The movie business is up against it. In an age where bootleggers wait on every city corner with a grocery bag-full of questionably laminated DVD inserts, Hollywood seriously needs to up its game. And in a thinly-veiled attempt to squeeze ticket fares out of credit-crunched movie-goers, 2009’s cinematic line-up is the best we’ve seen in years. The budgets are bigger, the girls are hotter and a Sex And The City follow-up is mercifully nowhere to be seen.

So whip out whatever passes for your calendar and mark the following dates down in red (use your own blood if necessary). These are the ten hottest big-screen releases of the next twelve months. And even your friendly neighborhood disc-hawker would agree.

10. Terminator: Salvation