Leading up until the New Year we've got our annual round-up of the best and worst films, along with preview pieces for all films coming in 2009. Beyond the break you can check out the 2009 Horror Movie Preview for Sony Pictures, Sony Screen Gems and Columbia Pictures. Watch here for previews of Lionsgate, New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures, 20th Century Fox and various others. What films are you looking forward to the most from Sony's line-up?
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Underworld: The Rise of the Lycans (January 23; Screen Gems)
UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS delves into the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires, known as Death Dealers, and the barbaric Lycans (werewolves). A young Lycan, Lucian (Michael Sheen), emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor (Bill Nighy), the cruel vampire king who has persecuted them for hundreds of years. Lucian is joined by his secret lover, the beautiful vampire Sonja (Rhona Mitra), in his battle to free the Lycans from their brutal enslavement.
Obsessed (April 24; Screen Gems)
Michael Harding (Penn Badgley) returns home from military school to find his mother (Sela Ward) happily in love and living with her new boyfriend, David (Dylan Walsh). As the two men get to know each other, Michael becomes more and more suspicious of the man who is always there with a helpful hand. Is he really the man of her dreams or could David be hiding a dark side?
Zombieland (October 9; Columbia Pictures)
The film centers on the most frightened guy on Earth who leads a motley crew of survivors in a world overrun by zombies. Title refers to an old funeral home that is turned into a morbid attraction called Zombieland.
The Stepfather (October 16; Screen Gems)
Michael Harding (Penn Badgley) returns home from military school to find his mother (Sela Ward) happily in love and living with her new boyfriend, David (Dylan Walsh). As the two men get to know each other, Michael becomes more and more suspicious of the man who is always there with a helpful hand. Is he really the man of her dreams or could David be hiding a dark side?
2012 (July 10; Columbia Pictures)
Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. 2012 is an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.
Vinyan (No Date Available; Sony Pictures)
Still not having accepted the loss of their son in a tsunami disaster, Janet and Paul Behlmer are back in Bangkok. Hanging on to the fact that his body has never been discovered, Janet desperately clings to the idea that pirates might have kidnapped their kid in the confusion that followed the catastrophe. Looking for someone to guide them in the Thai underworld, they bribe their way to a mysterious Mr. Gao, who takes them to Ranong, where a mercenary supplies them with a boat and crew to explore the pirate-infested shores of Burma. Slowly, they will lose themselves into a strange child-infested jungle and to their inner demons.
Malice In Wonderland (Sunderland) (No Date Available; Sony Pictures)
Jayson Rothwell’s script has Alice re-imagined as an American student who is hit by a London taxi and finds herself disoriented in Sunderland, where she has to navigate a macabre underworld of characters.
right to put it straight it is no longer malice in sunderland i know this cos A) im from sunderland in england and B) the location was changed before summer as it was mentioned in our regional paper. it is just malice in wonderland.
I'm excited to watch underworld 3, cant wait, but i mind that happens the same thing with saw 5. I hope Tatopulos hasn't imitate Len Wiseman like David Hackl did with Bousman.
The trailer for Obsessed looked very good. I haven't made up my mind on whether or not I'll shell out cash to see 'The Stepfather'. I'm a huge fan of the original, so I just may be interested.
in OBSESSED, i hope that Ali Larter's character kills/kicks Beyonce's ass. i can't stand her.
UNDERWORLD 3 is really the only one on this list that i'm stoked for or that i'll see (most likely).
THE STEPFATHER will be a joke and probably another insult to horror fans (same "wonderful" director who brought us the "wonderful" PROM NIGHT....blech..yuck).
Oooh, I can't wait to see 2012. Maybe this Emmerich epic brain buster will star Mr. Bean, Leslie Nielsen, Pink, Will Smith's son and that girl from the Arby's commercial.
There is a major lack of creative minds in current hollywood and its a bummer. All the films that have been major releases are all the same in a sense/ The plots are all similiar and the villians/monsters are the same as in the 90's. SHIT there are only so many 80's films i haven't seen before and i am running out of films to watch!
DOWN WITH HOLLYWOOD!
"2012 is an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors."
Do they leave the planet at the end or something? Huh??
Malice in Sunderland could be friggin sweet if it actually gets made. Obsessed, 2012 and The Stepfather might be entertaining for what they are but I doubt the´ll be something of high quality.
The synopsis of "Obsessed" should read: A successful professional man with a beautiful wife finds his idyllic life threatened by a temp in his office who reveals herself as a stalker. (Starring Beyoncé Knowles, Idris Elba, Ali Larter, Christine Lahti, Scout Taylor-Compton, and Jerry O' Connell)
these movies sound fantastic, but with today's producers trying to please the short- attention spanned watchers, it's not gonna be as good as it sounds. new line cinema is still the best. wait, 2012 sounds boring to me...bleh.
hey bangor yea they did i realzied that too. that movie reminds me of fatal attraction after i seen the trailor....stepfather looks like something out of a lifetime movie as someone else moentioed that awhile back in the stepfather post......
2012 COULD be cool if the actually END THE WORLD. It's so predictable when, at the end of the movie, things go right and everyone's saved. yawn. I am looking forward to Underworld - at least to see how everything got started. Will they still have gothy metal music in medieval times?
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