Some football players are tough. These guys are hardened. The football players who make up the Gridiron Gang aren't high draft picks or seasoned recruits. They're criminals - teens serving time in a juvenile detention center. Leading the pack are two probation officers, Sean Porter (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) and Malcolm Moore (Xzibit), who have four weeks to mold them into a football team. They'll have to overcome more than just dropped balls and missed tackles, forming a team from a group of inmates splintered by gang rivalries and bitter hatred for one another. Facing long odds and teams that don't want to play a group of felons, Porter and Moore will both teach and learn some hard lessons in this gritty drama where winning the game is less important than winning a second chance.
Dade, a.k.a. "Zero Cool" (Johnny Lee Miller), is a hacking legend. After bringing down Wall Street's computers as a kid, he's banished from the keyboard until his 18th birthday. When he meets Kate, a.k.a. "Acid Burn" (Angelina Jolie), the two begin a friendly hacking rivalry. There's no code they can't crack, no network they can't access. But their freewheeling cyber-mischief gets serious when they stumble into a terrorist's plot to create a global disaster. Unless he gets $5 million, "The Plague" will capsize five oil tankers with a computer virus, and he's set up Dade and friends to take the fall. They'll scramble through cyberspace to clear their names and foil the plot, all while trying to evade "The Plague" and the Secret Service agents trying to hunt them down.
DJay (Terrance Howard) is a street-smart Memphis hustler. Blessed with a gift for words he hasn't been able to harness, DJay lives in the shadows, scraping by through a dead-end life, his dreams buried, constantly out of reach. One day he runs into Key (Anthony Anderson), an old friend and sound engineer who holds out hope of making it big in the music biz. DJay decides to seize the moment. With help from Shelby (DJ Qualls), a church musician who owns a beat machine, DJay begins laying down tracks. His decision energizes those around him, and his friends lend themselves to his efforts. When DJay learns hip-hop heavy Skinny Black (Ludacris) is coming to Memphis, he puts all his hopes on one last hustle to unleash his flow.
Born into poverty in 1929, nine-year-old Chiyo (Ziyi Zhang) is ripped from her family home in a small Japanese fishing village and sold to a geisha home in Kyoto, where she is forced to live as a servant. As Chiyo blossoms into a beautiful woman, her grace enrages the head geisha Hatsumomo (Li Gong), who does her best to make Chiyo's life miserable. But Chiyo perseveres, and eventually becomes the renowned geisha Sayuri. Mastering the grace, art, and skill of a geisha, Chiyo slips into a society of money and power, the complete opposite of her humble beginnings. Mingling with Japan's elite, Chiyo manages to enchant even the most powerful of men, but struggles with an unspoken love in this adaptation of Arthur Golden's acclaimed historical novel.
Based on a true story, Open Water recounts the harrowing tale of an American couple on a vacation-turned-nightmare in the Caribbean. When Daniel and Susan (Daniel Travis and Blanchard Ryan) arrive at their hotel, it's clear that their relationship is under stress and the holiday is much needed. The next morning, the two certified scuba divers board a local dive boat for a tour of the underwater reef. Because of miscommunications among the distracted crew, the couple is accidentally left behind in the open ocean after forty minutes underwater, and the nightmare begins. Daniel and Susan find themselves drifting for hours on end, confronted with fear, dehydration, saltwater sickness, jellyfish stings, and the most frightening menace of all in the open ocean - sharks!
Jonathan Larson's stirring, Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent moved audiences on Broadway and around the world with its heartbreaking tale of love, life, and death in the grit of bohemian New York. Based on Puccini's opera La Boheme, the story follows a group of friends living in the city's East Village. The starving artists struggle to find success, meaning, and enough money to pay the rent in the face of poverty, illness, and the AIDS virus. At the center of the story are roommates Mark (Anthony Rapp), a filmmaker, and Roger (Adam Pascal), a former drug addict who's now an HIV-positive musician. Mark decides to make a movie that measures out a year in the life in this powerful story.
Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) has waited for this day his entire life. The aspiring narcotics officer is finally getting his shot. Today, the rookie will hit the streets of L.A. to help clean up the city's drug problem. He's riding alongside detective Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington), a wily veteran cop who's been working the streets for years. Harris throws Hoyt right into the fire, pushing the rookie's buttons and seeing if he can hold up under the pressure. If Hoyt's going to make detective, he'll need to learn all he can from Harris, who's hardened methods push the limits in order to get results. But as the day progresses, Hoyt begins to wonder if Harris has strayed too far over the edge.
Directed by Christopher B., You Got Served dishes out some slamming dance moves as street-dancing crews battle it out with style. Jiving for money and respect, Elgin (Marques Houston of IMX) and David(Omarion of B2K) are best buds from Orange County. They lead a talented group of hip-hop dancers from the real-life B2K teen group, including Raz B, J Boog and Lil' Fizz. A rival crew from Los Angeles challenges their moves and their friendships. Betrayal and battles over girls threaten to tear the dancers apart. As tensions rise, the Orange County crew must reach down deep for the most cutting-edge moves to show they have the strength and the attitude to win props from audiences and their tough L.A. competitors.