Monday, January 11, 2010

Movies I'm Looking Forward to: N-Z

Here is the part three of the list.

Again, I've provided a brief description of the film, a list of it's stars and a release date, if one has been provided. That said, just remember that release dates are subject to change.

Paul
Cast:
Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig
Director: Greg Mottola
Summary: Two British sci-fi fanatics on an American road trip find their conspiracy dreams coming true when they encounter an escaped alien near Area 51. As they try to reunite him with his mother ship, they find 'Paul' has many more opinions than your typical ET. This is the latest movie from the team that brought you Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.

Piranha 3D (April 16)
Cast:
Elisabeth Shue, Adam Scott, Ving Rhames, Richard Dreyfuss, Jerry O'Connell
Director: Alexandre Aja
Summary: After a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish, an unlikely group of strangers must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food for Lake Victoria's new razor-toothed residents. But with only one chance to save her family from totally being devoured, our heroine must risk everything to destroy them.

Predators (July 7)
Cast:
Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Danny Trejo
Director: Nimrod Antal
Summary: A follow-up to 1987's acclaimed Arnold Schwarzenegger-led sci-fi action classic. The story follows a group of elite warrior-types who are being hunted by members of a race of merciless alien trackers called Predators.

Red (November 19)
Cast:
Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Mary-Louise Parker, John C. Reilly
Director: Robert Schwentke
Summary: Frank Moses, a former black-ops CIA agent, is now living a quiet life until the day a hi-tech assassin shows up intent on killing him. With his secret identity compromised, Frank must reassemble his old team to figure out who is out to get them.

Red Dawn (November 26)
Cast:
Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Josh Hutcherson, Adrianne Palicki, Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Director: Dan Bradley
Summary: A group of students find their small American hometown suddenly becoming the foothold for a foreign invasion. Now under enemy occupation, they seek refuge in the surrounding woods and reorganise themselves into a guerilla group of fighters

Robin Hood (May 14)
Cast:
Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Mark Strong, Matthew Macfadyen, William Hurt
Director: Ridley Scott
Summary: In 13th century England, a former archer in the late King Richard's army assembles a band of marauders to confront corruption in the local town of Nottingham and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power.

The Rum Diary
Cast:
Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Amber Heard, Richard Jenkins, Giovanni Ribisi
Director: Bruce Robinson
Summary: The increasingly unhinged story of itinerant journalist Paul Kemp who left late 1950's New York City to start a more relaxed lifestyle working for a downtrodden newspaper in San Juan and becomes obsessed with the fiancee of a shady property dealer.

Salt (July 23)
Cast:
Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Director: Phillip Noyce
Summary: When a CIA agent is accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy, she goes on the run to clear her name. Using her years of experience as a covert operative, she must elude capture or the world's most powerful forces will erase her entire existence.

Secretariat (Oct. 8)
Cast:
Diane Lane, James Cromwell, Scott Glenn, Dylan Walsh
Director: Randall Wallace
Summary: The story centers around Penny Chenery who took over the financially troubled Meadow Stable from her ailing father and guided the thoroughbred race horse Secretariat through his Triple Crown winning season in 1973.

Shutter Island (Feb. 19)
Cast:
Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams
Director: Martin Scorsese
Summary: In 1954, two U.S. marshals are summoned to a remote island off Massachusetts to investigate the disappearance of a patient from a fortress-like hospital for the criminally insane. Once inside, one begins to doubt everything - even his own sanity. This movie was moved from November, then December 2009.

The Tempest
Cast:
Helen Mirren, Russell Brand, Djimon Hounsou, Alfred Molina, Chris Cooper
Director: Julie Taymor
Summary: An adaptation of Shakespeare's play. Having been exiled to an island for over a decade, the witch Prospera manages to shipwreck those behind her betrayal and a tangled web of romance, forgiveness and magic play out.

The Town (September 10)
Cast:
Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Chris Cooper
Director: Ben Affleck
Summary: After briefly being taken hostage, a female bank manager lets her guard down when she meets an unassuming and rather charming man... not realizing he is the same man who led the gang of thieves that terrorised her days earlier. Thank GOD Ben realizes he's actually a pretty good director. Thank you Gone Baby Gone!

Tron: Legacy (December 17)
Cast:
Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Bruce Boxleitner, James Frain
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Summary: The son of Kevin Flynn looks into his father's disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs his father has been living in for 25 years. The pair embark on a perilous journey across a cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
Cast:
Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowen, Jesse Moss, Christie Lang
Director: Eli Craig
Summary: Two good-natured hillbillies find themselves mistakenly accused of being psycho killers by a group of college kids camping at the same lake where the hillbillies have just acquired a dilapidated cabin as their "summer home."

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