"Twelve" is one of the movies that I was really disappointed about missing when I didn't attend this year's Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Joel Schumacher and adapted from the book by Nick McDonell, "Twelve" follows White Mike (Chace Crawford), a 17-year-old "philosophical drug dealer" who comes from a wealthy family. The story follows Mike as he takes off from his senior year at high school to focus on his business, and on trying to find a balance between his two lives.
I dig the feel of the movie that I get from the below trailer, which premieres today exclusively on MTV. You've got a great cast here too, including Emma Roberts, 50 Cent and Rory Culkin. "Twelve" arrives in theaters on July 30, 2010.
For quite some time now, there's been a remake of the 1984 Kevin Bacon-starring classic "Footloose" in the works. First, "High School Musical" star Zac Efron 
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Every Joel Schumacher film starts as an uphill battle just by virtue of its director's shaky record -- but he'll have some help on this one from a very diverse cast, and a well-reviewed novel. According to 
There was the Scooby Gang, there was the Buffy gang (who often called themselves the Scoobies), and then there are the Runaways (who don't call themselves anything). One's a witch, one's a mutant, one's an alien -- but they didn't know these things until they discovered that their parents were actually evil super-villains bent on destroying the world. So what did these teens do? They ran away, stealing whatever magical tools they could grab, and in so doing, became a misfit group of super-heroes, pledging to fight their parents and any other big bads who got in their way. 
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