2012 Movies

January – March

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre
J A N U A R Y	6	The Devil Inside	Paramount Pictures	William Brent Bell (director/screenplay); Matthew Peterman (screenplay); Fernanda Andrade, Isabella Rossi, Simon Quarterman, Evan Helmuth, Ionut Grama, Suzan Crowley, Bonnie Morgan, Brian Johnson, Preston James Hillier, D.T. Carney	Horror
	13	Beauty and the Beast 3D	Walt Disney Pictures	Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise (directors); Linda Woolverton (screenplay); Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, Angela Lansbury, Bradley Pierce, Rex Everhart, Jesse Corti, Hal Smith, Jo Anne Worley	Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
		Contraband	Universal Pictures	Baltasar Kormakur (director); Aaron Guzikowski (screenplay); Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster, Giovanni Ribisi, Caleb Landry Jones, Lukas Haas, Diego Luna, J.K. Simmons	Drama, Thriller
		Joyful Noise	Warner Bros.	Todd Graff (director/screenplay); Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton, Dexter Darden	Drama, Musical
	20	Haywire	Relativity Media	Steven Soderbergh (director); Lem Dobbs (screenplay); Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor, Antonio Banderas, Channing Tatum, Michael Fassbender, Bill Paxton, Michael Douglas, Michael Angarano	Thriller
		Red Tails	20th Century Fox / Lucasfilm	Anthony Hemingway (director); John Ridley (screenplay); Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrance Howard, Bryan Cranston, Nate Parker, David Oyelowo, Tristan Wilds, Cliff Smith, Kevin Phillips, Rick Otto, Lee Tergesen, Andre Royo, Ne-Yo, Elijah Kelley, Marcus T. Paulk, Leslie Odom Jr., Michael B. Jordan, Jazmine Sullivan, Edwina Finley, Daniela Ruah, Stacie Davis, Gerald McRaney	Action, Drama, War
		Underworld: Awakening	Screen Gems	Mans Marlind, Bjorn Stein (directors); Len Wiseman, John Hlavin, Allison Burnett, J. Michael Straczynski (screenplay); Kate Beckinsale, India Eisley, Michael Ealy, Stephen Rea, Theo James, Charles Dance	Action, Horror
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		The Grey	Open Road Films	Joe Carnahan (director/screenplay); Ian MacKenzie Jeffers (screenplay); Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney, Dallas Roberts, Joe Anderson, James Badge Dale, Nonso Anozie	Thriller
		Man on a Ledge	Summit Entertainment	Asger Leth (director); Pablo Fenjves, Erich Hoeber, Jon Hoeber (screenplay); Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell, Anthony Mackie, Ed Harris, Edward Burns, Titus Welliver, Génesis Rodríguez, Kyra Sedgwick	Crime, Thriller
		One for the Money	Lionsgate	Julie Anne Robinson (director); Karen Ray, Stacy Sherman, Liz Brixius (screenplay); Katherine Heigl, Jason O'Mara, Daniel Sunjata, John Leguizamo, Debbie Reynolds, Debra Monk	Action, Comedy
F E B R U A R Y	3	Big Miracle	Universal Pictures	Ken Kwapis (director); Jack Amiel, Michael Begler (screenplay); John Krasinski, Drew Barrymore, Kristen Bell, Tim Blake Nelson, Dermot Mulroney, Ted Danson	Adventure, Family
		Chronicle	20th Century Fox	Josh Trank (director); John Landis, Max Landis (screenplay); Dane DeHaan, Michael B. Jordan, Alex Russell, Michael Kelly[disambiguation needed ]	Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
		The Woman in Black	CBS Films	James Watkins (director); Jane Goldman (screenplay); Daniel Radcliffe, Ciaran Hinds, Janet McTeer, Liz White, Alisa Khazanova, Tim McMullan, Roger Allam, Daniel Cerqueira, Shaun Dooley, Mary Stockley, Cathy Sara, David Burke, Victor McGuire, Lucy May Barker	Horror
	10	Journey 2: The Mysterious Island	Warner Bros. / New Line Cinema	Brad Peyton (director); Richard Outten, Mark Gunn, Brian Gunn (screenplay); Dwayne Johnson, Michael Caine, Josh Hutcherson, Vanessa Hudgens, Luis Guzman, Kristen Davis	Action, Family
		Safe House	Universal Pictures	Daniel Espinosa (director); David Guggenheim (screenplay); Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Sam Shepard, Robert Patrick, Liam Cunningham, Brendon Gleeson, Vera Farmiga, Fares Fares, Nora Arnezeder, Joel Kinnaman, Ruben Blades	Action, Thriller
		Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace 3D	20th Century Fox	George Lucas (director/screenplay); Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, Ahmed Best, Pernilla August, Ian McDiarmid, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Frank Oz, Samuel L. Jackson, Ray Park	Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
		Undefeated	The Weinstein Company	Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin (directors)	Documentary
		The Vow	Screen Gems	Michael Sucsy (director); Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein, Jason Katims (screenplay); Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, Scott Speedman, Jessica Lange, Sam Neill	Drama
	17	Act of Valor	Relativity Media	"Mouse" McCoy, Scott Waugh (directors); Kurt Johnstad (screenplay); Active Duty Navy SEALs, Roselyn Sánchez, Alex Veadov, Jason Cottle, Nester Serrano	Action, Thriller
		Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance	Columbia Pictures / Marvel Knights	Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor (directors); Scott Dimple, Seth Hoffman, David Goyer (screenplay); Nicolas Cage, Idris Elba, Fergus Riordan, Ciaran Hinds, Violante Placido, Johnny Whitworth	Action, Adventure
		The Secret World of Arrietty	Walt Disney Pictures / Studio Ghibli	Hiromasa Yonebayashi (director); Hayao Miyazaki, Keiko Niwa (screenplay); Will Arnett, Amy Poehler, Carol Burnett, Bridgit Mendler, David Henrie, Moises Arias	Animation, Fantasy
		This Means War	20th Century Fox	McG (director); Timothy Dowling (screenplay); Tom Hardy, Chris Pine, Reese Witherspoon, Chelsea Handler, Til Schweiger, Abigail Spencer	Romance, Comedy
	24	Gone	Summit Entertainment	Heitor Dhalia (director); Allison Burnett (screenplay); Amanda Seyfried, Jennifer Carpenter, Sebastian Stan, Emily Wickersham, Wes Bentley, Erin Carufel, Socratis Otto	Thriller
		Good Deeds	Lionsgate	Tyler Perry (director/screenplay); Tyler Perry, Thandie Newton, Rebecca Romijn, Brian J. White, Jamie Kennedy, Eddie Cibrian, Jordenn Thompson, Beverly Johnson, Phylicia Rashad, Gabrielle Union	Romance, Drama
		Wanderlust	Universal Pictures	David Wain (director/screenplay); Ken Marino (screenplay); Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston, Malin Akerman, Justin Theroux, Ken Marino, Lauren Ambrose, Joe Lo Truglio, Kerri Kenney, Kathryn Hahn, Ray Liotta, Alan Alda	Comedy
M A R C H	2	Dr. Seuss' The Lorax	Universal Pictures / Illumination Entertainment	Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio (directors/screenplay); Chris Renaud (director); Ed Helms, Rob Riggle, Zac Efron, Danny DeVito, Betty White, Taylor Swift	Adventure, Animation
		Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters	Paramount Pictures / MGM	Tommy Wirkola (director/screenplay); Dante Harper (screenplay); Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Famke Janssen, Peter Stormare, Derek Mears	Action, Horror, Comedy, Thriller
		Jeff Who Lives at Home	Paramount Vantage	Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass (directors/screenplay); Jason Segel, Ed Helms, Judy Greer, Susan Sarandon, Evan Ross	Comedy
		Project X	Warner Bros.	Nima Nourizadeh (director); Matt Drake, Michael Bacall (screenplay); Miles Teller, Oliver Cooper, Jonathan Daniel Brown, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Dax Flame, Nichole O'Connor, Thomas Mann, Alexis Knapp, Jillian Reynolds	Comedy
		Salmon Fishing in the Yemen	CBS Films	Lasse Hallstrom (director); Simon Beaufoy (screenplay); Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas	Comedy, Drama
	9	John Carter	Walt Disney Pictures	Andrew Stanton (director/screenplay); Mark Andrews, Michael Chabon (screenplay); Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Samantha Morton, Mark Strong, Willem Dafoe, Ciarán Hinds, Thomas Haden Church, Dominic West, James Purefoy, Daryl Sabara, Polly Walker, Bryan Cranston	Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
		Playing the Field	FilmDistrict	Gabriele Muccino (director); Robbie Fox (screenplay); Gerard Butler, Uma Thurman, Jessica Biel, Dennis Quaid, Noah Lomax, James Tupper	Comedy, Sports
		Silent House	Open Road Films	Chris Kentis (director); Laura Lau (director/screenplay); Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens, Julia Taylor Ross, Haley Murphy, Adam Barnett	Horror, Thriller
		The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	Fox Searchlight Pictures	John Madden (director); Ol Parker, Deborah Maggoch (screenplay); Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith	Comedy, Drama
		The Bully Project	The Weinstein Company	Lee Hirsch (director);	Documentary
		The Raven	Relativity Media	James McTeigue (director); Ben Livingston, Hannah Shakespeare (screenplay); John Cusack, Alice Eve, Luke Evans, Brendan Gleeson, Oliver Jackson-Cohen	Thriller
		Think Like a Man	Screen Gems	Tim Story (director); Keith Merryman, David A. Newman (screenplay); Kevin Hart, Michael Ealy, Taraji P. Henson, Jerry Ferrara, Meagan Good, Regina Hall, Terrence J, Romany Malco, Gary Owen, Gabrielle Union, Lala Vazquez, Arielle Kebbel	Comedy, Romance
	16	21 Jump Street	Columbia Pictures / MGM	Phil Lord, Chris Miller (directors/screenplay); Michael Bacall (screenplay); Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, Brie Larson, Rob Riggle, DeRay Davis, Dave Franco, Jake Johnson, Johnny Simmons, Johnny Pemberton, Dakota Johnson, Ellie Kemper, Johnny Depp	Action, Comedy
		Butter	The Weinstein Company	Jim Field Smith (director); Jason Micallef (screenplay); Jennifer Garner, Hugh Jackman, Alicia Silverstone, Ty Burrell, Yara Shahidi, Ashley Greene, Olivia Wilde	Comedy
		Mirror Mirror	Relativity Media	Tarsem Singh (director); Jason Keller, Melisa Wallack (screenplay); Lily Collins, Julia Roberts, Armie Hammer, Nathan Lane, Robert Emms, Mare Winningham, Michael Lerner, Mark Povinelli, Jordan Prentice, Danny Woodburn, Sebastian Saraceno, Ronald Lee Clark, Martin Klebba, Joey Gnoffo, Sean Bean	Comedy
	23	A Thousand Words	Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks	Brian Robbins (director); Steven Koren (screenplay); Eddie Murphy, Clark Duke, Kerry Washington, Justina Machado	Comedy
		The Hunger Games	Lionsgate	Gary Ross (director/screenplay); Suzanne Collins (screenplay); Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Wes Bentley, Elizabeth Banks, Dayo Okeniyi, Amandla Stenberg, Jack Quaid, Leven Rambin, Willow Shields, Paula Malcomson, Ian Nelson, Kalia Prescott, Ethan Jamieson, Tara Macken, Chris Mark, Jacqueline Emerson, Ashton Moio, Kara Petersen, Sam Ly, Leigha Hancock, Samuel Tan, Mackenzie Lintz, Imanol Yepez-Frias, Annie Thurman, Stanley Tucci, Woody Harrelson, Latarsha Rose, Brooke Bundy, Lenny Kravitz, Toby Jones, Amber Chaney, Kimiko Gelman, Nelson Ascencio, Donald Sutherland	Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
	30	The Pirates! Band of Misfits	Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Animation	Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt (directors); Gideon Defoe (screenplay); Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Jeremy Piven, Salma Hayek, Brian Blessed, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, Ashley Jensen	Animation, Family
		Wrath of the Titans	Warner Bros.	Jonathan Liebesman (director); Dan Mazeau, David Leslie Johnson, Steven Knight (screenplay); Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Edgar Ramirez, Rosamund Pike, Danny Huston, Bill Nighy, Toby Kebbell	Action, Adventure, Fantasy

April – June

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre
A P R I L	6	American Reunion	Universal Pictures	Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg (directors/screenplay); Alyson Hannigan, Seann William Scott, Tara Reid, Jason Biggs, Eugene Levy, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Chris Klein, Mena Suvari, Jennifer Coolidge, Natasha Lyonne, Eddie Kaye Thomas	Comedy
		The Cold Light of Day	Summit Entertainment	Mabrouk El Mechri (director); John Petro, Richard Price, Scott Wiper (screenplay); Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Echegui, Oscar Jaenada, Caroline Goodall, Roschdy Zem, Joseph Mawle, Rafi Gavron, Emma Hamilton	Thriller
		Titanic 3D	Paramount Pictures / 20th Century Fox	James Cameron (director/screenplay); Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Francis Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bill Paxton, Bernard Hill, David Warner, Victor Garber, Jonathan Hyde, Suzy Amis	Adventure, Drama
	13	Bullet to the Head	Warner Bros.	Walter Hill (director); Alessandro Camon (screenplay); Sylvester Stallone, Sung Kang, Sarah Shahi, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christian Slater, Holt McCallany	Action, Thriller
		The Three Stooges	20th Century Fox	Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly (directors/screenplay); Mike Cerrone (screenplay); Chris Diamantopoulos, Will Sasso, Sean Hayes, Jane Lynch, Larry David, Stephen Collins, Sofía Vergara, Jennifer Hudson	Comedy
		The Cabin in the Woods	Lionsgate / MGM	Drew Goddard (director/screenplay); Joss Whedon (screenplay); Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford, Jesse Williams, Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Connolly, Brian J. White, Amy Acker, Fran Kranz	Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
		Movie 43	Relativity Media	Patrik Forsberg (director/screenplay); Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, Peter Farrelly, James Gunn, Bob Odenkirk, Brett Ratner (directors); Steve Baker, Rocky Russo, Jeremy Sosenko (screenplay); Johnny Knoxville, Gerald Butler, Anna Faris, Seann William Scott, Hugh Jackman, Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Kate Bosworth, Kate Winslet, Liev Schreiber, Elizabeth Banks, Justin Long, Kristen Bell, Patrick Warburton, Josh Duhamel, Jason Sudeikis, Chloe Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jack McBrayer, Kieran Culkin, Chris Pratt, Leslie Bibb, Jimmy Bennett, Tony Shalhoub, Aasif Mandvi, Bobby Cannavale	Comedy
	20	Chimpanzee	Disneynature	Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield (directors)	True Life Adventure
		House at the End of the Street	Relativity Media	Mark Tonderai (director); David Loucka (screenplay); Jennifer Lawrence, Elizabeth Shue, Max Thieriot	Horror, Thriller
		Lockout	FilmDistrict	James Mather, Stephen St.Leger (director/screenplay); Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Peter Stormare, Lennie James, Vincent Regan, Tim Plester, Anne-Solenne Hatte, Yan Dron, Patrick Cauderlier, Milorad Kapor, Bojan Peric, Mark Tankersley	Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
		The Lucky One	Warner Bros.	Scott Hicks (director); Will Fetters (screenplay); Zac Efron, Taylor Schilling	Drama
		Scary Movie 5	Dimension Films		Comedy, Horror
		The Wettest County in the World	The Weinstein Company	John Hillcoat (director); Nick Cave (screenplay); Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jason Clarke, Guy Pearce, Gary Oldman, Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain	Drama
	27	The Five-Year Engagement	Universal Pictures	Nicholas Stoller (director/screenplay); Jason Segel (screenplay); Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt, Alison Brie, Rhys Ifans	Comedy
		Safe	Lionsgate	Boaz Yakin (director/screenplay); Jason Statham, Catherine Chan, James Hong, Reggie Lee, Robert John Burke	Action
M A Y	4	The Avengers	Walt Disney Pictures / Marvel Studios	Joss Whedon (director/screenplay); Chris Evans, Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård	Action, Adventure
	11	Dark Shadows	Warner Bros.	Tim Burton (director); Seth Grahame-Smith (screenplay); Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Bella Heathcote, Chloe Grace Moretz, Jonny Lee Miller, Gulliver McGrath	Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
		The Dictator	Paramount Pictures	Larry Charles (director); Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer, David Mandel (screenplay); Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley, Anna Faris, Megan Fox, John C. Reilly, J.B. Smoove	Comedy
		What to Expect When You're Expecting	Lionsgate	Kirk Jones (director); Heather Hach, Shauna Cross (screenplay); Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Brooklyn Decker, Elizabeth Banks, Anna Kendrick, Chase Crawford, Matthew Morrison, Dennis Quaid, Cheryl Cole	Comedy, Romance
	18	Battleship	Universal Pictures	Peter Berg (director); Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber, Brian Koppelman, David Levien (screenplay); Alexander Skarsgård, Taylor Kitsch, Brooklyn Decker, Rihanna, Liam Neeson, Asano Tadanobu	Action, Adventure
	25	Men in Black III	Columbia Pictures	Barry Sonnenfeld (director); Etan Cohen, David Koepp, Jeff Nathanson (screenplay); Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Emma Thompson, Josh Brolin, Nicole Scherzinger, Jemaine Clement, Alice Eve, Michael Stuhlbarg	Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
J U N E	1	Rock of Ages	Warner Bros. / New Line Cinema	Adam Shankman (director); Chris D'Arienzo (screenplay); Tom Cruise, Mary J. Blige, Julianne Hough, Alec Baldwin, Paul Giamatti, Russell Brand, Diego Boneta, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Bryan Cranston, Malin Akerman, Will Forte, Constantine Maroulis	Musical
		Safe Haven	Relativity Media	Lasse Hallstrom (director); Dana Stevens (screenplay)	Drama
		Snow White & the Huntsman	Universal Pictures	Rupert Sanders (director); Evan Daugherty (screenplay); Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, Sam Claflin, Chris Hemsworth, Ian McShane, Bob Hoskins, Eddie Izzard, Toby Jones, Eddie Marsan, Stephen Graham, Ray Winstone, Lily Cole, Sam Spruell, Liberty Ross, Noah Huntley, Nick Frost	Action, Adventure
	8	Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted	DreamWorks Animation	Eric Darnell (director); Noah Baumbach (screenplay); Ben Stiller, Jada Pinkett Smith, David Schwimmer, Chris Rock, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric The Entertainer, Andy Richter	Animation, Comedy
		Prometheus	20th Century Fox	Ridley Scott (director/screenplay); Damon Lindelof, John Spaihts (screenplay); Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson, Idris Elba, Sean Harris, Kate Dickie, Logan Marshall-Green	Sci-Fi
	15	I Hate You, Dad	Columbia Pictures	Sean Anders, John Morris (directors); David Caspe, David Wain, Ken Marino (screenplay); Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Leighton Meester, Eva Amurri, Susan Sarandon, James Caan, Milo Ventimiglia, Will Forte, Colin Quinn, Todd Bridges, Vanilla Ice, Ian Ziering	Comedy
		Jack the Giant Killer	Warner Bros. / New Line Cinema	Bryan Singer (director); Dan Studney, Darren Lemke, Christopher McQuarrie (screenplay); Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Stanley Tucci, Ewan McGregor, Bill Nighy, Ian McShane	Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
	22	Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter	20th Century Fox	Timur Bekmambetov (director); Seth Grahame-Smith (screenplay); Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Alan Tudyk, Jimmi Simpson, Robin McLeavy, Rufus Sewell	Horror, Supernatural Thriller
		Brave	Walt Disney Pictures / Pixar Animation Studios	Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman (directors); Kelly Macdonald, Julie Walters, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Kevin McKidd, Craig Ferguson, Robbie Coltrane	Adventure, Animation, Comedy
	29	G.I. Joe: Retaliation	Paramount Pictures	Jon Chu (director); Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick (screenplay); Channing Tatum, Ray Park, Dwayne Johnson, Lee Byung-hun, Bruce Willis, Elodie Yung, RZA, D.J. Cotrona, Adrianne Palicki, Ray Stevenson, Joseph Mazzello, Walton Goggins, DeRay Davis	Action, Adventure
		Magic Mike	Warner Bros.	Steven Soderbergh (director); Reid Carolin (screenplay); Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Matt Bomer, Riley Keough, Cody Horn, Gabriel Iglesias, Olivia Munn, Adam Rodriguez	Comedy, Drama

July – September

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre
J U L Y	3	The Amazing Spider-Man	Columbia Pictures / Marvel Studios	Marc Webb (director); James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent, Steve Kloves (screenplay); Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Martin Sheen, Sally Field, Denis Leary, Irrfan Khan, Campbell Scott	Action, Adventure, Drama
	13	Ice Age: Continental Drift	20th Century Fox / Blue Sky Studios	Steve Martino, Mike Thurmeier (directors); Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Lopez, Wanda Sykes, Aziz Ansari, Keke Palmer, Drake, Josh Peck, Heather Morris, Joy Behar, Nicki Minaj, Josh Gad, Alan Tudyk, Nick Frost, Kunal Nayyar, Alain Chabat, J.B. Smoove, Seann William Scott	Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
		Ted	Universal Pictures	Seth MacFarlane (director/screenplay); Alec Sulkin, Wellesley Wild (screenplay); Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Seth MacFarlane, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel McHale, Patrick Warburton, Jessica Stroup, Laura Vandervoort	Comedy
	20	The Dark Knight Rises	Warner Bros.	Christopher Nolan (director/screenplay); Jonathan Nolan (screenplay) ; Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Juno Temple, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Josh Pence, Daniel Sunjata, Nestor Carbonell, Marion Cotillard, Matthew Modine, Tom Conti, Joey King, Brett Cullen, Chris Ellis, Josh Stewart, Christopher Judge, Adam Rodriguez, Rob Brown	Action, Adventure, Drama
	27	Neighborhood Watch	20th Century Fox	Akiva Schaffer (director); Jared Stern, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg (screenplay); Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade, Will Forte, Billy Crudup	Comedy, Sci-Fi
		Step Up 4	Summit Entertainment	Scott Speer (director); Jenny Mayer (screenplay); Kathryn McCormick, Ryan Guzman, Stephen Boss	Drama
A U G U S T	3	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days	20th Century Fox	David Bowers (director); Zachary Gordon, Robert Capron, Rachael Harris, Devon Bostick, Steve Zahn	Comedy, Family
		The Bourne Legacy	Universal Pictures	Tony Gilroy (director/screenplay), Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Oscar Isaac, Joan Allen, Albert Finney, Stacy Keach, Scott Glenn	Action, Adventure, Thriller
		Total Recall	Columbia Pictures	Len Wiseman (director); Kurt Wimmer, James Vanderbilt, Mark Bomback (screenplay); Colin Farrell, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Nighy, John Cho	Drama, Sci-Fi
	10	Dog Fight	Warner Bros.	Jay Roach (director); Chris Henchy, Shawn Harwell (screenplay); Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Jason Sudeikis, Sarah Baker, Katherine LaNasa	Comedy
		Warm Bodies	Summit Entertainment	Jonathan Levine (director/screenplay); Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Rob Corddry, John Malkovich, Analeigh Tipton, Dave Franco, Cory Hardrict	Horror, Romance
	15	The Odd Life of Timothy Green	Walt Disney Pictures	Peter Hedges (director/screenplay); Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, C.J. Adams, Ron Livingston, Dianne Wiest, Odeya Rush, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, M. Emmet Walsh, Lois Smith, Common	Comedy, Drama
	17	ParaNorman	Focus Features	Chris Butler (director/screenplay); Sam Fell (director); Casey Affleck, Tempestt Bledsoe, Jeff Garlin, John Goodman, Bernard Hill, Anna Kendrick, Leslie Mann, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Tucker Albrizzi, Alex Borstein, Jodelle Ferland, Elaine Stritch, Kodi Smit-McPhee	Animation, Comedy, Thriller
		The Expendables 2	Lionsgate	Simon West (director), David Agosto, Ken Kaufman (screenplay); Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Terry Crews, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Liam Hemsworth	Action
	24	The Apparition	Warner Bros.	Todd Lincoln (director/screenplay); Carl Ellsworth (screenplay); Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan, Tom Felton, Julianna Guill, Luke Pasqualino, Suzanne Ford	Supernatural Thriller
		Premium Rush	Columbia Pictures	David Koepp (director/screenplay); John Kamps (screenplay); Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Dania Ramirez, Jamie Chung	Action
		Sinister	Summit Entertainment	Scott Derrickson (director/screenplay); C. Robert Cargill AKA Carlyle from Spill.com (screenplay); Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, James Ransone, Fred Dalton Thompson, Nicholas King, Clare Foley, Victoria Leigh, Juliet Rylance, Michael Hall D'Addario	Crime, Horror
	31	The Possession	Lionsgate	Ole Bornedal (director); Juliet Snowden, Stiles White (screenplay); Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick	Horror
S E P T E M B E R	14	Finding Nemo 3D	Walt Disney Pictures / Pixar Studios	Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich (directors/screenplay); Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould	Animation, Family
		Resident Evil: Retribution	Screen Gems	Paul W. S. Anderson (director/screenplay); Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Colin Salmon, Boris Kodjoe, Michelle Rodriguez, Shawn Roberts, Johann Urb, Oded Fehr, Kevin Durand, Li Bingbing	Action, Horror
	21	Dredd	Lionsgate	Pete Travis (director); Alex Garland (screenplay); Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey	Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
		Hotel Transylvania	Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Animation	Genndy Tartakovsky (director); Don Rhymer (screenplay); Adam Sandler, Miley Cyrus, David Koechner, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, David Spade, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon, Cee Lo Green, Andy Samberg	Animation, Comedy
	28	Looper	TriStar Pictures / FilmDistrict	Rian Johnson (director/screenplay); Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Xu Qing, Noah Segan, Jeff Daniels, Piper Perabo	Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
		Savages	Universal Pictures	Oliver Stone (director/screenplay); Don Winslow (screenplay); Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson, Blake Lively, Salma Hayek, Benicio del Toro, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Emile Hirsch, Demian Bichir	Thriller

October – December

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre
O C T O B E R	5	Frankenweenie	Walt Disney Pictures	Tim Burton (director); John August (screenplay); Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Martin Landau, Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara, Charlie Tahan, Atticus Shaffer, Robert Capron, Conchata Ferrell	Animation, Comedy
		Taken 2	20th Century Fox	Olivier Megaton (director); Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen (screenplay); Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Rade Sherbedgia, Luke Grimes	Action, Thriller
		The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D	Lionsgate	John Luessenhop (director); Alexandra Daddario, Tania Raymonde, Trey Songz, Keram Malicki-Sanchez, Shaun Sipos, Thom Barry, Paul Rae, Scott Eastwood, Richard Riehle, Gunnar Hansen, Marilyn Burns, John Dugan, Bill Moseley, Dan Yeager	Horror, Thriller
	12	Fun Size	Paramount Pictures	Max Werner (screenplay); Victoria Justice, Chelsea Handler	Comedy
		Here Comes the Boom	Columbia Pictures	Frank Coraci (director); Allan Loeb, Kevin James (screenplay); Kevin James, Salma Hayek, Charice, Henry Winkler	Comedy
		Parker	FilmDistrict	Taylor Hackford (director); John McLaughlin (screenplay); Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Clifton Collins Jr., Wendell Pierce, Michael Chiklis	Thriller
	19	The Big Wedding	Lionsgate	Justin Zackham (director/screenplay); Amanda Seyfried, Robert de Niro, Katherine Heigl, Robin Williams, Topher Grace, Susan Sarandon, Ben Barnes, Diane Keaton	Comedy, Romance
		The Gangster Squad	Warner Bros.	Ruben Fleischer (director); Will Beall (screenplay); Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Robert Patrick, Michael Pena, Giovanni Ribisi, Anthony Mackie, Ambyr Childers	Crime, Drama, Thriller
		Untitled David Chase Film	Paramount Vantage	David Chase (director/screenplay); Brad Garrett, James Gandolfini, Bella Heathcote, Christopher MacDonald, Molly Price, Lisa Lampanelli, John Magaro, Jack Huston, Will Brill	Musical
	26	Halloween 3D	Dimension Films	Patrick Lussier (director/screenplay)	Horror, Suspense, Thriller
		Of Men and Mavericks	20th Century Fox	Curtis Hanson (director); Gerard Butler, Jonny Weston, Leven Rambin	Biography, Drama, Sports
N O V E M B E R	2	My Mother's Curse	Paramount Pictures	Anne Fletcher (director); Dan Fogelman (screenplay); Barbra Streisand, Seth Rogen, Adam Scott, Colin Hanks	Comedy
		Wreck-It Ralph	Walt Disney Pictures	Rich Moore (director); John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch	Animation
	9	Skyfall	MGM / Columbia Pictures	Sam Mendes (director); Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan (screenplay); Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Javier Bardem, Bérénice Marlohe, Albert Finney, Ben Whishaw, Helen McCrory, Ola Rapace	Action, Adventure, Drama
	16	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 2	Summit Entertainment	Bill Condon (director); Melissa Rosenberg (screenplay); Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Peter Facinelli, Ashley Greene, Kellan Lutz, Jackson Rathbone, Elizabeth Reaser, Nikki Reed, Billy Burke, Rami Malek, Maggie Grace, Mackenzie Foy, Tracey Higgins, Judi Shekoni, Omar Metwally, Andrea Gabriel, Angela Sarafyan, Marlane Barnes, Lisa Howard, Patrick Brennan, Noel Fisher, Guri Weinberg, Lee Pace, Toni Trucks, Bill Tangradi, Erik Odom, Valorie Curry, Joe Anderson, Olga Fonda, Janelle Froehlich, Masami Kosaka, Sebastio Lemos, Amadou Ly, Ty Olsson, Wendell Pierce, Carolina Virguez	Drama, Romance, Thriller
	21	47 Ronin	Universal Pictures	Carl Eric Rinsch (director); Chris Morgan (screenplay); Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kou Shibasaki, Tadanobu Asano, Rinko Kikuchi, Jin Akanishi	Adventure, Fantasy
		Gravity	Warner Bros.	Alfonso Cuaron (director/screenplay); Jonas Cuaron (screenplay); Sandra Bullock, George Clooney	Drama, Sci-Fi
		Parental Guidance	20th Century Fox	Andy Fickman (director); Joe Syracuse, Lisa Addario, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel (screenplay); Billy Crystal, Bette Midler, Marisa Tomei, Bailee Madison	Comedy
		Rise of the Guardians	DreamWorks Animation	Peter Ramsey, William Joyce (directors); David Lindsay-Abaire (screenplay); Chris Pine, Isla Fisher, Hugh Jackman, Jude Law, Alec Baldwin	Animation
		The Silver Linings Playbook	The Weinstein Company	David O. Russell (director/screenplay); Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert DeNiro, Julia Stiles, Chris Tucker, Jacki Weaver, Shea Whigham	Drama
D E C E M B E R	7	Les Misérables	Universal Pictures	Tom Hooper (director); William Nicholson (screenplay); Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne	Musical
	14	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Warner Bros. / New Line Cinema / MGM	Peter Jackson (director/screenplay); Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Guillermo del Toro (screenplay); Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Graham McTavish, Ken Stott, Aidan Turner, Dean O'Gorman, Mark Hadlow, Jed Brophy, Adam Brown, John Callen, Peter Hambleton, William Kircher, James Nesbitt, Stephen Hunter, Benedict Cumberbatch, Andy Serkis, Hugo Weaving, Barry Humphries, Mikael Persbrandt, Lee Pace, Stephen Fry, Luke Evans, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Sylvester McCoy, Elijah Wood, Ian Holm, Orlando Bloom, Evangeline Lilly, Ryan Gage, Mike Mizrahi, Jeffrey Thomas, Conan Stevens, Bret McKenzie	Adventure, Fantasy
	19	Untitled Kathryn Bigelow Osama bin Laden Film	Columbia Pictures	Kathryn Bigelow (director); Mark Boal (screenplay); Joel Edgerton, Jason Clarke	Action
	21	Hunter Killer	Relativity Media	Antoine Fuqua (director); Arne Schmidt (screenplay); Gerard Butler	Action, Drama
		Life of Pi	20th Century Fox	Ang Lee (director); David Magee (screenplay); Tobey Maguire, Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain, Gérard Depardieu	Drama
		This Is Forty	Universal Pictures	Judd Apatow (director/screenplay); Leslie Mann, Paul Rudd, Megan Fox, Albert Brooks, Ryan Lee, Melissa McCarthy, Robert Smigel, Annie Mumolo	Comedy
		World War Z	Paramount Pictures	Marc Forster (director); Matthew Michael Carnahan (screenplay); Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, James Badge Dale, Daniella Kertesz, Matthew Fox	Drama, Horror, Thriller
	25	Django Unchained	The Weinstein Company	Quentin Tarantino (director/screenplay); Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson, Dennis Christopher, Gerald McRaney, Kurt Russell, Sacha Baron Cohen, Laura Cayouette, M.C. Gainey, Don Johnson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kerry Washington, Anthony LaPaglia, RZA, Tom Wopat, James Remar, James Russo, Todd Allen	Action, Western
		The Great Gatsby	Warner Bros	Baz Luhrmann (director/screenplay); Craig Pearce (screenplay); Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton, Carey Mulligan, Isla Fisher, Jason Clarke, Elizabeth Debicki, Amitabh Bachchan