2010 in Film: July-December

July


July 2

Knight and Day



Directed by James Mangold Written by Patrick O'Neill (other writing credits pending WGA arbitration)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Maggie Grace, Paul Dano, Marc Blucas, Viola Davis, Olivier Martinez

Roy Miller (Cruise) is a secret agent who goes on a blind date with unlucky-in-love June Havens (Diaz), and ends up pulling her into a journey to protect a powerful battery that holds the key to an infinite power source.

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Also on July 2
-The Last Airbender


July 7

Predators



Directed by Nimród Antal Written by Michael Finch, Alex Litvak, Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Danny Trejo, Laurence Fishburne, Alice Braga, Walton Goggins

A group of elite warriors are hunted by members of a merciless alien race known as Predators.


July 9

-Despicable Me (3-D)


July 16

Inception



Written & Directed by Christopher Nolan
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt,Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Michael Caine

A contemporary science fiction action thriller set within the architecture of the mind.

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Also on July 16
-The Sorcerer's Apprentice


July 23

Salt



Directed by Phillip Noyce Written by Kurt Wimmer, Brian Helgeland
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor

After CIA officer Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper agent planning to assassinate the President of the United States; she goes on the run to try to clear her name while attempting to prove someone else is the traitor and as a covert operative must escape captivity and protect her husband before the world's most powerful forces can erase all traces of her existence.

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Also on July 23
-Dinner For Schmucks



August


August 13

The Expendables



Directed by Sylvester Stallone Written by Dave Callaham, Sylvester Stallone
Starring: Sylvester Stallone,Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Terry Crews, Eric Roberts, Steve Austin, Mickey Rourke with Bruce Willis & Arnold Schwarzenegger

After years of unspeakable corruption that concludes with tragedies such as murder of American hostages and betrayal of foreign policies, and finally recognizing a way out of this terrible mess, the U.S. along with other Nations, equally seeking the end of this catastrophe, secretly put together a squad of its highest trained military personnel to finally over throw the dictator who has caused devastation in South America for over 20 years. The team sets out on its mission to complete the assassination, but with little help from the nations as they try to keep the mission secret. After they realize that there will be no outside help, they rely on their own resources to fight not only the dictator’s army but also the governments that set them up.

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Also on August 13
-Eat, Pray, Love


August 17

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World



Directed by Edgar Wright Written by Edgar Wright, Michael Bacall
Starring: Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Anna Kendrick, Alison Pill, Mark Webber

Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera), bass guitarist for the garage band Sex Bob-omb, has just met the girl of his dreams. However, he must defeat Ramona Flowers' (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) seven evil ex-boyfriends, who are coming to kill him.

Scott Pilgrim has never had a problem getting a girlfriend. It’s getting rid of them that proves difficult. From the girl who kicked his heart’s ass — and now is back in town — to the teenage distraction he’s trying to shake when Ramona rollerblades into his world, love hasn’t been easy. He soon discovers, however, his new crush has the most unusual baggage of all: a nefarious league of exes control her love life and will do whatever it takes to eliminate him as a suitor.

As Scott gets closer to Ramona, he must face an increasingly vicious rogues’ gallery from her past, from infamous skateboarders to vegan rock stars and fearsomely identical twins. And if he hopes to win his true love, he must vanquish them all before it really is game over.


August 20

Priest



Directed by Scott Stewart Written by Cory Goodman
Starring: Paul Bettany, Karl Urban, Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q

The film is about a warrior priest (Paul Bettany) who disobeys church law by teaming with a young sheriff (Cam Gigandet) and a priestess (Maggie Q) to track down a group of renegade vampires who kidnapped his niece.


September

September 1

The American



Directed by Anton Corbijn Written by Rowan Joffe (based on the novel by Martin Booth)

Starring: George Clooney, Bruce Altman

Alone among assassins, Jack (George Clooney) is a master craftsman. When a job in Sweden ends more harshly than expected for this American abroad, he vows to his contact Larry (Bruce Altman of this fall’s Peter and Vandy) that his next assignment will be his last. Jack reports to the Italian countryside, where he holes up in a small town and relishes being away from death for a spell. The assignment, as specified by a Belgian woman, Mathilde (Thekla Reuten of Focus’ award-winning In Bruges), is in the offing as a weapon is constructed. Surprising himself, Jack seeks out the friendship of local priest Father Benedetto (Italian screen and stage veteran Paolo Bonacelli) and pursues romance with local woman Clara (Italian leading lady Violante Placido). But by stepping out of the shadows, Jack may be tempting fate.


September 10
The Town



Directed by Ben Affleck Written by Ben Affleck, Peter Craig
Starring: Ben Affleck, Blake Lively, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Rebecca Hall, Chris Cooper

The film (based on Chuck Hogan's novel Prince of Thieves) follows the action of four Charlestown, Massachusetts bank robbers as they are pursued by law enforcement.

Resident Evil: Afterlife (3-D)



Written & Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Wentworth Miller

Resident Evil: Afterlife picks up where the third film left off. Since the events of Resident Evil: Extinction, Alice has been roaming the world searching for any remaining survivors. As she enters the ruined Los Angeles, she stumbles onto a prison surrounded by zombies.She then teams up with a group of survivors who had been hiding in Los Angeles since the T-virus outbreak and helps them break out other survivors held within the jail which include Claire's brother Chris Redfield.


September 24

Guardians of Ga'Hoole



Directed by Zack Snyder Written by Kathryn Lasky, John Orloff, John Collee
Starring: Jim Sturgess, Geoffrey Rush, Emilie de Ravin,Ryan Kwanten, Hugo Weaving, Sam Neill, Helen Mirren

Guardians of Ga'Hoole is an upcoming animated film based on the series of children's fantasy books of the same name by Kathryn Lasky.It's based on the first three installments of the book series: The Capture, The Journey, and The Rescue.

Soren, a young barn owl, is kidnapped by owls of St. Aggie's, ostensibly an orphanage, where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers. He and his new friends escape to the island of Ga'Hoole, to assist its noble, wise owls who fight the army being created by the wicked rulers of St. Aggie's.



October

October 1

Let Me In



Directed by Matt Reeves Written by Benjamin Smith
Starring: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloë Moretz, Richard Jenkins

Let Me In is a horror film directed by Matt Reeves, based on the novel Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist. It is an American remake of the 2008 Swedish film Let the Right One In. It tells the story of a 12-year-old boy who develops a friendship with a vampire child in a New Mexico town in the early 1980s.

Also on October 1
-Your Highness


October 15

The Social Network

Directed by David Fincher Written by Aaron Sorkin
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song, Andrew Garfield

A film (adapted from Ben Mezrich's 2009 novel The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal) about the founders of the social-networking website, Facebook.

Also in October
-Red (October 22)



November

November 5
Due Date



Directed by Todd Phillips Written by Alan R. Cohen, Alan Freedland, Adam Sztykiel
Starring: Robert Downey, Jr., Michelle Monaghan, Zach Galifianakis, Jamie Foxx

The plot focuses on two men: a highly strung expectant father (Downey, Jr.) and an aspiring actor (Galifianakis) on a cross country road trip so the father can arrive in time to see his child's birth.


November 12

Unstoppable

Directed by Tony Scott Written by Mark Bomback
Starring: Denzel Washington, Chris Pine

A rail company frantically works to prevent an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train carrying combustible liquids and poisonous gas from wiping out a city. A veteran engineer and a young conductor chase the train in a separate locomotive in order to bring it under control before it's too late.


November 19

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I



Directed by David Yates Written by Steve Kloves
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Ralph Fiennes

The final chapter of the Harry Potter film series begins as Harry, Ron, and Hermione leave Hogwarts behind and set out to find and destroy the Horcruxes, the secret to Voldemort's power and immortality.


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November 24

Red Dawn



Directed by Dan Bradley Written by Jeremy Passmore (Story), Carl Ellsworth, Tony Gilroy (Rewrite)
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Adrianne Palicki, Josh Hutcherson, Isabel Lucas, Jeffrey Dean Morgan

After an invasion from the Chinese forces, a band of teenagers join together to reclaim their territory and take back what once belonged to them.

Also on November 24
-Love and Other Drugs


December

December 10

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader



Directed by Michael Apted Written by Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Steven Knight, Michael Petroni, Richard LaGravenese

Starring: Ben Barnes, Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley, Will Poulter, Liam Neeson (voice), Eddie Izzard (voice)

"Edmund Pevensie and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb, find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantastic Narnian ship headed for the very edges of the world. Joining forces once again with their royal friend Caspian X and the warrior mouse Reepicheep, they are whisked away on a mysterious mission to the Lone Islands, and beyond. On this bewitching voyage that will test their hearts and spirits, the trio will face magical Dufflepuds, sinister slave traders, roaring dragons and enchanted merfolk. Only an entirely uncharted journey to Aslan's Country - a voyage of destiny and transformation for each of those aboard the Dawn Treader - can save Narnia, and all the astonishing creatures in it, from an unfathomable fate."


December 17

Tron Legacy



Directed by Joseph Kosinski Written by Steven Lisberger, Lee Sternthal, Brian Klugman Screenplay: Richard Jefferies, Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Bruce Boxleitner, Michael Sheen, Olivia Wilde

Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidante (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.

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December 22

Green Hornet



Directed by Michel Gondry Written by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg
Starring: Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Christoph Waltz, Cameron Diaz, Edward James Olmos

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.


Unscheduled Releases

Black Swan



Directed by Darren Aronofsky Written by Darren Aronofsky & Mark Heyman
Starring: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis,Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder

Nina (Portman) and Lilly (Kunis) are rival ballet dancers in New York City, and Nina wins the lead in the ballet Swan Lake. Things fall apart around Nina, and she begins a downward spiral mentally.


Tree Of Life



Written & Directed by Terrence Malick
Starring: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain

The tale of a Midwestern boy's journey from the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as a "lost soul in the modern world", and into his quest to regain meaning in life.

The Way Back



Written & Directed by Peter Weir (Novel: Slavomir Rawicz)
Starring: Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan, Mark Strong

The film is about a group of soldiers who engineered a grueling escape from a Siberian gulag in 1942 and their passage to India.


Shanghai



Directed by Mikael Håfström Written by Hossein Amini
Starring: John Cusack, Gong Li, Chow Yun-Fat, Ken Watanabe

In the months leading up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, an American man (Cusack) arrives in Shanghai to find his friend recently murdered. In investigating his friend's death, he stumbles upon a secret the United States government has been keeping and falls in love in the process.


You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger



Written & Directed by Woody Allen
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Freida Pinto, Naomi Watts

The film revolves around different members of a family, their tangled love lives and their attempts to try to solve their problems.

Never Let Me Go



Directed by Mark Romanek Written by Alex Garland, Kazuo Ishiguro (novel)
Starring: Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Sally Hawkins, Charlotte Rampling

An alternate history story of a woman who, as she reflects on her private school years in the English countryside, reunites with her two friends to face the dark secrets buried in their communal past. With no contact or knowledge of the outside world during their years at the boarding school, they discover they are clones, born and raised for the sole purpose of providing organs for transplants.

The Fighter



Directed by David O. Russell Written by Paul Attanasio, Lewis Colick
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams

The Fighter, is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being KO'd by drugs and crime.


The Ghost Writer



Directed by Roman Polanski Written by Roman Polanski, Robert Harris
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Ewan McGregor, Olivia Williams, Kim Catrall, Tom Wilkinson

A ghostwriter hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy.

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--Rabbit Hole

-The Rum Diary

-Ondine

-My Own Love Song

-Get Low