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Something for everyone in this crop of releases
Big or low budget. There is plenty to view before Sept. 1
By Roger Moore
Published on Friday, May 02, 2008
Major studio releases dominate the summer cinema season, but there will be lower-budget fare squeezed in between all the action adventures, cartoons, blockbuster comedies and thrillers. And some smaller studio releases are sure to be added to the following schedule as the strengths and weaknesses of the big popcorn pictures become obvious. (All release dates subject to change without notice.)
Redbelt (Sony Classics): David Mamet’s latest is about an honorable, nonviolent martial arts instructor (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who gets mixed up in the seedier side of martial arts professional brawling and the movie business.
Speed Racer (Warner Bros.): The Wachowski (Matrix) brothers’ live-action take on the Japanese TV cartoon, with Emile Hirsch and Christina Ricci as Speed and his pal Trixie, and John Goodman and Susan Sarandon as Speed’s parents.
What Happens in Vegas (Fox): Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher get
drunk, get hitched and get rich in Vegas, a marriage just waiting for an annulment. But a winning jackpot gets in the way.
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Disney): The Pevensie siblings are transported from England to Narnia again, where they fall in with young Prince Caspian and do battle with the evil King Miraz in this sequel to the C.S. Lewis blockbuster.
Son of Rambow (Paramount Vantage): Little British boys — one a punk, the other part of a religious group that eschews popular culture and cinema — resolve to make their own Rambo film and are pestered by everybody they meet to be in it.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Paramount).
The Fall (Roadside Attractions): Music video vet Tarsem Singh (The Cell) directed this fanciful fantasy about the wild adventure tale that one patient, an injured man, tells to another (a little girl) in a 1915 Los Angeles hospital.

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The alleged shooter in the murder of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor told police he and the other suspects burned their clothes in an attempt to cover up the crime.
The statement by 17-year-old Eric Rivera Jr. and those by two other suspects were released Wednesday by state prosecutors at the request of The Associated Press and other news outlets. All three statements are heavily redacted on a judge’s orders, and do not contain outright confessions to the crime.
But there are hints throughout of what happened and what led up to the Nov. 26 shooting, which authorities say took place in a botched robbery attempt at Taylor’s Miami home. Taylor, an All-Pro safety for the Redskins, died the next day from heavy blood loss.
Rivera, like the other suspects from the Fort Myers area, told detectives there were five people on the trip that night, although only four are charged. All five burned their shirts, gloves and other clothes after returning home following Taylor’s shooting, he said.”And why did you guys do this?” asked Miami-Dade police Det. Juan Segovia.
“Nobody can find out who did it,” Rivera replied.
Another suspect, 20-year-old Jason Scott Mitchell, said he thought about coming forward when he found out it was Taylor who had been shot. Mitchell said he was told the day after the shooting by another suspect, Charles Wardlow.

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