It's a point of pride for Samuel L. Jackson that if you list every film in which he has starred or appeared and add up their box-office receipts, the collective total would be higher than any other on-screen actor in history. That might be some arcane career calculus, but it does speak to the 60-year-old actor’s crowded schedule and crowd-pleasing sensibility.

On a recent afternoon, talking about his varied pursuits, Jackson began a sentence with, "In my spare time ..." but couldn’t even finish the thought without laughing out loud. Jackson appeared in six films last year, and when discussing his upcoming ventures he has to pause to remember some of the titles and costars.

Mind control. Telekinesis. Spies. Secret government agencies. Push is a superhero thriller that involves anything a college student would want from a movie: evil organizations, explosions, a hot chick and people shooting guns with their minds.

The movie centers around Nick Gant (Chris Evans), a "mover," someone with the ability to manipulate inanimate objects at will by identifying the object's atomic frequency and alter the gravity waves around it. Following his father's murder at the hands of Division-an evil agency that captures psychics-Nick escapes to Hong Kong to live in hiding. However, he soon meets another psychic, Cassie Holmes (Dakota Fanning), who, as a "watcher," has the ability to see the future. Gant is forced out of hiding as he and Holmes search for Kira (Camilla Belle), who is the only person to escape from Division and who holds the power to defeat the organization. With her powers as a "pusher," Kira can push certain thoughts into others, forcing them to act at her command. With Division on their tail, the three must find a way to stop the agency's plan to build an unstoppable militia of psychics.

What do you do if your first film became an unlikely cult hit and your follow-up was eviscerated by critics and ignored by audiences? Well, you adapt a "Twilight Zone"-style story into a suspense-driven morality tale and enlist possibly the most well-respected indie rockers in the world to record the score.

At least that's the approach being taken by "Donnie Darko" and "Southland Tales" writer/director Richard Kelly, who recruited the Arcade Fire to record 80 minutes of original music for his upcoming feature, "The Box," staring Cameron Diaz and Frank Langella. In an exclusive interview, Kelly walked MTV News through the origins, outcome and motivations behind the collaboration.

Even the biggest fans of Roland Emmerich will have to admit that his movies are kind of, well, stupid. My apologies, but really: Godzilla, Stargate, The Day After Tomorrow, The Patriot, Independence Day ... 10,000 BC? Your entertainment value will vary on each flick -- but I'd contend that each one is dumber than a box of rocks. Expensive rocks, perhaps, but not particularly smart ones.