One of the most fascinating Hollywood tussles to be exposed by last year’s Sony hack, it’s a minor miracle the Aaron Sorkin-penned Steve Jobs biopic is even going to make it to the screen. Changing stars and directors by the week, after Sony put the project in turnaround it was acquired by Universal, with Danny Boyle confirmed to direct and Michael Fassbender to star. Based on Walter Isaacson’s eponymous biography, Seth Rogen, Kate Winslet, Jeff Daniels and Michael Stuhlbarg are also cast, with the film set backstage at three iconic product launches. Steve Jobs hits theaters October 9th.

Based on Andy Weir’s best-selling novel of the same name, Ridley Scott’s The Martian follows astronaut Mark Watney (Damon), assumed dead and abandoned on Mars after a massive storm hits NASA’s deep space team. With their temporary base only intended for a month’s habitation, Watney is forced to make the most of his supplies and find a new way to contact his crew, or wait four years for NASA to send a new rescue team. Co-starring Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Michael Peña, Kate Mara, Donald Glover, Mackenzie Davis, and Chiwetel Ejiofor, The Martian hits theatres September 30th in the UK and October 2nd in the States.

Putting Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Coen Brothers on the same call sheet, Bridge of Spies is a cold war thriller about a Brooklyn lawyer (Hanks), sent to the Eastern Bloc to secure the release of a captured American pilot. Directed by Spielberg and written by the Coen brothers from Matt Charman’s initial script, Bridge of Spies looks like it’ll be part-courtroom drama, part-war time thriller, with Mark Rylance, Austin Stowell, Amy Ryan and Billy Magnussen also starring. Bridge of Spies will hit theatures October 16th.

After stumble after stumble at the box office, Johnny Depp looks like he’s back on form at last. Channeling the sort of intensity we haven’t seen from him since Donnie Brasco, Depp plays notorious South Boston gangster, Whitey Bulger. Directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart), Black Mass follow’s Bulger’s extraordinary life as he goes from being one of the most violent criminals in Boston history to an FBI informant and his brother William Bulger being appointed to the Massachusetts State Senate. Also starring Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson, Kevin Bacon and Peter Sarsgaard, Black Mass will hit theatres September 18th.

Miles Teller’s continued rise to leading man status continues with ensemble superhero reboot, Fantastic Four. Made all the more interesting by sitting Chronicle director Josh Trank at the helm, Fantastic Four will again tell the origin story of Marvel’s superhero team, with Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell in the lead roles, and Toby Kebbell starring as villain Victor Domashev/Doctor Doom. His next step before tackling a standalone Star Wars movie, Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four hits theatres August 7th.

As the world starts to act out in the post-Superman world, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice stars Gal Gadot, Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy Irons and Holly Hunter alongside our two titular heroes. The first full length teaser is a welcome sigh of relief, as after the somewhat flat Man of Steel in 2013 and the outcry when Ben Affleck was cast as Batman in this follow up, Zack Snyder’s coming together of the two DC powerhouses looks wonderfully dark and an interesting play on the concept. Stay tuned for a full trailer later in the summer with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice hitting theatres next year on 25th March 2016.

Easily the most-anticipated movie of the year, with every passing minute, even non-franchise fans are getting more and more excited about Star Wars: The Force Awakens. A match made in heaven for director/writer/producer J.J. Abrams, The Force Awakens will be the first in a very welcome new cluster of films for the Star Wars canon. Set approximately 30 years on from the events of Return of the Jedi, the three new leads certainly don’t look out of place alongside a few old favourites set to reprise their roles. Details on plot are still light so for now this new 110-second teaser will have to do, with plenty of Easter eggs and callbacks for fans to pour over. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is due for release on December 18th.

The first of two eagerly-anticipated releases from Pixar in 2015, Pete Docter (Monsters, Inc and Up) and Ronnie del Carmen’s (Dug’s Special Mission) Inside Out steps insides the minds of pre-teen Riley and her two parents. Follows the young family who uprooting their Midwest life for a new start in San Francisco, though a teaser in the summer let on little about the characters of the film, here we’re introduced to the snappy and hilarious interplay between emotions inside the mind and our failed attempts to communicate with each other.

Starring Amy Poehler, Mindy Kaling, Bill Hader, Diane Lane, Lewis Black, Kyle MacLachlan and Phyllis Smith, Inside Out is shaping up to be another Pixar classic when it hits theatres in the States on 19th June 2015, and 24th July 2015 in the UK.

In the midst of a 2029 fight for humanity’s survival, John Connor (Jason Clarke) sends Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back in time to thwart SkyNet’s Terminator programme and save his mother’s life. Only the past isn’t what they had expected. After being orphaned at the hands of a Terminator when she was just nine, Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke) was raised and protected by another Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger), as the three are left to fight a new fearsome enemy, with everything at stake.

While the plot seems a little preposterous even for a Terminator movie, given there are sequels already penciled in for 2017 and 2018 the rebooted franchise could really do with getting off to a good start. Alan Taylor (Game of Thrones, Thor: The Dark World, Bored To Death) as director is a match made in heaven, plus some stellar talent amongst the cast, let’s just hope another shonky performance from Schwarzenegger doesn’t bring the film to its knees. Terminator: Genisys hits theaters July 1st, 2015.

His first film since 2011’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Brad Bird returns with sci-fi adventure movie, Tomorrowland. After being released from detention center, Casey (Britt Robertson) finds a mysterious pin in with her belongings. To her surprise and amazement, touching the pin transports Casey to an enigmatic far off place known only as “Tomorrowland”, but she soon unearths secrets that will change the world forever. George Clooney, Hugh Laurie, Tim McGraw, and Keegan-Michael Key also star when Tomorrowland hits theatres 22nd May 2015.