Tom Cruise battles Martians. Batman and Obi-Wan Kenobi are back. Throw in Crusaders, the Fantastic Four, Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka, Ewan McGregor as a clone, Keira Knightley as a bounty hunter, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as husband-and-wife assassins... But there are movies for adults as well. Michael Dwyer reports

BATMAN BEGINS Memento director Christopher Nolan says he opted for realism and minimal CG effects in his portrait of the Caped Crusader (Christian Bale) as a young man. With Liam Neeson, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, Michael Caine, Katie Holmes and Morgan Freeman. June 22

THE BAD NEWS BEARS Billy Bob Thornton plays the grizzled Little League coach in Richard Linklater's remake of the 1976 movie that spawned two sequels and a TV series. August 26

BEWITCHED Will Ferrell plays an actor cast in a new version of the TV witchcraft comedy, with a broomstick-riding Nicole Kidman as the real-life witch he chooses as his co-star. With Shirley MacLaine and Michael Caine. Directed by Nora Ephron. August 19

BOY EATS GIRL Zombies prowl the suburbs of Dublin in Stephen Bradley's comedy-horror movie starring Samantha Mumba and David Leon, scripted by Dead Bodies writer Derek Landy. August 26

THE BRIDESMAID/LA DEMOISELLE D'HONNEUR Laura Smet plays the title character, a volatile fantasist, with Benoît Magimel as the young man who falls for her in Claude Chabrol's edgy thriller based on a Ruth Rendell story. May 13

BROTHERS In Susanne Bier's riveting Danish drama, Ulrich Thomsen plays a man who is presumed killed in Afghanistan and returns home to find his wife (Connie Nielsen) involved with his brother. May 27

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY With Johnny Depp cast as Willy Wonka, Tim Burton's treatment of the Roald Dahl story should be eccentric and entertaining in equal measure. With Freddie Highmore and Irish actor David Kelly. July 29

A COMMON THREAD/BRODEUSES Set in a small French rural community, Éléonore Faucher's drama draws together a young local trying to conceal her pregnancy and an American woman mourning the death of her son. July

THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE/LE CONSEGUENZE DELL'AMORE A middle-aged recluse is forced to drop his mask and confront his dark secrets in Paolo Sorrentino's Italian psychological thriller. May 27

DARK WATER Director Walter Salles follows The Motorcycle Diaries with the US remake of Hideo Nakata's Japanese horror movie set in a creepy, rundown apartment building. With Jennifer Connolly, Dougray Scott and Tim Roth. July 15

DIG! Ondi Timoner's award-winning documentary charts the feud between two US rock bands, the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre. July 1

DOMINO Keira Knightley plays actor Laurence Harvey's daughter, Domino, who switched her occupation from model to bounty hunter. With Mena Suvari, Lucy Liu, Mickey Rourke and Christopher Walken. Directed by Tony Scott. August 19

THE DUKES OF HAZZARD The movie of the amiably inane TV series features Seann William Scott and Johnny Knoxville as mischievous cousins Bo and Luke Duke, with Jessica Simpson, Willie Nelson and, as corrupt Boss Hogg, Burt Reynolds. August 26

THE FANTASTIC FOUR In a hi-tech treatment of the Marvel comic, Chris Evans (the Cellular actor, not the TV presenter), Michael Chiklis (from The Shield), Ioan Gruffudd, and Jessica Alba play the quartet transformed into superheroes and saving the world from wicked Dr Victor Von Doom (Nip/Tuck star Julian McMahon). July 22

FEVER PITCH Peter and Bobby Farrelly direct the second screen treatment of Nick Hornby's novel, transposing it to the US, where the teacher (Jimmy Fallon) is obsessed with baseball. With Drew Barrymore. August 12

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Described as the Black Hawk Down of sports movies, Peter Berg's intense chronicle of a Texas high school football team features Billy Bob Thornton as their coach. May 13

A GOOD WOMAN This rudimentary Oscar Wilde adaptation transposes Lady Windermere's Fan to 1930s Italy. With Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johansson. May 13

HERBIE: FULLY LOADED Lindsay Lohan is the new owner of the eponymous Volkswagen introduced in the 1969 comedy, The Love Bug. With Breckin Meyer, Matt Dillon and Michael Keaton. August 12

HEIMAT 3 Edgar Reitz's remarkable German epic continues with an 11-hour, six-part film that begins in 1989 with the collapse of the Berlin Wall. June 17

HOOLIGANS Elijah Wood plays an expelled Harvard student caught up in football hooliganism in London. With Charlie Hunnam and Marc Warren. August 26

HOUSE OF WAX Teens are imperilled in an eerie Iowa museum in the remake of the 1953 horror classic. Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray and Paris Hilton head the cast. May 27

IN MY FATHER'S DEN Matthew MacFayden plays a celebrated war photojournalist who returns to his New Zealand hometown after a long absence. Brad McGann directs. June 24

INSIDE DEEP THROAT Dennis Hopper narrates this documentary on the notorious 1972 hardcore porn film starring Linda Lovelace, which became the most profitable movies in history. June 10

THE ISLAND In Michael Bay's futuristic thriller, Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson play clones escaping to a better world with nasty Sean Bean in hot pursuit. August 12

IT'S ALL GONE PETE TONG Paul Kaye plays a revered Ibiza club deejay struggling with deafness and drug addiction in a movie blending narrative and mockumentary. May 27

THE JACKET Adrien Brody plays a traumatised Gulf War veteran in John Maybury's complex psychological thriller. With Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Daniel Craig and Jennifer Jason Leigh. May 13

KICKING & SCREAMING Will Ferrell plays a mild-mannered man in conflict with his highly competitive father (Robert Duvall) when they coach rival junior soccer teams. Jesse Dylan, son of Bob, directs. July 29

KINGDOM OF HEAVEN Ridley Scott's lavish Crusades epic stars Orlando Bloom as a French blacksmith who becomes a heroic knight. With Liam Neeson, Jeremy Irons, Eva Green, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson and Edward Norton. May 6

KINGS AND QUEEN/ROIS ET REINE Arnaud Depleschin's free-wheeling French comedy-drama features Emmanuelle Devos as an art gallery director, Mathieu Amalric as a neurotic violinist and Catherine Deneuve as a psychiatrist. June 17

KUNG FU HUSTLE Hong Kong superstar Stephen Chow follows Shaolin Soccer with an action-packed comedy set in 1940s Shanghai. Chow, who also directs, plays a petty crook taking on a powerful axe-wielding gang of young men in morning suits and top hats. June 10

THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN'S APOCALYPSE Shot in Ireland, the cinema spinoff from the BBC comedy is set in the fictional village of Royston Vaysey, where the only way to avert disaster is for the characters to enter the real world and confront their creators. June 3

LIFE IS A MIRACLE Emir Kusturica returns to the theme of the Balkan war with this picture set in 1992, as the wackily disparate inhabitants of a Bosnian village try to persuade themselves it will never happen. May 6

A LOT LIKE LOVE Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet play a couple fated to fall in love, but it takes seven years in this romantic comedy from Calendar Girls director Nigel Cole. August 26

MADAGASCAR In the new computer-animated comedy from DreamWorks, four animals from a New York zoo learn about life in the wild when they are shipwrecked on the eponymous island. The voice cast features Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith. July 15

MILLIONS The new Danny Boyle movie deals with two young boys who find a stash of stolen bank money. With James Nesbitt. May 27

MR AND MRS SMITH Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie play a married couple leading secret lives as professional assassins until each is assigned the other as their next target. Doug Liman directs. June 17

MONSTER-IN-LAW Making a screen comeback after a 15-year absence, Jane Fonda plays a domineering mother intent on wrecking the relationship between her son (Michael Vartan) and his fiancee (Jennifer Lopez). May 13

MOOLAADE The disturbing and quietly powerful new film from octogenarian Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene unflinchingly tackles the practice of female circumcision in West Africa. July

MYSTERIOUS SKIN Greg Araki's provocative drama deals with two young men (Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Brady Corbet) haunted by their experiences of sexual abuse in childhood. May 20

ONG-BAK A young martial arts ace (Tony Jaa) aims to retrieve the stolen head of his village Buddha in a bone-crunching Thai action movie that proudly claims: "No stunt doubles, no computer images, no strings attached." May 13

ONLY HUMAN/SERES QUERIDOS In this Spanish comedy, a young woman brings her fiance home to her Jewish family, who are shocked to learn he is Palestinian. June 3

THE PACIFIER Vin Diesel plays a tough lieutenant finding his soft and cuddly side when he has to play surrogate dad to the five children of a murdered scientist. July 15

PALINDROMES Todd Solondz uses eight actors (of different age, race and gender) to play a girl whose urge to have a child is thwarted when her mother (Ellen Barkin) insists she has an abortion. May 6

SEED OF CHUCKY The killer doll (voiced by Brad Dourif) returns for the fifth movie in the dire Child's Play series, this time pursuing Jennifer Tilly, who plays herself. May 27.

SILVER CITY John Sayles blends political satire and a murder mystery, with Chris Cooper in a George W Bush caricature, with Danny Huston, Maria Bello and Richard Dreyfuss. July 22

SIN CITY Drawn from three graphic novels by Frank Miller, who co-directs with Robert Rodriguez, this reputedly violent and stylish film noir features Bruce Willis, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Benicio Del Toro and Josh Hartnett. June 3

SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELLING PANTS A pair of thrift-shop jeans links four 16-year-old friends when they are separated for a summer. July 8

SKELETON KEY Kate Hudson gets caught up in morbid voodoo practices in New Orleans. With Peter Sarsgaard, Gena Rowlands and John Hurt. August 5

STAR WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH Will it all end in tears? Series creator George Lucas describes this instalment as "Titanic in space". Advance booking is already open. May 19

STEALTH A US Navy jet piloted by artificial intelligence develops a mind of its own in Rob Cohen's futuristic thriller featuring Josh Lucas, Jamie Foxx and Jessica Biel. August 5

TROUBLE WITH SEX Fintan Connolly's mellow Dublin romantic drama brings together a lonely bar manager (Aidan Gillen) and a fast-rising young lawyer (Renee Weldon). May 6

UNDERTOW In David Gordon Green's rural Georgia drama, Billy Elliot star Jamie Bell impressively plays a young man taking on his ruthless uncle (Josh Lucas). August

UNLEASHED Jet Li plays a slave treated like a dog by his owner (Bob Hoskins) in a drama that also features Morgan Freeman and Irish actor Kerry Condon. June 10

UNTOLD SCANDAL Writer-director Lee Je-Yong reworks Les Liaisons Dangereuses as a visually ravishing tragicomedy transposed to late 18th- century Korea. June 24

WAR OF THE WORLDS The Martians are coming again in Steven Spielberg's hi-tech, updated treatment of the HG Wells story, famously adapted for radio by Orson Welles. Tom Cruise saves the world. July 1

WE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE Mark Ruffalo, Naomi Watts, Peter Krause and Laura Dern feature in John Curran's marital drama reflecting on the impact of adultery on two couples. June 17

THE WEDDING CRASHERS Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn play womanisers seeking out sexual partners at weddings until one of them falls in love. With Rachel McAdams and the truly ubiquitous Will Ferrell. July 15

WILD SIDE Sebastian Lifshitz's spin on the eternal triangle involves a French transsexual prostitute and her male lovers, an illegal Russian immigrant and a French Arab. June 24

Release dates are subject to change