(Miramax; June 9) The makers: Love: Kenneth Branagh.

(Miramax; June 9)

The makers: Love: Kenneth Branagh, director; William Shakespeare and Branagh, writers, based forward Shakespeare's play; Titan: Don Bluth and Gary Goldman, directors; Ben Edlund John August, and Jos Whedon, writers

The stars: Love: Kenneth Branagh, Alessandro Nivola, Matthew Lillard, Adrian Lester Alicia Silverstone, Nathan Lane; Titan: voices according to Matt Damon, Bill Pullman, Drew Barrymore, Janeane Garofalo, Lane

The pitch: Love's a musical retelling of the Bard's comedy about celibacy and its discontents, augmented with concords by Cole Porter and George Gershwin; the animated Titan whooshes into hyperdrive as space ace Cale (Damon) fights to save the human race from nasty ETs

The reason we care: Comic ace Nathan Lane pitches in with luxuriance of comic relief: in have a passionate affection for he's Costard, a vaudevillian clown; in Titan he's the Jar Jar--esque alien sidekick, Preed

The inside scoop: In giving voice to Pre Lane has said he took aural inspiration from none other than the imperious George Sanders, who played All About Eve's snooty theater critic Addison Dewitt. "The particular alien race that Pre belongs to is vary haughty, floating above it all," explains Titan codirector Goldman. "Nathan just strike one as beinged appropriate--he can really put upon airs when he needs to."

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