Fox has debuted the trailer for the first narrative film from director Cameron Crowe [CCROW] in six years We Bought a Zoo [WBZOO] on Apple. Based on a true story, Matt Damon [MDAMO] stars as a single dad who decides his family needs a fresh start by moving to the countryside to a house that came with a zoo. With the help of a zookeeper, played by Scarlett Johansson [SJOHA] as a Hollywood-invented love interest, he and his two children learn valuable life lessons through caring for...
Summit has unveiled the full, theatrical trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 [TWIL4]. Bella and Edward finally wed and consummate their marriage during their honeymoon. However, their union produced a fetus that wants out of its womb sparking a war between the vampires and the werewolves.
After three weeks of lackluster new releases, the thriller Contagion [CONTG] finally broke out and grossed an estimated $23.1 million to knock off The Help from the top spot. An all-star ensemble cast help the viral pandemic film drew an audience that was 80% over the age of 25.
The Help still finished second with a robust $8.7 million. The drama has banked $137.1 million in five weeks.
Warrior [WARIR] debuted in third place with a disappointing $5.6 million. Despite strong reviews...
Focus Features has released the domestic trailer for the spy thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy [TTSS] based on the novel by John Le Carre. An intelligence officer is recalled from retirement when there are signs that one of the top-ranking officers of the British Secret Intelligence Service is a Soviet mole. Originally set to open wide in October, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy now opens limited on December 9th in order to build up buzz for year-end accolades.
The fall movie season commences with an all star cast populating the thriller Contagion [CONTG]. Audiences love disaster films about the end of humanity and one about a global pandemic of an unstoppable deadly virus should prove infectious with all demographics. The combined starpower of Matt Damon [MDAMO], Gwyneth Paltrow [GPALT], Jude Law [JLAW], Kate Winslet [KWINS] as well as director Steven Soderbergh [SSODE] should attract moviegoers looking for a quality film. Warner Bros. has...
With only six weeks to go until its release date, Fox has finally unveiled the trailer for the comedy The Big Year [BIGYR] on Apple. Steve Martin [SMART], Jack Black [JBLAC] and Owen Wilson [OWILS] star as three friendly rival bird watchers trying to set the record for the most bird species spotted in one year. However, "bird watching" must not have tested well with the focus groups since the trailer goes completely out of its way not to mention "bird watching" at all. Instead, the three...
Adult moviegoers drove the Labor Day weekend box office as the drama The Help [THELP] finished first for a third straight time and the thriller The Debt [TDEBT] debuted in second place. The Help swept up an estimated $19.0 million over the four day weekend to bring its total to $123.4 million.
The spy thriller The Debt grossed $12.6 million from Friday to Monday brninging its 6-day total to $14.5 million. The film brought out the mature audience as 70% of was 40 and older and 50% was 50...
The summer movie season comes to an end as three new films open over the long Labor Day weekend. The sci-fi horror Apollo 18 [APO18] appears to have to best chance to break out. The Weinstein Co. film is the latest entry in the “lost footage” sub-genre of horror popularized by Paranormal Activity and purports to show what happened to the astronauts of a secret last mission to the moon. With a cast of unknowns, the film will have to draw on its premise alone. The PG-13 rating should bring...
Another long-delayed film is finally seeing the light of day as Fox Searchlight has released the trailer for Margaret [MARGT]. Writer-director Kenneth Lonergan's follow-up film to You Can Count On Me finished production in 2005 but endured an arduous editing process when the filmmaker and the studio couldn't agree on a final cut. The stalemate led to lawsuits and the whole mess was not resolved until now. Anna Paquin [APAQU] stars as the title character, "a 17-year-old New York City...
Sony Picture Classics has released the domestic trailer for the drama A Dangerous Method [DMETH] directed by David Cronenberg [DCRON]. Viggo Mortensen [VMORT] stars as the Austrian father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud and Michael Fassenbender [MFASS] as his pupil Carl Jung, who takes on a beautiful, but unbalanced patient, played by Keira Knightley [KKNIG].
