Friday
02Jan2009
Week in Review - Watching the 'Watchmen,' 'Angels & Demons,' the Year's Biggest Flops
Friday, January 2, 2009 at 6:15AM 
It sure doesn't seem like a Friday, does it? I guess it's that way for a
lot of people who get extended time off during the holidays. In the movie game, this is one of the very few
weekends where you won't see any wide releases.
I doubt that will last much longer; studios will realize within ta few year that rather than duking it
out with six other movies on Christmas, they're better off buying a bunch of ads during the college football
bowl season and the first weekend of the NFL playoffs and releasing something on New Year's Eve.
But this year, we have no new releases to talk about. There are regional ones, the awards movies that are
either opening in selected cities or expanding to more places, and we even have a new review of Revolutionary
Road, but it's not a full slate. That doesn't mean we have nothing to
talk about, as our headlines from this past week prove:
Fox will seek Watchmen delay, endure fanboy scorn
Preview of Angels & Demons and an entirely different fanboy
scorn
Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds gets an inglorious release date
Coraline featurettes reveal the craft behind the art
The AFI realizes blunder, praises Slumdog
Terminator named to the National Film Registry
On the bright side, there is this Watchmen featurette
And some of the year in review:
The top rated
2008 movies on IMDB
The biggest
flops of 2008
Fifteen films on the horizon in '09
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