Monday, December 5, 2011

Movies Coming Out In 2012

Every year around this time I start to get really excited. Not because of Christmas (but that is awesome) but because during this time of year we start getting previews of what is to coming to theaters next year. And 2012 has a lot of movies coming out that seem to be good. Im going to go month to month and give a small preview of what movies I think are the most sees.

January:
13- Contraband stars Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster and Giovanni Ribisi. Chris Farraday
(mark wahlburg) abandoned his life of crime long ago, but after his brother-in-law, Andy, botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi), Chris is forced back into doing what he does best -- running contraband -- to settle Andy's debt.


20-Haywire stars Gina Carano Channing Tatum, Michael Fassbend, Ewan McGregor, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas and Bill Paxton. And its about a black ops super soldier(Gina Carano) seeks payback after she is betrayed and set up during a mission.


20-Underworld Awakening marks the return of Kate Beckinsale to the Underworld world. As she wakes up many years later and finds her daughter has been taken and the humans have started a war with the vampires and Lycans.


27-The Grey stars Liam Neeson who’s plane crashes in Alaska and as they struggle to survive they start getting attacked by a pack of Wolves.


27-Mon on a Ledge stars Sam Worthington, Jamie Bell and Ed Harris. Worthington got set up for the theft of a diamond and to prove his innocence he threatens to kill himself, which is just a distraction for his friends and break in and actually steal the diamond.



February:
3- Woman in Black stars Daniel Radcliffe who is a Young lawyer who travels to a remote village to organize a recently deceased client's papers, where he encounters the ghost of a scorned woman set on vengeance.


3-Chronicle see blog entry
10- Star Wars: Episode 1 The Phantom Menace 3D, Mr. Lucas is releasing all of the Star War films in 3D, One a year starting in January.
10-Safe House stars Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds star in the action-thriller Safe House. Washington plays the most dangerous renegade from the CIA, who comes back onto the grid after a decade on the run. When the South African safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative (Reynolds) escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them dead.



24- Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance see blog entry

March:
2-Hansel and Gretel: Which Hunters stars Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton and takes place 15 years after their traumatic gingerbread-house incident, siblings Hansel and Gretel have become a formidable team of bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over the world.
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9-John Carter stars Taylor Kitsch, Mark Strong, Dominic West and Willem Defoe and is about a Civil War vet who gets Transplanted to Mars and discovers a lush planet inhabited by 12-foot tall barbarians. Finding himself a prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter a princess who is in desperate need of a savior.



9-the Raven stars John Cusack and Luke Evans and is about a killer who is reenacting murders from Poe’s work.


30- Wrath of the Titans is a sequal to Clash of the Titans and stars Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes and is about Perseus who embarks on a treacherous quest into the underworld to rescue Zeus, who has been targeted for capture by his traitorous son, Ares, and his brother, Hades
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April:
13- Bullet to the Head stars Sylvester Stallone and Jason Momoa who After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.
20-The Wettest County stars Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf and Gary Oldman and it is Set in the Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by authorities who want a cut of their profits.
27-Safe stars Jason Statham who is A former elite agent takes on a two-tier mission: rescue a Chinese girl who's been abducted by the Triads, then use a safe combination to outwit the Russian Mafia, corrupt NYC officials, and the Triads themselves.


May:
4- The Avengers stars Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk and is what Marvel Studios have been building up to for 3 years now


18-Battleship see blog entry
25-Men in Black 3 stars Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin. Although not much is known about the film the basic plot is that Will smith travels back into time and meets a younger Tommy who is played by Brolin.

June:
1-Snow White and the Huntsman see blog entry

8-Prometheus see blog entry

22-Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter stars Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper and Rufus Sewell and is about how President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.

29-G.I. Joe 2 Channing Tatum, Brue Willis, The Rock, Ray Stevenson, Ray Park and Arnold Vosloo and is about The G.I. Joe team faces off against Zartan, his accomplices, and the world leaders he has under his influence.


July:
3-The Amazing Spider-Man is a complete reboot staring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Rhys Ifans.


27-The Dark Knight Rises is the third and final entry for Nolan;s Batman series. And it stars Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Joesph Gordon-Levitt. Bane the new leader of the League of Assassins comes to Gotham to finish what (Liam Neeson) started in the first movie. Expect the 9 minute long prologue to be attached to MI: Ghost Protocol.


August:
3-The Bourne Legacy is not a remake or a sequel but bares the same name to the Bourne franchise. And it stars Jeremy Renner who plays Aaron Cross. Not much is known about the flick but the fact it takes place in the same universe as the previous films

3-Total Recall stars Colin Farrel and is about the nation states Euromerica and New Shanghai fight for supremacy in the far future, a simple factory worker suffering from violent nightmares (Farrell) also begins to suspect that he's a spy whose memory and personality were erased and replaced, though he is unaware which side of the fight he's on and how important his lost memories will be in its outcome.
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17-Expendables 2 nothing is really known about this upcoming sequel expect it stars Stallone, Statham, Li, Lundgren, Chuck Norris Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis. With all of these uber action stars does it really matter what the story is?

September
14-Argo Is directed by and staring by Ben Affleck (the last time he did this he made The Town and it was amazing maybe this is the only way he can be a good actor) but it is about an Iranian revolution begins to reach a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.

14-Resident Evil: Retribution see blog entry

21- Dredd is a remake of the 1995 classic but this time stars Karl Urban. Same basic plot lines.
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28-Looper this one is probably going to be a surprisingly September smash hit. It stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis and it has a surprisingly original plot line it’s about A present-day killer (Gordon-Levitt) works for a mob in the future and kills people who are sent from the future. He recognizes one victim (Willis) as himself and hesitates, resulting in the escape of his older self

October:
5-Taken 2 this seems to be a movie just being made because the first one was a huge success. It agains tars Liam Neeson and is about the father of the kidnapper Neeson killed (in taken) wants revenge on Neeson so he takes his family and him hostage.

5-The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D is not a remake of the original (or the already made remake) but a sequel to the original film. It stars Alexandra Daddario and is about A young woman (Daddario) travels to Texas to collect an inheritance; little does she know that an encounter with a chainsaw-yielding killer is part of the reward.

19-The Gangster Squad stars Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Giovanni Ribisi and Robert Patrick and is about the LAPD's fight to keep East Coast Mafia types out of Los Angeles in the 1940s and 50s. this is going to be a cool flick.

26-Halloween 3D not much at all is known about this movie. Expect the fact that it carries on from where Halloween left off and no it’s not going to be directed by Rob Zombie, So there for should not be made.

November:
2-Red Dawn has seem some troubles in getting remade. Although it was finished being filmed all the way back in 09, it wasn’t released right away due to MGM going bankrupt. But then things started to look bright again. Then it hit a snag when they had to go back into the movie and digitally change all of the bad guys from Chinese to North Korean, which cost them about a million dollars to do. But now its finally be released and it stars Chris Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson and Jeffery Dean Morgan.

9-Skyfall see blog entry

21-47 Ronin is set in the 18th century set and the story centered on a band of samurai who set out to avenge the death of their master. And it stars Keanu Reeves (yeah I don’t get it either) Hiroyuki Sanada, Ko Shibaski and Tadanobu Asano.

December:
14- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Finally after nine years we can return to the realm of Middle-Earth. Again Peter Jackson takes on an journey featuring hobbits and dwarves and elves. And is part one of two.
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19- Untitled. A couple years ago Kathryn Bigelow pitched a movie idea about the solders who were hunting down Osama Bin Laden. And since back then there was no real “ending” to the movie it got put on hold. Recently (with the death of Bin Laden) the studios have given her the green light to do the movie. And I cant think of no better person to direct then her. She two years ago she won the Oscar for best picture for the movie The Hurt Locker.

21-Hunter Killer is about an untested American submarine captain who teams up with the U.S navy seals when they have to go rescue the kidnapped president of Russia who has been kidnapped by a rouge general.

21- World War Z finally gets made. After many years of talks about making the bestseller World War Z, it finally does. WWZ is about an UN representative (Brad Pitt), writing a report on the great zombie war, interviews survivors in the wake of World War Z.

25-Django Unchained see blog entry

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