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Nine is a musical film, directed by Rob Marshall and written by Anthony Minghella and Michael Tolkin. Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis as Guido Contini, Marion Cotillard as Luisa Contini, Penelope Cruz as Carla Albanese, Judi Dench as Lili, Fergie as Saraghina, Kate Hudson as Stephanie Necrophuros, Nicole Kidman as Claudia Jenssen and Sophia Loren as Mamma. Nine is scheduled to be released on December 25, 2009 by The Weinstein Company. Nine follows the life of world famous film director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) as he reaches a creative and personal crisis of epic proportion, while balancing the numerous women in his life including his wife (Marion Cotillard),

his mistress (Penélope Cruz), his film star muse (Nicole Kidman), his confidant and costume designer (Judi Dench), a young American fashion journalist (Kate Hudson), the whore from his youth (Stacy "Fergie" Furguson) and his mother (Sophia Loren). The original 1982 Broadway production of Nine, nominated for twelve Tony Awards and winning five, including Best Musical, was directed by Tommy Tune, choreographed by Thommie Walsh, starred Raúl Juliá with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and book by Arthur Kopit. The 2003 Broadway revival of Nine received eight Tony Award nominations and won two, including Best Revival of a Musical.

A Single Man is a drama film directed by Tom Ford, based on the book by Christopher Isherwood. Cast: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode and Nicholas Hoult. A Single Man is set to be released on December 11, 2009 by The Weinstein Company. A Single Man follows one day in the life of George, a 58-year-old English professor at San Tomas State College in Los Angeles, CA. From the moment he wakes up and shuffles to the bathroom, we are immediately thrust into his perception of life both as a gay man in the 1960s, and without his partner Jim who died in a car accident. His views are based upon both of these events, sometimes viewing the world as a big, happy joke, and other times as a very hostile place.