• Release Date:December 23rd, 2009
• Director:Jason Reitman
• Writer:Jason Reitman
• Starring:George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman, Tamala Jones, Chris Lowell
• Studio:Paramount Pictures
• Genre:Drama
• Official Site:theupintheairmovie.com
• Rating: R – for language and some sexual content
• Box Office: $5,932,000

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“Juno” helmer Jason Reitman’s next directorial project will be an adaptation of Walter Kirn’s book. George Clooney will play an unapologetic corporate downsizer whose untethered life is consumed by collecting air miles.

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• Release Date:December 25th, 2009
• Director:Guy Ritchie
• Writer:Guy Ritchie
• Starring:Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong, Kelly Reilly, Eddie Marsan
• Studio:Warner Bros. Pictures
• Genre:Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Official Site:sherlock-holmes-movie.warnerbros.com
• Rating: PG 13 – for Intense sequences of violence and action, some startling images and a scene of suggestive material

Synopsis

In a dynamic new portrayal of Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous characters, “Sherlock Holmes” sends Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson on their latest challenge. Revealing fighting skills as lethal as his legendary intellect, Holmes will battle as never before to bring down a new nemesis and unravel a deadly plot that could destroy the country.

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• Release Date:December 25th, 2009
• Director:Terry Gilliam
• Writer:Charles McKeown, Terry Gilliam
• Starring:Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits, Lily Cole, Andrew Garfield, Verne Troyer, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Jude Law
• Studio:Sony Pictures Classics
• Genre:Fantasy
• Official Site:doctorparnassus.com
• Rating: PG 13 – for violent images, some sensuality, language and smoking
• Runtime:2 hours 02 minutes

Synopsis

“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” is a fantastical morality tale, set in the present day. It tells the story of Dr Parnassus and his extraordinary ‘Imaginarium’, a travelling show where members of the audience get an irresistible opportunity to choose between light and joy or darkness and gloom. Blessed with the extraordinary gift of guiding the imaginations of others, Dr Parnassus is cursed with a dark secret. Long ago he made a bet with the devil, Mr Nick, in which he won immortality. Many centuries later, on meeting his one true love, Dr Parnassus made another deal with the devil, trading his immortality for youth, on condition that when his first-born reached its 16th birthday he or she would become the property of Mr Nick. Valentina is now rapidly approaching this ‘coming of age’ milestone and Dr Parnassus is desperate to protect her from her impending fate. Mr Nick arrives to collect but, always keen to make a bet, renegotiates the wager. Now the winner of Valentina will be determined by whoever seduces the first five souls. Enlisting a series of wild, comical and compelling characters in his journey, Dr Parnassus promises his daughter’s hand in marriage to the man that helps him win. In this captivating, explosive and wonderfully imaginative race against time, Dr Parnassus must fight to save his daughter in a never-ending landscape of surreal obstacles – and undo the mistakes of his past once and for all…

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• Release Date:December 23rd, 2009
• Director:Betty Thomas
• Starring:Jason Lee, Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, Anna Faris, Christina Applegate, Amy Poehler
• Studio:20th Century Fox
• Genre:Comedy, Family
• Official Site:munkyourself.com
• Rating: PG – for some mild rude humor

Synopsis

David Seville and chipmunks Alvin, Simon and Theodore, return in the sequel to lay waste to Seville’s surroundings and sing in three-part harmony. Although plot details are being kept under wraps, the new movie will introduce the Chipmunks’ female counterparts, the Chipettes.

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• Release Date:December 18th, 2009
• Director:Marc Lawrence
• Writer:Marc Lawrence
• Starring:Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, Mary Steenburgen, Elisabeth Moss, Natalia Klimas, Sam Elliot, Michael Kelly, Kim Shaw, Wilford Brimley
• Studio:Columbia Pictures (Sony)
• Genre:Comedy, Romance
• Rating: PG-13 for Some sexual references and momentary violence.
• Runtime:1 hour 43 minutes

Synopsis

In New York City, an estranged couple who witness a murder are relocated to small-town Wyoming as part of a witness-protection program.

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