"Freddy vs. Jason" may still be months away, but this week's new flicks are offering plenty of big-screen matchups already. There's "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever," a doctor and his wife versus a pair of kidnappers ("Trapped") and a real-life battle between mother and daughter.

Kate Hudson played a rock groupie in "Almost Famous," and now her mom, Goldie Hawn, is playing one as well, albeit a grown-up groupie who reunites after 30 years with another groupie pal (Susan Sarandon) only to find that her friend has become a responsible member of society. "The Banger Sisters" opens against Hudson's "The Four Feathers" this weekend. [article id="1457691"](Click for photos from "The Four Feathers" premiere.)[/article]

"Why does it have to be against? Why can't it be with?" asked Kate's husband, former Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson, standing beside her at the premiere of "The Four Feathers."

"Yeah, no, it's nothing, it's fun," Hudson said with a smile. "We like promoting movies together, and it might actually be a really positive thing. People might actually go see both movies and they might both make some good money."

Starring Hudson, Heath Ledger ("A Knight's Tale"), Djimon Hounsou ("Amistad") and Wes Bentley ("American Beauty"), "The Four Feathers" is an epic tale set in 1898 about a British regiment sent to fight in the Sudan and one hero's tooth-and-nail struggle to redeem an act of cowardice.

Speaking briefly on the red carpet, all of the film's stars said it was the desire to work with Pakistani-born director Shekhar Kapur ("Elizabeth") that attracted them to "The Four Feathers." Particularly Hounsou, who took the job in hopes of winning the starring role in Kapur's upcoming Nelson Mandela project.

Even a peacemaker like Mandela would have trouble mediating the battle between Antonio Banderas ("Spy Kids 2") and Lucy Liu ("Charlie's Angels") as Ecks and Sever in "Ballisctic: Ecks vs. Sever." They play a pair of bad-ass spies who fight it out when one is assigned to find the other.

Stuart Townsend ("Queen of the Damned") and Charlize Theron ("Devil's Advocate") are a married couple trying to find their daughter in the tense thriller "Trapped," after the young girl is kidnapped by Kevin Bacon ("Wild Things") and Courtney Love ("The People vs. Larry Flynt").

The indie flick "Secretary" is also opening in select cities. The often comical and certainly controversial sexually driven movie stars '80s icon and increasingly brave indie actor James Spader ("Crash") and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Maggie is the sister of Jake Gyllenhaal, Jennifer Aniston's co-star in "The Good Girl" and the breakout lead actor in "Donnie Darko."