District 9
Release Date: 13th August 2009
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action
Cast – Sharlto Copley, David James
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Website: http://www.district9movie.com/
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Synopsis: Thirty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa’s District 9 as the world’s nations argued over what to do with them. Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens’ welfare – they will receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens’ awesome weaponry work. So far, they have failed; activation of the weaponry requires alien DNA. The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when an MNU field operative, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), contracts a mysterious virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable – he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Ostracized and friendless, there is only one place left for him to hide: District 9.




The Ugly Truth
Release Date: 10th September 2009
Genre: Comedy/ Romance
Cast: Katherine Heigl, Gerald Butler
Director: Robert Luketic
Website: http://www.sonypictures.net/movies/theuglytruth/
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Synopsis: A romantically challenged morning show producer (Heigl) is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous tests by her chauvinistic correspondent (Butler) to prove his theories on relationships and help her find love. His clever ploys, however, lead to an unexpected result.




Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Release Date: 15 October 2009
Genre: First-Ever CGI Animated Disaster Film
Cast: Bill Hader, Anna Faris. James Caan, Mr. T. Tracy Morgan
Based upon the book: written by Judi Barrett and illustrated by Ron Barrett
Website: http://www.sonypictures.net/movies/cloudywithachanceofmeatballs/
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Synopsis: Sony Pictures Animation presents Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, the world’s first ever animated disaster movie comes to the big screen when an outcast inventor creates a machine that rains food on his hungry town and gets the attention of the girl he’s always loved. Intoxicated by the love and validation he receives, he goes too far with his machine: the falling food gets dangerously out of control, he loses the girl, and he has to set things right to win her back!



JUMP
Release Date: 26 November 2009
Genre: Romance
Cast: Li Weilian, Kitty Zhang Yu Qi
Director: Stephen Fung
Written: Stephen Chow
Website: tba
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Synopsis: The story of a village girl who dreams of becoming a dancer, with Li Weilian in a leading role as the girl’s romantic interest.




Julie & Julia
Release Date: 24 December 2009
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams
Director: Nora Ephron
Website: http://www.sonypictures.net/movies/julieandjulia/
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Synopsis: Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron’s adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell’s Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme.
Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends…until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.




Zombieland
Release Date: 3rd December 2009
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin
Director: Ruben Fleischer
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Synopsis: Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) doesn’t have fears. If he did, he’d kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now they’re about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.



Michael Jackson’s This Is It
Release Date: 29th October 2009
Genre: Musical performance feature film
Cast: Michael Jackson
Synopsis: TBD




2012
Release Date: 12 November
Genre: Action/ Adventure/ Sci-fi
Cast: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Danny Glover, Woody Harrelson, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton
Director: Roland Emmerich (10,000 B.C., The Day After Tomorrow, The Patriot, Godzilla, Independence Day, Stargate)
Written by: ROLAND EMMERICH, HARALD KLOSER (10,000 B.C.)
Website: http://www.sonypictures.net/movies/2012/
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Synopsis: In 2009 a highly regarded team of scientists confirm to the global heads of state that the world as we know it, will soon come to an end…By 2012, a plan has been devised by world leaders to save as much of mankind as possible, but unfortunately not every man can be saved.When Jackson Curtis and his two kids go on a family trip to Yellowstone, they stumble upon a massive research facility in a dried up lake bed and uncover the secret of the impending apocalypse the government has been hiding. Jackson must take matters into his own hands as he embarks on a desperate race to save both his family and himself while witnessing earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and whatever other natural disasters the earth has in store for humanity.

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