25 Most Hotly Anticipated Movies Of Winter 2016 - Ranked

Release Date: December 25th

Billed As: The McConaissance swerves to take in a modern clone of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, from the director of Syriana.

Hype: With Westerns now firmly back in circulation, pirate movies rescued from the turkey bin and horror films back in the ascendance, it's about time someone made a big budget treasure island movie. It's been long enough to make that an intriguing idea again.

And having Matthew McConaughey and Edgar Ramirez in the leads and a tragi-dramatic humanist story beneath the surface makes it a proper mainstream concern. Let's just hope this is another notch for McConaughey, who of course also has Sahara on his CV (but let's not hold that against him, eh?)