Most Anticipated Tentpoles For 2009?

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• Well, I see “Twilight” is expected to be a top 10 hit per women in 2009. Not unexpected given the blogs about this franchise..

  For some reason, Hollywood does not seem to be picking up on this. Why?

  I propose, that someone with a big bucket of ice throw it on the (white males executive guys, producers and directors), etc. out their in L.A., and tell them to wake up! Women make up 50% of the audience, sometimes more than that. Start making movies they want to see.

  Sure we’ll go with our boyfriends to see the latest “guy flick”, but then we get together with our girlfriends to see what we really want.
  “chick flicks” probably make a very lucrative revenue, but no one is counting that.

  Is it just plain old chauvanism, or is it ignorance? or both, or what?

  Comment by Rochelle Rochelle — Thursday January 1, 2009 @ 3:53pm PST  Reply to this post

• I like what Mark Stark had to say about the sadly long gone days of truly great event films like Lawrence of Arabia, Ben Hur, Doctor Zhivago, and Spartacus. Even Star Wars, which really ushered in the age of the pre-sold blockbuster. I think The Godfather is the supreme hybrid of great art/commercial blockbuster. The closest recent example would be the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I think Avatar could well be a technical milestone, much like 2001 was in 1968. We’ll see. I’m also intrigued by Michael Mann’s Public Enemies, and the greatly gifted Alejandro Amenabar’s Agora. No one seems to have that film on their radar, buried as it is under the rubble of all the comic extravaganzas everyone seems to be excited about. And how can any true movie lover not be excited by Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life?

  Comment by Paul Kolas — Tuesday January 13, 2009 @ 3:33pm PST  Reply to this post

• Paul Kolas, I agree with you on your thoughts about Agora. I think it will be a blockbuster, it will do even better than The Others in US box office. I love also your writing skills. Regards from Spain.

  Comment by Ignacio — Thursday February 26, 2009 @ 9:19am PST  Reply to this post