On The Edge of My Seat: What Are The New Year's Most Anticipated?

Cover of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

In my email today, side, by side  Flavor Pill and The Wire both want to share their most anticipated films for 2012. Many are self explanatory, but there are a couple I know little to nothing about.

I hadn't heard that both a realistic Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter were being made.

Life of Pi is hard to imagine on the screen; it's in 3-D and its star has no experience.

Oliver Stone's Savages is a crime drama with drugs as the focus.

Les Miserables has made it to the big screen with an all-star cast: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter. So many egos in one place!

The return of Dark Shadows brings me back to afternoons hiding from the show my sisters insisted on watching.Johnny Depp will probably bring me out of hiding.

Django Unchained is about an ex-slave befriended by a bounty-hunting dentist.

Ridley Scott directs Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender in Prometheus, indirectly linked to Alien. Mankind's fate hangs in the balance.

Haywire is being touted as a director's movie, expanding Steven Soderbergh's reach into action.  He also brings Mixed Martial Arts fighter Gina Carano to the screen.

We can't have a year without a comic wedding movie, right?  Judging from the trailer, this looks like a keeper! The Five-Year Engagement features Emily Blunt from The Devil Wears Prada and Young Victoria  and the Muppets and Forgetting Sarah Marshall's Jason Segal.

And, The Innkeepers is The Shining style suspense, thriller and horror from Ti West.

Which am I waiting for?  Well most are not on the lists:  One For The Money, Kristen Stewart's Sleeping Beauty, Breaking Dawn 2, The Avengers, Men In Black III.

How about YOU?

The Wire:	Flavor Pill:
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter	The Dark Knight Rises
Dark Shadows	Django Unchained
Django Unchained	Skyfall(James Bond)
Les Miserables	This is Forty
Life of Pi	The Five-Year Engagement
Lincoln	Men In Black III
Prometheus	The Avengers
Savages	Looper
The Amazing Spider-Man	Haywire
The Avengers	The Innkeepers
The Dark Knight Rises
The Great Gatsby
The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey
The Hunger Games
World War Z

Cover via Amazon

Cover of Life of Pi

The Five Year Engagement explains itself:

LOOPER- Groovy Motorcycle 

"...No photos or trailer yet (just the above on-set footage); according to IMDb, it’s a futuristic tale of a Mob killer (Gordon-Levitt) who recognizes a target as his own future self (Willis)."Flavor Wire


 

Lighter Note: MIB 3 & Tommy Lee Jones and Me

I didn't know this was happening.  It has improved my mood.

The lovely people at SONY have even listed opening dates around the world: RELEASE DATES 

I kept running into Tommy Lee Jones in Manhattan one weekend in 2004 while he was on the junket for "The Missing" with Cate Blanchette. We were all at the same hotel; as was every personality who had ever been on a CBS TV show. It was CBS' 75-year anniversary and they had dragged them all out for a big gala/show. Anyway, TLJ was there, saw me in the lobby, in the doorway, at the bar. Later he saw me at Barney's or Bergdorf's and looked at me a bit more closely; kind of an "I've seen you before, do I know you?" look. He had a body guard who was wearing a kilt. I told my husband, hey TLJ is checking me out, to which my husband replied, "No, he thinks you're a stalker." Seriously,Lowes (or Loews?) was lousy with talent that weekend. Ran into Ted Danson on Madison Avenue, and Bob Newhart, Michael Learned at the Hotel. Larry Kings kid's birthday party was being held there, so he was in and out. Cate Blanchette had brunch on her own; gorgeous even without makeup. That was a rather weird weekend.