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Lionsgate recently released their film schedule for the upcoming holiday season. Earlier in September, Lionsgate announced that it has acquired the North American distribution rights to RABBIT HOLE starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart & directed by John Cameron Mitchell (HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH). RABBIT HOLE made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, September 13. The film is the first release from Kidman’s Blossom Films. For more on all of Lionsgate’s upcoming films, check ’em out on Facebook here.

FOR COLORED GIRLS

Release Date: November 5, 2010

Starring: Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Michael Ealy, Kimberly Elise, Omari Hardwick, Hill Harper, Thandie Newton, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Tessa Thompson, Kerry Washington, and Whoopi Goldberg, Macy Gracy, Khalil Kain, Richard Lawson

Directed by: Tyler Perry

Screenplay by: Tyler Perry

Based on the stage play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf” by: Ntozake Shange.

In 1974, Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf” made its stage debut, combining poetry, dance and music, and most significantly, placing the black female experience center stage. In lyrical, honest, angry, funny and tender language, Shange’s “colored girl” evoked the feelings woven into the fabric of black female life in America. Within two years, the play became a Broadway sensation, won an Obie and Tony Award, and would eventually be produced in regional theaters throughout the country. Now, thirty six years later, filmmaker Tyler Perry adapts this landmark work for the big screen, integrating the vivid language of Shange’s poems into a contemporary narrative that explores what it means to be a woman of color – and a woman of any color – in this world.

FOR COLORED GIRLS weaves together the stories of nine different women – Joanna, Tangie, Crystal, Gilda, Kelly, Juanita, Yasmine, Nyla and Alice – as they move into and out of one another’s existences; some are well known to one another, others are as yet strangers. Crises, heartbreaks and crimes will ultimately bring these nine women fully into the same orbit where they will find commonality and understanding. Each will speak her truth as never before. And each will know that she is complete as a human being, glorious and divine in all her colors.

Lionsgate and Tyler Perry Studios present A 34th Street Films / Lionsgate production. FOR COLORED GIRLS stars Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Michael Ealy, Kimberly Elise, Omari Hardwick, Hill Harper, Thandie Newton, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Tessa Thompson, Kerry Washington and Whoopi Goldberg. FOR COLORED GIRLS is written for the screen and directed by Tyler Perry, and based on the stage play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf” written by Ntozake Shange. The film is produced by Tyler Perry, Paul Hall and Roger M. Bobb.

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THE NEXT THREE DAYS

Release Date: November 19, 2010

Starring: Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Brian Dennehy, Olivia Wilde and Liam Neeson

Directed by: Paul Haggis

Screenplay by: Paul Haggis

Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a gruesome murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison. Refusing to be deterred by impossible odds or his own inexperience, John devises an elaborate escape plot and plunges into a dangerous and unfamiliar world, ultimately risking everything for the woman he loves.

Lionsgate presents a Highway 61 Films / Lionsgate production. THE NEXT THREE DAYS is directed by Paul Haggis from a screenplay by Paul Haggis.

Click here to see WAMG’s story on the newest poster for THE NEXT THREE DAYS. Check out the film’s official site here and on Facebook here.

RABBIT HOLE

Release Date: December 17, 2010 (limited); December 25, 2010 (expansion); January 14, 2011 (expansion)

Starring: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Dianne Wiest, Tammy Blanchard, Miles Teller, Giancarlo Esposito, Jon Tenney and Sandra Oh

Directed by: John Cameron Mitchell

Screenplay by: David Lindsay-Abaire

Based on his play “Rabbit Hole”

The screen adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire, RABBIT HOLE is about a husband and wife who fight to save their marriage after the deepest form of loss. The film is a vivid, honest and unexpectedly funny portrait of a family searching for what remains possible in the most impossible of situations.

Lionsgate presents an Olympus Pictures, Blossom Films, Oddlot Entertainment production.

Check out the film’s official site here.