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By Daniel Fierman
Daniel Fierman
Daniel Fierman is a staff writer for EW

What happens to Frodo in Mordor? Will Harry finally get You-Know-Who? And what's this little Attack of the Clones movie we've been hearing so much about? While we search for answers to these and other cinematic head-scratchers, here are 10 more major movies that should have us lining up for tickets in 2002.

-- BOND20 You know, they could tell us that 007 has gone undercover as a sideshow clown and we'd still go. Halle Berry as the Bond girl doesn't hurt either.

-- THE BOURNE IDENTITY Matt Damon, Franka Potente (Run Lola Run), Clive Owen (Croupier), and director Doug Liman (Go) team up for a Robert Ludlum spy thriller. We hope its long postponement doesn't add up to trouble.

-- CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Steven Spielberg directs Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio in the story of the youngest man ever on the FBI's Most Wanted List. Original title: If This Doesn't Work, We Give Up.

-- CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND George Clooney gets behind the camera for the first time to direct an adaptation of Gong Show host Chuck Barris' freaky memoirs.

-- DEATH TO SMOOCHY In our book, there's nothing funnier than a guy in an animal suit getting into a fistfight. So we're eagerly awaiting the sight of Robin Williams and Edward Norton as battling kiddie-show hosts. (Think Barney meets Taxi Driver.)

-- GANGS OF NEW YORK We said we were looking forward to Martin Scorsese's late-19th-century mobster flick in this same space last year. We still are.

-- ICE AGE (pictured) So far, the movie trailer alone is worth the price of admission.

-- PANIC ROOM One of our most incendiary directors (David Fincher) teams with one of our greatest actors (Jodie Foster) for an edgy thriller that pits a woman and her daughter against mysterious intruders.

-- PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON UNTITLED Paul Thomas Anderson directing a top-secret Adam Sandler comedy. Hmm. The words totally bizarre pop to mind.

-- WE WERE SOLDIERS Mel Gibson, Barry Pepper, and Chris Klein star in an adaptation of the best-selling book We Were Soldiers Once...and Young, about the first major battle between the United States and North Vietnamese forces.


Posted Jan 25, 2002 | Published in issue #636-637 Jan 25, 2002 | Order Article Reprints