The new sci-fi thriller “Knowing” bears all the trappings of a popcorn summer movie. Big set pieces. Bigger disaster sequences.
And it stars Nicolas Cage, a guy who knows his way around an action film set.
But it’s heading our way March 20, well before the onset of blockbuster season.
Director Alex Proyas, who previously gave us “Dark City” (at the top of my must catch up with list) and “I, Robot,” promises a smart science fiction movie guaranteed to surprise audiences.
We’ll see. For now, check out the film’s official site and the accompanying trailer.
(Photo: Rose Byrne and Nicolas Cage team up to avoid future catastrophes in “Knowing.”)
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I’m so glad to see he is releasing something new. I just sat down and watched the Blue Ray edition (directors cut), and it is a magnificent transfer, and one of my favorite SciFi films.
“But it’s heading our way March 20, well before the onset of blockbuster season.”
But the blockbuster season seems to be changing, moving earlier and earlier from the traditional May. In many years, WATCHMEN would be a huge summer asset to a studio, but they seem to finally be learning what the rest of us already know: people see movies all year long. The idea of holding a family film to the summer months when kids are out of school might hold some water, but anything else should be open game. Look at FRIDAY THE 13TH. Without real competition, it made $42 million on opening weekend. For an R-rated remake without any well-known talent (and a franchise that has become a bit of a joke). I predict more and more studios will start realizing that a February to April opening should not be a dumping ground, but a chance to capitalized a relatively bored cinema-going audience.
Going by this Variety review, it looks exactly like a March movie. Unless, that is, you think that blue genitalia, evisceration, paranoia, impending nuclear war, and Richard Nixon are the stuff of summer tent poles…
Going by this Variety review, it looks exactly like a March movie. Unless, that is, you think that blue genitalia, evisceration, paranoia, impending nuclear war, and Richard Nixon are the stuff of summer tent poles…
But WATCHMEN isn’t an ordinary property. It is one of the holy geek titles (the only comic book listed on the greatest novels of the 20th century), a film that fanboys have been clamoring for over 20 years. Just skim through any geek site and you’ll see the anticipation is almost orgasmic. In most years, this film would be released in May.
Geek excitement will get you a good opening weekend, but it won’t give you a hit unless that excitement spreads to everybody else. I just don’t think that’s going to happen. It got scheduled for March because it’s a March movie, it would get slaughtered in May.
By the way: for what it’s worth, The Hollywood Reporter is predicting that Watchmen will be ” the first real flop of 2009″.