Weekend Movie Preview: 'Footloose' Hopes to bop Away With Weekend Crown

Such may be the condition of Hollywood if not one, but two remakes of beloved 1980s classics open on a single weekend. The surprise is that certain of these is really apparently awesome (and it is not 'The Thing'). Can 'Footloose' cut your competition lower or will Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson fly away using the weekend crown? The solutions lie ahead inside your Weekend Movie Preview Countrywide RELEASES 'Footloose' What is the story: A Boston teen named Ren (newcomer Kenny Wormald) moves to some small Midwestern town where dancing continues to be outlawed. There, he falls deeply in love with the edgy teen daughter (Julianne Hough) from the town preacher (Dennis Quaid), and shows everybody how you can... cut loose. (Groan!) (But seriously.) Box-office projection: Your friendly Moviefone editors are totally within the tank for that latest version of 'Footloose,' and often will audiences be too? Possibly. The marketing for 'Footloose' continues to be squarely targeted in the MTV generation (or perhaps is that the Spotify generation?), making the film seem like an ideal mixture of sexy and harmful. Much more important? The Craig Maker-directed film has become fairly outstanding reviews from experts, a thing that might persuade fans from the original to exhibit up alongside their sons, kids, nieces and nephews. With little competition from new releases and 'Real Steel' showing itself like a family film, 'Footloose' may be the destination of preference for couples. Forecasts have been in the $18-to-$20 million range, however the guess here's that 'Footloose' dances away with a little more. $23.4 million [Showtimes & Tickets Mr. Moviefone's Six-Second Review] 'The Thing'] What is the story: A prequel towards the John Contractor classic, 'The Thing' concentrates on a the invention of the alien ship (along with a shape-shifting alien) in an Antarctica research site. Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Ramona Flowers 4eva!), Joel Edgerton and Eric Christian Olsen star. Box-office projection: On one side, we're not really speaking about 'The Thing' unless of course it's to slag the film to be a sacrilegious remake of Carpenter's classic. However: scares and aliens! There's a crowd with this film, one which has seen couple of horror movies since August that they'll rally around. 'The Thing' is not that film either -- return in a few days for 'Paranormal Activity 3,' that ought to explode the somewhat stagnant box office -- consider it's the title value that something similar to 'Shark Evening 3D' did not, expect respectable and unimpressive amounts. $10.a million [Showtimes & Tickets Mr. Moviefone's Six-Second Review] 'The Large Year' What is the story: Three buddies (Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson) compete within the Large Year, a yearly bird-watching event that transmits them on adventures to recognize rare types of wild birds round the country. Directed by David Frankel ('Marley & Me'), 'The Large Year' also stars Rashida Johnson, Angelica Huston, Rosamund Pike, Dianne Wiest and much more. Box-office projection: And also you thought nobody was speaking about 'The Thing'! With three major comedy stars as leads, logic dictates that 'The Large Year' should presently dominate weekend movie talk. It's not is really a potential box-office problem. The film is opening inside a little over 2,100 theaters -- the cheapest quantity of any wide release a few days ago -- and forecasts get it landing within the $6-to-$7 million range. That will rank as cheapest wide-release opening since 'Mixed Nuts' in 1994. Let us give Martin, Black and Wilson the advantage of the doubt and assume the PG rating brings inside a couple of more families than monitoring signifies. $9.two million [Showtimes & Tickets Mr. Moviefone's Six-Second Review] LIMITED RELEASES The way the mighty have fallen? Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman lead 'Trespass', that is only opening in 10 theaters. Elsewhere, Pedro Almodovar returns using the mental thriller 'The Skin I Live In' with Antonio Banderas and Mike Worthington leads 'Texas Killing Fields'. [Photo: Universal/Vital/Fox] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED