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Several of the theaters I book for will be participating in the Manhattan Short Film Festival. 

This is a One World-One Week-One Festival Event. 

Announcement of the Finalists will be August 20th.

Mos’Art Theater-Lake Park, Florida

Pix-Albany, Oregon

Sisters Movie House-Sisters, Oregon

You can click on the theaters for the festival information.  This looks to be a terrific event.

District 9 R 113 minutes

‘District 9′ depicts a fictional world where extraterrestrials have become refugees in South Africa.

The Time Travelers Wife PG13 108 minutes

A Chicago librarian has a genetic disorder that causes him to time-travel when he is under duress. Though his disorder causes him to vanish for long periods, he tries to build a life with the woman he loves– a young heiress struggling with the arrangement.

LIMITED

The Goods Live Hard Sell Hard R 89 minutes

Who is Don Ready? Salesman? Lover? Song Stylist? Semi-professional dolphin trainer? Ready is all of the above, except for a dolphin trainer. When he’s asked to help save an ailing local car dealership from bankruptcy, Ready and his ragtag crew descend on the town of Temecula like a pack of coyotes on a basket full of burgers. Selling, drinking, selling and going to strip clubs is their stock and trade. And they do it well.

Ponyo G 103 minutes

From the Academy Award-winning director and world-renowned Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki comes PONYO, a story inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale ‘The Little Mermaid’.

Spread R 97 minutes

A comedy centered on a serial womanizer.

Life Partner NR 140

1. GI Joe $54,713,046

2. Julie & Julia $20,027,956

3. G-Force $9,870,594

4. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince $8,928,349

5. Funny People $7,986,435

6. The Ugly Truth $6,750,125

7. A Perfect Getaway $5,948,555

8. Aliens in the Attic $4,021,478

9. 500 Days of Summer $3,739,702

10. Orphan $3,674,306

GI Joe PG13 120 minutes

From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.

Julie and Julia PG13 124 minutes

Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron’s adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell’s Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julie Child with Alex Prud’homme. Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though seperated by time and space, are both at loose ends…until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.

A Perfect Getaway R 97 minutes

Cliff and Cydney (Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich) are an adventurous young couple celebrating their honeymoon by backpacking to one of the most beautiful, and remote, beaches in Hawaii. Hiking the wild, secluded trails, they believe they’ve found paradise. But when the pair comes across a group of frightened hikers discussing the horrifying murder of another newlywed couple on the islands, they begin to question whether they should turn back. Unsure whether to stay or flee, Cliff and Cydney join up with two other couples, and things begin to go terrifyingly wrong. Far from civilization or rescue, everyone begins to look like a threat and nobody knows whom to trust. Paradise becomes hell on earth as a brutal battle for survival begins…

LIMITED

Paper Hearts PG13 89 minutes

Charlyne Yi does not believe in love. Or so she says. Well, at the very least, she doesn’t believe in fairy-tale love or the Hollywood mythology of love, and her own experiences have turned her into yet another modern-day skeptic. PAPER HEART follows Charlyne as she embarks on a quest across America to make a documentary about the one subject she doesn’t fully understand.

Beeswax NR 100 minutes

Centers on charismatic twin sisters who live together: free-spirited Lauren, considering the opportunity to teach English abroad, and paraplegic Jeannie, co-owner of a local vintage store who has constant problems with her business partner.

I Sell the Dead NR 85 minutes

A grave robber reflects on his life of crime.

Ron Howard is set to direct The Parsifal Mosaic a Robert Ludlum book.  The book is about a man who sees his spy-lover executed for being a double agent.  The story unravels when the man sees the woman is not dead after all.

Steven Spielberg has committed to direct Harvey. Harvey is based on the Mary Chase Pulitizer winning play.  Harvey originally came to the big screen in 1950 with James Stewart and Josephine Hull.

According to Variety Twentieth Century Fox is resuscitating its "Alien" franchise. Ridley Scott is slated to direct.  The prequel will take place prior to the 1979 hit Alien.   Click here for full article.

1. Funny People $23.4 million

2. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince $17.7 million

3. G-Force $17.1 million

4. The Ugly Truth $13 million

5. Aliens in the Attic $7.8 million

6. Orphan $7.3 million

7. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs $5.3 million

8. The Hangover $5.1 million

9. The Proposal $4.8 million

10. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen $4.6 million