Welcome to Box Office Wizard, Player Affinity’s Movie Box Office Prediction Contest. Just read through this post and tell us your top five box office predicted finishers for this weekend. Finish out 2011 on top and you will win something COOL.
Dinah, Steven, Simon, and John look forward to the September releases, discussing the films with the most and least potential in the month. Also, Simon and Dinah reenact a scene from Shark Night 3D and review the latest movies.
The upcoming Contagion,
which doesn’t feature zombies but does carry a deadly virus at the core
of it’s plot. It is in this spirit that we look to viruses in film and
what we can
take away from these stories.
It’s
time for a laugh with this week’s featured trailer, The Big Year, starring Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson as
three friends and birdwatchers who pluck themselves from the real world to
enter a year-long competition of ornithological bliss – or not.
Partners David Katzenberg (son of DreamWorks chief Jeffrey Katzenberg) and Seth Grahame-Smith (author of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) have signed a first-look deal with Warner Bros. that could well lead to a Beetlejuice sequel.
With the Toronto International Film Festival kicking off tomorrow, it’s definitely safe to say Oscar season is underway. A quick glance at this year’s lineup shows a number of films that could ride a wave of buzz through the winter, all the way to the Kodak theater in February. Here are some of the most likely contenders.
