Here’s a selection of films that will be coming soon(ish) to a theatre near you.

Fantastic Mr Fox. On now. We posted about the trailer here.

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (March). The Percy Jackson books by Rick Riordan are super popular in the children’s fiction collection.

How to Train Your Dragon, with America Fereira and Gerard Butler (3D – March). From the books about Hiccup and Toothless by Cressida Cowell. I mention this because it’s 3D and it therefore looked cool (when I saw it at Avatar).

Alice in Wonderland (3D – March). But is Johnny Depp making the Mad Hatter seem too much like Willie Wonka? Visit the trailer here, and mind the teacups.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (April). Based on the best selling series of books by Jeff Kinney, which are apparently ravingly good and funny. There’s no trailer to be found (by me)!

Toy Story 3 (June/July). Here’s a link to the trailer.

Eclipse (July). The question is, is this the last one, or are they game enough to try and make a film out of Breaking Dawn?

The Last Airbender (July), based on the series Avatar, and directed by M Night Shyamalan (who saw dead people) and starring Jackson Rathbone (Jasper) and Dev Patel. We brought you the trailer here.

Beastly (based on novel by Alex Flinn – see this post about classics remixed) starring Vanessa Hudgens, Neil Patrick Harris, Mary-Kate Olsen and some guy called Alex Pettyfer. Will be at the movies in September, although the trailer says July which is confusing. The trailer:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, part 1 (November). Then it’s just another six or seven months before the final instalment.

ps The Mortal Engines quartet by Philip Reeve is being made into a movie, with Peter Jackson involved, but that’s not this year.