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2006

Opening: December 27, 2006

  • Notes on a Scandal (Limited)
  • Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Limited)

Opening: December 29, 2006

  • Factory Girl (Limited)
  • The Painted Veil (Limited)
  • Pan’s Labyrinth (Limited)

With nary a wide releaes in sight for the coming weekend, the roughly half-dozen films competing for top of the box office continue that competition with Night at the Museum likely to continue its dominance.

-Wesley Lovell (December 29, 2006)

Opening: December 20, 2006

  • Night at the Museum (Wide)

Opening: December 22, 2006

  • The Good Shepherd (Wide)
  • Rocky Balboa (Wide)
  • We Are Marshall (Wide)
  • The Painted Veil (Limited)
  • Curse of the Golden Flower (LA/NY)
  • Letters from Iwo Jima (LA/NY)
  • Venus (LA/NY)

Opening: December 25, 2006

  • Black Christmas (Wide)
  • Dreamgirls (Wide)
  • The Good German (Wide)
  • Children of Men (Limited)

This is going to be a huge weekend. Not only are Night at the Museum, Rocky Balboa, The Good Shepherd and We Are Marshall promising huge returns, the following monday will see Dreamgirls show in its first contest. While it won’t figure into the weekend proper, the Christmas holiday falling on Monday will allow it to have one day’s worth of figures included. Night at the Museum will easily top the box office. We Are Marshall and Rocky Balboa going to fight over the sports crowd for the second spot with The Good Shepherd tries to find its niche.

-Wesley Lovell (December 22, 2006)

Opening: December 15, 2006

  • Charlotte’s Web (Wide)
  • Eragon (Wide)
  • The Pursuit of Happyness (Wide)
  • Venus (LA/NY)

Though last week’s "stiff" competition was barely stiff and more limp, this weekend’s prospects are much brighter. Charlotte’s Web is sure to top Happy Feet as it is the biggest holiday-feeling film this weekend. However, it’s dragon-riding fantasy film Eragon that is the most likely to top the chart. The Pursuit of Happyness will debut nicely enough, but shouldn’t see more than $15 M in revenue.

-Wesley Lovell (December 15, 2006)

Opening: December 8, 2006

  • Apocalypto (Wide)
  • Blood Diamond (Wide)
  • The Holiday (Wide)
  • Unaccompanied Minors (Wide)
  • Family Law (Limited)

This weekend will show us how much people like Mel Gibson. His last project was the blockbuster hit The Passion of the Christ. However, this time the controversy isn’t the depiction of Jews but how Gibson himself feels about them. After his arrest earlier this year, many have come out against Gibson and his anti-semitic tirade but that kind of publicity, plus a hell-on-wheels ad compaign for Apocalypto could see Gibson rise to number one again. His biggest competition is from Leonardo DiCaprio, whose super-hyped Blood Diamond opens and could make Gibson extinct early.

The Holiday and Unaccompanied Minors could be a welcome alternative to the violence of the other two weekend openers, thus creating one of the stiffest weeks of competition we’ve seen since these past three weeks’ top 2 films debuted at Thanksgiving.

-Wesley Lovell (December 8, 2006)

Opening: December 1, 2006

  • The Nativity Story (Wide)
  • 10 Items or Less (Wide)
  • Turistas (Wide)
  • Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj (Wide)

The Nativity Story should give Happy Feet and Casino Royale a run for its money. However, in the end, Nativity may take the back seat to the other two films and land a third-place debut. The biggest question is whether Turistas will be a smash debut or a weak one. The horror barrage of the last few years has generated far fewer hits than when horror films came out sporadically.

The Van Wilder sequel is unlikely to ignite sparks at the box office and mae not even break the top 10 but is a possibility. 10 Items or Less will be lucky to make $5M at the box office with its limited press coverage and less than memorable premise.

-Wesley Lovell (December 1, 2006)

Opening: November 21, 2006

  • The History Boys (Limited)

Opening: November 22, 2006

  • Bobby (Wide)
  • Deck the Halls (Wide)
  • Dj Vu (Wide)
  • The Fountain (Wide)
  • Let’s Go to Prison (Wide)

Opening: November 24, 2006

  • For Your Consideration (Limited)
  • Unconscious (Limited)

With the Thanksgiving holiday coming up, studios are going to hope for huge returns.Déjà Vu and Deck the Halls are the only two films that seem poised to make huge box office returns. However, it is highly unlikely that either film will topple last week’s top two films Happy Feet and Casino Royale. The Fountain could perform well as could Bobby insofar as they are the only minor alternatives to the likely top 4 films.

-Wesley Lovell (November 24, 2006)

Opening: November 17, 2006

  • Casino Royale (Wide)
  • Fast Food Nation (Wide)
  • Happy Feet (Wide)
  • Tenacious D in ‘The Pink of Destiny’ (Wide)
  • The Aura (Limited)
  • Come Early Morning (Limited)
  • Candy (NY)

The battle of this week is between Casino Royale and Happy Feet. Both have potentially huge audiences but who knows whether kids or Bond fans will top the box office. I give the slight edge to Happy Feet but Casino Royale could easily top it. It may also be one of those photo finishes we love to see.

-Wesley Lovell (November 17, 2006)

Opening: November 10, 2006

  • A Good Year (Wide)
  • Harsh Times (Wide)
  • The Return (Wide)
  • Stranger Than Fiction (Wide)
  • Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (Limited)
  • Fuck (LA/NY)

Four films open wide this coming weekend and it’s clear that Stranger Than Fiction from early buzz should be the unequivocal winner. That is unless Borat continues to do well in its second weekend when it’s likely to expand. A Good Year may do well on Russell Crowe’s name but this seems highly unlikely. Babel may also do well if it opens wider like The Queen, which should also be going wider this week. The big question is: will the new Sarah Michelle Gellar horror flick The Return perform above expectations and possibly act as the weekend’s big spoiler?

-Wesley Lovell (November 10, 2006)

Opening: November 3, 2006

  • Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Wide)
  • Flushed Away (Wide)
  • The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (Wide)
  • Volver (NY/LA)

This weekend sees the competing family films Santa Clause 3 and Flushed Away battling for box office supremacy with cultural comedy Borat. With Borat pulled from a number of markets amid fears it wouldn’t play well to a midwestern audience, it isn’t likely to top either family pic. Clause is likely to top the box office but Flushed should come in solidly behind unless the onslaught of computer animated fare this year turns audiences completely off.

-Wesley Lovell (November 3, 2006)

Opening: October 27, 2006

  • Catch a Fire (Wide)
  • Saw III (Wide)
  • Babel (Limited)

There is no question that Saw III will be the top film at this weekend’s box office. The questions are whether The Prestige can hang on to a high position and how much will The Departed fall in its fourth week and how long it can keep it up.

-Wesley Lovell (October 27, 2006)

Opening: October 20, 2006

  • DOA: Dead or Alive (Wide)
  • Flags of Our Fathers (Wide)
  • Flicka (Wide)
  • The Prestige (Wide)
  • Marie Antoinette (Wide)
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas (3-D)
  • Running with Scissors (Limited)
  • Sleeping Dogs Lie (LA/NY)

Flags of Our Fathers should have no trouble taking the top spot at the box office. Flicka and The Prestige will be competitive for second place. Marie Antoinette doesn’t seem to have caught on with hype, so could be a dud but should still debut somewhere in the Top 10.

-Wesley Lovell (October 20, 2006)

Opening: October 13, 2006

  • Man of the Year (Wide)
  • The Marine (Wide)
  • The Grudge 2 (Wide)
  • Sunshine (Wide)
  • Infamous (Limited)
  • Little Children (Limited)
  • Shortbus (Limited)
  • Driving Lessons (LA/NY)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning opened wellbut not well enough to top Martin Scorsese’s The Departed. This week, The Grudge 2 is expected to take the top spot being the sequel of a highly popular horror film. However, Robin William’s new anti-politics comedy Man of the Year may prove strong competition and might top the box office with audiences looking to escape the annoying political campaigns that are being mounted. The Marine may also debut strong but a lot will depend on how much its 18-24 demo feels about stacking on the pics over the weekend. Sure to debut strongly in limited release are Little Children and Infamous, two of this year’s key Oscar contenders.

-Wesley Lovell (October 13, 2006)

Opening: October 4, 2006

  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (Wide)

Opening: October 6, 2006

  • Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (Wide)
  • Employee of the Month (Wide)
  • The Departed (Wide)
  • The Queen (Limited)

The Oscar season finally gets on its feet with Martin Scorsese’s The Departed opening this week. It’s the most likely top-spot film for next week, though it must fend of retained business for Open Season, comedy Employee of the Money and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. Massacre is not only titularly The Beginning. It also marks the start of October horror month. With sequels The Grudge 2 and Saw III on deck, this pre/sequel packed October could resurrect the box office like Freddy Kreuger for an upteenth sequel.

-Wesley Lovell (October 6, 2006)

Opening: September 27, 2006

  • The Last King of Scotland (Limited)

Opening: September 29, 2006

  • The Guardian (Wide)
  • Open Season (Wide)
  • School for Scoundrels (Wide)
  • Sleeping Dogs Lie (Wide)
  • A Guide to Recognize Your Saints (LA/NY)

Four films will be competing for the top spot at this weekend’s box office. School for Scoundrels and Sleeping Dogs Lie have no chance. The battle will be between kid-friendly Open Season and nautical drama The Guardian. Guardian looks a great deal like Armageddon, so it shouldn’t have a problem topping the box office. Most audiences will have gotten their fill of Jackass, so it shouldn’t pose too much competition.

-Wesley Lovell (September 29, 2006)

Opening: September 22, 2006

  • All the King’s Men (Wide)
  • Fearless (Wide)
  • Flyboys (Wide)
  • Jackass: Number Two (Wide)
  • American Hardcore (Limited)
  • Renaissance (Limited)
  • The Science of Sleep (Limited)
  • Feast (Midnight 9/22 and 9/23 only)

With diminishing returns the norm and not the exception, it’s conceivable that this week’s slate of films could continue to push the box office downward. While Gridiron performed adquately, the immature sequel Jackass: Number Two may not perform well at the box office. It’s competition is also fairly weak with festival bomb All the King’s Men likely to follow the trail of recent period pics The Black Dahlia and Hollywoodland. However, martial arts epic (Jet Li’s last) Fearless could surprise and Flyboys most surely will disappoint (hardly any buzz or advertising).

-Wesley Lovell (September 22, 2006)

Opening: September 15, 2006

  • Confetti (Wide)
  • The Black Dahlia (Wide)
  • Everyone’s Hero (Wide)
  • Gridiron Gang (Wide)
  • The Last Kiss (Wide)
  • The Amateurs (Limited)
  • Aurora Borealis (Limited)
  • The Ground Truth (Limited)
  • Haven (Limited)
  • The U.S. vs. John Lennon (NY/LA)

While this past weekend was hugely disappointing, look for this coming weekend to breathe some life into the box office with plenty for audiences of all type. Gridiron Gang should have no problem winning the box office race. Everyone’s Hero should be an easy second place finisher and The Black Dahlia should finish third.

-Wesley Lovell (September 15, 2006)

Opening: September 8, 2006

  • The Covenant (Wide)
  • Hollywoodland (Wide)
  • DOA: Dead or Alive (Wide)
  • The Protector (Wide)
  • Sherrybaby (LA/NY)

The Covenant will easily topple Invincible but how well will the widely-advertised Hollywoodland do? It’s probably the biggest question of the weekend. Hollywoodland is poised as an early Oscar contender but depending on word of mouth, box office and critical support, the film could easily fall by the wayside being released too early in the fall for too much attention. The Covenant should have no problem with victory where it should take in more than $20 M in its opening weekend.

-Wesley Lovell (September 8, 2006)

Opening: September 1, 2006

  • Crank (Wide)
  • Crossover (Wide)
  • The Wicker Man (Wide)
  • Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (Limited)
  • This Film Is Not Yet Rated (NY/LA)

The big question for this week is will either Crank or The Wicker Man manage to take the throne from strongly-debuting Invincible. Crossover hasn’t been talked up as much comparatively. The Wicker Man boast Nicolas Cage and, being a horror remake to boot (not to mention it looks vaguely like The Village which could turn some people off instead of on), it may top the chart. Crank looks like another Transporter rip-off. Will people buy either film? We’ll see.

-Wesley Lovell (September 1, 2006)

Opening: August 25, 2006

  • Beerfest (Wide)
  • DOA: Dead or Alive (Wide)
  • How to Eat Fried Worms (Wide)
  • Idlewild (Wide)
  • Invincible (Wide)
  • The Protector (Wide)
  • The Quiet (LA/NY)

With the uber-weak debut of Snakes on a Plane, the question is which film will top the box office. My bet would be the footbal drama Invincible which should appeal to the testosterone prone though it may have competition from Broken Lizard’s new comedy Beerfest. How to Eat Fried Worms has been pushed for months now and we’ll see how well the irritating marketing can take the film in its opening weekend.

-Wesley Lovell (August 25, 2006)

Opening: August 18, 2006

  • The Illusionist (Wide)
  • Material Girls (Wide)
  • Snakes on a Plane (Wide)
  • Queens (Limited)
  • 10th & Wolf (Limited)
  • Trust the Man (Limited)
  • Factotum (LA/NY)

This week, the question will not be whether Snakes on a Plane will top the box office but how much money it will make.

-Wesley Lovell (August 18, 2006)

Opening: August 11, 2006

  • Accepted (Wide)
  • Pulse (Wide)
  • Step Up (Wide)
  • World Trade Center (Wide)
  • Zoom (Wide)
  • Half Nelson (NY/LA)
  • House of Sand (NY/LA)

It is possible that Talladega Nights could hold on to the top spot, but it will face stiff competition from curiosity seekers who wanted to know if World Trade Center is worth the controversy.

-Wesley Lovell (August 11, 2006)

Opening: August 4, 2006

  • Barnyard (Wide)
  • The Descent (Wide)
  • The Night Listener (Wide)
  • Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Wide)
  • Quinceaera (Limited)

Now that the box office top spot stalemate has been broken, it’s time to see some additional shakeups at the top of the chart. With the unimpressive debut of Miami Vice, Anchorman funny man, with a renewed interest in racing, should handily beat its competitors to the finish line. Talladega Nights looks like just the film to sate the fans who put Adam Sandler in the pantheon of big box office openers.

-Wesley Lovell (August 4, 2006)

Opening: July 28, 2006

  • The Ant Bully (Wide)
  • John Tucker Must Die (Wide)
  • Miami Vice (Wide)
  • America: Freedom to Fascism (Limited)
  • Another Gay Movie (Limited)
  • Brothers of the Head (Limited)
  • Little Miss Sunshine (Limited)
  • Scoop (Limited)

Lady in the Water couldn’t do it but after three weeks, it will be a shock indeed if Miami Vice can’t bring down Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.

-Wesley Lovell (July 28, 2006)

Opening: July 21, 2006

  • Clerks II (Wide)
  • Lady in the Water (Wide)
  • Monster House (Wide)
  • My Super Ex-Girlfriend (Wide)
  • Poster Boy (Limited)

Lady in the Water is expected to top Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest at the box office this week. If it debuts even as impressively as The Sixth Sense at around $35 million, it could easily topple the scallywags at Disney.

-Wesley Lovell (July 21, 2006)

Opening: July 14, 2006

  • Little Man (Wide)
  • You, Me and Dupree (Wide)
  • The Oh in Ohio (LA/NY)

Pirates won’t be knocked out by any of these wannabes. The big question will be which will debut higher, Little Man or You, Me and Dupree. I give the edge to Little Man but it will likely be a photo finish. Little Man is better counter-programming to Pirates than Dupree so it will be close.

-Wesley Lovell (July 14, 2006)

Opening: July 7, 2006

  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Wide)
  • A Scanner Darkly (Wide)
  • Strangers with Candy (Limited)

Pirates will be number one…There is no question. The question is how well does the lackluster opening of Superman Returns bode for its ability to hold up against Jack & Co.

-Wesley Lovell (July 7, 2006)

Opening: June 28, 2006

  • Who Killed the Electric Car? (NY/LA)

Opening: June 30, 2006

  • The Devil Wears Prada (Wide)
  • Superman Returns (Wide)
  • Reinas (Limited)

There is no other question. This will be the week (and only one with Pirates on deck the following week) of Superman Returns.

-Wesley Lovell (June 30, 2006)

Opening: June 23, 2006

  • Click (Wide)
  • Waist Deep (Wide)
  • Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man (Limited)
  • The Road to Guantanamo (Limited)
  • Wassup Rockers (NY)

Cars won’t be able to fend of Adam Sandler’s Click for the top spot, so a new crown is likely. The only other new debut is Waist Deep which has virtually no chance of debuting in the top spot and probably won’t even land in the top 5 with the strong contenders already at the top of the charts.

-Wesley Lovell (June 23, 2006)

Opening: June 14, 2006

  • The Heart of the Game (Limited)

Opening: June 16, 2006

  • The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (Wide)
  • Garfield’s A Tale of Two Kitties (Wide)
  • The Lake House (Wide)
  • Nacho Libre (Wide)
  • The Mostly Fabulous Social Life of Ethan Green (Limited)
  • Wordplay (NY/LA)
  • Lower City (NY/LA)
  • Loverboy (NY/LA)

Cars should be able to hold on to the top spot as male audiences are split between Nacho Libre and Fast and the Furious. Kids might drift to the ill-conceived sequel to Garfield but the true challenge is how much threat can the only movie that will attract largely female audiences, The Lake House , pose? It may be a tough battle.

-Wesley Lovell (June 16, 2006)

Opening: June 6, 2006

  • The Omen (Wide)

Opening: June 9, 2006

  • Cars (Wide)
  • A Prairie Home Companion (Wide)
  • The King (Limited)

Cars will cross the finish line in first but how will The Omen and A Prairie Home Companion do?

-Wesley Lovell (June 9, 2006)

Opening: June 2, 2006

  • The Break-Up (Wide)
  • Peaceful Warrior (Limited)
  • 13th District (Limited)
  • Typhoon (Limited)

X-Men: The Last Stand had a record-setting opening. The only new film on the block is The Break-Up. It seems highly unlikely X-Men will fall.

-Wesley Lovell (June 2, 2006)

Opening: May 26, 2006

  • X-Men: The Last Standp (Wide)
  • An Inconvenient Truth (Limited)
  • Fanaa (Limited)
  • Stagedoor (NY/LA)

X-Men: The Last Stand has no opening competition but will face a tough race against runaway success The Da Vinci Code. Will the hit trilogy come to a smashing conclusion or a disappointing one?

-Wesley Lovell (May 26, 2006)

2007

Opening: December 25, 2007

Opening: December 26, 2007

Opening: December 28, 2007

If Aliens vs. Predator were opening on the weekend, I’d say it should have no problem winning the weekend, but it’s opening Christmas Day, which means everyone who wants to see it may have already seen it by the time the week is out. Still, it will compete with The Great Debaters for box office dominance. It’s likely Aliens will still win, but you can’t put anything past Denzel Washington when it comes to box office results.

-Wesley Lovell (December 28, 2007)

Opening: December 19, 2007

  • Flakes (Limited)

Opening: December 21, 2007

With I Am Legend opening supremely strong, will National Treasure: Book of Secrets be the hit its predecessor was or will it succumb to second-place-debut-itis? It’s hard to imagine Treasure not doing well, but I can’t imagine I Am Legend falling too much (unless it wasn’t as well liked as opening weekend numbers suggest). Walk Hard will open strong, but not enough to crack the top 2.

-Wesley Lovell (December 21, 2007)

Opening: December 14, 2007

I Am Legend challenges Alvin and the Chipmunks for box office dominance. But The Perfect Holiday, part of a glut of African American-themed films to hit the box office, could be the spoiler. These films have proved a lucrative business when many high profile films have faltered. Alvin‘s the kind of film to pull decent numbers without being exceptional since we’ve seen many kids movies fall by the wayside. I Am Legend pairs the popularity of zombie/apocalyptic film with box office powerhouse Will Smith, which should put it at the top of the chart.

-Wesley Lovell (December 14, 2007)

Opening: December 7, 2007

With Enchanted fading from week to week as most long-run releases do, THe Golden Compass will be number one and with all the controversy, it could be a massive opening north of $30 M or $40 M. Atonement opens wide but I doubt it will perform well since it’s a period drama albeit with a literary pedigree.

-Wesley Lovell (December 7, 2007)

Opening: November 28, 2007

Opening: November 30, 2007

It looks like Enchanted will spend another week at number one with only Awake to compete. The film won’t likely even place in the top 5, but surprises can occur.

-Wesley Lovell (November 30, 2007)

Opening: November 21, 2007

Opening: November 23, 2007

By the looks of this list, we’ll have an unusual race for the weekend top spot. While Enchanted should be considered the contender, it’s opening on Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Hitman, another film likely to draw a large audience, opens on Friday. The big question will be whether Enchanted can hold onto its box office reins through the weekend after two days of off-work viewership or will Hitman use its muscle to pick up a weekend win. I think Enchanted will still top the box office. The films to watch out for are Frank Darabont/Stephen King horror flick The Mist and holiday film This Christmas.

-Wesley Lovell (November 23, 2007)

Opening: November 16, 2007

There is simply no question that Beowulf will take the top spot. Ignore my assurance from last week that Fred Claus would top the box office. Apparently no one’s ready for a holiday film before the holidays. This time, though, I think we have a sure bet. With no foreseeable competition and the comic book/fantasy fanboys clamoring for the film, it would be shocking if it didn’t top the box office. Mr. Magorium may place second, but a lot will depend on whether this Toys facsimile will carry well with only Dustin Hoffman headlining.

-Wesley Lovell (November 16, 2007)

Opening: November 9, 2007

There is no question that Fred Claus will be the top grosser of the weekend. Southland Tales moved again which leaves only the poorly-advertised P2 and the political Lions for Lambs as its competition. The question is will it open well enough to top American Gangster‘s second week. I have no doubt that it will.

-Wesley Lovell (November 9, 2007)

Opening: November 2, 2007

Although Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington can probably bring American Gangster some box office gold, I’m giving the edge to Bee Movie, the first hyped animated film in several months. When many were dropping like flies, this apian may be able to make a hive at number one with nothing majorly new out for Kids to drag their parents to.

-Wesley Lovell (November 2, 2007)

Opening: October 26, 2007

The battle this weekened will be between the fourth Saw film and the Steve Carell starrer Dan in Real Life. As the only two films opening wide, it’s hard to guess which will top. On one hand you have Carell who’s hot stuff, but as Evan Almighty proved, he’s not the box office draw one might have expected. The trailer looks terrible and despite critics’ reviews, it’s hard to imagine the film doing well based on those two facts. Saw IV should continue the series’ dominance of the Halloween market and continue to prove the horror polemic: strong opening weekend, quick fade.

-Wesley Lovell (October 26, 2007)

Opening: October 19, 2007

This weekend is up in the air. Sure 30 Days of Night is graphic novel-based, but it’s also grizzly and horror-like. Reservation Road and Rendition will battle Gone Baby Gone for the Oscar voter crowd. So, the big winner could be sports spoof The Comebacks. I don’t know for sure one way or the other, so I’m guessing The Combacks but 30 Days could easily come out on top.

-Wesley Lovell (October 19, 2007)

Opening: October 12, 2007

With Hitman out of the way until November, the battle for the top spot should be between Joaquin Phoenix and George Clooney. It’s a toss up which will win, but with We Own the Night looking a lot like The Departed with Mark Wahlberg to boot, I’d give it the edge. Michael Clayton may do well on Clooney’s name alone, but that won’t be enough, I’m afraid.

-Wesley Lovell (October 12, 2007)

Opening: October 5, 2007

With three new wide releases, it’s hard to pick which one will soar to the top of the box office. All three have severely different audiences. The Farrelly Brothers have a checkered past. They’ve only had four films pass $50m and only two over $100m. What gives this film a chance is star Ben Stiller who can draw in an audience far better with twice as many films over the $50m level. Feel the Noise will have little comparative appeal. The only film that can give Heartbreak Kid a run for its money is family fantasy film The Seeker. I don’t know which film will succeed, but I have to give the edge to Heartbreak.

-Wesley Lovell (October 5, 2007)

Opening: September 28, 2007

The biggest competition this week will be between The Rock and Saudi Arabia. The Game Plan looks far more appealing to wide audiences, but the socio-political thriller The Kingdom could perform admirably well. The real test will be the performance of Lust, Caution which is hoping to come off its festival run a little more impressively with audiences despite its NC-17 rating. What’s getting very little press lately is Darjeeling Limited which may still be able to build off the fame of Wes Anderson, but may be sunk because of the suicide attempt of one of its stars.

-Wesley Lovell (September 28, 2007)

Opening: September 21, 2007

While I would say this looks like a slam-dunk week for Resident Evil: Extinction, Good Luck Chuck is getting good buzz and Sydney White may suck in the pre-teen crowd. It’s going to be a tough week, but I give the edge to the third Resident Evil pic.

-Wesley Lovell (September 21, 2007)

Opening: September 14, 2007

After this week’s competition, I’m going to try something new. From now on, I’m letting advertising determine what film goes on top. For this week, I pick Mr. Woodcock if only for the fact that it’s the only truly comic pic opening and I’ve seen far more about the film than the others advertising-wise. The Brave One has quite a bit of advertising, too, so it could place high and might even top Woodcock. Eastern Promises is too violent and its rating’s probably going to sink it (especially once people realize it’s the same guys who did A History of Violence. Across the Universe doing boffo biz would be wonderful, but I don’t see it happening.

-Wesley Lovell (September 14, 2007)

Opening: September 7, 2007

Bob Odenkirk managed a stellar debut with Evan Almighty earlier this year, but considering how the film flopped at the box office after its initial “sequel” factor wore off, will The Brothers Solomon succeed or flop? Gross out comedies haven’t been doing great lately and Odenkirk’s style is baffling at best. The real shootout will be between the unusual actioner Shoot ‘Em Up and the western remake 3:10 to Yuma. Yuma‘s got Russell Crowe, but the genre hasn’t really seen a resurgence and probably won’t until Brad Pitt’s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford releases. Shoot ‘Em Up hasn’t seen quite the advertising barrage many of its similarly-themed productions have. Shoot may plummet like Smokin’ Aces or rise like Bourne Ultimatum, but I’m expecting a more modest opening that will compete heavily with Yuma for the top spot for a possible photo finish.

-Wesley Lovell (September 7, 2007)

Opening: August 31, 2007

After a disappointing debut for last week’s three films, the box office should see a large boost with Balls of Fury taking the top spot and Halloween performing well despite a slump in the horror market.

-Wesley Lovell (August 31, 2007)

Opening: August 24, 2007

With the releases this week, I believe that Nanny Diaries will be battling War for the box office crown. Nanny has a far wider audience to appeal to and should manage to take the crown. The spoiler could be Mr. Bean’s Holiday.

-Wesley Lovell (August 24, 2007)

Opening: August 17, 2007

The contest between teen angst and remake suspense should result in an interesting race. Although I suspect a stronger showing for Superbad than otherwise might be expected, there could be a pull to the Nicole Kidman starrer The Invasion. When the final tallies are revealed, I think a $5 to $10 M difference is possible.

-Wesley Lovell (August 17, 2007)

Opening: August 8, 2007

Opening: August 10, 2007

Rush Hour 3 should have little trouble topping Stardust this weekend, though it might be closer than we all think.

-Wesley Lovell (August 10, 2007)

Opening: August 3, 2007

The supposed final Bourne film Bourne Ultimatum should top the box office, but how far above the second weekend of Simpsons will be interesting to see. Underdog could surprise with a strong opening weekend, but whether it can top Simpsons is hard to say. Hot Rod could prove popular, but it’s very doubtful it will do much more than barely crack the Top 5.

-Wesley Lovell (August 3, 2007)

Opening: July 27, 2007

  • I Know Who Killed Me (Wide)
  • No Reservations (Wide)
  • Skinwalkers (Wide)
  • The Simpsons Movie (Wide)
  • Who’s Your Caddy? (Wide)
  • Arctic Tale (Limited)
  • This Is England (Limited)
  • Molire (LA/NY)

The Simpsons Movie is the guaranteed box office topper for the week with little else in release that could even approach it. I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will likely follow in second and third with No Reservations the possible spoiler.

-Wesley Lovell (July 27, 2007)

Opening: July 20, 2007

  • Hairspray (Wide)
  • I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (Wide)
  • Sunshine (Wide)
  • Goya’s Ghosts (Limited)

This is a case of what we want and what will likely happen. Hairspray is being advertised strongly but so is I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. The two films will be battling for superiority in the race for top new release. Most of us want Hairspray to top yet another stereotyped-based comedy and beat out the strong-opener Adam Sandler.

-Wesley Lovell (July 20, 2007)

Opening: July 11, 2007

  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Wide)

Opening: July 13, 2007

  • Captivity (Wide)
  • Dynamite Warrior (Limited)
  • Drama/Mex (Limited)
  • Interview (Limited)
  • Rescue Dawn (Limited)
  • My Best Friend (LImited)
  • Talk to Me (Limited)

The true test of the weekend will be how well Harry Potter 5 fares against the second weekend of Transformers. We know the boy wizard will top the box office. If it’s by more than $80 M which it may be, then we’ll have one of the summer’s bigger blockbusters on our hands. If the Wednesday opening harms the film by taking away weekend audiences, we could see a slower roll out like Transformers.

-Wesley Lovell (July 13, 2007)

Opening: July 3, 2007

  • Transformers (Wide)
  • License to Wed (Wide)

Opening: July 4, 2007

  • Introducing the Dwights (LA/NY)

Opening: July 6, 2007

  • Joshua (Limited)

Transformers will rule the box office this weekend taking at least $80 M for the weekend. That is IF the early July 3 (Tuesday) opening doesn’t sap all of its business. If bad word of mouth hits and repeat business doesn’t sail over the weekend, the film could sink below that mark. However, its cume by the end of the weekend should easily be over $100 M with all the sneaks and showings that started Monday. License to Wed isn’t going to perform well thanks to Robin Williams’ decreasing box office clout. It is likely to place fourth for the week behind Transformers, Ratatouille and Live Free or Die Hard. The film could place ahead of Die Hard but hopes aren’t high.

-Wesley Lovell (July 6, 2007)

Opening: June 27, 2007

  • Live Free or Die Hard (Wide)

Opening: June 29, 2007

  • Death at a Funeral (Wide)
  • Ratatouille (Wide)
  • Sicko (Wide)
  • Evening (Limited)
  • Vitus (Limited)

John McClane is back in the fourth entry in the Die Hard series. Opening two days ahead of Ratatouille will pretty much guarantee a win for the latest Pixar computer-animated film. Live Free or Die Hard could easily pose a challenge but those two days will be key.

-Wesley Lovell (June 29, 2007)

Opening: June 22, 2007

  • Captivity (Wide)
  • DOA: Dead or Alive (Wide)
  • Evan Almighty (Wide)
  • 1408 (Wide)
  • A Mighty Heart (Wide)
  • You Kill Me (Wide)
  • Black Sheep (Limited)
  • September Dawn (Limited)

Evan Almighty is going to be the undisputed king of the box office performing better than Fantastic Four in its second week. The rest of the films are likely not to have much effect and only Captivity and 1408 will likely even pierce the Top 10. 1408 may prove a bigger success than expected because of its originality, but the fact that critics have actually already weighed in and favorably at that, this could be a huge hit.

-Wesley Lovell (June 22, 2007)

Opening: June 15, 2007

  • Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Wide)
  • Fido (Wide)
  • I Could Never Be Your Woman (Wide)
  • Nancy Drew (Wide)

There is certianly no question that Fantastic Four is going to top the box office. All of its competition is fading fast. Nothing else opening will even come close. Nancy Drew could surprise us and chart more highly than the more-hyped Surf’s Up last week.

-Wesley Lovell (June 15, 2007)

Opening: June 8, 2007

  • Hostel: Part II (Wide)
  • Ocean’s 13 (Wide)
  • Surf’s Up (Wide)
  • La Vie en Rose (Limited)

A slew of tastebuds should be tantalized this coming weekend with three films set to compete for differing aspects of the filmgoing community. Ocean’s 13 is the first adult-oriented film of the Summer, which should entice a larger share of the audience. Hostel: Part II must see if it can build on its predecessor’s buzz. Surf’s Up goes after the fading Shrek the Third audience. Hostel looks like a non-starter, but expect a fierce battle between Surf and Ocean with the third film in the Ocean’s series taking the top spot with Surf a close second and a likely strong second-week finish for Knocked Up at third.

-Wesley Lovell (June 8, 2007)

Opening: June 1, 2007

  • Gracie (Wide)
  • Knocked Up (Wide)
  • Mr. Brooks (Wide)
  • Day Watch (Limited)
  • Pierrepoint (Limited)
  • Crazy Love (LA/NY)
  • Rise: Blood Hunter (Wide)

It’s going to be an interesting weekend. Will both Shrek 3 and Pirates 3 keep the top spots and Spider-Man 3 yield its third place position to Knocked Up and Mr. Brooks? Will either falter in opening or will one of them manage to unseat Shrek 3 from position 2. We’ll have to see. It’s safe to say Pirates 3 should keep the top spot a second week.

-Wesley Lovell (June 1, 2007)

Opening: May 25, 2007

  • Bug (Wide)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (Wide)
  • The Boss of It All (Limited)
  • Angel-A (LA/NY)
  • The Golden Door (LA/NY)
  • Paprika (NY)

With Spider-Man 3 finally winding down, Shrek the Third and Pirates of the Caribbean 3 will be fighting it out for audiences. Pirates will easily win the weekend, but will the increased competition keep it from surpassing the record Spider-Man 3 took from its predcessor? Who knows, but it sould be an intriguing fight.

-Wesley Lovell (May 25, 2007)

Opening: May 18, 2007

  • Captivity (Wide)
  • Shrek the Third (Wide)
  • The Ex (Limited)
  • Fay Grim (Limited)
  • Severance (Limited)
  • The Wendell Baker Story (Limited)

Shrek the Third will be topping the box office, but by how much? Spider-Man 3‘s saturation has already reached its zenith and Shrek appeals to a much younger demographic. It should open in the range of Spider-Man 3, but whether it passes or not will remain to be seen.

-Wesley Lovell (May 18, 2007)

Opening: May 11, 2007

  • 28 Weeks Later (Wide)
  • Georgia Rule (Wide)
  • Home of the Brave (Wide)
  • Delta Farce (Wide)
  • The Flock (Wide)
  • Blind Dating (Limited)
  • Day Night Day Night (LA/NY)

None of this week’s wide openers will top Spider-Man 3, 28 Weeks Later is the most likely to win with Delta Farce coming in right behind and Georgia Rule a distant fourth.

-Wesley Lovell (May 11, 2007)

Opening: May 2, 2007

  • Waitress (Limited)

Opening: May 4, 2007

  • Away from Her (Wide)
  • Lucky You (Wide)
  • September Dawn (Wide)
  • Spider-Man 3 (Wide)
  • The Flying Scotsman (Limited)
  • Paris, je t’aime (Limited)
  • The Treatment (NY)

After several weeks of disappointing openings, the first major hit of the summer opens Friday (special sneaks at Thursday midnight). There is absolutely no question this week that Spider-Man 3will so dominate everything else, that there will be at least a $80 M difference between it and the next film down.

-Wesley Lovell (May 4, 2007)

Opening: April 27, 2007

  • The Condemned (Wide)
  • The Invisible (Wide)
  • Kickin’ It Old Skool (Wide)
  • Next (Wide)
  • Wind Chill (Wide)
  • Diggers (Limited)
  • The Hip Hop Project (Limited)
  • Jindabyne (Limited)
  • Snow Cake (Limited)

There’s no question a new film will take the top spot this weekend. Will it be the Nicolas Cage sci-fi thriller or the supernatural mystery thriller. Big name often beats out no-name, so expect Next to top the chart followed somewhat closely by The Invisible. The Condemned could surprise with its sensational theme.

-Wesley Lovell (April 27, 2007)

Opening: April 20, 2007

  • Fracture (Wide)
  • Hot Fuzz (Wide)
  • Vacancy (Wide)
  • In the Land of Women (Limited)
  • Severance (Limited)
  • The Tripper (Limited)
  • The Valet (Limited)

It’s hard to know which film is going to take this week’s top spot. All three wide release films have a decent shot at winning the weekend. Vacancy is a different style horror film than many recent entries, Hot Fuzz hasShaun of the Dead vibes (could be because it’s by the same people) and Fracture has Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling. I think Hot Fuzz will just barely eek out a win over the others, but the totals for the weekend won’t be extremely high.

-Wesley Lovell (April 20, 2007)

Opening: April 13, 2007

  • Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (Wide)
  • Disturbia (Wide)
  • Pathfinder (Wide)
  • Perfect Stranger (Wide)
  • Lonely Hearts (Limited)
  • Redline (Limited)
  • Slow Burn (Limited)
  • Year of the Dog (Limited)

After a disappointing series of debuts last week, optimism isn’t high for Disturbia, Pathfinder or Perfect Stranger. Halle Berry may finally sell the box office with her presence in Stranger, but my bet goes to Disturbia which is a teenager-targeted thriller for those who don’t remember Rear Window. Pathfinder could surprise and pull in 300-style audiences.

-Wesley Lovell (April 13, 2007)

Opening: April 4, 2007

  • Are We Done Yet? (Wide)
  • Black Book (LA/NY)
  • Firehouse Dog (Wide)

Opening: April 5, 2007

  • The Reaping (Wide)

Opening: April 6, 2007

  • Grindhouse (Wide)
  • The Hoax (Limited)
  • The TV Set (LA/NY)

Three films will compete this week for the number one position at the box office. Are We Done Yet?, The Reaping and Grindhouse all have built-in audiences. Grindhouse is the most likely to win. Are We Done Yet? has such a niche audience that it isn’t likely going to be able to compete with the more broad appeal of Grindhouse or horror film The Reaping and might even come in below last week’s number one Blades of Glory when final totals are revealed. Even The Reaping may have topping Blades.

-Wesley Lovell (April 6, 2007)

Opening: March 30, 2007

  • Blades of Glory (Wide)
  • The Lookout (Wide)
  • Meet the Robinsons (Wide)
  • Rescue Dawn (Wide)
  • Skinwalkers (Wide)
  • After the Wedding (Limited)
  • Blind Dating (Limited)
  • Live Free or Die (Limited)

This weekend, we’ll have a showdown between comedy Blades of Glory and animated Meet the Robinsons. I give the edge to Blades for its sheer potency with adult audiences where as Robinsons will appeal to a much narrower demographic.

-Wesley Lovell (March 30, 2007)

Opening: March 23, 2007

  • The Hills Have Eyes II (Wide)
  • The Last Mimzy (Wide)
  • Pride (Wide)
  • Reign Over Me (Wide)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Wide)
  • First Snow (Limited)
  • Offside (LA/NY)

300 lost enough steam this past weekend to make it likely that two of this week’s new films will likely top it at the box office. The Last Mimzy competes with kids’ audiences with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. What will propel TMNT above Mimzy is that TMNT is comic book-based and has legions of fans despite a late-80s fad that burned many out on their antics.

-Wesley Lovell (March 23, 2007)

Opening: March 16, 2007

  • Dead Silence (Wide)
  • I Think I Love My Wife (Wide)
  • Premonition (Wide)
  • Shooter (Wide)
  • Sunshine (Wide)
  • The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Limited)

I expect the Sandra Bullock starrer Premonition to top the Chucky/Puppet Master rip off Dead Silence at the box office, but the question is will it be able to stave off an attack by the holding 300…my guess is no and we’ll see 300 at the top again next week.

-Wesley Lovell (March 16, 2007)

Opening: March 9, 2007

  • The Ex (Wide)
  • The Namesake (Wide)
  • 300 (Wide)
  • The Host (Limited)
  • Nomad (Limited)
  • Black Book (LA/NY)

The only film in this week’s list that feels like a winner is 300, which is very likely to top the chart on the reputation of the source material and the artistry of its trailer.

-Wesley Lovell (March 9, 2007)

Opening: February 28, 2007

  • Wild Tigers I Have Known (LA/NY)

Opening: March 2, 2007

  • Full of It (Wide)
  • I Could Never Be Your Woman (Wide)
  • Wild Hogs (Wide)
  • Zodiac (Wide)
  • Two Weeks (Limited)

With Ghost Rider sitting pretty at the box office, it will take four comedians to topple it when Martin Lawrence, John Travolta, Tim Allen and William H. Macy debut their film Wild Hogs which should have no trouble topping the box office. Serial killer thriller Zodiac could play spoiler, but its chances are limited.

-Wesley Lovell (March 2, 2007)

Opening: February 23, 2007

  • The Abandoned (Wide)
  • The Astronaut Farmer (Wide)
  • Black Snake Moan (Wide)
  • Gray Matters (Wide)
  • The Number 23 (Wide)
  • Reno 911!: Miami (Wide)
  • Captivity (Limited)
  • Amazing Grace (Limited)
  • Glastonbury (LA/NY)

The Number 23 has been getting most of the advertising but Reno 911 will appeal to a broader audience. The Astronaut Farmer and Black Snake Moan could each be contenders for the top box office spot. But it should be a tight race between the nubmered films 23 and 911.

-Wesley Lovell (February 23, 2007)

Opening: February 14, 2007

  • Music and Lyrics (Wide)

Opening: February 16, 2007

  • Bridge to Terabithia (Wide)
  • Breach (Wide)
  • Daddy’s Little Girls (Wide)
  • Ghost Rider (Wide)
  • Close to Home (Limited)
  • Days of Glory (Limited)
  • The Last Sin Eater (Limited)
  • Orhcestra Seats (Limited)
  • Starter for Ten (Limited)

With Music and Lyrics debuting mid-week, its weekend totals will likely be under the weekend’s other two major debuts. I’m giving the slight edge to comic book film Ghost Rider which should be able to eke out a win over the more family friendly Bridge to Terabitihia. The battle will be tough and the results should be close.

-Wesley Lovell (February 16, 2007)

Opening: February 9, 2007

  • Hannibal Rising (Wide)
  • Norbit (Wide)
  • The Lives of Others (Limited)

My money’s on Eddie Murphy taking the top spot this coming weekend with his Nutty Professor-style comedy Norbit. Hannibal Rising, the origin story of legendary cannibal Hannibal Lecter could pose a threat with horror audiences looking for a decent revisiting of the subject.

-Wesley Lovell (February 9, 2007)

Opening: February 2, 2007

  • The Messengers (Wide)
  • Rogue (Wide)
  • Because I Said So (Wide)

This week, the question will be: Horror or Chick Flick? Because I Said So should easily top the chart after a year of weak debuts for horror films. THe Messengers could surprise but its low wattage cast won’t sell tickets. Jet Li’s film Rogue could make a surprise showing but with his Fearless failing to spark at the box office, I wouldn’t count on it.

-Wesley Lovell (February 2, 2007)

Opening: January 26, 2007

  • Breaking and Entering (Wide)
  • Blood and Chocolate (Wide)
  • Catch and Release (Wide)
  • Epic Movie (Wide)
  • The Invisible (Wide)
  • Smokin’ Aces (Wide)

No commentary due to power outage at time of release.

-Wesley Lovell (January 26, 2007)

Opening: January 19, 2007

  • Fast Track (Wide)
  • The Hitcher (Wide)
  • The Italian (LA/NY)

No commentary due to power outage at time of release.

-Wesley Lovell (January 19, 2007)

Opening: January 12, 2007

  • Alpha Dog (Wide)
  • Arthur and the Invisibles (Wide)
  • Miss Potter (Wide)
  • Pathfinder (Wide)
  • Stomp the Yard (Wide)

The big question this week is whether Alpha Dog can make an impact in the number one spot on the name of Justin Timberlake alone. His star power is certainly evident in the music world but is it with film? We’ll see as his film debuts next weekend. It appears that Freedom Writers was bumped up a week while last week’s supposed debut of Hostel II was pushed back to June. With Happily N’Ever After‘s terrible debut last week, hopes are not high for this week’s debut of Arthur and the Invisibles. While the former film had nothing noted for vocal talents, Arthur features David Bowie and Madonna. Will it be the Labyrinth of 2007 or another dud?

-Wesley Lovell (January 12, 2007)

Opening: January 5, 2007

  • Code Name: The Cleaner (Wide)
  • Happily N’Ever After (Wide)
  • Home of the Brave (Wide)
  • Hostel: Part II (Wide)

No commentary due to power outage at time of release.

-Wesley Lovell (January 5, 2007)

2008

Week Ending December 28

Once Christmas arrived, new previews dried up as they did last year, but unfortunately, there were enough early in the week that we had a decently proportioned update for you this week.

2008 has been dwindling for the past few weeks and only a new poster for Good and a debut trailer for Oscar contender Gomorrah about Napoli mafia were released this week. There is, however, a chance for you to buy the poster for Valkyrie now.

For 2009, we had eight new trailers, including the second for Pink Panther 2. The others were all brand new releases, many of which I managed to see at the theater first and not online as seems usual lately. Those films were Holocause documentary Blessed Is the Match, Eagle Eye rip off Echelon Conspiracy, docent-friendly sequel Night at the Museum: Battle for the Smithsonian, Tim Burton-produced sci-fi animated film 9, secretary stalker thriller Obsessed, run down theater foreign lingo pic Serbis and political thriller State of Play.

Usually, the week after Christmas before New Year is void of new releases, so hopefully we’ll get a break, but I won’t hold my breath for that to happen. Enjoy your holidays.

-Wesley Lovell (December 28, 2008)

Opening: December 25, 2008

Opening: December 26, 2008

The Christmas holiday is typically a strong weekend like Thanksgiving in that a lot of families make outings to the theater at Christmas. Bedtime Stories should have no time pulling in the Night at the Museum crowd with any of the other wide releases potentially doing well with the star-studded fantasy romantic epic Benjamin Button as a strong contender for position two.

-Wesley Lovell (December 26, 2008)

Week Ending December 21

This is an exceptionally short update this week.

We have nothing new for 2008, which means when I start working on my year-end article in the next two weeks, I won’t have much more to look at. Within the first two or three weeks of 2009, you’ll see my picks for the best and worst of trailers and posters for 2008.

For now, though, this week’s update has five new items for 2009, including three new trailers and two new posters.

The two new posters appear for the teen amusement park coming of age comedy Adventureland and the other is for the romantic comedy The Ugly Truth.

The new trailers up this week include the smashing opening of X-Men Origins: Wolverine starring a host of Marvel characters including the titular one played by Hugh Jackman; I Love You, Man, a bro comedy about a guy (Paul Rudd) who gets married only to find he has no male best friends to act as his Best Man and thus begins going on bro-dates to see if he can find one, which he eventually meets in Jason Segal; and Sandra Bullock’s new film, a romantic comedy with her as an uptight businesswoman about to be deported to Canada who must secure a work visa by marrying her assistant played by Ryan Reynolds (who oddly enough is also appearing in Wolverine).

And that’s all there is for this week. Enjoy the quick run down and have some Happy Holidays.

-Wesley Lovell (December 21, 2008)

Opening: December 17, 2008

Opening: December 19, 2008

With two big box office names coming out with new films, the question is which will win or will it be an animated mouse stealing the day. As much as The Tale of Despereaux seems like it would be an ideal winner pre-Christmas, I doubt it can take down either Will Smith or Jim Carrey. And of those two, I think Jim Carrey will easily rise to the top. After all, he has a comedy coming out. Will Smith’s is a drama, which only means it should perform less well.

-Wesley Lovell (December 19, 2008)

Week Ending December 14

Although we have several new trailers this week, it’s clear that Winter Winddown is in effect. Few of these films are anything mass audiences will be drawn to and even the 2009 entries are less than stellar. I saw better trailers on the front of The Day the Earth Stood Still earlier today.

2008 has the most new updates, so we’ll start there. The new trailers are for Ciao, a gay love story about two men who bond over the passing of someone dear to both of them; Good, a Holocaust film about sacrifices and conflicted emotions; Scott Walker: 30 Century Man, a documentary about an enigmatic British rock recluse; While She Was Out, a tortured woman revenge flick starring a lackluster Kim Basinger; Delgo, an animated film that might appeal to young children, but certainly not those spoiled by Pixar; and Local Color, a film about a young artist hoping to learn how to make himself a better painter by discovering himself under the instruction of a Russian master.

There are also new posters for Nothing But the Truth and What Doesn’t Kill You.

For 2009, we have new trailers for Chandni Chowk to China, a Bollywood musical/martial arts farcical fantasy/action film; Fired Up, a jocks-go-to-cheerleading camp teenage romantic comedy; The Great Buck Howard, a film starring John Malkovich as a self-help expert who doesn’t realize how much he annoys some people; Knowing, a Nicolas Cage film about a predictive text planted by aliens; and Terminator Salvation, the fourth film in the Terminator series looking farthe into the future.

The only other change for 2009 was a release date change for The Brothers Bloom, which moves out of 2008 and into 2009.

That’s all for this week.

-Wesley Lovell (December 14, 2008)

Opening: December 10, 2008

Opening: December 12, 2008

This weekend will be a battle of sci-fi versus the holidays with Nothing Like the Holidays hoping to cash in on the time of year and The Day the Earth Stood Still wanting to make a #1 debut. Sci-fi should win out as Holidays will be fighting off the animated Delgo, which I’m not even certain will place in the Top 10, but would be the main draw away from Holidays.

-Wesley Lovell (December 12, 2008)

Week Ending December 7

Now that Thanksgiving’s over, we should be seeing the last of the 2008 films get dropped off in the trailer market. Most of the new films for 2009 will likely be delayed until after the new year, hence why there aren’t many new trailers up on tht side this week. Plus, the week between Christmas and New Year’s was dead last year, so here’s hoping for a respite.

This week’s updates include six new trailers for 2008, three new trailers for 2009 and a new 2009 poster.

For 2008, we have new trailers for autism familial drama The Black Balloon, South American revolutionary pic Che, existential animated flick $9.99, protected journalistic source drama Nothing But the Truth, Michelle Williams traveling drama Wendy and Lucy and hard-knock life drama What Doesn’t Kill You.

In 2009, we have a new trailer for Renee Zellweger comedy New in Town, and new trailers for Katherine Heigl romantic comedy The Ugly Truth, teen slasher franchise extension Friday the 13th and global bank conspiracy thriller The International.

And that’s all the news that’s fit to print. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

-Wesley Lovell (December 7, 2008)

Opening: December 5, 2008

Why couldn’t Punisher: War Zone take the top of the box office? Because it’s a sequel to a film that very few people saw in the first place. Yet, it merited a sequel, probably due to high DVD sales. Anyway, I don’t expect it to come anywhere near the top spot, though Cadillac Records could make a surprisingly strong showing in limited with Beyonce headlining.

-Wesley Lovell (December 5, 2008)

Week Ending November 30

As it’s the Thanksgiving Holiday here in the U.S., updates for the week have been virtually non-existent. While there are a few things going on for 2009, 2008 saw only one change and, surprisingly, it was only a release date change for French foreign language film and Oscar contender The Class, which will now open a week earlier.

As for 2009, here’s what’s going on there: New trailers for teen carnival comedy Adventureland, animated comic book adaptation Astro Boy, Julia Roberts/Clive Owen crime caper Duplicity, DisneyNature documentary Earth, fantasy story adventure Inkheart and Renee Zellweger fish out of water comedy New in Town.

Other than that, there are new posters up for Adoration and Watchment. And that’s it. Quick and dirty update. Next week should be quite a bit busier.

-Wesley Lovell (November 30, 2008)

Opening: November 26, 2008

Never underestimate the power of two hot leads in a romantic epic. Australia hopes to build upon the buzz of Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman’s performances and the epic nature of their film to launch a Thanksgiving holiday blow out. Their competition is from the Reese Witherspoon-Vince Vaughan romcom Four Christmases which has been advertised ad nauseum and Transporter 3, which brings with it a built-in audience that will find itself underrepresented in the holiday marketplace. Also watch for a strong performance from Milk. But, my bet is Twilight crashes in its second weekend and Australia becomes a surprise hit.

-Wesley Lovell (November 26, 2008)

Week Ending November 23

After a week’s hiatus, there are a few updates, though not nearly as many as I expected.

2008: New trailers for A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy, Heaven on Earth, How About You?, Lake City, Let Them Chirp Awhile, The Lodger, Seven Pounds, Timecrimes and The Wrestler. Gran Torino has a new release date and Saw V now has a poster you can buy.

2009: There are new trailers up for Adoration, Coraline, Crossing Over, Dance Flick, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, O’Horten, Race to Witch Mountain, Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead, Star Trek XI, 2012, Watchmen and Yonkers Joe. There are new posters up for Monsters vs. Aliens and The Pink Panther 2. And the final update is another new release date for The Soloist.

And that’s the super quick run down for this week.

-Wesley Lovell (November 23, 2008)

Opening: November 21, 2008

The two films opening this weekend are hoping for a massive haul before Thanksgiving and are then hoping to carry that momentum through the Thanksgiving holiday. I give the edge to Bolt only because it’s more family friendly than Twilight, but watch those positions flip if, for some reason, the tweeny fan base is more rabid than they already appear.

-Wesley Lovell (November 21, 2008)

Opening: November 12, 2008

Opening: November 14, 2008

If Bond can’t trump Madgascar, then this franchise is certailny going to die a painful death. Look for Quantum of Solace to post figures similar to Madagascar‘s first week, if possibly a little less.

-Wesley Lovell (November 14, 2008)

Week Ending November 9

Another busy week. Which brings me to a point about next weekend’s update. I may or may not be making an update next weekend. A lot depends on how many updated pages I need to do and how many I actually find the time to do before the weekend. So, if you don’t see an update, you’ll have to wait a week. On to this week’s update.

Another virtual even split in updates. While there are three extra updates on the 2008 side, the number of new trailers evens out on both sides. Let’s clear out the 2008 stuff first: Two films have shifted back one day for their release: Waltz with Bashir and Last Chance Harvey. There’s a new poster up for Marley & Me. Then there are the 9 new trailers: a serial killer with an alphabet fetish in The Alphabet Killer, a new trailer for the Nicole Kidman/Hugh Jackman romantic epic Australia, Iraq war pseudo-documentary Battle for Haditha, cancer docu The Beautiful Truth, Laotian familial war drama The Betrayal, Motown biopic Cadillac Records, anti-oil documentary Fuel, kidnapping comedy Nobel Son, and the second trailer for animated feature The Tale of Despereaux.

For 2009, we have nothing but trailers: Dan Brown adaptation Angels & Demons, shopping comedy Confessions of a Shopaholic, Star Wars heist film Fanboys, DreamWorks animated feature pitting Monsters vs. Aliens, horror 3D gimmick My Bloody Valentine: 3D, youth guidance drama Not Easily Broken, bungling sequel The Pink Panther 2, Russian deliberation drama 12, and Pixar animated feature Up.

That’s it for this week. May see you next week. May not.

-Wesley Lovell (November 9, 2008)

Opening: November 7, 2008

There is little hope for any of this week’s releases to stop Madagascar 2 from topping the box office with high numbers. Role Models should do decently well and Soul Men will be solid counter-programming. What will be most interested to see is if horror musical Repo! can do well.

-Wesley Lovell (November 7, 2008)

Week Ending November 2

Just when you thought everything was going to slow down, things pick right back up. The same could be said for the balance between 2008 and 2009. This is, of course, the time when film companies begin dumping their remaining trailers for the year as they prepare to start selling new films for the next. Hopefully things will slow down again, but there are no guarantees.

From 2009, we have a new trailer and six new posters for Hotel for Dogs and new trailers for Bride Wars and Paul Blart: Mall Cop.

There are twenty updates to be found. 17 are trailers. The three non-trailer updates all involve posters, two have new posters we’ve never reviewed before, but all now available for purchase: Bolt and Max Payne are the two new posters and RocknRolla is the lone existing one.

As for the new trailers, here’s a quick rundown of the seventeen: Bedtime Stories, A Christmas Tale, The Class, Dark Streets, Defiance, The Dukes, I Can’t Think Straight, Johnny Got His Gun, My Name Is Bruce, Plague Town, The Reader, Reclaiming the Blade, The Secrets, Slumdog Millionaire, Special, Were the World Mine and Zack and Miri Make a Porno.

Feel free to watch them all in one sitting or come back throughout the week to watch them all.

-Wesley Lovell (November 2, 2008)

Opening: October 31, 2008

Will the controversy over Kevin Smith’s new film propel it to the top of the box office? Possibly, though High School Musical 3 will do its best to make a second week atop the North American box office.

-Wesley Lovell (October 31, 2008)

Week Ending October 26

As we finalize the final update for the month of October, we reach a sort of equinox where the updates for one year (2008) are almost equal in number to the updates from the next (2009). As we pass this bridge, the balance should slowly start shifting until we’re fully updating 2009 and I’m posting the Best Trailers & Posters of 2008.

We’re not quite there yet, so let’s roll out this week’s updates, which are, thankfully, limited in number.

For 2008, we get two new films and three existing films get new posters. The new posters have arrived for indie flick Eden, resurrecting vanity project JCVD and unnecessary sequel of the week number one: Transporter 3. The new trailers are for Clint Eastwood’s latest Oscar contender Gran Torino starring himself and Dustin Hoffman/Emma Thompson romantic comedy Last Chance Harvey.

For 2009, there are five new trailers, one of which is the second for a film. The second trailer is now up for late rapper Notorious B.I.G.’s biopic Notorious. The new trailers are out for the unnecessary remake of the week: Friday the 13th, ghost haunting horror film Haunting in Connecticut, young-again comedy 17 Again, and unnecessary sequel of the week number two: Underworld: Rise of the Lycans.

That’s everything. Enjoy the rest of your day.

-Wesley Lovell (October 26, 2008)

Opening: October 22, 2008

Opening: October 24, 2008

This is a no-brainer weekend with High School Musical blowing the lid off of the box office opening higher than most films released since the July Onslaught. Look for Saw V to open second and Pride and Glory and Passengers will fare poorly when the results are revealed.

-Wesley Lovell (October 24, 2008)

Week Ending October 19

We have several updates this week.

Let’s start with 2009. The Soloist has now shifted its release date into 2009. Telekenesis action film Push has come out with a trailer and so has horror flick The Unborn.

For 2008, we’ll start off with three release date shifts for Defiance, House and Local Color.

The rest are all new trailers. We have the documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, an animated film Delgo, a relationship drama Eden, a reflective film about regrest from one’s past Flashbacks of a Fool, a drama about children growing up without parents Gardens of the Night, a drama about a young girl coping with the cruel things done to her Hounddog, dog romantic comedy Marley & Me, African junta documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell, Asian American drama The Princess of Nebraska, action sequel Transporter 3 and vampire romantic drama Twilight.

And that about wraps up another week.

-Wesley Lovell (October 19, 2008)

Opening: October 17, 2008

The comic book enthusiast has had very little provided to him that this weekend’s release of Max Payne should go a long way to fix that. Bees will appeal to the female demographic, but who knows if they’ll actually show up. Sex Drive is part of a tiring formula and probably won’t survive in this battle. Payne should handily win the weekend.

-Wesley Lovell (October 17, 2008)

Week Ending October 12

The fall preview season continues at its breakneck pace, introducing a bakers dozen of new trailers, plus a new poster and an upped release date. Fear(s) in the dark shifts back two days to open on a Wednesday and Changeling unveils its first poster.

On the trailer front, we have a horror film from 2009, The Uninvited, and a dozen from 2008. We have: gay relationship drama Antarctica, rockufilm Christmas on Mars: The Flaming Lips, unusual romantic seriocomedy Good Dick, house-bound horror flick House, Jean-Claude Van Damme career resuscitation tool JCVD, child vampire film Let the Right One In, bullfighting docu The Matador, crime scene cleanup comedy Sunshine Cleaning, hip hop gang drama Talento de Barrio, gay high school drama Tru Loved, the second trailer for Tom Cruise’s Nazi resistance film Valkyrie, and Oliver Stone docudrama W.

That’s everything we have this week. I’ve updated a few pages with info regarding reviews I’ve posted but had not added to the previews pages yet, but those aren’t terribly important comparatively.

-Wesley Lovell (October 12, 2008)

Opening: October 10, 2008

While Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio might be solid box office draws, there’s something about the kid-friendly City of Ember that indicates it might be successful. However, it’s also possible that more advertising will do Body of Lies wonders.

-Wesley Lovell (October 10, 2008)

Week Ending October 5

We’re a little less chaotic this week, but enough so that the update did take a little bit to put together. So, here you go.

There’s nothing new for 2009, but we have 16 changes to present this week all the same. Starting off, we have four new posters for Choose Connor, Role Models, Shiver and Synecdoche, New York.

The remaining dozen are new trailers. There’s the American/Mexican friendship story Amexicano, the immigrant love affair story August Evening, Maddona’s directorial debut Filth and Wisdom, High School politics docu Frontrunners, down-and-out men in Easter Bunny outfit dark comedy Hank & Mike, funeral home dark comedy Just Buried, the third trailer for the sequel Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, indie flick The Pleasure of Being Robbed, Kate Winslet/Leondardo DiCaprio reunion drama Revolutionary Road, the third trailer for Frank Miller’s Will Eisner adaptation The Spirit, South Africa-set anti-Apartheid/lesbian drama The World Unseen and the second trailer for Jim Carrey comedy Yes Man.

Once you get through these, you can go back to enjoying your Sunday activities.

-Wesley Lovell (October 5, 2008)

Opening: October 1, 2008

Opening: October 3, 2008

With the releases scheduled for this week, it’s possible Eagle Eye could retain the top spot for a second week, though Beverly Hills Chihuahua and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist will try their best to prevent that. Chihuahua is probably the only one that will be able to unseat Eagle Eye.

-Wesley Lovell (October 3, 2008)

Week Ending September 28

As I predicted last week, this week was anything but easy. Aside from four films with changes from 2009, I have 17 changes alone from 2008, so let’s get started. Please also forgive the brevity with which I type these posts as there are just too many changes.

For 2009, we have three new trailers: Inkheart, Notorious and Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail. And with an updated release date: The International.

For the beginning of the end of 2008, we have twelve new trailers, four new posters, a new release date for Blindness and new posters available to buy for I.O.U.S.A. and The Women.

On the new poster front, we have Hamlet 2, Pride and Glory, Repo! The Genetic Opera and Soul Men. For trailers, we have: Bedtime Stories, Breakfast with Scot, Call + Response, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Elephant King, The Flyboys, I’ve Loved You So Long, Passengers, Splinter and W..

That’s it for this week. See you again next week.

-Wesley Lovell (September 28, 2008)

Opening: September 26, 2008

I can’t see a scenario where Eagle Eye doesn’t top the box office. Not only has it had more advertising push than anything else releasing over the weekend, but it also has Shia LaBeouf who has turned into a pretty decent box office draw at such a young age. He seems to be the new Will Smith

-Wesley Lovell (Septmber 26, 2008)

Week Ending September 21

While it’s nice to have a vacation, it’s certainly not pleasant to come back with two weeks of updates. We have 28 updates for this week, which makes it one of the busiest in some time. And with the holiday season on its way, I expect it to be quite busy for the next three months.

First, let’s go over the changes for next year’s releases. Fast and Furious gets a new release date. That’s also true of The Poughkeepsie Tapes, which moves from 2008 into 2009. There is also a new trailer up for the Clive Owen/Naomi Watts flick The International.

For 2008, we have two new release dates: Religulous opens two days earlier and What Just Happened? moves back a week. The Day the Earth Stood Still, Happy-Go-Lucky, The Lucky Ones, Nights in Rodanthe and Rachel Getting Married each get new posters, the one for The Day the Earth Stood Still is also able to be purchased.

For new trailers, we look at the remaining 21 films: Ballast, Changeling, Choose Connor, Doubt, Elite Squad, Fear(s) of the Dark, Four Christmases, Nights and Weekends, Nothing Like the Holidays, Proud American, Quantum of Solace, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Shiver, Smother, The Soloist, Synecdoche, New York, Waltz with Bashir and Whaledreamers.

And with a sigh of relief, I await next week’s update.

-Wesley Lovell (September 21, 2008)

Opening: September 17, 2008

Opening: September 19, 2008

This makes the second week running that four films earn a wide release. Any of the four could top the box office. Ghost Town appeals to the romantic comedy folk, Igor appeals to families with children, My Best Friend’s Girl appeals to the college humor-tinged slapstick audience, and Lakeview Terrace appeals to the bad cop drama audience. I have to give the nod to Igor simply because there hasn’t been a big family-friendly film in some time, which will give parents a chance to get back out to the theater, but honestly any of these could take the top spot.

-Wesley Lovell (September 19, 2008)

Opening: September 12, 2008

With such an unusual line up, I’m giving it to box office friendly Tyler Perry’s new film to take the top spot. Whlie the Coens have cachet after No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading can boast big names (as can The Women), but that doesn’t necessarily translate into audiences if there’s no advertisements. And De Niro and Pacino probably won’t have a hit with Righteous Kill.

-Wesley Lovell (September 12, 2008)

Week Ending September 7

Well, we’ve finally moved into Oscar season, so we should be seeing a lot more serious fare in trailers. We’ll also be seeing more previews for 2009 films. This week, we have a little of both.

A trailer is now out for the Oscar contender Milk about the first openly gay politician to seek and serve in any American political office. The film stars Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch and Josh Brolin in roles that look tailor made for Oscar and the trailer not only bears that out, but suggests the film could be a big Oscar contender.

2009 brings us a trailer for the new sequel Fast and Furious starring the first film’s stars Vin Disel and Paul Walker. Along with that and Milk, there are five other new trailers this week: Soul Men starring Samuel L. Jackson and Bernie Mac as ex-soul singers who are given a shot at a career resurrection; Kevin Smith’s latest comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno starring Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks; Filipino-centered film about a drag queen hoping to find a good man to settle down with in The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela; India-set drama about a young Indian boy hoping to gain access to a wealthy estates swimming pool; and Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson starring in a film about a sell-out surfer hoping to return to his roots.

Those aren’t the only updates, however. There are new posters up for The Haunting of Molly Hartley and Pineapple Express, the latter available for purchase. There are also two other posters now available to be purchased for Yes Man and Beer for My Horses. Which leaves the final updates for Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans, which have Film Reviews I’ve posted no reflected on the preview pages.

-Wesley Lovell (September 7, 2008)

Opening: September 5, 2008

There’s only one new wide release and with Nicolas Cage at the helm, there’s little doubt that Bangkok Dangerous will take the box office crown.

-Wesley Lovell (September 5, 2008)

Week Ending August 31

There’s something about the quietness of this week’s updates that makes me feel like there’s a big storm coming next week. Who knows, but we have a baker’s dozen of updates this week.

Three films have moved around the release calendar: Australia, The Brothers Bloom and Sex Drive. Only one of those seems to be moving into a position better to garner Oscar attention: The Brothers Bloom. Australia already has attention and Sex Drive won’t get any. Though, why Bloom would be seen as an Oscar contender considering its trailer is beyond me.

Before I get into the new trailers for this week, there’s one new poster up and that’s for the ping pong comedy Ping Pong Playa.

The new trailers for this week: Allah Made Me Funny, a comedy tour by a group of Islamic comedians; Ghost Town, a comedy about a man who dies for a few moments before returning to find he’s now able to see ghosts; Humboldt County, a drama about a doctor’s son who fails medical school but finds peace in a pot-growers commune; Local Color, a story of an aspiring aritst who seeks out a legendary Russian painter hoping he’ll teach him his techinques; Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, an animated sequel posting its second traielr; Max Payne, a video adaptation expanding its first trailer into a second; Momma’s Man, a drama about a man who returns home and regresses to his childhood; Real Time, a dark comedy about a gambler given an hour to live by his assassin, who gives him the opportunity to live before he dies; and Transporter 3, an action-bound sequel that is certain to be limited on plot depth.

And now we’ll sign off for this Labor Day weekend. Have a safe one!

-Wesley Lovell (August 31, 2008)

Opening: August 26, 2008

Opening: August 27, 2008

Opening: August 29, 2008

The first thing that should put Traitor to rest is its mid-week opening, which means any impact a weekend run only would hold will be lost. Babylon A.D. hasn’t had a lot of advertising done on its behalf. College has had more advertising, which is surprising considering it’s not likely to be a success. That leaves Disaster Movie which should perform well for a September release and take the top spot from Tropic Thunder.

-Wesley Lovell (August 29, 2008)

Week Ending August 24

It’s beeen a big week for changes. Several films moved spots filling vacancies of each other and the recent shift of Harry Potter. But that’s not even remotely the half of it. Several posters are now available for purchase and there are several new trailers to watch.

One release date change has also brought the first trailer for Goal 2: Living the Dream. You can also count on new berths for Quantum of Solace, Role Models and Twilight which also now has a poster available for purchase.

Other new posters available for purchase are for Choke, Disaster Movie, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Star Wars: The Clone Wars. You can also buy the following posters each the first available for my review: American Teen, Bottle Shock and The Duchess.

There are new posters for The Brothers Bloom, Eagle Eye, Flow and A Secret. Although I posted the reviews last week, I’ve just now updated the Preview page for both Kung Fu Panda and Tropic Thunder.

That just leaves 11 new trailers: Michael Moore parody An American Carol, the Holocaust drama The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, rugby film Forever Strong, historical adaptation Frost/Nixon, pre-dead language seeking documentary The Linguists, war veterans drama The Lucky Ones, romantic drama Nights in Rodanthe, period drama adaptation The Secret Life of Bees, Japanese Martial Arts/American Western feature Sukiyaki Western Django, Katrina documentary Walking on Dead Fish and Jim Carrey serio-comedy Yes Man.

More to come next week in our final update for the month of August.

-Wesley Lovell (August 24, 2008)

Opening: August 20, 2008

Opening: August 22, 2008

It will be an interesting battle between the several films that no one cares about. The House Bunny could be a surprise, but I would wager Death Race to be the top opener.

-Wesley Lovell (August 22, 2008)

Week Ending August 17

Slower does not necessarily mean less hectic. The case in point is this week with only a handful of new posters and trailers, the update was plagued by studios’ sudden antsiness and three major release date changes that shift films between years. One of the films even had a previously-scheduled 2008 release and was tentatively pushed to 2009 but makes its return to 2008.

The only reason for Pride and Glory to make such a move is the studio’s hope that it will be an Oscar contender. Of the other two date changes, one of them was clearly Oscar-motivated and the latter was profit-motivated. It also managed to add a new trailer Valkyrie has shifted back into 2008 and has landed a comfy Christmas release. The studio claims that it was more fitting as a holiday film, but since when has a Nazi spy drama been Christmas-themed unless it’s also Oscar-themed.

The third change was Warner Bros.’ decision to shift Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, one of only two films that I had real high hopes for finishing out 2008 with. Instead, they cited worry that the film wouldn’t be completed in time and pushed it into a Summer tent pole position in 2009. After the success of The Dark Knight, I’ve seen some fairly solid positing that the move was so that WB didn’t have two box office behemoths in one year and then have a lackluster 2009.

The rest of this week’s updates involve two more release date change (but these are not between years), two new posters and nine new trailers.

Bolt movies back on the calendar five days while RocknRolla shifts forward five. We have new posters for Henry Poole is Here and Sex Drive. The new trailers this week are for talking dog movie Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Russell Crowe/Leonardo DiCaprio thriller Body of Lies, fresh water documentary Flow, supernatural horror flick The Haunting of Molly Hartley, video game adaptation Max Payne, Kiefer Sutherland’s reflective horror picture Mirrors, French foreign language film A Secret, and Chinese-American films A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Year of the Fish.

And that brings a close to my long-winded update this week.

-Wesley Lovell (August 17, 2008)

Opening: August 13, 2008

Opening: August 15, 2008

Finally, a worthy challenger (or two) to topple The Dark Knight. It’s been atop the chart long enough that it’s fifth weekend will have no chance to stop the super-hyped Tropic Thunder from taking the top spot or from the latest Star Wars “film” to bring out the fanboys.

-Wesley Lovell (August 15, 2008)

Week Ending August 10

What a week it’s been. In addition to switching links around on nearly a dozen pages, there were more than two dozen changes to be made, 23 of which were new trailers.

Clearing out the non-trailer slate, we have a new release date for Fly Me to the Moon, and new posters for Cthulhu, Death Race and The Women.

Now to begin the listing of new trailers: Appaloosa, Babylon A.D., Ballet Shoes, Battle in Seattle, 8 Miles High, Fireproof, Full Battle Rattle, A Girl Cut in Two, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hell Ride, The House Bunny, Little Red Truck, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Punisher: War Zone, Quarantine, Ripple Effect, RocknRolla, Role Models, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Stealing America: Vote by Vote, Trouble the Water, What Just Happened? and What We Do Is Secret.

No descriptions above this week due to the sheer volume of new trailers, but hopefully things will slow down some next week and we’ll be able to give them a little more attention.

-Wesley Lovell (August 10, 2008)

Opening: August 6, 2008

Opening: August 8, 2008

Most people are saying that The Dark Knight‘s primary competition will be Pineapple Express, but it could very well end up being the girl-hyped sequel to the hugely popular Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Both new films have a shot at toppling The Dark Knight.

-Wesley Lovell (August 8, 2008)

Week Ending August 3

Quite a few more updates this week than last, so we’ll wade right into them.

There’s a new poster up, one which you can also buy, for The House Bunny. There are also new posters for purchase for Defiance, Fly Me to the Moon and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. The Express has a new release date, shifted one week earlier. And then we have 11 new film trailers.

These new trailers include: Wong Kar Wai’s re-edited Ashes of Time Redux, crime caper comedy The Brothers Bloom, the sixth installment of the Harry Potter franchise The Half-Blood Prince, failing economy documentary I.O.U.S.A., horror comedy Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer, Mobile Mardi Gras documentary The Order of Myths, musician documentary Patti Smith – Dream of Life, the second trailer for the sequel Punisher: War Zone, relationship drama Rachel Getting Married, road trip comedy Sex Drive and Oliver Stone’s biting presidential satire W..

And that’s all the news that’s fit to print.

-Wesley Lovell (August 3, 2008)

Opening: August 1, 2008

The true test of the once-powerful The Mummy franchise goes into trial this week. If The Dark Knight falls only 50%, tha would leave it with north of $37 M for its second weekend. The Mummy would have to pull in far more than that to take over the number one spot. None of the rest of this week’s releases could possibly do that, so it’s up to The Mummy, but the chances are diminishing daily.

-Wesley Lovell (August 1, 2008)

Week Ending July 27

A dozen new updates await us this week.

We start things off with new trailers for a half-dozen films not previously available on my site. Beer for My Horses is a country music comedy starring Toby Keith; Everybody Wants to Be Italian is a romantic comedy; Saw V is the fifth in the successful Jigsaw franchise, Take is a drama starring Minnie Driver and Jeremy Renner, Body of Lies is an awards-season drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, and Simon Pegg stars opposite Kirsten Dunst in the comedy How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.

Two new reviews were posted to the site on Monday and their associated previews pages have been updated: The Dark Knight and Hellboy II: The Golden Army. The remaining four changes are all release date changes. Tropic Thunder and Pineapple Express shift back to open on Wednesday instead of the previously-announced Friday launch. Blindness shifts back a week hoping to put it closer to Oscar season. And Henry Poole Is Here finally gets a release date after being previously scheduled in April.

And that’s all there is for this week’s updates. Enjoy.

-Wesley Lovell (July 27, 2008)

Opening: July 25, 2008

The number two film next weekend will be the John C. Reilly/Will Farrell comedy Step Brothers. It’s almost inconceivable that the all-time highest box office debut wouldn’t hold on to the top for a second weekend. The big question is whether the first X-Files film in 10 years will succeed. I doubt it.

-Wesley Lovell (July 25, 2008)

Week Ending July 20

We have a rather lengthy update this week with several 2008 updates and two for 2009.

Up first is a new poster for Disaster Movie that better aligns it with its predecessors. Then there’s a new release date for The Rocker. On top of that, we have new trailers up for horror flick Cthulhu, prison drama Felon, corporate legal drama Flash of Genius, 3D animated feature Fly Me to the Moon, big screen adaptation/sequel High School Musical 3: Senior Year, tightrope walking documentary Man on Wire, sailing documentary Morning Light, sports comedy Ping Pong Playa, indie drama Red, primate animated feature Space Chimps, Frank Miller comic adaptation The Spirit and pseudo-vampire flick Twilight.

Then, for 2009, we have the first sneak peeks at sci-fi sequel Terminator Salvation and comic adaptation Watchmen. And that brings this week’s updates to a close.

-Wesley Lovell (July 20, 2008)

Opening: July 18, 2008

How high will the caped crusader soar? The Dark Knight is more than guaranteed the top spot, it might even make a $100 M opening in three days, a very rare occurrence in Hollywood. Giving it a solid, though not toppling, run for its money is Meryl Streep musical Mamma Mia! which is sure to bring back female audiences that made Sarah Jessica Parker and company successful with Sex and the City.

-Wesley Lovell (July 18, 2008)

Week Ending July 13

This is the shortest week in memory, though I’m sure there were some pretty lean weeks much earlier in the year.

Five new traditional updates appear, but there are also several films that now have Film Reviews posted that have been listed as updates, but on which I won’t go into details. Three new posters grace this week’s update, though “grace” is probably not the right word. They mostly collide with this week’s update. And, in alphabetical order, they are in reverse order of quality starting with Elegy, followed by In Search of a Midnight Kiss and ending with the better of the three: Mad Detective.

Finishing out the week are two new trailers, one for a film already posted here and one for a film that was not. Traitor ends up with its second trailer while Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys shows up with its first.

-Wesley Lovell (July 13, 2008)

Opening: July 11, 2008

I think any of this week’s new releases will have a problem topping Hancock, which should fall strongly in its second weekend, but not by enough to cede the top spot to anything else. Eddie Murphy hasn’t been doing well with his comedies lately and Meet Dave looks just as assinine as the others. Hellboy II seeems to have a niche audience, but it has some devoted fans and has earned the position of movie-of-the-week amongst my friends. Journey to the Center of the Earth may appeal to kids, but I don’t think Brenda Fraser can really sell this kind of film and his is the name tacked onto it, not either of the kids’. In a contest, it will probably be tight with the edge going to cult fave Hellboy II.

-Wesley Lovell (July 11, 2008)

Week Ending July 6

It’s another relatively short week this week with only a dozen changes in store. There is a new release date for the movie Quarantine and new posters for both The Wackness and Traitor.

On the new trailer front, there’s the full length trailer for post-apocalyptic drama Blindness, sci-fi remake The Day the Earth Stood Still, relationship dramedy Diminished Capacity, spoof flick Disaster Movie, documentary The Doorman, Antarctic documentary Encounters At the End of the World, high school loser comedy Harold, the latest James Bond film Quantum of Solace and French thriller Tell No One.

And that’s all she wrote. Enjoy your week.

-Wesley Lovell (July 6, 2008)

Opening: July 4, 2008

For this weekend’s box office, Hancock will be Will Smith’s latest blockbuster (unless something absolutely bizarre occurs), which will cement him as the undisputed July 4 holiday weekend king. With no other major wide releases, Wall-E should finish second diminishing only about 25-30% and Wanted should decline just slightly more and finish third.

-Wesley Lovell (July 4, 2008)

Week Ending June 29

This entire week will be filled with new trailers.

We have twelve new trailers, three for films we have already posted, nine are new. The three older films with new trailers are Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and Eagle Eye.

The new films posting today are: Disney animated pooch Bolt, romantic black-and-white film In Search of a Midnight Kiss, Asian action film Mad Detective, a new animated rat tale in The Tale of Despereaux, concert tour documentary CSNY: dj vu, a mother desperately trying to look after her kids in Frozen River, dark comedy Kabluey, comic book dud sequel Punisher: War Zone, and bar mitzvah comedy Sixty Six.

And that’s all we have for this week.

-Wesley Lovell (June 29, 2008)

Opening: June 27, 2008

There can be little doubt that Wall-E will top the box office. It’s Pixar. Wanted, however, will give it a good run for its money with male audiences likely to jump at the chance to see something other than a cute robot. It will be a good race, I think, but Wall-E will tower in the #1 spot.

-Wesley Lovell (June 27, 2008)

Week Ending June 22

After a really big week, it’s very nice to have a small update. We have only 10 changes to be made. There two new release dates, one new poster available for purchase, one new poster to review and six new trailers.

The two new release dates are for The Accidental Husband which gets moved for the fourth time since the trailer came out, and The Rocker which is opening on Wednesday instead of Friday.

The new poster up is for the film Transsiberian and the new poster for purchase is for The Spirit. Of the six new trailers, five are for new films. The lone film to have a subsequent trailer update this week is the exceptionally similar trailer for Hancock.

New films this week include the F. Scott Fitzgerald fantasy story directed by David Fincher: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; the Dane Cook-Kate Hudson-Jason Biggs romantic comedy My Best Friend’s Girl; Woody Allen’s new film Vicky Cristina Barcelona starring Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz and Woody’s latest muse Scarlett Johansson; relationship comedy He’s Just Not That Into You starring Scarlett Johansson (again), Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly, Drew Barrymore, Ben Affleck, Justin Long, Bradley Cooper and Ginnifer Goodwin; and the Ice Cube/Keke Palmer sports inspiration story about a girl who discovers she can play football, the team she’ll probably bring to victory and her relationship with her father and uncle called The Longshots.

And that is all for this week.

-Wesley Lovell (June 22, 2008)

Opening: June 20, 2008

These next two weekends will be the toughest of the Summer to predict. Two adult comedies are vying for the top spot and are likely to place #1 and #2, but which will come out on top. Mike Myers has done well at drawing people to the box office, but this latest farce may be too much for most of his fans, who will also be drawn to Steve Carrell’s Get Smart. Sharing the same audience is a dangerous thing during the Summer. Thankfully for the producers of both films, school kids are out, so they can bounce back and forth between the films, but that will result in diminished returns for both films. I give the slight edge to the more highly advertised Get Smart.

-Wesley Lovell (June 20, 2008)

Week Ending June 15

First, let me apologize for not updating last week. I had everything about ready and then when it came time to do the update, somehow I forgot. But, that’s just made this week’s update all the more difficult with 33 different changes, a vast majority of them being new trailers.

We have our first 2009 updates in some time with a new trailer for the kids pooch picture Hotel for Dogs and a new poster for Star Trek XI.

The remaining 31 changes are all 2008. There are three new release dates for Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Nights in Rodanthe and Towelhead. There are four new posters (five if you count the two for The Love Guru) for the aforementioned Guru, the new Bond film that still has not delivered a trailer Quantum of Solace, Space Chimps and Twilight.

That leaves two dozen new trailers, both first peaks and even a few fourths. There’s French vs. US wine film Bottle Shock, second chance drama Boy A, relationship comedy Choke, car race revamp Death Race, cradle-robbing drama Elegy, historical football drama The Express, Garden Party, the fourth new trailer for Get Smart, street basketball docu Gunnin’ for That #1 Spot, gay drama Holding Trevor, street soccer docu Kicking It, animated sequel Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, dog-and-couple teaser Marley & Me, war epic Miracle at St. Anna, new homeowners horror flick Mirrors, Korean gay drama No Regret, patriarchal family drama Red Roses and Petrol, Bill Maher comedy docu Religulous, Ellen Burstyn remembering the past in The Stone Angel, mistaken identity/drug drama Transsiberian, 90s flashback romance The Wackness, assassin blockbuster Wanted, women’s buddy comedy The Women and supernatural sequel The X-Files: I Want to Believe.

At that’s all there is to this week’s update. Next week, we should be back down to a more manageable number.

-Wesley Lovell (June 15, 2008)

Opening: June 13, 2008

Marvel has been the cash cow of the industry for years and in spite of the failure of Ang Lee’s Hulk, The Incredible Hulk (it’s not often that a re-working of a concept is re-worked so quickly) will likely beat the fading star of M. Night Shyamalan whose R-rated The Happening won’t appeal to the audience that made The Sixth Sense a success. If it makes much more than $100 M in this very tough Summer season, I’d be surprised.

-Wesley Lovell (June 13, 2008)

Opening: June 6, 2008

Supposedly analysts were predicting Indiana Jones would return to the top spot for several weeks. Obviously they haven’t looked at a release schedule. This week alone, two films will challenge one another for the top spot. While I think You Don’t Mess with the Zohan will draw in its traditionally inept audience, it’s possible that the first big computer animated film of the Summer will dominate everyone. Kung Fu Panda, although it doesn’t look very exceptional (certainly not on par with the impending release of Wall-E), I think it will do quite well with the kid-friendly audience that hasn’t had very many options available in recent weeks.

-Wesley Lovell (June 6, 2008)

Week Ending June 1

It’s a slow week. I was beginning to think that one of these would never come again.

Let’s get this going. We have four new trailers and two release date changes and that’s it. The two new release dates are each shifts of two days back to a Wednesday instead of a Friday. both Traitor and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants have made such a move.

On the new trailers front, we have three new films and one second trailer. There are two that are for restricted audiences, delivered through iTunes. One of those is the trailer for the Will Ferrell/John C. Reilly comedy Step Brothers. The other is for a new film by the Coen brothers called Burn After Reading. The remaining two trailers are for the documentary Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson and the Nicholas Sparks-adapted romantic drama Nights in Rodanthe.

And that’s a wrap. Enjoy the extra time you have after catching up with these updates.

-Wesley Lovell (June 1, 2008)

Opening: May 30, 2008

Sex and the City should outperform The Strangers for top of the new releases, but it topping the box office is unlikely against the second week of Indiana Jones.

-Wesley Lovell (May 30, 2008)

Week Ending May 25

There are a lot of updates this Memorial Day weekend with fourteen new trailers, a new release date, eight new posters and six new posters to buy. These changes affect only 21 different films, eleven of which are new to this site.

The eleven new films: Josh Hartnett-starrer August, Baz Luhrmann epic Australia, sci-fi kids adventure City of Ember, Shia LeBeouf feature Eagle Eye, German pseudo-foreign-language film The Edge of Heaven, clandestine adventure The Go-Getter, French period drama The Last Mistress, yet another Mummy sequel The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, job comedy The Promotion, drug smuggling drama Take Out and Hollywood screenwriter documentary Trumbo.

In addition, these films have had changes made: Bangkok Dangerous has a new release date, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian has a new poster that’s also available to buy, The Foot Fist Way finally has a trailer, Hancock nas a new full-length trailer, Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay now has a poster which is also available to buy, Indiana Jones has a new poster that’s available for purchase, Iron Man also has a new poster that is also purchasable, The Love Guru has a new poster, Righteous Kill has a new poster and a new trailer, and Wall-E has two new posters, both available to buy.

It’s a lot to update, but there it is.

-Wesley Lovell (May 25, 2008)

Opening: May 22, 2008

Who doesn’t know that the fourth Indy film will top the box office. The question is how much will it make? I think with its root in popular history and legions of fans collected over the last 30 years, the film will challenge the Spider-Man record. The big question will be repeat business. While some critics felt it was solid popcorn entertainment, others were let down and with all the comments by the actors, director and producers about the film, it sounds like it’s not up to the quality of the original, or possibly even the second film, which could drive down repeat business if it’s true.

-Wesley Lovell (May 22, 2008)

Week Ending May 18

Between the big weeks and the little weeks, I still don’t seem to get caught up quickly. This week, there were only a few new trailers and a release date change.

The release date change was for the documentary Religulous which hasn’t even managed to release a trailer, which makes it very hard to even know if we should care that the release date was changed again.

As for new trailers, we have nothing but 2008 films to look at. There’s Bloodline, a documentary about the possibility that Jesus and Mary were married with children; How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer about three generations of Hispanic women and their concepts and experience with love; The Love Guru, Mike Myers’ latest irreverant comedy; Miss Conception, a film about a woman with only one egg left who wants to put that egg to use by having a baby; Monster Camp, a documentary about live action fantasy role players; Quid Pro Quo, a thriller about a paraplegic uncovering the truth about a woman who helps paralyze people who want it; Reprise, a story about two friends who author books and how their success affects their lives; Traitor about a CIA-trained demolitions expert blowing up buildings in Afghanistan; The Unknown Woman, about a woman assuming multiple identities and the mistakes she makes that potentially reveal her; The Wackness, about a mid-90s drug pusher and its romantic and business entanglements; and The X-Files: I Want to Believe, the latest attempt at capitalizing on the cult series’ popularity.

The Wackness and The Love Guru are the only one sin the above list that have previously released trailers. And that’s all she wrote.

-Wesley Lovell (May 18, 2008)

Opening: May 16, 2008

There is no question the number one film next week will be Prince Caspian. Unlike Speed Racer, Narnia has no new competition and has a dwindling Iron Man total. It should place nicely, but how well depends on how many people really want to sit down to a sequel for a film that was not particularly spectacular.

-Wesley Lovell (May 16, 2008)

Week Ending May 11

This was an exceptionally busy week. There were two dozen updates. One was a new release date for The Spirit, which moves back into 2008. One was a new poster for a film I still haven’t seen a trailer for: The Foot Fist Way. The remaining twenty-two are all trailers.

Baghead, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Bigger, Stronger, Faster*, The Dark Knight, Frontier(s), Hamlet 2, The Happening, Igor, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Journey to the Center of the Earth, My Winnipeg, Noise, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, The Rocker, Sangre de mi Sangre, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Swing Vote, Twilight, Up the Yangtze, The Wackness and You Don’t Mess with the Zohan.

We’ll hope for a slower week next.

-Wesley Lovell (May 11, 2008)

Opening: May 9, 2008

With Iron Man performing well, will Speed Racer equal that performance or will it fall prey to over-exposure and permit Iron Man to spend a second week at a the top. I’m guessing Speed Racer will perform exceptionally well and still take the box office gold.

-Wesley Lovell (May 9, 2008)

Week Ending May 4

There isn’t much this week to report. We have only six new trailers, two new posters, a new release date and two posters that are now available to purchase. This is a light week and there’s nothing new from 2009. Though, the new trailers for Indiana Jones and The Dark Knight (not yet available to link, and thus no reviews) attached to Iron Man this weekend, were exceptionally good. Though, the ones for Prince Caspian and Step Brothers were anything but interesting.

On to the updates. Another new date for Amusement, which just picked up the amorphous Holiday 2008 date; you can now buy the posters for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Mongol. There are new posters up for Kung Fu Panda and Tropic Thunder (two in fact); the new trailers up are for the Marvel Incredible Hulk, the female buddy pic Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, self-help comedy Finding Amanda, period drama Brideshead Revisited, injury revenge drama The Take and fish out of water satire Towelhead.

-Wesley Lovell (May 4, 2008)

Opening: May 2, 2008

Would it be a shock to anyone if Iron Man landed at the top of the box office? No. It would be a historical day if Made of Honor managed to top the Iron giant. However, the possibilities of that are extremely unlikely.

-Wesley Lovell (May 2, 2008)

Week Ending April 27

Our last update for April finds itself relatively limited. We have no new posters, release dates or other major changes. All we have are nine new trailers, two for films from next year.

Starting off with our present year, we have trailers up now for high-schoolers-experiencing-frat-life comedy College, Buddhist-spiritualism-in-prisoners documentary The Dhamma Brothers, Christ-has-a-miraculous-face-on-depressed-guy’s-house comedy Henry Poole Is Here, Playboy-Bunny-trying-to-make-nerdy-girls’-lives-better comedy The House Bunny, waiter-finding-Nazi-rule-a-destructive-influence-on-his-career dramedy I Served the King of England, video-tape-of-zombies-in-quarantined-building horror flick Quarantine and girl-must-find-love-while-caring-for-family drama Tuya’s Marriage.

And rounding out this update, for 2009, we have Disney Nature’s first documentary following three groups of creatures for one year (a polar bear family, a whale family and an elephant family) called simply Earth and the latest Frank Miller stylized comic book movie The Spirit.

-Wesley Lovell (April 27, 2008)

Opening: April 25, 2008

There are no blockbusters in the making this week, likely due to the big moneymakers planned for next week and on through the early Summer. The best bet for a chart topper is Baby Mama which seems to be getting solid critical support and may end up a surprise hit. Deception has had minimal advertising and Harold & Kumar must rely on fans to propel them towards the top. It’s also possible last week’s number one could hold on by a slim margin.

-Wesley Lovell (April 25, 2008)

Week Ending April 20

As April drags on, we earn another 2009 preview and several more for 2008.

The 2009 preview is yet another Ice Age. This one is subtitled: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.

For 2008, the following new trailers have arrived: Dario Argento horror film Mother of Tears, Julianne Moore drama Savage Grace, two new trailers for summer blockbuster hopeful Speed Racer, youth comedy The Wackness, war profiteering comedy War, Inc., children-in-jeopardy drama The Children of Huang Shi, documentary Glass, a Portrait of Philip in 12 Parts and genre drug/violence flick Loaded.

For posters, we have no ones for Chaos Theory, Fugitive Pieces, Iron Man and Water Lilies. And rounding out this week’s updates, we have another release date change for Midnight Meat Train.

-Wesley Lovell (April 20, 2008)

Opening: April 18, 2008

There are a myriad reasons why each of 88 Minutes, The Forbidden Kingdom and Forgetting Sarah Marshall could top the box office. Al Pacino, Jackie Chan, Judd Apatow respectively. But, of all these, I think Pacino has the bigger chance of success, but darker dramatic films have not bee popping to the top of the box office lately, but neither have Apatow clones. But Jackie Chan generally does decently. I give the slight edge to Forbidden Kingdom, but 88 Minutes is also a possibility due entirely to its position as the most heavily advertised.

-Wesley Lovell (April 18, 2008)

Week Ending April 13

Taking us farther into April, we have a number of new trailers and a few new posters to present this week.

Ten trailers came out this week, one of which is for a film that has now ben pushed to early 2009. United Artists moved studio topper Tom Cruise’s Valkyrie into February of 2009, right out of the Oscar race and into likely oblivion while they supposedly work on re-shoots.

For 2008, we received trailers for post-apocalyptic feature Blindness, Indian love story Brick Lane, elderly love story Elsa & Fred, mistaken identity romantic comedy Falling for Grace, prison piano prodigy plotter Four Minutes, high schooler documentary American Teen, obnoxious neighbor thriller Lakeview Terrace, space-bound primate cartoon Space Chimps and relationship comedy Then She Found Me.

On the poster front, we have a colorful new poster for the storytelling fantasy The Fall, Pollyanna-style girl detective feature Kit Kittredge, a poster for the sequel to the popular Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and one for this weekend’s of Smart People.

That’s it for this week. Enjoy them while you can.

-Wesley Lovell (April 13, 2008)

Opening: April 11, 2008

After a weak debut this past week, there’s little question that we’ll have a new box office champ this weekend. Street Kings which appeals to the male demo should come out on top, though horror could return to the forefront if Prom Night does exceedingly and surprisingly well.

-Wesley Lovell (April 11, 2008)

Week Ending April 6

For the week ending April 6, we have a smattering of new updates.

Sex and Death 101 has an updated release date, Blindsight, Chapter 27, The Flight of the Red Balloon and Shotgun Stories each feature new posters.

On the trailer front, there are eight new ones. Hellboy II is the only film to feature a second trailer, while the others are all new. There’s the art world serial killer flick Anamorph, the Nic Cage assassin film Bangkok Dangerous, surf social club documentary Bra Boys, the life-affirming romance Jack and Jill vs. the World, lovable loser romantic comedy Meet Bill, situational comedy Pineapple Express and the titularly exlanatory Zombie Strippers.

I expect within the coming weeks to have more films that are releasing in the summer, but a precise timeframe is unavailable.

-Wesley Lovell (April 6, 2008)

Opening: April 4, 2008

Will George Clooney finally be able to pick up a box office hit with his period comedy Leatherheads or will kids make Nim’s Island the weekend’s number one film? I’m giving the edge to Clooney and Renee Zellweger who could prove a potent combination. This could be the Jerry Maguire of 2008, but time will tell. The Ruins will perform adequately against the competition filling the gap in the demo of the aforementioned films.

-Wesley Lovell (April 4, 2008)

Week Ending March 30

It was a much slower week, so I’ll be done fairly quickly with my recap of what’s in this update.

We have a new poster for Doomsday, a release date elimination for Midnight Meat Train and two new posters available for purchase for Made of Honor and Street Kings.

As for new trailers, we have modern noir thriller Deception, Murphy-in-Murphy comedy Meet Dave, Kazakhstani war epic Mongol, martial arts thriller Redbelt, Ellen Page search feature The Tracey Fragments and synchronized swimmer coming-of-age story Water Lilies.

That’s really all there is. Enjoy the slow weekend.

-Wesley Lovell (March 30, 2008)

Opening: March 28, 2008

With five new releases, each one has a chance at the top spot if they can pull in more than $13 M. With the last spoof movie doing exceptionally well in its first week, I’m giving the edge to the Spider-Man spoof Superhero Movie. The trailer’s funny and it seems to be the kind of spoof that could be popular. Then again, any of the other four films could prove popular. Stop Loss and 21 fight for the same late teen/young adult crowd as Superhero Movie, Run, Fatboy, Run hopes to secure the slightly older, British comedy fans, and Flawless hopes to snag the older crowd. It’s really anyone’s guess which one will be on top.

-Wesley Lovell (March 28, 2008)

Week Ending March 23

Last weekend, I was horribly sick and didn’t feel like doing anything, let alone posting the weekly update. So, I saved them all for this week. I don’t know if that was a mistake, but it has left me with almost thirty film pages to update.

Only seven of the updates were unrelated to trailers including a new release date for The Wackness, the ability to buy the poster for Semi-Pro and new posters up for Drillbit Taylor, Made of Honor, Meet the Browns, Prom Night and Shutter.

However, the remainder of the twenty-nine updates are new trailers. Twenty-two preview pages were updated as a result. Seven are new trailers added to existing previews: Get Smart put forth a new version of its first non-teaser trailer, The Life Before Her Eyes decided to reveal more about its plot in its second trailer, Mamma Mia! become something watchable in its second, Nim’s Island had the alternate effect with its new jumbled preview, Speed Racer got more exciting, as did Wanted and the first full-length trailer for Wall-E also became my favorite trailer of the year to date.

Then there are the new previews: John Lennon assassination pic Chapter 27, poker card sharp pic Deal, stylish fantasy The Fall, narrative drama Fugitive Pieces, super hero reboot The Incredible Hulk, coming of age story Mister Foe, celebrity impersonator drama Mister Lonely, Wong Kar Wai fest favorite My Blueberry Nights, Italian family drama My Brother Is an Only Child, Hatfield-McCoy-style feuding drama Shotgun Stories, Abu Gharib documentary Standard Operating Procedure, stalking horror film The Strangers, family surfer documentary Surfwise, war movie comedy Tropic Thunder, and madcap accidental death comedy Who’s Your Monkey.

If that’s not enough, I’ll be back in a week to give you even more.

-Wesley Lovell (March 23, 2008)

Opening: March 21, 2008

It seems clear that Horton Hears a Who will retain its number one spot. Looking at this week’s new releases, it seems unlikely that any of them will be able to topple it. Of these movies, the one most likely to earn top dollars is Drillbit Taylor which blends the right amount of geeky self-loathing and ludicrous concept that has succeeded in the past. It also seems like the kind of film that’s bombed. That leaves Tyler Perry’s new film as a distinct possibility to top Drillbit.

-Wesley Lovell (March 21, 2008)

Opening: March 14, 2008

Opening wide means very little when advertising has been virtually nil. That’s the type of box office Doomsday will have when it opens this weekend. A resounding “what is this” will be heard and I doubt it will do well. Likewise, I’m doubtful Funny Games, an exploitation pic by the looks of the trailer, will perform adequately in wide release. However, sure to light up the box office a most animated children’s films do, Horton Hears a Who, though minimally advertised, will undoubtedly take the week’s top spot and should do solid business on the names of the Almighties Bruce and Evan, Jim Carrey and Steve Carrell. The film that is the big mystery is Never Back Down which shifted forward in release dates and competes with Doomsday and Funny Games for the same pre-teen/teenage crowd. It could be a modest success or a colossal failure. Regardless, it’s Horton who’ll be on top.

-Wesley Lovell (March 14, 2008)

Week Ending March 9

And I thought last week was abysmally quiet. We have only four new trailers this week. And that’s it. There’s nothing more. Just four new trailers.

The first trailer is also the first non-teaser for the film Iron Man starring Robert Downey Jr. in a role that seems tailor-made for him.

Following that up is a documentary about modern zombies, real or imagined and supposedly their fight to gain acceptance. The Trailer for American Zombie doesn’t do a whole hell of a lot to tell us what it’s about.

Also up on the trailer circuit is a Robert De Niro/Al Pacino starrer about cops who investigate the crimes they commit. Of course, the crimes are of those who the law cannot touch, but it’s still vigilante justice. Righteous Kill will be at maximum a moderate hit, but most likely a box office loser.

Lastly, we have a trailer for a film called The Flight of the Red Balloon supposedly about the impact the famed Red Balloon has as its flies over a young boy with parental relationship issues. It certainly looks like it could be socialogically interesting.

And that’s it. Only four trailers makes for a short week of updates. Enjoy the extra time to yourself!

-Wesley Lovell (March 9, 2008)

Opening: March 7, 2008

The film to beat this week is 10,000 B.C. which is sure to draw the teenage boy crowd that has made such awful films as 300 and Ghost Rider successes. College Road Trip has had minimal advertising and The Bank Job has had significantly less. They are unlikely to perform well against B.C., but may do decently with their niche audiences.

-Wesley Lovell (March 7, 2008)

Week Ending March 1

A thankfully limited week for new posters, trailers and the like. We have exactly a dozen changes to go over, none of them from previous or future years. Among those are four films with release date changes, two with new trailers and the remaining six with new trailers.

The date changes are largely only week shifts, but all of these movies have found new homes: The Accidental Husband, Amusement, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery and Redbelt. New posters were released for boxing comedy The Hammer and humor documentary Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?.

For new trailers, we have two for films for which we’ve already seen teasers. Sex and the City based on the HBO TV series and Get Smart based on the 60s spy humor series. The other four are brand new, but like the aforementioned films, hardly worth noticing. Two new documentaries are up. One is about the 70s singing legend Meat Loaf, called Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise, and the other is about the hysteria surrounding the launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik, entitled Sputnik Mania. The remaining two are for summer mass audience comedies. Mike Myers is back, now as a hippy, in The Love Guru and Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly team up again for their sibling rivalry/friendship comedy Step Brothers.

-Wesley Lovell (March 1, 2008)

Opening: February 29, 2008

While I would love to see The Other Boleyn Girl top the box office, it’s clear that the latest Will Ferrell movie, Semi-Pro, will take the top spot and do so with a number probably north of $30 M.

-Wesley Lovell (February 29, 2008)

Week Ending February 24

It’s time for another update. We had a few less updates this week, but a lot of new posters became available to purchase. Last year’s The Bucket List has just such an update as do the following 2008 features: Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who, 88 Minutes (my question is why??), Never Back Down, Sex and Death 101 and Teeth.

On the new posters front, aside from the one for The Bucket List, there’s a “cassette tape” imagine for the new film The Wackness. While there aren’t any other new posters individually, there are some posted along with new films and new trailers.

As for the new trailers, we have blind rock climbing documentary Blindsight, niche actioner Boarding Gate, M. Night Shyamalan’s latest disaster The Happening, French romance musical Love Songs, Spanish-language love story Lovesickness, breakdancing docu Planet B-Boy, extreme fighting melodrama Redbelt, teen relationship sequel The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and life-affirming drama The Visitor.

The only other updates this week are new release dates for Pathology and Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden. Until next week, enjoy.

-Wesley Lovell (February 24, 2008)

Opening: February 22, 2008

After a weak debut, it’s doubtful Jumper will hold on to the top spot for a second week. That leaves four films to vie for the top spot. Not even the Blue Collar Comedy Tour popularity can put Witless Protection into the top 5, Charlie Bartlett‘s been moved around so much I don’t think it will be as successful as it might have had it gotten more press. That leaves the assassination thriller Vantage Point and the video store comedy Be Kind Rewind. I’m giving the edge to Be Kind Rewind simply because it touches on cultural zeitgeists of the 1980s and early 1990s, which will make it popular amongst those who were experiencing movies of that period.

-Wesley Lovell (February 22, 2008)

Week Ending February 17

The updates have moved to Sunday and will likely stay there for some time. My Saturdays have been busier than usual, as have my weeknights, so I’m shifting the official Previews update day as Sunday.

This week we have more than a dozen changes. First up is the shift of Star Trek XI into 2009, which is based on a decision by the studios to launch it near Memorial Day next year. There’s also a new poster up for The Savages in the 2007, which you can also buy.

The rest of the changes, as expected, are in the 2008 area. The Duchess and When Did You Last See Your Father? both have new release dates while Horton Hears a Who has had a simple title change to include Dr. Seuss’. There are nine new posters, three alone for The Dark Knight, all of which you can now purchase. Other new posters available for purchase are for the films Rambo, The Spiderwick Chronicles and 21. New posters not also available for purchase are for the films Priceless, Summer Palace and Superhero Movie.

We have seven new trailers this week including the debut of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Also new in trailers: boxing comedy The Hammer, martial arts fantasy film CJ7, George A. Romero’s latest zombie adventure Diary of the Dead, a new trailer for the other martial arts fantasy film The Forbidden Kingdom, the French thriller Roman de Gare and the cop thriller Street Kings.

-Wesley Lovell (February 17, 2008)

Opening: February 14, 2008

Opening: February 15, 2008

Either kids or adults will rule the weekend. Jumper, the first big budget actioner of the year should bring in plenty of interested parties to the theater and land well above the pack at the top of the box office. The Spiderwick Chronicles will do well with kids, but since school isn’t out yet, the weekend will have to be the selling point. Step Up 2 the Streets will do solid business on the popularity of the original, but Definitely, Maybe will be the former and not the latter a box office dud.

-Wesley Lovell (February 15, 2008)

Week Ending February 9

We end the week with just shy of a dozen new trailers, four new posters, several release date changes and some new posters available for purchase.

Caramel, The Eye, The Grand and Shine a Light now have links to the Buy the Poster page. You can also visit the Resources page to gain access to all those great posters. The Accidental Husband, Amusement, What Happens in Vegas and Young@Heart each have new release dates. Some only moved forward a couple of weeks. Others moved to the latter half of the calendar year.

New posters arrive for the aforementioned Shine a Light and The Ey as well as for The Ruins and Smart People. The eleven new trailers this week are: the family relationship drama Sleepwalking, anal retentive self destruction comedy Chaos Theory, period heist film Flawless, life examining drama The Life Before Her Eyes, period relationship drama Married Life, French comedy Priceless, romantic comedy Sex and Death 101, Chinese political drama Summer Palace, comic book movie spoof Superhero Movie, relationship drama Tre and humor documentary Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?.

-Wesley Lovell (February 9, 2008)

Opening: February 8, 2008

Hannah Montana‘s holding over and with ticket prices twice that of normal theater tickets, I wouldn’t doubt if it topped the weekend. Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins will tell us whether Martin Lawrence can draw audiences or not, but I wouldn’t doubt if Fool’s Gold topped the box office, but even The Hottie and the Nottie can’t be ruled out.

-Wesley Lovell (February 8, 2008)

Week Ending February 2

A new month has begun and the new trailers and posters continue to flow. In addition to updates to several 2007 pages to include links to the Full Reviews of more than a dozen films, there are more than a dozen new trailers and posters for 2008.

New posters have come out for Daniel Craig war film Defiance, Will Smith anti-superhero summer tentpole Hancock, street dancing sequel Step Up 2 the Streets, drunken marriage reconciliation comedy What Happens in Vegas and senior concert musicians in Young@Heart.

Eleven new pages and eleven new trailers. This week, we have male road comedy Backseat, female road movie Bonneville, post-apocalyptic disease flick Doomsday, poker championship farce The Grand, another new Tyler Perry pic Meet the Browns, father-son relationship drama Romulus, My Father, photographed ghosts horror picture Shutter, coming-of-age dramedy Son of Rambow, teen anti-war statement Stop-Loss and foreign lingo Oscar nominee The Year My Parents Went on Vacation.

-Wesley Lovell (February 2, 2008)

Opening: February 1, 2008

This week, four wide releases battle for dominance. Since it’s unlikely any of last week’s $10 M+ entries will carry over large chunks of an audience, we have to see if the comedies Over Her Dead Body and Strange Wilderness can bring down horror remake The Eye or if the Hanna Montana concert tour can draw enough juvenile girls to the theater to top them all.

-Wesley Lovell (February 1, 2008)

Week Ending January 26

Several new updates populate the Preview area this week. We had our first move from 2008 into 2009. Pride & Glory has been shifted to a new page for that year. You can now buy the poster for Snow Angels as well as take a look at, and in some cases, buy the posters of the following new posters this week: Charlie Bartlett, Meet the Spartans, Never Back Down and Penelope.

More than a dozen new trailers came out this week (plus a few I may have missed in a previous update) for Baby Mama, Beaufort, 88 Minutes, Little Chenier, Me & You, Us, Forever, Midnight Meat Train, Postal, The Ruins, Shoot Down, Smart People, Spiral, Star Trek XI, Taxi to the Dark Side and What Happens in Vegas. Follow the link below, then hop over to the 2008 page to see all of what’s new.

-Wesley Lovell (January 26, 2008)

Opening: January 25, 2008

Whether Cloverfield can hang on for a second week will depend on how well the four films that open wide this week perform. It’s likely all of them can perform north of $10 M, but Rambo and Untraceable are the most likely to challenge Cloverfield for dominance. Rambo appeals to the same type of viewer as Cloverfield, but Untraceable could attract female audiences neither film would otherwise attract.

-Wesley Lovell (January 25, 2008)

Week Ending January 19

The week started off heavy with new trailers, but finished with a whimper. All-in-all, there were 18 new updates to find this week. There are new trailers up now for Ed Zwick WWII drama Defiance, movie spoof Meet the Spartans, horror remake Prom Night, eldery singers documentary Young@Heart, Crash-like ensemble drama The Air I Breathe, Jason Statham taking a stab at situational comedy with The Bank Job, DreamWorks new cash cow hopeful Kung Fu Panda, Gus Van Sant’s troubled skater film Paranoid Park, National Geographic dinosaur special Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure and trippy horror flick Shrooms.

There are six new posters also this week. First Sunday, Fool’s Gold, Get Smart, Sleepwalking, Snow Angels and Speed Racer dominate the derby for the most titles with two words (Sleepwalking excluded). Then there’s a new release date for Forgetting Sarah Marshall and you can also buy the poster for Strange Wilderness.

-Wesley Lovell (January 19, 2008)

Opening: January 18, 2008

With the holiday runs all dying slowly and Bucket List unlikely to perform a huge carryover, the field is wide open and three films will want to box office gold, but only one will claim it. Cloverfield has cleverly built buzz much like The Blair Witch Project did. Auds will likely see Mad Money as another lame heist movie, albeit with women in the leads, but when did Queen Latifah, Diane Keaton or Katie Holmes have hits based on their names alone? 27 Dresses might have been a spoiler against any other film, but it really looks too much like every other romantic comedy we’ve seen in the last century, so it’s likely to get better reception on DVD than at the theaters.

-Wesley Lovell (January 18, 2008)

Week Ending January 12

Studios didn’t wait long before cramming my site with new trailers. A dizzying 20 new changes have found their way into this week’s update. To cap it all off, I’ve completed my first 2007 Year in Preview looking back at the Ten Best and Worst Trailers and Posters of 2007. You can find that article in the 2007 section along with the ability to buy a poster for Beowulf if you really care.

As for the 19 2008 updates, eleven are for new trailers, most idiotic comedies or lame romantic comedies. The Accidental Husband, Caramel, Day Zero, He Was a Quiet Man, The Hottie and the Nottie, Never Back Down, Trailer Park Boys, Wanted and Witless Protection are entirely new while new trailers were added for the colon-ates The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery.

There are new posters out for six other films: Amusement, Definitely, Maybe, How She Move, Mamma Mia!, Nim’s Island and Speed Racer plus you can now buy the poster for Mad Money and find out that The Spiderwick Chronciles has had a release date change.

That’s pretty much it for this week. No new reviews as I’m busy writing all the ones associated with my year-end article of the Ten Best and Worst Films of 2007. Stay tuned.

-Wesley Lovell (January 12, 2008)

Opening: January 11, 2008

If genre flick One Missed Call could barely break te top 5, it’s possible none of this week’s new releases could. I see First Sunday not following the trajectory of This Christmas, but In the Name of the King could bring pro-Statham junkies out of the woodwork. Who knows for sure, but it’s entirely possible that National Treasure could hang on to the top spot again next week.

-Wesley Lovell (January 11, 2008)

Week Ending January 5

2007 continues to wind down. Within the next week or two, I will be putting together my annual retrospective of 2007’s best and worst movie trailers and posters. Once this goes up, I will stop posting the updates on the 2007 page (the upper section will be gone. Instead, I will just post any new changes in this update section. For this week, 2007’s only new addition is a second poster for Juno.

2008, however, saw several changes. Now that the studios are done with the holidays, 2008 films should be coming more frequently. This week is pretty much all about the boys. We have Hellboy II, Planet B-Boy, Run, Fat Boy, Run, and a film about a boy Billy the Kid. There is also a new trailer for The Signal and a new poster for 21. Three films have shifts in release date. 27 Dresses only moves back a week. Be Kind Rewind finds itsfinds itself pushed back another month and The Pughkeepsie Tapes move across most of the year and wind up in the Holiday 2008 berth.

-Wesley Lovell (January 5, 2008)

Opening: January 4, 2008

With only one new film opening this coming weekend, the only question is not which will be best, but whether One Missed Call‘s best can take down any of the Christmas box office holdovers. I think it may come in below National Treasure, but could still top Alvin and I Am Legend.

-Wesley Lovell (January 4, 2008)

2009

Opening: January 1, 2010

December 30, 2009

  • The White Ribbon (Limited)
  • The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (NY/LA)

-Wesley Lovell (December 29, 2009)

Opening: December 25, 2009

December 23, 2009

December 25, 2009

-Wesley Lovell (December 22, 2009)

Opening: December 18, 2009

December 16, 2009

December 18, 2009

-Wesley Lovell (December 22, 2009)

Opening: December 18, 2009

December 18, 2009

-Wesley Lovell (December 15, 2009)

Opening: December 11, 2009

December 11, 2009

-Wesley Lovell (December 8, 2009)

Opening: December 4, 2009

December 4, 2009

-Wesley Lovell (December 1, 2009)

Opening: November 27, 2009

November 25, 2009

-Wesley Lovell (November 24, 2009)

Opening: November 20, 2009

November 20, 2009

-Wesley Lovell (November 17, 2009)

Update Notification

With the new layout of the front page of this site, certain areas of this page will no longer be updated. The information in the sidebar at the right will continue to be updated each week as usual. The Previews pages above will likewise be continuously updated. However, all “Updates” will be posted to the front page of the site and archived there. One change is that I will no longer be commenting on the upcoming new releases each week. If I do so, it will be done in a separate post on the front page of the website.

-Wesley Lovell (November 15, 2009)

Opening: November 13, 2009

November 13, 2009

Why is it that “duh” is the only general expression I can come up with on this one. I’ve said it before on many other films. So is this one any different? No. Just go with it. Number one at the box office. At least $50 M and showing up Jim Carrey and Disney’s A Christmas Carol.

-Wesley Lovell (November 10, 2009)

Weeks Ending November 8

It’s a relatively slow week with less than a dozen updates to present to you.

They are roughly split in half between 2009 and 2010. This should keep up for awhile before 2010 becomes more dominant. We entered the same period this time last year. There are five new trailers for 2010: Dear John, Despicable Me, Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Shake Hands with the Devil and The Yellow Handkerchief. One of those, Despicable Me, also has an official release date posted.

For 2009, we have Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel opening two days earlier on a Wednesday, new posters for The Men Who Stare at Goats and It’s Complicated along with new trailers for La Danse, Eichmann, Fix, It’s Complicated and The Slammin’ Salmon.

That’s everything. Just click on the 2009 and 2010 links above.

-Wesley Lovell (November 8, 2009)

Opening: November 6, 2009

November 6, 2009

Anyone betting against A Christmas Carol to top the box office would be woefully disappointed. My hope is that the opening is weak, but Jim Carrey can still bring people to the box office and the advertising campaign has been relentless, so an opening between $50 M and $75 M wouldn’t be unexpected, but higher than that is possible.

-Wesley Lovell (November 3, 2009)

Weeks Ending November 1

This week is so extremely slow that I have only four new previews to present. Three are for 2009 films, one of which is a sure Oscar contender, and the other is 2010.

For 2009, we have Clint Eastwood’s latest film about newly-elected president Nelson Mandella and his attempts to carve out a victory for South Africa at the world cup. Invictus also stars Matt Damon and is certain to be on lips of Oscar prognosticators soon even if it isn’t already. The second film is called The Canyon about a married couple taking a romantic get away into the Grand Canyon when their tour guide is bitten by a snake and they are forced to try and find their way out alone while fighting off wolves. The third 2009 film is Mammoth starring Michelle Williams and Gael Garcia Bernal about a couple with powerful jobs who suffer many obstacles when he travels overseas and finds romance without her.

The lone 2010 film is a movie called Love. What exactly it’s about is impossible to get from the trailer, but it seems to be about a lonely astronaut on the International Space Station who examines his life as his is about to be snuffed out.

Enjoy your four previews and we’ll see you back here again next week.

-Wesley Lovell (November 1, 2009)

Opening: October 30, 2009

October 28, 2009

October 30, 2009

Sure, the last concert broadcast in theaters (The Jonas Brothers) wasn’t as successful as Hannah Montana‘s, but the Jonas Brothers are not Michael Jackson, nor is Hannah Montana. A limited engagement run and millions of fans around the world and in the United States should easily secure This Is It a spot atop the box office chart for this weekend and maybe the next, though Jim Carrey may have something to say about that.

-Wesley Lovell (October 27, 2009)

Weeks Ending October 25

Three weeks have gone by since my last update and I must apologize. Many events have occurred the previous two potential update days, but I’ve finally got everything in order again. This means 38 new updates, but nothing too terribly exciting.

From 2010, we have four new trailers, two for existing films: Toy Story 3, The Wolfman; and two for new films: A Nightmare on Elm Street and Valentine’s Day.

The remaining 34 are from 2009. There’s a new release date for Nine and three new posters for Adventures of Power, Black Dynamite and Stan Helsing. The other thirty are new trailers split between new films and old ones: American Casino, As Seen Through These Eyes, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, A Beautiful Life, The Boondock Saints II: All Saint’s Day, Broken Embraces, Collapse, Disturbing the Universe, Endgame, Everybody’s Fine, Evil Weed, The Flying Scissors, Good Hair, Humble Pie, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Labor Day, The Messenger, The Missing Person, Nobody, Oh My God, The Other Side of Paradise, Precious, Serious Moonlight, Splinterheads, Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon, That Evening Sun, Uncertainty, Until the Light Takes Us, The Wedding Song and Women in Trouble.

Lots to peruse today, so enjoy.

-Wesley Lovell (October 25, 2009)

Opening: October 23, 2009

October 23, 2009

Saw has some real competition this outing as the overhyped kid vampire tale The Vampire’s Assistant does everything in its power to topple the mighty horror franchise. Astro Boy is also going to try, but will end up cannabalizing the numbers for Vampire’s Assistant to a small extent, which should leave plenty of room for Saw VI to win another top place finish.

-Wesley Lovell (October 20, 2009)

Opening: October 16, 2009

October 16, 2009

Three films each have a fairly good shot at the top of the box office. Law Abiding Citizen could appeal to the young men demographic while The Stepfather could pull in horror crowds and Where the Wild Things Are can draw in families. In the end, I think Maurice Sendak’s big screen adaptation should top it all.

-Wesley Lovell (October 13, 2009)

Opening: October 9, 2009

October 9, 2009

With only one wide film opening, I guess there’s no point in predicting that Couples Retreat will be the week’s top new film. Whether it will top last week’s box office winner Zombieland is uncertain, but I’m going to guess that it probably will.

-Wesley Lovell (October 6, 2009)

Weeks Ending October 4

My apologies for another two-week break, but this may actually become the norm, not the exception. We’ll see how things go next week for an update, but for this week, let’s get down to business.

With two weeks of updates, we have a good number of them. We have two new trailers for 2010, Tooth Fairy and The Crazies. In addition, 2010 has a new poster for From Paris with Love and two new release dates for Takers and Youth in Revolt.

While it’s still 2009, we’ll continue to get posters (probably into February or March next year as well). We have a new title and release date for The Boat That Rocked. The film is now called Pirate Radio. We also have five new posters for: Afterschool, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, Irene in Time, Transylmania and Visual Acoustics.

On the 2009 trailer front, we have new trailers from Dare, Disney’s A Christmas Carol, The End of Poverty?, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, The House of the Devil, Killing Kasztner, The Ministers, Red Cliff, Saw VI, Stan Helsing, Up in the Air and Van Diemen’s Land. Also note that Saw VI, The Fantastic Mr. Fox and Disney’s A Christmas Carol also have new posters available.

Bon appetite!

-Wesley Lovell (October 4, 2009)

Opening: October 2, 2009

October 2, 2009

It’s hard to know what of this line up will catch the public’s fancy. Each appeals to a different demographic, but some may cannibalize each other. I would say Zombieland has the best PR of the group, so may very well end up on top.

-Wesley Lovell (September 29, 2009)

Opening: September 25, 2009

September 23, 2009

September 25, 2009

Such a large group of films opening this week. But the race really comes down to a three-way between Astro Boy, Surrogates and Fame. All three have had heavy press coverage, but the demographics for these films may partly overlap with Astro Boy and Surrogates more effectively cannibalising their own audiences. Fame has several potential viewers outside those demographics and I think may very well end up on top.

-Wesley Lovell (September 22, 2009)

Weeks Ending September 20

For the first time in a great long while, all but one of this week’s 15 updates is a new trailer for a film for which I haven’t previously created a preview.

The one lone hold out was the shift in release date of Youth in Revolt to 2010. There is a new trailer up for a 2010 film called From Paris with Love, an espionage thriller with John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys-Myers. The remaining 13 entries are all for 2009.

Those new trailers are for: Afterschool, a film about the video capture of two students’ deaths; Blind Date about a grieving couple continuously going out on dates together; Dil Bole Hadippa!, about a female cricket player falling for her all-male cricket team coach; Disney’s A Christmas Carol, starring a motion-capture Jim Carrey as Scrooge; Dorian Gray, about an immortal, ageless man; Give Me Your Hand, featuring twins hitchhiking and discovering things about themselves; I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, about three bachelors having a bachelor party at a strip club; The Maid, featuring a 23-year veteran maid and her potential replacement; Michael Jackson’s This Is It, a documentary about the final stage tour that was in the works at the time of his death; Paranormal Activity, about a couple experiencing ghostly activity in their house and on camera; Peter and Vandy, which tells the story of a couple and how they got where they are; 31 North 62 East, a political thriller about a Prime Minister selling out an operation for an arms deal; and Visual Acoustics, a documentary about architectural photographer Julius Shulman.

That’s everything for this week. See you again in 7 days.

-Wesley Lovell (September 20, 2009)

Opening: September 18, 2009

September 18, 2009

Perhaps this time will be more of a charm with the family film trumping the horror flick as Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs should come out on top.

-Wesley Lovell (September 15, 2009)

Weeks Ending September 13

It’s another slow week with only 4 new films among 14 updates.

Three of the new films are Lars von Trier’s Cannes controversial Antichrist, blaxploitation retread Black Dynamite and Broken Hill about an Australian youth bringing music to convicts.

Those are all 2009 releases, and the only 2010 update is a trailer for the new film Takers about a group of bank robbers and the cops who chase them. The rest of the updates are for existing films that have new trailers, posters, purchasable posters and release dates.

There are updated or new release dates for The Lovely Bones and The Road; Posters made available to purchase for Ice Age 3, Youth in Revolt and the new posters reviewed and available to buy for Gamer and Inglourious Basterds (4 posters even); There’s a new trailer out for Surrogates, The Princess and the Frog and Zombieland.

That’s it for this week.

-Wesley Lovell (September 13, 2009)

Opening: September 11, 2009

September 9, 2009

  • 9 (Wide)

September 11, 2009

I think we’re looking at an easy win for 9, the first family-oriented animated film in some time. Though competition will be fierce with Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself. Sorority Row and Whiteout will compete for niche business and The September Issue should do well in limited release.

-Wesley Lovell (September 8, 2009)

Weeks Ending September 6

This week, we have a trove of new trailers, mostly of small independent films that aren’t likely to compete for your box office dollars.

All of our updates this week are from 2009, including two new posters (for Sorority Row and Whip It and a release date change for Walt & El Grupo.

There are a hefty number of new trailers, 24 to be exact (from 23 films). Those films are: Adventures of Power, Aladin, Astro Boy, The Box, The Boys Are Back, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Bronson, Dark Room Theater, The Horse Boy, How to Seduce Difficult Women, Leslie, My Name Is Evil, Lying, New Moon, 9, One Good Man, Pretty Ugly People, Price of Life, The Road, Summer Holiday, Trucker, Untitled, The Vampire’s Assistant and Youth in Revolt.

And that’s it until next week.

-Wesley Lovell (September 6, 2009)

Opening: September 4, 2009

September 4, 2009

When the final results are tabulated, Gamer will likely come out on top with All About Steve not-so-playfully nipping at its heels.

-Wesley Lovell (September 1, 2009)

Weeks Ending August 30

Another short update week, we only have 10 new updates to bring you.

We start off with a new trailer for a 2010 film, the latest Christopher Nolan flick Inception has a brief teaser of the film.

The rest are 2009 releases. The Invention of Lying has a new release date while Extract now has a new poster up. The remaining 7 are all new trailers.

The new trailers include: Amreeka, the story of a Palestinian woman and her son facing prejudice as they make a new life in America; The Blind Side about a wealthy woman who takes in a homeless boy in an attempt to give him a better life; Cloud 9, the story of an elderly woman who discovers she’s in love with a man other than her husband of 30 years; The Men Who Stare at Goats directed by writer/producer Grant Heslov about a journalist investigating a super secret military unit of psychic warriors; Transylmania featuring a group of college students traveling Transylvania and the comedic situations that arise when they discover there really are vampires; and the second trailer (first full length trailer) for Capitalism: A Love Story, the latest Michael Moore exposé about the corruption of Wall Street and its hold on the Capitol.

That’s everything. Enjoy these new trailers, posters and more.

-Wesley Lovell (August 30, 2009)

Opening: August 28, 2009

August 28, 2009

In this line up, the horror films will battle it out for the top spot and I think H2 is more likely to top the chart than Final Destination.

-Wesley Lovell (August 25, 2009)

Weeks Ending August 23

Blessed be the lack of updates for it shall mean more time to myself. This week we have only a handful of updates.

This week, we find ourselves with a major shift from 2009 to 2010. Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island got the grand shove from Paramount into 2010. There are a couple of thoughts to the reason. The first is that it wasn’t nearly as good as everyone thought it was going to be. The other is that it was being moved to allow paramount to make the full-court press for Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones, which will be the company’s only Oscar contender. While I think the first reason could be somewhat true, I’d say the second reason sounds more and more likely as I think about it.

As for the other 2010 addition this week, we have a new trailer up for The Wolfman starring Benicio Del Toro.

For 2009, there were five release date changes. Two pulled their films back from October 9 to October 2 to take advantage of Scorsese’s departure. The first film was Whip It and the other was Zombieland. The remaining three shifts were The Damned United, The Fantastic Mr. Fox and Pandorum. There is also a new poster for The Headless Woman, which I’ve posted with a review.

That leaves us with four films that each had a new or additional trailer made available this week. Art & Copy is a documentary about artists and advertising; Avatar is James Cameron’s much-hyped 3D saga; the musical/dance film remake of Fame; and an alien abduction thriller The Fourth Kind.

And that’s everything. Enjoy the short weekend.

-Wesley Lovell (August 23, 2009)

Opening: August 21, 2009

August 21, 2009

Tarantino hasn’t been the box office draw he once was, but with Brad Pitt in the lead, this could be his biggest debut in a few years.

-Wesley Lovell (August 18, 2009)

Weeks Ending August 16

A relatively small update this week with 10 new trailers and 4 new posters.

Two of the new trailers come from 2010. The first is for a film about God wanting to destroy mankind but an angel and a band of diner patrons don’t want that to happen. It’s called Legion. The other is a film about a young woman trying to find love, but striking out and stealing coins from a fountain to cause the men who threw them to fall in love with her. It’s titled When in Rome.

For 2009, however, the four new posters are for All About Steve, The Burning Plain, My One and Only and Whiteout.

The eight new trailers for 2009 are Did You Hear About the Morgans? about a bickering couple forced into witness-protection; Gentlemen Broncos about a plagiarizing creep and the young boy whose novel he stole; The Headless Woman about a woman driven mad by the thought that she has struck and killed a young boy with her car; How I Got Lost about a pair of friends trying to find themselves; Law Abiding Citizen about a vengeance-seeking ex government agent threatening to destroy the city; Motherhood about a stay-at-home mom struggling to accomplish everything she wants out of life while towing around a small child; St. Trinian’s about an all-girls school threatened with closure and the attmpts by the students to save it; and Streetballers about two young men working together to train for an important street basketball tournament.

And that’s everything for this week. The only trailer I know for certain that will be out next week is the one for Avatar, a countdown for which is up on the Apple Trailers sight. Should be most interesting and I’ll have the information for you right here when it arrives.

-Wesley Lovell (August 16, 2009)

Opening: August 14, 2009

August 14, 2009

Whoever decided that this weekend, a weak August one, would be perfected to open five wide releases, four limiteds and a NY/LA, is an absolute idiot. Some potentially good movies are going to get eaten alive by District 9 and Bandslam, the two films most likely to fight for box office dominance this weekend.

-Wesley Lovell (August 11, 2009)

Weeks Ending August 9

I had nearly finished watching all the new trailers last weekend when my computer’s connection started having a conniption and the trailers were downloading super slow. So, I didn’t get to finish before the end of the day. I’m just now barely finished with last week’s and this week’s data and it’s now available above.

There was one 2010 offering, the sneak trailer for Tron Legacy. The rest were 2009 releases.

We had four new release dates for The Box, Capitalism: A Love Story, The Informant! and Taking Woodstock. There was also a new poster made available for purchase for Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.

There were six new posters to review, three of which can also now be purchased. Bright Star, Earth Days, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (two posters and both available for purchase), Jennifer’s Body and Shorts (also available for purchase).

Then there are the 27 other new trailers: Beeswax, The Burning Plain, Cedar Boys, Crude, The Damned United, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, 45365, Grace, I Sell the Dead, It’s Complicated, Music, The Lovely Bones, My One and Only, New York, I Love You, Ninja Assassin, Old Dogs, Ong Bak 2, The Other Man, Paris, Ponyo, Saw VI, A Serious Man, Still Walking, Sultanes Del Sur, An Unlikely Weapon, Walt & El Grupo, and Whiteout.

And that’s this week’s update

-Wesley Lovell (August 9, 2009)

Opening: August 7, 2009

August 7, 2009

Something tells me that G.I. Joe might just flop over the weekend and Meryl Streep, despite not being your typical concept of a box office powerhouse, might just win the week with Julie & Julia. But, since teen boys don’t really have much to excite them and the tendency for ’80s kitsch remakes still draws an audience, I’m giving Joe the lead. Also watch out for Shorts as there also haven’t been a lot of kid-friendly flicks in release lately, so it could do much better than I expect.

-Wesley Lovell (August 4, 2009)

Opening: July 31, 2009

July 29, 2009

July 31, 2009

Adam Sandler probably has another top opener on his hands as the rest of the potential contenders are all likely to flop with most audiences, though Aliens in the Attic might do ok with child audiences and The Cove, as a documentary, lives by different standards.

-Wesley Lovell (July 28, 2009)

Weeks Ending July 26

Although I should no better, I had begun to get excited come Wednesday when I saw there were only a handful of new updates to be found. I had forgotten the Thursday-Friday onslaught, which brought this week’s total to 17.

We have two new trailers from 2010 for The Book of Eli and Alice in Wonderland. We have five 2009 films with new posters: Alvin and the Chipmunks 2, Amelia, The Bluetooth Virgin, The Box and The Collector.

For new trailers from 2009, there’s Bright Star, Casi Divas, How to Be a Serial Killer, I Can Do Bad All By Myself, Only, Play the Game, Shorts (which also had a new poster), Surviving Crooked Lake and Where the Wild Things Are.

That’s it. for this week.

-Wesley Lovell (July 26, 2009)

Opening: July 24, 2009

July 24, 2009

With such a tepid group of openers, it’s hard to see which will be the top. However, since there hasn’t been a good “chick flick” opening in some time, The Ugly Truth should probably do the best with G-Force coming in below that on the new release tallies.

-Wesley Lovell (July 21, 2009)

Weeks Ending July 19

Not nearlya s large an update as last week, we still have plenty of new previews, with a total of 23 updates for the week.

One new trailer comes from 2010, Despicable Me, which can also be found (at least I did) on the front of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

The non-trailer updates for 2009 are a poster now available for purchase for Aliens in the Attic, a new release date for A Perfect Getaway and a new poster for Taxidermia.

Nineteen new trailer reviews are now up from 2009: Balibo, The Bluetooth Virgin, Carriers, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Collector, Earth Days, An Education, Heart of Stone, July Moon, Love Aaj Kal, No Impact Man, The Queen and I, Sherlock Holmes, The Vanished Empire, The Way We Get By, Whip It, White on Rice, Wild Ocean and World’s Greatest Dad.

Enjoy your weekend.

-Wesley Lovell (July 19, 2009)

Opening: July 17, 2009

July 15, 2009

July 17, 2009

There’s a reason that there is only one limited release and an LA/NY film opening this weekend. Every production company knows that going up against fantasy juggernaut Harry Potter is box office suicide.

-Wesley Lovell (July 14, 2009)

Weeks Ending July 12

A week behind again. I was out of town last Sunday and had a busy Saturday, so no go last week. However, I am back this week with one of my biggest updates ever.

Thanks to a crapton of new posters over at All Posters, plus two weeks’ worth of new trailers and such, I have updates or new pages this week for 48 titles.

One of those is from 2010 (a posting of the poster review I should have put up when I first issued the page for The Daybreakers) and the rest are for the dwindling days of 2009.

We’ll begin things with the miscellaneous category of updates (as in everything but new posters and trailers). We have Taking Woodstock with a release date change, the Untitled Michael Moore Project has a new title now: Capitalism: A Love Story, and seven films has posters I had already reviewed become available on All Posters for purchase, so you can now click through to that page to look at posters for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Extract, 500 Days of Summer, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, The Hangover, The Informers and Post Grad.

New posters are available for 13 films, eight of which are available at All Posters. The thirteen films are: Astro Boy, Bandslam, H2, The Hurt Locker, I Can Do Bad All By Myself, I Love You, Beth Cooper, In the Loop, Julie & Julia, Lion’s Den, Pandorum, A Perfect Getaway, Ponyo and A Woman in Berlin.

The rest, 25 in total, are all new trailers: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Betty Blue: Director’s Cut, Big Fan, Brothers, Bull, Captain Abu Raed, Coco Before Chanel, Couples Retreat, District 9, Evangelion 1.0, Five Minutes of Heaven, Flame & Citron, Flicker, The Informant!, Inglourious Basterds, Jennifer’s Body, Kambakkht Ishq, Old Dogs, Planet 51, Taxidermia, The Uninvited, Weather Girl, The Windmill Movie, X Games 3D: The Movie and Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg

And that’s everything for this week. Enjoy.

-Wesley Lovell (July 12, 2009)

Opening: July 10, 2009

July 10, 2009

Of this week’s crop of openers, I think Brüno should easily top the heap. I Love You, Beth Cooper may do solid, date movie-type business, but it’s not likely to do better.

-Wesley Lovell (July 7, 2009)

Opening: July 3, 2009

July 1, 2009

July 3, 2009

What we may be seeing this weekend is a shift in dynamics. While it’s likely Transformers will still have a solid second weekend, though obviously not as large as its previous, a large chunk of it is going to be taken out by kid-friendly Ice Age 3 and Johnny Depp starrer Public Enemies. Whether Depp can top Michael Bay at the box office is a difficult question to answer, it does have a good shot at beating Ice Age to the new-release crown.

-Wesley Lovell (June 30, 2009)

Week Ending June 28

This week, we have a solid number of 2009 entries and even a couple from 2010.

For 2010, there are two new trailers up including M. Night Shyamalan’s new film, which is, oddly enough, an adaptation of the anime series The Last Airbender. The other is for a new all-vampire, survival flicked called Daybreakers.

There are ten new trailers, two new posters and three new release dates up for 2009. The new release dates are for The Boat That Rocked, Pandorum and Sorority Row. For new posters, we have Cheri and 500 Days of Summer.

The new trailers include the Earhart biopic Amelia, Cameron Diaz/James Marsten horror pic The Box, Rob Zombie horror sequel H2, Mischa Barton thriller Homecoming, Ricky Gervais comedy The Invention of Lying, the documentary-feel drama Irene in Time, Hayao Miyazaki’s new aquatic animated aventure Ponyo, Vogue editor documentary The September Issue, Ashton Kutcher romance Spread and psycho killer horror film The Stepfather.

That’s it for this week. Come back next week to see more.

-Wesley Lovell (June 28, 2009)

Opening: June 26, 2009

June 24, 2009

June 26, 2009

While everyone fully expects Transformers 2 to top the box office, there seems to be a lot of hope that the film bombs like many other thought-to-be-surefire hits this year. Time will tell, but for now, putting it at the top of your B.O. list makes sense.

-Wesley Lovell (June 23, 2009)

Week Ending June 21

There’s a little more activity this week, but none of this week’s changes are terribly impactful on the box office.

For the week, we have three new posters, two films with posters available to buy and 15 new trailers.

Of the three new posters, one of them has a poster available now to purchase, G-Force. The rest are simply new: Dead Snow and It Might Get Loud. The one new purchasable poster added based on an existing poster review is for Fast and Furious.

There are now trailers out for the following films (a few of which gain their second trailer this week). Blood: The Last Vampire, Cold Souls, The Cove, Fame, The Girl from Monaco, Herb and Dorothy, I Bring What I Love, I Hate Valentine’s Day, Last Ride, Lion’s Den, Love Happens, Shorts, 2012, Untitled Michael Moore Project and Zombieland.

Next week, we’ll bring you even more new posters.

-Wesley Lovell (June 21, 2009)

Opening: June 19, 2009

June 19, 2009

Jack Black may very well be able to sell a weekend and with its chief competition as a chick flick, it may have no problem topping the weekend’s box office. But, surprises can occur and The Proposal could very well do better business than many expect.

-Wesley Lovell (June 16, 2009)

Week Ending June 14

A slower week than normal, this batch of trailers consists mostly of currently-released or soon-to-be-released smaller features and a few August and later trailers. That means the small quantity being released each week is not at all surprising and will likely pick back up some time in July or August when we start getting the holiday film teasers released.

For this week, though, we have new posters for The Final Destination and Not Forgotten as well as a new release date for Shorts. Then we have a dozen new trailers to discuss.

We have Jeff Daniels and Lauren Graham in The Answer Man, cheapy zombie flick The Crypt, fishy documentary End of the Line, IRA thriller Fifty Dead Men Walking, Jeremy Piven comedy The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, German foreign lingo pic Heaven’s Heart, guitar legend documentary It Might Get Loud, a film about the French artist Séraphine, Martin Scorsese’s psychological thriller Shutter Island, romantic drama The Time Traveler’s Wife, Buddhist documentary Unmistaken Child, and education satire What Goes Up.

That’s everything. Enjoy until we see you again next week.

-Wesley Lovell (June 14, 2009)

Opening: June 12, 2009

June 11, 2009

June 12, 2009

Will Eddie Murphy be able to reign at the box office for the first time in ages? Maybe, but Denzel Washington and John Travolta will attempt to put a stop to that and they could very well succeed, but I’m giving the edge to the family comedy.

-Wesley Lovell (June 9, 2009)

Weeks Ending June 7

I was out of town last Sunday and busy all day Saturday, so I couldn’t get anything updated, despite a really slow week. And, luckily, this week was also slow, so I have a normal-sized update for you today.

We start off with a teaser trailer released in front of Up for Pixar’s 2010 entry, Toy Story 3. The rest of the updates are for 2009 as, so far, Disney is the only company to sneak anything from 2010 (previously, it was Oceans on the front end of Earth).

In 2009, we have 10 new trailers and 4 new posters, two of which are now available for purchase in the Resources page or follow the link from the individual preview page.

The two posters available for purchase, and with new reviews, are for Planet 51 and Where the Wild Things Are. The remaining new posters are for Bandslam and Pressure Cooker.

The ten trailers are for the films Brüno, Dead Snow, The Final Destination, The Man from London, New Moon, Pandorum, A Perfect Getaway, Shrink, Surrogates and A Woman in Berlin.

That’s all we have for you this week. I should have even more for you on the 14th.

-Wesley Lovell (June 7, 2009)

Opening: June 2, 2009

June 2, 2009

I could say that The Hangover will be a hit, but I really think Land of the Lost will carry the weekend. If it doesn’t, I’ll be entirely amused.

-Wesley Lovell (June 2, 2009)

Opening: May 29, 2009

May 29, 2009

There should be no trouble for Up to rise to the top of the box office over the weekend. Matter of fact, it should do quite a bit better than the debuts of the last two weeks.

-Wesley Lovell (May 26, 2009)

Opening: May 22, 2009

May 21, 2009

May 22, 2009

Terminator Salvation will easily top the weekend box office easily pushing last week’s top films down. Night at the Museum will also open strongly against competition and will likely come in second to Terminator. Dance Flick will probably come in fourth or fifth, but could even end up lower against competition like Night at the Museum and Terminator.

-Wesley Lovell (May 19, 2009)

Weeks Ending May 24

I was under the weather last weekend, so this week’s update includes last week’s new previews and posters as well.

Combined, there were only three new posters, but 33 new trailers. The new posters were for The Big Shot-Caller, Ghosts of the Heartland and Pontypool.

The new trailers were for A l’aventure, Afghan Star, Aliens in the Attic, The Art of Being Straight, Baby on Board, Bandslam, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, The Boys: The Sherman Brothers’ Story, The Bracelet of Bordeaux, Burma VJ, Children of Invention, Dark Mirror, Gamer, The Girlfriend Experience, Gooby, I Can Do Bad All By Myself, In the Loop, Kabei: Our Mother, Land of the Lost, The Last International Playboy, Life Is Hot in Cracktown, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Nine, Precious, The Princess and the Frog, Quiet Chaos, The Road, Sherlock Holmes, Strangers, Street Dreams, Twistee Treat, The Ugly Truth and Yesterday Was a Lie.

And that’s everything.

-Wesley Lovell (May 24, 2009)

Opening: May 15, 2009

May 14, 2009

May 15, 2009

I don’t see Management doing very well, at least not to the level of Angels & Demons, which will easily win the weekend (at least of the new releases)

-Wesley Lovell (May 12, 2009)

Weeks Ending May 10

May has so far turned out to be an entertaining month at the movies, but not with trailers as another batch of rather lackluster previews appears.

This week, we have a new poster for sale: Super Capers and a brand new poster for review: Public Enemies. The rest of this week’s updates are of trailers.

We have lightning-struck self-examination documentary Act of God, ’80s animation-mined action flick G.I. Joe, noir flick Ghosts of the Heartland, bromance porno/art film drama Humpday, Meryl Streep/Amy Adams comedy Julie & Julia, radio station zombie flick Pontypool, Francis Ford Coppola’s first original script in over 20 years called Tetro and Woody Allen’s first New York-based comedy in five years: Whatever Works.

And that’s it for this week.

-Wesley Lovell (May 10, 2009)

Opening: May 8, 2009

May 8, 2009

I don’t forsee much of a problem with Star Trek taking over the #1 spot at this week’s box office. Reviews have been solid and Wolverine is likely to decline steeply next weekend.

-Wesley Lovell (May 5, 2009)

Weeks Ending May 3

Another week, another post that’s late. I do apologize, but things have been hectic lately, and hopefully we won’t have that much of a problem in the near future…but we’ll see.

Anyway, this week’s update comes with 19 changes. we have 10 films with new posters for sale, 6 of which have new posters, but of those, some have anywhere from 1 to 3 to 5 new posters. The only four to make existing posters available for purchase were Adventureland, Next Day Air, Tyson and Year One. The rest all have new posters: Hotel for Dogs (1 poster), Moon (1 poster), My Life in Ruins (1 poster), Observe and Report (3 posters), The Proposal (1 poster) and Star Trek (5 posters). Then, there’s one film, The Hangover, that has a new poster but not one available for sale.

Of the remaining films, only Terminator Salvation previews a second (or in this case third) trailer. The remaining seven are all brand new: Adam, District 9, Naked Ambition, Post Grad, Pressure Cooker, Soul Power and Taking Woodstock.

-Wesley Lovell (May 3, 2009)

Opening: May 1, 2009

May 1, 2009

If you can’t say that Wolverine will be the top film this coming weekend, then obviously you should not predict the box office. The big question is really how big an opening it will be. Some say that the pre-leaked version may drive down ticket sales, but a number of people won’t be bothered by that. I’m going to say it’s going to be near-record breaking, but not able to break them. I’m going to say around $95 M for the weekend, possibly pushing or slightly passing the century mark.

-Wesley Lovell (April 28, 2009)

Weeks Ending April 26

This week, we introduce our first trailer for 2010 and it will likely be the only one until somewhere half-way through the year. Be that as it may, the trailer accompanied the film Earth this weekend andis another Earth Day documentary called Oceans.

In addition to that, there are fifteen other updates. One is a new release date for All About Steve. Three are new posters, Moon, The Stoning of Soraya M and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which is also available for purchase.

The remaining elven updates are all new trailers: The Big-Shot Caller, The Boat That Rocked, Downloading Nancy, G-Force, H2, Kobe Doin’ Work, Not Forgotten, Outrage, Paper Heart, P-Star Rising and The Skeptic.

And that’s it until next week where we may see at leat one new trailer that will be attached to the upcoming blockbuster Wolverine.

-Wesley Lovell (April 26, 2009)

Opening: April 24, 2009

April 22, 2009

April 24, 2009

The Soloist has Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx, which could be enough tto secure it a top-new-release opening. However, Obsessed has Beyoncé, which could help even more. Fighting could top the box office just for appealing to male testosterone junkies and women hot for Channing Tatum. I’m going to give the edge to Fighting, but it’s going to be close.

-Wesley Lovell (April 21, 2009)

Weeks Ending April 19

We have nearly two dozen updates this week.

We have new posters available for purchase for Dragonball Evolution, Crank: High Voltage and Obsessed.

The posters for purchase for Crank and Obsessed are also new alongside new posters for Angels & Demons, Il Divo, The Garden and Next Day Air.

The rest are new trailers: Ante Up, Armored, Facing Ali, Food, Inc., Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Highwater, The Hurt Locker, Love N’ Dancing, Moon, More Than a Game, My Sister’s Keeper, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 and Treeless Mountain.

And that’s all we have for this week.

-Wesley Lovell (April 19, 2009)

Opening: April 17, 2009

April 17, 2009

This will be an interesting test of audience attention. Will the tweeners make 17 Again the number one box office choice or will the action junkies bring Crank: High Voltage to the top? The only thing for certain is that State of Play might play well, but it won’t be number one. I’m going on a limb and giving this to tweener 17 Again largely because the original Crank doesn’t seem like a film that should have a sequel.

-Wesley Lovell (April 14, 2009)

Weeks Ending April 12

I didn’t realize until I startd putting together this week’s update that it had been a month since I last updated. That might explain why I have 61 updates this week spanning the last four weeks. One of those updates is for 2008, a new poster for Hunger. The rest are all 2009 updates.

Five are release dates changes for Dragonball Evolution, Moscow, Belgium, My Life in Ruins, The Proposal and Sex Positive.

There are eight that have new posters: Anvil! The Story of Anvil, The Escapist, Fast and Furious, Fighting, Is Anybody There?, Sunshine Cleaning (which also has a new release date), Surveillance and Valentino: The Last Emperor.

That leaves 47 that are new trailers: After Last Season, Alexander the Last, April Showers, Astro Boy, Away We Go, The Brothers Bloom, The Chaser, Cheri, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Cross, Daytime Drinking, Delhi 6, Departures, Il Divo, Easy Virtue, Emilio, Extract, Fame, The Garden, Guest of Cindy Sherman, The Hangover, Home, How to Be, Hush, I Love You, Beth Cooper, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, In a Dream, Lemon Tree, Little Ashes, Lymelife, Management, Merry Gentleman, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The New Twenty, Nursery University, Orphan, Paper Covers Rock, Perfect Sport, Rudo y Cursi, Shorts, The Song of Sparrows, Sorority Row, The Stoning of Soraya M., Summer Hours, Where the Wild Things Are, Winter of Frozen Dreams and Year One.

And that’s everything.

-Wesley Lovell (April 12, 2009)

Opening: April 10, 2009

April 8, 2009

April 10, 2009

While it’s possible that Fast and Furious could remain perched atop the box office with such high opening numbers, it’s also possible that it could collapse and drop precipitously against the Seth Rogen gross-out comedy Observe and Report, but the true test of Hannah Montana‘s power will be how well it performs. I think it still has enough oomph to be the top new release, but it might fall to Observe, but Dragonball isn’t likely to beat either of the other two.

-Wesley Lovell (April 7, 2009)

Week Ending March 8

A lot of updates to go over this week, so let’s get to this.

We have two updates for 2008. The first trailer is up for a film called Hunger which earned several critics’ awards. The other update is a new poster, one you can now buy, for The Wrestler.

From 2009, we have several posters available now to purchase including ones for Echelong Conspiracy, Fiday the 13th and The Ugly Truth, as well as postesrs that are entirely new that you can purchase and also read my latest review on for Crossing Over, The Great Buck Howard and four new posters for Watchmen.

There was a new release date set for Adventureland and ten new trailers to review: The Edge of Love, Funny People, Hannah Montana: The Movie, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The Limits of Control, Public Enemies, 17 Again, Star Trek, Terminator Salvation and Up.

And that’s all we have for this week.

-Wesley Lovell (March 8, 2009)

Week Ending March 1

Now that the Oscars are over, we have very little to look forward to until next year’s Awards, but we’ll fill our time examining all the latest movies and their chances at Oscar glory.

But, for specific comments on the Oscar races, you’ll have to visit each individual previewed film’s page. But, to give you some impetus to do so, two of this year’s Oscar winners now have posters available to buy. Slumdog Millionaire, this year’s eight-Oscar winner has a poster available as does this year’s winner for Best Supporting Actress Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

The rest of this week’s update comes in the guise of twenty 2009 updates.

There are new posters up now for American Violet, Dragonball Evolution, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Lorna’s Silence, Observe and Report and Sherman’s Way.

For new trailers, we have plenty: Angels & Demons, Babysitter Wanted, Big Man Japan, The Education of Charlie Banks, Explicit Ills, Gigantic, Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, Land of the Lost, Mutant Chronicles, Phoebe in Wonderland, Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Valentino: The Last Emperor and The Velveteen Rabbit.

Enjoy these latest previews.

-Wesley Lovell (March 1, 2009)

Opening: February 27, 2009

Although, I can hope for it not to be true, the Hannah Montana 3D concert managed to top the box office strongly and although I think Street Fighter will open well, I don’t think it will do as well as the second week of Madea Goes to Jail and both will be topped by the Jonas Brothers.

-Wesley Lovell (February 27, 2009)

Week Ending February 22

This week’s update has come fast and furious, largely because I need to get it done before all the stuff I have to do today goes into effect…and then there’s the Oscrs. So, let’s get this done with so both you and I can move on and prep for the biggest night of the year.

We have a new release date for 500 Day of Summer.

We have new posters up for Everlasting Moments and Inglourious Basterds.

We have new trailers for geek-at-prom comedy Bart Got a Room; a documentary about exploring Yoga as a form of enlightenment called Enlighten Up!; a French foreign language film about a woman trying to stay in the country who falls in love with the man she was going to pay to divorce her in the drug detox drama Lorna’s Secret; Seth Rogen as an overweight mall security guard and Anna Faris as the mall worker he wants to hook up with in Observe and Report; a French foreign language musical about the revitalization of a closed Parsiaian theater in a movie called Paris 36; and a comedy about exploring your self and becoming a more adventurous spirit titled Sherman’s Way.

We have nothing more for you. Go enjoy the Oscars.

-Wesley Lovell (February 22, 2009)

Opening: February 20, 2009

I wouldn’t doubt if Friday the 13th was able to hang on for a second week at the top, though a horror film hasn’t been able to achieve that in some time. However, the only film that really seems like it could give Mr. Vorhees a run for his money is Tyler Perry whose Madea Goes to Jail may return him to the top of the box office heap for an off-holiday weekend.

-Wesley Lovell (February 20, 2009)

Week Ending February 15

Anything’s a step back from the massive double dozen update of last week, even this 14-change update today.

We have no new 2008 changes, so everything’s going to be available for 2009. We start off with two new release dates for Dance Flick and The Haunting in Connecticut. From there, we move to a new poster up for Echelon Conspiracy and then a eleven new trailer releases.

We have a new drama about a black woman accused of drug trafficking by an overzealous, corrupt government agency in American Violet; Dragonbal Evolution, a live action rendition of the popular anime series; Swedish foreign language film about a restless woman and her inner-self discovery through photography in Everlasting Moments; Buddy drama about a lonely older gentleman and the cabby who takes an interest in his life called Goodbye Solo; Quentin Tarantino’s macabre World War II black comedy Inglourious Basterds; Must Read After My Death, a cobbled-together documentary about real-life suburban malaise; Phoebe in Wonderland about a young girl who seeks escape from the rigidness of the real world through theater; a Spanish-language drama about a gang member who seeks a new life with a troubled young woman as they escape to America in Sin Nombe; farcical dark comedy about a failed playwright looking to score with one of his victims in Skills Like This; Super Capers, a broad comedy about a group of super heroes battling dangerous, ludicrous forces; and a remake of the 1974 film The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 about a hijacked subway car and the relationship between the abductor and the subway dispatcher.

And, that is a big paragraph. But, that’s everything there is, so enjoy the rest of your weekend.

-Wesley Lovell (February 15, 2009)

Opening: February 13, 2009

Last week, I thought it was too obvious that Pink Panther 2 would top the box office and it didn’t. This week, I won’t underestimate the power of women at the movies and Confessions of a Shopaholic could certainly be the perfect Valentine’s Day movie. But, there are a lot of women out there who like to be scared and men who like to get them all clingy and one should never underestimate a classic horror reboot, so I’m giving the edge to Friday the 13th, but I think it could be quite a race in the end with The International left to bomb in the dust.

-Wesley Lovell (February 13, 2009)

Week Ending February 8

As if the large number of new spots aired during the Super Bowl weren’t bad enough, there were still plenty of other trailers to keep the week busy (and my Sunday).

There’s a new poster up for Gomorrah, which is the only update for 2008.

There are more than two dozen updates for 2009, however. There’s a one-day shift in the release date for Terminator Salvation. We have new posters for The Great Buck Howard, Miss March, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian and Watchmen.

For new trailers, we have Angels & Demons, Brothers at War, Eden Log, Eleven Minutes, Fast and Furious, G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Land of the Lost, Monsters vs. Aliens, My Life in Ruins, Owl and the Sparrow, Race to Witch Mountain, Red Mist, Sex Positive, Star Trek XI, Sugar, Tokyo!, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Up and Year One.

And with that mouthful out of the way, I wish you a great week.

-Wesley Lovell (February 8, 2009)

Opening: February 6, 2009

I think it’s fairly obvious what will top the box office. The Pink Panther 2 already has a built in audience and despite the first film being barely serviceable, the second, which looks like more of the same, shoudl still easily top the box office. Watch out, though, for Push which appeals to teenage boys for its use of action and visual effects. But those Fanboys might instead be drawn to the comedy that better fits their personality. He’s Just Not That Into You may take some of the female demo and Corale will pick up minor amounts of family auds, but this weekend should belong to Inspector Clusoe.

-Wesley Lovell (February 6, 2009)

Week Ending February 1

Back to the old grindstone, we have just over a dozen new updates for you this week.

Starting off, we have one update for 2008, the trailer and poster for Moscow, Belgium, a foreign relationship drama in the vein of Once.

For 2009, we have several more updates. Ten new trailers, two new release dates and a new poster available for purchase. The latter is the poster for Coraline. The former two new release dates are for The Last House on the Left and 2012. Then, we have the ten new trailers. Each is for a film I haven’t previewed previously.

We have 50s alien feature spoof Alien Trespass, a German story about life and loss Cherry Blossoms: Hanami, a martial ats film about a chi-balanced young girl in Chocolate, Jason Statham’s latest unnecessary sequel Crank: High Voltage, the Joseph Gordon Leavitt/Zooey Descahanel romantic drama 500 Days of Summer, black heist/theft comedy Next Day Air, a film about unexplained phenomena in the Afghan desert called The Objective, Terence Davies’ Liverpool documentary Of Time and the City, Thanksgiving-release computer animated family feature Planet 51 and a film with Liam Neeson about a man who stalks those who kidnapped his daughter entitled Taken.

And that’s all we have this week. Join us again next week.

-Wesley Lovell (February 1, 2009)

Opening: January 30, 2009

Can Renee Zellweger draw an audience? Her past outings suggest she could, but New in Town hasn’t gotten the kind of advertising push a potential blockbuster usually gets. But, it’s likely to be the biggest opening of the weekend unless the horror flick The Uninvited somehow manages to pull in an aud.

-Wesley Lovell (January 30, 2009)

Week Ending January 25

Because I have been away from my computer most of the weekend, there will be no Previews update this week. I’ll get back to it next weekend.

-Wesley Lovell (January 25, 2009)

Opening: January 23, 2009

If The Dark Knight weren’t re-releasing, I’d say Inkheart would top the box office, but it’s likely that post-Oscar nominations, Dark Knight, despite being on DVD for over a month, will likely top the box office with Inkheart coming in second.

-Wesley Lovell (January 23, 2009)

Week Ending January 18

Ah. It feels like late Spring.

We have nearly two dozen updates for you this week. Five films in 2008 have posters now available for purchase: Cadillac Records, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Gran Torino, Seven Pounds, and While She Was Out. One of those, Button, the poster isn’t one I’ve reviewed before, so a new review there as been posted.

The rest of the updates are for 2009. 8 are for new trailers, 5 for new posters and 2 with just the Buy the Poster links enabled. These later two are for films Angels & Demons and Not Easily Broken. The five new posters are for Friday the 13th, Knowing, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Terminator Salvation and Underworld: Rise of the Lycans.

Then we have eight new trailers. Horror flick Donkey Punch, car racing sequel Fast and Furious, underground street combat movie Fighting, Eddie Murphy family comedy Imagine That, Mickey Rourke/Diane Lane contract killer drama Killshot, indie relationship film Medicine for Melancholy, stealth video game adaptation Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, and Japanese family drama Tokyo Sonata.

That’s all we have. Enjoy.

-Wesley Lovell (January 18, 2009)

Opening: January 16, 2009

There are any number of scenarios that could come out of this week’s massive number of new wide releases. There’s something for families, adults, horror fantatics, music fans and stupid comedy lovers. I can’t really be certain what will top the box office, but Defiance could be it.

-Wesley Lovell (January 16, 2009)

Week Ending January 11

The vacation is over. In addition to the several new posters and trailers this week, I have posted my 2008 Year in Preview, my listing of the best and worst trailers and posters of 2008. Click on he Previews by Year link below and then click on 2008. There at the top, you’ll see the link. You’ll also notice that the usual update information posted at the top is gone. From this point forward, the only reference to 2008 updates will be right here in these postings. So, if you see it updated here, just click through to 2008 and find the page and go from there.

This week saw a handful of new trailers and several new posters, including four associated with films that I included in my Best Trailers list and therefore needed to track down posters for the sidebars. I did that successfully and the results are more updates than I at first expected.

Rounding out 2008 (hopefully not much more comes out for last year), we have three films with posters now available to purchase (each poster I hadn’t reviewed before either): Body of Lies, Igor and The Tale of Despereaux. In addition, we have new posters up for Boy A, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Milk and Witless Protection.

For 2009, we have five new trailers and two new posters. On the poster side, we have new posters for Earth and Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail. On the trailer front, we have a Sandra Bullock romantic comedy called All About Steve, an ensemble relationship dramedy titled He’s Just Not That Into You, a 70’s horror flick remaind in The Last House on the Left, a farcical waste named Miss March, and a love triangle drama called Two Lovers.

And that’s everything we have for this week.

-Wesley Lovell (January 11, 2009)

Opening: January 9, 2009

Can Bride Wars topple Marley & Me. A third week hold over versus a sure female comedy doesn’t really stand a chance, but there is always the possibility when looking at these types of films. The Unborn looks like yet another horror misfire if only for the fact that it’s been barely advertised.

-Wesley Lovell (January 9, 2009)

Week Ending January 4

Just thought I’d give you an update that there will be no updates this week. None of my regular sources for new trailers and posters have anything new posted this week, so you, and I, have a free week this week. Enjoy.

-Wesley Lovell (January 4, 2009)

Opening: January 2, 2009

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Although there is nothing new opening, there is still a box office champ to predict. I’m going to go with a surprise rise to the top for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button if Marley and Me doesn’t stick at the top. Bedtime Stories is probably done and is likely to start slipping.

-Wesley Lovell (January 2, 2009)

2010

Opening: December 31, 2010

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Opening: December 24, 2010

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Opening: December 17, 2010

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Opening: December 10, 2010

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Opening: December 3, 2010

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Opening: November 23, 2010

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Opening: November 19, 2010

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Opening: November 12, 2010

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Opening: November 5, 2010

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Opening: October 29, 2010

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Opening: October 22, 2010

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Opening: October 15, 2010

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Opening: October 8, 2010

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Opening: October 1, 2010

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Opening: September 24, 2010

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Opening: September 17, 2010

(September 15, 2010)

(September 17, 2010)

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Opening: September 10, 2010

(September 10, 2010)

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Opening: September 3, 2010

(September 1, 2010)

(September 3, 2010)

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Opening: August 27, 2010

(August 27, 2010)

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Opening: August 20, 2010

(August 18, 2010)

(August 20, 2010)

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Opening: August 13, 2010

(August 13, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (August 10, 2010)

Opening: August 6, 2010

(August 6, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (August 3, 2010)

Opening: July 30, 2010

(July 30, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (July 27, 2010)

Opening: July 23, 2010

(July 23, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (July 20, 2010)

Opening: July 16, 2010

(July 14, 2010)

(July 16, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (July 13, 2010)

Opening: July 9, 2010

(July 8, 2010)

(July 9, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (July 6, 2010)

Opening: July 2, 2010

(June 30, 2010)

(July 2, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (June 29, 2010)

Opening: June 25, 2010

(June 25, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (June 22, 2010)

Opening: June 18, 2010

(June 18, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (June 15, 2010)

Opening: June 11, 2010

(June 11, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (June 8, 2010)

Opening: June 4, 2010

(June 4, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (June 1, 2010)

Opening: May 28, 2010

(May 28, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (May 25, 2010)

Opening: May 21, 2010

(May 21, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (May 18, 2010)

Opening: May 14, 2010

(May 14, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (May 11, 2010)

Opening: May 7, 2010

(May 7, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (May 4, 2010)

Opening: April 30, 2010

(April 30, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (April 27, 2010)

Opening: April 23, 2010

(April 22, 2010)

(April 23, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (April 20, 2010)

Opening: April 16, 2010

(April 16, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (April 13, 2010)

Opening: April 9, 2010

(April 9, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (April 6, 2010)

Opening: April 2, 2010

(March 31, 2010)

(April 2, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (March 30, 2010)

Opening: March 26, 2010

(March 26, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (March 23, 2010)

Opening: March 19, 2010

(March 19, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (March 16, 2010)

Opening: March 12, 2010

(March 12, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (March 9, 2010)

Opening: March 5, 2010

(March 5, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (March 2, 2010)

Opening: February 26, 2010

(February 26, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (February 23, 2010)

Opening: February 19, 2010

(February 19, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (February 16, 2010)

Opening: February 12, 2010

(February 12, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (February 9, 2010)

Opening: February 5, 2010

(February 5, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (February 2, 2010)

Opening: January 27, 2010

(January 27, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (January 26, 2010)

Opening: January 22, 2010

(January 22, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (January 19, 2010)

Opening: January 15, 2010

(January 15, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (January 12, 2010)

Opening: January 8, 2010

(January 8, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (January 5, 2010)

2011

Opening: February 18, 2011

(February 18, 2011)

-Wesley Lovell (February 15, 2011)

Opening: February 11, 2011

(February 11, 2011)

-Wesley Lovell (February 8, 2011)

Opening: February 4, 2011

(February 4, 2011)

-Wesley Lovell (February 1, 2011)

Opening: January 28, 2010

(January 28, 2010)

-Wesley Lovell (January 25, 2011)

Opening: January 21, 2011

(January 21, 2011)

-Wesley Lovell (January 18, 2011)

  • No Strings Attached (Wide)
  • The Way Back (Wide)
  • The Company Men (Limited)
  • Evangelion 2.0 (Limited)
  • The Housemaid (Limited)

    • Opening: January 14, 2011

    (January 14, 2011)

    -Wesley Lovell (January 11, 2011)

    Opening: January 7, 2011

    (January 7, 2011)

    -Wesley Lovell (January 4, 2011)

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