Robin Hood
Director: Ridley Scott
Writers: Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Voris, Brian Helgeland, Paul Webb, Tom Stoppard
Cast: Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, William Hurt, Matthew Macfadyen, Mark Strong, Oscar Isaac, Lea Seydoux, Scott Grimes, Kevin Durand, Alan Doyle, Danny Huston, Max von Sydow
Plot: The story of an archer in the army of Richard Coeur de Lion who fights against the Norman invaders and becomes the legendary hero known as Robin Hood.
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Release Date: May 14, 2010
Prince of Persia
Director: Mike Newell
Writers: Doug Miro, Carlo Bernard
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley, Gemma Arterton, Alfred Molina, Toby Kebbell
Plot: Based on the video game, which follows an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world.
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Release Date: May 28, 2010
Brooklyn’s Finest
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Writers: Michael C. Martin, Brad Caleb Kane
Cast: Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, Don Cheadle, Jesse Williams, Ellen Barkin, Wesley Snipes, Lili Taylor, Brian F. O’Byrne, Shannon Kane, Will Patton, Vincent D’Onofrio
Plot: Three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location after enduring vastly different career paths.
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Release Date: March 5, 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 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
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
Salt
Director: Phillip Noyce
Writer: Kurt Wimmer
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Andre Braugher , Yara Shahidi, Zoe Lister Jones, James Schram, Cassidy Hinkle
Plot: Evelyn Salt is a CIA officer who swore an oath to duty, honor, and country. When she is accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy, Salt goes on the run to clear her name and ultimately prove she is a patriot. Using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative, she must elude capture and protect her husband or the world’s most powerful forces will erase any trace of her existence.
Release Date: July 23, 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
Astro Boy
Director: David Bowers
Writer: Timothy Harris
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Donald Sutherland, Nathan Lane, Bill Nighy, Eugene Levy, Matt Lucas, Freddie Highmore
Plot: When a scientist’s young son dies, he secretly creates a powerful robot child to replace him, however the robot uses it’s incredible powers to become a world famous super-hero, and faces his biggest challenge when an alien race threatens Earth.
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Release Date: October 23, 2009
Red Cliff
Director: John Woo
Writers: Khan Chan, Cheng Kuo, Heyu Sheng, John Woo
Cast: Chen Chang, Yong Hou, Jun Hu, Tong Jiang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Plot: In Autumn of 208 AD, 100,000 peasants fled with their beloved leader Liu Bei from Cao Cao’s million man army. With the aid of heroes like Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei, they escape across the Great River to take refuge with Sun Quan, the leader of the south. As Cao Cao prepares his huge navy to invade southern China and destroy them both, geniuses like Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu devise a grand strategy. They hope to destroy Cao Cao’s 10,000 ships with fire upon the river, but must first trick Cao Cao into chaining his ships together, and then change the direction of China’s famous and freezing North Wind. While these two struggle to put aside the rivalry between Liu Bei and Sun Quan’s forces, they must hatch their legendary schemes before Cao Cao is ready.
Release Date: November 20, 2009
Black Dynamite
Director: Scott Sanders
Writers: Michael Jai White (screenplay) & Byron Minns (screenplay)
Cast: Michael Jai White, Arsenio Hall, Tommy Davidson, Salli Richardson
Plot: This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House
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Release Date: October 16, 2009
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
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
Inception
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy, Michael Caine
Plot: A CEO-type becomes involved in a blackmailing scandal.
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Release Date: July 16, 2010