1. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 2
How's vampire "life" treating Bella? How's the Volturi treating the Cullens? Oh, like you haven't already read the book. The only thing you don't know is how hard it's going to be to watch the last scene of the last Twilight.
2. The Dark Knight Rises
Bad Anne Hathaway! Final Christopher Nolan chapter! Exploding football field! Two words: Can't. Wait.
3. Snow White and the Huntsman
Mirror Mirror, the other upcoming Snow White movie, has Julia Roberts, and that's swell, but this Snow White movie (and Kristen Stewart vehicle) has Charlize Theron, and she looks plain bad—in a very good way.
4. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
We've been expecting this one for a while, actually. But with Peter Jackson heading up another Middle-earth epic, the wait is worth it, right?
5. Rock of Ages
Some will buy tickets for the hair. Some, for the promise of the literally amped-up Tom Cruise. And others? For the "We Built This City"/"We're Not Gonna Take It" mashup, of course.
6. Titanic 3D
If there's one man who can save the pricey, but dicey format, it's James Cameron. (And if the Titanic 3-D rerelease doesn't do the trick, then maybe the Phantom Menace one will. Or the Beauty and the Beast one. Or the...)
7. The Hunger Games
Dystopian is the new black—and just maybe the new Twilight book-to-film crossover blockbuster.
8. The Bourne Legacy
Think of this installment, the fourth in the action-spy series, as being less about Matt Damon moving on, and more about the always-great Jeremy Renner coming into his own.
9. The Avengers
All the talk. All the publicity stills. All those Samuel L. Jackson cameos. They weren't part of an elaborate dream sequence. This is real. It's happening. Now, go geek out.
10. What to Expect When You're Expecting
Think of this all-star comedy (Jennifer Lopez! Cameron Diaz! Matthew Morrison! Many, many more!) as The Avengers for the bottles-and-diapers demo.
11. The Great Gatsby
Will one of the 20th century's great American novels finally get the great big-screen movie it deserves? Give director Baz Luhrmann and Leonardo DiCaprio, who both did right by William Shakespeare, credit for being game enough to try—and in 3-D, no less.
12. Men in Black 3
Will Smith doing Will Smith. Josh Brolin doing Tommy Lee Jones. The sci-fi/comedy franchise doing X-Men: First Class and/or Mad Men. Interesting times three.
13. Les Misérables
Hugh Jackman vs. Russell Crowe—in a sing-off! The cameras start rolling on this Broadway musical classic-turned-big-screen epic in March.
14. World War Z
Should the world survive the Mayans' drop-dead date of Dec. 21, 2012, Brad Pitt will arrive in theaters on that very day with his own brand of apocalyptic fun. And also, yes, zombies.
15. 21 Jump Street
You normally wouldn't expect much from a TV-to-movie transfer. But you normally wouldn't expect Johnny Depp to be on hand, either—and the proud alumnus very much is, along with Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum.
16. The Amazing Spider-Man
Come May, it'll be five long years since the webslinger's last big-screen adventure. Good thing Andrew Garfield's swinging back into action come July.