Next summer, the earth goes to war. From Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures comes the motion picture event of the year: Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds," starring international superstar Tom Cruise. A contemporary retelling of H.G. Wells's seminal classic, the sci-fi adventure thriller reveals the extraordinary battle for the future of humankind through the eyes of one American family fighting to survive it.

Old school meets middle school in this feel-good family comedy starring Martin Lawrence ("Big Momma's House") as the ultimate "fish out of water." Lawrence plays a high-strung college basketball coach who must redeem himself following a public meltdown, by leading a junior high school team.

In this follow-up to his critical smash "Read My Lips," Jacques Audiard has adapted and updated James Toback's cult 1978 noir "Fingers" to come up with this memorable character study about a young man torn between a life of crime and classical music. "The Beat That My Heart Skipped" premiered at Berlin 2005, where it played to enthusiastic audiences and won the Silver Bear for Best Score.

Romain Duris ("L'Auberge Espagnol"), in a standout performance, portrays the 28 year-old Tom who seems destined to follow in his father's footsteps as a Parisian property shark working in a sleazy and sometimes brutal milieu. However, a chance encounter with his late mother's music agent rekindles a desire for a musical career and hope for a better life. Like "Read My Lips," Audiard has fused two unlikely worlds into a stunning vision featuring a menacing and dangerous Paris rarely seen on screen.

Peaceful, rustic Berkeley is a charming fishing community where life is sweet and the people friendly. All that is about to change. After losing her childhood farm to the bank, local beauty Rene decides to leave town and head for the big city. Suddenly, an avalanche of meteorites races through the sky, bombarding the town and bringing an otherworldly infection. Departing is going to be much more difficult than she had planned. The living dead are awakened and Rene is now caught in a nightmare of zombies hungry for human flesh. She manages to find salvation in a small isolated farm house owned by the town loony, Marion. There she is met with four other desperate survivors. Together they battle their way through a plague of walking dead and discover that there is more transpiring than just an infection.