NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Brooks & Dunn have landed a star-studded lineup for their "Last Rodeo" concert special to be filmed following the Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas.

The duo has landed Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Reba McEntire, Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, George Strait, Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert and Lady Antebellum for "ACM Presents: Brooks & Dunn — The Last Rodeo."

The special will be filmed April 19 in Las Vegas — the day after the ACM awards — and aired May 23 on CBS.

Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn announced last year they were breaking up after one of country music's best-selling runs.

Their last performance together will come Aug. 10 in Nashville.

Others slated to perform on the special include Sugarland, Jason Aldean and Jennifer Hudson.

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On the Net:

Brooks & Dunn: http://www.brooks-dunn.com

Academy of Country Music: http://www.acmcountry.com

Capsule reviews of films opening this week:

"Green Zone" — All the war-zone authenticity in the Arab world cannot salvage the silly Hollywood plot at the heart of Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass' first collaboration outside the Jason Bourne realm. Their thriller about the futile search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is a visual and visceral knockout utterly deflated by a story as unappetizing as Army field rations. Damon's an Army guy hurled into a simple-minded conspiracy concocted by the filmmakers to explain why the WMD hunt keeps coming up empty. The cast, including Greg Kinnear, Amy Ryan, Brendan Gleeson and Jason Isaacs, generally delivers serviceable performances in roles that do not call for much more. As Damon's translator and tipster, Khalid Abdalla does capture a sense of Iraqis' conflicted emotions over the U.S. occupation. For pure ambiance, the movie is a marvel. Greengrass, who directed Damon in "The Bourne Ultimatum" and "The Bourne Supremacy," applies a similar docudrama style to create a you-are-there sense of Bagdhad in chaos. R for violence and language. Running time: 114 minutes. Two stars out of four.

• David Germain, AP Movie Writer

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"Our Family Wedding" — One enters a movie like this bracing for cheesiness. But as "Our Family Wedding" moves along, the realization dawns that director Rick Famuyiwa ("The Wood") has made a mostly charming movie despite its cliche milieu. America Ferrera and Lance Gross play a newly engaged couple who have returned home to Los Angeles to break the news to their families, one black, the other Latino. A culture clash follows, with patriarchs Forest Whitaker and Carlos Mencia predictably feuding. It loses its balance around the time the goat gets loose and eats a bunch of Viagra. But, thanks partly to the performances, the film is mostly filled with quieter, more realistic moments. With a soundtrack of Daptone soul, kicked off by Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings. PG-13 for some sexual content and brief strong language. Running time: 101 minutes. Two stars out of four.

• Jake Coyle, AP Entertainment Writer

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"Remember Me" — Robert Pattinson has temporarily stepped away from "Twilight," apparently in search of his "Five Easy Pieces" or "Rebel Without a Cause." In the film, directed by Allen Coulter ("Hollywoodland"), Pattinson plays a self-destructive, poetic 21-year-old who quotes Gandhi in voiceover, makes love to Sigur Ros and (understandably) can't be moved to laughter by "American Pie 2." Set in the summer of 2001 in New York, "Remember Me" is a story of young romance (Emilie de Ravin plays his love interest) full of dread. Long before the big reveal ending, one begins to feel "Remember Me" is romanticizing — even fetishizing — tragedy. Pierce Brosnan and Chris Cooper play the fathers, each giving considerable heft to Will Fetters' uneven script. But this is Pattinson's vehicle (he also executive produced). He has unmistakable screen presence, but he pours it on thickly and self-consciously. Rated PG-13 for violence, sexual content, language and smoking. Running time: 113 minutes. Two stars out of four.

• Jake Coyle, AP Entertainment Writer

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"She's Out of My League" — Remember the hoo-ha over whether Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl made a believable couple in "Knocked Up"? The makers of "She's Out of My League" sure do. They've built an entire comedy from the premise, pairing string-bean Jay Baruchel with gorgeous newcomer Alice Eve and surrounding them with a chorus of Doubting Thomas friends who tell them their relationship can never work. The central idea, vaguely lurking around the edges of the movie's gross-out humor and then spelled out at the end, is pure wish-fulfillment. Nerds and babes can hook up (really!), just so long as the geek possesses a good heart and healthy self-esteem. One problem. The filmmakers forgot to give Baruchel's yammering, stammering airport security worker an actual personality that might appeal to the opposite sex. Say what you want about the professional prospects of Rogen's weed-loving loafer in "Knocked Up," you have to admit the dude made you laugh. And, from what we've heard, women do like a sense of humor. R for language and sexual content. 107 minutes. Two stars out of four.

• Glenn Whipp, For The Associated Press

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday unveiled its first group of films for April's event, including one documentary about the prostitution scandal that brought down former New York governor Eliot Spitzer.

The as yet untitled nonfiction film by director Alex Gibney, whose "Taxi to the Dark Side" won an Oscar for its exploration of U.S. tactics in dealing with terror suspects, will be shown as a work in progress.

Spitzer was dubbed the "Sheriff of Wall Street" when he was the New York state's attorney general because of his crusades against greed and corruption in financial markets, and his popularity helped him become the state's governor in 2007.

But in March of 2008, he was forced to resign in disgrace after media reports that he was a client of a prostitution service. There can be little doubt that the Spitzer film will be a hot ticket at Tribeca.

The festival, which runs from April 21 to May 2 this year, was created by Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro, his producing partner Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff in 2001 as a way to celebrate the city following the September 11 attacks.

Since then, it has grown to become one of the major stops on the global film festival circuit along with gatherings in Cannes, Berlin, Toronto and the Sundance festival in Utah.

For 2010, Tribeca organizers hired former Sundance director Geoffrey Gilmore to help build on its past success, and on Wednesday announced 33 films that will screen, including 24 in its documentary and narrative feature competitions. Ultimately, Tribeca will show 85 feature-length movies and 47 short films.

Earlier this month, organizers said DreamWorks Animation's new "Shrek Forever After in 3-D" will open the festival, and they unveiled two new initiatives, one to distribute movies online and eventually in theaters and a second that will allow Web surfers to watch festival films on their computers.

But at the core of any film festival are the competitions and at the 2010 Tribeca festival, 12 narratives and 12 documentaries will compete for $100,000 in cash prizes.

Among the narrative features in competition unveiled on Wednesday, is a biopic by French cartoonist Joann Sfar about singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, Irish psychological drama "Snap," and actor James Franco starring in "William Vincent" about a peculiar criminal.

The documentary competition features the premiere of "The Two Escobars," which tells the connecting stories of Colombian footballer Andres Escobar and drug baron Pablo Escobar, who were not related but were born in the same Colombian city, shared soccer passions and were both murdered.

"Budrus" about a Palestinian family man who attempts to unite rival parties Fatah and Hamas, activists and groups of progressive Israelis in a crusade to save his village, will also be shown along with "The Arbor" about troubled British playwright Andrea Dunbar.

Most of the remaining feature film lineup will be announced on March 15, except gala screenings. A full list can be found at www.tribecafilm.com.

(Reporting by Christine Kearney, editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

NEW YORK (Reuters) – It's enough to make a mining executive grit his teeth or his kids to give him the silent treatment.

In a case of art imitating life -- with perhaps a little poetic license -- Oscar-winning movie "Avatar" paints big mining companies as the villains of the future.

But real-life executives are not entirely amused by their fictional colleagues being cast in evil roles in what is already the biggest-grossing Hollywood movie of all time.

"Let me put it this way, my kids saw the movie, and my kids know I'm a miner, and they didn't say anything to me," said Peter Kukielski, head of mining operations for ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaker.

"They didn't say a thing, and they loved the movie. They saw it twice," he told the Reuters Global Mining and Steel Summit in New York this week.

"I gotta say, I gritted my teeth a few times over the manner the mining company was presented," said Charles Jeannes, chief executive of Canada's Goldcorp. "I loved 'Avatar' -- once you get past the storyline, I loved the graphics."

The storyline of the James Cameron-directed movie, set in the year 2154, sees humans mining a mineral called unobtanium on the planet Pandora. Expansion of the mining colony threatens the existence of a tribe of Na'vi, a humanoid species. The film's title refers to the genetically engineered Na'vi and human hybrid bodies used by human characters to interact with the natives of Pandora.

Dennis Wheeler, CEO of Coeur d'Alene Mines Corp said he was keen to see it. "I think I will because a few of my friends who have seen it said it represents a real technological breakthough."

When informed the film's mining company was portrayed as damaging the environment with no regard for local communities, Wheeler laughed: "Well that's not futuristic!"

He noted that was the perception of the mining industry by many people, even if it was not the reality. "Coeur is a leader in environmental stewardship and mine safety. Those things that some people call the softer issues about mining, have clearly become more important -- social responsibility.

"I don't see anything wrong with them, I support them," said Wheeler, noting his company established a partnership with Alaskan native groups to provide workers for its Kensington gold mine and has done similar work in Bolivia and Mexico arounds its silver mines.

Gerald Grandey, CEO of uranium miner Cameco Corp appeared resigned to the fact mining companies get a bad rap driven by environmentalists.

"When you get a movie like 'Avatar' -- I have seen it and actually enjoyed it -- I thought it was just unfortunate they defaulted to the easy conflict. It was too convenient to go back to the old stereotypes."

"Cameco is a premier example of going into a remote region, Saskatchewan, where there are 28 aboriginal communities who had never heard of mining...and now after 25 years, well over 50 percent of our employees are aboriginal.

"What we've done is...overcome the peer pressure, the stereotypes, the culture, the welfare dependency, the drug and alcohol abuse, and one movie can put that back."

Asked if he would you have hired the Na'vi, Grandey replied: "If it had been Cameco, they would have been walk-in employees, we're looking for them!"

Richard Adkerson, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold's president, CEO, took a measured approach.

"Well I don't consider...us a whipping boy and I don't consider the environmentalists to be those characters.

"We have a big impact on the environment where we operate. And we spend huge resources to manage that impact and to try to do things in the right way," said Adkerson, who said he wanted to see "Avatar" in 3-D.

To Peter Marrone, Yamana Gold Inc's chairman and CEO, the film was just a film. "I haven't seen the movie, but I understand it is a love story between two blue creatures."

Balasubramanian Muthuraman, vice chairman of India's Tata Steel Ltd, with iron ore and coal mines that feed its steel-making operations, put it all into perspective although he had no idea about the film.

"You have to realize one thing - in the U.S., the consumption of steel per person per year, is more than the consumption of food per person per year.

"It is the case in all developing countries. Mankind cannot live without steel and steel cannot be made without mining.

"What is important is that these operations are conducted in an environmentally friendly manner. If you stop mining, human beings cannot live in this world," Muthuraman said.

(Reporting by Steve James)

Remember the hoo-ha over whether Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl made a believable couple in Judd Apatow's "Knocked Up"?

The makers of "She's Out of My League" sure do. They've built an entire comedy from the premise, pairing string-bean Apatow alum Jay Baruchel with gorgeous newcomer Alice Eve and surrounding them with a chorus of Doubting Thomas friends who tell them their relationship can never work.

The central idea, vaguely lurking around the edges of the movie's gross-out humor and then spelled out at the end, is pure wish-fulfillment. Nerds and babes can hook up (really!), just so long as the geek possesses a good heart and healthy self-esteem.

One problem. The filmmakers forgot to give Baruchel's yammering, stammering airport security worker an actual personality that might appeal to the opposite sex. Say what you want about the professional prospects of Rogen's weed-loving loafer in "Knocked Up," you have to admit the dude made you laugh. And, from what we've heard, women do like a sense of humor.

The only thing Kirk (Baruchel) has is a sense of awkwardness and self-loathing. When we first meet him, he's rehearsing the reconciliation speech he plans to spring on his ex-girlfriend (Lindsay Sloane), the same ex-girlfriend who has become a regular (along with her idiot new boyfriend) at Kirk's parents' house since their breakup.

Pretty pathetic, huh? Kirk's fortunes take a radical change, however, when he meets Molly (Eve), a beautiful, intelligent woman fresh off a breakup and eager to ease back into dating with a safe, sweet guy like our hero.

Kirk's bro-friends — Stainer (T.J. Miller) and Jack (Mike Vogel) — are astounded and alarmed. Assessing their friend as a "five" and Molly a "hard 10," they argue that Kirk is upsetting the cosmic laws of sexual attraction.

"You can't jump more than two points!" says Stainer, though why exactly a grown man would listen to advice from someone named Stainer remains perpetually unclear.

The movie, written by Sean Anders and John Morris (who have a hand in the upcoming "Hot Tub Time Machine") and directed by Jim Field Smith, spends most of its time exploring whether Kirk can indeed make that multi-point leap.

And while Baruchel has been doing great things since debuting in the short-lived Apatow sitcom "Undeclared," the movie gives you absolutely no reason to believe that Molly wouldn't bail on him after the first date.

With his nasal voice and social ineptitude, we could see him as the son Eugene Levy never knew existed in some "American Pie" knockoff. But with a girl like Molly? Levy himself would stand a better chance.

In fact, Kirk is such a nice-guy non-entity here that it's disappointing whenever "League" cuts away from its more appealing supporting cast. Miller is a scream as Stainer, who, it turns out, has endured a dilemma similar to his friend's. (Hence, the bad advice.) And Nate Torrence is perfect as Devon, Kirk's moon-eyed pal who sees the world filtered through Disney princess movies.

"Let's go on a magic carpet ride," Devon enthuses at one point. As long as you kick Kirk off, buddy, we're on board.

"She's Out of My League," a Paramount-Dreamworks release, is rated R for language and sexual content. Running time: 107 minutes. Two stars out of four.

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Motion Picture Association of America rating definitions:

G — General audiences. All ages admitted.

PG — Parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.

PG-13 — Special parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13. Some material may be inappropriate for young children.

R — Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.

NC-17 — No one under 17 admitted.