Here to remind us why Johnny Depp is the most popular actor in the world, The Rum Diary is set to hit theaters on October 28 after a two year wait. In the meantime, Depp gave us the weakest of the Pirates of the Caribbean flicks, On Stranger Tides, as well as the overpriced, overhyped travelog known as The Tourist (which wasn't bad, it just wasn't as good as it should have been.) I've seen the trailer for Rum Diary on the big screen a few times now and all I can say is that Depp and Hunter S. Thompson are a very good match indeed. 

Here Depp is playing a journalist named Paul Kemp, a freelance journalist who finds himself drawn to the Caribbean at a critical turning point in his life and lands at a rundown newspaper edited by bewigged Richard Jenkins. While there he meets the beautiful Chenault (Amber Heard) who is engaged to Aaron Eckhart's Sanderson, but he's once again really a stand-in for Thompson himself (as all of Thompson's "fictional" protagonists were and Depp was when he appeared in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas). There's no Benicio del Toro as Thompson's Samoan attorney, instead we get Michael Rispoli and Giovanni Ribisi.

The scenary's great, Depp is charming, Heard is beautiful (in a 1960's Barbie kind of way), Eckhardt is suavely handsome (and has a cool car) and I think this looks like as much fun as a frosty umbrella drink sipped on a sandy beach! Enjoy this punchbowl full of new pics and a couple of clips. 

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It's been a while since we've had any goodies for Tomas Alfredson's adaptation of John Le Carre's masterful spy novel, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The film has already opened to glowing reviews in the UK, in September, and is still going strong. We have to wait until December 9th, but I guess that means more time to tease.

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Brett Ratner's new comedy, Tower Heist, with its fine cast of comic talents like Ben Stiller, Matthew Broderick, Eddie Murphy, Alan Alda, and Tea Leoni is slowly worming its way into my brain and telling me I want to see it. This could go either way. It could be the turning point in Brett Ratner's career; the point where he stops sucking the life out of every project he undertakes and finally hits one out of the park…or it's just more of the same and he will have squandered all of this potential.  With every clip I see, I am cautiously…very cautiously edging toward the former possibility.

Matthew Broderick's perpetually horrified straight guy really does seem like a good foil for Murphy's usual mania. We'll see. Tower Heist, about a group of disgruntled employees of a luxury high-rise who have been ripped off by one of its residents (Bernie Madoff-style) and vow to get their money back, opens 2 November in the UK and November 4 in the US & Canada.

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Chronicle is a new kind of superhero film. It's written by Max Landis (son of John Blues Brothers Landis) and directed by newbie feature director Josh Trank ("Kill Point"). Chronicle is sort of in the vein of Kick-Ass, in that the heroes are teenagers and start out as average kids who decide to affect some change in their lives. There's a twist, however. The film "chronicles" three high school friends who make an incredible discovery, leading to them develop uncanny superpowers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities, and initially use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and their darker sides soon begin to take over.

Looks interesting, no?

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This one is set in 1921 and an England that is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart (Hall) visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost. Lots of spooky doings at a spooky boarding school on the spooky mist-filled moors! Cool!  The Awakening opens in the UK 11-11-11. No word yet on these shores.

The new poster for New Year's Eve is all gold and shiny just like the New Year itself (and as is befitting a movie with that many shiny, happy people all assembled in place.) I don't expect much but Garry Marshall will probably eke a few memorable moments. New Year's Eve opens everywhere December 9.

On the new poster for Puss in Boots, the eponymous feline appears to be doing the 'stray cat strut'. He is definitely all that and a bag of chips. I truly can't wait to see this and I won't even feel it necessary to borrow a child. Puss in Boots opens in the US and Canada on October 28 and 9 December in the UK. (Up against New Year's Eve! I know which one I'd pick.)

Frankly, I have no hopes for The Three Stooges at all. I'll admit to some vague curiosity about what the actors chosen to play Moe (Chris Diamantopoulos), Larry (Sean Hayes) and Curly (Will Sasso) look like. Apparently that's what   is counting on and appears to be trying to keep them under wraps for a little while longer, since the first poster only offers us silhouettes. We do have a glimpse of the tops of their heads in this slice. Rhetorical question: Is it necessary for Sophia Vergara and Jane Lynch to waste all of the good-will generated by their respective tv shows by appearing in whatever crap movie is offered to them? Christopher Guest, find something new for Jane stat! The Three Stooges opens April 4.

This new poster for Martin Scorsese's Hugo, features Asa Butterfield, the young actor who plays the title character. It definitely retains the sense of wonder and magic that we've come to associate with this film, just judging by the trailer and pics we've seen so far. Hugo opens for the holidays on November 23 in the US & Canada and 2 December in the UK.

Here's a poster of Mark Wahlberg imitating a monkey…no really, he's just showing you the bazillion dollars strapped to his washboard abs in order to give you a clue about the question on this poster for Contraband. About a security guard with financial troubles who considers a return to his smuggling ways when an associate offers a potentially lucrative opportunity, Contraband opens January 13.

And finally, we have a new poster for Arthur Christmas. The second 'holiday' themed movie in today's offerings, but the one that seems to have some actual heart (not to mention the voices of some great actors) going for it. Sony's synopsis: Arthur Christmas reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child's question: 'So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?' The answer: Santa's exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the center of the film is a story about a family in a state of comic dysfunction and an unlikely hero, Arthur, with an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns. Sounds like something even this cynic might get a kick out of. Arthur Christmas opens 11 November in the UK and November 23 in the US and Canada.