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New to DVD: Summer hits on the way

Submitted by SHNS on Thu, 09/04/2008 - 14:07

Here's a look at the major movies coming to DVD this fall. Some of the blockbusters do not have dates yet.TUESDAY"Baby Mama": One-time "Saturday Night Live" co-stars Tina Fey and Amy Poehler play, respectively, a successful 37-year-old who longs for a child and her unlikely surrogate, a South Philly working girl."The Forbidden Kingdom": Martial-arts superstars Jackie Chan and Jet Li work together on the big screen for the first time in this action movie based on the traditional Chinese legend of the Monkey King.SEPT. 16"88 Minutes": Al Pacino is a college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI. When he receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live, he must use his skills to narrow down the suspects."Speed Racer": Emile Hirsch plays the fearless Speed Racer in this live-action version from the Wachowski brothers."The Love Guru": Mike Myers is an American raised by gurus in India. His self-help and spiritual powers are put to the test by a Toronto Maple Leafs player reeling from a marital split."Made of Honor": Romantic comedy starring Patrick Dempsey as a playboy who agrees to be "maid of honor" for his best friend, Hannah (Michelle Monaghan), even as he realizes he wants to marry her.SEPT. 23"Leatherheads": George Clooney is a charming football hero, John Krasinski a golden-boy war hero and Renee Zellweger a spitfire newswoman in this romantic comedy set in 1925."Sex and the City": Sarah Jessica Parker is fashionista Carrie Bradshaw in this big-screen continuation of the HBO series. Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon are back, too, along with the men in their lives.SEPT. 30"Iron Man": Robert Downey is Tony Stark, billionaire industrialist, genius inventor and Iron Man in one of the biggest hits of the summer."Forgetting Sarah Marshall": Self-proclaimed romantic disaster comedy produced by Judd Apatow and starring Jason Segel as a songwriter trying to get over the heartbreak of being dumped by his TV actress-girlfriend.OCT. 7"You Don't Mess With the Zohan": Adam Sandler plays an Israeli commando who fakes his own death so he can pursue his dream of becoming a hairstylist in New York."The Happening": Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel star in this M. Night Shyamalan thriller about a couple on the run from an apocalyptic crisis that presents a large-scale threat to humanity.OCT. 14"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull": Harrison Ford, at 65, cracks the whip again, with Karen Allen, a black-haired Cate Blanchett and Shia LaBeouf in tow.OCT. 21"The Incredible Hulk": Edward Norton is Bruce Banner, William Hurt is Gen. Thunderbolt Ross and Tim Roth a monstrous adversary called The Abomination."The Strangers": A couple's remote vacation home becomes a place of terror when masked strangers invade in this suspense thriller starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman.NOV. 11"Kung Fu Panda": Animated comedy in which Jack Black speaks for panda Po, a big, slightly clumsy, kung-fu-loving panda who works in his family's noodle shop.NOV. 18"WALL-E": Disney animation from director Andrew Stanton asks what would happen if mankind had to leave Earth, but somebody forgot to turn off the last robot.NOV. 25"Hancock": Will Smith is an edgy, conflicted, sarcastic and misunderstood superhero."Meet Dave": Seeking a way to save their doomed world, a crew of tiny human-looking aliens arrive on Earth in the perfect disguise -- a spaceship shaped like an ordinary man. Eddie Murphy stars in this fish-out-of-water comedy."Space Chimps": Animated comedy, with the voices of Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Kenan Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Kristin Chenoweth and Patrick Warburton, about astronaut chimps with the "wrong stuff."(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com.)