Because it’s such a slow news day, I thought I would upload the most recent and accurate release dates we have for next year’s movies. It’s shaping up to be another remake/sequel heavy year but there’s some really exciting projects among this bunch.
Here’s all the movies that stood out to me as found on this IMDB page.
It’s sad to see there aren’t too many original projects being made but once again more and more blockbusters are finding their way into the movie schedule. You thought this May was packed, wait until you check out next year’s…
January 30th – INKHEART (Brendan Fraser/Helen Mirren/Jim Broadbent – fantasy thriller)
February 13th – FRIDAY THE 13TH (remake, beginning with the events of Part II).
February 13th – VALKYRIE
March 6th – WATCHMEN
March 13th – THE LOVELY BONES (Peter Jackson’s adaptation of the Alice Sebold novel)
March 13th – RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN (The Rock stars in Disney reimaging)
April 3rd – THE WOLF MAN
April 8th – DRAGONBALL
April 17th – STATE OF PLAY (Russell Crowe/Ben Affleck thriller based on the 2003 British t.v. series)
May 1st – X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE
May 8th – STAR TREK
May 15th – ANGELS & DEMONS
May 22nd – NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 2: ESCAPE FROM THE SMITHSONIAN
May 22nd – TERMINATOR IV
May 29th – UP (next Pixar movie)
June 5th – YEAR ONE (biblical comedy starring Jack Black for director Harold Ramis)
June 12th – THE A-TEAM (remake of the hit 80’s t.v. show with John Singleton attached to direct)
June 16th – PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME (Mike Newell directing)
June 26th – TRANSFORMERS 2
July 1st – ICE AGE: DAWN OF DINOSAURS
July 1st – PUBLIC ENEMIES (Johnny Depp stars as gangster John Dillinger – Christian Bale plays the guy trying to take him down)
July 3rd – THE BIRDS (remake starring Naomi Watts)
July 10th – 2012 (next big summer disaster movie from Roland Emmerich of Independence Day and The Day After Tommorrow fame)
July 17th – LAND OF THE LOST (Will Ferrell remake)
July 31st – THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123 (Denzel Washington/John Travolta star in remake for Tony Scott)
August 7th – G.I. JOE
September 25th – HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (animated movie which reunites the Universal Monsters)
October 2nd – SHUTTER ISLAND (DiCaprio/Scorsese… again!)
October 2nd – TOY STORY re-released in 3d!
November 6th – A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Jim Carrey stars in motion captured Beowulf style animation for Robert Zemeckis)
November 6th – THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX (Wes Anderson’s animated version of the classic tale)
November 6th – NOTTINGHAM (Ridley Scott’s much delayed movie about the Sheriff of Nottingham starring Russell Crowe)
November 20th – THE SURROGATES (Bruce Willis sci-fi thriller for director Jonathan Mostow)
December 18th – AVATAR (James Cameron’s long awaited return)
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Apart from Watchmen (Here’s hopeing it’s the next “Bladerunner”) next year seems like a bit of a stinker for comicbook film fans.
Yeah. No JLA means there is no movie I’m on the edge of my seat anticipating next year. JLA would’ve made 09 kick ass.
Now I’m not sure I’ll even leave my house.
Yeah, summer 2009 isn’t that exciting to me anymore.
Hey, a few sound promising. THE WOLF MAN has Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins in the roles created by Lon Chaney Jr. and Claude Rains. ANGELS & DEMONS was a terrific book and might translate to the screen better than THE DA VINCI CODE did. PUBLIC ENEMIES with Depp and Bale sounds promising. Sccorsese/DiCaprio doing SHUTTER ISLAND based on the novel by Dennis LeHane who wrote MYSTIC RIVER and GONE BABY GONE should be a winner. And Aint It Cool News has convinced me that Zemeckis/Carrey’s MOCAP version of A CHRISTMAS CAROL is worth waiting for. And of course we’re all interested in THE WATCHMEN and AVATAR. And I’ll wait and see if a new STAR TREK will fly or not.
Next year looks relatively dead compared to this year.
Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are (16th of October) anyone?
Dan Brown’s box office aspirations have been killed by Nic Cage.
God knows what the REAL Indiana Jones will do to his cred!
It’s funny to see James Cameron doing a film and it isn’t Terminator 4. I will be interested to see where they go in 4 for sure.
Looks like May will be packed as usual. But 2009 being dead, by comparison to what, 2008 or 2007? May almost killed the summer season having the 3rd installment of Shrek, Spider-man and Pirates in the same month, none of which were that good. That’s saying alot coming from a movie buff like me too people! I love movies and last May stunk. I was so happy when it became June!
Frankly, aside from maybe Ironman and Indy of course, this May doesn’t look all that great, nor does most of the summer. It’s time for a downer year and this would be the one. If Indy doesn’t make at least 300 million, the summer of 2008 is in trouble! Because I really don’t think anything else this summer will.
Looking ahead to 2009, Transformers 2 will be big, I believe Star Trek (with J.J. Abram’s flare) will go over nicely. He got a bad break what with all the Tom Cruise issues on M:I III. Angels and Demons should be great! If its Pixars that is an instant 200 million. Avatar, and Prince of Persia, we’ll see.
Very curious to see what 2012 will be by Emmerich. As long as the hype doesn’t outlast the film. It did great with Independence Day, not so much with Godzilla or Day After Tomorrow.
I think the sleeper will be G.I. Joe!! I mean all my dreams come true in the same year. A new Star Trek film, Terminator film (minus Ah-nold I’m sure), Transformers 2, G.I. Joe and the A-Team in the same year!! All they would have needed was another Star Wars film, another Ghostbusters and E.T. sequel and I would be in heaven in 2009!