Most Anticipated Movies Of 2011

Posted January 17, 2011 at 3:00 pm
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March 4 – Battle: Los AngelesBlack Hawk Down with aliens!

March 18 – PaulSimon Pegg & Nick Frost reunite for a crazy road trip to the famed Area 51.

March 25 – Sucker Punch - Zack Snyder‘s first original script sure looks like a crazy visual treat.

April 1 – Source Code - Duncan Jones‘ follow-up to ‘Moon’ looks like another good twist on a standard sci-fi idea.

April 8 – Your Highness - Danny McBride and James Franco team-up for a medieval fantasy stoner comedy.

March 4 – Apollo 18 - Found footage ‘documentary’ about what happened during the last moon landing NASA claims never happened.

May 6 – Thor - I never was a huge fan, but bringing in Kenneth Branagh to direct has me interested.

May 27 – The Tree of LifeTerrence Malick is a genius. I’m there no matter what he does.

June 3 – X-Men: First Class - A re-boot sends the mutants back to the 1960′s to see how it all began.

June 10 – Super 8 - J.J Abrams‘ homage to early Spielberg Amblin films.

June 17 – Green LanternRyan Reynolds takes on another comic book character. The special effects need to be realistic to work.

July 22 – Captain America: The First Avenger - WWII action movie about the origin of Marvel’s greatest hero.

July 29Cowboys & Aliens - Han Solo and James Bond team-up to ward of aliens in the wild west.

October 7Real Steel - The trailer looks incredibly cheesy, but it does feature fighting robots.

October 7 – Wanderlust - The latest from the comedy minds that brought you The State and Wet Hot American Summer.

October 14The Thing - I’m very nervous about this unnecessary prequel to the John Carpenter / Kurt Russell classic.

October 21Paranormal Activity 3 - Where will they go after part 2? I’ll be there opening day.

November 23 – Rise of the Apes - Another attempt to relaunch the talking apes series with James Franco and Andy Serkis.

December 16Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol - I really liked part 3. Brad Bird‘s first live action movie.

December 21The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - David Fincher directs the American remake of the Swedish phenomenon.

TBD

Area 51Oren Peli‘s follow-up to the first Paranormal Activity is another found footage movie about Area 51.

John Carpenter’s The Ward - Carpenter‘s first feature film in 10 years looks like a return to form.

Troll Hunter - Norwegian import looks fun and creepy.