Twentieth Century Boys Chapter 2 (Trailer)

Date: 2009/06

15 years have passed since Bloody New Year’s Eve and now it’s 2015. People believe that Kenji Endo and his friends were the satanic terrorists behind the horrific acts that took place in 2000, the scheme to end humanity using a virus spitting gigantic robot. Friend, on the other hand, is worshipped as the savior who stopped the doomsday plan. Friend now spreads the oracle that the end is coming and salvation will come only to those who believe in him and stay with him. Having faith in Kenji, his niece Kanna decides to unveil the true identity of “Friend” while Kenji’s friends try to protect her at all costs. Now, another chapter begins.
 

Cast: Toshiaki Karasawa as Kenji, Etsushi Toyokawa as Occho   

Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi

Race to Witch Mountain (Trailer)

Date: 2009/06

For years, stories have circulated about a secret place in the middle of the Nevada desert, known for unexplained phenomena and strange sightings. It is called Witch Mountain, and when a Las Vegas cab driver finds two teens with supernatural powers in his cab, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of an adventure he can’t explain. When they discover that the only chance to save the world lies in unraveling the secrets of Witch Mountain, the race begins, as the government, mobsters and even extraterrestrials try to stop them.
 

Cast: Dwayne Johnson as Jack Bruno, Ciarán Hinds as Burke, Anna-Sophia Robb as Sara, Alexander Ludwig as Seth, Carla Gugino as Dr Alex Friedman   

Director: Andy Fickman

Confessions of a Shopaholic (Trailer)

Date: 2009/06

In the glamorous world of New York City, Rebecca Bloomwood is a fun-loving girl who is really good at shopping--a little too good, perhaps. She dreams of working for her favorite fashion magazine, but can’t quite get her foot in the door--until ironically, she snags a job as an advice columnist for a financial magazine published by the same company. As her dreams are finally coming true, she goes to ever more extreme efforts to keep her past from ruining her future.
 

Cast: Isla Fisher as Rebecca Bloomwood, Hugh Dancy as Luke Brandon, Krysten Ritter as Suze, Joan Cusack as Jane Bloomwood, John Goodman as Graham Bloomwood, John Lithgow as Edgar West   

Director: P.J. Hogan

The Reader (Trailer)

Date: 2009/06

When he falls ill on his way home from school, 15 year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. The two begin an unexpected and passionate affair only for Hanna to suddenly and inexplicably disappear. Eight years later, Michael, now a young law student observing Nazi war trials, meets his former lover again, under very different circumstances. Hanna is on trial for a hideous crime, and as she refuses to defend herself, Michael gradually realizes his boyhood love may be guarding a secret she considers to be more shameful than murder.
 

Cast: Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz, Ralph Fiennes as Michael Berg, Karoline Herfurth as Marthe, Hannah Herzsprung as Julia, David Kross as Young Michael Berg   

Director: Stephen Daldry

Revolutionary Road (Trailer)

Date: 2009/06

Frank and April, a married couple in the 1950s, have always seen themselves as special, different, ready and willing to live their lives based on higher ideals. So, as soon as they move into their new house on Revolutionary Road, they proudly declare their independence from the suburban inertia that surrounds them and determine never to be trapped by the social confines of their era. Yet for all their charm, beauty and irreverence, the Wheelers find themselves becoming exactly what they didn’t expect: a good man with a routine job whose nerve has gone missing; a less-than-happy homemaker starving for fulfillment and passion; an American family with lost dreams, like any other. Driven to change their fates, April hatches an audacious plan to start all over again, to leave the comforts of Connecticut behind for the great unknown of Paris. But when the plan is put in motion, each spouse is pushed to extremes--one to escape whatever the cost, the other to save all that they have, no matter the compromises.
 

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio as Frank Wheeler, Kate Winslet as April Wheeler, Kathy Bates as Helen Givings, David Harbour as Shep Campbell, Michael Shannon as John Givings, Zoe Kazan as Maureen Grube   

Director: Sam Mendes

Seven Pounds (Trailer)

Date: 2009/06

Academy Award nominee Will Smith reunites with the directors and producers of The Pursuit of Happyness for the emotional drama Seven Pounds. In the film, Smith plays Ben Thomas, an IRS agent with a fateful secret who embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
 

Cast: Will Smith as Ben Thomas, Rosario Dawson as Emily, Woody Harrelson as Ezra, Michael Ealy as Ben's brother, Robinne Lee as Sarah Jenson, Tim Kelleher as Stewart Goodman   

Director: Gabriele Muccino

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Trailer)

Date: 2009/06

Benjamin Button is a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. From New Orleans at the end of World War I in 1918, into the 21st century, on a journey as unusual as any man’s life can be, this is the grand tale of a not so ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds and loses, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
 

Cast: Brad Pitt as Benjamin Button, Cate Blanchett as Daisy, Jason Flemyng as Thomas Button, Taraji Henson as Queenie, Eric West as Singer, Julia Ormond as Caroline   

Director: David Fincher

Twilight (Trailer)

Date: 2009/06

Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school. When her mother remarries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn’t expect much of anything to change. Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a boy unlike any she’s ever met. Intelligent and witty, he sees straight into her soul. Soon, Bella and Edward are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance. Edward can run faster than a mountain lion, he can stop a moving car with his bare hands – and he hasn’t aged since 1918. Like all vampires, he’s immortal. But he doesn’t have fangs, and he doesn’t drink human blood, as Edward and his family are unique among vampires in their lifestyle choice. To Edward, Bella is that thing he has waited 90 years for – a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. But what will they do when Laurent (Edi Gathegi) and James (Cam Gigandet), the Cullens’ mortal vampire enemies, come to town, looking for Bella?
 

Cast: Kristin Stewart, Robert Pattinson  

Director: Catherine Hardwicke

Ponyo On The Cliff by the Sea (Trailer)

Date: 2009/06

Five year-old Sosuke lives high on a cliff overlooking the Inland Sea. One morning while playing on the rocky beach below his house, he discovers a goldfish named Ponyo, her head stuck fast in a jam jar. Sosuke rescues her and keeps her in a green plastic pail.
Ponyo is fascinated by Sosuke. Sosuke feels the same about Ponyo. He tells her, “Don’t worry, I’ll protect you and take care of you.” But Ponyo’s father Fujimoto, once human, now a sorcerer who lives deep under the sea, forces her to return with him to the ocean depths.
“I want to be human!” Ponyo declares, and determined to become a little girl and make her way back to Sosuke, Ponyo escapes. But before she does, she empties the Water of Life, Fujimoto’s precious store of magical elixir, into the ocean.
The sea waters rise. Ponyo’s sisters are transformed into enormous fish-shaped tidal waves that climb as high as Sosuke’s house on the cliff. The chaos of the ocean world envelops Sosuke’s little town and it sinks beneath the waves.
A little girl and a little boy. Love and responsibility. The sea and life itself. In an age of nervous anxiety and uncertainty, PONYO ON THE CLIFF BY THE SEA is Hayao Miyazaki’s unreserved depiction of the story of a mother and her child.
 

Cast: Tomoko Yamaguchi, Joji Tokoro, Yuria Nara, Hiroki Doi  

Director: Hayao Miyazaki