Friday, November 27, 2009

2010 Hollywood movie release schedule (4th 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 last four days, I've been posting the 2010 movie release schedule, one quarter per day.

Movie Release Schedule

2010 (4th Quarter)


October 1


Alpha and Omega (Lionsgate): Hayden Panettiere, Christina Ricci

Family, Comedy, Animation

Two mismatched young wolves thrown are together by circumstance.


Priest (Screen Gems): Paul Bettany, Cam Gigandet

Horror, Action, Western

A priest disobeys church law to track down the vampires who kidnapped his niece.


Your Highness (Universal): Danny McBride, Natalie Portman

Comedy, Adventure

When an evil wizard casts a spell on their father and kidnaps the older prince's fiance, two spoiled and princes are forced to go on a quest to save their family and the kingdom (medieval fantasy setting)


October 8


Going the Distance (Warner Bros.): Justin Long, Drew Barrymore

Romance, Comedy

A couple trying to maintain a long-distance relationship while one lives in Chicago and the other in Los Angeles.


Secretariat (Disney): Diane Lane, John Malkovich

Drama

The life story of Penny Chenery, owner of the racehorse Secretariat, who won the Triple Crown in 1973.


The Zookeeper (MGM): Kevin James, Rosaio Dawson

Comedy, Romance

A lonely zookeeper decides to leave his job because he can't meet a girl, leading to intervention by the zoo's animals.


October 15


Faster (CBS Films): Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton

Action, Drama

An ex-con is out to avenge his brother's death after they were double-crossed during a heist years before.


October 22


Prisoners (Warner Bros.): Russell Crowe

Thriller

A small-town carpenter man turns vigilante after his daughter and her best friend are kidnapped.


Saw VII (Lionsgate): Tobin Bell, Tanedra Howard

Horror, Thriller


November 5


Due Date (Warner Bros.): Robert Downey Jr., Jamie Foxx

Comedy

An expectant dad and his unlikely travel companion race cross-country in hopes of making it home for the birth of his first child.


Oobermind (Dreamworks Animation): Brad Pitt, Will Ferrell

Animation, Comedy, Family

A satirical take on superhero movies, in which a notorious villain loses his oomph after he accidentally kills his nemesis.


November 12


Unstoppable (20th Century Fox): Denzel Washington, Rosario Dawson

Action, Drama, Thriller

An unmanned runaway train is carrying a cargo of toxic chemicals. An engineer and his conductor find themselves in a race against time.


November 19


Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Warner Bros.): Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson

Fantasy, Action

Voldemort's power is growing stronger. He now has control over the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts. Harry, Ron, and Hermione decide to finish Dumbledore's work and find the rest of the Horcruxes to defeat the Dark Lord. But little hope remains for them, so everything they do must go as planned.


Red (Summit): Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis

Action, Thriller

A former black-ops agent has gone into retirement but is forced back into action when a high-tech assassin comes shows up to threaten him and his girlfriend.


November 24, 2009


Burlesque (Screen Gems): Christine Aguilera, Cher

Musical, Drama

An ambitious smalltown girl with a big voice finds love, family and success in a Los Angeles neo-burlesque club.


Love and Other Drugs (20th Century Fox): Anne Hathaway, Jake Gyllenhaal

Drama

A salesman competes in the cutthroat world of pharmaceuticals to hawk a male performance enhancement drug and enters into a relationship with a woman with Parkinson's disease.


Rapunzel (Disney): Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi

Animation, Comedy, Musical

The long-haired Princess Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but when she falls in love with a bandit who was passing by she must venture into the outside world for the first time to find him.


Red Dawn (MGM): Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck

Action

A group of teenagers form an impromptu insurgency when their town is invaded by Chinese and Russian soldiers.


December 10


The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (20th Century Fox): Ben Barnes, George Henley

Fantasy, Adventure

In the enchanted land of Narnia, Edmund and Lucy join King Caspian on a sworn mission to find the seven lost Lords of Narnia. So begins a perilous new quest that takes them to the farthest edge of the Eastern world on board the mighty Dawn Treader. Sailing uncharted seas, the old friends must survive a terrible storm, encounters with sea serpents, dragons and invisible enemies to reach lands where magicians weave mysterious spells and nightmares come true. They need every ounce of courage and the help of the great lion Aslan to triumph in their most hazardous adventure of all.


December 17


How Do You Know? (Columbia): Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson

Romance, Comedy


Life As We Know It (Warner Bros.): Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel

Romance, Comedy, Drama

Two unattached adults see their worlds turned upside down when their mutual best friends die in an accident and name them as caregivers of their orphaned daughter.


Tron Legacy (Disney): Jeff Bridges

Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A virtual-world worker looks to take down the Master Control Program.


Yogi Bear (Warner Bros.): Dan Aykroyd, Justin Timberlake

Animation, Comedy, Family

In Jellystone Park, Yogi Bear and his sidekick Boo Boo get into some good-natured fun, much to the chagrin of Ranger Smith.


December 22


The Green Hornet (Columbia): Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz

Action, Superhero

By night, debonair newspaper publisher Britt Reid fights crime as a masked superhero known as The Green Hornet. At his side is martial arts expert Kato.


Gulliver’s Travels (20th Century Fox): Jack Black, Emily Blunt

Adventure, Comedy

Lemuel Gulliver, a free-spirited travel writer on an assignment to the Bermuda Triangle, suddenly finds himself a giant among men when he washes ashore on the hidden island of Lilliput, home to a population of industrious, yet tiny, people.


All information from Film-Releases.


See any interesting trend?

Tomorrow a bunch of movies with no release dates, but in theory to come out in 2010.

2 comments:

Christian H. said...

It looks to me like things are a little more "original" than people would say.
But we are getting a majority of Simple High Concept stuff.
Perhaps the era of the "clever flop" is truly over. As all can see it takes a long time to make superhero movies or "huge, epic Battleship" movies so there's a lot of room for grabbing those simple high concept ones - whether spec or assignment.

Sevendsen said...

Watch the trailer for The Zookeeper at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z75b19HbpL8