The Wolfman
Director: Joe Johnston
Writer: Andrew Kevin Walker
Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving, Art Malik
Plot: Upon his return to his ancestral homeland, an American man (Del Toro) is bitten, and subsequently cursed by, a werewolf.
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Release Date: February 10, 2010
Valentine’s Day
Director: Garry Marshall
Writers: Katherine Fugat, Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein
Cast: Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner, Shirley MacLaine, Bradley Cooper, Ashton Kutcher, Topher Grace, Emma Roberts, Hector Elizondo,
Bryce Robinson, Patrick Dempsey, Eric Dane, Carter Jenkins, Jamie Foxx, Queen Latifah
Plot: Intertwining couples and singles in Los Angeles break-up and make-up based on the pressures and expectations of Valentine’s Day.
Release Date: February 12, 2010
Takers
Director: John Luessenhop
Writers: Peter Allen, Gabriel Casseus, John Luessenhop, Avery Duff
Cast: Matt Dillon, Paul Walker, Idris Elba, Jay Hernandez, Tip “T.I.” Harris, Michael Ealy, Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen
Plot: A group of bank robbers find their $20 million plan interrupted by a hard-boiled detective.
Release Date: February 19, 2010
The Ghost Writer
Director: Roman Polanski
Writers: Roman Polanski, Robert Harris
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall, Olivia Williams, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Hutton, Eli Wallach
Plot: A ghostwriter hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy.
Release Date: February 19, 2010
The Crazies
Director: Breck Eisner
Writers: Ray Wright, Scott Kosar
Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson
Plot: About the inhabitants of a small Iowa town suddenly plagued by insanity and then death after a mysterious toxin contaminates their water supply.
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Release Date: February 26, 2010
Alice in Wonderland
Director: Tim Burton
Writers: Linda Woolverton, Lewis Carroll
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Johnny Depp, Michael Sheen, Alan Rickman
Plot: The adventures of a young girl, Alice, who falls into a magical world full of strange characters and darkness behind every corner.
Release Date: March 5, 2010
Season of the Witch
Director: Dominic Sena
Writer: Bragi Schut
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Stephen Campbell Moore, Robert Sheehan, Claire Foy, Ulrich Thomsen, Stephen Graham, Christopher Lee
Plot: 14th-century knights transport a suspected witch to a monastery, where monks deduce her powers could be the source of the Black Plague.
Release Date: March 19, 2010
The Bounty Hunter
Director: Andy Tennant
Writer: Sarah Thorp
Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Gerard Butler, Jason Sudeikis, Dorian Missick, Joel Marsh Garland, Christine Baranski
Plot: A bounty hunter learns that his next target is his ex-wife.
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Release Date: March 19, 2010
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Director: Samuel Bayer
Writer: Wesley Strick
Cast: Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Thomas Dekker, Katie Cassidy
Plot: A re-imagining of the horror icon Freddy Krueger, a serial-killer who wields a glove with four blades embedded in the fingers and kills people in their dreams, resulting in their real death in reality.
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Iron Man 2
Director: Jon Favreau
Writer: Justin Theroux
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Jon Favreau, Mickey Rourke, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Garry Shandling, John Slattery, Kate Mara, Clark Gregg, Olivia Munn
Plot: The world is aware that billionaire inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is the armored Super Hero Iron Man. Under pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his technology with the military, Tony is unwilling to divulge the secrets behind the Iron Man armor because he fears the information will slip into the wrong hands. With Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), and James “Rhodey” Rhodes (Don Cheadle) at his side, Tony forges new alliances and confronts powerful new forces.
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Release Date: May 7, 2010
The A-Team
Director: Joe Carnahan
Writers: Joe Carnahan, Brian Bloom, Skip Woods, Michael Brandt, Derek Haas
Cast: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Sharlto Copley, Jessica Biel, Quinton Jackson, Yul Vazquez
Plot: A group of Iraq War veterans looks to clear their name with the U.S. military, who suspect the four men of committing a crime for which they were framed.
Release Date: June 11, 2010
The Last Airbender
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Writer: Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko
Cast: Noah Ringer, Jackson Rathbone, Cliff Curtis, Nicola Peltz, Shaun Toub
Plot: The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations.
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Release Date: July 2, 2010
From Paris with Love
Director: Pierre Morel
Writers: Luc Besson, Adi Hasak
Cast: John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak, Amber Rose Revah, Melissa Mars
Plot: In Paris, a young employee in the office of the US Ambassador hooks up with an American spy looking to stop a terrorist attack in the city.
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Dear John
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Writer: Jamie Linden
Cast: Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Henry Thomas, Richard Jenkins, Keith Robinson
Plot: A romantic drama about a soldier who falls for a conservative college student while he’s home on leave.
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Edge of Darkness
Director: Martin Campbell
Writers: William Monahan, Andrew Bovell
Cast: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Shawn Roberts, Bojana Novakovic, Frank Grillo, Gbenga Akinnagbe
Plot: As homicide detective Thomas Craven investigates the death of his activist daughter, he uncovers not only her secret life, but a corporate cover-up and government collusion that attracts an agent tasked with cleaning up the evidence.
Release Date: January 29, 2010
Legion
Director: Scott Stewart
Writers: Scott Stewart, Peter Schink
Cast: Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson, Jon Tenney, Charles S. Dutton, Lucas Black, Kate Walsh, Doug Jones, Adrianne Palicki, Kevin Durand, Willa Holland
Plot: After a terrifying biblical apocalypse descends upon the world, a group of strangers stranded in a remote truck stop diner in the Southwest unwittingly become humanity’s last line of defense when they discover the diner’s young waitress is pregnant with the messiah.
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Release Date: January 22, 2010
Tooth Fairy
Director: Michael Lembeck
Writers: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Joshua Sternin, Jeffrey Ventimilia, Randi Mayem Singer
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Judd, Julie Andrews, Stephen Merchant, Ryan Sheckler, Billy Crystal
Plot: A bad deed on the part of a tough minor-league hockey player (Johnson) results in an unusual sentence: He must serve one week as a real-life tooth fairy.
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Release Date: January 22, 2010
The Book of Eli
Directors: Hughes Brothers
Writers: Gary Whitta
Cast: Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Michael Gambon, Jennifer Beals, Ray Stevenson
Plot: A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
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Release Date: January 15, 2010
Daybreakers
Directors: Peter Spierig, Michael Spierig
Writers: Peter Spierig, Michael Spierig
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Ethan Hawke, Sam Neill, Vince Colosimo, Claudia Karvan
Plot: In the year 2019, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.
Release Date: January 8, 2010
Sherlock Holmes
Director: Guy Ritchie
Writers: Michael Johnson, Anthony Peckham, Guy Ritchie
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong, Kelly Reilly, Eddie Marsan
Plot: Detective Sherlock Holmes (Downey Jr.) and his stalwart partner Watson (Law) engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.
Release Date: December 25, 2009
The Princess and the Frog
Director: John Musker, Ron Clements
Writers: Ron Clements, Rob Edwards, Greg Erb, John Musker, Jason Oremland
Cast: Anika Noni Rose, Keith David, Jenifer Lewis, John Goodman, Bruno Campos
Plot: A fairy tale centered on a young girl named Princess Tiana who lives in New Orleans’ French Quarter during the Jazz Age.
Release Date: December 25, 2009
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
Director: Betty Thomas
Writers: Johnathan Aibel, Glenn Berger
Cast: Jason Lee, Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, Anna Faris, Christina Applegate, Amy Poehler
Plot: David Seville and chipmunks Alvin, Simon and Theodore, return in the sequel to lay waste to Seville’s surroundings and sing in three-part harmony. The sequel movie introduce the Chipmunks’ female counterparts, the Chipettes.
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Release Date: December 25, 2009
It’s Complicated
Director: Nancy Meyers
Writer: Nancy Meyers
Cast: Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, John Krasinski, Zoe Kazan, Lake Bell, Hunter Parrish, Pat Finn, Rita Wilson
Plot: A romantic comedy in which two men vie for the affection of a woman.
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Release Date: December 25, 2009
Avatar
Director: James Cameron
Writer: James Cameron
Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Peter Mensah, Laz Alonso, Wes Studi, Stephen Lang, Matt Gerald
Plot: In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran, is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na’vi, a humanoid race with their own language and culture. Those from Earth find themselves at odds with each other and the local culture.
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Release Date: December 18, 2009
The Lovely Bones
Director: Peter Jackson
Writers: Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli, Saoirse Ronan
Plot: Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family – and her killer – from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Did You Hear About The Morgans?
Director: Marc Lawrence
Writer: Marc Lawrence
Cast: Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sam Elliott, Mary Steenburgen, Elisabeth Moss, Michael Kelly
Plot: In New York City, an estranged couple who witness a murder are relocated to small-town Wyoming as part of a witness-protection program.
Release Date: December 11, 2009