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 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
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
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 Time Traveler’s Wife
Director: Robert Schwentke
Writer: Bruce Joel Rubin
Cast: Rachel McAdams, Eric Bana, Arliss Howard, Ron Livingston
Plot: A romantic drama about a Chicago librarian (Bana) with a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, and the complications it creates for his marriage.
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Release Date: August 14, 2009
The Box
Directors: Richard Kelly
Writers: Richard Kelly, Richard Matheson
Cast: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella
Plot: What if someone gave you a box containing a button that, if pushed, would bring you a million dollars…but simultaneously take the life of someone you don’t know? Would you do it? And what would be the consequences? The year is 1976. Norma Lewis is a teacher at a private high school and her husband, Arthur, is an engineer working at NASA. They are, by all accounts, an average couple living a normal life in the suburbs with their young son…until a mysterious man with a horribly disfigured face appears on their doorstep and presents Norma with a life-altering proposition: the box. With only 24 hours to make their choice, Norma and Arthur face an impossible moral dilemma. What they don’t realize is that no matter what they decide, terrifying consequences will have already been set in motion. They soon discover that the ramifications of this decision are beyond their control and extend far beyond their own fortune and fate.
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Release Date: October 30, 2009
Gamer
Directors: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Writers: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Cast: Gerard Butler, John Leguizamo, Logan Lerman
Plot: Set in a future-world where humans can control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming environments, a star player (Butler) from a game called “Slayers” looks to regain his independence while taking down the game’s mastermind.
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Release Date: September 4, 2009
Jennifer’s Body
Director: Karyn Kusama
Writer: Diablo Cody
Cast: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons, Adam Brody, J.K. Simmons
Plot: A newly possessed cheerleader turns into a killer who specializes in offing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?
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Release Date: September 18, 2009
Moon
Director: Duncan Jones
Writer: Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker
Cast: Sam Rockwell
Plot: It is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year
contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth’s primary source of energy, Helium-3. It is a lonely job, made
harder by a broken satellite that allows no live communications home. Taped messages are all Sam can send and
receive. Thankfully, his time on the moon is nearly over, or is it?
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Release Date: June 12, 2009
The Road
Director: John Hillcoat
Writers: Joe Penhall, Nick Wechsler
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Robert Duvall, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Plot: A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones,
and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing: just a pistol to defend
themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food and each other.
Release Date: October 16, 2009
District 9
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Writers:Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
Cast: Sharlto Copley, David James
Plot: An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly find a kindred spirit in a government agent that is exposed to their biotechnology.
Release Date: August 14, 2009
Pandorum
Director: Christian Alvart
Writer: Travis Milloy
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet, Antje Traue, Cung Le, Eddie Rouse
Plot: Two astronauts awaken in a hyper-sleep chamber aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft. It’s pitch black, they are
disoriented, and the only sound is a low rumble and creak from the belly of the ship. They can’t remember anything: Who are
they? What is their mission? With Lt. Payton (Quaid) staying behind to guide him via radio transmitter, Cpl. Bower (Foster)
ventures deep into the ship and begins to uncover a terrifying reality. Slowly the spacecraft’s shocking, deadly secrets are
revealed…and the astronauts find their own survival is more important than they could ever have imagined.
Release Date: September 18, 2009
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Director: Stephen Sommers
Writers: Stuart Beattie, David Elliot
Cast: Christopher Eccleston, Marlon Wayans, Dennis Quaid, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jospeph Gordon-Levitt
Plot: An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe, operating out of The Pit, takes on an evil organization led by a notorious arms dealer.
Release Date: August 7, 2009