Trouble with the Curve Reviews, Interviews & More
This week brings a tidal wave of new releases. In fact there’s no notable classic or older titles coming out for the next week. Such is Christmas. What is coming is some of the August and September’s surprise hits, and biggest misses. Check it out.
The start of Oscar season is usually packed with a lot of hopefuls based on casts and prestige possibilities, but the reality is that at some point, someone's going to see your movie, and eventually consensus will build. One day you may be the talk of the town, and then the next day your movie will come out in limited theaters and find no audience. Or just as bad, it's forgotten about it...
There are three films opening this weekend: Hotel Transylvania, Looper and Won't Back Down. With the latter, I haven't heard much chatter about it, but that's partly because I'm in no way its target demographic, and neither are most people who read movie news websites. Selective and smart marketing could work for...
Jennifer Lawrence in a tank top is enough. Enough to win a weak weekend, at least for right now. The horror movie House at the End of the Street had enough interest to tie with End of Watch, beat back Trouble with the Curve and decimate Dredd. Full numbers ahoy.
The only thing more interesting than talking box office numbers? Talking politics! And today we get the rare overlap of the two with a fictional film. Clint Eastwood stars in (he didn't direct it though, that was Robert Lorenz, who's been Eastwood's Assistant Director for a while now) Trouble with the Curve. Will his speech at the RNC mean there's trouble at the box...
Clint Eastwood came out of quasi-retirement for this? On one hand, it’s understandable—Trouble with the Curve is the directorial debut of Robert Lorenz, his long-time production partner. On the other hand, this looks like pure, stitched together Hollywood cheese. Dig the trailer below.
Well, this ought to make the day of a few Clint Eastwood fans out there—looks like the actor turned director who stated that 2008’s Gran Torino would be his final bow in front of a movie camera is planning on returning from his acting retirement for at least one more film.
