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By:
Marcial Robiou
The holidays bring a bunch
of cool things with them: days off from school, presents, and extreme
markdowns on stuff you've been waiting all year to buy like that Scott
Baio bobble head doll and movies. Because December is the last month
the studios have to unroll their movies and qualify for the Oscars,
every type of movie under the sun comes out: huge blockbusters, period
pieces, and Hollywood dramas. If you want to catch a flick, listed
below are some of the movies that will be unveiled this month and
our box office predictions.
DECEMBER
5
HIGHWAYMEN
Jim Caviezel plays a man
who lost his wife to a deranged wheelchair bound psycho who likes
to kill women by running them over with his '72 El Dorado. Now, Caviezel,
with his pimped out '68 Plymouth Barracuda and the only survivor of
the gimp's wrath, who happens to be ultra-hot, they're gonna break
a lot of traffic laws.
Box Office Results: Cool cars + hot girl + action + psychotic
gimp = one kick-ass ride. It will be the sleeper hit of the month.
$55 million dollars.
THE LAST SAMURAI
Top Gun's Maverick plays
Captain Algren, a washed up Civil war hero who gets shipped to Japan
to teach their army the modern way of fighting. He falls in love with
the Code of the Samurai, the hot women and of course, the opium. The
battle lines are drawn: Does he continue to teach them the new way
or will he engage in the ancient art of war, which reminds him of
the man he once was?
Box Office Results: Big opening weekend and it will fade fast.
$90 million, only because it's Tom.
DECEMBER
10
THE MISSING
Ron Howard directs this
western about Cate Blanchett whose eldest daughter gets kidnapped
by a deranged madman. She has to hook up with her estranged daddy,
an older-than-water Tommy Lee Jones and together they have to track
the killer before he crosses the Mexican border and disappears.
Box Office Results: This one's gonna have legs; it will stay
in the Top 10 when the New Year rolls around. $110 million at end
of the run in March.
DECEMBER
12
STUCK ON YOU
Siamese Twins. Farrelly Brothers. Need I say more?
Box Office Result: $125 million, easy.
SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE
Jack Nicholson plays an
old guy who's rich, successful and gets to bang a plethora of hot
women young enough to be his daughters. No, he doesn't play himself,
but Harry Sanbron, a music mogul who develops chest pains while on
a romantic getaway with his new plaything, Marin (Amanda Peet). I
think I would get chest pains too. Woo! However, the pains are of
a different kind when he finds that he's attracted to Marin's mom,
Erica, a divorced playwright (Diane Keaton). Sanbron tries not to
admit it, but when his doctor (Neo, I mean…Keanu Reeves) falls
for Erica, Sanbron has to choose between bedding a bunch of model-potential
women or a woman who dated Woody Allen. Guess who he'll choose?
Box Office Results: This will draw the baby boomer crowd and
old people. Breaks even.
DECEMBER
17
LOTR : THE RETURN OF THE KING
This is it! At last, the
finale to the BEST TRILOGY EVER! Yeah, that's right, I said it! Anyway,
this movie's got it all: the final showdown between Gandalf and Saruman,
Aragorn's claim to the throne…oh my God, I have to calm down.
Here's the story in layman's terms: Saruman is very close to taking
over Gondor and now Aragorn has to stop him. The battle for Middle
Earth ends here.
Box Office Results: Duh!! $250 million.
DECEMBER
25
CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN
Steve
Martin is at it again, this time as the father of 12, count 'em, 12
kids! Hillary Duff, Piper Perabo (Coyote Ugly) and Tom Welling (Smallville)
play the three oldest kids. It's actually a remake of a 1950's movie;
when Tom Baker (Martin) and his family move to Chicago, complete chaos
ensues. Ashton Kutcher also makes a cameo. If you're looking for some
funny this Holiday Season, go see this movie and get a good laugh.
Box Office Results: Hilarious family hit. $50 million.
COLD MOUNTAIN
Jude Law is a severely wounded
Civil War soldier who tries to get back home to his wifey-poo (Nicole
Kidman) who, with the help of her sister (Renee Zellwegger) is trying
to keep the farm afloat. With three Oscar nominees and direction by
Anthony Minghella, the guy who won a bunch of Oscars for The English
Patient, this is going to be THE movie Oscar will shine on.
Box Office Results: $120 million and Best Picture Oscar.
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