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A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film.

Ben Stiller plays pampered action superstar Tugg Speedman who is cast in the biggest, most expensive war movie ever produced.

He sets out to Southeast Asia with a ‘Who’s Who’ of celebrity co-stars.

Soon after the production begins, the actors are thrown into a real-life situation and are forced to become the fighting unit they are portraying in order to find a way out of the jungle in one piece.

But after ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.

Star(s) to watch : Jack Black (”Kung Fu Panda”, “Enemy of the State”, “King Kong”, “Shallow Hal”) as Jeff “Fats” Portnoy, Ben Stiller (”Night at the Museum”, “There’s Something About Mary”, “Meet the Parents”) as Speedman, & Robert Downey Jr. (”Iron Man”, “The Shaggy Dog”, “U.S. Marshals”) as Kirk Lazarus.

Genre : Comedy.

Release date : August 13, 2008

Fact : Written, directed, and produced by Ben Stiller.

Note : The stars of “Tropic Thunder” (Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr) were on the season finale of “American Idol”. Jack Black, Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr also put together a hilarious skit for the MTV Movie Awards.

Rating : Coming soon.

Tagline : “Get Some”

Official website : http://www.tropicthunder.com

Poster :http://movies-update.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/tropic-thunder.jpg

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Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, who last teamed in the box-office smash “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” now star in “Step Brothers,” directed by Adam McKay (”Talladega Nights”). In “Step Brothers,” Ferrell plays Brennan Huff, a sporadically employed thirty-nine-year-old who lives with his mother, Nancy (Mary Steenburgen). Reilly plays Dale Doback, a terminally unemployed forty-year-old who lives with his father, Robert (Richard Jenkins). When Robert and Nancy marry and move in together, Brennan and Dale are forced to live with each other as step brothers. As their narcissism and downright aggressive laziness threaten to tear the family apart, these two middle-aged, immature, overgrown boys will orchestrate an insane, elaborate plan to bring their parents back together. To pull it off, they must form an unlikely bond that maybe, just maybe, will finally get them out of the house. The screenplay is by Will Ferrell & Adam McKay from a story by Will Ferrell & Adam McKay & John C. Reilly. Jimmy Miller and Judd Apatow produce.

Release Date : July 25, 2008

Studio : Columbia Pictures (Sony)

Director : Adam McKay

Screenwriter : Will Ferrell, Adam McKay

Starring : Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Richard Jenkins, Mary Steenburgen, Adam Scott, Katherine Hahn

Genre : Comedy

Official Website : StepBrothers-movie.com

Movie Poster : http://movies-update.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/step_brothers-201×300.jpg

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“Space Chimps” is an intergalactic comedy that highlights the antics of astronaut chimps with the “wrong stuff.” Ham III (Samberg), the slacker grandson of the first chimp blasted into space before manned spaceflight, joins two other astronaut chimps for a dangerous mission through a black hole to an inhabited planet. When they’re stranded there, the chimps must help the inhabitants rid themselves of a tyrannical leader, and then figure out how to get back to Earth.

The hilarious new CGI-animated adventure-comedy follows the adventures of a mischievous circus chimp named Ham (Samberg) who happens to be the grandson of the first primate ever sent into space. As a publicity stunt, Ham is chosen to lead a mission into space to explore a mysterious new planet. But when he and his crew crash land on the bizarre yet beautiful world and find their lives in peril, Ham must prove that he really does have “the right stuff.”

But when Cassidy dug up footage of the U.S. Air Force’s chimp program from the national archives and other sources, he also found press reels celebrating the exploits of the space chimps Ham and Enos. Ham paved the way for the first American to ever fly in space, Alan Shepherd, and Enos flew before just before John Glenn orbited the Earth.

Release Date : July 18, 2008

Studio : 20th Century Fox

Director : Kirk De Micco

Screenwriter : Simon Goltsman, Kirk De Micco

Starring : Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Patrick Warburton, Kristin Chenoweth, Stanley Tucci

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Rating : Coming soon…

Official Website : SpaceChimpspower.com

Movie Poster : http://movies-update.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/space_chimps-202×300.jpg

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Order Mamma Mia tickets for another stellar performance at the Cadillac Winter Garden Theatre. Mamma Mia is a musical comedy that incorporates the infectious music of the Swedish quartet, ABBA. Written by Tony-award nominated Catherine Johnson, Mamma Mia is a talented, musical romp.

Mamma Mia follows Sophie on a small Greek island, who desperately wants her father to give her away at her upcoming wedding. Unfortunately, Sophie doesn’t know who her father is, and her mother, Donna, isn’t telling. Undeterred, Sophie reads her mother’s diary and discovers there are three potential men who could be her father, so she invites them all to her wedding. Music, comedy, and romance ensue as the musically talented cast sleuths their way through the play trying to discover the real father, and belting out classic ABBA songs, under the direction of Phyllida Lloyd and the choreography of Anthony Van Laast.

Meryl Streep leads an all-star cast in the feature-film adaptation of the beloved musical that has been seen by more than 30 million people in 160 cities and 8 languages around the world. Bringing the timeless lyrics and melodies of iconic super group ABBA to movie audiences, Summer 2008 is the season for “Mamma Mia!”

Release Date : July 18, 2008

Studio : Universal Pictures

Director : Phyllida Lloyd

Screenwriter : Catherine Johnson

Starring : Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper, Amanda Seyfried, Christine Baranski

Genre : Comedy, Musical, Romance

Rating : Coming soon…

Official Website : MammaMiamovie.com

Movie Poster : http://movies-update.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/mamma_mia-202×300.jpg

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Here, Norbit director Brian Robbins re-teams with Murphy on a film that tells of a crew of miniature human-looking aliens whose human-looking spaceship walks around Earth doing funny things. Though, originally, they set out to save their planet, problems arise when their spaceship (in the form of Eddie Murphy) falls for a regular Earth girl (Elizabeth Banks).

Murphy looks to be using a combination of his Coming to America accent and his usual shtick for the spaceship character, and then he also plays the miniature alien operating said spaceship. Cue up a ton of fish out of water jokes, a few raunchy set pieces and a good amount of special effects — and, well, Meet Dave.

A about a year ago there was talk of breathing new life into the franchise with a good script and some other “straight-man” types to play off of like in the first two. This was in hopes to make everyone forget or at least forgive the cluster that was the third BHC movie. He may still be able to do it, but his window is slowly shrinking. One more over-the-top, multi-character, family flop and he can kiss any chance he may have goodbye. If Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson can do it Eddie so can you!

Release Date : July 11, 2008

Studio : 20th Century Fox

Director : Brian Robbins

Screenwriter : Rob Greenberg, Bill Corbett

Starring : Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks, Gabrielle Union, Ed Helms, Judah Friedlander, Pat Kilbane

Genre : Comedy, Sci-Fi

Rating : Coming soon

Official Website : MeetDavemovie.com

Movie Poster : http://movies-update.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/meet_dave-202×300.jpg

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The trailer for Mike Myers’ new comedy The Love Guru premiered a few months back, and man it looks awful. Myers stars as Pitka, “an American who was left at the gates of an ashram in India as a child and raised by gurus.” So it’s not technically a white-dude-in-Indian-makeup, but it might as well be.

The first trailer for his next movie, The Love Guru is here. Perhaps more importantly it has Romany Malco, who may finally break out and get the success he deserves after some flat out brilliant work as part of an equally brilliant ensemble in The 40 Year-Old Virgin.

Actor Mike Myers has sparked controversy in Hindu communities for “lampooning” the religion in his new movie The Love Guru. The 44-year-old plays Guru Pitka in the upcoming film and repeats the mantra of “Mariska Hargitay″ - inspired by the American actress - as his calming technique. But Hindu leader Rajan Zed has accused Myers of stereotyping the culture, adding the movie “appears to be lampooning Hinduism and Hindus.” Studio Paramount Pictures has agreed to a preview of the movie for Hindu leaders prior to its release.

Release Date: June 20, 2008

Studio: Paramount Pictures

Director: Marco Schnabel

Screenwriter: Mike Myers, Graham Gordy

Starring: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Ben Kingsley, Meagan Good, John Oliver, Verne Troyer, Romany Malco, Jim Gaffigan

Genre: Comedy

Rating: Coming soon…

Official Website: TheLoveGuru.com

Movie Poster: http://movies-update.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/the_love_guru-202×300.jpg

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Whether it’s the shoe phone, or it’s just seeing the bumbling Maxwell Smart get into a pickle while trying to save the world from disaster. Pictures is remaking it into a feature film, starring Steve Carell as Maxwell (Agent 86), Anne Hathaway as Agent 99, Dwayne “The Rock″ Johnson as a new character - Agent 23, and Alan Arkin as The Chief.

Would you believe?The new Get Smart film is hitting theaters on June 20, starring Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway and Adam Arkin as Maxwell Smart, Agent 99 and the Chief. Also in are Dwayne Johnson, Terence Stamp and - according to the fine print on the poster credits - former Las Vegas honcho James Caan!This isn’t the first time Agent 86 will be in theaters, though! The first time was in 1980’s film The Nude Bomb. Don Adams returned to the role he made famous in the 1965 television series, this time without Barbara Feldon as Agent 99.

The movie, which stars Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart and Anne Hathaway as Agent 99, will have a more modern setting in which CONTROL is suffering from lack of funding as the government spends all its cash on other spy agencies like the CIA. “Get Smart” is set to hit theaters on June 20th, 2008.

Star(s) to watch : Steve Carell (”Bruce Almighty”, “The 40-Year-Old Virgin”) as Maxwell Smart, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson (”The Mummy Returns”, “Doom”) as Agent 23, & Masi Oka as Bruce.

Genre : Comedy, Action, Adaptation.

Release date : June 20, 2008

Rating : Coming soon …

Official website : http://getsmartmovie.com/

Poster : http://movies-update.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/get_smart-225𝗬.jpg

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His next film is titled You Don′t Mess with the Zohan and is written by three comedy greats: Knocked Up’s Judd Apatow, SNL’s Robert Smigel and Adam Sandler together. In it, Sandler plays an Israel Intelligence Agency operative, and he looks quite convincing, at least for a comedy.

In the summer of ‘08 movie, Sandler plays an Israeli counter-terrorist named Zohan, who has grown weary of fighting Arabs in the Middle East in “You Don′t Mess With The Zohan″. After faking his own death in a frenzied battle with a Palestinian terrorist named The Phantom (John Tuturro), Zohan moves to New York City to pursue his one true passion - hairstyling. He gets a job at a local salon and operates under the moniker of Scrappy Coco, where he becomes an instant hit with the geriatric female population of the Big Apple. Scrappy is loving his new life until some local Arabs recognize the former commando and take it upon themselves to expose the imposter.

Yes, Judd Apatow’s name is attached′he co-wrote the screenplay with Sandler′and Adam Sandler makes virtually nothing but hits. But who knows anything about the Israeli army? How many people will get what appear to be many jokes about the Israeli accent? People may have gone to see Sandler fake being gay with Kevin James last summer, but will they see him be a hairdresser now?

Release Date: June 6, 2008

Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony)

Director: Dennis Dugan

Screenwriter: Adam Sandler, Robert Smigel, Judd Apatow

Starring: Adam Sandler, John Turturro, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Nick Swardson, Rob Schneider, Kevin Nealon

Genre: Comedy

Rating: coming soon…

Official Website: YouDontMesswiththeZohan.com

Movie Poster: http://movies-update.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/you_dont_mess_with_the_zohan-202×300.jpg

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Dreamworks Animation has delivered unto the web a brand new clip from their upcoming martial arts film Kung Fu Panda, which stars the voice talents of Jack Black as a lazy panda bear who finds out that he is the chosen one. In this extended sequence, Po (Black) and Master Shifu (voiced by Dustin Hoffman) are in the midst of training when Shifu realizes that the only way to get this panda’s lazy butt in gear is to take away the one thing he loves most: his dumplings.

First up, DreamWorks Animation has posted online the second full trailer for Kung Fu Panda, coming to theaters on June 6. The movie features the voices of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan and Ian McShane. You can check out the new trailer here!

There were a lot of scenes that were only storyboards as well as a few half-finished CGI scenes. Looking beyond those and the need for some more final editing and polishing, the film is a very fun, very entertaining animated kung fu movie. First things first, you’ve got to realize this is just a big popcorn flick.

Release Date: June 6, 2008 (conventional theaters and IMAX)

Studio: DreamWorks Animation

Director: John Stevenson, Mark Osborne

Screenwriter: Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab

Starring: Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Ian McShane, Seth Rogen, David Cross,
James Hong, Randall Duk Kim, Michael Clarke Duncan, Dan Fogler, Wayne Knight

Genre: Animation, Comedy

Rating: coming soon…

Official Website: KungFuPanda.com

Movie Poster: http://movies-update.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/kung_fu_panda-201×300.jpg

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“Sex and the City” is coming to the big screen in a feature film adaptation of the hit HBO television series. The film will follow the continuing adventures of the series four main characters - Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda - as they live their lives in Manhattan four years after the series ended. Stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon are all on board to reprise their roles, while the film will be written and directed by Michael Patrick King, who executive produced the original television series. Additionally, Chris Noth, David Eigenberg, Evan Handler and Jason Lewis will return as the women’s love interests. Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Hudson (”Dreamgirls”) has also joined the cast of the film and will play Carrie Bradshaw’s assistant, a new character to be introduced in the film.

Producers are so sure the movie version of the classic HBO show… is going to be a box office hit that they plan to exercise the sequel option in the contracts of stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kirstin Davis, Cynthia Nixon and Kim Cattrall. “They are hoping it will become a franchise,” an insider tells In Touch. “They would love to do four or five Sex and the City movies. Script ideas were even in the works before the writers’ strike.

Sex and the City is a popular American cable television program. The original broadcast run of the show was on HBO from 1998 until 2004, for a total of six seasons.

Release Date : May 30, 2008

Studio : New Line Cinema, HBO Films

Director : Michael Patrick King

Screenwriter : Michael Patrick King

Starring : Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth, Jennifer Hudson, Lynn Cohen

Genre : Comedy

Rating : coming soon…

Official Website : SexandtheCitymovie.com

Movie Poster : http://movies-update.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/sex_and_the_city-202×300.jpg

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