From The Terminator’s fourth outing to James Cameron’s return to movie making with Avatar there’s plenty of action in store for movie buffs in 2009.

Film School Rejects has compiled a list of movies that you need to mark in your diary along with their release dates and previews:

Bitch Slap (Jan 15)
My Bloody Valentine 3D (January 16)
Taken (January 30)
Coraline (February 6)
Friday the 13th (February 13)
Watchmen (March 6)
This Side of Truth (March 20)
Monsters v. Aliens (March 27)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (May 1)
Star Trek (May
The Brothers Bloom (May 15)
Terminator Salvation (May 22)
Pixar’s Up (May 29)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (June 26)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (July 17)
Funny People (July 31)
Inglorious Basterds (August 21)
9 (September 9)
Shutter Island (October 2)
Where the Wild Things Are (October 16)
The Fantastic Mr. Fox (November 6)
Sherlock Holmes (November 20)
The Lovely Bones (December 11)
Avatar (December 18)
Ninja Assassin (TBA 2009)

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