Could this be the biggest yr ever for fantastical movies ? It certainly looks like it . The calendar is bursting with films about aliens , eldritch animate being , superheroes and magical worlds . Here ’s our complete usher to 2011 ’s science fable and fantasy films .
We have a go at it , 55 films seems like a set . We aimed to do a list of just 25 or 30 — but when we start lean all the films this year that we could include , we terminate up with 64 , and had to whittle it down .
Season of the Witch (January 7)
Nic Cage looks disjointed about why he ’s in this motion picture too . Cage plays a chivalric meliorist who has to bring an accused hag to a remote mountainous abbey in this fantasy adventure . Also starring Ron Perlman and Claire Foy .
Outlook : All sign point to “ so bad it ’s awesome ” dominion .
The Green Hornet (January 14)
Seth Rogen stars in the movie adaptation of the definitive wireless series and tv set show , about a newspaper inheritor who becomes a masked hero — and he decides to make believe to be a bad hombre . From director Michel Gondry , who ’s found a weird unexampled way of film natural action .
Outlook : With Gondry ( Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ) directing , it should at least be enchanting .
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (January 21)
The 2nd film in the anime film series , in the end being release in the U.S. after being one of the biggest Zanzibar copal hits of 2009 in Japan . The film introduces two fresh pilots , Makinami Mari Illustrious , and Asuka Langley Shikinami .
Outlook : It seems to have gotten great review , with lots of websites tell it ’s better than the first one .
The Rite (January 28)
A supernatural thriller . A priest reluctantly goes to the Vatican to attend exorcism school , and then touch a rebel priest ( run by Anthony Hopkins ! ) who reveals that the Devil ’s reach goes much farther than he expect .
Outlook : It ’s got Anthony Hopkins as a spooky non-Christian priest . Scenery will be chewed .
I Am Number Four (February 18)
The flick adjustment of the “ stranger goes to high school ” novel , from James Frey ’s Holy Writ assemblage contrast . From director D.J. Caruso and producer Michael Bay .
Outlook : It ’ll look pretty , and there ’ll be splosions and cute immature people . Do n’t remember too hard about the plot , you ’ll strain something .
Drive Angry (February 25)
Now here ’s a movie that expect like Nic Cage belongs in it ! He ’s a all in guy rope who breaks out of Hell to give up the cult that obliterate his girl from sacrifice her babe . Let ’s hope he actually drives through the gates of Hell .
Outlook : This could be the motion-picture show we need Ghost Rider to be .
The Adjustment Bureau (March 4)
Based ( loosely ) on a Philip K. Dick write up , this film stars Matt Damon and Emily Blunt as a Congressman and a ballerina who discover that sinister forces are hear to keep them apart . So it ’s sort of a Dickian realness - warping film , but with a love narration .
Outlook : It ’s been delay a few sentence , which is a bad sign . But it could still be coolheaded .
Apollo 18 (March 4)
The next “ found footage ” movie is just filming now , for a March handout . It has to do with a last Apollo mission to the Moon that NASA claims never took place — but newly discovered footage show the military mission actually key out something sinister .
Outlook : mayhap they ’ll be editing it in the projection elbow room as you watch it .
Battle Los Angeles (March 11)
alien infest Earth , and we witness the battle in one city , with Aaron Eckhart as a sergeant-at-law who has to keep it together . Also starring : Michelle Rodriguez .
mentality : It ’s hypothesize to be a gritty war drama , that happens to have noncitizen . It sounds fun , at least .
Mars Needs Moms (March 11)
Based on the book by Berke Breathed , this toon follow a boy whose mom gets abuducted by aliens — so he has to go to Mars to get her back .
mentality : The trailer looks earnestly fun .
Red Riding Hood (March 11)
Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke directs this “ piddling Red Riding Hood ” write up , with Amanda Seyfried as a girl who ’s — wait for it — torn between two homo : the brooding Peter and the wealthy Henry . But then a werewolf breaks an ancient truce with the humans and call for a human living , and Valerie suspects it may be someone she make out .
Outlook : It sounds Twi - tastic .
Suing The Devil (March 11)
A struggling law student decides to sue the Devil for $ 8 trillion — although how he expects to pull in , we ’re not certain . But just as he ’s about to succeed a sum-up discernment , theDevil shows up — play by Malcolm McDowell . And the test of the C results .
Outlook : Malcolm McDowell as the Devil in a slaphappy courtroom play ? We ’re on jury duty !
Beastly (March 18)
A “ Beauty and the wolf ” retelling , with I Am Number Four ’s Alex Pettyfer as a spicy vernal supporter who ’s punished for his arrogance by being turn into a punky freak . He has to find someone who can do it him in spite of his appearance , or be stay forever .
mind-set : The poke make it look like a quadruple fondue — most bum movies only manage double or triple fondue .
Limitless (March 18)
A copywriter ( Bradley Cooper ) discovers a drug that impart him superhuman powerfulness , but as he starts to probe the drug ’s rootage , a group of shadowy killers is on his lead . Also star Robert De Niro .
lookout : The viral marketing for this film has made it wait sick , and whole awesome .
Paul (March 18)
The long - await ( by us , anyway ) comedy starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as two wonk who come to the United States on a roadtrip — and meet a substantial alien , Paul ( Seth Rogen ) . With Edgar Guest adept Sigourney Weaver , Kristen Wiig , Jeffrey Tambor and Jason Bateman .
Outlook : This picture sounds like it ’ll be Pegg and Frost at the top of their business leader , with a grand level of giddiness and nerdery .
Sucker Punch (March 25)
Zack ( Watchmen ) Snyder is back with the story of a untried girl in a genial institution . She retreats into a off-the-wall fantasy macrocosm , which help her hatch a design to get by from the facility .
mentality : This is the first original world Snyder ’s ever created . It ’ll definitely expect pretty , guess from what we ’ve hear so far .
Source Code (April 1)
Duncan Jones ( Moon ) revert with a handsome budget , telling the report of a guy wire ( Jake Gyllenhaal ) who has to keep live over the last eight minute of a gentleman’s gentleman on a string before it explodes .
Outlook : The trailer looks a bit silly , to be honorable — but it ’s Jones , who made one of 2009 ’s dear films .
Super (April 1)
Rainn Wilson ( yes , Dwight from The Office ) stars in this DIY superhero movie from Slither ’s James Gunn . Guest - star Nathan Fillion as the Holy Avenger , a cheat superhero .
Outlook : Early reviewsare ecstatic . And we ca n’t expect to see Gunn and Fillion reunited .
Hop (April 1)
Out - of - body of work slacker Fred O’Hare ( James Marsden ) runs over the Easter Bunny ( Russell Brand ) in his auto . So Fred has to take in the bunny as he recovers , and help the bunny save Easter .
prospect : It could be this year ’s Garfield . Or Yogi Bear . Or perhaps the second Gnomeo and Juliet of the year .
Your Highness (April 8)
A silly fantasy larger-than-life spoof — Prince Fabious ( James Franco ) and his useless sidekick , Prince Thadeous ( Danny McBride ) must travel to rescue Fabious ’ Bridget . Also starring Natalie Portman and Zooey Deschanel .
Outlook : The trailer look uproarious , and the cast is amazing .
Thor (May 6)
Kenneth Branagh ( ! ) steer the next Marvel Comics movie , about the Asgardian Thunder God who ’s cast down to Earth and finds honey with the suddenly omnipresent Natalie Portman .
Outlook : There were rumor of troubles on set , but we ’re still hoping this will live up to the old Walt Simonson comics . The poke looked nerveless .
Priest (May 13)
Paul Bettany ( Legion ) is back in another weird supernatural thriller — this meter , it ’s a post - apocalyptical globe and the human race has fought a nasty warfare against vampires . Bettany defy the ruling priesthood to go out into the waste to look for some people who ’ve been taken prisoner . Also star Maggie Q as a priestess .
Outlook : We have n’t had a good all - out post - apocalyptical action at law moving-picture show in a while , so lease ’s trust Priest is this year ’s Doomsday .
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (May 20)
This time , there are zombi spirit . And they ’re looking for the Fountain of Youth . And Captain Jack has a rival maitre d' , played by Penelope Cruz .
Outlook : It ’s the fourth Pirates moving picture — it ’s going to be laughable and overstuffed and punch-drunk , and Johnny Depp will hopefully rescue the whole thing .
The Tree of Life (May 27)
We do n’t really know what this Terence Malick celluloid is about — only that it ’s conceptually challenge and weird , and it star Sean Penn as a mislay soul in the modern world . And then Jack key “ the perpetual scheme of which we are a
part , ” and see that every thing in the domain is a miracle . And this enables him to forgive his father . Also star : Brad Pitt .
Outlook : If it ’s as cast - breaking as we ’ve find out , it ’ll at least be one of the year ’s most interesting films .
X-Men: First Class (June 3)
The 5th X - Men movie ( if you count Wolverine ) is a prequel , have place in the 1960s , that hunt the story of how Professor X and Magneto went from friends to enemies .
expectation : With Kick - Ass music director Matthew Vaughn on board , and a cast that includes James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender , this ought to be in effect — unlessthe suitshave micromanaged it too much .
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Super 8 (June 10)
J.J. Abrams directed this tribute to Steven Spielberg , feature a mysterious wight that we only glimpsed in the annoyer preview . Already , venture and believably - fake concept art are circulating about what the creature will reckon like .
Outlook : It could be this year ’s Cloverfield . Or the challenge of doing a movie that pays protection to Spielberg could play out something even cooler from Abrams .
The Green Lantern (June 17)
DC Comics gets serious about launching their non - Batman , non - Superman heroes , with this moving-picture show about a test pilot who gets given a wizardly ring from outer space , and join an elite squad of blank cops .
Outlook : The drone reckon a bit silly , and Reynolds ’ variation of Hal Jordan has drawn criticism for extreme doucheyness . But we ’re still betting this film will be a fun fusion of quad opera and superheroics .
Rise of the Apes (June 24)
A prequel to Planet of the Apes , this plastic film show how hereditary experimentation in the present day make a super - well-informed aper , Caesar , who decease on to lead an uprising . Featuring James Franco as the researcher who creates Caesar to aid cure Alzheimer ’s . ( And that ’s a set pic , not how this film will actually calculate . )
Outlook : Prequels mostly are n’t that great , but this could be an exception if they succeed in crafting a compelling origin for Caesar .
Transformers: the Dark of the Moon (July 1)
Michael Bay and Shia LaBeouf reunite to tell one more story about the robots in camouflage — and this time , it has something to do with the Apollo Moon landings . ( Again . ) And I opine they ’re blowing up Washington D.C. this time .
Outlook : Bay and LaBeouf both take a firm stand this photographic film will be way beneficial than the 2nd one , and perchance they ’ll actually rive it off ? The fact they ’ve cranked this out in just two years , and there are report card of problem with the 3D cinematography , could argue against it , though .
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (July 15)
The moving picture version of the Harry Potter saga ends at last . Voldemort pulls out all the stop to down the Boy who Lived , and Harry and his friend get push to their limits .
lookout : If it ’s as good as the first one-half , it should be heroic . The fact that they ’ve reshot the troublesome epilog is really a good sign , since it shows they ’re paying attention to particular .
Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage (July 18)
It ’s basically a gargantuan testimonial to Ray Harryhausen , feature lots of discontinue - motion vitality and ludicrous monster . And the voice of Patrick Stewart , narrating .
Outlook : Could be fun — and Patrick Stewart and swashbuckling are always a honorable admixture .
Captain America: The First Avenger (July 22)
Steve Rogers wants to join the engagement in World War II , but he ’s too weak — until he takes an experimental serum that metamorphose him into a nonesuch , Captain America . The last of Marvel ’s movies fix up next year ’s The Avengers .
mind-set : Hugo Weaving is an inspire choice as the Red Skull , and the set photos look appropriately contingent - orient . It really look how much of a polish Joss Whedon was able to give the book .
Cowboys and Aliens (July 29)
Director Jon Favreau set out to make a square - up Western motion-picture show — that comprise alien invader . The cowboys and the natives have to team up to fight the extra - terrestrial menace , and in the midriff of it is a man with amnesia and a weird equipment on his wrist joint .
Outlook : The stamp , including Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford , is pretty awful . And the trailer looked banknote - perfect .
The Smurfs (August 3)
The Smurf village plough up in Central Park . Wackiness , presumably , ensues .
lookout : We ’re watching it for Neil Patrick Harris . Plus Hank Azaria as Gargamel .
The Change-Up (August 5)
Jason Bateman plays Dave , a married guy who shift bodies with his hot near friend ( Ryan Reynolds ) so he can sample and go out his coworker ( Olivia Wilde ) . That ’s a set photo at unexpended .
expectation : Body - flip comedies are almost always fun — plus Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds ought to make this entertaining .
The Darkest Hour in 3-D (August 5)
American teen on vacation in Moscow are shock when unknown infest , and they ’re on their own . This is one of a billion flick being produced by Timur Bekmambetov . Emile Hirsch and Olivia Thirlby star .
expectation : The film was only burgeon forth last August , with motion-picture photography disrupt and detain due to Russian wildfire . No clue if it ’ll come out on time , or whether they finagle to pull together something cool .
Conan 3-D (August 19)
The Barbarian is back ! Jason Momoa steps into Arnie ’s sandal , and instead of Thulsa Doom , we get Khalar Zym ( Stephen Lang ) . There ’s plenitude of dark magic once again , include Rose McGowan play a half - human , half - witch character .
mind-set : What is good in life ? mayhap not this picture . But it could be fun .
Fright Night (August 19)
A remaking of the 1980s lamia movie — with David Tennant , the Tenth Doctor , as Peter Vincent , the stage magician who aid a adolescent who key his next - door neighbor is a vampire .
prospect : It ’s David Tennant in a horror motion-picture show . We ’re not really go to be nonsubjective about this .
Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World (August 19)
Robert Rodriguez reboots his high - technical school spy serial publication with a fresh set of tyke . A catsuit - raiment Jessica Alba is a retire agent who come back . The third moving picture featured giant golem and virtual worlds , among other things , so this is in all probability hold up to have some over - the - top science fiction stuff as well .
expectation : Whenever Rodriguez make a movie for kids , he seems to go “ Ah , what the hell . ” To savor these flick , you kind of have to do the same thing .
Final Destination 5 (August 26)
obviously , this film no longer has the inspired title of 5nal Destination . Sad , really . Anyway , they ’re cuckold death again , or something .
mindset : Once you reach the fifth film in a repugnance series , you do n’t really make judgments any more .
Piranha 3DD (August sometime)
The continuation to last summertime ’s victimization pic , and as the title suggests , the focus will be on getting even more boobtastic than the first movie , remove advantage of the 3D impression . And the fish will believably be large , too .
Outlook : We ’re really not sure there ’s such a thing as an documentary criteria to adjudicate this picture show on .
The Apparition (September 9)
A pair of college students let loose something terrible and supernatural in a lab experiment — so they grow to Draco Malfoy himself , Tom Felton , for help .
Outlook : There ’s something to be said for unleashing otherworldly forces with weird science . Plus Felton in his first post - Potter role .
Now (September 30)
The Truman Show writer , and Gattaca director , Andrew Niccol regress with his first moving-picture show in class . It ’s a nigh - future parable bent in a earthly concern where everybody can be eternally youthful — but you have a dial on your carpus counting down the clip , and if the time on the telephone dial runs out , you die . Everybody has to work to take in more “ time , ” except the super - rich .
Outlook : We read a grown chunk of this movie ’s script , and we were blown away . We ca n’t to see how Niccol brings it to life .
Real Steel (October 7)
Hugh Jackman plays a launder - up attack aircraft who had to drop out when human boxing was criminalise . Now he “ gearing ” and further robot boxers . It ’s sort of a center - warm up father - son story about an underdog who chases a ambition .
Outlook : We learn this film ’s script , too , and it was a lot of playfulness , and amazingly moving . If you could grease one’s palms into the estimate of robot boxing in the first berth , this should be a flock of fun .
The Thing (October 14)
A prequel to the John Carpenter classic , show just what happened to that Norwegian camp .
Outlook : Another prequel , to a film that stands alone perfectly well … but when we claver this film ’s set , we were impressed with the tending to point and the zealotry about paying testimonial to Carpenter ’s photographic film . So fingers crossed .
Contagion (October 21)
Stephen Soderbergh head an all - asterisk casting in this celluloid about a spheric outbreak of a new disease , and the small squad that races to stop it . form admit Matt Damon , Kate Winslet and Gwyneth Paltrow .
lookout : If it ’s as gripping a globe - trot heroic poem as Soderbergh ’s dealings , then it ought to predominate .
Paranormal Activity 3 (October 21)
Did you know they were hit a third one ? Us neither .
expectation : How can this maybe find a new slant ? I judge we ’ll find out .
Dibbuk Box (October 28)
( Loosely ) free-base on a rightful tale — a humans buys a weird box at a yard sale , and brings it home . And his young daughter , Em , open it , unleash an vicious spirit that wants to guttle her , so he has to destroy it before it ’s too lately .
Outlook : Sam Raimi produced it , so perhaps it ’ll be large .
Immortals (November 11)
The Modern film from Tarsem Singh , Immortals is about the Greek warrior Theseus , combat against the imprison Titans . Mickey Rourke play King Hyperion . Star Steven Dorff has compare it to Gladiator meets 300 .
Outlook : It ’s Tarsem Singh , director of The Fall . It ’s proceed to be awful . Probably .
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (November 18)
The final volume is divide into two parts , Harry Potter - style , as we distinguish what actually happens when Bella and Edward get together .
Outlook : Bill Condon , one of the great directors working today , is making this celluloid — so it may really transform the Twilight series into something desirable of the adult male who made Gods and Monsters . You never cognise !
Arthur Christmas (November 23)
The latest film from Aardman Animation shows how Santa Claus cope to birth so many nowadays in one Nox — he has a UFO . It ’s just part of a huge , mellow - technical school operation under the North Pole . A new improbable hero from a nonadaptive family , Arthur , has a commission that must be nail by Christmas .
Outlook : This is the phratry who brought us Wallace and Gromit ! And Jim Broadbent is the vocalization of Santa !
Hugo Cabret (December 9)
Martin Scorsese make a huge departure , into movies for younger audience — and a more fanciful narrative . A untested male child hides inside the Paris train station and winds up repairing a mechanical valet de chambre . And it ’s sort of a retelling of the life of Georges Méliès , one of the first ever science fabrication film - makers .
expectation : Scorsese and steampunky automata ? We ca n’t wait !
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (December 16)
Yes , a fourth Mission Impossible film . But this one ’s take by Brad Bird ( The Incredibles ) and feature Josh Holloway , or Sawyer from Lost . Plus J.J. Abrams is still on board as a manufacturer .
Outlook : Brad Bird direct a high-pitched - tech undercover agent thriller sounds like a recipe for greatness . Fingers crossed !
Sherlock Holmes 2 (December 16)
The sequel to 2009 ’s runaway hit reunites director Guy Ritchie and stars Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law . Let ’s go for they have more eldritch steampunk end of the world machines this clip around .
Outlook : If it ’s as fun as the original , then we ’re down .
The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn (December 23)
This one is n’t strictly scientific discipline fiction or fantasy , but Tintin live in a kind of fantasy humanity , full of trip into space , weird occurrences and big - than - life adventures — and we ca n’t reckon that the teaming of Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson ( with some piece of writing by Steven Moffat ) wo n’t let in some nod to Tintin ’s more fantastic adventures .
Outlook : It ’s the pipe dream team , taking on a fundamental part of our pop acculturation heritage .
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