2012
(columbia)
Release Date:
November 13, 2009
Director: Roland Emmerich
Writers: Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser
Cast: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Thomas McCarthy, Woody Harrelson, Chin Han, Morgan Lily, Beatrice Rosen
Plot: With the Mayan calendar ending in 2012, a large group of people must deal with natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, typhoons and glaciers.
Genre: Drama
Daybreakers
(lionsgate)
Release Date:
January 8, 2010
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.
Genre: Action | Drama | Horror | Thriller
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
(fox)
Release Date:
May 1, 2009
Director: Gavin Hood
Writer: David Benioff
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch, Will.i.am, Danny Huston, Dominic Monaghan, Daniel Henney, Lynn Collins
Plot: Wolverine lives a mutant life, seeks revenge against Victor Creed (who will later become Sabertooth) for the death of his girlfriend, and ultimately ends up going through the mutant Weapon X program.
Genre: Action | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Jennifer's Body
(fox)
Release Date:
September 18, 2009
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?
Genre: Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The Last Airbender
(paramount)
Release Date:
July 2, 2010
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Writer: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel, Jessica Jade Andres, Aasif Mandvi, Shaun Toub, Cliff Curtis, Keong Sim
Plot: The story follows the adventures of Aang, a ten year old 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.
Genre: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
(7-57 releasing)
Director: Mary Stuart Masterson
Writer: Jayce Bartok
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Aaron Stanford, Bruce Dern, Elizabeth Ashley
Plot: Two families are brought together by the return of one family's son -- a reunion that conjures up old ghosts and issues that must be addressed.
Genre: Drama
(thinkfilm)
Director: Rupert Wyatt
Writers: Rupert Wyatt, Daniel Hardy
Cast: Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Liam Cunningham, Seu Jorge, Dominic Cooper, Steven Macintosh, Damian Lewis
Plot: Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined he make peace with her before it's too late. He develops an ingenious escape plan, and recruits a dysfunctional band of escapists - misfits with a mutual dislike for one other but united by their desire to escape their hell hole of an existence. Much of the action takes place within the tunnels, sewers and underground rivers of subterranean London.
Genre: Thriller
(paramount)
Director: Stephen Sommers
Writer: Stuart Beattie
Cast: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Byung Hun Lee, Sienna Miller, Rachel Nichols, Ray Park, Said Taghmaoui, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Dennis Quaid
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.
Genre: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
(warner bros.)
Director: David Yates
Writer: Steve Kloves
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, David Bradley, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Tom Felton, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Natalia Tena, Julie Walters, David Thewlis, Evanna Lynch, Matthew Lewis, Bonnie Wright, Jim Broadbent, Helen McCrory, Jessie Cave, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Frank Dillane
Plot: As Harry Potter begins his 6th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he discovers an old book marked mysteriously "This book is the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.
Genre: Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance
