2010. What a year.
Just 11 or so months ago, the movie landscape was a very different place. Guillermo del Toro was about to direct The Hobbit . Avatar hadn’t quite become the big blue movie that could. And nobody had any clue what Inception was.
Now, the closing credits are about to roll on this year (and this decade). But what a year it’s been. Journey with us as we trace all the seismic shifts and movie tremors that have shaped 2010 into the year that it was…
January
Where else could we start other than with ?
澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:James Cameron's decade-in-the-making opus got cinema off to one heck of a cracking start by taking $1bn in , making it only the fifth film in the history of cinema to do so. It went on to become the highest grossing film ever. And that’s saying something. Meanwhile, James Cameron admitted that he’d already laid down a “ ” for Avatar 2. And the 3D invasion continued as Warners confirmed that Clash Of The Titans would be . Uh, yeah...
Robert Downey Jr raised the hackles of Sherlock Holmes rights owners by hinting that a Holmes 2 film might upgrade the bromance to full on romance, musing that Holmes really could be a “ ”. Luckily, Holmes 2 got , unluckily forcing Downey Jr to Cowboys & Aliens . Daniel Craig jumped in to fill .
Kevin Feige that Thor was “unlike anything we’ve ever put on film before”, while MGM officially put James Bond on as they struggled to wade free of their monetary problems.
Other problems arose with Spider-Man 4 , as flooded in that Sam Raimi was still having trouble establishing who should be the villain(s). Days later, he’d been , and the reset button had been jabbed. Rumours stirred that Marc Webb would be .
Sequel stuff continued as Harrison Ford at an Indy 5 . Ivan Reitman’s apparent on to Ghostbusters 3 prompted us to discuss the threequels that we . Later, more threequel talk came in the form of .
Guillermo del Toro’s Hobbit looked set to begin in June (how wrong we all were), while casting offici💟ally . Then stopped again for almost 8 months.
As Neill Blomkamp discussed the idea of making a to his runaway smash District 9 , we dreamed up some . Keeping things spacey, we celebrated Star Wars , while offered , this time for Batman 3.
On the awards front, both Sandra Bullock and Jeff Bridges nabbed leading actor - could it be a sign of things to come at the Oscars? As we contemplated the possibility of those two getting up to thank their grandparents, we plucked out the best and worst as a guide for what not to do.
In the lead up to the Oscar nominees announcement, we scribbled our . Some of those films may have made it onto our epic .
The release of gave us an excuse to investigate some saucy (it’s a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it), while the excellent made us feel sorry for some really messed-up .
Meanwhile, we reviewed , and .
As the month came to a close, poor old Zelda Rubenstein ongoing health issues and passed away aged 76. We all watched Poltergeist in her memory.
February
It’s finally getting released this December, but February heralded out Jeff Bridges in Tron: Legacy, whetting our appetite for what was to come. Meanwhile, Legacy co-star Olivia Wilde for Cowboys & Aliens.
Cybersequels were also on the cards with talk of , despite Michael Bay’s previous reserve with the medium. A less cybernetic sequel was announced with Amy Adams’ .
inspired us to trawl through the library for more that needed to be turned into movies, while the release of (which we dubbed Yuck, Actually ) prompted us to seek out the .
Bill Murray continued to us about Ghostbusters 3 , while the most unlikely of films finally ended Avatar ’s eight week death grip on the box office number spot, as swooned into .
Comic book adaptations also gathered steam, as Captain America ’s on-screen nemesis was confirmed as (of course) and Tim Robbins Green Lantern . We got most excited about Chris Nolan’s Batman 3 entering , with the director tipped to return to for the rebooted Superman .
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March
As March dawned, was at the box office, while Tron: Legacy was still tempting us with gorgeous imagery, as we exclusively revealed not , not , no, not even , but images from the film. We also figured out what we about the cybersequel, before doing the .
Stiller made everybody happy by confirming that Zoolander 2 was . Bill Murray continued to about Ghostbusters 3. Harrison Ford on Indy 5. The world collectively shrugged.
Mother’s Day heralded our annual celebration of all those in the movie world, before we raised a glass to some of the best , and made a list of people we’d hate to have as . Just cos.
Our expectations for the Scott Pilgrim film adap were sent sky high when Kevin Smith revealed he’d seen , and Wolverine 2 got a shooting . Ridley Scott’s Alien prequels jumped on the 3D .
In trailer land, big, flappy, slow-mo owls made a , we got our first glimpse of Iron Man’s and FINALLY Tron: Legacy ’s first ever . ♌We couldn’t get our socks back on for a week.
The sad of Corey Haim got us feeling nostalgic, so we revisited his - which timed well with the new Twilight : Eclipse .
Buzz for Batman 3 and the new Superman continued as Chris Nolan let a few little , while Hugo Weaving signed on to in Captain America , closely followed by as the shield-flinger. And, after the phenomenal success of , Mark Millar all about Kick-Ass 2 . Meanwhile, Bryan Singer with the possibility of an X-Men 4.
Another fourquel was on the cards with the of Scream 4 , which got our grey matter bubbling over with . And you chatted with Rob Rodriguez .
Further sequel chatter came courtesy of John Malkovich and Frances McDormand , while Brad Bird considered heading into to direct Mission: Impossible 4, Eastern Promises 2 and Power Of The Dark Crystal .
Also, we loved , , and the . We Clash Of The Titans.
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April
April began with a bang, as we exclusively reported that The Hobbit would be . Except, sorry, it was all a bit of a joke on our part for April Fool’s Day. Karma wasn’t on our side, though, as weeks later the project hit , and we felt very bad. Sort of.
Meanwhile, MGM’s woes forced Bond 23 into , meaning that potential director Sam Mendes taking on The Great And Powerful Oz instead.
In further actual real news that we didn’t make up, David Fincher remake The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo , Ryan Reynolds crammed R.I.P.D. onto , and Harrison Ford finally stopped talking about Indy 5 and the increasingly-awesome sounding Cowboys & Aliens.
On the flipside, Emily Blunt a chance to star in Captain America , paving the way for . We also learned that Tron 3 is already being , and that the third Riddick movie would be (bizarrely) .
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May
Happy May! Fancy some good news? Well we had it in spades, with the release dates and , Tommy Lee Jones for Captain America and Matthew Vaughn X-Men: First Class.
As the Nightmare On Elm Street remake , well, just about anyone in cinemas, we looked forward to , while picking out some great .
The release of prompted u🎐s to take a look back over the , while we played around🎶 with .
As news dropped that Lindsay Lohan was going to be playing Linda Lovelace, we chuckled over the .
J.J Abrams gave us the of the mysterious , a new Mummy was , we got some from Let Me In , and the Fright Night 🐭remake suddenly looked interesting of Toni Collette and Colin🦩 Farrell.
Of course, it wou♉ldn’t be May without Cannes, and we were there with the rest of the world, and . Not to mention by Russell Crowe, discussing , watching and .
Our impatience at having to wait for Tron: Legacy prompted us to revisit the original film, and we discovered .
Judge Dredd got set for a , Pixar , and as Megan Fox from the Transformers franchise, we considered who might .
There was also the for Adjustment Bureau, which reminded us a bit of The Box , Pirates 4 , and the from Cowboys & Aliens.
The Killer Inside Me got our (much like ), while Amanda Seyfried made (much like ). We also celebrated awesome .
As May drew to a close, we lost one of ꦛcinema’s greats as Dennis Hopper aged 74 after a lengthy battle agaiಌnst cancer. We looked back over the .
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June
Tragedy strikes. Guillermo del Toro of The Hobbit , citing the lack of a green light for his departure. Quick as a whip, we come up with 10 , while Peter Jackson is an .
Hobbit rumours would persist throughout much of the month, as first Harry Potter , and were singled out as potential replacements for the gig.
In news about projects that actually are being made, we confirmed that was up for Transformers 3 and chatted with Scott Pilgrim . In other comic news, concept artwork for Thor and Captain America and Michael Fassbender considered suiting up in X-Men: First Class (we figured out everything knew ). He was soon .
Angelina Jolie, meanwhile, was mulling over to play Cleopatra, Geoffrey Rush for Pirates 4, and Tom Cruise signed on to make a full length movie based on his Tropic Thunder .
Oh, and Harrison Ford Indy 5 kick, talking up possible plotlines that seemed to top Crustal Skull for rubbishness.
Remakes of and looked set for the green light – we decided to go vintage and tell you why the original Fright Night.
We also looked over the , realised that movies with ‘Rise’ in the title are , and had a laugh at the .
As news that Goonies 2 was a no-go were met with , Robert Downey Jr decided he fancied . We also got new trailers for , , , , and .
Crap cinema releases like and prompted us to compile a list of the , while we also considered the most savage and for good measure. We awarded Inception .
We also said &l꧅squo;ta mate’ to the dads of the world with the , and counted down the best and (MacGruber’s ).
Finally, we closed the month by getting a little footie crazy, splicing all that dribbling madness with our love for movies. The result? Hybrid monstros🎶ities like , , and ...
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July
Summer continued at a cracking pace with perhaps the most awesome/scary casting news we’ve heard all year: Meryl Streep We can only imagine what kind of thrillingly icy performance she’ll bring.
In more scary movie news, former O.C . funnyman and joined Scream 4 , Eli Roth agreed to and FrightFest gave us a peek at their .
The biggest casting of the month, of course, came in confirmation that relative unknown Brit Andrew Garfield had snatched the from his competitors,
As the BT oil spill continued to make headlines, we pondered which historical disasters would , and felt the sweet vibes of .
Then there was the small matter of ‘Future Day’, which we to after Twitter, then the internet, then the national press got whiff of our sci-fi conspiracy. We made up for it by suggesting .
If that wasn’t cool enough, we rustled up the (Edgar Wright even ), loved The Blues Brothers and discussed the .
First looks came in the shape of a Let Me In and Dangerous Method , while sucked the dry.
We also rejoiced at the idea of an Fraggle Rock movie and contemplated who . And as Bond 23 looked to be on ice , we considered be up for the gig in four years' time.
Sam Worthington did on Clash Of The Titans 2 , Michael Caine told us Batman 3 would begin shooting in (we decided the ), and Peter Jackson looked to be directing The Hobbit.
In the wake of , we suggested ,♋ while inspired us ꦉto check out the .
Then, of course, there was Comic-Con 2010. In a whirlwind five days of activity, we got first glimpses of , the brilliant , , and more .
Elsewhere at the Con, Johnny Depp got in character for a Pirates 4 , Joss Whedon confirmed he was before uniting his cast on-stage, we saw some and Thor footage. And we posted our favourite 10 moments .
As the month considered taking a nap, Daniel Craig Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, a Predators sequel looked , and James Cameron joined Del Toro at . We also🌺 liked , and . We didn&💖rsquo;t like . At all.
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August
Comic adaps continued to take prominence over 2010, as Spider-Man received , Robert Rodriguez fancied directing , and Matthew Vaughn exacted some changes to his X-Men: First Class after . By the end of the month, Rodriguez seemed for Deadpool , while Darren Aronofsky got in Wolverine 2.
As we the Eccentricities Of A Blonde-Haired Girl , we celebrated , while Adam Sandler's prompted a celebration of . We also got hooked on a new web-crack known as Tumblr, and wrote about our favourite .
Will Ferrell explained just with Anchorman 2, a very tiny Avengers teaser trailer (while we figured out about the film), but that was okay because we also got the awesome Scott Pilgrim . And Tom Cruise took a pay , prompting us to take a look through .
Other 2010 mainstay Avatar stuck in the headlines as Cameron discussed filming Avatar 2 and 3 , Scarlett Johansson Gravity , Terminator looked to be going and Rooney Mara the Girl With Dragon Tattoo lead.
As the Black Swan trailer gave us , we sought comfort in , and not , went to see and . Which left us a bit disappointed.
FrightFest kicked off, and we . We also gave exclusive first reactions to , , , , and .
Then we decided the movies needed a kick up the backside with our .
Trailers for , , , , and all cropped up.
We got animated with a Scott Pilgrim vs Springfield , considered how to save Mel Gibson’s , loved and wrote about the best and worst ... And as Bruce Willis seemed in Expendables 2, we dreamed up some possible plots for the .
As Hollywood flapped about looking for a director for , we considered how to , then confessed our .
Oh, and the Total Film iPhone ...
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September
Kick-Ass 2 seemed a as we wended our way into September. As the Fright Night hit the web, Angelina Jolie Gravity , and we to Kevin Feige about Captain America.
The Venice Film Festival also promised all kinds of goodies, and we put our excitement right out there with . We then blogged the whole , before Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere .
Meanwhile, got the potential , and we imagined how one might make an .
Ridley Scott was still working away on his Alien prequels, calling them “ ”, while Gemma Arterton . More horrifically, Resident Evil got a , Pinocchio became a and Andy Fickman to make Boy Scouts Vs Zombies . The latter inspired our .
As trailers for and dropped, we dug up everything knew , as well as .
TV outings seemed likely for and , inspiring us to look at the . We also celebrated the Brits who . As Chris Nolan began his search for a , we turned our attention to who could play the .
A flurry of activity seized production of Sherlock Holmes 2 as first Stephen Fry signed on as the , and then Jared Harris bagged the role of .
Reviewswise, Wall Street 2 , we quite liked , I’m Still Here earned . But it was the re-release of Back To The Future that earned the . Social Network .
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October
Vampires suck. And so did Vampires Suck . A bit like and . Red had , and A Town Called Panic tripped us out in a .
As behind the scenes footage of got us seeing dancing ghostfaces, the first coolly brilliant True Grit prompted us to discover everything we knew about the .
Bourne Legacy got a , who didn’t want Jason Bourne to actually be . And look! After months of nothing, Ghostbusters 3 is the place like a peeved poltergeist. Then Martin Freeman got cast as . Which Guillermo del Toro. The world was happy to hear that Harry Potter’s Deathly Hallows: Part 1 , while Tom Felton revealed his . And we conjured up some plots for a .
In the comic world, things really were beginning to take shape, with the headlines all but dominated by comic movie adap happenings. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Zack Snyder got the Superman , and we weighed up the . Emma Stone was , while Aronofsky continued to tango with , and the sequel’s character list .
The release of Rhys Ifans’ prompted us to find out just how the movie , while Mr Nice himself blazed up with his five . He also inspired us to write about the .
Talking of Rhys, he also got to the Spider-Man reboot, and we kindly 𒆙suggested some . He was eventually confirmed as playing .
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November
The cinematic re-release of and chimed well with horror-flavoured news at the beginning of the month, with a new Texas Chain Saw Massacre in the and John Carpenter signing to direct .
In celebration of Fireworks Night, we presented the , while the release of had us trawling through the , and had us taking a trip to .
In Hobbiton, John Nesbitt joined , James Cameron dissed Warner Bros’ , Hugh Jackman confirmed he in X-Men: First Class. And with Ghostbusters 3 rumours , we sent out a . Just before Dan Aykroyd discussed the recent spate of .
Skyline ’s opening had us pondering , while we exposed some . Then there was the trippy second trailer for , as well as trailers for , , and the similar but better looking .
Spider-Man casting continued apace with and both signing on, James Cameron confirmed he’d be sticking to Avatar .
Meanwhile, projects on ice seemed suddenly set to defrost, with to rise from the grave, that Akira reboot set to do the same with and , Matthew Vaughn and Jeremy Renner reportedly Escape From New York .
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December
So we’re in the last month of 2010, and we seem to have misplaced our crystal ball. Instead of spoiling everything with scarily precise predictions about what December will hold, here are some general musings on what will probably go down…
We’ll get our first shot from Spider-Man . Probably nothing fancy, though – it’s still 18 months til the movie hits cinemas. Information about Batman 3 ’s villains and general story will get leaked by the Daily Mail.
Everybody will love , and hail it as the movie of the year. Tron 3 will get officially greenlit six days after release. Nobody even notices that Narnia: Voyage Of The Dawn Treader is out.
Megamind will show the guys who made Despicable Me how it should be done, Monsters will turn out to be this year’s District 9 . Rare Exports will become crowned the best Finnish movie about killer Santa Clauses ever made.
Hollywood will announce that no more remakes or reboots will be put into production. Oh, alright, that last one’s a tiny bit of a stretch.
Keep track of everything right here at Total Film , and make sur🌺e you sign up to our group, follow us on and , and check out our page – if you haven’t already been doing that all year, of course.
Here's to 2011...
