2011 Beckons!

The year has begun and new movies are calling us out in their vivid sultry voices, urging us to forget all our worries and wait patiently for them to hit the silver screens... where once again we will be taken from one magical world to the other, told stories about one hero and the other, and witness the range of emotions from love to hate, from selflessness to greed, from ecstasy to despair! And of all the movies that will be released in 2011, there are bound to some that hold the potential to be something more than just a movie... something more than a getaway from the real world. These are the ones that would be termed as greats, masterpieces, legends... movies that will lead to sequels... sequels that will lead to more sequels. Such a list is what I have compiled. Movies with the potential to be raving hits, hit the $200 million mark at the US box office and maybe more, movies that we wait for with bated breath. The expectations from such are always high and we hope that most will live upto it! No wonder this list contains many movies from the summer period of May to July and the winter holiday time of December. This list has them all - a castaway superhero, a rum-loving pirate, cars that can talk, the final chapter of a saga and the origins of another... this year has got a wonderful booty of adventures lined up. So be patient and enjoy... 2011 is underway...

1. Sucker Punch (March)
2. Fast Five (April)
3. Thor (May)
4. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (May)
5. The Hangover 2 (May)
6. Kung Fu Panda 2 (May)
7. X-Men: First Class (June)
8. Green Lantern (June)
9. Cars 2 (June)
10. Transformers: The Dark of the Moon (July)
11. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (July)
12. Captain America: The First Avenger (July)
13. Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Dec)
14. Untitled Sherlock Holmes Sequel (Dec)
15. The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (Dec)

PS: Thanks to Murgi for his equal contribution to the list!