Arthouse and independent film openings are listed by scheduled San Diego release date. All dates are subject to change; please check the weekly movie listings to confirm opening dates:

Feb. 9

"Hannibal Rising": The twisted, traumatic youth of future serial killer Hannibal Lecter is examined in this prequel.

"Norbit": Eddie Murphy plays multiple roles in the story of a put-upon man trying to escape his beastly fiance to be with his childhood sweetheart (Thandie Newton).

"Breaking and Entering": A London couple and an immigrant mother and son whose lives cross over a series of burglaries.

"The Rules of the Game": The ultimate game of surveillance is a living reality in 2006.

Feb. 14

"Music and Lyrics": Hugh Grant's a pop-music has-been who teams with a quirky partner (Drew Barrymore) to write a comeback song.

"Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls": Filmmaker Perry ("Madea's Family Reunion") tells the story of a single dad trying to regain custody of his daughters.

Feb. 16

"Ghost Rider": Nicolas Cage stars as the Marvel Comics hero who's a motorcycle stunt rider by day, a bounty hunter of demons by night.

"Bridge to Terabithia": An awkward boy and the new girl at school find kinship and magical adventure in an adaptation of the children's fantasy book.

"Breach": A young FBI man (Ryan Phillippe) is assigned to help root out double-agent Robert Hanssen (Chris Cooper).

"The Lives of Others": German-language film about the secret police in the former East Germany.

Feb. 23

"The Number 23": Jim Carrey stars as a man obsessed with a book that he believes has foreboding consequences for his life.

"The Astronaut Farmer": A former NASA astronaut (Billy Bob Thornton) struggles to build his own rocket to travel into space.

"Reno 911: Miami": The goofs from the TV comedy about Nevada cops hit the big-screen, taking on terrorists at a police convention in Florida.

"Amazing Grace": William Wilberforce leads efforts in 18th-century British Parliament to end the slave trade in the British Empire. (tentative)

"Black Snake Moan": Samuel L. Jackson stars as a God-fearing bluesman who takes to a wild young woman.

March 2

"Zodiac": Robert Downey Jr. and Jake Gyllenhaal lead the cast in a thriller about a serial killer who terrorized San Francisco.

"Wild Hogs": Middle-aged buddies (Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence and William H. Macy) find misadventure on a motorcycle trip.

"God Grew Tired of Us": Documentary on the "lost boys" of the Sudan, following four of them on their journey to the United States.

March 9

"300": Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel about the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C.

"Fast Track": A slacker is forced to work for his father-in-law after his pregnant wife steps away from her high-paying job.

"Gray Matters": A woman named Gray and her brother both fall in love with the same woman.

"Glastonbury": Musical documentary about England's annual Glastonbury Festival.

"The Host": A creature born within the waters of the Han River emerges and terrorizes the citizens of Seoul.

"Reign Over Me": A dentist (Adam Sandler) whose family died in the Sept. 11 attacks finds an unexpected shoulder to lean on from his old college roommate (Don Cheadle).

March 16

"Premonition": Sandra Bullock is a woman racing to prevent a vision of her husband's death from coming true.

"Sunshine": A crew of astronauts encounters terror and trauma on a mission to reignite the dying sun.

"I Think I Love My Wife": Chris Rock directs and stars in a domestic comedy about a family man whose eye strays to a beautiful old friend.

"Shooter": An exiled marksman coaxed back into action is framed for an attempt on the president's life, and sets out to find the real shooter.

"Black Book": Set during the end of WWII, a Dutch Jewish girl narrowly survives the war in Holland after her family is killed.

"Tears of the Black Tiger": Thai movie about the ill-fated love affair between the bandit Black Tiger and the well-born lady Rumpoey.

March 23

"Blades of Glory": Disgraced figure-skating rivals (Will Ferrell and Jon Heder) worm their way back into the sport as the first men's pairs team.

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles": The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles return to battle an army of monsters. The voice cast includes Sarah Michelle Gellar and Patrick Stewart.

"The Hills Have Eyes 2": A group of young National Guard trainees are attacked by mutants during a training mission in the New Mexico desert.

"The Lookout": A once-promising high school athlete who takes a job as a janitor at a bank ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.

"The Last Mimzy": Two siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys.

"Pride": An black swim coach resurrects an inner-city Philadelphia public pool in the 1970s and recruits troubled neighborhood teens to join his swim team. Based on a true story.

"First Snow": A psychic's ominous reading sends a man into a tailspin.

"Colour Me Kubrick": Based on true events, a man bluffs his way into London's high society by pretending to be legendary director Stanley Kubrick during the shooting of "Eyes Wide Shut" in 1998 and 1999.

March 30

"Meet the Robinsons": Animated tale in which a mysterious boy from the future takes a boy from today forward in time.

"The Reaping": A former missionary (Hilary Swank) who has become a debunker of religious phenomena stumbles on a series of biblical plagues.

"The Namesake": A son of Indian immigrants wants to fit in among his fellow Bostonians, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.

"Blind Dating": A blind young man thinks he finds love with an Indian woman, though their relationship is fraught with cultural differences.

April 4

"Firehouse Dog": The world's most famous stunt dog gets separated from his owner and ends up as the mascot in a hapless San Francisco fire station.

April 6

"Grindhouse": Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez each direct a segment in a double-bill of old-style B-movie thrillers.

"Are We Done Yet?": The sequel to "Are We There Yet?" has Ice Cube and Nia Long stuck with a new house that's a money pit.

"The Hoax": In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.

"Into Great Silence": Documentary that examines life inside the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the reclusive Carthusian Order in France.

"Angel-A": A beautiful woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together.

April 13

"Trade": A 13-year-old girl from Mexico City is kidnapped by sex traffickers, setting in motion a desperate mission by her 17-year-old brother.

"Spring Breakdown": Three 30something friends break the monotony of their uninspired lives by vacationing on an island that's a popular spring break getaway for college co-eds.

"Year of the Dog": A happy-go-lucky secretary's life changes in unexpected ways after her dog dies.

"Perfect Stranger": Halle Berry goes undercover as a reporter investigating her friend's murder. With Bruce Willis.

"Hot Fuzz": The creators of "Shaun of the Dead" spin an action comedy about a hotshot London cop farmed out to a sleepy town's police force.

"The Page Turner": A young girl's piano audition to a prestigious conservatory is ruined by a jury member's attitude, causing her to quit music and seek revenge.

April 20

"Kickin' It Old School": A preteen growing up in the mid-1980s suffers a freak break dancing accident that lands him in a coma for 20 years, before he wakes up and struggles to adapt.

"Vacancy": When a couple's car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, they end up in a low-rent motel with only the TV to entertain them … until they discover that the low-budget slasher movies they're watching were all filmed in the very room they're sitting in.

"The Nanny Diaries": A college grad (Scarlett Johannson) takes a job as nanny for a demanding Manhattan couple (Laura Linney and Paul Giamatti).

"The Kingdom": Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner are part of an FBI team hunting terrorists in Saudi Arabia.

"In the Land of Women": A young man becomes involved with the troubled lives of a mother and her daughters. With Meg Ryan.

April 27

"Fracture": After an engineer (Anthony Hopkins) is acquitted of trying to kill his wife, the prosecutor (Ryan Gosling) crusades for justice.

"Balls of Fury": A man goes undercover in the shadowy world of underground Ping-Pong tournaments in this comedy featuring Christopher Walken and George Lopez.

"Pathfinder": A thousand years in the past, a young Norse boy is left behind after his clan shipwrecks on the Eastern shores and is raised by the very Indians his kinsmen set out to destroy.

"The Invisible": Nick is a high school senior with a bright future until, in a tragic case of mistaken identity, he is brutally attacked by a troubled girl and his body is left for dead.

"The Condemned": Pro wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin plays a condemned man sent to an island to fight others similarly convicted in Third World nations, with only the winner allowed to live.

"Wind Chill": Two college students are terrorized by ghosts after their car gets stuck in the snow on Christmas Eve.

"Diggers": Two generations of hard-living clam diggers try to maintain their way of life in the midst of enormous changes in the Hamptons during the 1970s.

May 4

"Spider-Man 3": The web-slinging superhero (Tobey Maguire) battles two new villains as well as his own dark side.

"Away From Her": A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man.

"Lucky You": A poker hotshot (Eric Bana) faces off against his estranged dad (Robert Duvall) in a high-stakes tournament. Drew Barrymore co-stars.

"Red Road": A security camera monitor has her orderly life upended by something she witnesses on-screen.

May 11

"28 Weeks Later": The follow-up to the zombie hit "28 Days Later" finds the rage virus that decimated Britain roaring back with a vengeance.

"Delta Farce": Three bumbling Army reservists bound for Iraq are accidentally dropped at a Mexican village besieged by hostile forces.

"Offside": Six Iranian girls disguise themselves as boys to sneak into a World Cup qualifying game, but are caught one by one and arrested.

May 18

"Shrek the Third": The newlywed ogre (voiced by Mike Myers) searches for King Arthur to take over the throne in the animated sequel.

"Shortcut to Happiness": A down-and-out writer sells his soul to the devil in exchange for fame and fortune.

"Fay Grim": A 10-years-later continuation of Hal Hartley's "Henry Fool," where Fay Grim is coerced by a CIA agent to try and locate notebooks that belonged to her fugitive ex-husband.

May 25

"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End": Friends come to the rescue of buccaneer Johnny Depp, who's been exiled to Davy Jones' locker.

June 1

"Superbad": Two co-dependent high school guys want to hook up with girls before they graduate and go off to different colleges, but, after a calamitous night just trying to buy alcohol for a school party, overcoming their separation anxiety becomes a greater challenge than getting the girls.

"Knocked Up": Katherine Heigl stars as a woman whose one-night stand has parental consequences.

June 8

"Ocean's Thirteen": George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and the gang reunite for another heist caper.

"Hostel: Part II": The follow-up to last year's horror hit centers on three American art students who find terror on a weekend trip in Europe.

"Surf's Up": The voices of Jon Heder and Jeff Bridges are featured in this animated comedy about surfing-crazy penguins.

June 15

"Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer": Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba and their superhero pals battle a force that threatens Earth's destruction.

"Nancy Drew": The fictional teen sleuth (Emma Roberts) investigates the long-unsolved death of a movie star.

"Fido": Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a 6-foot-tall rotting zombie named Fido.

"Evening": A dying woman (Vanessa Redgrave) shares the story of a lost love with her daughters. With Claire Danes, Toni Collette and Natasha Richardson.

June 17

"Hot Rod": An accident-prone daredevil plans to jump the Snake River on a moped in order to win over his stepfather.

June 22

"Evan Almighty": The follow-up to "Bruce Almighty" elevates Steve Carell from supporting to lead player as a man commanded by God (Morgan Freeman) to build an ark.

"A Mighty Heart": Mariane Pearl (Angelina Jolie) embarks on a search for her husband, journalist Daniel Pearl, abducted and eventually slain in Pakistan.

June 29

"Live Free or Die Hard": Bruce Willis is back in "Die Hard" mode to stop an attack on the U.S. computer infrastructure.

"Ratatouille": A rodent dreams of becoming a gourmet chef at a Paris restaurant in this latest Pixar-Disney animated comedy.

July 4

"Transformers": The transforming action-figure toys get their own action spectacle as aliens battle on Earth.

"License to Wed": Robin Williams plays a pastor putting a couple through an outrageous marriage test.

July 13

"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix": The boy wizard (Daniel Radcliffe) helps lead a secret society of students to battle sinister enemies.

"1408": John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson star in an adaptation of Stephen King's tale about a skeptical author who stays in a notoriously haunted hotel room.

July 20

"Hairspray": A new big-screen take on the cult film that inspired the Broadway hit about a teen dance show, featuring John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer and Queen Latifah.

"I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry": Adam Sandler and Kevin James play firefighter buddies forced by an insurance mix-up to pose as a gay couple.

July 27

"Stardust": Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes and Peter O'Toole lead the cast of this fantasy about a quest for a fallen star.

"The Simpsons Movie": Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie leap to the big-screen in an adaptation of the long-running cartoon series.

"No Reservations": Catherine Zeta-Jones and Aaron Eckhart star in a romance about a perfectionist chef placed in charge of her young niece (Abigail Breslin).

Aug. 3

"The Bourne Ultimatum": Matt Damon's amnesiac assassin is back, trying to unravel his past.

"Underdog": A combination of live action and computer animation brings the cartoon canine superhero to life.

Aug. 10

"Alien v. Predator 2": The battling space monsters are back at it on Earth, this time squaring off in a Colorado town.

"Rush Hour 3": Buddy cops Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker return to take on a crime clan in Paris.

Aug. 17

"The Invasion": Nicole Kidman plays a psychiatrist who discovers the secret of an extraterrestrial epidemic that alters human behavior.

"Disturbia": A teen living under house arrest becomes convinced his neighbor is a serial killer.

Aug. 24

"One Missed Call": In this remake of the Japanese horror film "Chakushin Ari" (2003), several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves -- messages that include the date, time and some of the details of their deaths.

"The Comebacks": A college football coach with the worst record in the history of the sport vows to turn things around with his new team of ragtag recruits.

Aug. 31

"Brothers Solomon": A pair of well-meaning but socially inept brothers try to find their perfect mates in order to provide their dying father with a grandchild.

Unscheduled

The following films are tentatively scheduled to open during the spring or summer, but have not yet had a specific date announced:

"Dead Silence": The filmmakers behind the horror hit "Saw," James Wan and Leigh Whannell, spin a supernatural tale of a town with a bloody history.

"Mama's Boy": A 29-year-old (Jon Heder) who still lives with his mother (Diane Keaton) dukes it out with mom's new beau (Jeff Daniels).

"Rescue Dawn": A German makes his way to America, where he joins the military in pursuit of his obsession to fly in combat -- but on his first mission in Vietnam, he is shot down and captured by Vietcong guerrillas.

"Talk to Me": A charismatic black ex-con (Don Cheadle) becomes a provocative radio personality at a white-owned station in the 1960s.