Columbia Pictures has moved up its comedy/drama, Great Hope Springs to August 10th, four months earlier than originally planned.

The film, from director David Frankel, stars Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones and Steve Carell features a script by Vanessa Taylor.

Many years of marriage have left Maeve (Streep) wanting to spice things up and reconnect with her husband. When she hears of a famed relationship guru (Carell) in the town of Great Hope Springs, she must persuade her skeptical husband (Jones) to get on a plane for an intense week of marriage and sex therapy. Getting there was hard enough… now shedding their bedroom hang ups, learning some new moves and rediscovering their youthful spark is when the real adventure begins.

Warner Bros., meanwhile, has set their Trouble with the Curve for September 28th. Starring Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams and Matthew Lillard, the Robert Lorenz film arrives from screenwriter Randy Brown and marks Eastwood’s first acting project since 2008′s Gran Torino. He’ll star as a baseball scout who is losing his vision with his age. He and his daughter (Adams) take a final road trip to Atlanta to check out a prospective talent.

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Pack for the ultimate Muppets experience as Disney’s The Muppets debuts March 20th on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD, Digital Download and On-Demand formats.

Starring Jason Segel, Academy Award-nominee Amy Adams, and favorite celebrity couple Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, Disney’s “The Muppets” in-home release includes the DVD and music soundtrack packaged together and also offered as the ultimate Muppets experience, a ‘Wocka-Wocka Value Pack,’ which contains the movie on Blu-ray high definition, DVD and Digital Copy (three discs), plus a download card which allows fans to own all the songs from the film’s hugely popular soundtrack.

The Blu-ray Combo Pack comes with a fantastic slate of bonus content including the laugh out loud “The Longest Blooper Reel Ever Made (In Muppet History––We Think).”  The exciting release also includes the hilarious featurette “A Little Screen Test on the Way to the Read Through,” which follows Jason Segel, Kermit, The Great Gonzo, Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy and others asthey get ready for the first day of production, and much more fun.

In a press release, Kermit the Frog stated: “Blu-ray is a great way to bring the Muppets into your home without having to worry about cleaning up after us. And the behind-the-scenes extras are a revealing tell-all look at what it took to bring our movie to the big screen. It’s a must-see for fans of bloopers, flubs and slip-ups – which pretty much describes our act.”

Additional fun-filled features on Disney’s “The Muppets” Blu-ray include a groundbreaking industry first — ‘Disney Intermission,’ a hilarious all-new feature that allows viewers to press Pause on their remote control and watch as the Muppets take over the screen and entertain until the movie resumes playing.

The release also includes “Explaining Evil: The Full Tex Richman Song,”  an extended version of the rollicking rap song by villain Tex Richman (Academy Award® winner Chris Cooper)  who provides the hilarious backstory of why he hates the Muppets.

Audio commentaries with screenwriter and star Jason Segel, director James Bobin and screenwriter Nicholas Stoller are also included. With the Muppet’s signature irreverent comedy, songs and dancing, Muppet fans of all ages will cheer as the gang reunites to put on a benefit show to save the crumbling Muppet Studios from being razed by nefarious oil baron Tex Richman. New fans and long-time devotees will find the rainbow connection when they bring Disney’s “The Muppets” into their very own homes.

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Gran Torino was supposed to have been Clint Eastwood’s swansong, as an actor. However, in the latter months of 2011, news got out that the 81-year-old Hollywood icon would work in front of the camera one more time on Trouble with the Curve, the directorial debut of his frequent assistant director/producer, Robert Lorenz.

Sandra Bullock was briefly raised as a possibility to portray Eastwood’s daughter in the film, but a scheduling conflict reportedly forced the Oscar-winning actress to withdraw. Word got out shortly thereafter that another acclaimed starlet, namely Amy Adams, could be taking Bullock’s place; now, it seems that casting move is essentially set in stone.

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