Below are the TOP 5 Hot Movies For The Weekend Of March 20th – 22nd 2009

#1 – Knowing

In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule’s contents and the girl’s cryptic message ends up in the hands of young Caleb Koestler. But it is Caleb’s father, professor John Koestler, who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years. As John further unravels the document’s chilling secrets, he realizes the document foretells three additional events — the last of which hints at destruction on a global scale and seems to somehow involve John and his son. When John’s attempts to alert the authorities fall on deaf ears, he takes it upon himself to try to prevent more destruction from taking place. With the reluctant help of Diana Wayland and Abby Wayland, the daughter and granddaughter of the now-deceased author of the prophecies, John’s increasingly desperate efforts take him on a heart-pounding race against time until he finds himself facing the ultimate disaster — and the ultimate sacrifice.

• Production Status: Released
• Logline: A professor who stumbles on terrifying predictions about the future — and sets out to prevent them from coming true.
• Genres: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Thriller
• Running Time: 2 hrs. 1 min.
• Release Date: March 20th, 2009 (wide)
• MPAA Rating: PG-13 for disaster sequences, disturbing images and brief strong language.
• Distributors: Summit Entertainment, LLC
• Production Co.: Escape Artists, Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment
• Studios: Summit Entertainment, LLC
• Financiers: Goldcrest Film Finance, Mystery Clock Cinema
• U.S. Box Office: $24,604,751
• Filming Locations:Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Produced in: United States

#2 – I Love You Man

Peter Klaven is a successful real estate agent who, upon getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, Zooey, discovers, to his dismay and chagrin, that he has no male friend close enough to serve as his Best Man. Peter immediately sets out to rectify the situation, embarking on a series of bizarre and awkward “man-dates,” before meeting Sydney Fife, a charming, opinionated man with whom he instantly bonds. But the closer the two men get, the more Peter’s relationship with Zooey suffers, ultimately forcing him to choose between his fiancee and his new found “bro,” in a story that comically explores what it truly means to be a “friend.”

Production Status: Released

Genres: Comedy

Running Time: 110 min.

Release Date: March 20th, 2009 (wide)

MPAA Rating: R for pervasive language, including crude and sexual references.

Distributors: Paramount Pictures

Production Co.: De Line Pictures, The Montecito Picture Company, Bernard Gayle Productions

Studios: DreamWorks

U.S. Box Office: $17,810,270

Filming Locations: Los Angeles, California, United States

Produced in: United States

#3 – Duplicity

CIA officer Claire Stenwick and MI6 agent Ray Koval have left the world of government intelligence to cash in on the highly profitable cold war raging between two rival multinational corporations. Their mission? Secure the formula for a product that will bring a fortune to the company that patents it first. For their employers–industry titan Howard Tully and buccaneer CEO Dick Garsik–nothing is out of bounds. But as the stakes rise, the mystery deepens and the tactics get dirtier, the trickiest secret for Claire and Ray is their growing attraction. And as they each try to stay one double-cross ahead, two career loners find their schemes endangered by the only thing they cheat their way out of: love.

Production Status: Released

Genres: Drama

Running Time: 2 hrs. 5 min.

Release Date: March 20th, 2009 (wide)

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for language and some sexual content.

Distributors: Universal Pictures

Production Co.: Laura Bickford Productions

Studios: Universal Pictures

Financiers: Relativity Media

U.S. Box Office: $13,965,110

Filming Locations: New York City, New York, United States

Produced in: United States

#4 – Race to Witch Mountain

A taxi driver gets more than get bargained for when he picks up two teen runaways. Not only does the pair possess supernatural powers, but they’re also trying desperately to escape people who have made them their targets.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Kids/Family, Thriller, Adaptation and Remake

Running Time: 1 hr. 38 min.

Release Date: March 13th, 2009 (wide)

MPAA Rating: PG for sequences of action and violence, frightening and dangerous situations, and some thematic elements.

Distributors: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution

U.S. Box Office: $44,496,593

#5 – Watchmen

In an alternate 1985 America, costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion – a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the watchmen?

Logline: After a law is passed to thwart the efforts of group of crimefighters, one of them is mysteriously murdered.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Thriller, Crime/Gangster and Adaptation

Running Time: 163 min.

Release Date: March 6th, 2009 (wide)

MPAA Rating: R for strong graphic violence, sexuality, nudity and language.

Distributors: Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution

Production Co.: Legendary Pictures, Inc., Lawrence Gordon Productions

Studios: Warner Bros. Pictures, Paramount Pictures

U.S. Box Office: $98,140,886

Filming Locations: Vancouver, Canada

Produced in: United States