The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they’ve decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.

Bloom is writer-director Rian Johnson’s follow up to Brick, one of the most-debated films within IMDb circles (just so you know). What gets us excited here is: the casting of Rinko Kikuchi (Babel) as the brothers’ accomplice; knowing that filming occurred all over Europe and Asia; anticipating Johnson’s crafted dialogue and his second attempt at fooling his audience. But what bums us out? The studio’s hide and seek release strategy, which once positioned the film for late 2008, then really late 2008, then spring 09, and now early summer …

Rated PG-13 for violence, some sensuality and brief strong language.

Director: Rian Johnson
Stars: Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Release Date: 29 May 2009 (USA)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance

When a misguided delivery driver inadvertently delivers a package containing concealed bricks of cocaine to the wrong address, it sets in motion a desperate search and battle for the coke between the furious dealer that sent it, the fearful intended recipients that missed it, and the conniving accidental recipients that plan to flip it. Time is running out and everyone’s trying to get their hands on the package that’s been sent…Next Day Air!

Summit Entertainment is flush with cash and cache post-Twilight, and hopefully they’ll maximize their resources to turn this dark comedy, which sounds to me like Pineapple Express cut with Friday, into an early summer hit. The cast, which includes Wood Harris (the former drug kingpin on “The Wire”), is note-perfect, and hopefully the green behind-the-camera talent found a balance between humor and suspense. Word on the street is quiet thus far, though …

Rated R for pervasive language, drug content, some violence and brief sexuality.

Director: Benny Boom
Stars: Mos Def, Mike Epps, Donald Faison
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Release Date: 8 May 2009 (USA)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

A teacher (Cage) opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son’s elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions — some that have already occurred and others that are about to — that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.

Great premise, but what’s with the numbers game, didn’t The Number 23 make such a story device a dicey proposition for a while? Not that I’m deplaned from Alex Proyas’s sci-fi trips, but even he seemed disinterested in his new movie when he presented a first look at Comic-Con this year (sans Nic Cage, who lately seems as disinterested in promoting any of his movies). I’m still giving this one a shot, however, since the trailer is effective, please it’s cool to see what Proyas can do with a budget much smaller than, say, I, Robot’s.

Rated PG-13 for disaster sequences, disturbing images and brief strong language.

Director: Alex Proyas
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, Rose Byrne
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Release Date: 20 March 2009 (USA)
Genre: Drama | Mystery | Thriller

In Hong Kong, a trio of young people with special abilities are pursued by a clandestine U.S. government agency who wants the gifted ones back in their fold.

I think director Paul McGuigan (Wicker Park, Lucky Number Slevin) has a thing for too-intricate storylines; during Push’s 2008 Comic-Con panel, poor Camilla Belle stumbled through a plot explanation that began to sound like playing rounds of Magic: The Gathering. Djimon Hounsou, meanwhile, could barely remember his role in the movie. Good thing Dakotah Fanning then popped out to, like, tell the crowd she finally lost all of her baby teeth. Or something.

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, brief strong language, smoking and a scene of teen drinking.

Director: Paul McGuigan
Stars: Camilla Belle, Dakota Fanning, Chris Evans
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Release Date: 6 February 2009 (USA)