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
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
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
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
Uncertainty
Directors: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Writers: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lynn Collins, Nelson Landrieu, Olivia Thirlby
Plot: A young couple, in love and facing a life-changing decision, find one seemingly ordinary July 4th cleaved in two by the flip of a coin on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Release Date: November 13, 2009
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
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
Peter and Vandy
Director: Jay DiPietro
Writer: Jay DiPietro
Cast: Jason Ritter, Jess Weixler, Jesse L. Martin, Tracie Thoms, Noah Bean
Plot: A love story told out of order. Set in Manhattan, the story shifts back and forth in time, juxtaposing Peter and Vandy’s romantic beginnings with the twisted, manipulative, regular couple they become. The film explores the question most couples ask themselves… ‘How the hell did we get this way?’
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Release Date: October 9, 2009
The Messenger
Director: Oren Moverman
Writers: Oren Moverman, Alessandro Camon
Cast: Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton, Jena Malone, Eamonn Walker
Plot: An American soldier struggles with an ethical dilemma when he becomes involved with a widow of a fallen officer.
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Release Date: November 13, 2009
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
Afterschool
Director: Antonio Campos
Writer: Antonio Campos
Cast: Ezra Miller, Jeremy Allen White, Michael Stuhlbarg, Addison Timlin, Rosemarie Dewitt, Gary Wilmes, Christopher Mccann
Plot: Robert is a young American student at an elite East Coast preparatory school who accidentally captures on camera the tragic death of two classmates. Their lives become memorialized as part of an audio-visual assignment designed to speed up the campus-wide healing process. But the video memorial assignment results in an atmosphere of paranoia and unease among students and teachers.
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Release Date: October 2, 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
A Christmas Carol
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writer: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright Penn, Cary Elwes
Plot: An animated retelling of Charles Dickens classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.
Release Date: November 6, 2009
Paris
Director: Cédric Klapisch
Writer: Cédric Klapisch
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Romain Duris, Melanie Laurent, Fabrice Luchini, Francois Cluzet, Karin Viard
Plot: Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment. When Elise, his sister with three kids and no husband, moves in to his place to care for him, Pierre does not change his new habits. And instead of dancing himself, it is Paris and the Parisians who dance before his eyes.
Release Date: September 18, 2009