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Director: Ray Yeung

After the death of a friend, two perpetually single British Chinese men (Lim and Leow) vow to make themselves over (literally) to find new and lasting love. (Regent) Opens New York and Los Angeles July 27, and additional cites August 17.

I KNOW WHO KILLED ME

Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Julia Ormond, Neal McDonough, Brian Geraghty

Director: Chris Sivertson

After escaping from a sadistic serial killer, a young woman named Aubrey Fleming (Lohan) awakens from a coma to say that she is not who authorities believe she is, and that the real Aubrey Fleming is still out there, in danger. (Sony) Opens nationwide.

MOLIÈRE

Cast: Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Laura Morante

Director: Laurent Tirard

Duris, who was extraordinary in 2005's The Beat That My Heart Skipped, stars as the great French playwright Molière. It's 1644 and the 22-year-old starving artist encounters a succession of people who will later inspire and appear in his greatest play, Tartuffe. (Sony Pictures Classics) Opens New York and Los Angeles July 27, with additional cities to follow.

NO RESERVATIONS

Cast: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart, Abigail Breslin

Director: Scott Hicks

An acclaimed Manhattan chef (Zeta-Jones) with no time for anything but cooking is suddenly given charge of her nine-year-old niece (little miss sunshine) at the same time a handsome, spirited sous-chef (Eckhart) joins her staff. Sparks fly. (Warner Bros.) Opens nationwide.

SKINWALKERS

Cast: Jason Behr, Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra

Director: James Isaac

Rival werewolf factions battle over a half-human, half-wolf 13-year-old boy who doesn't yet know that he's going to someday be furrier than the other boys at school. (After Dark Films) Opens nationwide.

THE SIMPSONS MOVIE

Director: David Silverman

Please be funny. (Fox) Opens nationwide.

THE WILLOW TREE

Cast: Parviz Parastui

Director: Majid Majidi

In his first film in seven years, acclaimed Iranian director Majidi (The Color of Paradise) looks at the world through the eyes of a middle-aged professor whose lifelong blindness is reversed through a corneal transplant. (New Yorker Films) Opens New York, with additional cities to follow.

THIS IS ENGLAND

Cast: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley

Director: Shane Meadows

In 1983 England, during the tumultuous Margaret Thatcher era, a 12-year-old boy (Turgoose) whose father was killed in the Falklands falls in with a skinhead gang, whose leader (Graham) returns from jail, preaching racism and hate. (IFC First Take) Opens New York and Los Angeles July 27, with additional cities to follow.

JULY (date to be determined)

NAMING NUMBER TWO

Cast: Ruby Dee, Tuva Novotny, Mia Blake

Director: Toa Fraser

This family drama from New Zealand won the World Cinema audience award at last year's Sundance Film Festival. The great Ruby Dee stars as the matriarch of a vast Fijian-Kiwi family who decides, impulsively, to unite her clan for a great feast. (Cyan Pictures)

AUGUST 1

EL CANTANTE

Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony

Director: Leon Ichaso

Latin singing sensation Anthony stars as the wildly popular 1960s and '70s salsa star Hector Lavoe, who couldn't overcome his addiction to cocaine and heroine. J. Lo plays Lavoe's wife. (Picturehouse) Opens nationwide.

AUGUST 3

BECOMING JANE

Cast: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith

Director: Julian Jarrold

This costume drama from the director of Kinky Boots imagines that at age 20, budding English novelist Jane Austen (Hathaway) had a romance with a penniless but handsome young lawyer (McAvoy), an affair that in the film's conceit became Austen's model for Pride & Prejudice. (Miramax) Opens New York and Los Angeles August 3, and additional cities August 10.

CHARLIE BARTLETT

Cast: Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey Jr., Hope Davis

Director: Jon Poll

Kicked out of private school, Charlie Bartlett (Yelchin) soon finds himself dispensing easily acquired Ritalin, Xanax and Wellbutrin to his depressed public school classmates. Soon he's giving psychiatric advice from his bathroom, a development that makes him the enemy of school principal Robert Downey Jr. (MGM) Opens nationwide.

HOT ROD

Cast: Andy Samberg, Isla Fisher, Sissy Spacek, Ian McShane

Director: Akiva Schaffer

Saturday Night Live star Samberg plays Rod Kimble, a motorcycle stuntman who plans to jump 15 buses to raise money for a life-saving operation his abusive stepfather (McShane) desperately needs. Once said stepfather is healthy, Rod plans to kick his ass. (Paramount) Opens nationwide.

RESURRECTING THE CHAMP

Cast: Josh Hartnett, Samuel L. Jackson

Director: Rod Lurie

After realizing that a homeless man (Jackson) is a former boxing champ, sports reporter Hartnett tries to revive the boxer's career and also boost his own. (Yari Film Group) Opens nationwide.

THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM

Cast: Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Joan Allen, David Strathairn

Director: Paul Greengrass

In the final film of the Bourne Trilogy, former CIA assassin Jason Bourne (Damon) dodges bullets and flying cars (again) while investigating (again) the mysteries of the past he can't remember (again). Regression therapy might have been easier. (Universal) Opens nationwide.

THE TEN

Cast: Paul Rudd, Jessica Alba, Winona Ryder, Adam Brody, Gretchen Mol, Famke Janssen, Liev Schreiber, Oliver Platt, Justin Theroux

Director: David Wain

Ten comic vignettes, set in the modern day, inspired by the Ten Commandments. (Think Film) Opens New York and Los Angeles August 3, with additional cites to follow.

UNDERDOG

Cast: Jim Belushi, Peter Dinklage, Brad Garrett

Director: Frederik Du Chau

In this live-action family comedy, a lab accident gives a beagle superpowers and the ability to speak (via Jason Lee's voice). So when evildoers descend on the city, it's Underdog—complete with a cool cape—to the rescue. (Walt Disney Pictures) Opens nationwide.

AUGUST 10

BRATZ: THE MOVIE

Cast: Paula Abdul, Nathalia Ramos, Skylar Shaye

Director: Sean McNamara

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