High-concept psychological thriller from Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly. Cameron Diaz (in really bad accent) and husband James Marsden receive a simple wooden box that will grant them $1M, but will also simultaneously cause the death of someone elsewhere in the world.
Stretching credibility to its absolute breaking point, Milla Jovovich plays a psychologist investigating alien abductions in Nome, Alaska. Sorry, fellas, but judging by the trailer she is pretty heavily clothed throughout, very much unlike her September 2009 Maxim cover. Directed by first-timer Olatunde Osunsanmi. We just like saying that.
Jeff Bridges brings back large parts of his famed "Dude" role as the druggie, hippie leader of psychic soldiers on a mission in Iraq. George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, and Kevin Spacey co-star in what looks like either the best comedy of 2009 or a colossal bomb (so to speak).
Once called The Boat That Rocked, this troubled Philip Seymour Hoffman comedy has already been released in the UK and had its US release date delayed. The only bright spot here looks to be the excellent soundtrack, which might make more dough than the movie's box office.
This year the disaster theme is primarily the latest pandemics, but director Roland Emmerich is determined not to let ancient prophecies take a backseat. Woody Harrelson and John Cusak star.
Director Wes Anderson adapts Roald Dahl's popular kids book for the big screen and hires a bunch of big-name actors for the voices, including Meryl Streep, George Clooney, and Bill Murray.
Inspirational sports drama based on the true story of Michael Oher, a big kid with a very tough background who ended up being the Baltimore Ravens' First Round pick in the 2009 NFL draft.
Pixar-wannabe about an astronaut who lands on a planet where the inhabitants are stuck in a version of 1950's America. "The Rock" and Jessica Biel star. Sorry, fellas, only her voice is on display.
One of those movies where the title says it all. It's about a ninja who's an assassin. Directed by James McTeigue (V for Vendetta) who's been rumored to direct the next Superman movie.
The trailer for this comedy is painful to watch, and we're not just talking about the shots to the head and groin. Robin Williams and John Travolta star. Directed by Walt Becker, who also did Wild Hogs. That rhymes.
This Road Warrior update, but with big-name stars (Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron), is based on a novel by Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men). Despite its unrelenting darkness — or perhaps because of it? — a certain Oscar contender.
Matt Dillon, Laurence Fishburne, and Jean Reno star in this heist pic about employees at an armored-transport company who plan a big theft from their own company. The trailer is definitely not encouraging.
A heavy-duty drama starring Natalie Portman as a woman who falls for her brother-in-law (Jake Gyllenhaal) after her husband (Tobey Maquire) is presumed dead in Afghanistan. Maguire is aiming for Oscar gold by by adopting an unhealthy-looking Christian Bale-esqe weight loss plan. U2 soundtrack successfully provides added earnestness.
If there's an archetypal Hollywood Holiday Dramedy, Everybody's Fine would be it. Completely non-threatening, feel-good fare starring Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, and Robert DeNiro, who looks like he's taking it pretty easy before next summer's big Fockers sequel.
We've seen infommercials with more chemistry than what's on display here between Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker. This high-concept romantic comedy follows an urban couple who's forced to enter the witness relocation program in Wyoming.
The best-selling novel about a brutally murdered teen who then watches over her family gets the Hollywood treatment with an A-list cast, including Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, and Susan Sarandon.
Now that America has its first black president, Disney can safely create its first black princess! Anika Noni Rose is the voice of Princess Tiana, with other voices provided by John Goodman, Terrence Howard, and Oprah Winfrey.
Skeptics are suggesting this might bomb because director James Cameron's latest epic (Titanic) was released 12 years ago, when Avatar's target demographic was still watching SpongeBob. Perhaps, but the trailer looks pretty far out. And Zoe Saldana stars.
Alvin and the Chipmunks I (2007) was such a huge box-office success ($217M) that we knew this was coming. We were just hoping it was a few more years off.
Every three years in December a Nancy Myers romantic comedy hits theaters. 2000: What Women Want, 2003: Something's Gotta Give, 2006: The Holiday, and now in 2009: It's Complicated. Is she human or machine? This one stars Alec Baldwin as married man who has an affair with his ex-wife (Meryl Streep).
Stars Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, and Rachel McAdams. Directed by Guy Ritchie. This has hit written all over it in big, bold letters. So much so that Warner Brothers is already talking about a sequel starring Brad Pitt as Holmes' nemesis.
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