Nicolas Winding Refn’ new film, “Drive,” will now include the superb talent of Albert Brooks who is an actor and writer. The movie is based from a novel by James Sallis. “Drive”tells a story about a stunt actor in Hollywood who moonlights as a getaway driver who suddenly new that a contract has been signed after chaotic circumstances. Brooks will play the role of a New York mobster who came to L.A. The film will feature Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan and Bryan Cranston.

Maria Bello and Stephen Dorff will star “Carjacked”, an action-thriller and tells a story of a single mother and a child who were carjacked by a bank robber. The movie will revolve on the circumstances that will lead from the incident. Peter Medak will direct the film and will start its production next month. Bello was featured in “Grown Ups”; while, Stephen Dorff is finishing a lead role for “Immortals.”

Patrick Daniel “Pat” Tillman was a popular American football player at the National Football League (NFL) that resigned from his team, Arizona Cardinals in 2002 and enlisted himself in the United States Army. This was the aftermath of the 9/11 attack that claimed more than 5,000 lives when the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City collapsed after a suicide airplane attack. He became part of the United States Army Rangers and has been with the troop in several tours in combat before he met his death in Afghanistan in 2004. His death was even more controversial as the United States government attempted to cover-up what truly happened. Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal approved of a silver citation and a promotion, because it was first claimed that Tillam died braving the enemy’s fire. However, it was later revealed that the gun shot came from the same group and the cause of death became friendly fire. This revelation led Tillman’s family suing the United States’ government.

You might be easily attracted to Gemma Arteton’s venus-like figure, but after watching this movie, you will also realize that this girl has really great acting chops. Generally, although the film was bombarded with violence, nudity, curse and brutality, it is worth every dollar and more. One of the interesting things that this motion picture presented was even with simplicity: 3 characters and just 4 locations, you can make a film that is fantastically written and can give big budgeted blockbuster and overhyped flicks a run for their money.

The film follows the chronicle of a kidnapped victim named Alice Creed, who is a daughter of a millionaire. But, unlike any other victims, the girl would fight for her freedom, survival and her life. Indeed, it was a magnificent debut for the British director—coming up with a minimal attack to create a marvelous cinematic effect that is so engaging up to the very end. The clever twists in the movie are breathtaking and will surely leave you in awe of amazement.

The mystery and suspense movie will feature stars like Gemma Arteton as Alice Creed, Martin Compston as Danny and Eddie Marsan as Vic. The movie will be directed by J. Blakeson, who happens to be the writer of the story as well.

“The Disappearance of Alice Creed” will hit theaters in the United States on the 6th of August, 2010.

Entering the cinemas with the thinking that since Joel Schumacher directed the film and it was accepted in Sundance, it must be a good catch. For some, “Twelve” could well place in the American director’s bottom five after crafting applauded movies like “The Lost Boys” in 1987, “St. Elmo’s Fire” in 1985, “Batman Forever” in 1995, “Batman and Robin” in 1997, “Bad Company” in 2002, “Phone Booth” in 2003, “Flatliners” and “The Phantom of the Opera” in 2004. However, many moviegoers were relatively satisfied after seeing the premier of “Twelve”.

“Twelve” features talents like Emma Roberts as Molly, 50 Cent as Lionel, Rory Culkin as Chris, Chace Crawford as White Mike, Billy Magnussen as Claude, Jermaine Crawford as NaNa, Cody Horn as Alyssa, Charlie Saxton as Mark Rothko and Nico Tortorella as Tobias. Jordan Melamed was responsible for the screenplay, while Nick McDonell was the person who scribed the inspirational story of the movie.

Get ready to be inspired by a teenage melodrama as “Twelve” hits theaters in the United States on the 6th of August, 2010.

Certainly one of the best comedy films this summer, “The Other Guys” opened the weekend at number 1 with whopping ticket sales of $35.6 million across the United States. The movie probably benefited from movie reviews especially for Mark Wahlberg and Eva Mendes’ acting in a different genre. The lack of competition probably is another thing, since “Dinner for Schmucks” had it share of box office success a week or two ago. However, it failed to defeat “Inception” in weekend box office. This victory redeemed Will Ferrell after the flop of “Land of the Lost” in 2009.

Adam McKay directed this hilarious action-comedy and co-scribed the story with Chris Henchy. Aside from the tandem of Ferrell (Allen Gamble) and Wahlberg (Terry Hoitz), the movie featured stars like Samuel L. Jackson as P.K. Highsmith, Dwayne Johnson as Christopher Danson, Michael Keaton as Captain Gene Mauch, Eva Mendes as Dr. Sheila Ramos Gamble and Ray Stevenson as Roger Wesley.

This cop duo of a classic tough guy Wahlberg and an uncomfortably funny Ferrell grazed more than 3,600 cinemas in US last August 6th.

However, one positive part is that after all the confusion from beginning till the middle of the story, the ending is pretty much a sealed and a better conclusion compared to recent horror-based movies that obviously savaged everything a terrible ending.

This suspense-drama flick was directed by Alex de la Iglesia. He was also responsible for the screenplay, while Jorge Guerricaechevarría scribed the story. Cast of characters includes Elijah Wood as Martin, John Hurt as Arthur Seldom, Leonor Watling as Lorna, Julie Cox as Beth, Jim Carter as Inspector Petersen, Alex Cox as Kalman and Burn Gorman as Yuri Podorov.

You might want to think twice before spending $10 for this movie. Anyway, if you are with someone who likes shallow thriller plots, then maybe it will work. “The Oxford Murders” will be seen in selected theaters across the United States on the 6th of August, 2010.

While a movie fan or critic would say that it is not the best one ever, this is the kind of movie that you would want to see over and over again, and be moved each time. Probably, the only thing that the director was not able to set into the right path is the stereotypes which became very obvious and somehow made some scenes a bit sentimentally boring. Well, these norms are still existing and accepted within Eastern Europe—the initial target audience of “The Concert”. Another must see or experienced while watching this, is Laurent’s sublime music that will surely give you goose bumps.

Cast of characters include Aleksei Guskov as Andreï Filipov, Dmitri Nazarov as Sacha Grossman, Mélanie Laurent as Anne-Marie Jacquet, François Berléand as Olivier Morne Duplessis, Miou-Miou as Guylène de La Rivière, Valeriy Barinov as Ivan Gavrilov and Anna Kamenkova as Irina Filipovna. The man who directed the film is Radu Mihaileanu, and he also teamed up Matthew Robbins to write the story.

“The Concert” was released in France in November of 2009 and will hit theaters in the United States on the 30th of July, 2010.

“The Haunted Mansion” is a family-oriented fantasy film that did really well in the box office in 2003 and became a vehicle for Eddie Murphy’s career. The film made a total of over $180 million revenue worldwide. While del Toro is not certain of directing the new “The Haunted Mansion” because of tight schedule, he clarified that he will still be a part of the movie as a writer and producer, though. He was even really excited for this motion picture; timing will just be the catalyst to his decision. The guy is currently involved in numerous huge projects such as “At the Mountain of Madness” and his very own version of “Frankenstein”.

Del Toro is a critically-acclaimed director, writer and producer of movies like “Pan’s Labyrinth” which garnered 3 Academy awards (for Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Make-up), “Hellboy” and “Hellboy II: The Golden Army”. He was also credited for the following films as producer: “Hellboy: Sword of Storms”, “Hellboy: Blood and Iron”, “The Orphanage” and “Splice”.

Big credit for the funny side of the movie should be given to the uproarious portrayal of Kevin Kline as the pretentious and weird Harrison. It is, for many, the actor’s funniest performances ever. Together with other stars in the movie, they were able to introduce and represent characters that are considered to be one of the most difficult to play with: the interesting but decipherable New Yorkers. Another big hand should be given to a good mix of theatrical, literary and operatic attack of the movie that made it classy, yet very entertaining. However, the “The Extra Man” is not for those who seek shallow plot and who hates to see Dano as a leading man.

Aside from Kevin Kline portraying the role of Henry Harrison, “The Extra Man” cast of characters include Katie Holmes as Mary Powell, John Reilly as Gershon, Paul Dano as Louis Ives, Cathy Moriarty as Katherine Hart and Alicia Goranson as Sandra. The film was directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, and the latter teams up with Jonathan Ames for the screenplay.

“The Extra Man” will be released on the 30th of July, 2010 in theaters in the United States.

What probably made the film a bit boring from middle to the latter part is that it lacked some focus on the topic and got to some point where the audience can almost predict that it would be another ode of suburban perversion.

The movie “Life During Wartime” fairly met expectations of those who have seen the premier, with a passing 76% rating at Rotten Tomatoes. It was directed by the talented American screenwriter and independent film director Todd Solondz and produced by John Hart via Evamere Entertainment.

By far, “Life During Wartime” is another masterpiece by Solondz after a decade of some “okay” flicks. To back up this statement are numerous international nominations and recognitions from Venice Film Festival and Telluride Film Festival.