What films are you looking forward to in 2012?

SAVAGES and LOOPER both come out on the same day. That's gonna be a good weekend.

Prometheus, The Dark Knight Rises and the Avengers. Obviously some others will sneak in there. Just not sure what the schedule is yet.

Django Unchained, The Hobbit, Gravity, Skyfall, Savages, Looper, Dark Knight Rises, and Prometheus are all big on my radar, among others. It'll be festival season before I find smaller / artier fare to look forward to.

But the movie I'm looking anticipating more than any other? At this point, I think it's actually Les Miserables. I LOVE the play, and the talent that's being enlisted for it is really getting my hopes up. Plus there hasn't been a great, epic movie musical in... ever.

I want Les Mis to be JOHN ADAMS good, but I have a feeling it will be merely King's Speech good.

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Django Unchained, The Hobbit, Gravity, Skyfall, Savages, Looper, Dark Knight Rises, and Prometheus are all big on my radar

 

This is pretty much my big list, with Prometheus at the top. Except Savages, which I now need to look up. Not as psyched for Avengers as I feel I should be.
 

Originally Posted by Nexus-7 Except Savages, which I now need to look up.

If you just look up Savages, you might not see what's so exciting besides maybe the cast. Read the book. You won't be sorry.

The Master

Prometheus

Looper

Django Unchained

Is GRAVITY still happening? If so, it's on my list (which currently includes only one other title - SKYFALL)

Prometheus Prometheus Prometheus

The next Evangelion movie if I'm in Japan when its out.

1. The Avengers

2. Skyfall

3. Lincoln

4. Prometheus

5. Dark Knight Rises

6. The Hobbit

Everything else is a mere curiosity.

The...2012 Films I am looking forward to...

1st Tier

1) The Avengers (5/4) Earth's Mightiest Heroes make their live action debut!

2) Expendables 2  (8/17) The Boys are back in town!  The Sequel to the...Men on a mission film that has no...Equal!

3) G.I. Joe Retaliation (6/29)  YO JOE!  The Real American Heroes arrive to Kick Ass, Take Names, and earn Box Office Gold!

4) John Carter (3/9)  One of the first...Pulp Heroes arrives on the silver screen...1 Century after his creation by Edgar Rice Burroughs!

5) Dredd (9/21)  Judge Dredd gets...Paroled from movie character Jail, and ordered to Kick bad guy ass!

6) Ghost Rider Spirit Of Vengeance (2/17)  Johnny returns to...Blaze a path to Box Office Gold!

7) James Bond Skyfall (11/9) 007 returns to save the world and Daniel Craig's career from a run of horrible films.

8) The Dark Knight Rises (7/21) Batman Returns!

9) Battleship (5/18)  Liam Neeson...IS, Admiral Shane!

10)  A 3 way competition vs...Taken 2 (10/15), MS One Maximum Security (4/20), Bullet To The Head (4/13)

 Also rumored...Man Of Steel switching years/release dates with The Hobbit.

Cabin in the Woods.

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A lot of really cool films coming out next year.

Here are my faves:

5. Beyond the Black Rainbow - What is this film about? I have no idea, but the trailer freaks me out:

This movie is INCREDIBLE.

It's really fucking weird and out there, so I imagine it will turn off people with its slow pace and completely vague storyline.

Essentially (and I tread lightly), it's about this mad scientist who has been holding this girl with telekinetic powers hostage. Apparently as she ages, she may hold the key to entering another universe. She may or may not be his daughter. He may also be squabbling with his superiors who have different plans for her. Everybody may or may not be insane. It's also set in some terrifying version of 1983.

Anyway, I'm most excited for FRANK OR FRANCIS.

It's the next Charlie Kaufman movie.

I'm not 100% sure I have the casting right, but essentially, Jack Black is a hateful blogger who constantly slings criticisms at filmmaker Steve Carrell.

Carrell makes the awards-friendly "You," which he writes, directs, scores, produces, and plays every role. He wins ALL THE AWARDS.

Also, Nicolas Cage is a disgraced comedian famous for a series of movies called "Fat Dad" who is an Oscars host.

And Kevin Kline is one of a duo of filmmaker brothers frustrated by "You" so he builds a machine to create the most awards-friendly movie in the world. The machine is also played by Kline.

Also, it's a musical.

I've got a good feeling for 2012.

1) Prometheus

2) The Avengers

3) Armor of God 3: Chinese Zodiac

4) The Expendables 2

5) Lockout

I'll add:

Wettest County - John Hillcoat hasn't disappointed yet.. and that cast!!

SKYFALL

BULLET TO THE HEAD

THE AVENGERS

THE GRANDMASTERS

HAYWIRE

PARKER

MOONRISE KINGDOM

THE EXPENDABLES 2

John Carter

The Avengers

The Hobbit

The Expendables 2

Prometheus

Ghost Rider 2

The Dark Knight Rises

Django Unchained

I said this last year at this time, so I'll reiterate, because it never came out:   New Whit Stillman film, damnit!!

2012 kind of frightens me. We're out of Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, The Matrix, Harry Potter, Nolan Batmans, Pirates has run out of steam, and The Avengers is finally here. Yes, Marvel movies will continue, but any sequels won't be able to compete with the momentum that Iron Man started when Nick Fury appeared onscreen. 

What will be the next big thing?!

Having just read the books, I am curious how The Hunger Games will turn out.

Bartleby_Scriven, Well there will be many more...MARVELous properties.  The Guardians Of The Galaxy, Dr. Strange and other...Magical Journeys could be taken.  I am hoping that eventually...Ms. Marvel and Thanos will Join...Captain Mar-Vell on the Silver Screen.  The Kree-Skrull War could be...Awe-Inspiring!

I don't know Fleed, it was the interactive nature of connecting all the movies together and waiting to see what character would be introduced next. 

I get a feeling that won't be fresh anymore if they try to replicate it for Avengers 2.

It's pretty amazing to me how I've gone from "One movie or bust!" to total convert on The Hobbit.  The production diaries Jackson has been posting just absolutely sold me.  I'd still prefer it be one film, but I'm much more on board now than at any point since the project was first announced.

Bartleby_Scriven, Marvel doesn't have to connect everything to...Avengers 2!  Maybe...The Defenders will happen!  Dr. Strange, Valkyrie, Night Hawk,  She-Hulk (replacing...HULK) would be an...Awesome film in it's own right.  Really, there have been so many guest heroes in The Defenders, the team could consist of anyone!  Maybe Power Man and Iron Fist can be good moderately budgeted fare so...Power Man and Iron Fist could happen.  I would love to see a S.H.I.E.L.D. Film!  Nick Fury, Val (Fury's Gal Pal from the original series) Dum Dum Dugan, Gabe Jones and co vs HYDRA or A.I.M.!

John Carter's making me nervous. It has the potential to suck and worse (for Andrew Stanton), flop, but there's just something about it....that gives me hope it'll pull through (Andrew Stanton)

Shaping up to be a special year:

Lincoln

The Dark Knight Rises

The Hobbit

Titanic 3D (yeah, yeah...Kate's 23 year old tigs will look glorious in 3D)

The Avengers

Skyfall

Prometheus

Brave

Gravity

Django Unchained

Great Gatsby

The Wettest Country

The Master (a director's follow-up to one of my favorite films ever? Okay!)

Django Unchained (see above)

Lincoln 

The Dark Knight Rises

The Hobbit

I was going to add Inside Llewyn Davis, but that doesn't appear to be coming out until 2013.

World War Z

Prometheus easily gets my number one slot, followed by Avengers and Dark Knight Rises; also interested in John Carter, Brave, Lincoln, Hobbit and Looper.

My cynic pick for movie im dreading is World War Z, which i have some unexplainable feeling of dread towards for some reason.

Guys, guys! STOKER. How have we forgotten Chan-wook Park?! Making his English debut!!

Cogan's Trade - Andrew Dominik and Brad Pitt re-teaming after The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, with Ray Liotta, Richard Jenkins, Sam Shepherd, as well as Sopranos alums James Gandolfini, Vincent Curatola and Max Casella rounding out the cast?

YES. PLEASE.

Seven Psychopaths - Martin McDonough and Colin Farrell re-teaming after In Bruges , with Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson rounding out the cast?

YES. PLEASE.

Only God Forgives - Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling re-teaming after Drive?

YES. PLEASE.

So no one's looking forward to The Phantom Menace in 3D?

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So no one's looking forward to The Phantom Menace in 3D?

If I had to pick only one dubious 3-D release of a technical-marvel but flawed movie with terrible dialogue and ethnic stereotypes, I'd rather see the Titanic 3-D.  

My current "Top 10 Most Anticipated Releases of 2012":

1. Prometheus

2. Django Unchained

3. Skyfall

4. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

5. The Dark Knight Rises

6. The Avengers

7. The Expendables II

8. John Carter

9. John Dies At The End

10. Riddick III: Dead Man Stalking

Others I'm looking forward to...

47 Ronin, The Amazing Spider-Man, Antiviral, Argo, The Bourne Legacy, Bullet To The Head, Cabin In The Woods, Cogan's Trade, Cosmopolis, Dark Shadows, Dredd, Frank or Francis, The Gangster Squad, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Gravity, The Grey, Haywire, The Hunger Games, Les Miserables, Lincoln, Looper, The Lords of Salem, The Man With The Iron Fists, The Master, MS One: Maximum Security, Only God Forgives, Parker, Piranha 3DD, Premium Rush, Safe House, Savages, Silent Hill: Revelations, Stoker, Taken II, Ted, This Is Forty, Underworld: Awakening, The Wettest Country, The Woman In Black, Wrath of the Titans, etc.

No doubt I'm probably forgetting a handful of films.

Just looking at these lists, it's going to be a big year for Joseph Gordon-Levitt

TDKR

Lincoln

Premium Rush

Looper

Django

Good for him, the guy deserves to become a household name. Other stuff I'm looking forward to:

Prometheus (wasn't completely sold until the trailer, but damn that's a great trailer)

Avengers

Cabin in the Woods (not usually a horror fan, but I'll watch most anything with Joss Whedon, and it's been too long since Amy Acker was on my TV)

The Hobbit

Gravity (I'm a lot less excited since we ended up with Bullock instead of the other names floated, but it's still Cuaron)

Chronicle (Could be crap, but I got a serious Kid Miracleman vibe from the trailer, which intrigues me)

Brave (It's a Pixar film that isn't Cars. Until proven otherwise, I'll assume that means it's great)

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Cogan's Trade - Andrew Dominik and Brad Pitt re-teaming after The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, with Ray Liotta, Richard Jenkins, Sam Shepherd, as well as Sopranos alums James Gandolfini, Vincent Curatola and Max Casella rounding out the cast?

YES. PLEASE.

 

Seven Psychopaths - Martin McDonough and Colin Farrell re-teaming after In Bruges , with Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson rounding out the cast?

YES. PLEASE.

 

Only God Forgives - Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling re-teaming after Drive?

 

YES. PLEASE.

ALL of these. Especially "Cogan's Trade". So glad Dominik didn't get put in permanent director's jail after "Jesse James" tanked.

Off the top of my head...

Django Unchained

Prometheus

TDKR

Avengers

The Hobbit

The Grey

Gravity

Having read the Django script, I gotta say next Christmas can't get here fast enough.

I also gotta say it's the weirdest choice for a Christmastime release since, well, Dragon Tattoo. Slavery! Rape! Bring the kids!

I now think those exact five words should be the tagline.

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Just looking at these lists, it's going to be a big year for Joseph Gordon-Levitt

 

TDKR

Lincoln

Premium Rush

Looper

Django

The second half of 2012 is going to be packed to the brim with JGL:

July - The Dark Knight Rises

August - Premium Rush

September - Looper

November - Lincoln

December - Django Unchained

Now if only he can film a quick role in something getting an October release....
 

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Having read the Django script, I gotta say next Christmas can't get here fast enough.

 

I also gotta say it's the weirdest choice for a Christmastime release since, well, Dragon Tattoo. Slavery! Rape! Bring the kids!

 

I now think those exact five words should be the tagline.

Yeah, I recently had a gander at the Django script and was enjoying it so much I actually stopped reading it to avoid spoiling the first viewing too much. It's damned good.

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Cabin In The Woods

Dredd

The Grey

Only God Forgives

Piranha 3DD

Silent Hill: Revelations

Stoker

Taken II

The Woman In Black

 

Yes to all of these. Also The Awakening from the writer of Ghostwatch, starring Rebecca Hall and Dominic West.

And as someone who was raised on the kind of film/TV shows this is obviously inspired by, I'm also really looking forward to The Reprisalizer from Matthew "Garth Marenghi" Holness, although that looks like it's a 2013 release. Can't even type that title without chuckling and thinking of Edward Woodward.

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=32635

http://thereprisalizer.com/The_Reprisalizer/About.html

Shit, I forgot about The Awakening!

Just for reference, here's a look at the year (and my insomnia)

January -

Contraband

Underworld: Awakening

Haywire

Red Tails

Man on a Ledge

The Grey

February -

Chronicle

The Woman in Black

The Innkeepers (Ti West)

Star Wars Episode 1 3D

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Venegance

This Means War

Wanderlust 

March - 

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

Safe House

John Carter

The Raven

21 Jump Street

Mirror Mirror

Casa de Mi Padre (Spanish Farrell)

The Hunger Games

Wrath of the Titans

The Pirates! Band of Misfits (Aardman)

April - 

Titanic 3D

American Reunion

The Three Stooges

The Cabin in the Woods

Bullet to the Head (stallone/Hill)

May -

The Avengers

Dark Shadows

The Dictator

Battleship

Men in Black III

Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)

JUNE - 

Snow White and the Huntsman

Rock of Ages

Prometheus

Jack the Giant Killer

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Brave

GI Joe: Retaliation

Magic Mike (Soderbergh)

JULY - 

The Amazing Spider-Man

Ted (Wahlberg/Seth McFarlane)

The Dark Knight Rises

Neighborhood Watch

August - 

The Bourne Legacy

Total Recall

Dog Fight (Farrell/Galifinakis)

The Expendables 2

Premium rush

The Wettest Country in the World

September -

Argo (Affleck)

Looper (Rian johnson)

Savages (Stone)

Dredd

October -

Cloud Atlas (Wachowskis)

Twylight Zones (David Chase)

Gangster Squad

Paranormal Activity 4

November - 

Red Dawn

Wreck-It Ralph

Skyfall

The Silver Linings Playbook (O Russel)

Gravity (Cuaron)

47 Ronin

December -

Lincoln (Spielberg!)

Les Miserables

The Hobbit

World War Z

Killing Bin Laden (Bigelow!)

Life of Pi (Ang Lee!)

This is Forty 

The Great Gatsby

Django Unchained (Tarantino!)

TBA 2012 -

The Master (PTA!)

Seven Psychopaths (McDonagh!)

Cogan's Trade (Dominik!)

Hyde Park on Hudson (Bill Murray as FDR!)

Gambit (Coen script!)

Nero Fiddled (Woody)

Only God Forgives (Refn)

Inside Llewelyn Davies (Coens!)

Stoker (Chan Wook Park)

A Place Beyond the Pines

Red Hook Summer (Spike Lee)

Cosmopolis (Cronenberg)

On the Road

Just looking at that, there's got to be at least a couple dozen must see films there, and that's of course without a bunch of the flicks that bubble up from nowhere (your Martha Marcy May Marlenes and Artists). This is a stacked year.

Hansel & Gretel just got bumped to 2013.

The official reason is that they want to capitalize on the fame that Renner will (probably) gain from The Avengers and The Bourne Legacy.  Smells like bullshit to me.  It was originally supposed to be released in less than two months (March 2nd) and we haven't been shown anything so far beyond a few stills.  It appears we have another shitty fairytale flick on our hands.

21 Jump Street (Phil Lord & Chris Miller)

47 Ronin (Carl Rinsch)

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Timur Bekmambetov)

The Amazing Spider-Man (Marc Webb)

Anna Karenina (Joe Wright)

Argo (Ben Affleck)

The Avengers (Joss Whedon)

Battleship (Peter Berg)

Being Flynn (Paul Weitz)

Big Miracle (Ken Kwapis)

The Bourne Legacy (Tony Gilroy)

Brave (Mark Andrews & Brenda Chapman)

Bullet To The Head (Walter Hill)

The Cabin In The Woods (Drew Goddard)

Casa De Mi Padre (Matt Piedmont)

Chronicle (Josh Trank)

Cloud Atlas (Tom Tykwer & The Wachowskis)

Cogan's Trade (Andrew Dominik)

The Company You Keep (Robert Redford)

Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)

Creed Of Violence (Todd Field)

Damsels In Distress (Whit Stillman)

The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan)

Dark Shadows (Tim Burton)

Darling Companion (Lawrence Kasdan)

The Dictator (Larry Charles)

Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)

Dog Fight (Jay Roach)

The Expendables 2 (Simon West)

A Fantastic Fear Of Everything (Chris Hopewell & Crispian Mills)

The Five-Year Engagement (Nicholas Stoller)

Flight (Robert Zemeckis)

Frank Or Francis (Charlie Kaufman)

Frankenweenie (Tim Burton)

Gambit (Michael Hoffman)

The Gangster Squad (Ruben Fleischer)

G.I. Joe: Retaliation (Jon M. Chu)

A Glimpse Inside The Mind Of Charles Swan III (Roman Coppola)

Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father (Barry Levinson)

The Grandmasters (Wong Kar-Wai)

Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)

The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann)

The Grey (Joe Carnahan)

The Guys Who Move Furniture (Mike Clattenburg)

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Peter Jackson)

Hotel Transylvania (Genndy Tartakovsky)

The Hunger Games (Gary Ross)

Hyde Park On Hudson (Roger Michell)

Imogene (Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini)

In Your Eyes (Brin Hill)

Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)

Jack The Giant Killer (Bryan Singer)

John Carter (Andrew Stanton)

John Dies At the End (Don Coscarelli)

The Killer (John H. Lee)

Killing Bin Laden (Kathryn Bigelow)

Lay The Favorite (Stephen Frears)

Les Misérables (Tom Hooper)

Liberal Arts (Josh Radnor)

Life Of Pi (Ang Lee)

Lincoln (Steven Spielberg)

Lock-Out (James Mather & Stephen St. Leger)

The Longest Week (Peter Glanz)

Looper (Rian Johnson)

Lust For Love (Anton King)

Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh)

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (Guy Ritchie)

The Man With The Iron Fists (RZA)

The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)

Men In Black III (Barry Sonnenfeld)

Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)

Movie 43 (Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Cundieff, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, Peter Farrelly, Patrik Forsberg, James Gunn, Bob Odenkirk & Brett Ratner)
Much Ado About Nothing (Joss Whedon)

My Mother's Curse (Anne Fletcher)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne)

Neighborhood Watch (Akiva Schaffer)

Nero Fiddled (Woody Allen)

The Odd Life Of Timothy Green (Peter Hedges)

Of Men And Mavericks (Curtis Hanson)

On The Road (Walter Salles)

Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn)

Only Loves Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch)

ParaNorman (Chris Butler & Sam Fell)

Parker (Taylor Hackford)

The Pirates! Band Of Misfits (Peter Lord & Jeff Newitt)

The Place Beyond The Pines (Derek Cianfrance)

Premium Rush (David Koepp)

Prometheus (Ridley Scott)

The Raven (James McTeigue)

Red Dawn (Dan Bradley)

Red Hook Summer (Spike Lee)

Red Lights (Rodrigo Cortés)

Robot And Frank (Jake Schreier)

Safety Not Guaranteed (Colin Trevorrow)

Savages (Oliver Stone)

Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World (Lorene Scafaria)

Seven Psychopaths (Martin McDonagh)

The Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell)

Skyfall (Sam Mendes)

Snow White And The Huntsman (Rupert Sanders)

Stoker (Park Chan-wook)

Taken 2 (Olivier Megaton)

Ted (Seth MacFarlane)

This Is 40 (Judd Apatow)

This Means War (McG)

Total Recall (Len Wiseman)

Twylight Zones (David Chase)

Untitled Terrence Malick Project (Terrence Malick)

Voyage Of Time (Terrence Malick)

Wanderlust (David Wain)

Warm Bodies (Jonathan Levine)

The We And The I (Michel Gondry)

Wettest County (John Hillcoat)

While We're Young (Noah Baumbach)

The Woman In Black (James Watkins)

The Words (Brian Klugman & Lee Sternthal)

World War Z (Marc Forster)

Wreck-It Ralph (Rich Moore)

I keep seeing reports that Tarantino wrapped shooting on Django Unchained today, and that several months of post-production will follow.  But surely that can't be right, can it?