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The fifth annual Tournées Festival: New French Film, hosted by the University of California, Riverside, starts Feb. 11.

The festival, presented by UCR's French Program and the Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, will feature screenings of five films in 35mm with English subtitles at the University Village UltraStar Cinemas. The festival wraps up Feb. 25.

The event's theme is "Liberté, Identité, Modernité!" and plays on the ideals of the French Revolution, which recently celebrated its 220th anniversary, according to a festival advisor.

The University Village UltraStar Cinemas are located at 1201 University Avenue in Riverside. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; screening begins at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $8 for adults and $5 for students and seniors with ID.

The following films will be screened at the festival:

Feb. 11 - "The Class" ("Entre les murs") - The winner of the 2008 Palme d'Or at Cannes, this unsparing, unsentimental film, directed by Laurent Cantet, is about a teacher attempting to teach the French language to his multi-ethnic students, many of whom hail from former colonized countries. In an unusual example of art imitating life, the film was based on the best-selling book by real-life teacher François Bégaudeau and is a hybrid documentary-and-narrative work.

Feb. 17 - "Love Songs" ("Les chansons d'amour") - This modern musical set in present-day Paris is sensual and minimalist. Ismaël and his live-in girlfriend, Julie, open their relationship to include Ismaël's coworker Alice. Then tragedy strikes and Ismaël's life is upended.

Feb. 18 - "I've Loved You So Long" ("Il y a longtemps que je t'aime")
- Featuring a beautiful and subtle performance by Franco-British actress Kristin Scott Thomas, this film is about a woman re-acclimating to life outside of prison. Scott Thomas plays Juliette Fontaine, who is taken in by her younger sister, literature professor Léa. Tension increases as the reasons for Juliette's absence are revealed.

Feb. 24 - "The Beaches of Agnes" ("Les plages d'Agnes") - On the eve of her 80th birthday, Agnès Varda, often referred to as "the godmother of the French New Wave," decided to make the autobiographical "The Beaches of Agnes," guiding us through her extraordinary 55-year career and poignantly reminiscing about her husband, the filmmaker Jacques Demy (best known for "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg"), who died of AIDS in 1990 -- information that Varda makes public here for the first time.

Feb. 25 - "The Secret of the Grain" ("La graine et le mulet") - The Best Film winner at Cannes, this drama takes place in the southern French city of Sète, where the patriarch of a large and vivacious North African family is an elderly dockworker. When his job of many years is suddenly no longer secure, he decides to restore an old boat in the harbor and turn it into a floating couscous restaurant. It's a wildly ambitious project, and the increasingly ailing Slimane will need the help of all of his family members to pull it off.

Oscars, shmoscars. This weekend was all about the best and brightest in Hollywood animation.

-- Courtesy E! Online

At Saturday's 37th Annual Annie Awards, Pixar's Up, the little gem that's also in the running for top honors at this year's Academy Awards, was named Best Animated Film and Best Directing in a Feature. The Oscar contender stole the prize from the likes of Coraline, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Secret of Kells.

Elsewhere in the animated realm, Walt Disney Studios knocked out a majority of its competition, taking home a total of six Annies, including three for the hand-drawn critical favorite The Princess and the Frog, while DreamWorks Animation garnered five Annies for their numerous made-for-TV productions.

Here's a rundown of the winners:

Animated Feature: Up
Home Entertainment Production: Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
Animated Short: Robot Chicken: Star Wars 2.5
Animated TV Commercial: Spanish Lottery "Deportees"
Animated TV Production: Prep and Landing
Animated TV Production for Children: The Penguins of Madagascar
Animated Effects: James Mansfield, The Princess and the Frog
Character Animation in TV Production: Phillip To, Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space
Character Animation in Feature: Eric Goldberg, The Princess and the Frog
Character Design in TV Production: Bill Schwab, Prep and Landing
Character Design in Feature: Shane Prigmore, Coraline
Directing in TV Production: Bret Haaland, The Penguins of Madagascar "Launchtime"
Directing in Feature: Pete Docter, Up
Music in TV Production: Guy Moon, The Fairly OddParents: "Wishology-The Big Beginning"
Music in Feature: Bruno Coulais, Coraline
Production Design in TV Production: Andy Harkness, Prep and Landing
Production Design in Feature: Tadahiro Uesugi, Coraline
Storyboarding in TV: Robert Koo, Merry Madagascar
Storyboarding in Feature: Tom Owens, Monsters vs. Aliens
Voiceacting in TV: Tom Kenny as SpongeBob, SpongeBob SquarePants
Voiceacting in Feature: Jen Cody as Charlotte, The Princess and the Frog
Writing in TV Production: Daniel Chun, The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror XX
Writing in Feature: Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach, Fantastic Mr. Fox
Winsor McCay Award: Tim Burton, Bruce Timm, Jeffrey Katzenberg
June Foray: Tom Sito
Ub Iwerks Award: William T. Reeves
Special Achievement: Martin Meunier and Brian McLean
Certificate of Merit: Myles Mikulic, Danny Young and Michael Woodside

Actor Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes) is 42. ABC News anchor Ted Koppel is 70. Actor Nick Nolte is 69. Comedian Robert Klein is 68. Actor/producer Nick Nolte (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Tropic Thunder) is 69. Actor-guitarist Creed Batton (The Office, The Grass Roots) is 67. Actress Brooke Adams is 61. Actress Mary Steenburgen is 57. Author John Grisham is 55. Singer Vince Neil of Motley Crue is 49. Singer-guitarist Sammy Llanas of The BoDeans is 49. Actress Mary McCormack is 41. Guitarist Keith Nelson of Buckcherry is 41. Actor Seth Green is 36. Bassist Phoenix of Linkin Park is 33. Bassist Jeremy Davis of Paramore is 25. Drummer Max Grahn of Carolina Liar is 22. Actress Karle Warren (Judging Amy) is 18.

Courtesy IMDB.com

Riverside resident Eric Harnden led the second meeting of the Independent Filmmakers of the Inland Empire group Wednesday. Membership continues to increase and group leaders are hoping to continue to get the word out about filmmaking in the region.

Inlandsocal was at the group's February meeting, click here to see the video.

-- Article by Eric Harnden, President of the Independent Filmmakers of the Inland Empire

Wednesday's meeting of the Independent Filmmakers of the Inland Empire was a real treat and the response was an exciting surprise. There were approximately forty people in attendance, a huge jump from the eight that came to the first meeting.

Since the group is new, the reasons for these first meetings were to 1) establish the group, 2) introduce filmmaking enthusiasts to one another and 3) start to organize the group and structure of the meetings. I've found with related past activities, like when I ran a 48 hour film project team, that it takes a number of meetings before things find their groove.

Because one of the main purposes of the group is to help filmmakers, we surveyed the group to see what they expected from coming to these meetings, how they would like the meetings to run and what they wanted to see at future meetings.

Having gone to numerous successful film related and other types of enthusiast group meetings, I am patterning the basic structure of the "IFIE" meetings after those. Taking from the desires of the group, we will be holding a structured format agenda with announcements, education, presentations, show and tells, networking time and raffles.

Filmmaking is a dynamic process and I fully expect these meetings to have a dynamic life to them but one thing's for certain, there are a lot of independent filmmakers and related crew, talent and artists here in the Inland Empire and we are here to help them do what they what to do, create films.

Because of the overwhelming response and anticipated growth of the group, we are looking for a bigger venue in which to hold our monthly meetings.

To find out about more about the group or when and where the next meetings will take place, please click here.

Wire reports

The day has finally come. After eight weeks atop the box office rolls, "Avatar" finally fell from the top spot.

The romance "Dear John" ruled at theaters this weekend, according to preliminary estimates.

Adapted from Nicholas Sparks' popular novel, "Dear John" features Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried. The romance debuted as the No. 1 movie with $32.4 million, knocking off the blockbuster "Avatar" after seven weekends in first place.

"Avatar" slipped to No. 2 with $23.6 million, raising its domestic total to $630.1 million.
Directed by James Cameron, "Avatar" topped his "Titanic," unil last week the biggest grossing film of all time.

The results:

1. Dear John (Sony / Screen Gems) $32.4 million
2. Avatar (Fox) $23.6 million
3. From Paris with Love (Lionsgate) $8.1 million
4. Edge of Darkness (Warner Bros.) $7.0 million
5. Tooth Fairy (Fox) $6.5 million

The Independent Filmmakers of the Inland Empire group nearly outgrew their meeting room at the Coffee Depot in Riverside Wednesday.

About 40 people attended the group's second meeting but it hopes to continue expanding.

Riverside resident Eric Harnden started the group recently after participating in the 48-Hour Film Project where he saw there were dozens of other filmmakers in the region.

Inlandsocal.com covered the meeting Feb. 3, click here to see the video.

The next meeting of the Independent Filmmakers of the Inland Empire will be held in March. For information visit their Web site here.

Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is 93. Actor Patrick MacNee (The Avengers) is 88. Actor Rip Torn is 79. Actress Mamie Van Doren is 79. Actor Mike Farrell is 71. Former NBC news anchorman Tom Brokaw is 70. Actress Gayle Hunnicutt is 67. Singer Fabian is 67. Actor Michael Tucker is 66. Singer Natalie Cole is 60. Actor Jon Walmsley (The Waltons) is 54. Actor-director Robert Townsend (The Parent 'Hood) is 53. Actress Kathy Najimy is 53. Drummer Simon Phillips of Toto is 53. Actor Barry Miller (Saturday Night Fever, Fame) is 52. Actress Megan Gallagher (Millennium) is 50. Country singer Richie McDonald (Lonestar) is 48. Vocalist Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses is 48. Singer Rick Astley is 44. Bassist Tim Brown of the Boo Radleys is 41.

After days of speculation and rumor, Los Angeles prosecutors have announced that Dr. Conray Murray will be formally charged Monday in the death of Michael Jackson.

Although the district attorney's office has not confirmed it, Murray is expected to be charged with involuntary manslaughter, which carries a maximum penalty of four years in prison.

While Murray has admitted treating the late pop star for insomnia with the hospital-strength anesthetic propofol, he has denied any wrongdoing. The coroner ruled the singer's death a homicide caused by a propofol overdose along with a use of sedatives administered by Murray.

The filing of the case and Murray's surrender has been delayed due to infighting between the police and prosecutors, a source close to the matter tells PEOPLE. The LAPD wants Murray to be brought to a courthouse in handcuffs, whereas prosecutors feel that is unnecessary, given Murray's lack of a previous criminal record.

It remains to be seen whether Murray will be allowed to surrender Monday to a police station for booking and post bail, or whether he'll be arrested and brought to a courthouse in handcuffs.

Courtesy people.com

Three days after the nominees for the 82nd annual Academy Awards were announced, the academy has decided to allow four producers to take credit for the Oscar-nominated film "The Hurt Locker." The four include director Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro.

The Academy's press release is below courtesy of thewrap.com:

Beverly Hills, CA -- Producer credits for 82nd Academy Awards Best Picture nominees "The Blind Side" and "The Hurt Locker" have been determined by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Producers Branch Executive Committee. Credits are as follows:

"The Blind Side" - Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson, producers.
"The Hurt Locker" - Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro, producers.

Academy rules state that normally no more than three producers may be named as nominees in the Best Picture category. However, the rules allow for an additional producer to be named under extraordinary circumstances. In finding that all of the producers of "The Hurt Locker" had fully functioned as genuine producers of the film, the committee chose to exercise the "extraordinary circumstances" provision of the rules.

Producers for the other eight motion pictures nominated in the Best Picture category - "Avatar," "District 9," "An Education," "Inglourious Basterds," "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," "A Serious Man," "Up" and "Up in the Air" - were announced on February 2 and remain unchanged.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.

Below is the revised list of nominees: Courtesy imdb.com

Best Motion Picture of the Year
Nominees:

Avatar (2009): James Cameron, Jon Landau

The Blind Side (2009): Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove, Broderick Johnson

District 9 (2009): Peter Jackson, Carolynne Cunningham

An Education (2009): Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey

The Hurt Locker (2008): Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro

Inglourious Basterds (2009): Lawrence Bender

Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009): Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness

A Serious Man (2009): Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Up (2009): Jonas Rivera

Up in the Air (2009/I): Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Nominees:

Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart (2009)

George Clooney for Up in the Air (2009/I)

Colin Firth for A Single Man (2009)

Morgan Freeman for Invictus (2009)

Jeremy Renner for The Hurt Locker (2008)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Nominees:

Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side (2009)

Helen Mirren for The Last Station (2009)

Carey Mulligan for An Education (2009)

Gabourey Sidibe for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009)

Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia (2009)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Nominees:

Matt Damon for Invictus (2009)

Woody Harrelson for The Messenger (2009/I)

Christopher Plummer for The Last Station (2009)

Stanley Tucci for The Lovely Bones (2009)

Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Nominees:

Penélope Cruz for Nine (2009)

Vera Farmiga for Up in the Air (2009/I)

Maggie Gyllenhaal for Crazy Heart (2009)

Anna Kendrick for Up in the Air (2009/I)

Mo'Nique for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009)

Best Achievement in Directing

Nominees:

Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker (2008)

James Cameron for Avatar (2009)

Lee Daniels for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009)

Jason Reitman for Up in the Air (2009/I)

Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

Nominees:

The Hurt Locker (2008): Mark Boal

Inglourious Basterds (2009): Quentin Tarantino

The Messenger (2009/I): Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman

A Serious Man (2009): Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Up (2009): Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Thomas McCarthy

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published

Nominees:

District 9 (2009): Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell

An Education (2009): Nick Hornby

In the Loop (2009): Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche

Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009): Geoffrey Fletcher

Up in the Air (2009/I): Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner

Best Achievement in Cinematography

Nominees:

Avatar (2009): Mauro Fiore

Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (2009): Christian Berger

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009): Bruno Delbonnel

The Hurt Locker (2008): Barry Ackroyd

Inglourious Basterds (2009): Robert Richardson

Best Achievement in Editing

Nominees:

Avatar (2009): Stephen E. Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron

District 9 (2009): Julian Clarke

The Hurt Locker (2008): Bob Murawski, Chris Innis

Inglourious Basterds (2009): Sally Menke

Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009): Joe Klotz

Best Achievement in Art Direction

Nominees:

Avatar (2009): Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009): David Warren, Anastasia Masaro, Caroline Smith

Nine (2009): John Myhre, Gordon Sim

Sherlock Holmes (2009): Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer

The Young Victoria (2009): Patrice Vermette, Maggie Gray

Best Achievement in Costume Design

Nominees:

Bright Star (2009): Janet Patterson

Coco avant Chanel (2009): Catherine Leterrier

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009): Monique Prudhomme

Nine (2009): Colleen Atwood

The Young Victoria (2009): Sandy Powell

Best Achievement in Makeup

Nominees:

Il divo (2008): Aldo Signoretti, Vittorio Sodano

Star Trek (2009): Barney Burman, Mindy Hall, Joel Harlow

The Young Victoria (2009): John Henry Gordon, Jenny Shircore

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Nominees:

Avatar (2009): James Horner

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009): Alexandre Desplat

The Hurt Locker (2008): Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders

Sherlock Holmes (2009): Hans Zimmer

Up (2009): Michael Giacchino

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song

Nominees:

Crazy Heart (2009): T-Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham("The Weary Kind")

Faubourg 36 (2008): Reinhardt Wagner, Frank Thomas("Loin de Paname")

Nine (2009): Maury Yeston("Take It All")

The Princess and the Frog (2009): Randy Newman("Almost There")

The Princess and the Frog (2009): Randy Newman("Down in New Orleans")

Best Achievement in Sound Mixing

Nominees:

Avatar (2009): Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson

The Hurt Locker (2008): Paul N.J. Ottosson, Ray Beckett

Inglourious Basterds (2009): Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti, Mark Ulano

Star Trek (2009): Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson, Peter J. Devlin

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009): Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Geoffrey Patterson

Best Achievement in Sound Editing

Nominees:

Avatar (2009): Christopher Boyes, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle

The Hurt Locker (2008): Paul N.J. Ottosson

Inglourious Basterds (2009): Wylie Stateman

Star Trek (2009): Mark P. Stoeckinger, Alan Rankin

Up (2009): Michael Silvers, Tom Myers

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

Nominees:

Avatar (2009): Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andy Jones

District 9 (2009): Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, Matt Aitken

Star Trek (2009): Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh, Burt Dalton

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

Nominees:

Coraline (2009): Henry Selick

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009): Wes Anderson

The Princess and the Frog (2009): John Musker, Ron Clements

The Secret of Kells (2009): Tomm Moore

Up (2009): Pete Docter

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

Nominees:

Ajami (2009)(Israel)

Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (2009)(Germany)

El secreto de sus ojos (2009)(Argentina)

Un prophète (2009)(France)

La teta asustada (2009)(Peru)

Best Documentary, Features

Nominees:

Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land (2008): Anders Østergaard, Lise Lense-Møller

The Cove (2009): Nominees to be determined

Food, Inc. (2008): Robert Kenner, Elise Pearlstein

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (2009): Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith

Which Way Home (2009): Rebecca Cammisa

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

Nominees:

China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (2009) (TV): Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill

The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner (2009): Daniel Junge, Henry Ansbacher

The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant (2009) (TV): Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert

Królik po berlinsku (2009): Bartosz Konopka, Anna Wydra

Music by Prudence (2010): Roger Ross Williams, Elinor Burkett

Best Short Film, Animated

Nominees:

French Roast (2008): Fabrice Joubert

Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty (2008): Nicky Phelan, Darragh O'Connell

La dama y la muerte (2009): Javier Recio Gracia

Logorama (2009): Nicolas Schmerkin

Wallace and Gromit in 'A Matter of Loaf and Death' (2008) (TV): Nick Park

Best Short Film, Live Action

Nominees:

The Door (2008): Juanita Wilson, James Flynn

Istället för abrakadabra (2008): Patrik Eklund, Mathias Fjällström

Kavi (2009): Gregg Helvey

Miracle Fish (2009): Luke Doolan, Drew Bailey

The New Tenants (2009): Joachim Back, Tivi Magnusson

Actor Charlie Sheen's stolen Mercedes was found overturned hundreds of feet down a cliff near his Sherman Oaks home early Friday, but there's no evidence anyone was in the car when it went into the ravine, police said.

Police got an emergency call around 4 a.m. from an OnStar-style alert system that calls emergency officials when there is a problem with the vehicle that may require assistance, Officer Wendy Reyes said.

At about the same time, Sheen called police to say his four-door Mercedes-Benz had been stolen, Officer Bruce Borihanh said.

Police and firefighters found the car 300 to 400 feet down a cliff, upside-down in the brushy ravine.

They searched the area on foot and with an infrared-equipped helicopter but found nobody in or around the car, Borihanh said.

"They've looked all around the hillside. There's nobody in the car, nobody around (and no) evidence of anybody being around at the moment of impact," he said.

Sheen was not believed to have been in the car because he would have been badly injured in the accident and "I don't know how he would have gotten back up" the cliff, Borihanh said.

"It's being treated as an auto theft investigation," he said.

Sheen's longtime rep Stan Rosenfield to msnbc.com, "Reports concerning a stolen car belonging to Charlie Sheen are accurate enough. Charlie is fine, and the police are investigating."

A call to an attorney for Sheen's wife, Brooke Sheen, also was not immediately returned.

Sheen, 42, the star of the CBS comedy "Two and a Half Men," was arrested after a Christmas Day domestic disturbance at his Aspen home. A police officer's arrest affidavit quoted his wife, Brooke Sheen, as saying the actor pinned her on a bed while holding a knife to her throat.

Sheen denies threatening his wife. He's scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Aspen on domestic violence charges. He and his wife also are seeking modification of an order that prevents them from communicating with each other. She has said they love each other and want to reconcile.

Courtesy msnbc.com

Country singer Claude King is 87. Actor Stuart Damon (General Hospital, As the World Turns) is 73. Writer-producer Stephen J. Cannell is 69. Singer-songwriter Barrett Strong is 69. Actor David Selby (Dark Shadows, Falcon Crest) is 69. Singer Cory Wells of Three Dog Night is 68. Singer Al Kooper is 66. Actress Charlotte Rampling is 64. Actress Barbara Hershey (The Mountain, Childless) is 62. Actor-director-comedian Christopher Guest is 62. Actor-comedian Tim Meadows (Saturday Night Live) is 49. Actress Jennifer Jason Leigh (Road to Perdition) is 48. Actress Laura Linney (Love Actually, Mystic River) is 46. Bassist Duff McKagan of Velvet Revolver (and Guns N' Roses) is 46. Singer Chris Barron of the Spin Doctors is 42. Singer Bobby Brown is 41. Country singer Sara Evans is 39. Actor Jeremy Sumpter (Peter Pan) is 21.

Courtesy IMDB.com

The following movies are out in theaters Feb. 5, click here to see what InlandSoCal's Juliane Ngan and Louis Amestoy think of these movies in the Inland Movie Preview.

-- From Yahoo! Movies

New Movies -

Dear John: A soldier home on leave falls for a conservative college girl. Instead of returning home to her, he reenlists after the attacks on September 11th, 2001. Time and distance begin to take a toll on the young lovers.

 

 

From Paris with Love: A low-ranking intelligence operative working in the office of the U.S. Ambassador in France takes on more than he bargained for when he partners with a wisecracking, fast-shooting, high-ranking U.S. agent who's been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack.

 

Opening in Limited Release -

Frozen: A typical day on the slopes turns into a chilling nightmare for three snowboarders when they get stranded on the chairlift before their last run. As the ski patrol switches off the night lights, they realize with growing panic that they've been left behind dangling high off the ground with no way down. With the resort closed until the following weekend and frostbite and hypothermia already setting in, the trio is forced to take desperate measures to escape off the mountain before they freeze to death.

 

District 13: Ultimatum: Two years have passed since elite police officer Damien Tomasso teamed up with reformed vigilante Leito to save the notorious District 13, a racially charged ghetto populated by violent drug dealing gangs and vicious killers. Despite government promises to maintain order, the state of the district has deteriorated, and a group of corrupt cops and elected officials are conspiring to cause civil unrest.