Are you looking for what to expect in the month of January? Need to figure out when or what? I’ve got a budget so I have to plan and plot.
This is a quick break down of the dates:
Friday January 8, 2010: Daybreakers, Leap Year, Youth in Revolt, Bitch Slap, Crazy on the Outside, Wonderful World.
On January 15, 2010: Book of Eli, Hoodwinked 2: Hood vs. Evil, The Spy Next Door & The Last Station.
On January 22, 2010: Extraordinary Measures, Legion & The Tooth Fairy.
Finally, on January 29, 2010: Edge of Darkness, When in Rome & Saint John of Las Vegas (Indie)
Let’s check out some details, movie trailers and short detailed previews, shall we?
Opening Friday January 8, 2010
Daybreakers
Directed by Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig. With Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe & Isabel Lucas.
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.
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Leap Year
Directed by Anand Tucker. With Amy Adams, Matthew Goode & John Lithgow.
A woman (Adams) who has an elaborate scheme to propose to her boyfriend on Leap Day, an Irish tradition which occurs every time the date February 29 rolls around, faces a major setback when bad weather threatens to derail her planned trip to Dublin. With the help of an innkeeper, however, her cross-country odyssey just might result in her getting engaged.
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Youth in Revolt
Directed by Miguel Arteta. With Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Jean Smart.
While his trailer trash parents teeter on the edge of divorce, Nick Twisp sets his sights on dream girl Sheeni Saunders, hoping that she’ll be the one to take away his virginity. (We all have to have goals I guess. Bruce)
Bitch Slap
Directed by Rick Jacobson. With Julia Voth, Erin Cummings, America Olivo, others on the docket include Kevin Sorbo, Lucy Lawless, Renee O’Connor & Zoe Bell. LOL… those have to be like one moment appearances.
IF ANYONE SEES THIS, let me know what you think!
I think this one is for the guys… check out their website
Inspired by such classics as Dragstrip Girls, Kung Fu Nun and other such literary classics (Cinema Static Snark), Bitch Slap will mix up hot girls, fast cars, big guns and as they website puts it, jaw-dropping eye candy.
RED BAND TRAILER: May Not Be Safe For Work!
Check out bitchslapmovie.com for downloads and wallpapers.
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Crazy on the Outside
Directed by Tim Allen. With Sigourney Weaver, Tim Allen, Ray Liotta.
He survived three years of hard time. Now comes a little family time.
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Wonderful World
Directed by Joshua Goldin. With Matthew Broderick, Sanaa Lathan, Michael K. Williams.
A misanthropic divorcée finds love despite all his efforts against it.
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Opening January 15, 2010
Book of Eli
Directed by Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes. With Mila Kunis, Denzel Washington & Gary Oldman.
A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
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Hoodwinked 2: Hood vs. Evil
Hayden Panettiere, Bill Murray, Bill Hader, Amy Poehler, Joan Cusack and many others.
Red Riding Hood is training in the group of Sister Hoods, when she and the Wolf are called to examine the sudden mysterious disappearance of Hansel and Gretel.
The Spy Next Door
Directed by Brian Levant. With Jackie Chan, Amber Valletta, Billy Ray Cyrus.
Former CIA spy Bob Ho (Chan) takes on his toughest assignment to date: looking after his girlfriend’s three kids, who haven’t exactly warmed to their mom’s beau.
(Cinema Static note: It smells a bit like Dwayne Johnson’s baby sitting gig movie from a few years back, but what the heck!)
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The Last Station
Directed by Michael Hoffman. With James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren.
A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy’s struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things.
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Opening January 22, 2010
Extraordinary Measures
Directed by Tom Vaughan. With Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser, Keri Russell.
A drama centered on the efforts of John and Aileen Crowley to find a researcher who might have a cure for their two children’s rare genetic disorder.
Legion
Directed by Scott Stewart. With Paul Bettany, Kevin Durand, Dennis Quaid.
After a terrifying biblical apocalypse descends upon the world, a group of strangers stranded in a remote truck stop diner in the Southwest unwittingly become humanity’s last line of defense when they discover the diner’s young waitress is pregnant with the messiah.
Cinema Static note: Interesting cast and it looks like FUN!
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The Tooth Fairy
Directed by Michael Lembeck. With Dwayne Johnson, Julie Andrews, Ashley Judd.
A bad deed on the part of a tough minor-league hockey player results in an unusual sentence: He must serve one week as a real-life tooth fairy.
Cinema Static Note: Here’s one of the biggest, baddest looking dudes to come to screen in recent memory and he keeps making kids films! Well, if he can pull them off, what the heck!
Watch for the CAT AWAY scene. LOL.
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Opening January 29, 2010
Edge of Darkness
Directed by Martin Campbell (Casino Royale). With Mel Gibson, Danny Huston, Caterina Scorsone.
As homicide detective Thomas Craven investigates the death of his activist daughter, he uncovers not only her secret life, but a corporate cover-up and government collusion that attracts an agent tasked with cleaning up the evidence.
Cinema Static says this looks like a movie the plays to Mel Gibson’s screen strengths. Could be a fun revenge film.
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When in Rome
Directed by Mark Steven Johnson. With Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel, Anjelica Huston.
Beth (Bell) is a young, ambitious New Yorker who is completely unlucky in love. However, on a whirlwind trip to Rome, she impulsively steals some coins from a reputed fountain of love, and is then aggressively pursued by a band of suitors.
Saint John of Las Vegas
Directed by Hue Rhodes. With Steve Buscemi, Romany Malco, Sarah Silverman.
An ex-gambler is lured back into the game by a veteran insurance-fraud investigator.
Cinema Static note: It’s Steve Buscemi… can we really go wrong if you’re a Buscemi fan?
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That’s all I have for ya.
(Someday, I really am going to learn how to embed vids… sigh.)
