February 20th, 2010
In Theaters Now — with tie-ins
Listed by release date, most recent first.
MAR 12, 2010
Movie Title: Green Zone
Director: Paul Greengrass
Starring: Matt Damon, Jason Isaacs, Greg Kinnear
Based on: Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone, by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
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MAR 5, 2010
Movie Title: Alice in Wonderland
Director: Tim Burton
Starring:
Alice – Mia Wasikowska
Mad Hatter – Johnny Depp
The Red Queen – Helena Bonham Carter
The White Queen – Anne Hathaway
Based On: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll. The movie is about Alice returning to to Wonderland when she is nineteen.
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FEB 19, 2010
Movie Title: Shutter Island
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kindsley, Emily Mortimer
Based On: Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
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FEB 12, 2010
Movie Title: Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Director: Chris Columbus
Starring:
Kevin McKidd — Poseidon
Pierce Brosnan — Chiron
Uma Thurman — Medusa
Sean Bean — Zeus
Logan Lerman — Percy Jackson
Melina Kanakaredes — Athena
Based On: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan, (Hyperion Books for Children, 2005)
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FEB 5, 2010
Movie Title: Dear John
Director: Lasse Hallström
Starring:
Channing Tatum … John Tyree
Amanda Seyfried … Savannah Lynn Curtis
Richard Jenkins
Scott Porter … Randy
Based On: Dear John, by Nicholas Sparks (Warner Books, 2006)
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JAN 22, 2010
Movie Title: Extraordinary Measures
Director: Tom Vaughan
Starring: Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser, Keri Russell
Based on: The Cure: How a Father Raised $100 Million–and Bucked the Medical Establishment–in a Quest to Save His Children, by Geeta Anand
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The real-life father has published his own book about the story:
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JAN 22, 2010
Movie Title: Creation
Director: Jon Amiel
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Northam
Based on: Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution by Randal Keynes
Official Web Site: CreationTheMovie.com
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JAN 8, 2010
Movie Title: Youth in Revolt
Director: Miguel Arteta
Starring: Michael Cera, Justin Long, Steve Buscemi, Jean Smart, Ray Liotta
Based on: Youth in Revolt by C.D. Payne
Status: Trailer is on the Web
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Dec 25, 2009 (wide release; 12/11 limited)
Movie Title: A Single Man
Director: Tom Ford
Starring: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore
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HighBridge is releasing a new audio version, with tie-in art:
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Audiobook downloadable from OverDrive
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Dec 25, 2009
Movie Title: Sherlock Holmes
Director: Guy Richie
Starring: Robert Downey, Jr. (Holmes), Rachel MacAdams, Jude Law (Watson)
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
| Arthur Conan Conan Doyle |
| Retail Price: | $14.00 |
| Paperback: | 336 pages |
| Publisher: | Penguin (Non-Classics) – (2009-09-29) |
| ISBN / EAN: | 0143117025 / 9780143117025 |
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Dec 12, 2009
Movie title: Crazy Heart, 2010
Director: Scott Cooper
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Colin Farrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall
Official Movie Site: CrazyheartMovie.com
Based on: Crazy Heart, Thomas Cobb
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DEC 4, 2009
Movie Title: Up in the Air
Director: Jason Reitman
Starring: George Clooney, Jason Bateman, Vera Farmiga
Based on: Up in the Air by Jason Reitman
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Dec 11, 2009
Movie Title: The Lovely Bones
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Mark Wahlberg (Jack Salmon), Rachel Weisz (Abigail Salmon), Susan Sarandon (Grandma Lynn), Saoirse Ronan (Susie Salmon)
Based on: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
| The Lovely Bones |
| Alice Sebold |
| Retail Price: | $14.99 |
| Paperback: | 368 pages |
| Publisher: | Back Bay Books – (2009-10-12) |
| ISBN / EAN: | 0316044938 / 9780316044936 |
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Dec 11, 2009
Movie Title: The Princess and the Frog
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Starring the voices of: John Goodman, Terence Howard, Keith David, Oprah Winfre
Based on: The Frog Princess, (Tales of the Frog Princess), E.D. Baker
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Dec. 11, 2009
Movie Title: Invictus
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman
Based on: Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
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NOV 27, 2009 (Limited)
Movie Title: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Director: Rebecca Miller
Starring: Robin Wright Penn, Keanu Reeves, Blake Lively, Alan Arkin
Based on: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Rebecca Miller (FSG, 2008)
Official Movie Site
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NOV 20, 2009
Movie Title: New Moon
Director: Chris Weitz
Starring: Robert Pattinson (Edward), Kristen Stewart (Bella)
Based on: New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Official Movie Site
Tie-ins:
Trade paperback, with poster:
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| New Moon (The Twilight Saga) |
| Stephenie Meyer |
| Retail Price: | $7.99 |
| Mass Market Paperback: | 576 pages |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Young Readers – (2009-11-01) |
| ISBN / EAN: | 0316075655 / 9780316075657 |
And, as we mentioned earlier, Little Brown YR will also publish a movie companion
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NOV 20, 2009
Movie Title: The Blind Side
Director: John Lee Hancock
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Kathy Bates, Rhoda Griffis, Tim McGraw
Official Movie Site
Based on: The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, Michael Lewis
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NOV. 25 (Limited)
Movie Title: Me and Orson Welles
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Zac Efron, Claire Danes
Based on: Novel of same title by Robert Kaplow (MacAdam/Cage, 2003)
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NOV 25, 2009
Movie Title: The Road
Director: John Hilcoat
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Robert Duvall, Garret Billahunt
Based on: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Official Movie Site
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Nov 13, 2009
Movie Title: The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring the voices of: George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Meryl Streep
Official Movie Site
Based on: The Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
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NOV 6, 2009 (limited) Nov 13 (Wide)
Movie Title: Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Director: Lee Daniels
Starring: Gabourey “Gabby” Sidibe, Paula Patton, Mo’Nique, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz
Won Grand Jury and Audience Drama prizes at Sundance, January ‘09
Based on: Push by Sapphire (Knopf, 1996) — title changed to avoid confusion with the Feb. ‘09 sci-fi thriller, Push.
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NOV 6, 2009
Movie Title: A Christmas Carol
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Jim Carrey, Cary Elwes, Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright Penn
Based on: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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NOV 6, 2009
Movie Title: The Box
Director: Richard Kelly
Starring: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella
Based on: Button, Button; short story by Richard Matheson
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Nov 6, 2009
Movie Title: The Men Who Stare at Goats
Director: Grant Heslof
Starring: Jeff Bridges, George Clooney, Kevin Spacey, Ewan McGregor
Based on: The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004) by Jon Ronson
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OCT. 23
Movie title: Amelia
Director: Mira Nair
Starring: Ewan McGegor — Gene Vidal
Hilary Swank — Amelia Earhart
Richard Gere — George Putnam
Official Movie Site
Based on the following (all have been reprinted to tie in to the movie):
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OCT 23, 2009
Movie title: Astro Boy
Director: David Bowers
Starring: Nicholas Cage, Kristen Bell, Donald Sutherland, Nathan Lance
Based on: The Manga series Astro Boy by Osamu Tezuka
Official Movie Site
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OCT 16, 2009
Movie Title: Where the Wild Things Are
Director: Spike Jonze
Starring: Catherine Keener, Benicio Del Toro, Forrest Whitaker, Lauren Ambrose
Based on: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
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Also a videogame from Warner Bros. available Oct. 13
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OCT 2, 2009
Movie Title: Whip It
Director: Drew Barrymore
Starring: Ellen Page, Drew Barrymore, Zoe Bell, Alia Shawkat
Based on: Derby Girl by Shauna Cross
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SEPT 18, 2009
Movie Title: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Directors: Chris Miller, Phil Lord
Starring: Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan
Based on: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
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Sept 18, 2009
Movie Title: The Informant
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Matt Damon, Melanie Lynskey
Based on: The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald
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