NIcolas Cage and Alfred Molina in The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
BRUTE ENFORCERS
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (May 28) Jake Gyllenhaal stars as the titular prince in this Jerry Bruckheimer-produced movie based on the video game.
The A-Team (June 11) This remake of the eighties action TV series about rogue commando agents stars Bradley Cooper and Liam Neeson, and copious military hardware.
Knight and Day (June 25) A federal agent (Tom Cruise), suspected of having lost his mind, takes a civilian woman (Cameron Diaz) on a global chase.
The Expendables (Aug. 13) Sly Stallone stars in and directs a movie stuffed with aging man meat (Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jet Li) as mercenaries out to overthrow a South American dictator.
FUNNY STUFF
MacGruber (May 21) Saturday Night Live's Will Forte stretches his sketch about an inept MacGyver-like hero into a movie parody of eighties action films.
Grown Ups (June 25) Adam Sandler and a group of Saturday Night Live vets star in a story about school friends and families reuniting after 30 years, with pool peeing, fat guys hitting trees, and old ladies tongue-kissing.
The Other Guys (Aug. 6) Ill-matched New York cops (Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg) see a chance to show they're just as good as the cops they idolize (Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson).
FAMILY PLOTS
The Karate Kid (June 11) A fatherless American kid (Jaden Smith) moves to China and gets bullied until he learns martial arts from a master (Jackie Chan).
Ramona and Beezus (July 23) The big-screen arrival of grade-school heroine Romana Quimby and her sister, Beezus, from Beverly Cleary's popular series of kids' books.
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (Aug. 20) English reviews have been positive for this already-released family drama with Emma Thompson as the supernatural nanny and Maggie Gyllenhaal as a Second World War mom of three trying to hold onto the family farm.
MIND GAMES
Jonah Hex (June 18)
Josh Brolin stars as a disfigured cowboy hero in this adaptation of the DC comic, with Megan Fox, and John Malkovich as the evil Turnbull.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (July 16)
This Disney fantasy is about a modern sorcerer (Nicolas Cage) who recruits an ordinary New York guy (Canadian Jay Baruchel) to help defend him against his archrival. From
National Treasure director Jon Turteltaub.
The Last Airbender (July 2)
M. Night Shyamalan's adaptation of a Nickelodeon animated series about a 12-year-old who must defeat the fire god on behalf of the other elements.
The Adjustment Bureau (July 30)
Matt Damon and Emily Blunt star in a story loosely based on a Philip K. Dick story about a congressman and ballet dancer kept apart by mysterious forces.
FEMALE COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
Please Give (May 7)
Director-writer Nicolas Holofcener's latest wry Manhattan social comedy, with Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet and Oliver Platt.
Letters to Juliet (May 14)
An American girl (Amanda Seyfried) seeks the lovers in an unanswered letter, in a story that reunites an older woman (Vanessa Redgrave) and her beau.
Killers (June 4)
A Woman (Katherine Heigl) meets a hunky guy in Europe (Ashton Kutcher). After they marry, she discovers he had a life as a spy.
Going the Distance (Aug. 13)
A couple in their thirties (Drew Barrymore and Justin Long) try to maintain a bi-coastal romance via frequent-flier points and webcams.
The Switch (Aug. 20) A comedy in which a woman (Jennifer Aniston) discovers that a friend (Jason Bateman) used his sperm to help her artificially inseminate herself.
ART SAFE HOUSES
Babies (May 7) A French documentary about four different babies around the world over their first year of life.
The Trotsky (May 14) A Montreal high-school student (Jay Baruchel) believes he is the reincarnation of revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Jacob Tierney's debut comedy.
Kites (May 21) A Bollywood musical, in Spanish and English, set in Mexico and the United States.
Micmacs (May 28) A new comic fantasy from Jean-Pierre Jeunet ( Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) about a group of misfits in Paris who conspire against an evil arms dealer.
Ajami (May 21) Five tales of life in a mixed Muslim-Jewish community in Tel Aviv.
Winter's Bone (June 18) Sundance hit about an Ozark teen (Jennifer Lawrence) who goes looking for her missing drug-dealer father.
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (June 25)
The story of the French fashion icon's affair with the Russian composer.
Lebanon (Aug. 20)
Director Samuel Maoz depicts the experiences of Israeli soldiers inside a tank during the 1982 Lebanon war.