Rambo (Jan. 25): After the nominal bounce he received from Rocky Balboa, Sylvester Stallone dusts off the head-band for this fourth First Blood.
The Spiderwick Chronicles (February): Based on the popular children's books, this fantasy concerns a magical world that comes spilling into our own. The collective shrug audiences greeted The Golden Compass with is not a good sign.
Jumper (February): Hayden Christensen discovers he can teleport himself anywhere he wants. After misusing his abilities, he finds himself hunted by a government official (Samuel L. Jackson).
Vantage Point (February): A presidential assassination attempt is recounted from varying points of view in this thriller. Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox are Secret Service agents.
10,000 B.C. (March): The director of Independence Day meets Fred Flintstone in this prehistoric thriller.
Horton Hears a Who (March): Jim Carrey lends his voice to this animated story based on the Dr. Seuss tale.
The Ruins (April): Based on the best-seller, this thriller follows a group of tourists who discover something leafy, green and evil while exploring an archaeological dig in the Mexican jungle.
Iron Man (May 2): Robert Downey Jr. dons the red-and-gold suit of armour of the Marvel superhero. But how long will audiences embrace lesser-known comic-book characters?
Speed Racer (May): Matrix creators The Wachowskis adapt the 1960s Japanese anime with Into The Wild's Emile Hirsch behind the wheel.
Sex and the City: The Movie (Summer): The foursome take their Cosmopolitans to the big screen.
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Summer): Guillermo del Toro is behind the camera for this sequel to the well-liked supernatural adventure.
The X-Files 2 (July): Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) tackle a supernatural mystery. No little grey men, though. The sequel doesn't delve into the series' extraterrestrial mythology.
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Summer): Brendan Fraser returns -- but Maria Bello replaces Rachel Weisz -- for this second sequel to the 1999 Indiana Jones knockoff. How will this measure up to the real thing this summer? Our guess: Poorly.
Righteous Kill (Summer/Fall): Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro reunite on-screen for the first time since 1995's Heat with this vigilante-themed drama.
Adventureland (Fall/Winter): Director Greg Mottola's followup to Superbad is set in 1987 and follows a teen who works at an amusement park.
State of Play (Fall/Winter): Originally set to star Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, this political drama will now top-line Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck.
Synecdoche, New York (Fall/Winter): Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind scribe Charlie Kaufman directs his first film, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. What's it about? As with most things Kaufman, that's beside the point.
Frost/Nixon (Fall/Winter): Ron Howard directs this drama about the cat-and-mouse interview between British TV personality David Frost (Michael Sheen) and fallen U.S. President Richard Nixon (Frank Langella).
Burn After Reading (Fall/Winter): White-hot off their brilliant No Country for Old Men, the Coen Brothers return to black comedy with this farce about CIA documents that fall into the wrong hands. George Clooney, Brad Pitt and John Malkovich star.
The Time Traveler's Wife (November): Eric Bana is born with a gene that causes him to travel through time when he least expects -- or wants -- it. Rachel McAdams is his understanding spouse.
Defiance (Fall/Winter): Daniel Craig breaks from Bond-age to portray a Jewish resistance fighter during the Second World War. Edward Zwick (Glory, Blood Diamond) directs.
The Argentine/Guerilla (Fall/Winter): Benicio Del Toro stars as revolutionary Che Guevara in two films directed by Oscar-winner Steven Soderbergh (Traffic). The Argentine is set in 1956, while Guerilla is said to unfold nearly a decade later.
Body of Lies (Fall/Winter): Filmmaker Ridley Scott (American Gangster, Blade Runner) pairs Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe for this terrorism-and-CIA-themed thriller.
Nothing But the Truth (Fall/Winter): Kate Beckinsale is a journalist who outs a CIA agent (Vera Farmiga) and then goes to prison to protect her sources.
Revolutionary Road (December): More than a decade after Titanic, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are husband and wife in this adaptation of the venerated novel about 1950s suburban self-destruction. From American Beauty director Sam Mendes, who also happens to be Winslet's wife.
The Day The Earth Stood Still (December): Remake of the 1951 classic about an extra-terrestrial who lands on Earth to warn humanity that if we don't change our warring ways we'll be destroyed. Keanu Reeves stars as -- what else? -- the alien.
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