2010 Trailer Roundup: Stallone, Dafoe, Denzel, DiCaprio x2

It’s officially fall, which means all the talk right now in movieland is about awards season. How will Academy voters fill this year’s five extra slots for Best Picture? Is Lee Daniels’ Precious too grim for them? Will Kathryn Bigelow’s Hurt Locker get the love it deserves? This kind of conjecture will go on for months yet, so I thought it might be nice to step back from it for a moment and look to the horizon of 2010. A clutch of trailers is already out for next year’s big movies, none of which -- with the possible exception of Shutter Island -- looks to be gunning for any kind of laurels other than boffo box office returns. Call it a little taste of summer on what (on the east coast anyway) is a pretty grim, autumnal day.

The Expendables - Sly Stallone, Jason Stratham, Mickey Rourke, and Jet Li join forces to take out a South American warlord. Even Dolph Lundgren shows up! The 80s, clearly, are back.

Daybreakers - Apparently the vampire vogue will never end. In this one, the bloodsuckers have taken over, and actual human life is on the wane. Willem Defoe and Ethan Hawke happily intercede on our behalf.

The Book of Eli - Denzel walks through a post-apocalyptic wasteland, protecting something-or-other from villains straight out of Mad Max. Mila Kunis co-stars.

Hot Tub Time Machine - The title pretty much says it all. John Cusack stars as one of four goofballs whose hot tub inexplicably returns them to the 80s.

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief - An average kid discovers he’s actually the son of Poseidon. This one’s for the Harry Potter set.

Legion - God (the Judeo-Christian one, “Yahweh” if you prefer) has decided to destroy the human race again. Paul Bettany means to stop him.

Shutter Island - Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s novel looks a little bit over the top, but not necessarily in a bad way.

Inception - Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan teams up with DiCaprio for this sci-fi thriller. Ken Watanabe acts the villain.