Thomas Horn plays an 11-year-old boy whose father died on Sept. 11 in director Stephen Daldry's new Warner Bros. Pictures drama, "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close." (Associated Press)
"Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" stars Robert Downey Jr. (left) as Holmes, Jude Law (right) as Dr. Watson and Noomi Rapace in director Guy Ritchie's stylized reimagining of Arthur Conan Doyle's beloved sleuth. (Warner Bros. Pictures via Associated Press)
Jared Harris (left) plays Professor James Moriarty, the renowned nemesis to Robert Downey Jr.'s title character in "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows." The sequel from director Guy Ritchie opens Friday in North America. (Warner Bros. Pictures via Associated Press)
Katherine Heigl plays a caterer recovering from a broken relationship with a pop star played by Jon Bon Jovi in "New Year's Eve." (Warner Bros. Pictures via Associated Press)
"Glee" actress Lea Michele is one many big names in the cast of "New Year's Eve," but the star-studded ensemble can't save the film from its cliched story lines. (Warner Bros. Pictures via Associated Press)
** FILE ** In this 1994 file photo originally released by Warner Bros. Records, alternative rock band R.E.M., from left, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe, Bill Berry, and Peter Buck are shown when they released their new album "Monster." The band announced Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, on their website that they are breaking up. (AP Photo/Warner Bros.)
Mississippi stereotypes persist in "A Time to Kill," starring Samuel L. Jackson. (Photograph provided by Warner Bros. Pictures)
"The Blind Side" from 2009, starring Sandra Bullock, gives a more balanced view of the state, with sympathetic characters both black and white. (Warner Bros. via Associated Press)
Jude Law's character, Alan Krumwiede, wanders through an abandoned street as a horrific disease ravages the world in "Contagion." (Warner Bros. Pictures)
