August 2010 DVD & Blu-rays

Badmaash Company

A group of four friends living in Bombay in the 1990s decide to import the luxuries from the West.

Parmeet Sethi

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

It’s a new school year, and Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. The hazards of growing up before you’re ready are uniquely revealed through words and drawings as Greg records them in his diary.

Devon Bostick, Chloë Grace Moretz, Zachary Gordon, Nina Jacobson, Jeff Filgo, Rachel Harris, Steve Zahn, Jack N. Green

Kick-Ass

A high school nerd attempts to reinvent himself as a real-world costumed superhero named Kick-Ass who seems doomed to failure because he's not athletic or coordinated until he runs into real bad guys with real weapons.

Mark Strong, Chloë Grace Moretz, Matthew Vaughn, Kris Thykler, Nicolas Cage, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Aaron Johnson

A Prophet

A young Arab man is sent to a French prison where he becomes a mafia kingpin.

Jacques Audiard

After.Life

The story chronicles a young woman in a transitional state between life and death who fights to avoid being buried alive and the funeral director who holds her fate in his hands.

Liam Neeson, Justin Long, Josh Charles, Agnieszka Vosloo, Christina Ricci

To Save a Life

Ever since Jake Taylor was a kid, he was the type of guy you couldn't help but like. For Jake, life is good. He has a ton of friends, a basketball scholarship, a hot girlfriend and a really bright future. Not much to get down about, right? Enter Roger Dawson. He was Jake's childhood best friend before Jake's growing popularity pushed him out. Tired of not fitting in and having a place to belong, Roger walks onto campus and, with a gun in his pocket and pain in his heart, makes a tragic move. Jake is devastated by what Roger has done, and something in him changes. In seeking answers in his own life, one question plagues him the most: Could I have saved him? He finds himself deeply compelled to reach out to kids on the fringe -- kids who aren't viewed as cool enough. But, this decision among other things, threatens Jake's world. He may lose his friends, his scholarship and even his reputation by asking "What do I want my life to be about?"

Brian Baugh, Jim Britts, Randy Wayne, Deja Kreutzberg, Joshua Weigel

Open House

A wealthy couple in a strained marriage hosts an open house in order to sell their palatial home. They are horrified to find out days later that one potential buyer never left their house.

Anna Paquin, Brian Geraghty, Tricia Helfer, Andrew Paquin, David Engel, Randy Wayne, Steve Shapiro, Jack Schuster

Happiness Runs

A young man attempts to save himself and his mother from a polygamous cult.

Stephen Israel, Jesse Plemons, Adam Sherman, Hanna Hall, Mark L. Young

Finding Bliss

A romantic comedy in which an idealistic 25-year-old film school graduate explores the adult film industry after getting a job as an editor.

Denise Richards, Leelee Sobieski, Matthew Davis, Jamie Kennedy, Julie Davis, Kristen Johnston

The Ghost Writer

A ghostwriter is hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister and uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy.

Pierce Brosnan, Jim Belushi, Alain Sarde, Olivia Williams, Kim Cattrall, Roman Polanski, Robert Benmussa, Robert Harris

Date Night

Tina Fey and Steve Carell will play a married couple who find their routine date night becomes much more than just dinner and a movie.

Taraji P. Henson, James Franco, Mark Wahlberg, Leighton Meester, Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Mila Kunis, Shawn Levy

Death at a Funeral

An ensemble comedy about a funeral ceremony that leads to the digging up of shocking family secrets, as well as misplaced cadavers and indecent exposure.

Martin Lawrence, Zoe Saldana, Peter Dinklage, James Marsden, Columbus Short, Luke Wilson, Regina Hall, Neil LaBute

Letters to God

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.

David Nixon

La Mission

A reformed inmate and recovering alcoholic, Che has worked hard to redeem his life and do right by his pride and joy: his only son, Jes, whom he has raised on his own after the death of his wife. Che's path to redemption is tested, however, when he discovers Jes is gay. To survive his neighborhood, Che has always lived with his fists. To survive as a complete man, he'll have to embrace a side of himself he's never shown.

Benjamin Bratt, Peter Bratt

Raavan

A bandit leader kidnaps the wife of the policeman who killed his sister, but later falls in love with her.

Mani Ratnam, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai

The Joneses

Described as a social satire, the movie follows an idyllic family that moves into a suburban neighbourhood and quickly becomes loved and envied by everyone.

Gary Cole, David Duchovny, Ben Hollingsworth, Glenne Headly, Doug Mankoff, Peter Principato, Paul Young, Andrew Spaulding

My Name is Khan

"My Name is Khan" examines how the life of a Muslim man from India (Shah Rukh Khan) living in San Francisco embarks on a remarkable journey across the United States, inspiring people and inviting debate, creating an accidental revolution.

Karan Johar, Shah Rukh Khan

The Lottery

Four children enter a high-stakes lottery. If they win, they can attend one of the best schools in New York.

Madeleine Sackler

The Good Heart

Ryan Gosling plays a young homeless man named Lucas who is taken under the wing of Jacques (Tom Waits), a bar owner from his fifth heart attack. Knowing his days are numbered, Jacques decides to train Lucas to take over his bar.

Paul Dano, Dagur Kári, Brian Cox, Skuli Fr. Malmquist, Thor Sigurjonsson, Stephanie Szostak, Joni Sighvatsson

The Thorn in the Heart

Michel Gondry's documentary is a personal look at the life of Gondry family matriarch, his aunt Suzette Gondry, and her relationship with her son, Jean-Yves. Michel examines Suzette's years as a school teacher and her life in rural France. During the course of filming the documentary, Michel unearths new family stories and uses his camera to explore them in a subtle and sensitive way.

Suzette Gondry, Jean-Yves, Michel Gondry

Helen

A music professor and mother suffers from a deep, debilitating depression. Her family tries to help her, but no one can relate to her pain other than a young female student who knows depression all too well.

Ashley Judd, Goran Visnjic, Lauren Lee Smith

Triage

The story is about a photojournalist (Farrell) who returns from a dangerous assignment, only to find his friend and colleague missing. So his girlfriend (Vega) is charged in finding clues to the mystery.

Colin Farrell, Danis Tanovic, Paz Vega, Christopher Lee

Multiple Sarcasms

Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all: successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, and a devoted young daughter. Yet, it slowly dawns on him that he is not really happy. Gabriel decides that he wants to write a play about the sorry state of his life. He quits his job, gets a pushy literary agent friend to represent him and starts writing.

Raajneeti

Influenced by the epic story from the Indian mythology the "Mahabharat", the movie is set in the milieu of contemporary electoral politics.

Katrina Kaif, Prakash Jha

Perrier's Bounty

The project, billed as a comedy thriller set in contemporary Dublin, revolves around three unlikely fugitives on the run from a gangster kingpin.

Brendan Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Cillian Murphy, Ian Fitzgibbon, Mark O'Rowe

The Last Song

A drama centered on a rebellious girl who is sent to a Southern beach town for the summer to stay with her father. Through their mutual love of music, the estranged duo learn to reconnect.

Liam Hemsworth, Miley Cyrus, Carly Chaikin, Julie Anne Robinson, Adam Shankman, Jennifer Gibgot, Greg Kinnear, Nicholas Sparks

Furry Vengeance

The project will follow a smug Portland, Ore., real estate developer who accepts a challenge from his real estate mogul boss to develop a pristine forest in the hopes of being promoted to partner. He gets more than he bargained for when the area's animal residents start taking their revenge on him and wreak havoc on his every attempt to develop the land.

Brendan Fraser, Skyler Samuels, Roger Kumble, Robert Simonds, Keith Goldberg, Josh Gilbert, Michael Carnes, Brooke Shields

Dead Man Running

The story of an ex-con (Tamer Hassan) given 24 hours to pay back a loan shark (Curtis Jackson).

Curtis Jackson, Alex de Rakoff, Alan Latham, Tamer Hassan, Danny Dyer, Monet Mazur

Ca$h

A stroke of good luck turns lethal for a couple when they are faced with a life-changing decision that brings a strange and sinister man to their doorstep.

Chris Hemsworth, Stephen Milburn Anderson, Sean Bean

The Good, The Bad, The Weird

The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits.

Ji-woon Kim, Ji-won Uhm, Woo-sung Jung, Byung-hun Lee, Kang-ho Song

Cemetery Junction

The story of being trapped in a small town in the UK and dreaming of escape.

Ricky Gervais, Matthew Goode, Stephen Merchant, Emily Watson, Ralph Fiennes

The City of Your Final Desti...

28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi, has won a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund - his brother, widow, and younger mistress - so he can get authorization to write the biography.

Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney, Charlotte Gainsbourg, James Ivory, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Omar Metwally

Abandoned

Brittany Murphy stars as a women who is convinced her husband (Dean Cain) has disappeared but others refuse to believe her.

Mimi Rogers, Michael Feifer, Brittany Murphy, Peter Sullivan, Dean Cain, Kristen Kerr

The Back-Up Plan

The story centers on a single woman (Jennifer Lopez) who turns to artificial insemination to answer her ticking biological clock only to meet the man of her dreams on the same day as her positive pregnancy test results.

Jennifer Lopez, Michaela Watkins, Jake Blumenthal, Steve Tisch, Noureen Dewulf, Melissa McCarthy, Eric Christian Olsen, Alan Poul

The Age of Stupid

A future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why humankind failed to address climate change.

Pete Postlethwaite, Franny Armstrong

The Square

A stylish, twist-filled film noir, THE SQUARE centers on an adulterous couple whose scheming leads to arson, blackmail and murder. Escaping the monotony of a loveless marriage, Raymond becomes entangled in an affair with the beautiful and troubled Carla. Ray’s moral limits are tested when Carla presents him with the proceeds of her controlling husband’s latest crime. This is their chance: Take the money and run. If only it were that simple...

The seed is planted and Ray, fearing he will lose his love, engineers the plan. Hiring a professional arsonist becomes a fatal error, and the plan goes horribly wrong. Alarm bells sound and suspicions are raised, but miraculously, the dust looks to settle. After all...Nobody knows. Then the first blackmail note arrives. The couple’s nerves are tested as both Carla’s husband and the mystery author threaten to throw open their secret. With the blackmailer’s deadline approaching they are going to find out just how far they are willing to go for love.

Joel Edgerton, Nash Edgerton, David Roberts, Claire Bloom, Anthony Hayes

City Island

No plot details have been announced.

Andy Garcia, Julianna Margulies, Steven Strait, Lauren Versel, Zachary Matz, Raymond De Felitta, Paul Diomede, Emily Mortimer

Survival of the Dead

On a small island off North America’s coast, the dead rise to menace the living. Yet…the islanders can’t bring themselves to exterminate their loved ones, despite the growing danger from those the once held dear.

Paula Devonshire, George A. Romero, Julian Richings, Joris Jarsky

Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get ...

Reuniting the same charismatic cast and characters from his hit comedy/drama, "Why Did I Get Married?", Tyler Perry brings us the next chapter in the lives of eight college friends struggling with the challenges of marital life in "Why Did I Get Married Too".

Gathered together in the Bahamas for their annual one-week reunion, four close couples eagerly reconnect, sharing news about their lives and relationships. But their intimate week in paradise is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of Sheila’s ex-husband, Mike, who hopes to break up her new marriage with Troy and win her back. The others soon realize they too are not immune to the challenges of commitment and fidelity. Angela doesn’t believe her husband, Marcus, can be faithful now that he’s a celebrity television newscaster. Dianne and Terry’s relationship is feeling the strain of raising children. And Patricia, a successful self-help psychologist, must finally reveal the deep flaws in her seemingly perfect marriage to Gavin. With their relationships hanging in the balance when they return home, each couple must choose between blame and forgiveness, doubt and faith, with life-altering consequences…

Tyler Perry, Sharon Leal, Janet Jackson, Tasha Smith, Malik Yoba, Jill Scott, Lamman Rucker

Marmaduke

A mischievous Great Dane lives with the Winslow family.

Owen Wilson, Emma Stone, Marlon Wayans, Judy Greer, Damon Wayans, John Davis, Vince Di Meglio, Ron Perlman

Harry Brown

Michael Caine stars as a vigilante in an "urban western" setting. The movie will focus on Caine's character, who dispenses vigilante justice in a crime-infested neighborhood after his best friend is killed.

Liam Cunningham, Daniel Barber, Kris Thykier, Keith Bell, Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Iain Glen, Amy Steel

Made for Each Other

The independently financed comedy stars Christopher Masterson as a man who, three months into a sexless marriage, cracks and has a one-night stand. He decides the only just way to rectify his mistake is to get his wife (Phillips) to cheat on him. With the help of his best friend (Levine), he sets out to find the right man (Warburton) to bed the missus. Danny Masterson will play an attorney waiting to handle what he figures is a sure-fire divorce.

Eric Lord, Bijou Phillips, Sam Levine, Danny Masterson, Christopher Masterson, Patrick Warburton, George Segal

Goemon

A highly stylized movie based on the life of legendary 16th century ninja and bandit Ishikawa Goemon.

Kazuaki Kiriya, Takashige Ichise, Tetsurô Takita, Yosuke Eguchi