LAT. Sneaks 2006.

While the New York Times takes one last long look back at 2005, the Los Angeles Times looks ahead to the year already underway. If you've really got a lot of time on your hands this long weekend, you can click through 51 photos in the gallery; other might want to head straight for the 18 shots from the Australian set of Superman Returns, most likely taken when Geoff Boucher was there nabbing quotes for his long piece on the summer hopeful.

After noting that Sony has high, high hopes for The Da Vinci Code, Elena Howe and John Horn list the "plenty of other white-hot movies headed to screens this year." That opens things up for the big annotated lists of 2006 releases sorted by genre: comedy, animation, horror, drama, documentary, thriller, musical, action and adventure.

Elena Howe presents "a look at the genesis of some of the sequels planned for the year," that is, how the original scored at the box office and the logic behind giving it another go.

Susan King is busy in this edition, offering summaries of what we might expect from A Scanner Darkly, The Break Up, Poseidon and Cars, while Elaine Dutka does the same for Eight Below.

Bryce Dallas Howard has three movies coming out this year, so Mimi Avins meets her, presumably over a cup of tea.

Posted by dwhudson at January 14, 2006 8:11 AM