Thursday, November 26, 2009

2010 Hollywood movie release schedule (3rd quarter)

If you're serious about selling a spec script to a Hwood movie studio, you're well advised to keep up with what stories they're buying and what movies they're releasing. For the former, GITS posts every spec script and original pitch that sells as they occur. Re the latter, over the next four days, I'll post the 2010 movie release schedule, one quarter per day.

Movie Release Schedule

2010 (3rd Quarter)


July 2


Knight & Day (20th Century Fox): Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz

Romance, Comedy

A secret agent pops in and out of the life of a single woman who has terrible luck with men.


The Last Airbender (Paramount): Dev Patel, Noah Ringer

Adventure, Fantasy, Animation

The film is about the successor to a long line of Avatars who must put aside his irresponsible ways to save the world.


July 9


Despicable Me (Universal): Steve Carrell, Jason Segel

Comedy, Family, Animation

In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by a small army of minions, we discover Gru (voiced by Steve Carell), planning the biggest heist in the history of the world. He is going to steal the moon.


Predators (20th Century Fox): Adrien Brody, Alice Braga

Action, Sci-Fi

A mercenary is trying to keep his team alive when its members are hunted by the aliens.


July 16


Inception (Warner Bros.): Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page

Action, Sci-Fi

Corporations have developed a technology to enter dreams to extract information from certain peoples' heads. A CEO (Leonardo DiCaprio) enters dreams and things begin to escalate, taking a turn for the worst.


The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Disney): Nicholas Cage, Jay Baruchel

Action, Adventure

In contemporary New York, a wizard searches for an apprentice.


July 23


Dinner for Schmucks (Paramount): Steve Carrell, Paul Rudd

Comedy

An extraordinarily stupid man possesses the ability to ruin the life of anyone who spends more than a few minutes in his company.


Salt (Columbia):Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber

Thriller

A CIA officer is accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy and must elude capture long enough to establish her innocence.


July 30


Beastly (CBS Films): Vanessa Hudgens, Alex Pettyfer

Fantasy, Horror, Romance

An arrogant 17-year-old who’s hideously transformed in order to find true romance.


Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (Warner Bros.): Chris O’Donnell, Jack McBrayer

Adventure, Family,


Little Fockers (Universal): Ben Stiller, Robert DeNiro

Comedy

The Focker and the Byrnes families brace themselves for the arrival of a baby.


Morning Glory (Paramount): Harrison Ford, Rachel McAdams

Comedy

An aspiring news producer tries to save a failing morning show by getting control of its feuding anchors.


August 6


The Other Guys (Columbia): Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg

Comedy, Action


Step-Up 3D (Disney): Harry Shum Jr., Adam G. Sevani

Music, Drama, Romance


August 13


Friday the 13th Part 2 in 3D (New Line): Damian Shannon, Mark Swift

Horror, Thriller


Ramona and Beezus (20th Century Fox): Selana Gomez, Josh Duhamel

Comedy, Family

Follows the misadventures of young grade schooler Ramona Quimby from Beverly Cleary's popular children's book series.


August 20


The Expendables (Lionsgate): Sylvester Stallone, Jet Li

Action, Adventure

A team of mercenaries are on a mission to overthrow a South American dictator.


August 27


Resident Evil: Afterlife (Screen Gems): Milla Jovovich, Boris Kodjoe

Action, Horror, Sci-Fi


September 1


The American (Focus): George Clooney, Bruce Altman

Drama

An assassin hides out in an idyllic Italian town before carrying out a final assignment. He resists his usual aversion to human interaction, and his friendships and romantic entanglements complicate his mission.


September 3


Born to Be a Star (Columbia): Christina Ricci, Nick Swardson

Comedy

A small-town nerd stumbles upon a family secret: His quiet and demure parents were famous porn stars in the 1970s. This motivates him to leave Northern Iowa for Hollywood, hoping to follow in their footsteps and fulfill his destiny as the biggest adult-film star in the world.


September 10


The Town (Warner Bros.): Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm

Crime, Romance

A career thief becomes smitten by the manager of a bank. She makes him want to go straight, but she is also the FBI's golden ticket to catching Boston's most wanted bank robber.


September 17


Flipped (Warner Bros.): Madeline Carroll, Aidan Quinn

Romance, Comedy, Drama

Two eighth graders start to have feelings for each other despite being total opposites.


The Roommate (Screen Gems): Cam Gigandet, Leighton Meester

Thriller

College student Sara finds her safety jeopardized after she's assigned to a dorm room with a new roommate, Rebecca.


September 24


Guardians of Ga’hoole (Warner Bros.): Jim Sturgess, Geoffrey Rush

Adventure, Fantasy, Animation

Soren, a young barn owl, is kidnapped by owls of St. Aggie's, ostensibly an orphanage, where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers. He and his new friends escape to the island of Ga'Hoole, to assist its noble, wise owls who fight the army being created by the wicked rulers of St. Aggie's. The film is based on the first three books in the series.


You Again (Disney): Kristen Bell, Sigourney Weaver

Comedy

When a young woman realizes her brother is about to marry the girl who bullied her in high school, she sets out to expose the fiance's true colors.


All information from Film-Releases.


See any interesting trends?

2 comments:

Jeff said...

I don't see anything, trend-wise, particularly interesting BUT...

...can ANYone find me a bona-fide BLOCKBUSTER in the 2010 summer roster???

Inception, perhaps, but besides that, I certainly don't see a Dark Knight, Transformers 2 type mega-hit.

Hollywood taking the summer off in 2010 or what?

Violet said...

there's a lot of medieval-set stuff for a single year.