TAKE THE LEAD
The Cast: Antonio Banderas, Alfre Woodard, Elijah Kelley
The Director: Liz Friedlander

The Story: Music video vet Friedlander (U2, Simple Plan) helms this story about Pierre Dulane (Banderas), a professional dancer who volunteers to teach dance to New York City high school kids. Dulane's classical methods clash with his students' hip hop sensibilities so teacher and students team up to create a new form of dance.

SCARY MOVIE 4
The Cast: Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Craig Bierko
The Director: David Zucker

The Story: The Scary Movie franchise returns to spoof the next generation of scary movies with digs at Saw, War of the Worlds, The Grudge, The Village and Million Dollar Baby(!?), among many others. Series star Faris returns as reporter Cindy Campbell. Look for cameos from Dr. Phil, Shaq and Lil' John.

AMERICAN DREAMZ
The Cast: Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Mandy Moore
The Director: Paul Weitz

The Story: Reality TV sets the stage for American Pie director Weitz's latest comedy. Dennis Quaid stars as the American president, who, after reading the paper for the first time in four years, appears to have a nervous breakdown. Concerned, his Chief of Staff (Willem Dafoe) pushes him into the spotlight, including a guest spot on American Dreamz, an American Idol-style show hosted by smarmy host Martin Tweed (Grant). Moore co-stars as a Southern girl who dumps her old life in favour of fame.

THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE
The Cast: Gretchen Mol, Lili Taylor, Jonathan M. Woodward
The Director: Mary Harron

The Story: American Psycho team Harron and writer Guinevere Turner collaborate again on this biopic of famous '50s fetish model Bettie Page. Gretchen Mol plays the original sex kitten, whose photos - highlighted by her jet-black hair, bangs and playful approach to nudity - have made her an enduring icon.

THE SENTINEL
The Cast: Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria
The Director: Clark Johnson

The Story: Secret Service agent Pete Garrison (Douglas) finds himself on the run as a suspect in the murder of a colleague after he's blackmailed by someone who knows of his affair with the First Lady. Garrison races to prove his innocence and foil a plot to murder the President.

SILENT HILL
The Cast: Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden
The Director: Christophe Gans

The Story: Movies based on video games have, to date, been horrible. Silent Hill promises to be good, boasting as it does a talented director (Gans, Brotherhood of the Wolf), a good screenwriter (Pulp Fiction's Roger Avary) and a great cast (Mitchell, Bean). Mitchell (Pitch Black) plays Rose, a mother who visits the mysterious town of Silent Hill in an attempt to help her troubled daughter who has been dreaming of the place. But the child goes missing and Rose must confront mysterious forces of darkness that are using her daughter as a pawn in a larger game.

HARD CANDY
The Cast: Patrick Wilson, Ellen Page, Sandra Oh
The Director: David Slade

The Story: Newcomer Page gives what is said to be a bravura performance as Hayley, a smart young teen who meets Jeff (Wilson), a 30-something photographer on the Internet. They meet and Jeff takes Hayley back to his apartment. But Hayley isn't so innocent and drugs Jeff so that when he wakes up, he's bound and she has a knife she's willing to use if he doesn't confess to the disappearance of other teen girls she thinks he has victimized.

RV
The Cast: Robin Williams, Kristin Chenoweth, Jeff Daniels
The Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

The Story: After a detour into drama, Robin Williams returns to comedy in RV playing the father of a dysfunctional family who attempts to patch up his brood's problems by buying an RV and hitting the road with them.

UNITED 93
The Cast: J.J. Johnson, Gary Commock, Polly Adams
The Director: Paul Greengrass

The Story: No one really knows what went on on Flight 93, the fourth plane to be targeted by hijackers on 9/11, but acclaimed director Greengrass (Bloody Sunday, The Bourne Supremacy) addresses what might have been in United 93. Apparently made with the cooperation of the victims' families, the film tells the story of how the passengers rose up against their hijackers to fight back and prevent United 93 from reaching its intended target.

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE: III
The Cast: Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Laurence Fishburne
The Director: J.J. Abrams

The Story: Cruise returns to the role of super spy Ethan Hunt in the third Mission: Impossible film. Plot details are scant, but indie film icon Hoffman stars as the villain and Ving Rhames returns as Hunt's partner, Luther Stickell.

ALPHA DOG
The Cast: Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Bruce Willis
The Director: Nick Cassavetes

The Story: Alpha Dog will get loads of publicity out of it being Justin Timberlake's feature film debut, but don't forget Emile Hirsch (The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys). He plays Johnny Truelove, a real-life drug dealer who, at 19, presided over an empire that collapsed when he kidnapped the younger brother of a colleague who owed him money. But the brother is well-liked, and the kidnapping turns into something else as Truelove becomes the youngest man on the FBI's Most Wanted list.

JUST MY LUCK
The Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine, Faizon Love
The Director: Donald Petrie

The Story: Budding star Lohan stars as Ashley, the luckiest girl in the world. But she takes her good fortune for granted and inadvertently exchanges her luck with that of a handsome stranger (Pine) at a costume party - a stranger with the worst luck in the world. Suddenly her charmed life turns into a living hell.

POSEIDON
The Cast: Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss
The Director: Wolfgang Petersen

The Story: The '70s disaster movie gets an update courtesy of Perfect Storm director Wolfgang Petersen. Josh Lucas heads an ensemble cast as a gambler who goes against captain's order to find a way out when the luxury liner he's on is capsized by a gigantic wave and the ship starts to plummet to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie has a cameo as, um, a singer.

SEE NO EVIL
The Cast: Kane, Christina Vidal, Samantha Noble
The Director: Gregory Dark

The Story: Ex-porn director Dark makes his feature debut with See No Evil, a horror flick starring WWE wrestler Kane as Jacob Goodnight, a huge psychopath who terrorizes a group of petty criminals sentenced to clean up the hotel he calls home.

ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL
The Cast: Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, John Malkovich
The Director: Terry Zwigoff

The Story: Bad Santa director Zwigoff adapts another Daniel Clowes comic (from "Eightball") after making a mark with the film version of Clowes's "Ghost World." Minghella plays Jerome Platz, an ambitious student at a tiny East Coast arts school whose work isn't appreciated, except by artist's model Audrey (Myles). So when a hunky painter starts getting all the attention, including Audrey's, Jerome sets out to win back his girl and the acclaim he believes should rightfully be his.

X-MEN: THE LAST STAND
The Cast: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen
The Director: Brett Ratner

The Story: The allegedly final X-Men film sees Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) resurrected as the Dark Phoenix, a powerful threat to the world itself. Meanwhile, Magneto (McKellen) and his malevolent Brotherhood wage war against the X-Men even as a cure for all genetic mutation is discovered.

THE BREAK-UP
The Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Vince Vaughn, Joey Lauren Adams
The Director: Peyton Reed

The Story: Real-life couple Aniston and Vaughn star as Brooke and Gary, an ex-couple who each refuse to vacate their shared condo. So they live as hostile roommates, each advised by friends, confidantes and strangers even as they realize that maybe it's not the place they are fighting for but each other.

NACHO LIBRE
The Cast: Jack Black, Ana de la Reguera, Efren Ramirez
The Director: Jared Hess

The Story: Jared Hess directed Napoleon Dynamite. Jack Black is the funny man who made us laugh in School of Rock. Could their collaboration be anything less than brilliant? Hopefully not. Black plays a Mexican priest who moonlights as a luchador - a masked wrestler - to raise money for his orphanage.

THE OMEN
The Cast: Julia Stiles, Liev Schreiber, Mia Farrow
The Director: John Moore

The Story: The Antichrist returns in this remake of the 1976 horror classic. Stiles and Screiber star as the parents to Damien, an unholy brat whose existence threatens to plunge the world into darkness and evil.