“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” – Alfred Hitchcock
Gentlemen, start your engines. Take a look at some of the most promising forthcoming films in the year ahead. Remember how we all wanted to ride War Horse a year ago? Time to scout out all the pretty horses of 2012.
- Haywire, Steven Soderbergh (Jan 20)
- The Grey, Joe Carnahan (Jan 27)
- The Woman in Black, James Watkins (Feb 3)
- Wanderlust, David Wain (February 24)
- The Raven, James McTeigue (March 9)
- The Hunger Games, Gary Ross (March 23)
- Cabin in the Woods, Drew Goddard (April 13)
- Wettest County, John Hillcoat (April 20)
- The Avengers, Joss Whedon (May 4)
- Dark Shadows, Tim Burton (May 11)
- The Dictator, Larry Charles (May 11)
- Amour, Michael Haneke (May 23, France)
- Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson (May 25)
- Prometheus Ridley Scott (June 8 )
- Brave, Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman (June 22)
- Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh (June 29)
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Timur Bekmambetov (June 22)
- The Amazing Spider-Man, Marc Webb (July 3)
- All You Need Is Love, Susanne Bier (July 11)
- The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan (July 20)
- The Bourne Legacy, Tony Gilroy (Aug. 3)
- ParaNorman, Chris Butler & Sam Fell (Aug 17)
- Anna Karenina, Joe Wright (Sept 7, UK)
- Argo, Ben Affleck (Sept. 14)
- Savages, Oliver Stone (Sept 28)
- Looper, Rian Johnson (Sept. 28)
- Cloud Atlas, Tom Tykwer & The Wachowskis (Oct)
- Frankenweenie, Tim Burton (Oct 5)
- The Gangster Squad, Ruben Fleischer (Oct. 19)
- Nero Fiddled, Woody Allen (Oct 19)
- Skyfall, Sam Mendes (Nov 9)
- 47 Ronin, Carl Rinsch (Nov 21)
- Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón (Nov 21)
- Les Miserables, Tom Hooper (Dec 7)
- The Life of Pi, Ang Lee (Dec 12)
- The Hobbit, Peter Jackson (Dec 14)
- Great Hope Springs, David Frankel (Dec 14)
- Untitled Kathryn Bigelow Osama bin Laden Film (Dec 19)
- World War Z, Marc Forster, (Dec. 20)
- This is Forty, Judd Apatow (Dec.21)
- The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann (Dec 25)
- Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino (Dec. 25)
- Seven Psychopaths, Martin McDonagh (TBA)
- The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson (TBA)
- Lincoln, Steven Spielberg (TBA)
- The Paperboy, Lee Daniels (TBA)
- Coogan’s Trade, Andrew Dominik (TBA)
- On the Road, Walter Salles (TBA)
- The Grandmasters, Wong Kar-Wai (TBA)
- Untitled Terrence Malick Film (TBA)
- Untitled David Chase Film (TBA)
- Only God Forgives, Nicolas Winding Refn (TBA)
- Much Ado About Nothing, Joss Whedon (TBA)
- Stoker, Chan-wook Park (TBA)
- The Place Beyond the Pines, Derek Cianfrance (TBA)
- 7 días en La Habana, Gaspar Noe (TBA)
- Fork in the Road, Alexander Payne (TBA)
- Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg (TBA)
- Nailed, David O. Russell (TBA)
- The Night Stalker, James Franco (?)