Shoot ‘Em Up is a wildly edgy and inventive action movie with a dark sense of humor which promises to take audiences on a non-stop high-speed ride.

Clive Owen portrays Mr. Smith, the angriest, most hardboiled man in the world, who finds himself entrusted to protect the most innocent thing of all – a newborn child. When Smith delivers the baby in the middle of a gunfight, he soon discovers that the infant is the target of a shadowy force that has sent a team of mysterious and endless assailants, led by Hertz (Paul Giamatti), to erase all traces of the baby.

Amid a hail of bullets and facing every conceivable permutation of gunfight, Smith teams up with a prostitute named DQ (Monica Bellucci) to solve the mystery as to why the baby’s life is being threatened before this makeshift family all ends up on the wrong side of a bullet. Everyone wants the baby dead. The big question is why?

Shoot ‘Em Up stars Clive Owen (Sin City, Inside Man), Monica Bellucci (The Matrix Reloaded, The Passion of the Christ) and Paul Giamatti (Sideways, Cinderella Man). The cast also includes Stephen McHattie and Greg Byrk.

The film is written and directed by Michael Davis and produced by Susan Montford, Don Murphy and Rick Benattar. The executive producers are Douglas Curtis, Toby Emmerich and Cale Boyter.

The prestigious behind-the scenes crew includes two Oscar-winners – Director of Photography Peter Pau (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and Colin Chilvers (Superman: The Movie) – as well as Costume Designer Denise Cronenberg, Production Designer Gary Frutkoff, Editor Peter Amundson and Composer Paul Haslinger.

New Line Cinema will release Shoot ‘Em Up (rated “R” by the M.P.A.A. for “pervasive strong bloody violence, sexuality and some language”) in theaters nationwide on September 7th, 2007.