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Burn After Reading comes out September 12, 2008. The comedy stars John Malkovich, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt.

Starring Megan Fox, Kirsten Dunst, Simon Pegg, and Jeff Bridges, How To Lose Friends And Alienate People is coming out in October. After a screening at Cannes, the film has a 8.9 rating at IMDB! Here’s the movie poster:

It’s not a good sign when sites like Sarah Jessica Parker Looks Like A Horse start to appear near the premier of your TV to Movie HBO series, but yet they are useful harbingers of things to come. The first warning sign, it was soon followed by a piece from the New York Time, The Girls Are Back in Town, which calls the movie a “terrible tumble:”

The show is just too old to go on

“Sex and the City” delivered the television goods for six seasons, no small thing in the pop culture annals. That should have been enough or at least plenty for all concerned, but Ms. Parker apparently felt compelled to go big screen, making good on a project that had started to come together in 2004, only to fall apart over money issues and Ms. Cattrall’s reluctance to climb aboard. I wish Ms. Parker had let that bee in her bonnet go silent, because the movie that she and Mr. King have come up with is the pits, a vulgar, shrill, deeply shallow — and, at 2 hours and 22 turgid minutes, overlong — addendum to a show that had, over the years, evolved and expanded in surprising ways.

Starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, and Kim Cattrall, the movie adaptation Sex and the City is rated R for strong sexual content, graphic nudity and language. On Metacritic, it has achived a low 54% from critics, and 46% from fans. My recommendation? Find a classic romance.

The next Star Wars movie will be completely CG-animated. Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which opens in movie theaters Aug. 15, will deal with another sort of epic battle between the cloned forces of evil and the Jedi Knights. The official site is lacking any real information about the movie, except this movie poster:

So, the art looks good, but will it be another Lucasfilm flop?

“I wouldn’t worry about Gordon. IT’s ALL PART OF THE PLAN.” High resolution version.