Movie: I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)

“Steven Russell is happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force when a car accident provokes a dramatic reassessment of his life. Steven realizes he’s gay and decides to live life to the fullest – even if it means breaking the law. Steven’s new, extravagant lifestyle involves cons and fraud and, eventually, a stay in the State Penitentiary where he meets sensitive, soft-spoken Phillip Morris. His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts Steven to attempt and often succeed at one impossible con after another. Written by The Film Catalogue”

• Release Date:
  10 February 2010 (Belgium)
• Run Time:
  Germany:102 min (European Film Market)
• Country: France , USA
• Genre: Comedy , Drama
• MPAA:
  Rated R for sexual content including strong dialogue, and language.

Tagline: The Conman who wouldn't go straight

Movie: A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

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• Director: Samuel Bayer
• Release Date:
  30 April 2010 (USA)
• Country: USA
• Genre: Fantasy , Horror , Thriller

Tagline: Welcome to Your New Nightmare.

Trivia: Katie Cassidy was last to be cast.

Movie: The Back-up Plan (2010)

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• Director: Alan Poul
• Release Date:
  23 April 2010 (USA)
• Country: USA
• Genre: Comedy , Romance

Tagline: Fall in love.* Get married. Have a baby. *Not necessarily in that order.

Trivia: On one of the buildings in the neighborhood where Jennifer Lopez’s character’s pet store is, there is some graffiti (written inside the outline of a heart) that reads: “M.A. + J.L.” This is an obvious reference to Lopez’s real-life husband, Marc Anthony.

Movie: The Losers (2010/I)

“A tale of double cross and revenge, centered upon the members of an elite U.S. Special Forces unit sent into the Bolivian jungle on a search and destroy mission. The team-Clay, Jensen, Roque, Pooch and Cougar -find themselves the target of a lethal betrayal instigated from inside by a powerful enemy known only as Max. Presumed dead, the group makes plans to even the score when they’re joined by the mysterious Aisha, a beautiful operative with her own agenda. Working together, they must remain deep undercover while tracking the heavily-guarded Max, a ruthless man bent on embroiling the world in a new high-tech global war. Written by Warner Bros. Pictures”

• Director: Sylvain White
• Release Date:
  23 April 2010 (USA)
• Country: USA
• Genre: Action , Adventure , Drama , Mystery , Thriller

Trivia: The script is loosely based on the first story arc from “The Losers” comic, collectively called “Ante Up”. The story appeared in issues 1-6 of the DC Vertigo comic, written by Andy Diggle and drawn by artist Jock.

Movie: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)

“As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two-tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader’s mentor. Written by Anonymous”

• Director: Oliver Stone
• Release Date:
  23 April 2010 (USA)
• Country: USA
• Genre: Drama

Trivia: Susan Sarandon second collaboration in two years with ‘Michael Douglas (I)’ and Carey Mulligan. She last starred with Douglas in Solitary Man (2009) and Mulligan in The Greatest (2009).

Movie: Kick-Ass (2010)

“Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan with a few friends and who lives alone with his father. His life is not very difficult and his personal trials not that overwhelming. However, one day he makes the simple decision to become a super-hero even though he has no powers or training. Written by Daniel J. Leary”

• Director: Matthew Vaughn
• Release Date:
  16 April 2010 (USA)
• Run Time:
  106 min
• Country: USA , UK
• Genre: Action , Comedy , Drama
• MPAA:
  Rated R for strong brutal violence throughout, pervasive language, sexual content, nudity and some drug use – some involving children.

Tagline: I can't be invisible. But I can kick your ass.

Trivia: Nicolas Cage (Damon Macready) and Lyndsy Fonseca (Katie Deauxma) both share the same birthday (7th January).

Movie: Death at a Funeral (2010)

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• Director: Neil LaBute
• Release Date:
  16 April 2010 (USA)
• Country: USA
• Genre: Comedy

Tagline: This is one sad family.

Trivia: This movie is a remake of a 2007 movie of the same name, Death at a Funeral (2007). Although Hollywood has a history of making American versions of foreign films, the original versions are usually in a language other than English. This is not the case here, however, since the original film was a British production and filmed in English, with an American director (who was, as it happens, born in England) and several American actors (including Peter Dinklage, who repeats his role in the remake). This is a very unusual case of a remake being made very quickly of an English-language movie that had a theatrical release in the US (albeit not a very successful one).

Movie: Letters to God (2010)

“Inspired by a true story. A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and community and inspiring hope among everyone he comes in contact. An unsuspecting substitute postman, with a troubled life of his own, becomes entangled in the boy’s journey and his family by reading the letters. They inspire him to seek a better life for himself and his own son he’s lost through his alcohol addiction. Written by Anonymous”

• Release Date:
  9 April 2010 (USA)
• Run Time:
  USA:110 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Drama , Family
• MPAA:
  Rated PG for thematic material.

Tagline: Hope is Contagious

Movie: Date Night (2010)

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• Director: Shawn Levy
• Release Date:
  9 April 2010 (USA)
• Run Time:
  88 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Action , Comedy , Romance
• MPAA:
  Rated PG-13 for sexual and crude content throughout, language, some violence and a drug reference.

Movie: Leaves of Grass (2009)

“The lives of two identical twins, one an Ivy League philosophy professor, the other a small-time and brilliant marijuana grower, intertwine when the professor is lured back to his Oklahoma hometown for a doomed scheme against a local drug lord. Written by Anonymous”

• Director: Tim Blake Nelson
• Release Date:
  2 April 2010 (USA)
• Run Time:
  Canada:105 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
• Country: USA
• Genre: Comedy , Crime , Drama , Thriller
• MPAA:
  Rated R for violence, pervasive language, and drug content.

Trivia: Edward Norton was so desperate to star in this movie that he took a pay cut, stating in an interview that he “actually got paid half what I usually make”.