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A live action film inspired by a popular line of dolls. Barbie must be so jealous. (Lionsgate/Crystal Sky Pictures) Opens nationwide.

DADDY DAY CAMP

Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr.

Director: Fred Savage

Former child star Savage makes his feature directorial debut in this sequel to Daddy Day Care, in which Cuba Gooding, Jr. takes over Eddie Murphy's role as a dad who this time out opens a summer camp for kids. (Tri-Star) Opens nationwide.

ROCKET SCIENCE

Cast: Reece Thompson, Anna Kendrick, Nicholas D'Agosto

Director: Jeffrey Blitz

Blitz, director of the popular spelling bee documentary Spellbound, helms this comedy about a chronic stutterer (Thompson) who joins his high-school debate team at the insistence of the school's beautiful debate team queen (Kendrick). (Picturehouse) Opens nationwide.

RUSH HOUR 3

Cast: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker

Director: Brett Ratner

The funny cop and the whirling dervish cop head to Paris to break up a Chinese crime gang. Quick, go rent the first two and bone up on the backstory. (New Line Cinema) Opens nationwide.

STARDUST

Cast: Claire Danes, Charlie Cox, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro, Peter O'Toole

Director: Matthew Vaughn

A young Englishman follows a falling star and ends up in the fantasy land of Faerie, where the star is a beautiful girl (Danes) being hunted by an evil witch (Pfeiffer). Based on a graphic novel by the revered sci-fi/fantasy writer Neil Gaiman. (Paramount Pictures) Opens nationwide.

THE SIGNAL

Cast: A.J. Bowen, Justin Welborn, Anessa Ramsey, Scott Poythress

Directors: David Bruckner, Dan Bush and Jacob Gentry

Told in three parts by three different directors, this horror film discovers what happens when a mysterious electronic transmission ignites a city populace's murderous aggressions. (Magnolia) Opens nationwide.

TWO DAYS IN PARIS

Cast: Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg

Director: Julie Delpy

In a comedy that marks the directorial debut of actress Delpy, the filmmaker brings her American boyfriend (Goldberg) to meet her parents in Paris. Things to not go well. Delpy's real-life mom and dad, Albert Delpy and Marie Pillet, portray her onscreen parents, and early word has it that they give terrific performances. (Samuel Goldwyn) Opens limited.

AUGUST 17

FANBOYS

Cast: Sam Huntington, Chris Marquette, Dan Fogler, Jay Baruchel

Director: Kyle Newman

A comedy about four sci-fi geek best friends who travel cross country in order to break in to George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch and somehow screen the as-yet unreleased Star Wars, Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. One suspects that Mr. Lucas does not make a cameo. (MGM) Opens nationwide.

THE INVASION

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel

In the umpteenth riff on Jack Finney's classic 1955 novel, The Body Snatchers, a Washington D.C. psychiatrist (Kidman) comes to believe that the reason people around her are acting stranger than usual is that aliens have taken them over. (Warner Bros.) Opens nationwide.

THE KING OF KONG

Director: Seth Gordon

A documentary that follows a middle school science teacher as he battles a hot sauce mogul for the Guinness World Record on the arcade classic Donkey Kong. (Picturehouse) Opens limited.

LOOKING FOR CHEYENNE

Cast: Mila Dekker, Aurélia Petit, Malik Zidi,

Director: Valerie Minetto

A hit on the festival circuit, this French romantic comedy tells of two women, Cheyenne (Dekker) and Sonia (Petit), who are madly in love with one anther but separate when they can't come to terms on where and how they should live. (Regent) Opens New York and Los Angeles Aug. 17, and additional cities September 7.

PENELOPE

Cast: Christina Ricci, Catherine

O'Hara, Peter Dinklage, James McAvoy,

Reese Witherspoon

Director: Mark Palansky

A modern day fable about a young woman afflicted with a pig snout of a nose, the result of a family curse that can only be broken if she finds love, within herself as well as from without. (IFC) Opens nationwide.

SIETE DIAS

Cast: Eduardo Arroyuelo, Martha

Higareda, Jaime Camil

Director: Fernando Kalife

A small-time concert promoter who dreams of bringing U2 to his Mexico town places a large bet with a mob boss and loses. The only way to save himself is to organize the concert in seven days. (Xenon Pictures) Opens Los Angeles August 17, with additional cities to follow.

SUPERBAD

Cast: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen, Bill Hader

Director: Greg Mottola

A coming-of-age comedy about two lifelong buddies (Cera and Hill), nerds and virgins both, who head off to separate high schools, and on one fateful night try to score with beautiful women. Produced by Judd Apatow (The 40-Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up) and directed by Mottola, whose debut film was the terrific indie comedy Daytrippers. (Columbia Pictures) Opens nationwide.

WEDDING DAZE

Cast: Jason Biggs, Isla Fisher, Joe Pantoliano

Director: Michael Ian Black

After losing the girl of his dreams, Anderson (Biggs) spontaneously proposes to a waitress (Fisher), who accepts. Will love blossom? (MGM) Opens nationwide.

WRISTCUTTERS: A LOVE STORY

Cast: Patrick Fugit, Shea Whigham

Director: Goran Dukic

In this decidedly original comedy, Zia (Fugit), who killed himself after his girlfriend dumped him, wakes up in a boring little desert town that's a kind of hell for suicides. Upon hearing that his girl has died too, Zia and his new best friend set out to find her. Look for a cameo by Tom Waits. (Lionsgate) Opens New York and Los Angeles August 17, with additional cities to follow.

AUGUST 24

THE COMEBACKS

Cast: David Koechner, Bradley Cooper, Matthew Lawrence

Director: Tom Brady

In this spoof of inspiring sports movies, the unluckiest coach in sports (Koechner) gets one last chance when he takes over a talent-less football team with the worst record in history. (Fox Atomic) Opens nationwide.

EXILED

Cast: Anthony Wong, Francis Ng, Simon Yam, Lam Suet

Director: Johnnie To

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