Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: The Wrap Up (Figures and Facts)

Back in January, I published a comprehensive Top 100 Most Anticipated Films list for the upcoming year, I thought I’d wrap it up stats with a checklist below. Overall, the list is about fifty/fifty in world cinema versus U.S. product, but I didn’t think that there’d be such a significant number of biopics, which just goes to prove that real people, from 19th century slave Saartjie Bartman (Black Venus) to a martial arts instructor (The Grand Master) to renowned terrorists (Carlos the Jackal) are of interest cinematically speaking. When you include the Joaquin Phoenix mockumentary, the number of biopic items comes in at a whopping dozen count – the exact same total for book to film adaptations which also totals a firm twelve.

Sticking to multiples of 12, there happens to be an impressive twelve projects from first time filmmakers — the highest ranking title is Palme d’Or winning short filmmaker Marian Crisan. There are tons of second and third efforts as well. Here are other stats and the full top 100 list below.

Number of “Black List” projects: 6
Number of Television projects: 3

Number of Focus Features films: The Kids Are All Right, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, The American, Greenberg, Biutiful, Somewhere
Number of Fox Searchlight films: 127 Hours, Never Let Me Go, Rabbit Hole, The Descendants, Black Swan
Number of Sony Pictures Classic films: Please Give, Animal Kingdom
Number of Weinstein Co. films: All Good Things, Blue Valentine

Number of Paul Dano films: 3 — Meek’s Cutoff (13), For Ellen (53) and The Extra Man (93)
Number of Marton Csokas Films: 3 — The Debt (38), Alice in Wonderland (50), The Tree (80)
Number of Mark Ruffalo films: 3 — Shutter Island, The Kids Are All Right, Sympathy for Delicious (83)
Number of Mia Wasikowska films: 3 — Alice in Wonderland (50), The Kids Are All Right (81), Restless (88)
Number of Ewan McGregor films: 3 Beginners (31), Knockout (73), The Last Word (76)
Number of Michelle Williams films: 3 — Meek’s Cutoff (13), Blue Valentine (27) and Shutter Island (39)
Number of John C. Reilly films: 3 – We Need to Talk About Kevin (10), Cedar Rapids (48) and The Extra Man (93)
Number of Helen Mirren films: 4 The Tempest (30), The Debt (38), Brighton Rock (51) and Love Ranch (52).

Film Remakes: 3 — Room in Rome, Don’t Be Afraid Of the Dark, The Housemaid (see pic above)
Made into films beforehand: 5 — True Grit, Mildred Pierce, The Frankenstein Project, Faust, Alice in Wonderland

99. Untitled Joaquin Phoenix Mockumentary
98. Lullaby For Pi
97. Les Petits Mouchoirs
96. You Don’t Know Jack
95. Easy A
94. Svinalängorna
93. The Extra Man
92. Don’t Be Afraid Of the Dark
91. 127 Hours
90. Hesher
89. Pieds Nus sur les Limaces
88. Restless
87. Barney’s Version
86. London Boulevard
85. Please Give
84. Jack Goes Boating
83. Sympathy for Delicious
82. Inception
81. The Kids Are All Right
80. The Tree 
79. Love and Other Drugs
78. Potiche
77. Winter’s Bone
76. Last Word
75. What’s Wrong with Virginia
74. Norwegian Wood
73. Knockout
72. The Company Men
71. Two Gates of Sleep
70. The Way Back
69. CASINO JACK & The United States of Money
68. Yelling To The Sky
67. Serge Gainsbourg, vie héroïque
66. Animal Kingdom
65. Centurion
64. The Exodus – The Fortress: Burnt by the Sun 2
63. Cold Weather
62. I’m with Cancer
61. The Housemaid
60. Due Date
59. Incendies
58. Socialisme
57. The Fighter
56. We Have a Pope
55. Here
54. You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger
53. For Ellen
52. Love Ranch
51. Brighton Rock
50. Alice in Wonderland
49. Fair Game
48. Cedar Rapids
47. Morgen
46. 13
45. Shit Year
44. Poetry
43. Faust
42. Room in Rome
41. Route Irish
40. Oceans
39. Shutter Island
38. The Debt
37. Never Let Me Go
36. Neds
35. The Details
34. Black Heaven
33. The Turin Horse
32. Womb
31. Beginners
30. The Tempest
29. It’s Kind of a Funny Story
28. Howl
27. Blue Valentine
26. The American
25. All Good Things
24. The Beaver
23. Heli
22. Greenberg
21. Biutiful
20. The Rum Diary
19. Another Day
18. Black Swan
17. Certified Copy
16. Somewhere
15. The Frankenstein Project
14. The Descendants
13. Meek’s Cutoff
12. Rabbit Hole
11. Carlos the Jackal
10. We Need To Talk About Kevin
9. Miral
8. The Social Network
7. Mildred Pierce
6. True Grit
5. Aurora
4. The Grand Master
3. The Illusionist
2. Black Venus
1. The Tree of Life/Voyage of Time