If it’s Thursday, then it must be time to survey the latest new releases at the mutliplex and beyond. For what that’s worth: This week’s box-office turnout is likely to bear an uncanny resemblance to last week’s — particularly near the top, where Moneyball, Dolphin Tale and that stereoscopic flaxen-maned juggernaut that roared, The Lion King 3D are all expected to repeat last week’s command performance in one permutation or another. Where will the rest fall? To the Forecast!
[Click the film titles for Movieline’s reviews]
NATIONAL OUTLOOK
· Dream House: Some day the whole story will come out about Dream House, whose origins as a high-concept haunted-house thriller for Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts and director Jim Sheridan gave way to a folly of acrimony, egos, reshoots, and ceaseless studio meddling. (At least Craig and Weisz got a marriage out of it, right? Though even its origins during Weisz’s bust-up with Darren Aronofsky are not without suspicion.) Or maybe the story won’t come out, considering that Dream House has virtually zero buzz, didn’t screen for critics and may open as low as fifth place this week, thus signaling a miniscule public appetite for anything related to this film. It’s especially bad news for Craig, who already has a mega-flop to his name this year and doesn’t need more baggage to haul to the Bond 23 set. Anyway, I’ve already spent more time writing about this thing than most of America will spend watching it in the next three days, so… yeah. In some parallel universe…
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