Robin Williams and John Travolta are just a couple of Old Dogs (reviews) trying to learn new tricks: The Ninja Assassin (reviews) will kick your butt; John Hillcoat puts Cormac McCarthy's sci-fi tale The Road (reviews) on the big screen--bringing award buzz with it; Wes Anderson's CGI toon Fantastic Mr Fox (reviews) goes wide...Just as traditional 2-D animation returns (Yay!) in The Princess and the Frog (reviews) starts a limited run as does Zac Efron's dramatic debut in Me And Orson Welles (reviews) ...
Pamela McClontock of Variety:
A handful of films join the Thanksgiving week buffet today, going up against Summit Entertainment's colossal "New Moon" and other strong holdovers.
Warner Bros.' new entry "Ninja Assassin" has a key advantage in appealing to males, who aren't so interested in the "Twilight" series. The R-rated actioner, opening Wednesday in 2,503 runs, was produced by Joel Silver, the Wachowski brothers and Legendary Pictures.
Disney's John Travolta-Robin Williams topliner "Old Dogs," Walt Becker's follow-up to sleeper hit "Wild Hogs," will look to draw adults as the Mouse hopes it will profit from being the only new comedy. Pic plays in 3,425 theaters.
Twentieth Century Fox expands Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr. Fox" nationwide into 2,027 theaters after a successful two-week limited run targeting the arthouse crowd. Studio now hopes to get the family aud, small and big badgers alike, to the animated pic.
Also going after kids, Disney opens traditionally animated "The Princess and the Frog" today in a two-week exclusive run before going wide. It plays at the theater on the Disney lot in Burbank and at Clearview Cinemas' Ziegfeld Theater in New York...
From the clips I have seen of "Dogs" it looks pretty lame...It will be interesting to see where New Moon lands on the chart come Sunday...
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