1. Edge of Darkness
Release date: 29th of January
Based on the bleak but brilliant BBC drama from 1985, it features a cop who gets tangled up in radical politics and political conspiracy following the death of his daughter.
Cast: Mel Gibson
2. The Wolfman
Release date: 12th of February
Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman, is lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father, Talbot sets out to find his brother… and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Talbot’s childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother’s fiancée, Gwen Conliffe, tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline has come to investigate.
Cast: Benicio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt
3. Alice in Wonderland
Release date: 5th of March
The traditional tale has been freshened with a blast of girl power, courtesy of writer Linda Woolverton. Alice, 17, attends a party at a Victorian estate only to find she is about to be proposed to in front of hundreds of snooty society types. Off she runs, following a white rabbit into a hole and ending up in Wonderland, a place she visited 10 years before yet doesn’t remember.
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway
4. Iron Man 2
Release date: 30th of April
More of the box office gold hammered out by last year’s smart metal man adventure, this time with Rockwell and Rourke also filling out battle suits.
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr., Mickey Rourke, Samuel L. Jackson, Gwyneth Paltrow
5. Robin Hood
Release date: 14th of May
The story of how an archer in the service of King Richard the Lionheart became to be known as Robin Hood, the famous archer and outlaw of English Folklore. Beginning after the Death of King Richard at the Siege of Chalus Chabrol, the film follows Robin on his rise to infamy among the English Barons and the newly crowned King John. Featuring historically accurate characters such as Sir William Marshall and grounded in reality (in a similar way to Gladiator), this is not Robin Hood as you have seen him before, rather the making of the legend we have come to know him as now.
Cast: Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett
6. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Release date: 30th of June
Bella and Edward have been reunited, but their forbidden relationship is threatened to be torn apart again with an evil vampire still seeking her revenge. And Bella is forced to choose between her true love for Edward or her friendship with Jacob Black as the struggles between vampires and werewolves continues. But there is still another choice for Bella to make, mortality or immortality?
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
7. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part I
Release date: 19th of November
Danger lies within the walls of the first place Harry Potter called home. Now with Dumbledore gone, the wizarding world being under the reign of Lord Voldemort, and his prime Death Eater, Severus Snape, being Hogwarts headmaster, everything seems to have fallen. But hope still dwells within their hearts, since Harry Potter is who the Prophecy speaks of.
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Jamie Campbell Bower, Ralph Fiennes
8. Rapunzel
Release date: 24th of November
After a retooling, the film will be based again on the literary origins of the famous fairy tale, in the veins of Classics like “Snow White” and “Cinderella”: described as a traditional, character-driven fairy tale it will speak to a modern audience, with a different new style of its own.
Cast: Matthew Gray Gubler (voice), Mandy Moore (voice)
9. The Green Hornet
Release date: 22nd of December
By night, debonair newspaper publisher Britt Reid fights crime as a masked superhero known as The Green Hornet. At his side is martial arts expert Kato.
Cast: Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz
10. Hereafter
Release date: December
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
A supernatural thriller with Damon as a medium who can talk to the dead but, according to Morgan, prefers not to.
Cast: Matt Damon
Source: Imdb.com, Totalfilm.com
