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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: February 5, 2010

(February 5, 2010)

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Opening: January 27, 2010

(January 27, 2010)

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Opening: January 22, 2010

(January 22, 2010)

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Opening: January 15, 2010

(January 15, 2010)

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Opening: January 8, 2010

(January 8, 2010)

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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

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Opening: November 20, 2009

November 20, 2009

-Wesley Lovell (November 17, 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)