Ebenezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it’s too late.
Genres:     Action/Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Animation, Adaptation, Holiday and Remake
Running Time:     1 hr. 36 min.
Release Date:     November 6th, 2009
MPAA Rating:     PG for scary sequences and images.
Distributors:
Walt Disney Studios Distribution
U.S. Box Office:     $63,289,000

The power hungry Prime Minister-turned-General Cao Cao seeks permission from the Han dynasty Emperor to organize a southward-bound mission designed to crush two troublesome warlords that stand in his way, Liu Bei and Sun Quan. As the expedition gets under way, Cao Cao’s troops rain destruction on Liu Bei’s army, forcing the latter to retreat. Liu Bei’s military strategist Zhuge Liang knows that their only hope for survival is to form an alliance with rival warlord Sun Quan, and reaches out to Sun Quan’s trusted advisor, war hero Zhou Yu. Vastly outnumbered by Cao Cao’s fast approaching, brutal army, the rebel warlords band together to mount a heroic campaign unrivalled in history that changes the face of China forever.
Also Known As:
Chek bik
Chi bi
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
The Battle of Red Cliff
The War of the Red Cliff
Production Status:     Released
Logline:     An epic historical drama based on a legendary 208 A.D. battle that heralded the end of the Han Dynasty.
Genres:     Action/Adventure, Art/Foreign, Drama, Adaptation and War
Running Time:     2 hrs. 28 min.
Release Date:     November 18th, 2009 (limited)
MPAA Rating:     R for sequences of epic warfare.
Distributors:
Magnolia Pictures
Production Co.:
China Film Group Corp., CMC Entertainment Group, ShowBox Entertainment, Chengtian Entertainment, Avex Entertainment, Taewon Entertainment, Lion Rock Productions
Filming Locations:
Beijing, China
Produced in:     China

John Rosow is a private detective hired to tail a man, Harold Fullmer, on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers Harold’s identity as a missing person; one of the thousands presumed dead after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Persuaded by a large reward, Rosow is charged with bringing Harold back to his wife in New York City against his will. Ultimately Rosow must confront whether the decision to return Harold to a life that no longer exists is the right one.
Production Status:     In Production/Awaiting Release
Genres:     Drama
Running Time:     1 hr. 35 min.
Release Date:     November 20th, 2009 (limited)
Distributors:
Strand Releasing
Production Co.:
Apropos Films, The 7th Floor
Produced in:     United States

Tom, as successful New York businessman, leaves wife and daughter under the care of a Filipino nanny to go on a business trip to Thailand. As he submerges into a new cultural experience Tom soon realizes he wants to change his life, setting off a chain of dramatic events.
Also Known As:
Mammut
Production Status:     In Production/Awaiting Release
Genres:     Art/Foreign, Drama, Kids/Family and Thriller
Running Time:     2 hr. 5 min.
Release Date:     November 20th, 2009 (limited)
Distributors:
IFC Films
Production Co.:
Memfis Film, Zentropa Entertainment, Zentropa International
Financiers:
Funding: Eurimages
TV2 Denmark, Swedish Film Institute, Nordic Film & TV Fund, Sveriges Television (SVT), Film i Väst, Danish Film Institute (DFI), Eurimages, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH, Trollhattan Film, FFA Filmfoerderungsanstalt, Media Programme of the European Union
Filming Locations:
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
New York, USA
Thailand
Philippines
Sweden
Produced in:     Sweden

A man writes, lives and loves in darkness. Fourteen years before, he was in a brutal car crash on the island of Lanzarote. In the accident, he not only lost his sight, he also lost Lena, the love of his life. This man uses two names: Harry Caine, a playful pseudonym with which he signs his literary works, stories and scripts, and Mateo Blanco, his real name, with which he lives and signs the film he directs. After the accident, Mateo Blanco reduces himself to his pseudonym, Harry Caine. If he can’t direct films he can only survive with the idea that Mateo Blanco died on Lanzarote with his beloved Lena. In the present day, Harry Caine lives thanks to the scripts he writes and to the help he gets from his faithful former production manager, Judit Garcia, and from Diego, her son, his secretary, typist and guide. Since he decided to live and tell stories, Harry is an active, attractive blind man who has developed all his other senses in order to enjoy life, on a basis of irony and self-induced amnesia. He has erased from his biography any trace of his first identity, Mateo Blanco. One night Diego has an accident and Harry takes care of him (his mother, Judit, is out of Madrid and they decide not to tell her anything so as not to alarm her). During the first nights of his convalescence, Diego asks him about the time when he answered to the name of Mateo Blanco, after a moment of astonishment Harry can’t refuse and he tells Diego what happened fourteen years before with the idea of entertaining him, just as a father tells his little child a story so that he’ll fall asleep. The story of Mateo, Lena, Judit and Ernesto Martel is a story of ‘amour fou,’ dominated by fatality, jealously, the abuse of power, treachery and a guilt complex. A moving and terrible story, the most expressive image of which is the photo of two lovers embracing, torn into a thousand pieces.
Also Known As:
Broken Hugs
Los Abrazos Rotos
Los abrazos rotos
Production Status:     In Production/Awaiting Release
Logline:     et in the 1990s and present day, centers on a four-way tale of dangerous love, shot in the style of a hard-boiled 1950s American film noir.
Genres:     Art/Foreign, Drama, Romance and Thriller
Running Time:     2 hrs. 8 min.
Release Date:     November 20th, 2009 (NY); December 11th (LA)
MPAA Rating:     R for sexual content, language and some drug material.
Distributors:
Sony Pictures Classics
Production Co.:
El Deseo S.A.
Studios:
Universal International Pictures Spain
Financiers:
Universal Pictures International (UPI), Studio Canal
Filming Locations:
Madrid, Spain
Canary Islands
Produced in:     Spain

A rogue detective is as devoted to his job as he is at scoring drugs — while playing fast and loose with the law. He wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina he becomes a high-functioning addict who is a deeply intuitive, fearless detective reigning over the beautiful ruins of New Orleans with authority and abandon. Complicating his tumultuous life is the prostitute he loves. Together they descend into their own world marked by desire, compulsion, and conscience.
Also Known As:
Bad Lieutenant
Bad Lieutenant Port of Call: New Orleans
Production Status:     In Production/Awaiting Release
Logline:     A corrupt policeman investigates the rape of a nun.
Genres:     Drama and Crime/Gangster
Running Time:     2 hrs. 1 min.
Release Date:     November 20th, 2009 (NY/LA)
Distributors:
First Look Pictures
Production Co.:
Nu Image/Millennium Films, Edward R. Pressman Film Corporation, Saturn Films, Polsky Films, Osiris Productions
Financiers:
Nu Image/Millennium Films
Filming Locations:
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Los Angeles, California, United States
Los Angeles, California, USA
Produced in:     United States

American astronaut Captain Charles “Chuck” Baker, lands on Planet 51 thinking he’s the first person to step foot on it. To his surprise, he finds that this planet is inhabited by little green people who are happily living in a white picket fence world reminiscent of a cheerfully innocent 1950s America, and whose only fear is that it will be overrun by alien invaders–like Chuck! With the help of his robot companion “Rover” and his new friend Lem, Chuck must navigate his way through the dazzling, but bewildering, landscape of Planet 51 in order to escape becoming a permanent part of the Planet 51 Alien Invaders Space Museum.
Also Known As:
Planet 1
Planet Fifty-one
Planet One
Production Status:     In Production/Awaiting Release
Genres:     Action/Adventure, Art/Foreign, Comedy, Kids/Family, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Animation
Release Date:     November 20th, 2009 (wide)
MPAA Rating:     PG for mild sci-fi action and some suggestive humor.
Distributors:
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group, Sony Pictures Releasing
Production Co.:
Worldwide Biggies, Ilion Animation Studios, HandMade Films, Antena 3 TV
Studios:
Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
Financiers:
Wisdom Entertainment, HandMade Films
Filming Locations:
London, England UK
London, England UK
London, England
London, England, United Kingdom
Produced in:     Spain

Michael Oher, a homeless African-American youngster from a broken home, is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher’s presence in the Touhys’ lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, the teen faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome. As a football player and student, Oher works hard and, with the help of his coaches and adopted family, becomes an All-American offensive left tackle.
Also Known As:
Blindside
Production Status:     In Production/Awaiting Release
Genres:     Comedy, Drama, Adaptation, Biopic and Sports
Release Date:     November 20th, 2009 (wide)
MPAA Rating:     PG-13 for one scene involving brief violence, drug and sexual references.
Distributors:
Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution
Production Co.:
Gil Netter Productions, Alcon Entertainment
Studios:
Warner Bros. Pictures
Financiers:
Alcon Entertainment
Filming Locations:
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Decatur, Georgia, USA
Produced in:     United States

After a young, middle class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban “starter” tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic, but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially when they sleep. Or try to.
Production Status:     Released
Genres:     Science Fiction/Fantasy and Thriller
Running Time:     1 hr. 39 min.
Release Date:     September 25th, 2009 (limited)
MPAA Rating:     R for language.
Distributors:
Paramount Pictures
U.S. Box Office:     $61,580,588
Produced in:     United States

Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. A global cataclysm brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.
Also Known As:
Farewell Atlantis
Two-thousand Twelve
Production Status:     Released
Genres:     Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Thriller
Running Time:     2 hrs. 38 min.
Release Date:     November 13th, 2009 (wide)
MPAA Rating:     PG-13 for intense disaster sequences and some language.
Distributors:
Sony Pictures Releasing
Production Co.:
Centropolis Entertainment, Mark Gordon Company
Studios:
Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment
U.S. Box Office:     $65,237,614
Filming Locations:
Los Angeles, California, United States
Los Angeles, California, USA
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Produced in:     United States