The Movie Blog

TV writer Tom Wheeler has been hired to write the "Shrek" spinoff "Puss in Boots."

In this comedy, Eric Christian Olsen (NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE) and Nicholas D’Agosto (HEROES) star as unmotivated football stars who switch to cheerleading when they realize they can go to camp with 300 girls. FIRED UP also stars Sarah Roemer (DISTRUBIA), Annalynne McCord (90210), and the always hilarious John Michael Higgins (FRED CLAUS).

In a remote mountain region of Afghanistan, a team of US Special Ops forces is dispatched with the ostensible orders of locating an influential Muslim cleric. While on the mission they find themselves lost in a Middle Eastern ‘Bermuda Triangle’ of ancient evil and faced with an enemy that none of them could have imagined.

Emily Blunt, who played a fashion magazine assistant in "The Devil Wears Prada," has been offered the role of a Lilliputian princess in the feature film "Gulliver's Travels." Jason Segel, one of the stars of CBS' "How I Met Your Mother," is in negotiations to join the cast of the modern reimagining of Jonathan Swift's classic satire.

Lovely vintage footage graces this arresting documentary from director Terence Davies (DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES), who crafts an ode to Liverpool, the city of his birth. OF TIME AND THE CITY chronicles the transformation of Liverpool and its people during the middle of the 20th century, resulting in a fluidly ever-changing–yet always dead-on–portrayal of an entire city. Touching and oftentimes savagely funny, OF TIME AND THE CITY is equal parts poem. history, and autobiography. It has also made its way onto the several best-of-the-year lists of some of the most revered international critics.

Donald Faison leaves his SCRUBS and the halls of Sacred Heart Hospital behind for this starring role as a pot-smoking delivery man. Leo Jackson (Faison) isn’t exactly a model employee; even though he works for his mother (who is also his landlady), Leo and his shoddy work ethic have him in danger of being fired. But that’s nothing compared to the on-the-job hazards when he accidentally drops off a hefty amount of coke at the wrong address.

The filmmakers behind the Thai hit import ONG-BAK; THE THAI WARRIOR offer another action-filled film. Zen (newcomer JeeJa Yanin) has the power to perform incredible physical feats. All she has to do is see someone do something, and she can do the same incredible moves. CHOCOLATE boasts buckets of action all performed by the actors–not stunt doubles.

Even a preschooler could tell you where his dad and older brothers will be Sunday — on the living-room couch watching the Super Bowl. Where they won't be is the neighborhood multiplex.

For all the attention in Hollywood, "Slumdog Millionaire" has failed to set the box office alight in India where it is set, with piracy, anger over its portrayal of poverty and its controversial title taking a toll.

Twentieth Century Fox has stepped in to partner with Walden Media on at least one more film based on the C.S. Lewis children's book series "The Chronicles of Narnia," after the Walt Disney Co bowed out, a Fox spokesman said on Thursday.