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1 1 0 2 LM! I F IN A 14 page guide to this year’s anticipated hits!

Featuring The Green Hornet 127 Hours Gasland The Kings Speech True Grit Rango Hanna Scream 4 Drive Andry 3D Hangover: Part II Dredd

cowboys and aliens Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford fight off an alien invasion in the old wild west.

Contents

Main Feature

The Green 2 Hornet The Kings 3 Speech POTC: On Stranger tides 3 Gasland 4 127 hours 4 Drive Angry 3D 4 True Grit 5 Hanna 6 Cowboys and Aliens 7&8 Tintin 9 Swashbuckling chameleon Rango The Three 9 Musketeers Dredd 10 Rango 10 I Am Number 11 Four Hangover: Part 11 II Sherlock 12 Nicholas Cage Drives Angry Holmes The Raven 12 The Smurfs 12 Red Riding 12 Hood World Invasion: Battle LA 13 Scream 4 13 Thor 14

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Thor

Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet

in cinemas January 14, 2011

Also starring Chrisoph Waltz as villain Chudonfsky

Directed by Michel Gondry Britt Reid (Seth Rogen), the son of wealthy newspaper publisher James Reid (Tom Wilkinson), is a ne’er do well playboy who inherits a media empire after his father dies. One day, he meets an employee named Kato (Jay Chou), who is more than he appears. After realizing how he and Kato waste their abilities, Britt decides that the two should become crimefighters, taking on the identity of the Green Hornet.

Jay Chou as Kato

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Directed by Tom Hooper

Colin Firth as King George IV

Tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George (‘Bertie’) reluctantly assumes the throne.

Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unf it to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country through war.

Released January 7, 2011 Directed by Rob Marshall Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to f ind the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too.

Current release date set at May 14, 2011

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Captain Jack Sparrow returns!

Josh Fox’s Gasland

Released January 17, 2011

Directed by Danny Boyle

It is happening all across America-rural landowners wake up one day to f ind a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property. Reason? The company hopes to tap into a reservoir dubbed the “Saudi Arabia of natural gas.” Halliburton developed a way to get the gas out of the ground-a hydraulic drilling process called “fracking”-and suddenly America f inds itself on the precipice of becoming an energy superpower.

elements to finally discover he has the courage and the wherewithal to extricate himself by any means necessary, scale a 65 foot wall and hike over eight miles before he is finally rescued.

Throughout his journey, Ralston recalls friends, lovers, family, and the two hikers he met before his accident. Will they be the last two people he ever had the chance to meet?

127 Hours is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston’s remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. Over the next five days Ralston examines Released January his life and survives the 7, 2011

127 Hours Directed by Patrick Lussier A vengeful father (Nicholas Cage) escapes from hell and chases after the men who killed his wife and kidnapped his daughter.

Released February 25, 2011

Drive Angry 3D

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True Grit

Directed by Joel + Ethan Coen Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can f ind, a man with “true grit,” Reuben J. “Rooster” Cogburn.

Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio f ind danger and surprises on the journey, and each has his or her “grit” tested.

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Released February 11, 2011

Saoirse Ronan as Hanna

Directed by Joe Wright Hanna (Ronan) is a teenage girl.

Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a soldier; these come from being raised by her father (Bana), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland.

Her upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin.

Released April 11, 2011

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Directed by Jon Favreau The Old West.. where a lone cowboy leads an uprising against a terror from beyond our world. 1873.

Arizona Territory. A stranger with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don’t welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Ford).

It’s a town that lives in fear. But Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one by one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known. Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. As this gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he’s been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against the alien force. With the help of the elusive traveler Ella (Olivia Wilde), he pulls together a posse comprised of former opponents-townsfolk, Dolarhyde and his boys, outlaws

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Summuesrter blockb

Cowboy-Alien Showdown?

and Apache warriors-all in danger of annihilation.

United against a common enemy, they will prepare for an epic showdown for survival.

Due for release August 12, 2011

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Trouble at sea in Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn Directed by Steven Spielberg Tintin and his friends discover directions to a sunken ship commanded by Capt.

Haddock’s ancestor and go off on a treasure hunt.

Due for release October 26, 2011

Directed by Paul W. S Anderson The hot-headed young D’Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.

Due for release October 14, 2011

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The Three Musketeers

Dredd returns

Directed by Pete Travis In a violent, futuristic city, the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner.

Due December 1, 2011

Johnny Depp as Rango

A chameleon that aspires to be a swashbuckling hero finds himself in a Western town plagued by bandits and is forced to literally play the role in order to protect it.

Directed by Gore Verbinski Rango is due out March 4, 2011

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Directed by D J Caruso

I Am Number Four

Extraordinary teen John Smith (Pettyfer) is a fugitive on the run from ruthless enemies sent to destroy him.

Changing his identity, moving from town to town with his guardian Henri (Olyphant), John is always the new kid with no ties to his past.

In the small Ohio town he now calls home, John encounters unexpected, life-changing events-his first love (Agron), powerful new abilities and a connection to the others who share his incredible destiny.

Due for release February 18, 2011

The Hangover: Part II

Directed by Todd Phillips Phil, Stu, Alan and Doug travel to Bangkok for Stu’s wedding Expected May 27, 2011

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Sherlock Holmes Sequel

Directed by Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson join forces to outwit and bring down their f iercest adversary, Professor Moriarty.

Expected December 16, 2011 The Raven

The Smurfs

Directed by James McTeigue Fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe’s life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer’s stories.

ETA 2011

Directed by Raja Gosnell When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world and into ours ETA August 3, 2011

Red Riding Hood

Directed by Catherine Hardwicke Set in a medieval village that is haunted by a werewolf, a young girl falls for an orphaned woodcutter, much to her family’s displeasure Due for release April 15, 2011

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Directed by Jonathan Liebesman A Marine platoon faces off against an alien invasion in Los Angeles.

Released on March 11, 2011

World Invasion: Battle LA Scream 4 Directed by Wes Craven Due for release on April 15, 2011

Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill and her Aunt Kate. Unfortunately, Sidney’s appearance also brings about the return of Ghostface, putting Sidney, Gale, and Dewey, along with Jill, her friends, and the whole town of Woodsboro in danger.

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Directed by Kenneth Brannagh Expected in cinemas April 29, 2011

The powerful but arrogant warrior Thor is cast out of the fantastic realm of Asgard and sent to live amongst humans on Earth, where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders.

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