2012 is shaping up to be an incredible year of cinema.

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This next year is shaping up to be HUGE. Not only do we have the return of 3 incredible franchises and their iconic filmmakers (The Hobbit, Prometheus, The Dark Knight Rises), but we have the amalgamation of many recently admired ones (The Avengers)! That is four impressive films for the year already, and add to that:

- "Django Unchained" from Tarantino
- "Gravity" from Alfonso Cuaron
- "Argo" from Ben Affleck
- The Hunger Games
- "Only God Forgives" from Nicolas Winding Refn reunited with Ryan Gosling
- "Cloud Atlas" from the Wachowskis
- "LOOPER" from Rian Johnson who collaborated with Shane Carruth ("Primer")
- "Lincoln" the highly anticipated biopic from Spielberg
- "The Master" from Paul Thomas Anderson
- "Seven Psychopaths" which reunites Martin McDonagh ("In Bruges") with Colin Farrell
- "Les Miserables" from Tom Hooper ("King's Speech")
- "Moonrise Kingdom" the latest from Wes Anderson
- "Wettest County" from John Hillcoat starring Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, and Guy Pearce
- "The Amazing Spider-man" franchise reboot from Marc Forster
- "The Great Gatsby" from Baz Luhrmann
- "James Bond: Skyfall" from Sam Mendes
- "Brave" is the new Pixar animated feature
- "Coriolanus" debut film from Ralph Fiennes
- "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" from Timur Bekmambetov ("Night Watch", "Day Watch")
- "The Bourne Legacy" from Tony Gilroy

Also, plenty that simply have potential like:
- "The Woman in Black" old school horror starring Daniel Radcliffe ('Harry Potter')
- "Red Tails" new historical action\drama from Lucasfilm
- "John Carter" the over-budget fantasy epic from Andrew Stanton
- "Area 51" found-footage film from Oren Peli ("Paranormal Activity")
- Men In Black 3
- "The Dictator" new mockumentary from Sasha Baron Cohen
- "The Cabin in the Woods" horror written by Joss Whedon
- The Expendables 2
- "Dredd" new Judge Dredd film starring Karl Urban
- GI: Joe Retaliation
- "Taken 2" from Olivier Megaton
- Dr. Seuss' "The Lorax"
- "Ted" the first feature from 'Family Guy' helmer Seth McFarlane
- "chronicle" the exciting debut film from Josh Trank
- The currently untitled action thriller from Kathryn Bigelow about the capture\death of Osama Bin Laden
- "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance" from the Crank guys
- "Red Dawn" remake is the debut film from longtime stunt coordinator Dan Bradley
- "World War Z" also from Marc Forster and starring Brad Pitt
- "Underworld: Awakening" with Kate Beckinsale's backside in leather
- "Act of Valor" new military action drama starring active Navy Seals
- "47 Ronin" a samurai film starring Keanu Reeves

And that's just the announced ones with wide releases! Which ones are you guys looking forward to the most?
 
Spiderman...

Gwen Stacy must die. It's such a big part of the comic book. Hoping it's really dark and realistic (the film, not specifically her death).
 
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No Total Recall on the list? Len Wiseman at the helm this time, should be a big one late next summer...I'm super excited for The Dark Knight Rises, Prometheus and The Hobbit, but am quietly looking forward to seeing what direction they are going to take Les Miserables, and seeing the first stuff from Gravity too.John Carter should be good fun, glad we only have to wait 'til March for that offering!
 
Hunger games seems like it'll be fun but I'm mostly anticipating Gravity. Same director of Children of Men, and a space sci-fi, I'm there.

Also Snow White and the Huntsman (which is not on the list). It's from a fave upcoming director, Rupert Sanders. Director of many of the halo commercials: http://www.rupertsanders.com/commercials.html?ref=0

And of course batman and spiderman.
 
I've been dying to see The Master for years. Dark Knight Rises is the second on my list. I don't know much about Django, but I'll see anything Tarantino does.
 
Looking forward to John Dies at the End. I don't get to read books for pleasure all that often, so I get excited when something I have read gets adapted into a movie. Although it doesn't technically have a release date yet.
 
I forgot about Snow White and the Huntsman, the first trailer for that blew me away, it looks really stylish and actually quite dark. Hopefully they wont back out of that for the final feature, it looks great.
 
Just read about this one... a Formula One racing drama by Ron Howard, starring Chris Hemsworth, entitled "Rush". Not to be confused with the bike-courier action thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Michael Shannon called "Premium Rush" (by writer-turned-director David Koepp). Both of which should be on the list of 2012 films with potential.

Another one: "Ganster Squad" by Zombieland's Ruben Fleischer. Stars Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Michael Pena, Nick Nolte, Anthony Mackie, and Giovanni Ribisi.
 
Top 5 most anticipated for me at this point:

Prometheus
Django Unchained
Seven Psychopaths
Chronicle
Brave
 
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