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The 50 Biggest Movies Of 2010
The films most likely to dominate the box-office charts next year
50 Red Sonja
The most likely candidate on this list to slip into 2011, Red Sonja has, like her male counterpart Conan, been knocking around Hollywood for quite some time, with a star (Rose McGowan) and a script, but no firm shooting schedule. Current wisdom indicates an uncompromisingly adult-themed Hyborian epic with nudity, violence and swordplay. And, if brunette McGowan is still in it, wigs.
49 Red Dawn
The guilty pleasure 1980s classic is back. This time, instead of the rather implausible plot of teenagers fighting back against Soviet invaders, we have the slightly more implausible plot of teenagers fighting back against Chinese invaders. Captain Kirks dad (and future Thor) Chris Hemsworth leads the charge against those pesky reds, and former stuntman Dan Bradley steps bravely into the directors chair.
48 Clash of The Titans
The 1981 fantasy epic comes roaring back into cinemas to infuriate Mary Beard and entertain those of us who maintain a sketchier handle on Greek myth. Louis Leterrier, who gave us the good Hulk movie and helped shape the Transporter series assembles a cracking cast including Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson and Pete Postlethwaite to lend thespian authenticity to his freewheeling take on the story of Perseus. Sam Worthington is the suspiciously buzz-cut warrior who takes on Medusa and the Kraken.
47 Date Night
Coming across as a mélange of The Honeymooners and underrated 1985 comedy After Hours, this sounds like an efficient mid-table comedy until you take a look at the cast, which combines tireless US Office star Steve Carrell and Sarah Palins personal favourite, 30 Rock's Tina Fey. Ray Liotta and Mark Wahlberg are also along for what promises to be an hilarious, if sometimes downright uncomfortable, ride
46 London Boulevard
With a plot that sounds like a rerun of Performance, a stellar British cast and spectacular London locations, this promises to be a British gangster flick in the classic mould. Ray Winstone, Colin Farrell, David Thewlis and Anna Friel feature in the story of a reclusive actress (Kiera Knightley) who ends up playing host to a recently released former convict. How well that will play overseas is anybodys guess but support for the home team should make this movie a very strong contender on UK release.
45 Beastly
A modern take on the Beauty And The Beast fairytale, Beastly has High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens forced to live in the home of bewitched prom king Alex Pettyfer. Although ostensibly a fantasy teen romance, this is the kind of property, like Enchanted or Stefanie Meyers Twilight series, that could break out into a far wider demographic. Well find out if Im right or not in July.
44 The Green Hornet
Will this first outing for a little-known superhero be another Iron Man? Or another Spirit? Like The Spirit, The Green Hornet is a classic 1930s crimefighter. The character first appeared on radio, before transferring to weekly cinema serial and ultimately a TV show that ran alongside and sometimes through the marvellously daft Batman show.
The TV show now is best remembered as an early break for the young Bruce Lee, who used his martial arts expertise to intimidate Burt Ward, who played Batmans sidekick Robin.
Trivia fans might care to know that Brett Reid, the newspaper editor who fights crime as the Green Hornet, is a descendant of that other masked crimefighter the Lone Ranger. A bit of a longshot for major success. Official Site
43 Resident Evil: Afterlife
Continuing the apparently deathless series based on the popular survival horror videogame. This time, of course, its in 3D. Milla Jovovitch returns as Alice (and a handful of her clones) to combat the evil Umbrella Corporation. If youve seen one of these movies before and liked it, youll have a fair idea of what to expect. If you havent, then brace yourselves for an army of zombies, some futuristic guns and gallons of gore.
42 The Losers
Another comic book adaptation, but this time super-secret-agents rather than superheroes. The Losers are a squad of maverick CIA operatives, each one of which happens to conform to a recognisable videogame or movie archetype. Accused, of course, of a crime they did not commit they go undercover and ... well you know the rest. With both Salt and The A Team out in 2010 this will be well-trodden ground. Probably less silly than 2009s GI Joe but no less entertaining for all that, The Losers should provide some undemanding cinema fun in April.
41 The Rum Diary
Johnny Depps star power should ensure that this adaptation of an early unsuccessful novel by his hero, Hunter S Thompson, gets plenty of attention. Adapted and directed by Bruce Robinson, who gave us Withnail and I, this take of unruly and perilously thirsty journalists will be near-unavoidable this spring, if only because we journalists love films about journalists.
40 Unstoppable
The runaway train came down the track and she blew. Luckily, Denzel Washington was there to stop her, because this particular train was loaded with all manner of toxic nastiness and headed straight for a Pennysylvania town. Based on a real event that took place in 2001 near Columbus, Ohio, Unstoppable will be putting us all off rail travel in November 2010.
39 Wall Street 2
Michael Douglass unscrupulous stock market trader, jailed at the end of Wall Street, has served his 20 year sentence and is back on the street. Its 2008 and he wants to prevent a global financial crash. We all know how that turns out. Hell need an impressionable young trader to explain things to so that those of us who dont know anything about big business (and that includes quite a few hedge fund managers) can understand the plot. Cue Shia LeBoef, who seems to specialise in these roles. It will be interesting to see whether the global financial hullabaloo will sharpen interest in this belated sequel, or whether the overdose of real financial news weve been exposed to of late will make Wall Street 2 an irrelevance.
38 When In Rome
Older readers, and I include myself in that cohort, may remember Three Coins In The Fountain, a 1950s romantic drama with a devilishly memorable theme song that seemed to be on TV every afternoon throughout the Sxities. When In Rome is the same story brought up to date and with a few extra chuckles added for good measure. Starring Kristen Bell and featuring Danny Devito and Napoleon Dynamites Jon Heder, this sounds like an agreeable enough romcom but one which will struggle to compete with Sex And The City 2, which is released at around the same time. Official Site
37 The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Nicolas Cage, seemingly the busiest man in cinema right now, heads up a live-action junior wizard story inspired by the Mickey Mouse segment in Disneys Fantasia. He reunites here with director Jon Tureltaub, with whom he combined so effectively on the National Treasure movies. Set apparently in the present day and co-starring the exquisitely vampy Monica Bellucci, this film is likely to capitalise on the younger cinemagoers seemingly inexhaustible appetite for boy wizard stories.
36 A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
The irrepressible marijuana enthusiasts get a third outing despite Kal Penn (who plays Kumar) securing a White House staff post. Only about three million or so Britons have used marijuana in the last year but the respectable box office figures of the previous Harold and Kumar movies demonstrate that the rest of us find drug use somewhat amusing as a spectator sport. If you enjoyed the gormless antics of Bill and Ted or Wayne and Garth and you would like to see one of President Obamas staff make a potentially career-ending mistake, this is the film for you.
35 Highlander
There can be only one. Or, in this case, dozens. Shorn of the egregious accent work from Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery, what kind of immortal Scot swordplay movie can we expect? Justin Lin, director of Fast & Furious, has been tasked with reinventing the 1986 fantasy action flick that spawned a decreasingly sensible movie franchise and an impossibly daft TV series. No cast has been set at time of writing but expect mystical dialogue and as many beheadings as a PG13 certificate will allow.
34 Grown Ups
Adam Sandler assembles a stellar collection of Saturday Night Live alumni to portray a group of old high school chums meeting at their old basketball coachs funeral. Sandlers work is very much a thing to either love or hate. I personally regard You Dont Mess With The Zohan as the worst film in celluloid history. Nevertheless, hes a very popular comedian and Im sure this will do reasonably well. After all, Salma Hayek and Steve Buscemi are in it. How bad can it be?
33 Hot Tub Time Machine
John Cusack, Chevy Chase and curiously spelled TV stalwart Lyndsy Fonseca star in a lighthearted time travel fantasy that is more Peggy Sue Got Married than The Terminator. Four pals climb into a jacuzzi, start reminiscing and find that theyve fallen back into 1987. Fonseca play the sweetheart that slipped through Cusacks fingers first time around. Official Site Trailer (strong language)
32 Jonah Hex
Jonah Hex started life, as so many movie heroes seem to these days, in a comic book. Although the spooky gunfighter is an Old West character, he has cropped up in a number of DC Comics nominally contemporary series such as Batman and The Justice League Of America. In the film, though, hes expected to be firmly rooted in his post-Civil War milieu sparring with Quentin Turnbull, the man with the eagle-topped cane. Turnbull, played by John Malkovitch in the film, is a Confederate sympathiser trying to reignite the conflict that nearly tore America apart. The always delightfully off-message Megan Fox is Leila, a gun-toting tart with a heart who supplied Hex with extra backup and the film with extra glamour. Official Site
31 Edge of Darkness
This Hollywood version of the 1985 conspiracy thriller made by the BBC stars Mel Gibson as Thomas Craven, a Boston cop who tried to solve his daughters murder only to have an enormous political conspiracy unravel in his hands. Ray Winstone turns up as a CIA operative and the original TV shows director, Martin Campbell, is back in the big chair. Official Site Trailer
30 Legion
The basic premise of Legion is this: God, specifically the God of the Christians, is the bad guy. As he periodically does, hes decided to kill everyone on Earth. A fallen angel is humanity's only defence against a horde of destroying angels, a foul-mouthed old lady vampire thing and a demonic ice cream man. It's three parts Dogma to one part I am Legend with a dash of Left Behind. The angels appear to be armed with maces. The plucky American resistance holed up in a diner have guns. Lots of guns. How this will play to traditionally rather conservative US audiences I wouldn't like to say but for more playful British sensibilities this looks like the guilty pleasure treat of 2010. Official Site Trailer
29 Season of the Witch
Rather strange casting for this 14th-century adventure: Nicolas Cage, loved for his diverse roles such as the manic wild-eyed American agent in The Rock and the manic wild-eyed American historian in National Treasure, plays a medieval knight escorting a prisoner accused of witchcraft to her trial. Containing (according to Cage) allusions to The Wages of Fear and (according to me) The Last Detail, this movie is bound to irritate historians. To what extent it thrills mainstream audiences is more open to question. Youll have to wait until March to find out. Official Site
28 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Movies based on video games are rarely classics. Prince of Persia stands a better chance than most, roping in Jake Gyllenhaal as the eponymous prince with Alfred Molina as his father figure and Ben Kingsley as the villainous Grand Vizier. The 1989 game is still spawning sequels, whether the film adaptation will do the same remains to be seen.
27 Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Emma Thompsons supernatural childcare expert visits a new family. This time its to help overworked parent Maggie Gyllenhaal while her soldier husband is away. Expect motorcycles to fly, statues to come to life and piglets to climb trees. Itll be a heartwarming family adventure. Just dont mention Mary Poppins. Trailer
26 Daybreakers
What, more vampires? Daybreakers is not your average vampire movie. Starting where the bleakest vampire stories end, it posits a world where the bloodsuckers won. A few regular people are being kept alive as a food source. It's not a sustainable policy. Cue a colossal firearms jamboree with machine-pistol toting vamps fighting crossbow-equipped humans. With a weaker cast it would probably end up in straight-to-DVD hell but some fine scenery-chewing work from Sam Neill and some classic laconic hero stuff from Ethan Hawke should lift this antidote to Twilight out of the genre ghetto and into the upper reaches of box-office charts. Official Site Trailer
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from me. Overall it looks like there will be plenty to watch, but most of it will be crappy remakes and sequels to movies that were already crappy. I mean seriously, a Total Recall remake with Shia LaBeouf instead of Arnie? WHAT ARE THEY THINKING!?! Next up: a Blade Runner remake starring Haley Joel Osment.
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