Let's do these in order of release dates, as found on this IMDB page.

January

January 23 sees the release of The Butterfly Effect. The trailers make it seem interesting, but studios generally release the dregs between New Years Day and Valentine's Day, as so few people go to movies in the meantime.

March

Genre entertainment hits a dry spell that lasts until March 19, with the release of Dawn of the Dead. Kevin Smith's Jersey Girl will be released on the same day, so I won't be seeing Dawn of the Dead the first day of release.

March 26 is home of the release of Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed as well as Shaolin Soccer. I know my mind is made up about what I'm seeing that weekend.

April

On April 2, Ron Perlman plays Hellboy in a movie written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, best known in this context for his work on Blade 2. This should be dramatically different from the talking-animal-fantasy Home on the Range that opens the same day.

Fantasy fare resurfaces on April 9 with Ella Enchanted. It seems like a vessel for a "be yourself, little girl!" inspirational movie aimed at young adults.

April 16 brings us The Punisher. I thought the first image released looked awful, the first trailer looked great, and the latest trailer seemed mixed. I'll probably check it out, but won't have high expectations. It's got to be better than Dolph Lundgren's, at any rate.

On April 30, we have Godsend, a movie that sound very much like sci-fi to me, in which a couple try to clone their dead son.

May

May kicks off with a bang when Van Helsing hits on May 7. I expect the Bureau 42 authors will be fighting over the review of this one.

May 14 brings us Troy, Wolfgang Peterson's adaptation of a major part of Greek myth, starring Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, Eric Bana, Sean Bean, and Diane Kruger.

May 21 brings us Shrek 2. If it's half as good as the first, it's worth owning.

On May 28, Roland Emmerich strikes out without Dean Devlin for the first time in years, bringing us The Day After Tomorrow. Given his work before Dean Devlin, I'd say we're getting something much closer to Stargate or Moon 44 than Godzilla. This is a most decidedly good thing. On the same day, Jennifer Garner stars in 13 Going On 30. It sounds like Big with a female lead, but that might work.

June

The first guaranteed blockbuster is out on June 4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban will be the first movie in the series directed by Alfonso Cuaron instead of Chris Columbus. It'll be interesting to see if it holds up against the first two.

On June 11, we see The Chronicles of Riddick hit screens. Fans of Pitch Black, take notice. This will compete with The Stepford Wives, about replacing women with clones.

June 18 brings us Garfield: The Movie with Brecken Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Stephen Tobolowsky in on-screen roles, and Bill Murray providing the voice of Garfield.

July

July 2 brings us Spider-Man 2. What more needs to be said?

On July 9, King Arthur retells the classic myths and legends of the round table.

On July 16, Will Smith plays the lead in I, Robot. Will people believe the man is a robot?

On July 30, Halle Berry hits the screen as Catwoman. Although filmmakers paid DC Comics for the rights to use their character, they've changed her from Selena Kyle into Patience Prince. This isn't going to be the only change, but it gives you an idea of how much of the comic character we can expect to see on screen.

August

August 6 brings us Alien vs. Predator, a movie that was in development hell for about a decade. Did they finally get it right? I won't know right away, as this is released the same day as M. Night Shyamalan's The Village, my top priority, Thunderbirds, a remake of the old marionette show, and Code 46, about genetic engineering gone awry. I haven't seen a weekend with four genre movies and nothing else for a long, long time, so I wouldn't be surprised if some of these moved.

August 13 might be a bad date to move to, as it's home to Blade: Trinity. I haven't seen the first two Blade movies, but with a sequel including Parker Posey and Jessica Biel, I just might feel compelled to catch up in time to see this one.

On August 20, we see A Sound of Thunder, a time travel movie that may be more deserving of the title The Butterfly Effect.

August 27 brings us Man-Thing, the year's third Marvel property (after The Punisher and Spider-Man 2.) Late August releases are usually the films that studios don't have a lot of faith in. The last week of August is generally reserved for a decent movie that couldn't hold its own against the big summer releases, but is still good enough to get people in before school starts up. As far as the horror genre goes, this one will likely be the last to be released before October. If the final edits look good enough, the studio will probably move the release date, either earlier into the summer (if it's more action than horror) or late, into October (as horror films do their best business in the general vicinity of Hallowe'en.)

No Firm Dates

We've exhausted the IMDB's list of forthcoming releases for the moment. Two Bureau 42 readers (joe__gee and y42) have pointed us to Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, which has its official site here. Lurch_Kimded points us to The Mask 2, starring Jamie Kennedy and Alan Cumming, with its official site here.

This probably isn't an exhaustive list. Did we miss anything you're interested in? Is there anything above that you want us to make sure we review? This is the time and place to let us know!