Category: Looking at the Weekend

Three new wide releases this week plus a new limited release and a New York/L.A. only release. Wide: Dinner for Schmucks, Charlie St. Cloud and Cats & Dogs 2; Limited: Get Low; and NY/LA: The Extra Man. Consensus Below is a list of what we have come to a general consensus on. The number in…

(Update: 7/21/10, 12:34p – Added Wes’ thoughts and Consensus) This week we have two new wide releases (Salt, Ramona and Beezus), two new New York/Los Angeles releases (Valhalla Rising, Life During Wartime) and one D.C./New York release (Countdown to Zero). Consensus Below is a list of what we have come to a general consensus on.…

This week, there are two new wide releases. One is from The Dark Knight helmer Christopher Nolan and the other is a Disney kids’ vehicle. The lone limited release this week is a small film called The Concert. Consensus Below is a list of what we have come to a general consensus on. The number…

We have a jam-packed weekend of new releases. Six in total are competing for your dollars, three in wide release and three in limited. The three new wide releases appeal to wildly different audiences: Despicable Me will appeal to the family audience, Predators will appeal to the fanboy crowd and Grease Sing-A-Long will appeal to…

Three new films release this weekend, two go wide, one releases in limited engagements. The weekend dominator will be the third film in the Twilight Saga as it’s been called (so people don’t mistake the title for some other film). Its only competition is M. Night Shyamalan’s latest, an adaptation of the popular anime series…

(Updated 6/23/10, 2:39p: Added Wes’ contribution) This week we have two new wide releases, a limited release and a New York/Los Angeles-only release. Grown Ups and Knight and Day duke it out for the weekend crown, but will likely come in under the second week of Toy Story 3. Stranger things have happened, though. The…

One major new wide release this week, one minor one. Toy Story 3 is undoubtedly going to dominate the weekend and Jonah Hex is going to struggle to make much in its wake. I Am Love and Cyrus are this week’s limited releases. Consensus We agree 100% on the following: Toy Story 3: It’s both…

(Update: 6/10/10, 6:52a – Added Wes’ thoughts) We have two new wide releases this week, both derived from popular ’80s productions, The A-Team based on the television series and The Karate Kid a remake of the martial arts action drama. There is one new release to limited markets, the documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of…

We have four new wide releases to look at this week and they are accompanied by a limited release. Here’s what we are thinking: Consensus We agree 100% on the following: Killers: Not an Oscar contender. Get Him to the Greek: Not an Oscar contender. Marmaduke: We won’t be watching it and it’s not an…

Memorial Day weekend is finally here, which means a bonanza of big box office numbers are heading our way. Here is our latest thoughts on this week’s releases with three major wide releases and a limited release feature. Consensus We agree 100% on the following: The Prince of Persia: A Tech-Only Oscar contender Sex and…

Two wide releases get the Looking at the Weekend treatment this week as does a film opening in New York and Los Angeles this weekend. Consensus We agree 100% on the following: MacGruber: This is not an Oscar contender Holy Rollers: This is not an Oscar contender WIDE RELEASES SHREK FOREVER AFTER See the original…

We have three new wide releases this week including the latest Russell Crowe/Ridley Scott epic, an Italy-set romantic drama, and a basketball physical therapy romance. Consensus We agree 100% on the following: Letters to Juliet: Not an Oscar contender Just Wright: Not an Oscar contender & none of us will be watching it WIDE RELEASES…

(Updated 5/5/10 @ 2:40p – Tripp’s contribution) Whatever happens this weekend, Iron Man 2 will be declared a sensation, for good or bad. Below are our thoughts on the upcoming releases for the weekend of May 7-9, 2010. There are two wide releases and two limited releases on the schedule. Please note that at the…

We’re back for another adventure looking at the week’s newest releases. One of the four titles below may seem familiar. If so, that’s because it is: Furry Vengeance was one of the first features we ever previewed here on CinemaSight. Back on March 31, our first post in this regular article series, the film was…

Three new wide releases this week. One, Oceans opens Thursday, April 22 (Earth Day). The other two, The Back-Up Plan and The Losers open Friday, April 23. Here’s what we think of this upcoming slate of new releases. WIDE RELEASES THE BACK-UP PLAN See the original CinemaSight Trailer & Poster Preview Will We See? Will…