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At a "dress as your favorite animal" party, a New Zealand oddball named Lily (Horsley), dressed as a shark, falls for a lonely guy named Jarrod (Clement), dressed as an Eagle. Love and comic mayhem follow. (Miramax) Opens New York and Los Angeles June 15, and additional cities June 29.

FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER

SURFER

Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba,

Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis,

Julian McMahon

Director: Tim Story

In this sequel to a film every comic geek saw but few loved, a silver-skinned cool dude superhero on a surfboard joins forces with the Fab Four to once again defeat the evil Dr. Doom. (Fox) Opens nationwide.

FIDO

Cast: Billy Connolly, Carrie-Anne Moss,

Dylan Baker, K'Sun Ray

Director: Andrew Currie

In 1950s suburbia, where an invasion of zombies has been thwarted and the flesh-eaters turned into household servants, young Timmy's family finally gets a zombie housekeeper/pet of their own, a benign, wise hulk that Timmy dubs "Fido." (Lionsgate) Opens nationwide.

MACBETH

Cast: Sam Worthington, Victoria Hill,

Gary Sweet, Matt Doran

Director: Geoffrey Wright

Australian filmmaker Wright (Romper Stomper) sets Macbeth (Worthington) and his murderous mum (Hill) in a modern-day Melbourne, where Duncan (Sweet) is a crime boss whose end is near. (Union Station Media/Truly Indie) Opens Seattle June 15, San Francisco June 29, New York July 6, with additional cities to follow.

NANCY DREW

Cast: Emma Roberts, Rachael Leigh

Cook, Tate Donovan

Director: Andrew Fleming

The rare summer movie that may appeal to your grandmother, this big screen adaptation of the young-adult mystery series stars Emma Roberts (daughter of Eric, niece to Julia) as a modern-day version of the plucky 1930s teen sleuth. Give it a chance, though: Fleming wrote and directed Dick. (Warner Bros.) Opens nationwide.

STRIKE

Cast: Katharina Thalbach, Dominique

Horwitz, Andrzej Chyra

Director: Volker Schlöndorff

Reportedly inspired by the life of renowned Polish activist Anna Walentynowicz, Strike dramatizes the founding of the Polish Solidarity movement through Agnieszka (Thalbach), a shipyard welder whose tireless fight for worker's rights sparks a revolutionary political movement. (Red Envelope/Laemmle Zeller) Opens New York and Los Angeles June 22, with additional cities to follow.

JUNE 20

WHITE PALMS

Cast: Kyle Shewfelt, Miklos Zoltan

Hajdu

Director: Szabolcs Hajdu

Hungary's entry for last year's foreign film Oscar is inspired by events in the life of director Hajdu's brother, Miklos, who stars in this sports drama as a champion gymnast haunted by his childhood in a brutal Hungarian sports camp. Wounds begin to heal as he trains and befriends a young Canadian gymnast (real-life Olympic medalist Shewfelt). (Strand) Limited.

JUNE 22

1408

Cast: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson,

Mary McCormack

Director: Mikael Håfström

Stephen King, who knows a thing or two about scary hotels, penned the short story that inspired this scary movie about a professional haunted house debunker (Cusack) who checks into a room many have entered and few have exited. We will not reference the Eagles. (Weinstein/MGM) Opens nationwide.

A MIGHTY HEART

Cast: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman,

Will Patton, Irrfan Khan

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Angelina Jolie stars as Mariane Pearl, whose bestseller A Mighty Heart detailed her 2002 journey to Pakistan to search for her husband Daniel, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and killed by Islamic fundamentalists. Futterman (who wrote Capote) portrays, in flashback, the late Daniel Pearl. (Paramount Vantage) Opens nationwide.

BLACK SHEEP

Cast: Nathan Meister, Peter Feeney,

Danielle Mason, Tammy Davis

Director: Jonathan King

In this horror comedy from New Zealand, a young man with a pathological fear of sheep (yes, sheep) returns to his family's farm to find that it's been overrun by mutant, flesh-eating sheep (yes, sheep). (Weinstein) Opens in New York June 22, with additional cities to follow.

BROKEN ENGLISH

Cast: Parker Posey, Melvil Poupaud,

Gena Rowlands, Drea de Matteo

Director: Zoe Cassavetes

In a rare dramatic role, Posey stars as a Manhattan hotel exec unlucky in love, until the night she meets and falls hard for a visiting Frenchman (Poupaud, who was so good in 2005's Time to Leave). For her feature debut, writer-director Zoe Cassavetes, daughter of the late John Cassavetes, cast her mother, the great Gena Rowlands, to play Posey's disapproving mom. (Magnolia) Opens in New York and Los Angeles June 22, with additional cities to follow.

CAPTIVITY

Cast: Elisha Cuthbert, Daniel Gilles,

Pruitt Taylor Vince

Director: Roland Joffé

A fashion model (Cuthbert) and her chauffeur (Gilles) are kidnapped and tortured by one of her fans (Vince). Locked in a tiny room together, model and chauffer predictably fall in love and unite to defeat their captor. What's unexpected here is the presence behind the camera of Joffé (The Killing Fields, The Mission), who's either slumming for a buck or attempting to elevate the torture-horror genre to a higher plain. We'll see. (Lionsgate) Opens nationwide.

DOA: DEAD OR ALIVE

Cast: Jaime Pressly, Holly Valance,

Sarah Carter, Natasha Malthe,

Devon Aoki

Director: Corey Yuen

Scantily clad beauties fight evildoers in this live action version of a popular video game. (Weinstein) Opens nationwide.

EVAN ALMIGHTY

Cast: Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman,

Lauren Graham

Director: Tom Shadyac

Morgan Freeman returns in what's shaping up to be the first talking deity series since George Burns started yakking to John Denver. In this not-quite-a-sequel variation on the Jim Carrey hit Bruce Almighty, God comes calling on an arrogant newsman, played by Carell, the new It-Man of Hollywood comedy (sorry, Jim). (Universal) Opens nationwide.

KLIMT

Cast: John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Dillane

Director: Raoul Ruiz

Malkovich stars as the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, who's lying on his deathbed as the film opens, thinking back to the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris where he meets Lea de Castro (Burrows), a French dancer who became both mistress and muse. (Outsider) Opens limited, with additional cities to follow.

LADY CHATTERLEY

Cast: Marina Hands, Jean-Louis

Coulloc'h, Hippolyte Girardot

Director: Pascale Ferran

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