Screen Rant’s (Massive) 2011 Movie Preview

2011 is here and movie geeks are especially excited, as the year twenty-eleven promises some highly anticipated films of the sci-fi and superhero persuasion, as well as some animated sequels, promising awards season art house entries, and even a (strange? timely?) new sub-genre in the rom-com category: the sex buddy comedy.

We take a look at the movies of 2011 (we lost count, but we’ve listed about 150 films!) that will be occupying our weekends at the theater this year. We’ll also keep this post updated as release dates are shifted and new movies are added to the calender, so be sure to bookmark this post for future reference.

For your convenience, we’ve separated the 2011 movie releases into the the months of the year. Be sure to check back each month for the latest on the movies that will be at theaters near you. We’ll keep things current with new images, casting news, release date shifts and late additions. January is listed on this page and you can click any one of the links below to jump to a specific month.

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14th-century knights (Nic Cage, Ron Perlman) transport a suspected witch to a monastery, where monks deduce her powers could be the source of the Black Plague.

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A drama centered on a rising country-music songwriter (Garrett Hedlund) who sparks with a fallen star (Gwyneth Paltrow). Together, they mount his ascent and her comeback, which leads to romantic complications involving her husband/manager (Tim McGraw) and a beauty queen-turned-singer (Leighton Meester).

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Vincent Burton is the best science teacher at Liberty High School until he falls for his prize student Katie Anderson. When the relationship takes a scandalous turn, Vincent’s loyal twin brother Oscar, fresh home from prison, decides to help Vincent avoid doing hard time and does anything he can to take care of anyone who has knowledge of the relationship. The local Sheriff starts hunting Oscar and the game of cat and mouse has the whole town involved.

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By night, debonair newspaper publisher Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) fights crime as a masked superhero known as The Green Hornet. At his side is martial arts expert Kato (Jay Chou), who teams with The Hornet to bring down ruthless crime boss, Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz).

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A man discovers that his best friend’s wife is having an affair. Ron Howard directs, Vince Vaughn, Jeniffer Connelly, Winona Ryder, Kevin James, Queen Latifah and Channing Tatum star.

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Life for a happy couple (Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart) is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident. Based on a play by David Lindsay-Abaire.

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The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti). Rosamund Pike, Minnie Driver, Scott Speedman and Dustin Hoffman co-star.

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A subversive tale that interlaces five stories set in Los Angeles, where no taboo is left unexplored as each character careens toward a dark and often comic fate. Zoe Saldana, Dylan McDermott, Jamie Chung, Rosamund Pike, Nick Stahl, Paz Vega, Lake Bell and Shannon Doherty star.

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Ong Bak 3 picks up where Ong Bak 2 left off. Tien (Tony Jaa) is captured and almost beaten to death before he is saved and brought back to the Kana Khone villagers. There he is taught meditation and how to deal with his Karma, but very soon his arch rival returns challenging Tien for a final duel.

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A guy and girl (Ashton Kutcher, Natalie Portman) try to keep their relationship strictly physical, but it’s not long before they learn that they want something more.

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A fact-based story centered on soldiers who escaped from a Siberian gulag in 1940. Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Saoirse Ronan and Mark Strong star.

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The story centers on a year in the life of three men (trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company) – and how it affects them, their families, and their communities. Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones and Maria Bello star.

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A Latina spin on Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility,” where two spoiled sisters who have been left penniless after their father’s sudden death are forced to move in with their estranged aunt in East Los Angeles.

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An elite hit man (Jason Statham) teaches his trade to an apprentice (Ben Foster) who has a connection to one of his previous victims.

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An American priest travels to Italy to study at an exorcism school and gets caught up in a case of suppossed demonic possession. Ciarán Hinds, Anthony Hopkins, Alice Braga, Toby Jones and Rutger Hauer star.

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This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal (Javier Bardem) is a tragic hero and father of two who’s sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.

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The sequel follows on Ip Man’s migration to Hong Kong in 1949 as he attempts to propagate his discipline of Wing Chun martial arts.

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A drama centered on a woman with Alzheimer’s in search of new meaning through poetry.

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Seth and Jonah are twins with a dangerous ability. Telekinesis. Things start to spiral out of their control as their classmates end up dying in twisted and bizarre ways. The police suspect them. But, jealousy begins to divide them and soon they can no longer trust each other. Leading up to a horrific battle between themselves.

Continue to February 2011 movies…

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It’s Screen Rant’s 7th Birthday!

Wow.

It’s hard to believe that Screen Rant has been online seven (7!!) years. I started this site back in November 2003 – and I had no idea what I was doing… I was just a movie and Sci Fi fan and with this whole internet thing that seemed to be up and coming, I thought it might be cool to set up one of those new websites called a “weblog.” I figured it might be fun to set up a place where I could talk about movies and TV, both the good and the bad, but I never thought anyone would read it outside a couple of friends of mine.

One of the very first posts on the site was Sandy Collora’s short fan film Batman: Dead End. There were articles about Battlestar Galactica, how annoying people who talked in movie theaters were and the odd movie review here and there.

Back then the site was VERY heavy on the “Rant” side of things and it was just me and a my friend Brian Rentschler venting a couple of times a week. Things puttered along for a while just for fun, but in summer 2008 I thought maybe Screen Rant could “be somebody.” Kofi Outlaw came on board as a part time writer (he’s now our senior editor) and then a few months later I noticed a very well-spoken commenter on the site who I thought might be a good writer. Turns out I was right, and his name is Rob Keyes (now also an editor).

As time went on we brought more and more writers on board – some have come and gone, but we continued to do our best to bring readers news about the sorts of movies we loved with a dose of opinion. It’s been a LOT of work along with some luck and I want to thank our intrepid crew for the great job they do day in and day out. Oh, and a year ago we branched out with what’s turning into one of the go-to video game news sites on the web: GameRant.com.

The site has been through a lot changes over the past seven years, and will continue to change as we grow and evolve. Since I’m sure none of you know what the site looked like when it was born, I thought you might get a kick out of this:

We’ve come a long way, baby.

We have more changes coming very soon in an effort to make Screen Rant even better.

There have been some ups and downs but overall it’s been a great ride and has given me the chance to meet other really cool movie bloggers and industry people – and to connect with movie fans like yourselves.

If you’re a regular visitor I want to thank you for coming back again and again. If you’re a first time reader, kick off your shoes, relax, and have a look around… join in on the conversation and hang out. I consider a lot of you folks family, so again, thanks for sticking with us. And if you haven’t done so yet, don’t forget to join the Screen Rant Facebook page!

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