Major Theatrical Releases of 2010
By Marc Patterson
Daybreakers – January 8
What is it? A futuristic tale about a world overrun by vampires in which humans are
harvested for blood.
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Isabel Lucas, Vince Colosimo, Claudia Karvan
Directors: Peter and Michael Spierig
The Lovely Bones – January 15
What is it? An adaptation of the bestselling novel about a dead young girl in the afterlife
observing her family as they try to solve her murder.
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Saoirse Ronan
Directors: Peter Jackson
Legion – January 22
What is it? A supernatural action/horror hybrid about a group of humans battling angels
sent by God to bring on the Apocalypse.
Stars: Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson, Kate Walsh, Adrianne Palicki,
Charles S. Dutton
Director: Scott Stewart
After Dark Horrorfest – January 29
What is it? The fourth annual edition of this nationwide film festival, featuring eight
modestly budgeted horror movies.
Stars: Various
Directors: Various
Frozen – February 5
What is it? A survivalist thriller about three snowboarders trapped for days on a ski lift who
must make life-or-death decisions to avoid freezing.
Stars: Shawn Ashmore, Emma Bell, Kevin Zegers, Ed Ackerman, Rileah Vanderbilt
Director: Adam Green
The Wolfman – February 12 (Really?)
What is it? A remake of the Universal werewolf classic.
Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Hugo Weaving, Emily Blunt, Geraldine Chaplin,
Kiran Shah, Art Malik
Director: Joe Johnston
Shutter Island – February 19
What is it? An adaptation of the bestselling novel by Dennis Lehane about two US Marshals
investigating the disappearance of a patient from a psychiatric hospital located on an island
off the coast of Massachusetts.
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Patricia Clarkson,
Jackie Earle Haley, Emily Mortimer, Max Von Sydow
Director: Martin Scorsese
The Crazies – February 26
What is it? A remake of the George Romero film about an infection that drives citizens of a
small town to homicide.
Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson, Preston Bailey,
Christie Lynn Smith
Director: Breck Eisner
Night of the Demons – Rumored for February
What is it? A remake of the '80s cult classic about a group of partying students encountering
demonic possession in a haunted house.
Stars: Edward Furlong, Shannon Elizabeth, Diora Baird, Monica Keena, Tiffany Shepis,
Linnea Quigley, Michael Copon
Director: Adam Gierasch
Season of the Witch – March 18
What is it? A historical action thriller about a 14th century Crusader charged with
transporting an accused witch to a remote abbey across a land ravaged by the Black Plague.
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Claire Foy, Stephen Graham, Ulrich Thomsen, Stephen
Campbell Moore, Robert Sheehan, Christopher Lee
Director: Dominic Sena
Piranha 3-D – April 16
What is it? A 3-D remake of the '70s creature feature about killer fish wreaking havoc on
people in a lake.
Stars: Elisabeth Shue, Ving Rhames, Adam Scott, Jerry O'Connell, Steven R. McQueen, Dina
Meyer, Christopher Lloyd, Richard Dreyfuss, Jessica Szohr
Director: Alexandre Aja
A Nightmare on Elm Street – April 30
What is it? A remake of the '80s slasher about an undead serial killer who attacks people in
their dreams.
Stars: Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker, Kellan
Lutz, Clancy Brown
Director: Samuel Bayer
Mother's Day – May 9
What is it? A remake of the relatively obscure 1980 exploitation film of the same name,
altering the plot to one involving a deranged displaced family that returns to their old house
to find it occupied.
Stars: Jaime King, Deborah Ann Woll, Briana Evigan, Alexa Vega, Shawn Ashmore, Rebecca
De Mornay, Matt O'Leary
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Survival of the Dead – Rumored for a limited run early spring release
What is it? The latest zombie effort from the legendary George Romero, about inhabitants of
a zombie-infested island who must decide what to do with loved ones who have risen from
the dead.
Stars: Alan Van Sprang, Joris Jarsky, Kenneth Welsh, Athena Karkanis, Kathleen Munroe,
Devon Bostick, Matt Birman, Eric Woolfe
Director: George A. Romero
Jonah Hex – June 18
What is it? An adaptation of a popular comic book about a scarred bounty hunter who
tracks a voodoo practitioner bent on liberating the South by raising an army of the undead.
Stars: Josh Brolin, Megan Fox, John Malkovich, Will Arnett, Michael Fassbender, Michael
Shannon, David Patrick Kelly, Tom Townsend
Director: Jimmy Hayward
Predators – July 7
What is it? A third entry in the Predator franchise of films (fifth if you include the two Alien
vs. Predator crossovers) about aliens who visit Earth to hunt humans for sport.
Stars: Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Danny Trejo, Oleg
Taktarov, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Walton Goggins
Director: Nimrod Antal
Priest – August 20
What is it? A horror Western comic book adaptation about a priest who tracks down a band
of vampires who have kidnapped his niece.
Stars: Paul Bettany, Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q, Karl Urban, Stephen Moyer, Christopher
Plummer, Brad Dourif
Director: Scott Stewart
Release Date: August 20, 2010
The Roommate – September 17
What is it? A thriller about a college freshman whose assigned roommate turns out to be
obsessive and violently unbalanced.
Stars: Leighton Meester, Minka Kelly, Cam Gigandet, Aly Michalka, Matt Lanter, Frances
Fisher
Director: Christian E. Christiansen
Saw VII 3D – October 22
What is it? The seventh annual film in the Saw franchise (the first in 3-D) about a serial
killer who puts victims through a series of deadly games.
Stars: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell, Tanedra Howard
Director: David Hackl
Release Date: October 22, 2010
The Ward – Fall 2010 – Rumored for a September release date. Likely to be limited at best.
What is it? The first feature film directorial effort from John Carpenter since 2001's Ghosts
of Mars, it tells the story of a young woman thrown into a psychiatric hospital with no
memory who begins to fear for her life when the other patients start disappearing one by
one.
Stars: Amber Heard, Danielle Panabaker, Lyndsy Fonseca, Mika Boorem, Mamie Gummer,
Jared Harris
Director: John Carpenter
Hatchet 2 – Fall 2010, or straight to video. Too early to tell for sure.
What is it? A sequel to the underground hit Hatchet, about a deformed killer living in the
Louisiana swamps.
Stars: Danielle Harris, Tony Todd, Kane Hodder, Parry Shen, AJ Bowen
Director: Adam Green
Area 51 – Fall 2010
What is it? Writer/director Oren Peli's POV follow-up to Paranormal Activity, in which teens
break into the notorious Area 51 military base with a video camera to capture evidence of
alien experimentation.
Stars: Reid Warner, Darrin Bragg, Ben Rovner
Director: Oren Peli
Release Date: Fall 2010
Black Swan – Fall 2010
What is it? A psychological thriller from Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler) about a veteran
ballerina who finds her position threatened by a younger dancer who may or may not be a
ghost.
Stars: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Let Me In – Fall 2010
What is it? A remake of the acclaimed Swedish movie Let the Right One In, about a bullied
school boy who befriends a young female vampire, helmed by Cloverfield director Matt
Reeves.
Stars: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloe Moretz, Richard Jenkins, Sasha Barrese, Dylan Minnette,
Cara Buono, Elias Koteas
Director: Matt Reeves
My Soul to Take – Fall 2010
What is it? Director Wes Craven's first venture into horror since 2005's Cursed, in which
teens born the night of a serial killer's death begin turning up dead. Previously titled 25/8.
Stars: Max Thieriot, Denzel Whitaker, Raul Esparza, Zena Grey, Frank Grillo, Shareeka Epps
Director: Wes Craven
13
What is it? A remake of the French/Georgian thriller 13 Tzameti about a naive, down-onhis-luck laborer who assumes another man's identity and finds himself a participant in a
life-or-death underground tournament.
Stars: Jason Statham, Alexander Skarsgard, Mickey Rourke, Ray Winstone, 50 Cent,
Emmanuelle Chriqui, Natasha Lyonne, Gaby Hoffmann, David Zayas, Ben Gazzara
Director: Géla Babluani
Release Date: TBD 2010 (theatrical or DVD)
30 Days of Night: Dark Days
What is it? A sequel to the comic book-based 30 Days of Night that focuses on Stella's
attempt to gain revenge on the vampires that destroyed her town by venturing to Los
Angeles to track down the vampire queen.
Stars: Kiele Sanchez, Harold Perrineau, Diora Baird, Rhys Coiro, Mia Kirshner, Katherine
Isabelle
Director: Ben Ketai
Release Date: TBD 2010 (DVD)
And Soon the Darkness
What is it? A remake of the 1970 British thriller about two girls on a biking trip who are
menaced by a strange man.
Stars: Amber Heard, Odette Yustman, Karl Urban, Gia Mantegna, Adriana Barraza
Director: Marcos Efron
Release Date: TBD 2010
Buried
What is it? A thriller about an American contractor working in Iraq who awakes to find that
he's buried alive inside a coffin with only a lighter and a cell phone. Reynolds is virtually the
only actor in the entire film.
Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Ivana Miño
Director: Rodrigo Cortes
Release Date: TBD 2010
Case 39
What is it? A supernatural thriller about a social worker who rescues a little girl from a
dangerous household, only to realize that the girl might be the source of the danger.
Stars: Renée Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper, Kerry O'Malley,
Callum Keith Rennie, Crystal Lowe
Director: Christian Alvart
Release Date: TBD 2010 (DVD or theatrical. Initially scheduled for an early 2008 release, it's
been pushed back several times due largely to poor word of mouth.)
Dead of Night
What is it? An adaptation of the Italian Dylan Dog comic books in which a phobic
supernatural "nightmare investigator" seeks out monsters in a Louisiana bayou.
Stars: Brandon Routh, Taye Diggs, Peter Stormare, Sam Huntington, Kurt Angle, Anita Briem
Director: Kevin Munroe
Release Date: TBD 2010
The Descent Part 2
What is it? A sequel to the popular British monster movie that picks up where the first film
left off, as Sarah is forced by police to go back into the caves to help locate the rest of the
group, only to be trapped by falling rocks and creatures living beneath the surface.
Stars: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Jackson Mendoza, Krysten Cummings, Gavan O'Herlihy,
Joshua Dallas, Anna Skellern, Douglas Hodge
Director: Jon Harris
Release Date: TBD 2010 (DVD)
The Experiment
What is it? A remake of the German thriller Das Experiment, in which a group of men are
recruited to take on the roles of guards and prisoners as part of a research study to examine
the effects of assigned roles, power balances and imposed control impact the participants.
Stars: Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Grace, Travis Fimmel, Cam Gigandet, Clifton
Collins Jr., Fisher Stevens, David Banner
Director: Paul Scheuring
Release Date: TBD 2010
Heartless
What is it? A dark fairy tale about a young man who makes a deal with a demon that he can't
escape.
Stars: Jim Sturgess, Clemence Poesy, Noel Clarke, Timothy Spall, Eddie Marsan, Luke
Treadaway
Director: Philip Ridley
Release Date: TBD 2010
Lost Boys: The Thirst
What is it? The second direct-to-video sequel to the '80s cult fave The Lost Boys, this one
focusing on vampire hunter Edgar Frog's latest gig: rescuing the son of a romance novelist
from the clutches of a vampire.
Stars: Corey Feldman, Jamison Newlander, Sean Cameron Michael, Tanit Phoenix, Matthew
Dylan Roberts, Seb Castang, Joe Vaz
Director: Dario Piana
Release Date: TBD 2010 (DVD)
Scream 4
What is it? The fourth film in the Scream series and the first in a reported trilogy reboot
featuring a robed killer with an axe to grind.
Stars: Courteney Cox, Neve Campbell, David Arquette
Director: Wes Craven
Release Date: TBD 2010 (shooting to begin in April 2010)
Splice
What is it? Sci fi monster movie from director Vincenzo Natali (Cube) and producer
Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy) about two scientists who engineer a new animal species with
human DNA.
Stars: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chaneac, David Hewlett
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Release Date: TBD 2010
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
What is it? Spoof of slasher movies about a pair of West Virginia hillbillies who go on
vacation at their dilapidated mountain cabin, only to be mistaken for killers by a group of
college kids camping nearby.
Stars: Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden, Jesse Moss
Director: Eli Craig
Release Date: TBD 2010