (star of the breakout hit, “Zombieland”) as Skeeter, a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives—and a small Mississippi town—upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Academy Award® nominee Viola Davis (“Eat Pray Love”) stars as Aibileen, Skeeter’s best friend’s housekeeper, who is the first to open up—to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community. Despite Skeeter’s life-long friendships hanging in the balance, she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more women come forward to tell their stories—and as it turns out, they have a lot to say. Along the way, unlikely friendships are forged and a new sisterhood emerges, but not before everyone in town has a thing or two to say themselves when they become unwittingly—and unwillingly—caught up in the changing times.

MPAA Rating: None
Starring: Viola Davis, David Oyelowo, Cicely Tyson, Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard, Mike Vogel, Allison Janney, Sissy Spacek
Writers: Kathryn Stockett, Tate Taylor
Produced by: Mohamed Khalaf Al-Mazrouei, Michael Barnathan, Nate Berkus, Jennifer Blum, Chris Columbus, Brunson Green, L. Dean Jones Jr., Sonya Lunsford, John Norris, Mark Radcliffe, Jeff Skoll, Tate Taylor
Directed by: Tate Taylor

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