After blockbusters such as Cloverfield, I Am Legend and Alien vs Predator: requiem having all done well in recent weeks March is a more low key month with foreign movies, horror and rom-com all making it on to the big screen.
Diary of the Dead
Jason Creed and a small crew of college filmmakers are in the Pennsylvania woods making a no-budget horror film when they hear the terrifying news that the dead have started returning to life.Led by Jason's girlfriend, Debra, the frightened young filmmakers set off in a friend's old Winnebago to try to get back to the only safety and security they know: their homes.But there is no escape from the crisis, nor any real home for them anymore. Everything they depend upon, all that they hold dear, is fractured as the plague of the living dead begins to spread. Jason documents the true-life horrors in a tense, first-person style that heightens the reality of each encounterEven as his friends die, even as they are attacked by ravenous walking corpses at every stop along the way, Jason keeps filming, an obsessive, unflinching eye in the midst of chaos. The government first denies, then promises to quell the crisis, but can't.Technology fails. Communication with the rest of the world becomes impossible. Jason and what remains of his crew end up on their own, a handful of lucky survivors, reliant on no one but themselves to stay alive.They take final refuge in a fortress of a mansion, but their sanctuary turns out to be a trap from which there is no escape. Throughout it all, the cameras keep rolling, recording every detail for future generations--if any survive
Diary of the Dead is released 7th March
The Other Boleyn Girl
Rumours have been circulated that Henry (Bana) is no longer intimate with his with Catherine of Aragon as she has been unable to produce a male heir.
Sir Thomas Boleyn, in an attempt to bring his family back to prominence, devises a plan were his daughter Anne (Portman) shall seduce the King and give him his son.
But the scheme doesn't go to plan as Henry shows interest in Anne's younger sister Mary (Johansson).
Mary is pressured by her family to provide the King with a boy, despite already being married. But she finds herself falling for the King.
But Anne has not given up her hopes of becoming Queen her desire for the throne outweighs sisterly love as she embarks on a plan that tears her family apart and leads to her famous downfall.
The Other Boleyn Girl is released 7 March.
10,000 B.C
In a remote mountain tribe, the young hunter, D’Leh (Steven Strait), has found his heart’s passion the beautiful Evolet (Camilla Belle).
When a band of mysterious warlords raid his village and kidnap Evolet, D’Leh is forced to lead a small group of hunters to pursue the warlords to the end of the world to save her.
Driven by destiny, the unlikely band of warriors must battle saber-tooth tigers and prehistoric predators and, at their heroic journey’s end, they uncover a Lost Civilization.
Their ultimate fate lies in an empire beyond imagination, where great pyramids reach into the skies.
Here they will take their stand against a powerful god who has brutally enslaved their people.
10,000 B.C is released 14th March
The Game Plan
Rugged superstar quarterback Joe Kingman, whose Boston-based team is chasing a championship, is a 'serial bachelor', Kingman is living the ultimate fantasy: he's rich, famous and the life of the party.
But this dream is suddenly sacked for a loss when he discovers the 7-year-old daughter he never knew he had - the product of a last fling before parting years ago with his young wife.
Now, during the most important time in his career, he must figure out how to juggle his parties, practices and dates with the newfound ballet classes, bedtime stories and dolls that come with his daughter.
Equally perplexed is his hard-edged mega-agent, Stella, herself without a parental bone in her body.
Despite the often hilarious misadventures that come with being a new father, Joe discovers that there's more to life than money, endorsements and thousands of adoring fans: the love and care of one very special small fan is the only thing that matters.
The Game Plan is released 14th March
Step Up 2: The Streets
Step Up 2: The Streets' is the follow up to the smash hit 'Step Up', which ignited cinemas in 2006. Nothing in life has come easily for 16-year-old street dancer Andie West (Briana Evigan) - nothing, that is, except dance.
After her mother died, she was taken in by her mother's best friend, Sarah (Sonja Sohn), but for Andie, Sarah's house is just one more place she doesn't belong; her only real family is her dance crew, the 410, and her guardian angel from the neighbourhood, Tyler Gage (Channing Tatum).
After Andie skips school for the hundredth time to rehearse with the 410, Sarah tells her she's had enough - she's sending Andie to live with her aunt in Texas.
But luckily for Andie, Tyler steps in and saves the day: he convinces Sarah to let Andie stay in Baltimore if she agrees to attend the Maryland School of the Arts.
Now all Andie has to do is get in. Once Andie lands at MSA, she finds herself fighting to fit in while also trying to hold onto her old life.
Her school commitments quickly start taking up all her time, and after she misses one too many 410 rehearsals, her crew throws her out.
But Andie refuses to give up; instead, she joins forces with the MSA's hottest dancer Chase Collins (Robert Hoffman), and they recruit a crew of their classmates to compete in Baltimore's underground dance battle, The Streets. Sparks fly between Andie and Chase, and she ultimately finds a way to live her dream while building a bridge between her two separate worlds.
Step Up 2: The Streets is released 21st March
Release of the Month
Love In The Time of Cholera
Florentino Ariza's (Javier Bardem) passion is uncovered when he sees Fermina Daza (Giovanna Mezzogiono) in the window of her father's villa.
But his attempts to win her are thwarted by her father (John Leguizamo) who demands that his daughter marry one of the Cartagena's wealthy families.
Fermina obeys her father and marries Dr. Juvenal Urbino (Benjamin Bratt), who has brought medicine to the city, stemming the mysterious Cholera outbreak.
After she is taken to Paris on a lengthy honeymoon Fermina has all but forgotten Florentino.
But he has not forgotten her.
He is now a wealthy ship owner and despite a string of love affairs he cannot forget Fermina.
He is prepared to wait his whole life to be with her again.
Love In The Time of Cholera is released 21st March.
Drillbit Taylor
Ryan (Troy Gentile), Wade (Nate Hartley) and Emmit (David Dorfman) attend their first day at high school and they're psyched...until they meet up with Filkins (Alex Frost), a school bully who comes off like a little Hannibal Lecter.
Before they become completely engulfed in Filkins' reign of terror, they seek out some protection by placing an ad in Soldier of Fortune magazine.
Their best response -- and the cheapest -- comes from Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson), a down-on-his luck soldier of fortune who lives a lonely existence on the beach.
Before long he enrolls the kids in some physical and mental training in order to toughen them up.
Drillbit Taylor is released 28th March
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