About 10 days from now, the last of the highly anticipated films of 2009 will be released, and everything you’ve looked forward to this year — from Coraline to Sherlock Holmes — will have arrived. And you’ll be able to rest easy, having seen them all. Whew.

But wait! Another year is about to start! It’s called 2010! And it has highly anticipated movies, too!! Here’s what you can start looking forward to, if you haven’t done so already.

The Wolfman (Feb. 12). This remake of the monster-movie classic will have something the 1942 original didn’t: an R rating. That means blood ‘n’ gore! Benicio Del Toro plays the unfortunately hairy fellow, with Hugo Weaving, Anthony Hopkins, and Emily Blunt also starring.

Alice in Wonderland (March 5). Stifle that yawn! It’s live-action — albeit with heavy digital enhancement — and it’s directed by Tim Burton, whose weird imagination seems to have sprouted from somewhere in the depths of Wonderland anyway. If anyone can out-bizarre Lewis Carroll, it’s Tim Burton.

Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps (April 23). An Oliver Stone film is almost always big news, and this one — a sequel to his 1987 Oscar-winning hit — is especially noteworthy for its greed-isn’t-good-anymore timeliness. Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas reprise their roles, with Shia LaBeouf and Carey Mulligan playing the youngsters.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (April 30). And with this, the three most successful and influential slasher franchises — Halloween and Friday the 13th being the other two — will have been remade in the 2000s. The difference is that this one, with Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger, might actually be scary.

Iron Man 2 (May 7). The surprise superhero hit of 2008 gets its inevitable sequel, with most of the cast and creative minds returning for the further adventures of heavy-metal enthusiast Tony Stark. The fact that no one knew much about the comic book didn’t stop the last one from being a giddy pleasure, so here’s hoping Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr. can repeat that trick.

Sex and the City 2 (May 28). For people who never saw the HBO series about the four libidinous New York ladies, last year’s film didn’t have much to offer. Luckily, the show’s fans number in the millions, and the movie did huge business. Suburban moms who think they’re cool are already updating their haute-couture references and pretending to own Jimmy Choos.

Toy Story 3 (June 18). Toy Story 2 is one of my personal favorite films of all time, ever, of any genre. Am I excited about another chapter in the lives of the living playthings? Only if Sarah McLachlan promises not to sing another song that makes me cry.

The Other Guys (Aug. 6). Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg play desk-jockey cops who have to step up their game when the hotshots — Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson — are incapacitated. The selling point here is that it reunites Ferrell (who’s been on a losing streak lately) with writer/director Adam McKay, who made Anchorman and Talladega Nights. Ferrell’s fans, sheepish in recent months, really want to love the big goof again.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 (Nov. 19). I understand this is based on a popular children’s book of some kind. Part 2, and the final installment of the series, will be one of the most anticipated films of 2011.

The Green Hornet (Dec. 22). Seth Rogen: superhero! Slimmed down and bulked up, the comedian plays the masked avenger, and also wrote the screenplay with his old buddy Evan Goldberg. Oh, and the director is Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), so a certain amount of insane whimsy is to be expected.

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Eric D. Snider (website) believes 2010 is one of the most anticipated years of the year.

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