The Edge of Tomorrow

Tom Cruise, all trussed up in robo-exoskeleton, plays havoc with quantum theory as a future soldier who can die and be resurrected via a fancy fandangle the film-makers are calling a "time loop". Doug Liman directs a script based on the Japanese young adult novel All You Need is Kill, which sees an extra-terrestrial race known as the Mimics invade earth. Emily Blunt's on hand to help Tom kick evil alien bottom.
Opens 20 May in the UK and 6 June in the US

Transcendence

Christopher Nolan proved that brainiac sci-fi could make clever at the box office with Inception. Now his long-term cinematographer, Wally Pfister, puts his mind to directing with a similarly cerebral thriller. Johnny Depp plays Dr Will Caster, an artificial intelligence researcher who is willing to sacrifice himself to create a sentient machine. Rebecca Hall and Paul Bettany play fellow researchers, trying to pull him back from the brink.
Opens 18 April in the US and 20 April in the UK

How to Catch a Monster

Ryan Gosling's directorial debut. A neo-noir thriller in which a single mum is swept into a dark underworld while her teenage son finds a pathway to a mysterious underwater realm. Stars Matt Smith of Doctor Who, Saoirse Ronan, Christina Hendricks and Ben Mendelsohn. We're holding out for the cameo from Gosling's other Place Beyond the Pines co-star, Anthony Pizza.
Release dates to be confirmed

Robocop

Elite Squad director José Padilha re-wires the Detroit futurecop, while Joel Kinnaman slips into the suit. Early uproar from the fanboy crowd over the colour of Robocop's armour (its black now) has been quelled by the news that the plot - in which honest cop Alex Murphy is killed in action and resuscitated as a mechanoid by the shady OmniCorp tech company - is identical to the original. Rebooted or refried - you're going with him.
Out in the UK on 7 February and 12 February in the US

Divergent

Chicago-set thriller, based on the books by Veronica Roth, which takes place in a society where the population is divided into five factions depending on personality type. Kate Winslet pops up as Jeanine Matthews, the aggy bossy boots on hand to keep the population down. The Descendants star Shailene Woodley is a Divergent, meaning she doesn't fit into any of the predetermined groups and - of course - must set out of find her own truth. There's always one.
Out 20 March in the US, 4 April in the UK

Jupiter Ascending

The Wachowski siblings set course for another weird and wonderful fantasy world with this thriller in which Mila Kunis is a lowly janitor (yeah, right) who realises she has the power to bring down an autocratic future society. Cue a costly whizz-bang extravaganza of CG-powered set pieces foreshadowed with the odd slab of mealy cod philosophy. And - of course - a Hollywood star getting done up to look like a World of Warcraft cos-player. Love the pointy ears, Channing!
Out on the 18 July in the US and 25 July in the UK

Lucy

Luc Besson steers Scarlett Johansson through the terrors of Taipei as she plays a drug mule who inadvertently gains superpowers from the narcotic she's carrying. What will the drug enable her to do? Let's ask the film's Wikipedia page … It says she can "absorb knowledge instantaneously, is able to move objects with her mind and can't feel pain and other discomforts". We're going to guess high heels, delayed buses, and mild eczema.
Out in the US on the 8 August and the 22 August in the UK

The Giver

Based on Lois Lowry's childrens' book, which imagines a future society mollified into contentment by an agreement to adhere to Sameness - the ability to disregard all potentially painful or disruptive emotions. Jeff Bridges plays The Giver, an elder who's allowed to lie and cheat to share pre-Sameness facts with the Receiver of Memory (Brenton Thwaites), a young apprentice who must know the truth to be able to avert catastrophe.
15 August in the US; UK release date tbc

Interstellar

A team of scientists discover a wormhole to alternate dimensions. Human society will never be the same again. Christopher Nolan will direct. And Matthew McConaughey will do a sonorous voice over about the evolution of human endeavour on the trailer. The tone will be weighty. And the stars (Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine) will come out. We'll all leave befuddled.
7 November in US and UK

The Voices

The new film from Marjene Satrapi, the director of Persepolis and Chicken with Plums. A factory worker of wobbly sanity (Ryan Reynolds) is implicated in the accidental death of a co-worker. At his side, doling out advice, are a benevolent pooch and a Machiavellian cat. And Anna Kendrick and Gemma Arterton, but they're not nearly as exciting.
Release dates tbc