Action, Comedy     129 mins

Mark Wahlberg-Dwayne Johnson

Director Michael Bay takes the helm for this over-the-top action comedy starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, and Anthony Mackie as three Miami Beach bodybuilders who hatch an extortion plot that goes hilariously awry. Ed Harris, Rob Corddry, Ken Jeong, and Tony Shalhoub co-star.

Comedy     90 mins

Robert DeNiro, Susan Sarandon & Amanda Seyfried

When their adopted son Alejandro (Ben Barnes) announces his upcoming wedding to Missy (Amanda Seyfried), happily divorced parents Don (Robert De Niro) and Ellie (Diane Keaton) masquerade as if they were still married in order to stay on the good side Alejandro's ultra-conservative biological mother, and ensure that the wedding goes off without a hitch. Robin Williams, Susan Sarandon, Katherine Heigl, and Topher Grace co-star

Action-Crime     130 mins

Robert Downey Jr. & Gweneth Paltrow

Iron Man gets a third outing following his team-up with The Avengers in this Marvel Studios production. Robert Downey Jr. once again stars, with Shane Black helming from a script he co-wrote with Drew Pearce. Ben Kingsley, Guy Pearce, and Rebecca Hall join returning cast members Gwyneth Paltrow and Don Cheadle.

Sci-fi, Action, Family     132 mins

Chris Pine & Zachary Quinto

The Buzz: With Benedict Cumberbatch (aka Sherlock Holmes) playing a new villain that may/ahem, may not/but probably does have a connection to Trek history and Peter Weller (aka RoboCop) joining the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise in a major way, what else do we need to make J.J. Abrams's return to Roddenberry space the most anticipated sequel of 2013? A Klingon subplot? You got it. More Spock Prime? Check. William Shatner cameo? Worldwide domination? Paramount is working on that. Our questions are drifting more toward the next chapter of the franchise and whether or not Abrams will return to the director's chair given his insanely busy slate.

Comedy     100 mins

Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis

The Buzz: The Hangover Part II was essentially a carbon copy of The Hangover, but it made enough money (almost $600 million worldwide) that Warner Bros. broke out the check book to get the principal cast and director Todd Phillips back on board to conclude the "trilogy" with one last outing. Rumor has it that the boys will be spending time in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Tijuana, which seems much more entertaining than their dreary Bangkok outing in Part II. Still, it's concerning that they are once again working on a tight schedule - putting only two years between sequels is rarely a good idea - and it's hard to imagine they will ever be able to successfully reproduce the unique alchemy of dark comedy and mystery that worked so well the first time.

Drama - Romance     143 mins

Leonardo DiCaprio, Joel Edgerton, Tobey Maguire

The Buzz: My love for certain novels doesn't desire to see them confined to the page or protected from being interpreted on film; take for example Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre, a perfect adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's dreary, soot-eyed romance, and an example of underdog cast and director choices at their most winning. When it comes to Leonardo DiCaprio reteaming with Baz Luhrmann to interpret F. Scott Fitzgerald's second-best novel, I often think that the people who have the power to green light (Gatsby reference) major projects aren't necessarily the best fit to star in them. Or act as their director. As respected as he aims to be, Leonardo DiCaprio is at his least effective handling serious drama; Luhrmann, with all of his mega-budget entitlement, has bewitched the industry, but let's see how his latest epic plays out in terms of audience appeal.

Drama-History     128 mins

Chadwick Boseman & Harrison Ford

Brian Helgeland's historical sports drama/biopic 42 relates the historic 1947 baseball season in which Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford) decides to sign the first black major league player, Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman). Though Robinson faces ugly, vicious racism from other clubs, fans, and on occasion his own teammates, Rickey encourages him to not fight back. By following that advice, Robinson allows his remarkable athletic talent to speak for itself, and soon the first-year player becomes one the most popular players on the team, eventually securing the Rookie of the Year award. Christopher Meloni and Hamish Linklater co-star.

Action, Drama     130 mins

Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson

The Buzz: Dwayne Johnson didn't have to save or reignite this franchise (which is becoming his specialty); he was brought in to make the enduring and morally ambiguous adventures of Dominic Torreto and Brian O'Conner even more appealing to worldwide audiences. And that certainly worked, as Fast Five's all-world box-office tally can attest. Elsewhere, we are anticipating the soap opera-like narrative device that will bring Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) back into the story. And we're wondering if we'll get to see a sequel to Seth Rogen and Andy Sandberg's hysterical parody of the series.

Family, Action     107 mins

The Buzz: Chris Wedge has been immersed in the Ice Age universe since its inception, alongside his co-director, Carlos Saldanha. Like Saldanha, who ventured out on his own with Rio, Wedge is going solo for Epic, which was first announced as an adaptation of the children's book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs by William Joyce, though the plot seems to have morphed into something slightly more akin to the work of Hayao Miyazaki.

Crime, Thriller     115 mins

Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman

The Buzz: The Chemical Brothers scoring a Louis Leterrier movie about magicians who redistribute the wealth from their heists? The French director is certainly finding ways to trafficking in the fun, borderline absurd type of entertainment he learned while making movies with Luc Besson. There are many bigger names on screen and behind the scenes here, and one imagines the budget will be on the higher end of the scale as the worldwide marketing kicks in. Like it or not, the key here is going to be in the marketing; get people excited by the potential awesomeness of Morgan Freeman, Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Woody Harrelson, and others matching wits and the winter box office returns could be mighty.