“Tetro,” directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Vincent Gallo, is being released June 11, 2009 by American Zoetrope.

“I already had a fragment of an idea of what eventually became TETRO. It was really only a page or two of notes that I had written a long time ago.  It was about a younger brother searching for an older brother who had left the family in a huff, claiming he never wanted to see them again.“

“Antichrist,” written and directed by cinema's enfant terrible Lars von Trier, premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. It will be released by IFC later this year.

I was feeling down, depressed–I really hit rock bottom–and I doubted that I would ever be able to make another film. But I went back to some of the material from my youth. I was really into Strindberg back then, especially Strindberg as a person. He was amazing. And so I tried to do a film. I never talked about this before, it’s hard to put into words, so I tried to do a film where I had to throw reason overboard a little bit–Lars von Trier

“Drag Me to Hell,” directed by Sam Raimi, premieres this week at the Cannes Film Fest and will be released May 29 by Universal Pictures.

More than 10 years ago, brothers Sam and Ivan Raimi penned the first draft of the screenplay that would become Drag Me to Hell. In its earliest incarnation, the script was simply titled The Curse. “We’ve always loved the idea of curses,” Ivan Raimi explains.

“WHATEVER WORKS,” written and directed by Woody Allen, is being released on June 19, 2009 by Sony Pictures Classics.

All the characters from the south in the film come to New York City and find whatever works for them. “Melody grows up a little bit,” says Allen. “At first she’s infatuated with Boris, but then she starts to realize his misanthropy. While often people deserve his mockery, not everybody always deserves it and he’s too extreme and ultimately it’s a hard way to live.”

“X-Men Origins: Wolverine” starring Hugh Jackman and directed by Gavin Hood, is being released on May 1, 2009 by 20th Century Fox.