Considering the blockbuster status of the first movie listed below, only one other big film dared to open this week. And, as its title suggests, it welcomes a war at the box office.

Here’s a closer look at each new movie…

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystall Skull
Stars: Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf, Cate Blanchet
Quick synopsis: It’s the fourth installment in the Indiana Jones franchise. What else do you need to know?
Prediction: Number-one at the box office. And not by a small margin.

War, Inc.
Stars: John Cusack
Quick synopsis: A political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation. Your basic, humorous look at war.
Prediction: May be taking a more satirical slant, but have you seen the results of past war-based films?

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Smallville star Kristin Kreuk has landed the title role in Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li. Need proof?

Here’s a shot of the actress in the role of the famous video game character:

Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li is a live-action feature film based on Capcom’s video game. The film is focused on female fighter Chun Li and her journey for justice. It also stars Michael Clarke Duncan and Neal McDonough..

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That’s right, we’ve got the first action-packed clip from the upcoming superhero flick for you to check out. In the scene, a trip to the park takes a wild turn as the Hulk and Betty Ross (Liv Tyler) come under attack from the military. Click here to watch the clip in glorious high-definition, along with some of our other cool “Hulk” videos like our interview with Tim Roth.

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So it’s a little crazy around here (in a good way). The MTV Movie Awards are just around the corner and many of here in the NYC office are about to jet off to LA to cover the town in a big way over the next week. Part of the fun is something we’re calling “Sneak Peek Week.” Basically we’ve got a series of six screenings in LA leading up to the awards where we’re showing off some off some of the most anticipated films of the summer (”Get Smart,” “Pineapple Express,” etc.) AND bringing the stars out front and center to answer ours (and the audience’s) questions.

It all kicks off with Adam Sandler and “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan” on Sunday night. And it doesn’t let up from there. We’re talking to everyone from Will Ferrell and Jack Black to Steve Carrell and James Franco. So feel free to take the week off and settle into that couch. There’s a whole lotta exclusive news, interviews, clips coming at you the next nine days. We hope you enjoy.

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The Foot Fist Way first got noticed at The Sundance Film Festival. Since then, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay have stepped up to produce the movie and send it out to theaters around the country.

The path of the movie is a story unto itself: Jody Hill emptied his savings and took out numerous credit cards to finance the indie film, recruiting college friends Danny R. McBride and Ben Best to star in his low budget comedy about a small town Tae Kwon Do instructor whose life falls apart after his wife has an affair.

Below, the cast and crew speak to ComingSoon.net about the project:

CS: How did you all come to work together to make this film?
Ferrell: It started with these guys.
Best: We all went to film school together at the North Carolina School of the Arts. After that we all kind of scattered.
Ferrell: Recently shut down for embezzlement.
Best: For seven years we were just kind of making ends meet barely and then Jody luckily had been saving up money because Danny and I sure weren’t. He came to town and said, “Hey you want to make a movie?” and I was like, “I need to do something because it’s falling apart.”
McBride: Rehab wasn’t working. Let’s make a motion picture.
Best: Yeah, let’s make a motion picture.
McKay: You saved money?
Hill: Yeah, I saved about $30,000. Then I applied for as many credit cards as I could get. It’s funny because they start you out with $17,000 if you have good credit. Then on your fourth or fifth credit card it’s like $500. I got a bunch of those and just I paid for the movie and it got into Sundance. Then shortly thereafter, Will and Adam saw it.
Ferrell: Somehow it was one of those films that kinda didn’t get picked up for whatever reason and we were like, “How did this not get distributed?” We’d just started Gary Sanchez. It was kind of the perfect thing for us to be our first film to be involved with.

CS: And now Danny how been in five or six other films so did you see a star was being born?
McBride: They definitely tagged me for commission so I paid these guys 10% of everything.
Ferrell: Which is standard.
McBride: That’s what they told us was standard, yeah. It usually happens that way.
Ferrell: It does. We had a private detective on Danny for about a month and a half.
McBride: Nice guy. Very nice guy.
Ferrell: Yeah you got to know him.
McBride: I did.
Ferrell: And he gave us a lot of very valuable information about him that we’re not allowed to talk about.

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Time to get excited, teenage readers:

Producer is underway for Hannah Montana: The Movie. The film, of course, will star Miley Cyrus in her first full-length feature feature, as it’s being filmed around Nashville and Los Angeles.

Hannah Montana: The Movie is slated for a Spring 2009 release.

The film also features Hannah Montana series regulars Emily Osment (Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams), Jason Earles (National Treasure), Mitchel Musso (Secondhand Lions) and Moises Arias (Nacho Libre).

Also appearing in the movie? Melora Hardin (”The Office,” 17 Again), Margo Martindale (”The Riches,” Million Dollar Baby), Barry Bostwick (”Spin City”), Peter Gunn (Ever After) and Lucas Till (Walk the Line).

The film follows Miley Stewart as Hannah Montana’s soaring popularity threatens to take over her life. With a little urging from her father, the teenager travels back to her hometown of Crowley Corners, Tennessee to rediscover what’s really important.

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Maybe you can’t sleep with James Bond.

But you can smell like the woman who will!

Avon has introduced a signature fragrance called “Bond Girl 007.” The face of the fragrance? Quantum of Solace star Gemma Arterton.

Here’s a portion of the company’s press release on the product:

Avon Products, Inc. today announced a collaboration with the James Bond entertainment franchise… to create a new signature Bond Girl 007 women’s fragrance, bringing the confident allure of cinema’s sexiest icons to Avon consumers worldwide. British actress Gemma Arterton, who plays the role of Agent Fields in the upcoming Bond film, will be the face of the new fragrance.

“I’m thrilled to be working with two such iconic and established brands,” said Arterton. “The Bond Girl 007 fragrance embodies everything a Bond Girl represents - intelligence, sexiness and confidence.”

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Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway may be receiving the bulk of the attention for Get Smart - for humorous and beautiful reasons, respectively - but Dwayne Johnson also stars in the comedy.

Wrestling fans, of course, know Johnson better as The Rock, but his film career is taking off. Here’s a shot of him as Agent 23:

Click on the thumbnail pics below, meanwhile, for other images of Johnson in Get Smart:

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