So is your head still spinning from all of the holiday movie openings? We had a rush of films on Dec. 20th, then the usual massive Christmas assault with five new films.
Don’t worry. If you are still trying to catch up on the year-end blitz of films, they are all still in theaters, and no films open on New Year’s Day (at least in Cleveland). Only one new film will bow this Friday, Jan. 3 – the latest “Paranormal Activity.”
I’ve been getting a lot of positive feedback from folks who have seen “Anchorman 2” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
"Anchorman 2," with Will Ferrell and Steve Carell, provides a lot of good laughs. Some folks have told me they thought it was as funny, or funnier, than the original. Some who enjoyed "Wolf" said they saw people walking out of the theater. I assume some folks are turned off by the overflow of nudity, sex and drugs. But I don’t really know why they walked out.
It’s a long movie and maybe that is keeping some away as well. The film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as real-life Wall Street swindler Jordan Belfort, clocks in at three hours. It did not do especially well at the box office in its opening weekend (plus two days), earning only $18.5 million.
Those who have raved about the film have also posed the same question: Do you think Jonah Hill will be nominated for an Oscar?
I would guess yes. Hill plays Belfort’s bizarre, drug-addled second in command. He was previously nominated in the supporting category a few years back for playing the stats wizard in “Moneyball.”
If you have not been in a theater for a few weeks, you still may have seen the No. 1 movie in America. For the third straight week, and still holding off the huge ad campaigns from all of those new releases, Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” took the top spot at the box office[1] . And the animated adventure “Frozen” finished second.
Here are the holiday releases that are now in theaters: “American Hustle,” “Saving Mr. Banks,” “Inside Llewyn Davis,” “Walking With Dinosaurs,” “Grudge Match,” “47 Ronin,” Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom,” “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” and the aforementioned “Anchorman 2,” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
New films on the horizon (some of which were released recently in a few cities to be included in the 2013 awards race) include:
January 10: “Her,” “Lone Survivor” and “August: Osage County.”
January 17: “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” and “Ride Along.”
“Monuments Men,” the George Clooney drama about soldiers trying to rescue stolen masterpieces from the Nazis in World War II, was supposed to be one of the big films of 2013. But Columbia Pictures said it needed a little tweaking and rolled it over into the new year. It is expected to land here on Feb. 7.
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