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Crossing Over has been given the official release date of October 24th (limited), according to the official site. The movie was going to be released this month but was pushed back. Also the film will not be premiering at the 2008 Venice Film Festival unlike previously rumored. Thanks to Momoko for the heads up!
Crossing Over is a multi-character canvas about immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles. Explores the border, document fraud, the asylum and green card process, work-site enforcement, naturalization, the office of counter terrorism and the clash of cultures.
“I very nearly lost my mind,†admitted Across the Universe star Jim Sturgess about staying in Las Vegas for over a month to shoot 21, his latest film.
Jim, who won fans as the lead in the Beatles music-inspired Across, plays one of the M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) students who are recruited by an unorthodox math professor (Kevin Spacey) to make millions of dollars at blackjack tables in Las Vegas casinos.
The high stakes action-adventure, directed by Robert Luketic (Legally Blonde, Monster-in-Law), is based on Ben Mezrich’s Bringing Down the House, which reveals how a real-life team of gifted college students beat casinos in Vegas and elsewhere around the world by counting cards and using an elaborate system of signals.
Jim Sturgess is well-aware he’s having an incredibly fortunate year. He is, after all, the unknown actor plucked from a worldwide casting call by director Julie Taymor to star as love-struck dockworker Jude in last year’s Beatles-inspired musical Across the Universe.
He followed that up with his recent turn in The Other Boleyn Girl as the loyal brother to a scheming Anne Boleyn. Now the 26-year-old Brit is headlining another impressive roster: 21, in which he stars alongside Kevin Spacey and Laurence Fishburne. The film features Sturgess as an MIT student who takes his card-counting skills to Las Vegas, with dire consequences.
21 (2008) 
