Michael Jackson’s This Is It
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Director: Kenny Ortega
Cast: Michael Jackson
Plot: A compilation of interviews, rehearsals and backstage footage of Michael Jackson as he prepared for his series of sold-out shows in London.
Genre: Documentary | Music
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Director: Mike Newell
Writers: Doug Miro, Carlo Bernard
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley, Gemma Arterton, Alfred Molina, Toby Kebbell
Plot: Based on the video game, which follows an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world.
Genre: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Romance
Despicable Me
Release Date: July 9, 2010
Directors: Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
Writers: Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio
Cast: Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Will Arnett, Kristen Wiig, Danny McBride, Miranda Cosgrove, Jack McBrayer, Mindy Kaling, Jemaine Clement, Julie Andrews
Plot: A trio of orphan girls cause the normally deplorable Gru to rethink his plan to steal the moon.
Genre: Animation | Family
Inception
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy, Michael Caine
Plot: A CEO-type becomes involved in a blackmailing scandal.
Genre: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Tron Legacy
Release Date: December 17, 2010
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Writers: Eddie Kitsis, Adam Horowitz
Cast: Garrett Hedlund, Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, Olivia Wilde, Beau Garrett
Plot: Sean Flynn, the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn, 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 confidant, 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.
Genre: Action | Sci-Fi | Adventure | Thriller
Season of the Witch
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Director: Dominic Sena
Writer: Bragi Schut
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Stephen Campbell Moore, Robert Sheehan, Claire Foy, Ulrich Thomsen, Stephen Graham, Christopher Lee
Plot: 14th-century knights transport a suspected witch to a monastery, where monks deduce her powers could be the source of the Black Plague.
Genre: Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
Hot Tub Time Machine
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Director: Steve Pink
Writer: Josh Heald
Cast: John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Lizzy Caplan, Crispin Glover, Sebastian Stan, Charlie McDermott, Chevy Chase
Plot: After a night of drinking Red Bull and vodkas, a group of guys travel back in time to when they were younger cads.
Genre: Comedy
Green Zone
Release Date: March 12, 2010
Director: Paul Greengrass
Writer: Brian Helgeland
Cast: Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear , Amy Ryan, Brendan Gleeson, Jason Isaacs , Khalid Abdalla
Plot: A thriller about a pair of CIA agents on the trail of certain Weapons of Mass Destruction and a foreign correspondent following their mission. Inspired by Imperial Life in the Emerald City.
Genre: Drama | War
Toy Story 3
Release Date: June 18, 2010
Director: Lee Unkrich
Writer: Michael Arndt
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, Estelle Harris, John Ratzenberger, Ned Beatty, Jodi Benson, Michael Keaton
Plot: Woody, Buzz, and the rest of their toy-box friends are dumped in a day-care center after their owner, Andy, departs for college.
Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Director: Samuel Bayer
Writer: Wesley Strick
Cast: Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Thomas Dekker, Katie Cassidy
Plot: A re-imagining of the horror icon Freddy Krueger, a serial-killer who wields a glove with four blades embedded in the fingers and kills people in their dreams, resulting in their real death in reality.
Genre: Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
