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.
Movie Poster: View
Release Date: May 28, 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
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
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
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Director: Wes Anderson
Writers: Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach
Cast: George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Meryl Streep, Owen Wilson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, Brian Cox, Adrien Brody, Anjelica Huston, Roman Coppola
Plot: Angry farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with a sly fox, look to get rid of their opponent and his family.
Movie Poster: View
Release Date: November 13, 2009
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.
Movie Poster: View
Release Date: July 16, 2010
The Descent 2
Director: Jon Harris
Writer: James Watkins
Cast: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Gavan O’Herlihy, Joshua Dallas, Anna Skellern, Douglas Hodge, Krysten Cummings
Plot: Sarah emerges alone from a cave system following an expedition with her five friends in the Appalachian mountains. Distraught, injured and covered in the blood of her missing companions, Sarah is incoherent and half-wild with fear. Skeptical about her account of events and convinced Sarah’s psychosis hides far darker secrets, Sheriff Vaines forces her back into the caves to help locate the rest of the group. Trapped by falling rocks, the rescue party are driven deep into the caverns, and as one by one the fate of the missing girls is revealed, Sarah is forced to confront her deepest fears.
Release Date: TBA
Planet 51
Directors: Jorge Blanco, Javier Abad, Marcos Martinez
Writer: Joe Stillman
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Seann William Scott, Gary Oldman, John Cleese
Plot: The inhabitants of Planet 51 live in fear of alien invasion. Their paranoia is realized when an astronaut arrives from Earth. Befriended by a young resident, he has to avoid capture in order to recover his spaceship and try to return home.
Movie Poster: View
Release Date: November 20, 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.
Movie Poster: View
Release Date: December 18, 2009
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.
Movie Poster: View
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Where the Wild Things Are
Director: Spike Jonze
Writers: Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers, Maurice Sendak (book)
Cast: Catherine Keener, Max Records, Mark Ruffalo, Lauren Ambrose, James Gandolfini
Plot: Maurice Sendak’s classic book Where the Wild Things Are comes to the big screen in an adventure tale for every generation.
Movie Poster: View
Release Date: October 16, 2009
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
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.
Movie Poster: View
Release Date: January 15, 2010
A Perfect Getaway
Director: David Twohy
Writer: David Twohy
Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Milla Jovovich, Kiele Sanchez, Chris Hemsworth, Marley Shelton, Steve Zahn
Plot: Cliff and Cydney (Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich) are an adventurous young couple celebrating their honeymoon by backpacking to one of the most beautiful, and remote, beaches in Hawaii. Hiking the wild, secluded trails, they believe they’ve found paradise. But when the pair comes across a group of frightened hikers discussing the horrifying murder of another newlywed couple on the islands, they begin to question whether they should turn back.
Movie Poster: View
Release Date: August 7, 2009