Welcome to the Thanksgiving edition of Bill’s predictions. The box office is set to explode over the holiday weekend with 2 new films opening, Old Dogs and Ninja Assassin. Fantastic Mr. Fox expands into over 2000 theatres after a successful limited run and of course The Twilight Saga: New Moon will continue to dominate. Which of these films will turn out to be turkeys at the box office? Let’s take a look.

The place where you can find movie trailers for upcoming releases. There are 2 wide releases and 4 limited releases hitting theatres on November 27th. One film will be expanding to a wide release.

Twilighters were out in force this weekend propelling the latest installment in the series, New Moon to the third largest opening weekend of all time. The vampire romance broke a few records this weekend as well. Sandra Bullock scored a touchdown with her football drama, The Blind Side, achieving her best opening weekend to date. The last new film of the weekend, animated adventure, Planet 51, opened to little fanfare in fourth place. 

I have to admit after watching the first Twilight I didn’t really understand what all of the buzz was about. I chalked this up to the fact that I’m not a teenager and I also don’t have a vagina (although sometimes I wish I did). Don’t get me wrong, by no means did I think Twilight was bad; it was merely okay. I’ve seen better, I’ve seen worse. New Moon is a marked improvement upon the first film and I actually found myself getting wrapped up in this modern day retelling of Romeo and Juliet with a supernatural twist. New Moon still isn’t the best movie I’ve ever seen, but if I were a fourteen year old girl, I’m sure it would be.

This weekend at the box office is a big one as The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the second film in the series, may have the biggest opening weekend of the year. Sandra Bullock stars in her third movie this year, The Blind Side, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson lends his voice to animated adventure, Planet 51. These films will have to contend with 2012, which had a terrific opening last weekend and also Disney’s A Christmas Carol, which should continue to have a good hold at the box office. How much blood will Twilight be able to suck out of moviegoers? Let’s take a look.

The place where you can find movie trailers for upcoming releases. There are three wide releases and seven limited releases hitting theatres on November 20th. Two films will be expanding into more theatres.

This weekend at the box office, 2012 destroyed every movie in its path and easily took first place, while Pirate Radio capsized in eleventh. Jim Carrey’s A Christmas Carol held up really well in its second frame whereas fellow sophomores The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Fourth Kind and The Box all suffered steep declines. Take a look.

What can I say about 2012? The special effects are amazing… everything else, not so much. The script is horrible, most of the acting is cheesy and the film is waaaaay too long at two hours and forty minutes. There are so many things to snicker at in this movie, it’s difficult to know where to begin. The only reason the movie merits even a 4 out of 10 is because there is about a half hour of pure movie thrills that will leave you gasping for air. So roughly one-fifth of the movie is good. The rest is fairly awful.

It’s the end of the world as we know it as disaster movie 2012 from director Rolland Emmerich storms into theatres. 2012 will pretty much have the field to itself as it is the only wide release of the weekend. Opening in 900 theatres, Pirate Radio, formerly known as The Boat That Rocked, is hoping to for smooth sailing at the box office and Precious expands to over 170 theatres after an explosive debut on only 18 screens last weekend and may find its way into the top 5. Let’s take a look.

The place where you can find movie trailers for upcoming releases. There is 1 wide release and 10 limited releases hitting theatres on November 13th. One Film will also be expanding into more theatres.