In Theaters This Week 27th February

Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience
Copyright © 2009 Walt Disney Pictures

The Jonas Brothers head to the big screen—in Disney Digital 3-D™—in a high-energy Walt Disney Pictures rockumentary feature film event from director Bruce Hendricks (“Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert”). The film blends excerpts from the Brothers’ red-hot “Burning Up” concert tour, including guest performances from Demi Lovato and Taylor Swift, with exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, off-the-wall segments, a never-before-heard song (“Love Is On Its Way”), swarming fans and a lot of JB-style humor—giving fans never-before-seen insights into the lives of Kevin, Joe and Nick.

	February 27th, 2009
	Bruce Hendricks
	Bruce Hendricks
	Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas, Demi Lovato, Taylor Swift
	Walt Disney Pictures, Walden Media
	Documentary, Musical
	disney.go.com/disneypictures/jonasbrothers3d
	G
	1 hour 16 minutes

Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li
Copyright © 2009 20th Century Fox

"Street Fighter" is a live-action feature film based on Capcom's video game. The new film is focused on female fighter Chun Li and her journey for justice.

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	February 27th, 2009
	Andrzej Bartkowiak
	Justin Marks
	Kristin Kreuk, Michael Clarke Duncan, Neal McDonough, Taboo, Chris Klein, Moon Bloodgood, Edmund Chen, Cheng Pei Pei, Josie Ho, Robin Shou
	Twentieth Century Fox
	Action, Adventure
	streetfightermovie.net
	PG-13 sequences of violence and martial arts action, and some sensuality
	1 hour 37 minutes

Crossing Over
Copyright © 2009 The Weinstein Company

Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In "Crossing Over," writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality that immigrants find - and create -- in 21st century L.A.

	February 27th, 2009
	Wayne Kramer
	Wayne Kramer
	Harrison Ford, Cliff Curtis, Ashley Judd, Sean Penn, Ray Liotta, Alicia Braga, Alice Eve, Jim Sturgess
	The Weinstein Company
	Drama
	weinsteinco.com/#/film/crossingover
	R pervasive language, some strong violence and sexuality/nudity
	1 hour 53 minutes

Blu-ray Chart 21st February

Top Blu-ray Sales 21st February 2009

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Body of Lies (+ Digital Copy and BD Live) [Blu-ray]

RANK	TITLE (LABEL/DISTRIBUTOR, SRP)
1	BODY OF LIES
2	HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3: SENIOR YEAR
3	QUARANTINE
4	THE DARK KNIGHT
5	MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA
6	CHANGELING
7	ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO
8	TRANSFORMERS
9	THE BOONDOCK SAINTS
10	IRON MAN

DVD Chart 21st February

Top DVD Sales 21st February 2009
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High School Musical 3: Senior Year (Extended Edition)

THIS WEEK			TITLE (LABEL/DISTRIBUTOR)			RATING	BOX OFFICE*
1			HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3			G	90.6
2			MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA			PG	179.6
3			BODY OF LIES			R	39.4
4			CHANGELING			R	35.7
5			QUARANTINE			R	31.7
6			SPACE BUDDIES			G	-
7			NIGHTS IN RODANTHE			PG-13	41.9
8			FIREPROOF			PG	33.5
9			ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO			R	31.5
10			RELIGULOUS			R	13.0
11			STILL WAITING			R	-
12			OPEN SEASON 2			G	-
13			SOUL MEN			R	12.1
14			MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA			R	7.9
15			WALL-E			G	223.7
16			W.			PG-13	25.5
17			PINEAPPLE EXPRESS			R	87.3
18			THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES			PG-13	37.7
19			LAKEVIEW TERRACE			PG-13	39.3
20			THE DARK KNIGHT			PG-13	530.7

"Bolt," "Marley & Me" vie for Genesis Award

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Three movies about dogs and a documentary about a lost killer whale will compete for best feature film honors at the 23rd Genesis Awards.

Presented by the Humane Society of the United States, the awards honor news and entertainment media showcasing animal issues. Trophies will be handed out March 28 at the Beverly Hilton.

The contenders in the best feature film category are the animated film "Bolt," the family movie "Marley & Me," the revenge drama "Red" and "Saving Luna," a documentary about a wayward whale.

For making news on behalf of animals, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are set to receive the Wyler Award, named after Genesis Awards founder Gretchen Wyler.

This year's event is dedicated to ending the Canadian seal hunt. [Source from: reuters.com]

Pinocchio Coming To Blu-ray

Walt Disney Studios has unwrapped final specs for 'Pinocchio,' which will see a Platinum Blu-ray release this March with hours of exclusive content. Disney has set a March 10 street date for 'Pinocchio,' which arrives on Blu-ray as the studio's second Platinum Series title.

Disney has outlined final specs for this 70th anniversary remaster, which will receive painstakingly-restored 1080p/AVC MPEG-4 video and a DTS-HD Lossless Master Audio 7.1 Surround track.

Extras on this two-disc set include audio commentary with Leonard Maltin, Eric Goldberg and J. B.
Kaufman, the documentary "No Strings Attached: The Making of Pinocchio," additional "The Sweat Box" featurette, deleted scenes and songs, an alternate ending, extensive still galleries, rare rehearsal footage and the interactive game "Pinocchio's Puzzles."

Exclusive to the Blu-ray is a Cine-Explore mode (Bonus View required) with picture-in-picture making-of content, plus extensive BD-Live connectivity including a "Movie Chat" live viewing function, "Movie Mail," "Movie Challenge" interactive online trivia game, and a "Disney Rewards" program.

Suggested retail price for the Blu-ray has been set at $35.99

Sony Unveils 'Da Vinci Code' Blu-ray Specs, Exclusives

Sony Pictures has revealed final specs for 'The Da Vinci Code,' which comes to Blu-ray this April as a two-disc set with exclusive content. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment finally confirmed a April 28 Blu-ray debut for the blockbuster adaptation of Dan Brown's runaway best-seller (timed to coincide with the upcoming big-screen release of its sequel, 'Angels & Demons').

Full specs are now in, with the film being presented in its extended cut form across a BD-50 dual-layer disc with 1080/AVC MPEG-4 video and Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Surround audio.

Throwing in an extra disc just for supplements, bonus features include a select scenes audio commentary with director Ron Howard, plus over a dozen making-of featurettes ("A Discussion With Dan Brown," "A Portrait of Langdon," "Who is Sophie Neveu?," "Unusual Suspects," "Magical Places," "Close-up on Mona Lisa," "The Filmmakers' Journey," "The Codes of The Da Vinci Code," "The Music of The Da Vinci Code," "Book to Screen," "The Da Vinci Props," "The Da Vinci Sets," "Re-creating Works of Art," "The Visual Effects World of The Da Vinci Code," "Scoring The Da Vinci Code," "La Partie Francaise Du Da Vinci Code").

Exclusive to the Blu-ray release is the "Unlocking the Code" interactive picture-in-picture track. Like all Sony titles, 'The Da Vinci Code' comes BD-Live-enabled, though at press time there is no exclusive content announced.

Suggested retail price for the Blu-ray has been set at $38.95.

Warner Outlines 'Batman Anthology' Blu-ray Specs

Warner has unleashed the full details of its 'Batman' anthology Blu-ray box set, which arrives this May with five discs and multiple hours of bonus features, the five-disc set contains all four of the Batman films made from 1989-1997, including 'Batman,' 'Batman Returns,' 'Batman Forever' and 'Batman & Robin.'

The studio has now confirmed final specs, which will see each film receive its own BD-50 dual-layer presentation, with 1080p/VC-1 video and English Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Surround audio.

Extras are extensive and match the previous DVD release of the 'Anthology.' Consistent among each film is an audio commentary with its respective director, documentary galleries, character profiles, and theatrical trailers. Also spread across all four films in the set is the multi-part "Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight" documentary.

Also included on 'Batman' is the featurette "On the set with Bob Kane," a cut storyboard sequence, and three music videos from Prince.

'Batman Returns' boasts an additional featurette ("The Bat, The Cat and the Penguin"), and a Siouxie and the Banshees music video.

'Batman Forever' features additional cut footage (presented as an extra) and a music video.

Finally, 'Batman & Robin' also includes additional footage as an extra, and four music videos.

Suggested retail price for the Blu-ray has been set at $129.95.

Blu-ray 24th February Release

Akira [Blu-ray]

Honneamise / 1988 / 124 Minutes / Rated R
Street Date: February 24, 2009

Genres: Anime

Starring:Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Mitsuo Iwata
Director: Katsuhiro Ôtomo

Plot Synopsis: Artist-writer Katsuhiro Ôtomo began telling the story of Akira as a comic book series in 1982 but took a break from 1986 to 1988 to write, direct, supervise, and design this animated film version. Set in 2019, the film richly imagines the new metropolis of Neo-Tokyo, which is designed from huge buildings down to the smallest details of passing vehicles or police uniforms. Two disaffected orphan teenagers--slight, resentful Tetsuo and confident, breezy Kaneda--run with a biker gang, but trouble grows when Tetsuo start to resent the way Kaneda always has to rescue him. Meanwhile, a group of scientists, military men, and politicians wonder what to do with a collection of withered children who possess enormous psychic powers, especially the mysterious, rarely seen Akira, whose awakening might well have caused the end of the old world. Tetsuo is visited by the children, who trigger the growth of psychic and physical powers that might make him a superman or a supermonster. As befits a distillation of 1,318 pages of the story so far, Akira is overstuffed with character, incident, and detail. However, it piles up astonishing set pieces: the chases and shootouts (amazingly kinetic, amazingly bloody) benefit from minute cartoon detail that extends to the surprised or shocked faces of the tiniest extra; the Tetsuo monster alternately looks like a billion-gallon scrotal sac or a Tex Avery mutation of the monster from The Quatermass Experiment; and the finale--which combines flashbacks to more innocent days with a destruction of Neo City and the creation of a new universe--is one of the most mind-bending in all sci-fi cinema.

Disc Features:
• Storyboard Collection
• Theatrical Trailers

Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder [Blu-ray]

Fox Home Entertainment / 2008 / Unrated
Street Date: February 24, 2009

Genres: Animated, Comedy

Starring: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John Di Maggio
Director: Peter Avanzino

Sex Drive [Blu-ray]

Summit Entertainment / 2008 /
Street Date: February 24, 2009

Genres: Comedy

Starring: Josh Zuckerman, Clark Duke, Amanda Crew, and James Marsden
Director: Sean Anders

Plot Synopsis: Summit Sex Drive (Unrated) (Blu-ray) (Widescreen) Ian has a decision: stay home and stay a virgin or drive 800 miles to lose it with an online hottie. Decision made. Now Ian and his horn-dog buddy Lance are off on a sex safari...with "BFF" baggage Felicia in tow. Their epic quest features a stolen GTO, kinky trailer park sex, a prison fight, topless Abstinence Xtreme dancers, a smart-ass Amish super-mechanic (Seth Green), a gun-wielding Mexican donutand Ian's "d-bag" brother (James Marsden) in hot pursuit.


Hounddog [Blu-ray]

Hannover House / 2008 / Rated R
Street Date: February 24, 2009

Genres: Drama

Starring: Dakota Fanning, Robin Wright Penn
Director: Deborah Kempmeier

Plot Synopsis: A provocative Southern tale set in rural Alabama in the late 1950s, HOUNDDOG is the story of a spirited young girl LEWELLEN (Dakota Fanning) and her struggle to rise above the repression that surrounds her. Lewellen lives with her stern religious zealot grandmother, GRAMMIE (Piper Laurie), but spends most of her time down the hill with her much-adored DADDY (David Morse) in his falling down shack. Daddy is wild and rough and brings home a beautiful but troubled woman (Robin Wright Penn) who has a mysterious history with him and comes and goes when his drink and abuse becomes too much for her. But while she's around, Lewellens longing heart reaches for her love. Lewellen is deeply talented and finds comfort and safety, as well as a place to put her hurt and rage, in the music of Elvis Presley. When Elvis Presley comes to town for a concert, Lewellen is desperate to go but has no money for a ticket. Buddy, trying to get her a ticket, arranges for her to do her Elvis impersonation for a local teenager in exchange for tickets to the concert. During the impersonation, the teenager attacks Lewellen and steals her innocence. The attack leaves Lewellen feeling alone and hopeless. It is only the caretaker CHARLES (Afemo Omilanmi) who can see the spirit in Lewellen and save her soul. He teaches her to use The Blues, to turn her tragedy into a gift. Lewellen ultimately finds her true voice, giving her the strength and courage to walk away from from her past and into her future.

What Just Happened? [Blu-ray]

Magnolia Home Entertainment / 2008 / Rated R
Street Date: February 24, 2009

Genres: Comedy

Starring: Robert DeNiro, Bruce Willis, Sean Penn
Director: Barry Levinson

Plot Synopsis: Two weeks in the life of a fading Hollywood producer who's having a rough time trying to get his new picture made.

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