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written by Stephen King. Jake Epping is a 35-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching GED classes. He asks his students to write about an event that changed their lives, and one essay blows him away – a gruesome, harrowing story about the night more than 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a sledgehammer. Not much later his friend Al, who owns the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to the past, a particular day in 1958. And Al enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession – to prevent the Kennedy assassination.
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Advertising executive Jack Sadelstein (Adam Sandler) lives in Los Angeles with his beautiful wife Erin (Katie Holmes) and two kids. Jack is not very fond of his fraternal twin sister Jill (also played by Adam Sandler) and is irritated that she is coming to visit for Thanksgiving. Jill is still single and Jack suggests that she try online dating even though she has very little experience with a computer. Her profile initially is ignored, but then Jack posts a misleading message about her on a different website and soon she is asked out on her first date. Later, at a Lakers game, Jill meets Al Pacino and he instantly falls for her.
Congressman Phil Hammersley remains firmly opposed to passage of new legislation that dramatically expands the surveillance powers of law enforcement agencies. To ensure the bill's passage, National Security Agency official Thomas Reynolds (Jon Voight) kills Hammersley, but he is unaware of a video camera set up by wildlife researcher Daniel Zavitz that has captured the entire incident. While being chased by the NSA, Daniel sees old college friend and labor lawyer Robert Clayton Dean (Will Smith) in a lingerie store and sticks the computer disc containing a copy of the video into his shopping bag.
A group of beings called the Guardians of the Universe used the green essence of willpower to create an intergalactic police force called the Green Lantern Corps. After killing four Green Lanterns and destroying three planets, Parallax attacks Sector 2814 and mortally wounds Abin Sur, who escapes and crash-lands on Earth. The dying Abin Sur commands his ring to find a worthy successor on the planet. Test pilot Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) is chosen by the ring and transported to the crash site, where Abin Sur appoints him a Green Lantern.
In ancient times, the gods led by Zeus (Liam Neeson), Poseidon and Hades betrayed their parents, the Titans, and banished them to the underworld with the help of the Kraken, a sea monster born of Hades. Fisherman Spyros finds a casket floating in the sea containing a still living baby. He and his wife adopt the boy and name him Perseus. Years later, Perseus (Sam Worthington) is fishing with his family and witnesses soldiers destroying a statue of Zeus and subsequently being attacked by the Furies. As the Cult of Hades grows in number, a desperate Cepheus asks Perseus to lead the King's Guard to discover a way to kill the Kraken.
co-written by James Patterson and David Ellis. Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. For four days in Monte Carlo they're free to live someone else's life. As the weekend brings pulsating discos, high-stakes casinos, and more, Abbie is transported to the greatest pleasure and release she has ever known. In the morning’s harsh light, Abbie awakens on a yacht, surrounded by police. Abbie, Winnie, Serena, and Bryah are arrested and accused of the foulest crime imaginable.
written by Harlan Coben. 17-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, and headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst. Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission: to bring down sexual predators via elaborate – and nationally televised – sting operations. Wendy and her team have shamed dozens of men by the time she encounters her latest target.
Former Army Ranger Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) is sentenced to a maximum-security federal prison to serve a 12-year term for killing a man who tried to assault him and his pregnant wife. During this time, he communicates with his wife and new daughter through letters and pictures. After eight years he is released on good behavior, and is excited for the chance to finally meet his daughter. He is put on an aircraft to be sent home, along with several dangerous criminals who are being transferred. During the flight mastermind Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom (John Malkovich) decides that the prisoners should hijack the airplane.
John Hancock (Will Smith) is an alcoholic man with super powers and though he has rescued many people, his reckless approach makes him unpopular. When public relations spokesperson Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman) is driving home after an unsuccessful sales pitch he becomes trapped on railroad tracks with an oncoming freight train. Hancock saves him but causes a lot of property damage in the process and a crowd of people start to insult him. Ray speaks up and says he is thankful to be alive, and then offers to help improve Hancock's public image so that more people will appreciate his abilities.
written by Robin Cook. Pia Grazdani is an exceptional yet aloof medical student working closely with Columbia University Medical Center’s premier scientist on cutting edge research that could revolutionize health care by creating replacement organs for critically ill patients. Through her work with the brilliant molecular geneticist Dr. Tobias Rothman, Pia knows she will be given the chance to fulfill her ambition to participate in medical discoveries that can help millions while bringing her a measure of personal peace that might once and for all push aside memories of her difficult and abusive childhood. But when tragedy strikes in the lab, Pia, with the help of infatuated classmate George Wilson, launches an investigation into the unforeseen calamity in the hospital’s supposedly secure biosafety lab.
In 1873 Arizona Territory, Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig) wakes up in the desert injured, with no memory, and a strange metal shackle on his wrist. After killing three drifters who try to rob him, he takes their clothes, weapons and a horse. He wanders into the small town of Absolution, where the local preacher treats his wound. Sheriff Taggart recognizes the stranger as a wanted outlaw. Colonel Woodrow Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford) arrives and demands he be given custody of Jake for stealing his gold. During the standoff, alien craft begin attacking the town. Several men decide to go in search of the aliens’ hideout.
A secret war has raged between vampires and Lycan werewolves for centuries. Vampire Selene (Kate Beckinsale) is hoping for revenge because the Lycans killed her family when she was a child. Selene follows the Lycans back to their den and learns that they have developed a new bullet that can kill vampires. She realizes that the Lycans have been tracking a human named Michael Corvin (Scott Speedman) and wants to find out why. She believes that her fellow vampire Kraven is involved in a secret conspiracy and she decides to awaken the hibernating elder vampire Viktor many years sooner than planned.
At a World War II concentration camp in 1944, scientist Dr. Klaus Schmidt orders young Erik Lensherr to move a coin with his mind, but then kills the child's mother when he is unable to. At a mansion in New York, young telepath Charles Xavier meets young shape-shifter Raven and invites her to stay as his foster sister. Eighteen years later, Lensherr is tracking down Schmidt, while Xavier (James McAvoy) is graduating from Oxford University. Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon), with an ability to absorb and redirect energy, intends to start World War III, destroy the humans, and trigger mutant dominance.
After getting re-married to Queen Clementianna (Julia Roberts), the King leaves to fight a great evil and never turns. Snow White (Lily Collins) remains with her step mother who can't stand her and often forces her to stay in her room. The baker convinces Snow White that she should go out into the village and see the poor conditions of the people. In the forest, she meets Prince Andrew Alcott who had been attacked and tied up by the dwarfs. The Queen devises a plan to marry the prince so she can be wealthy again. Snow White teams up with the seven dwarfs to regain her rightful authority with the crown.
co-written by James Patterson and Marshall Karp. Matthew Bannon, a poor art student living in New York City, finds a duffel bag filled with diamonds during a chaotic attack at Grand Central Station. Plans for a worry-free life with his gorgeous girlfriend, Katherine fill his thoughts—until he realizes that he is being hunted. Chasing him is the Ghost, the world’s greatest assassin, who has just pulled off the most high-profile hit: killing Walter Zelvas, a top member of the international diamond syndicate. There’s only one small problem. The diamonds he was supposed to retrieve from Zelvas are missing. Now the Ghost is on Bannon’s trail – but so is a rival assassin who would like nothing more than to make the Ghost disappear forever.
Legendary driver Bo "Bandit" Darville (Burt Reynolds) and his truck driver friend Cledus "Snowman" Snow are hired to move 400 cases of Coors beer from Texarkana, Texas, to Georgia, at a time when it was illegal to cross state lines with the drink. During the trip, Bandit picks up runaway bride Carrie (Sally Field). The groom's father is Texas Sheriff Buford T. Justice who chases after Bandit in an effort to stop him. Bandit receives help from other truck drivers who communicate with him through CB radios. The sheriff becomes increasingly angry as his police car is damaged through various mishaps.
written by Nevada Barr. 35-years-old, fresh off the bus from New York City, and nursing a shattered heart, Anna Pigeon takes a decidedly unglamorous job as a seasonal employee of the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. On her day off, she goes hiking into the park never to return. Her co-workers think she’s simply moved on – her cabin is cleaned out and her things gone. Anna herself wakes up, trapped at the bottom of a dry natural well, naked, without supplies and no clear memory of how she got into this situation. As she slowly pieces together her memory, it soon becomes clear that someone has trapped her there, in an inescapable prison, and that no one knows she is even missing.
written by Janet Evanovich. All New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has to do is bring in semi-retired bail jumper Eddie DeChooch. For an old man he’s still got a knack for slipping out of sight – and raising hell. How else can Stephanie explain the bullet-ridden corpse in Eddie’s garden? Who else would have a clue as to why two of Stephanie’s friends suddenly vanished? For answers Stephanie has the devil to pay: her mentor, Ranger. The deal? He’ll give Stephanie all the help she needs – if she gives him everything he wants. As if things weren’t complicated enough, Stephanie’s just discovered her Grandma Mazur’s own unmentionable alliance with Eddie.
In 1845, James Howlett discovers his mutated bone claws after witnessing the death of a man he believed to be his father. He and his half-brother Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber) spend the next century fighting in wars. Major William Stryker approaches them and offers membership into Team X, a group of mutants. James (Hugh Jackman) leaves the group after disagreements with their actions. Six years later, Victor murders James’ girlfriend Kayla. Stryker tells him that the only way he can get revenge on Victor is to undergo an operation to have his skeleton reinforced with an indestructible metal.
The Autobots assist the United States military in preventing conflicts around the globe. During a mission to Chernobyl, to investigate suspected alien technology, Optimus Prime finds a fuel cell from the Ark, discovering that it had survived its journey from Cybertron. The Autobots are attacked by Shockwave, who manages to escape. Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) is frustrated that he is unable to work with the Autobots and is failing to find a job. He also becomes envious of the close relationship between his new girlfriend, Carly Spencer, and her boss Dylan Gould (Patrick Dempsey). The Decepticons unveil a plan to enslave Humanity and bring back Cybertron.
12-year-old Ted Wiggins (Zac Efron) lives in Thneed-Ville, a walled in city where everything is artificial, including the trees. He has a crush on an older girl named Audrey (Taylor Swift) who wishes for a real tree. After talking with his grandmother, Ted decides to leave the city and visit the Once-ler who knows what happened to all of the trees. Many years ago the man discovered that by harvesting trees he could make a popular item to sell. His business became very successful, but soon all the trees were gone and he closed the shop. He has waited for the day when he will be able to pass on the secret of the trees to a willing listener.
After two Supreme Court justices are assassinated, law student Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) realizes the only connection between the men are their rulings on the environment. She writes a legal brief explaining her theory that greed is involved and shows it to her law professor lover. He gives a copy of the paper to his friend in the FBI and then dies in a car bomb. She realizes that her idea must be accurate and reaches out to reporter Gray Grantham (Denzel Washington).
written by Janet Evanovich. The unflappable, fashion-savvy bounty hunter Stephanie Plum returns to action when her bondsman cousin hires her to haul in waitress-gone-bad, Maxine Nowicki. With her unruly sidekicks, transvestite rock musician Sally Sweet, ex-hooker and wannabe bounty hunter Lula, and crazy Grandma Mazur, Stephanie braves hot Jersey streets and endless threats to track down the fleeing felon. Stephanie figures apprehending Nowicki will be easy money, but she couldn’t be more wrong.
Odin's son Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is prepared to ascend to the throne, but the ceremony is interrupted by the Frost Giants who were able to bypass security. In revenge he visits their land and starts a fight. Odin becomes upset that he would upset the relationship between the two groups and he banishes Thor to Earth and temporarily prevents him from using his powerful hammer. Astrophysicist Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) finds him in the desert and decides to help him. Thor's adopted brother Loki becomes the new king and he sends a robot to Earth to kill Thor.
written by Patricia Cornwell. Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured patient on Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he beings to talk – and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard. The injuries, he says, were sustained in the course of a murder…that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid tale true, and it is he who is being spied on, followed and stalked by the actual killer?
Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) is brought before King George II, who wants him to guide an expedition to the Fountain of Youth before the Spanish locate it. Heading the expedition is Jack's old nemesis, Captain Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), now a privateer in service to the Royal Navy after losing his leg and ship, the Black Pearl. Jack learns his former lover Angelica, daughter of the ruthless pirate Blackbeard, has been impersonating him. Jack is taken aboard Blackbeard's ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, and forced to lead the way to the Fountain.
The mortal Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) is pillaging villages with his army as they try to locate the powerful Epirus Bow and unleash the Titans. Zeus tells the other gods that they should allow the humans to resolve the war on their own. The enslaved Theseus (Henry Cavill) escapes with the oracle Phaedra. Poseidon purposefully falls from Olympus into the ocean, causing a tidal wave that wipes out Hyperion's men. Theseus discovers the Epirus Bow embedded in nearby rock and frees it. Theseus kills Minotaur, but then he collapses from the poisoned scratches.
written by Janet Evanovich. Dom Rizzi robbed a bank, stashed the money, and did the time. His family couldn't be more proud. He always was the smart one. Joe Morelli, Dom Rizzi, and Dom’s sister, Loretta, are cousins. Morelli is a cop, Rizzi robs banks, and Loretta is a single mother waiting tables at the firehouse. The all-American family. Less than a week after Dom’s release from prison, Joe Morelli has shadowy figures breaking into his house and dying in his basement. He’s getting threatening messages, Loretta is kidnapped, and Dom is missing.
