The Iron Lady (6th January)
The Talent: Dir𓆏ector Phyllida Lloyd, stars Meryl Streep and🦋 Jim Broadbent.
The Pitch: The career of Margaret Thatcher, recounted in flashback as the elderly ex-PM, gripped with dementia, struggles to remember h🔯er life.
The Hook: She's the most polarising figure in British politics, and the film is set to follow suit. Thatcher's Tory colleagues have lambasted the film's accuracy&🌞hellip; but her most vociferous critics have accused it of being a whitewash.
Defining Feature: Streep's spookily accurate impersonation of Thatcher. Awards will be ✨won.
War Horse (13th January)
The Talent: Director Stev𒉰en Spielberg, stars Jeremy Irvine and a horse.
The Pitch: First the classic kids' novel. Then the prize-winning West End play. Now the big-screen epic about a ho𝕴rse sent to fight in Europe during WWI.
The Hook: When Spielberg makes films back-to-back, the serious tear-jerker tends to follow the blockbusting adventure. Which makes this the Schindler's List to Tintin 's Jurassic Park .
Defining Feature: The play captured imaginations using a life-size puppet. Can Spielb💦erg's mix of real horses and CGI create a🎃n equally adored equine hero?
Shame (13th January)
The Talent: Director Steve McQueen, stars Michae🐟l Fassbenderꦍ and Carey Mulligan.
The Pitch: Brandon (Fassbender) has a successful career in New York but a ღguilty secret - he's a sex addict. When his sister comes to stay, it precipitates a downward spiral.
The Hook: An uncompromisingly adult drama, explicit not only in terms of nudity but also in stripping Brand📖on bare emotionally.
Defining Feature: Fassbender's virtuoso performance, which has alreaﷺdy won awards and must surely be an Oscar ♛front-runner.
Coriolanus (20th January)
The Talent: Star/director Ralph Fiennes,⛎ supported by Vanessa Redgrave and Gerard Butler.
The Pitch: Full-throttle adaptation of one of Shakespeare's best-kept secrets, a Roman tragedy about a v▨engeful general.
The Hook: Fiennes has relocated the action to the present-day to del🍨iver Shakespeare as combat movie.
Defining Feature: The shaky, handheld camerawork, shot by The Hurt Locker 's Barry Ackroyd.
J. Edgar (20th January)
The Talent: Director Clint Eastwood, stars Leonardo DiCaprio a🌱nd Naomi Watts.
The Pitch: The life of J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI's controversial foܫunding director.
The Hook: The season's big prestige biopic, with Eastwood collaborating with fellow Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black ( Milk )ཧ for an ambitious decades-spanning portraya🎐l of Hoover.
Defining Feature: The make-up required to age DiCaprio into an old man, which has proved a distracting deaꦛl-breaker for some viewers.
Haywire (20th January)
The Talent: Director Steven Soderbergh, star Gina Carano.
The Pitch: Thrill🔯er about a covert ops assassin betrayed ꦺby her handlers and out for revenge.
The Hook: Sode🍌rbergh throwing himself into the mainstream by helming a Hollywood vehicle for mixed martial arts superstar Caranꦕo.
Defining Feature: The amazing supporting cas♛t - Michael Douglas, Ewan McGregor, Antonio Banderas and Michael Fassbender.
The Descendants (27th January)
The Talent: Director Alexander Payne, star George Clooney.
The Pitch: Pampered Matt King (Clooney) has to fulfil the father ro﷽lꦯe he's always neglected when his wife falls into a coma and he has to look after their two daughters.
The Hook: Payne's first film since Sideways has been a 🐬long time coming, and his flair for comedy-drama is matched by Clooney playing, well, C🐲looney.
Defining Feature: Newc🌠omer Shailene Woodley's already Golden Globe-nominated performance as Clooney's eldest daug﷽hter.
Carnage (3rd February)
The Talent: Director Roman Polanski, stars Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, John C. Reil𝔍ly and Christoph Waltz.
The Pitch: Two couples get together to discuss an altercation between their kids, but find themselves at blows after drin🦋king too much.
The Hook: Polanski is a master of minimalist stage adaptations - remember Death And The Maiden - and here he get♑s toღ turn the screws on a superb cast.
Defining Feature: Winslet's drunk act. Be warned.
Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (9th February)
The Talent: Director George Lucas, stars Liam Neeson, Ewan McGr💫egor and Jar Jar Binks.
The Pitch: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...Luꦫcas 🦄fumbled the ball.
The Hook: The first of six annual re-releases of the Star Wars saga, newly converted into 3D.
Defining Feature: The podrace is likely to b✃e the biggest beneficiary of the extra ཧdimension.
A Dangerous Method (10th February)
The Talent: Director David Cronenberg, st🅰ars Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Keira Kꦦnightley.
The Pitch: Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, friend🔯s and psychoanalysis pioneers, fall out when a woman comes between them.
The Hook: Cronenberg's body horror has always had its Freudian subtexts - so his chilly, psychologically acute style🎶 is well matched to what is effectively an origins story for his filmmaking.
Defining Feature: Cronenberg's third collaboration in a row with Mortensen. They're becoming on🌠e of the gr💖eat director/star pairings.
The Muppets (10th February)
The Talent: Director J🌠ames Bobin, stars Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Kermit The Frog and Miss Piggy.
The Pitch: Two Muppet Show fans have to reunite the oᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚld gang in order to save the Muppet🥃 Theater from being demolished.
The Hook: ꧃It's tꦺime to play the music, it's time to light the lights. A classic, reinvented.
Defining Feature: Fanboy scripters Segel and Nicholas Stoller (remember the vampire musical in Forgetting Sarah Marshall ) getting to play with their heroes.
The Woman In Black (10th February)
The Talent: Director James Watkins, star Daniel Radcliffe.
The Pitch: Adaptation of Susan Hill's ghost story (already turned into a hit stage play and 🌳an acclaimed TV drama) about a solicitor being haunted by the titular black-clad lady.
The Hook: Radcliffe's first starrꦕing role since hanging up Harry Potter's wand. It's fair to say expectations are high.
Defining Feature: The biggest release from the recently-relaunched Hammer Studios, this could mark their return to scaring tജhe bejeezus out of the public once more.
Young Adult (10th February)
The Talent: Director Jason Reitman, stars Ch🍷arlize Theron and Patton Oswalt.
The Pitch: Teen-lit author Mavis Garಌy (Charlize Theron) mistakes fiction for reality when she tries to recapture her own high school glory days.
The Hook: Reitman's reunion with Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody pr♍omises another bittersweet cocktail of sharp di♌alogue and sweet emotion.
Defining Feature: Theron is back in a big way this year, but take a look at the rare live-action leading role for Oswalt, aka Remy from Ratatouille .
This Means War (17th February)
The Talent: Director McG, s💙tars Tom Hardy, Chris Pine and Reese Witherspoon.
The Pitch: Two CIA agents come to blows when they realise theyಌ're 💃dating the same woman.
The Hook: The most ludicrous premise for an action comedy in years gets a director w♚ho doesn'𒐪t know restraint. Switch off brain and enjoy the pyrotechnics.
Defining Feature: 2012 will be Tom Hardy's year. This is wh🃏ere 𝓰it starts.
John Carter (9th March)
The Talent: Director Andrew Stanton, stars Taylor Kitsch, Samantha Morton an𒅌d Willem Dafoe.
The Pitch: Edg🃏ar Rice Burroughs' epic after an American Civil War soldier who must unite♎ the tribes of Mars. Burroughs wrote loads of John Carter stories: will this be a franchise?
The Hook: Part 2 in Pixar's colonisation of live-action, after Brad Bird helming Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol .
Defining Feature: The original title was John Carter Of Mars . The planet's name was dropped in order to maximise the movie's reach beyond the sci-fi crowd - smart marketing, or running scared?
We Bought A Zoo (16th March)
The Talent: Director Cameron Crowe, stars Matt Dam🦄on an♔d Scarlett Johansen.
The Pitch: Based on Benjamin Mee's memoir, ꦓthis is the story of a guy who buys a🦄 zoo. Funny, that.
The Hook: Crowe's 💜first film in▨ years is an unashamedly soft-hearted family movie with a cool cast.
Defining Feature: Crowe hasꦺ impeccable music taste. His selection of Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi Birgisson o꧂n soundtrack duties is very exciting.
The Hunger Games (23rd March)
The Talent: Director Gary Ross, stars Jennifer 🎃Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth.
The Pitch: A sci-fi Battle Royale , as tribespeople i🐷n future America are forced to fight in organised combat.
The Hook: Suzanne Collins' novels are what the cool kids started to read once they'd finished Harry Potter and Twilight . No pressure there, then.
Defining Feature: Jennifer Lawrence's first lead role since Winter's Bone , which will surely cement he🌄r reputation as Hollywood's brightest hope.
The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists (28th March)
The Talent: ▨ Director Peter Lord, stars H🍃ugh Grant, Salma Hayek and David Tennant.
The Pitch: The Pirate Captain joins forces with ♑Charles Darwin to win the Pirate Of The Year Award.
The Hook: Aardman's first stop-motion movie since The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit - what more incentive do you need?
Defining Feature: Hugh Grant working with Aardman makes for possibly the most English animated movie since, well, Wallace and Gromit .
The Innkeepers (Spring, TBC)
The Talent: Director Ti West, stars Kelly McGil🌺lis and Sara Paxton.
The Pitch: Two ghost hunters brave a supposedly haunted hotel as it prepares to close itꦗs doors.
The Hook: Ti West is the name to drop amongst horror fans. Already a hit at this year's Frightfest, The Innkeepers could be the one to bring him to a wider audienc😼e.
Defining Feature: Yes, that Kelly McGillis.
American Pie: Reunion (6th April)
The Talent: Directors John Hurwitz and Hayden Sc🦹holssberg, stars Jim, Kevin, Oz, Finch and Stifler.
The Pitch: It does what it says on the tin. The original cast of American Pie , reunitedꦍ now they're middle-aged but still prone to sex-based disast𝓡ers.
The Hook: A return to cinemas after the American Pie franchise had taไken a cul-de-sac into straight-to-DVD cꦚash-ins.
Defining Feature: A collective Proustian flashback to the time when Tara Reid, Chris Klei൩n and Jason Biggs had promising careers ahead.
Headhunters (6th April)
The Talent: Director Morten Tyldum, stars Aౠksel Hennie and Synnove Macody Lund.
The Pitch: Danish thriller about a corporate headhunter who moonlights as an art thief to keep his shallow wife in the lifestyle she's accustomed✱ to.
The Hook: 𒁃A character drama that becomes a bonkers action film, this is the foreign-language film most like💧ly to break out of the art-house ghetto to become a cult hit.
Defining Feature: Scandinavian style, back in vogue after fellow Dane Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive .
Titanic 3D
The Talent: ܫDirector James Cameron, stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
The Pitch: History's♓ most famous sinking, as told via the medium of CGI-assisted teenage romance.
The Hook: Cameron's using 3D to try and get his ex-highest grossing film🏅 ever to overtake his current highest grossing film ever.
Defining Feature: Cameron has been a vocal critic of bad 3D conversion jobs, so there's a lot riding on whe🐬ther he can perfect the technology.
The Cabin In The Woods (13th April)
The Talent: Director Drew Goddard, star Chris Hemsworth.
The Pitch: A bunch of youngsters head off for the titular holiday home. Guess what? Doesn't go according to plꦿan.
The Hook: With Cloverfield writer Drew Goddard working with old Buffy The Vampire Slayer colleague 💃Joss Whedon, exꦑpect fresh twists on a familiar formula.
Defining Feature: Studio shenanigans have kept this in the l⛎ocker for a w൲hile; in the meantime, Hemsworth has become a star.
Battleship (20th April)
The Talent: Director Peter Berg, stars Taylor Kitsch𒅌, Rihanna and Liam Neeson.
The Pitch: The𒁏 U.S. Navy has a close encounter - can they stop the aliens sink𝔍ing their battleship?
The Hook: You've played the game, now watch the film - although we don't quite remember the game bꦕeing quite lik🐟e this.
Defining Feature: The "In Association With Hasbro" credit.💜 Expect𓆏 more of this type of thing.
The Avengers (27th April)
The Talent: Joss Whedon, dir🍨ecting the Marvel Universe all-stars.
The Pitch: Iron M𝓰an, the Hulk, Captain America and Thor, together at last under the command of Nick Fury.
The Hook: A stellar line-up like that doesn't happen overnight. Marvel has been building multiple franchises in order to make 💦this a smorg🌸asbord of superhero entertainment.
Defining Feature: Most of the cast are known quantities. So all ey💖es are on whether Mark Ruffalo can eclipse Eric Bana and Ed Norton as the Hulk.
Wettest County (4th May)
The Talent: Director John Hillcoat, co-writer Nick Cave, stars Shia LaBeouf, Tom ꦰHardy and Gary 👍Oldman.
The Pitch: Three hillbilly bootleggers get ca🔯ught in the crossfire during 𒐪the Prohibition.
The Hook: Boardwalk Empire has made bootlegging cool again. ♊Now it's the big screen's turn.
Defining Feature: The Road 's Hillcoat is fast becoming the go-to guy ♔for grizz🔜led genre movies. The prospect of him doing gangsters is tantalising.
Dark Shadows (11th May)
The Talent: Director Tim Burton, stars Johnny Depp and Helen🎐a Bonham Carter.
The Pitch: Adaptat🦩ion of the 1960s cult gothic soap op♍era about a weird family and their vampire son.
The Hook: Burton in his natural milieu, working with his regular collaborators and material close 𝔉to his heart.
Defining Feature: The prospect of t🌼his being the most Burton-esque thing Burton has ever done.
The Dictator (18th May)
The Talent: Director Larry Charles, star Sacha Baron-Cohen.
The Pitch: Baron-Cohen takes on the title role in a film based on novel Zabibah And The King , allegedly written by Saddam Hussein.
The Hook: The first Baron-Co🥃hen star vehicle not directly based on one of his TV characters promises to be his most controversial yet.
Defining Feature: Adapting Saddam? Chances are this won't be entirely a straight version of the 𝔉book.
Men In Black 3 (25th May)
The Talent: Director Barry Sonnenfeld, stars Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin🦂.
The Pitch: Return of the alien 🌸enforcement comedy, now with added time-travel as Agent J (Smith) meets with the young Agent K (✃Brolin, channeling Jones).
The Hook: It's a decade since the lacklusture MiB 2 . Can a threequel reinvigorate the franchise? Never bet against the F🌄r🌊esh Prince.
Defining Feature: Brolin playing Jones - a lovely piece of casting considering their cat-and-mouse roles in No Country For Old Men .
Prometheus (1st June)
The Talent: Director Ridley Scott, stars Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron and🐠 Mich🤪ael Fassbender.
The Pitch: The prequel to Alien . Or not. Let's just say, as Fassbender put it, " Prometheus is absolutely connected to Alien ... There's a definite connecting vein."
The Hook: The return of Ridley Scot𓃲t to save the world he created, after several decades of disappointing sequels and appalling cash-ins.
Defining Feature: The fact that so little is known. This could be the sleeper hit of the sܫummer.
Snow White And The Huntsman (1st June)
The Talent: Director Rupert Sanders, stars Kristen Stewart, Charౠlize Theron and Chris Hemsworthཧ.
The Pitch: New twist on an old legend, as t💟he E♏vil Queen hires a huntsman to find the "fairest of them all."
The Hook: The first of competing Snow White adaptations - before Mirror, Mirror - boasts the better cast and the bigger buzz.
Defining Feature: Never mind Stewart exploring new options after Twilight . Theron is going to be the actress of 2012.
The Amazing Spider-man (4th July)
The Talent: Director ꦯMarc Webb, stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Rhys Ifans.
The Pitch: Long live Rai൩mi and Maguire, all hail the new Spidey team as Peter Parker's story starts again.
The Hook: With Nolan's Batman series coming to a close and Man Of Steel another year away, Spidey is leading his superhero peers in how to survive franchise 🧸bloat - simply start again.
Defining Feature: Too soon for a reboot? Comics 🌱do this all the time, and Garfield looks spot-🐻on.
The Dark Knight Rises (20th July)
The Talent: Director Christopher Nolan, stars Christian Bale, Anne Ha🥂thaway a🍎nd Tom Hardy.
The Pitch: The third Batman, as Bruce Wayne f꧑aces new foes Baneꦐ and Catwoman.
The Hook: Does it need a hook? 2012's most anticipated film reunites a director who can do no wrong with his existing ens✨emble, plus some exciting new faces.
Defining Feature: Depending on your fanboy allegiances or s✅exual preferences, it's either Hathaway-as-Catwoman or Hardy-as-Bane.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2nd August)
The Talent: Director Timur Bekmambetov, stars Benjamin Walker🦄, Mar♎y Elizabeth Winstead and Dominic Cooper.
The Pitch: Adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's chee🗹ky 'what if?' novel imagining that the slavery-hating Pres also like hammering stakes through vampires' hearts in his spare time.
The Hook: A mad premise that will either be the most enjoyable B-movie of the summer or 2012's Cowboys And Aliens .
Defining Feature: The return of Bekmambetov, who proved with Wanted that the last thing needed in an action mov⛄ie is restraint.
Brave (17th August)
The Talent: Director Mark Andrews𒁏, stars Kelly Macdonald and Billy Connol🔴ly.
The Pitch: Pixar does Braveheart .
The Hook: After catching sequelitis for a few years, Pixar returns to origi🍷nal material by taking on the fairy🐼tale genre usually associated with parent company Disney.
Defining Feature: Macdonald, fresh off Boardwalk Empire , as Pixar's first female lead - don't 💦expect a Disneyꩵ princess.
The Bourne Legacy (17th August)
The Talent: Direct🗹or Tony Gilroy, stars Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz𓆏 and Edward Norton.
The Pitch: Bourne&hell😼ip; without Bourneꦕ, as Renner's Aaron Cross deals with the amnesiac assassin's legacy.
The Hook: Can a franchise survive without its star? This so-called "sidequel" from Michael Clayton director Gi♊lroy (who wrote the earlier Bourne films) offers a new spin on franchise building.
Defining Feature: All eyes are on whether Renner will be a s❀atisfactory replacement for Mat🥃t Damon.
The Expendables 2 (17th August)
The Talent: Di൩rector Sim🐼on West, stars Sylvester Stallone and his action hero all-stars.
The Pitch: Barney Ross and his team of mercenaries go up against a rival te🌌am led by Jean Vilain (who, we're guessing, is a villain).
The Hook: The arrival of JCVD (as Vilain) and Chuck Norris cements Stallone's efforꦑts to make a lucrative retirement fund for his 80s action hero buddies.
Defining Feature: Stallone has handed directorial duties to Con Air helmer𒆙 Simon West, allowing him to concentrate on busting heads.
Total Recall (22nd August)
The Talent: Director Len Wiseman, stars Colin Farrell a𒐪nd Kate Beckinsale.
The Pitch: New version of the P⛦hilip K. Dick story 'We Can Remember It For You W🌃holesale,' already filmed in 1990 by Paul Verhoeven and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Hook: Farrell as Arnie? With such a vastly different type of actor in the lead, th🃏is might be closer to Dick's dyst💮opian vision… albeit through Wiseman's kick-ass action sensibility.
Defining Feature: Remakes are now into the 1990s! Too soon?
The Sweeney (21st September)
The Talent: Director Nick Love, stars Ray♓ Winstone and Ben 'Plan B' Drew.
The Pitch: The 70s UK police show gets a makeover. Da-dada, da-dada,🍌 da da𒈔 da-da daaa da da-dada.
The Hook: British cinema doesn't really do cops 'n' robbers, but The Football Factory director Nick Love has the geezer sensibility to keep it sh🍎outy.
Defining Feature: Winstone's an obvious call for John Thaw's Regan, but can Plan B do Dennis Waterman? Hopefully, he'll write the theme tune, sing the them🍸e tune.
Looper (28th September)
The Talent: Dire💯ctor Rian Johnson, stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and Emil꧋y Blunt.
The Pitch: Timey-wimey action, as an assassin hired to kill future convicts who escape into the past recog🐽nises his latest target - himself.
The Hook: Johnson reunites with Brick star Gordon-Levitt. Expect more of the same mind-bending twists, with added 12 Monkeys weirdness courtesy of Willis.
Defining Fe🔯ature: Gordon-Levitt and Willis playing the same guy?
Taken 2 (5th October)
The Talent: Direജctor Olivier Megato𓆉n, stars Liam Neeson and Maggie Grace.
The Pitch: Retired black ops agent Bryan Mills🍸 is forced to co⛄me to the rescue once again.
The Hook: The sequel to the hit nobody was expecting, this will rival The Expendables 2 as the year's most exciting guilty pleasure.
Defining Feature: Taken defined Liam Neeson's recent reinvention as a hard-man, so this is all about Mr "I will fi♑nd you and kill🍷 you" Mills.
Skyfall (26th October)
The Talent: Director Sam Men൩des, stars Daniel🌞 Craig and Javier Bardem.
The Pitch: Bond 23 - but not, a♌pparently, a conti🅰nuation of the Quantum storyline.
The Hook: 007 gets serious, by hiring Oscar-winners Mendes and Bardem a🌱s director and villain, respectively.
Defining Feature: Hard to pick just one, but the return of Q (now played by Ben 🎀Whishaw) is s𝔍omething to get excited about.
The Gangster Squad (9th November)
The Talent: Director Ruben Fleischer, stars Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and ✤Sean Penn.
The Pitch: Mobster Mickey Cohen wants to break into LA, but a team of cops is put together to stop him. Think The Untouchables , but with sunshine.
The Hook: An old-school mob movie with some new moves, courtesy of man-of-the-moment Gosling and Zombieland director Fleischer.
Defining Feature: Amazingly, this is the first major movie about Mickey Cohen, after being a supporting character in Bugsy and L.A. Confidential .
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (16th November)
The Talent: Director Bill Condon, stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen 🎃Stewart and Taylor L💝autner.
The Pitch: Edward, newly-fanged Bella and their l'il baby vampire take🐻 on the forces of darkness.
The Hook: The Twilight finale. Regardless of the lukewarm reaction to Breaking Dawn, Part 1 , your kid sister will love it.
Defining Feature: Splitting the final story in two a la Harry Potter should at least mean one thing - action!
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (14th December)
The Talent: Director Peter Jackson, s🐟ta𝓰rs Martin Freeman Ian McKellen and Richard Armitage.
The Pitch: Long before The Lord Of The Rings , hobbit Bilbo Baggins set out on an adventure with a com⛦pany of dwarves.
The Hook: After a loooong delay, Jackson return❀s to Middle Earth with th🌼e first in a two-part prequel to his masterwork.
Defining Feature: After helping Spielberg on Tintin , this will be Jackson's first film in 3D.
Life Of Pi (21st December)
The Talent: Director Ang Lee, star Suraj Sharma.
The Pitch: Adaptation of Yann Martel's Booker Prize-winning novel about a boy stuck on a boat with a t🌄iger and other animals.
The Hook: Seeing an impossible project 🗹brought to the screen. Shyamalan, Cuaron and Jeunet all failed to make it work. Can genre chameleon Lee do it justice?
Defining Feature: It's all abou🦄t the tiger🃏. Get that right, and we'll believe anything.
World War Z (21st December, U.S.)
The Talent: Director Marc Forster, star Brad Pitt.
The Pitch: A United Nations operative scours the world, interviewing suꦇrvivors of the zombie apocalypse.
The Hook: Max Brooks' acclaimed novel - a series of first-person accounts of a zombie war - is the War And Peace of zombi꧋e fict♕ion. We're talking epic territory for the film.
Defining Feature: The screenplay is by Babylon 5' s storytelling master Michael J. Straczynski. If anybody ca🐈n make multiple plotlines cohere, it's him.
The Great Gatsby (25th December, U.S.)
The Talent: Director Baz Luhrmann, stars Leonard DiCaprio,🌃 Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire.
The Pitch: Adap🌠tation of F. Scott Fitz♕gerald's classic story of adultery and excess during the Jazz Age, with Leo as mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby.
The Hook: Showman Baz Luhrmann's films are always an event, and his lavish take on Fitzgerald will either be the Oscar fr🐈ontrunner, a call to arms for literary lovers, or both.
Defining Feature: The fact ♒that Luhrmann is shooti🦹ng in 3D. Er, why?
Django Unchained (26th December)
The Talent: Director Quentin Tarantino, stars Jamie Foxx, Leonar�🍷�do DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson.
The Pitch: A freed slave in 19th Century America is trainꦉed as a bounty hunter and then decides to get payback on the slave owners.
The Hook: Tarantino's love of Spaghetti Westerns is well known. Here he reinvents genre icon Django for a film that will do for slavery what Inglourious Basterds did for the Nazis.
Defining Feature: Tarantino has a knack for getting career best performances out of hi🦋s actors. Tꦺhe prospect of DiCaprio as a villain could set Oscar bells ringing.
