A poll conducted by Ipsos for Associated Press and AOL News in July revealed 73 per cent of adults say they prefer watching movies at home on DVD, videotape or pay-per-view.

Even more disheartening for the studio is the finding that 47 per cent surveyed feel movies are getting worse and therefore do not warrant viewing, especially at today's ticket prices.

Before Romeo and Juliet there were the tragic star-crossed lovers, Tristan and Isolde. Tristan (James Franco) was a young knight who fell in love with the married future queen of England (Sophia Myles). It promises to be a big, lush, romantic drama.

Steve Martin steps into the giant-sized shoes of Peter Sellers to play bumbling French detective Insp. Jacques Clouseau. It's being billed as a prequel to Seller's 1964 classic, with Clouseau having to solve the mysterious death of a soccer coach and discover who stole the famous Pink Panther diamond. The entertainment world will be watching to see if Martin can pull this one off.

No one does fact-based animal stories better than Disney and here comes one about eight husky sled dogs marooned during an Antarctic winter. This one looks enough like the Disney classic, The Incredible Journey, to make it a hit.

Sharon Stone's ice pick-wielding seductress is back and this time it's David Morrissey's psychiatrist who gets lured into her dangerous sex games. Call it pure guilty pleasure, but the thought of Stone back to her old tricks is likely enough of a hook to get people into multiplexes.

Scrat and his acorn are back to wreak more havoc. In tow are Manfred the laconic wooly mammoth, Sid the motor-mouthed sloth and the villainous Diego the sabre-toothed tiger. If this one is half as delightful as its predecessor, it deserves to be a hit.

Fresh from saving the world from Martians in last year's War of the Worlds, Tom Cruise prepares to tackle international terrorists as rogue agent Ethan Hunt. The release is timed to coincide with the birth of Cruise's first biological child, so he should grab every magazine cover in the world.

Many readers confused Dan Brown's fictional best seller for fact -- something Ron Howard insists he won't do in the film. Tom Hanks stumbles upon a secret sect whose belief Christ fathered children could shake the foundations of Christianity. Controversy plus eager fans should make this one a hot ticket.

The mutants are back, but this time there is a possible cure to treat them. Brett Ratner is directing instead of Bryan Singer, but the good news is Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Rebecca Romijn, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are all back, joined by Kelsey Grammer and Shohreh Aghdashloo. We can only hope lightning strikes for the third time.

With Wedding Crashers, Vince Vaughn had one of the biggest-grossing films of 2005, so expectations run high for this romantic comedy. It also helps that Vaughn and co-star Jennifer Aniston started an off-screen relationship while filming this one in Chicago. We'll all be watching to see if they can create as many sparks as Aniston's ex, Brad Pitt, did with Angelina Jolie in Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

This is a remake of the 1976 horror classic that spawned five sequels. Liev Schreiber and Julia Styles play the American couple who discover the child they adopted might just be the devil's spawn. In a brilliant piece of stunt casting, Mia Farrow (who played the mother of Satan's child in Rosemary's Baby) plays the nanny who knows the child's real origins.

The creative geniuses at Pixar who turned talking toys, retired superheroes and monsters into box-office superstars are at it again. This time they invest cars, and all their cousins, with humanity, as well as voices.

The Man of Steel, now played by newcomer Randon Routh, has been hanging out on the planet Krypton. When his arch enemy, Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey), starts causing havoc, Superman returns to Earth to battle evil and court the lovely Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth). Warners is hoping this is the beginning of a new Superman franchise.

Those nasty sea phantoms insist Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) owes them his soul, so Jack has to find a way to win it back or spend eternity haunting the seas. Back in 2003, the original Pirates of the Caribbean filled Disney's treasure troves with $654 million, turned Depp into a box-office superstar and won him an Oscar nomination.

Last year's crop of big-screen versions of vintage TV shows were major critical and box-office disappointments, but this one is actually promising. Michael Mann, who created the original TV series, wrote and directed this film with Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx as renegade vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs. Mann has set the story in modern-day Miami.

The folks at Aardman Animations, who brought us 2000's Chicken Run and last year's Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit, offer this tale of a society rat (Hugh Jackman) who gets flushed down the toilet of his upscale apartment and falls in love with an adventurous beauty (Kate Winslet). It looks like a cross between Romeo & Juliet and Pirates of the Caribbean.

Daniel Craig takes over as James Bond with Martin Campbell directing. Bond matches wits and gadgets with Monsieur Le Chiffre, a French gangster who uses the profits from his casino to fund terrorists. Considering the film hasn't been fully cast and cameras have yet to start rolling, this one could find itself bumped to 2007.

This children's classic about a spider who saves the life of a pig will combine live action with animation. Dakota Fanning plays Fern, who helps Charlotte the spider (voice of Julia Roberts) spin a tale of friendship and sacrifice. Though it's no Harry Potter or Chronicles of Narnia, Charlotte's Web has a huge fan base among youngsters and their parents.

Warners has yet to announce a release date for this western filmed in Alberta and Manitoba last summer, but it is likely to be a fall release, setting it up for the kind of attention Brokeback Mountain has been receiving. This one stars Brad Pitt as the famous outlaw and Casey Affleck as the friend who turned assassin and killed him.

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