Submitted by Bleeding Cool Staff Writer on December 30, 2010 – 8:39 am (14) comments
Having covered 2010 and 2009 quite nicely in the past, Michael Moran now looks forward to 2011′s roster of blockbusters for Bleeding Cool:
Predicting the biggest films of any year is a foolhardy venture. The fortunes of a movie as it develops can turn on studio whim, the news agenda on release day, or even the weather. Throw in the unpredictable effects of the biggest economic crisis in living memory and you have a virtually unforeseeable box office landscape.
There are films currently scheduled for release that will be delayed or cancelled for budgetary reasons. There are other movies which are being developed ‘under the radar’ and will only appear on publicity schedules later in the year. Only a fool would try to foretell the big movie hits of 2011. Guess what I’m going to do.
Details on this one are a little sketchy right now, but it’s a live action flick in which Mike Myers will voice a CGI rendering of the malevolent Martian who wears a skirt and wants to destroy the Earth. Arrayed against him are a phalanx of those wisecracking teenage actors who cut their teeth on a more-or-less indistinguishable parade of Disney and Nickelodeon TV shows. It’s due sometime around next Christmas, and chances are that it’ll be in 3D. It’s too early to say whether this movie will be any good or not but that’s never stopped me before. I predict a stinker.
The gimmicky title tells you much of what you need to know about this fishsploitation followup to t his year’s schlockiest guilty pleasure . Expect poorly-fastened bikinis and severed penises. Hope for Ving Rhames. Be ready for anything.
A Todd Phillips produced comedy that’s shrouded in mystery but appears to have its roots in reality TV, college fraternities and the hazing system. A cast of unknowns will enhance the naturalistic feel. Animal House meets Cloverfield ? Only former St.Martins student Nima Nourizadeh, directing his first feature, could say for sure
It’s a time-honoured story. An alien super-civilisation capable of travelling the vast lonely voids of interstellar space gets as far as Hollywood before getting its tentacles rapped by US troops with conventional weapons and a few helicopters. We loved it in Independence Day and we’re about to love it all over again. Billed as Black Hawk Down meets Aliens it’s liable to be one of those films that everyone agrees is the worst kind of nonsense but goes to see anyway.
When you think of Roland Emmerich, you probably think of movies where big things blow up or mad weather happens. This year, as well as directing the Sci-fi epic Foundation – which probably will fit in an explosion or two – he’s got super-thesps Vanessa Redgrave,David Thewlis and Rhys Ifans in a biopic of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. He’s best known today as one of the names conspiracy theorists like to suggest as the real author behind Shakespeare’s plays. He was also celebrated in the court of Queen Elizabeth 1 for his talent at blowing stuff up and combatting mad weather. I may have imagined that last bit.
This sequel to Garry Marshall’s multi-stranded romcom Valentine’s Day was greenlit before the first film’s release. Just as well for Garry, really, as the somewhat indifferent reception that Valentine’s Day was accorded probably wouldn’t have sparked much enthusiasm for a followup. New Year’s Eve has, like its predecessor, a mighty impressive cast: Robert De Niro, Jake Gyllenhaal and Zac Efron are the tip of a very starry iceberg , with Modern Family temptress Sofía Vergara promising to be a powerful draw ‘for the dads’. Difficult to say whether it can perform better than it predecessor – that depends to a large extent on how much promotional love that distributors throw at it.
A 3D Justin Bieber concert movie starring the squeaking moppet himself and featuring Miley Cyrus isn’t intended to appeal to the demographic I’m in, or – I suspect – the one you’re in either. There’s no point pretending it won’t do well though. Let’s give the last word on this one to the eloquent Mr Bieber himself: “This is so sick!! Gonna come out in theaters worldwide Valentine’s 2011!!! I’m taking this thing worldwide thanks to u all!! Hyped!!”
A criminally weak premise shouldn’t prevent this film from doing pretty reasonable business simply because of the stellar voice cast. Sly Stallone, Adam Sandler, Judd Apatow, Cher and Jon Favreau are the talking animals who decide to help a shy zookeeper win the woman he loves . Look Who’s Talking Zoo ? Night At The Zoo-seum ? Citizen Kane it ain’t, but star power should just about keep it afloat. Y’know…for kids.
Duking it out with a certain bear in the Easter holiday pocket money stakes, this sequel to the fun kid’s book adaptation stands a fair chance of box office success. Sadly, Chloe Moretz’s character is not featured in the source book, but on the upside at least the movie’s not in 3D.
Tarsem Singh , the Indian director responsible for the astounding visual tableaux of The Cell in 2000 has made only one film since – the wildly ambitious but commercially disappointing fantasy drama The Fall. Undeterred, he is painting again with a very broad brush with The Immortals . It’s a 3D fantasy epic based on Greek myth that stars Mickey Rourke, John Hurt and Slumdog Millionaire actress Frieda Pinto. Henry Cavill will be the smouldering matinée idol at the centre of what I am sure will be a very pretty-looking film. Commercially, The Immortals could go either way but for painters, students of cinema, or commercial directors looking for new ideas to steal The Immortals will be essential viewing.
A touch of the Amityvilles pervades this property ladder horror tale. Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz are the couple who got a little more than they bargained for when they bought their new home and and Naomi Watts is the neighbour who knows perhaps a little too much about the house’s murderous past.
Frank Miller, the undeniable comic book genius behind both seminal graphic novels such as 300 and The Dark Knight Returns and movies such as Sin City , and….err.. The Spirit slated to bring the 1930s pulp space adventurer back for another bite at the pop culture cherry. The last time we saw the interstellar Rip Van Winkle was in the last 1970s, when the runaway success of Star Wars saw TV execs commissioning genre wonderboy Glen A Larson to make a number of sci-fi slanted early evening TV shows. Miller appears lately to have become detatched from the project but his replacement, Resident Evil director (and self confessed 3D junkie) Paul W.S. Anderson brings with him a whole new range of concerns. This is a big and tricky property to get right, and it may be best for all concerned if Buck were to stay in his long and dreamless interplanetary sleep.
Martin Scorsese assembles an all-star cast for this intriguing-sounding surreal fantasy based on the early life of pioneering film-maker Georges Méliès,. Asa Butterfield from The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is supported by Chloë Moretz ,Sacha Baron Cohen Jude Law, Richard Griffiths, Ray Winstone, Sir Christopher Lee and Sir Ben Kingsley.
Bridging the essential title gap between The Fast And The Furious and Fox Force Five, the 2011 model of the street-racing franchise boasts not only Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne (do we still call him The Rock?) Johnson but – and this will shock you – a whole bunch of very pretty cars. There’s a plot, of sorts, but that’s not why we’ll be dropping into our local multiplex. This one’s all about the car chases. Expect them to be fast, numerous, and ridiculously spectacular.
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