72 Tenants of Prosperity (Trailer)

Date: 2010/01

Past and present survival of the common man in the big city – ups and downs, laughters and tears…
In 1970s Hong Kong, rapacious landlords try to evict 72 tenants but sworn brothers Ha Kung (Eric Tsang) and Shek Kin (Jacky Cheung) help the group of 72 defeat the landlord (Lam Ka Tung) and landlady (Charmaine Sheh) and coincidentally rescue Pinky (Anita Yuen) from a planned forced marriage. When both sworn brothers fall for Pinky and propose to her, she flips a coin “heads or tails” and Ha wins her hand in marriage.
The sworn brothers become sworn enemies and Shek’s hatred fuels intense rivalry against Ha in business dealings ranging from the manufacture of plastic flowers to the selling of stinky bean curd. Even after 40 years they continue to clash and in 2010 they are in keen competition selling electronics appliances in Sai Yeung Choi Street, Mongkok, the busiest street in the city and still home to the 72 tenants.

Cast: Eric Tsang, Jacky Cheung, Anita Yuen

Director: Eric Tsang

Air Doll (Trailer)

Date: 2010/01

A life-size Air Doll lives in a shabby apartment in Tokyo. She cannot speak, nor can she move. But she is the only companion her middle-aged master has. He talks to her, puts her in a bath and makes love with her every day after he returns from work.
This routine life is disrupted when fantasy turns into reality. The Air Doll suddenly comes to life, filled with a soul. Like a newborn baby, she doesn’t understand what is going on around her, but she sees a world waiting to be explored outside the apartment. Eventually venturing to the outside world, the Air Doll is fascinated by everything she sees, and though she meets many people in all walks of life, they can’t seem to provide her an answer to what ‘being alive’ means.
When the Air Doll wanders into a video store, her world is forever changed. She meets Junichi, the clerk, and immediately falls in love with him. The Air Doll begins working in the store and everyday, she and Junichi become closer: they go to the movie and explore the city together…like a couple. Everything is going perfectly for the Air Doll, until one day when her hand is accidentally cut and she begins to deflate in front of Junichi…
A romantic fantasy that explores the complexities of love and loss, joy and pain, fantasy and reality, internationally acclaimed director Kore-eda Hirokazu returns with this bittersweet love story that examines the intricacies and frailties of human existence.

Cast: Bae Doo-na, ARATA, Odagiri Joe

Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu

True Legend (Trailer)

Date: 2010/01

True Legend is the extraordinary journey of a man - a martial arts hero - whose greatest dream is to create a unique school of martial arts for the world to follow.
All his life, Su Can has been pursuing the summit in martial arts. There are two things he holds dearest to his heart - the dream of creating a unique kind of martial arts that will pass on to generations; and his beloved wife. Su has a happy family and his wife is the joy of his life. But owing to a turn of fate and his own stubbornness, Su falls helplessly into a quagmire and his family is destroyed.

Thus is the story of Su Can and the famous "Drunken Fist", which is based on the story of a real-life hero. True Legend is directed by Yuen Woo Ping, who choreographed the brilliant action sequences of Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2, The Matrix series and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. True Legend is poised to amaze the world’s kung fu fans once again as the highest manifestation of Chinese martial arts in movies.

Cast: Vincent Zhao, Jay Chou, Zhou Xun

Director: Yuen Woo Ping

Confucius (Trailer)

Date: 2010/01

The great sage and philosopher Confucius lived in the 6th century B.C., at a time when China was still a patchwork of feudal states vying with each other for supremacy. The Zhou Dynasty was tottering, incapable of unifying the various kingdoms, and there were incessant local wars over land and power. Confucius was born in the kingdom of Lu and rose to serve in its government. His skillfully engineered a peace with aggressive neighboring states and brought three dominant local clans under control. But his brilliance as a thinker and tactician was not enough to save him from being exiled by his political enemies, and he spent many years wandering and teaching a band of loyal disciples. His followers transcribed his lectures, collected as The Analects of Confucius, a volume which has been in print for well over 200 years.

Cast: Chow Yun-Fat, Zhou Xun, Chen Jianbin

Director: Hu Mei

Broken Embraces (Trailer)

Date: 2010/01

Pedro Almodóvar teams up with Penélope Cruz once again on Los Abrazos Rotos, a drama set in the 1990s, but shot with a '50s noir sensibility. Cruz, Blanca Portillo, and Lluís Homar star in the El Deseo production.

Cast: Penelope Cruz, Blanca Portillo, Lluís Homar

Director: Patti Diphusa

Precious (Trailer)

Date: 2010/01

Monster's Ball producer Lee Daniels follows up his 2005 directorial debut, Shadowboxer, with this adaptation of author Sapphire's best-selling novel about an overweight, illiterate African-American teen from Harlem who discovers an alternate path in life after she begins attending a new school. Clareece "Precious" Jones is only a teenager, yet she's about to give birth to her second child. Unable to read or write, Clareece shows little prospect for the future until discovering that she has been accepted into an alternative school. There, with a little help from a sympathetic teacher (Paula Patton) and a kindly nurse (Lenny Kravitiz), the young girl receives something that most teens never get -- a chance to start over. Mo'nique co-stars in an inspirational drama featuring the debut performance of screen newcomer Gabourey "Gabbie" Sidibe.

Cast: Gabourey Sidibe as Clareece "Precious" Jones, Lenny Kravitz, Paula Patton, Mo'nique, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd

Director: Lee Daniels

The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus (Trailer)

Date: 2010/01

Set in the present day, director Terry Gilliam's fantastical morality tale follows the traveling show of the mysterious Dr. Parnassus (Christopher Plummer) -- a man who once won a bet with the Devil himself, and possesses the unique ability to guide the imagination of others. Many centuries ago, Dr. Parnassus won immortality in a bet that found the malevolent Mr. Nick (Tom Waits) coming up short. While few would be foolish enough to try their luck against the powers of darkness a second time, Dr. Parnassus did precisely that -- this time trading his mortality for youth on the understanding that his firstborn would become the property of Mr. Nick when the child reaches his or her 16th birthday. Flash-forward to the present day, and Dr. Parnassus' daughter, Valentina (Lily Cole), is about to celebrate her sweet sixteen. Dr. Parnassus is desperate to save his little girl from her fiery fate, and when Mr. Nick arrives to collect, the good doctor presents the Prince of Darkness with a wager too enticing to refuse: Dr. Parnassus and Mr. Nick will each compete to seduce five souls, with possession of Valentina going to whomever manages to complete the task first. As the competition begins to heat up, Dr. Parnassus promises his daughter's hand in marriage to any man who can help him successfully navigate the surreal obstacle course that lies ahead and finally help him undue the many mistakes of his past. While the sudden death of prominent Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus player Heath Ledger in January of 2008 left Gilliam and company scrambling to find a means of salvaging the film -- which was already well into principal photography at the time -- the cavalry soon arrived in the form of Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell, who each serve as alternate-dimension versions of the character originally set to be played by Ledger when the character crosses through a paranormal mirror.

Cast: Christopher Plummer as Dr. Parnassus, Heath Ledger as Tony, Tom Waits as Mr. Nick, Johnny Depp as Tony, Jude Law as Tony, Colin Farrell as Tony, Verne Troyer as Percy

Director: Terrence Gilliam

Seraphine (Trailer)

Date: 2010/01

Belgian actress Yolande Moreau headlines this biopic, starring as a little-known but uncommonly brilliant painter. Frenchwoman Séraphine Louis (Moreau), aka Séraphine de Senlis, lived from 1864 to 1942. Though ostensibly a shepherdess and housekeeper whose chief duties involved cooking, cleaning, and ironing, in her off-hours Séraphine joyously turned to natural elements of the outdoor world, with which she felt a tremendous degree of emotional and spiritual communion. Séraphine channeled these undying passions through painting, and, having only the scantest materials at hand, created paints from elements such as animal blood, oil from church candles, and dirt pulled from the ground. With these crude and raw tools, the nascent, budding artist created tableaux of floral arrangements utterly unlike any seen before. Sadly, those around Séraphine perceived the paintings as coarse and unimpressive -- something of a joke. Her life took a most fantastic turn, then, when Wilhelm Uhde (Ulrich Tukur), a German art critic, turned up in Senlis -- and laid eyes on the young woman's creations for the first time. Yet, despite the success that Uhde brought to Séraphine, a sad future still lay ahead for the young woman -- one accompanied by continued obscurity and emotional isolation.

Cast: Nico Rogner, Yolande Moreau as Séraphine, Ulrich Tukur as Wilhelm Unde, Anne Bennent as Anne Marie, Genevieve Mnich as Madame Duphot

Director: Martin Provost

Everybody's Fine (Trailer)

Date: 2010/01

A widower (Robert De Niro) takes his grown kids on a road trip in order to reconnect with them after his wife's death in this Miramax production. Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, and Sam Rockwell co-star in the drama, written and directed by Kirk Jones.

Cast: Robert De Niro, Kate Beckinsale, Drew Blythe Barrymore, Sam Rockwell

Director: Kirk Jones

An Education (Trailer)

Date: 2010/01

A suburban London teen finds her traditional education replaced by something slightly more sinister when an older, more-worldly suitor sweeps her off of her feet while placing her future in jeopardy. London, 1961: Sixteen year old Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is smart, attractive, and eager to start her adult life. She's grown tired of the familiar adolescent routine, so when urbane newcomer David (Peter Sarsgaard) appears in town, Jenny senses a rare opportunity to shake things up a bit. Quickly falling under David's spell, the impressionable Jenny begins accompanying her newfound beau to classical concerts, art auctions, crowded pubs, and dinners that stretch into the small hours of the night. But Jenny is brighter than most kids her age, and her parents always dreamt of getting their exceptional daughter into Oxford. These days it seems like she's headed in a different direction; will David ultimately be her undoing, or the person who helps her finally realize her true potential?

Cast: Peter Sarsgaard as David, Carey Mulligan as Jenny, Alfred Molina, Rosamund Pike, Dominic Cooper

Director: Lone Scherfig

The Box (Trailer)

Date: 2010/01

Screen siren Cameron Diaz and former X-Man James Marsden star in the supernatural horror picture The Box (2008), directed by Donnie Darko cult fave Richard Kelly. The film's premise involves a strange and ominous box granted to a young couple by a mysterious stranger (Frank Langella). They are informed that pressing various buttons on the box will grant them riches while killing a person unknown to them in the process. Executive produced by Ted Hamm, the film was adapted by Kelly from Richard Matheson's 1970 short story Button, Button.

Cast: Scott Winters as CIA Man, Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella

Director: Richard Kelly

Whip It (Trailer)

Date: 2010/01

Drew Barrymore makes her directorial debut with Whip It!, a story of an ex-beauty pageant contestant named Bliss (played by Juno's Ellen Page) who leaves her crowns behind after joining a roller-derby team. While her mother would prefer that Bliss unlace her skates and step back before the judges, the rebellious teen instead seeks the wisdom of rowdy mentor Malice in Wonderland (Kristen Wiig) in learning the tricks of the circuit track. (The Mandate Pictures production was written by roller derby star-turned screenwriter Shauna Cross.

Cast: Ellen Page as Bliss, Drew Blythe Barrymore, Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig as Malice in Wonderland , Juliette Lewis as Dinah Might, Zoe Bell as Bloody Holly

Director: Drew Blythe Barrymore