Since the weekend after Thanksgiving is traditional one of the weakest for new wide openers, studios have stayed away except for one this year, Relativity with The Warrior’s Way [WRWAY]. Korean superstar Jang Dong-gun plays an ninja assassin fighting his ex-clan in the Old West. The last Ninja Assassin starring a Korean superstar opened to $13.3 million last Thanksgiving for Warner Bros. Relativity’s lower budgeted R-rated actioner may fight just to get into the top five. Opening in 1622...
The 16 films which will compete in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival have been announced. Which of these new films will become next year's Winter's Bone or The Kids Are All Right? The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30 in Park City, Utah.
Another Earth (Director: Mike Cahill; Screenwriters: Mike Cahill and Brit Marling) - On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth, a horrible tragedy irrevocably alters the lives of two strangers, who begin...
After winning the Oscar for best actress in Monster's Ball, Halle Berry [HBERR] cashed in with roles in franchise films and a string of forgettable thrillers. Berry has now taken another dramatic turn playing a woman suffering from a multiple personality disorder in Frankie and Alice [FRNAL]. The film wrapped nearly two years ago without finding distribution, so producers are self-distributing Frankie and Alice with an Oscar-qualiying run in December hoping to land Berry another best...
The box office was plentiful over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 [HPOT7] remained at the top with an estimated $50.3 million weekend and $76.3 million from Wednesday to Sunday. When comparing the Friday-Sunday portion, the fantasy sequel dropped 60% from its frontloaded opening weekend.
Disney's irreverent take on Rapunzel Tangled [RAPUN] debuted in second place with $50.3 million over the weekend and $69.0 million over five days.
Paramount has unleashed the second trailer for the 3D concert film Justin Bieber: Never Say Never [JBI3D]. Haters gonna hate, so the documentary is strictly for his pubescent fans.
Even with four new guests at the dinner table for Thanksgiving, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 [HPOT7] looks to gobble up the most box office. After a franchse best opening weekend, the seventh film is on track to earn around $85 million over the 5-day holiday weekend.
With its wide family appeal, the 3D animated Tangled [RAPUN] should perform best amongst the new wide releases. Originally titled Rapunzel, Disney changed the title and the marketing focus hoping to attract more...
Universal has unveiled a teaser for the comedy blending live-action with CG animation Hop [IHOP] from the creators of Despicable Me. The film will feature James Marsden [JMARS] as an out-of-work slacker who accidentally injures the Easter Bunny, voiced by Russell Brand [RBRAN], that turns out to be an obnoxious houseguest. Unfortunately, we get no sense of that from the trailer, which plays up the cuteness factor of a rabbit playing the drums to Blur's ubiquitous "Song 2".
Walt Disney has released the first trailer for the motion-capture CG animated film Mars Needs Moms [MNMOM]. A nine-year-old boy stows away on a spaceship to Mars after his mom has been kidnapped by Martians. They need human mothers to raise their own unruly young martians. The film is produced by Robert Zemeckis's ImageMovers, whose last film was 2009's A Christmas Carol.
Summit has uploaded the first trailer for the thriller Source Code [SCODE] on Apple. Jake Gyllenhaal [JGYLL], Michell Monaghan [MMONA] and Vera Farmiga [VFARM] star in the Duncan Jones (Moon) directed film that's a lot like the Denzel Washington film Deja Vu. The offiical synposis explains:
When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. In an assignment unlike any...
After playing a lawyer in his breakthrough lead role in A Time to Kill, Matthew McConaughey [MMCCO] returns to star as The Lincoln Lawyer [LNLAW], a defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln sedan defending low-life criminals. With such a premise set up, one almost expects some light-hearted comedy. Alas, the Lionsgate film takes itself way too seriously by its selection of trailer music and by pimping out all the Academy Award nominees in its cast.
