Summer Movie Preview 2011: So many blockbusters, so few weekends
And, this year at least, there will be blood -- and it has nothing to do with the level of carnage in the Shreveport-shot horror film "Shark Night 3-D." It does, however, have everything to do with the fact that during the next four months, multiplexes will be besieged by an unprecedented number of big-budget tentpole films, all of them slugging it out for their share of the box office.
The inevitable upshot: Somewhere, at some point, at least one studio's high-profile "sure thing" will become an embarrassing and expensive flop. Will it be " Hangover Part II "? "Transformers 3"? " Pirates of the Caribbean 4 "? Maybe the New Orleans-shot " Green Lantern "?
Your guess is as good as mine. But this much is clear: Something's got to give. That much was evident all the way back in November, when "Cowboys & Aliens" director Jon Favreau first predicted it:
"It's going to be a blood bath, " Favreau told the Los Angeles Times . "There's never been a summer like this next summer. It's going to be bloody (for filmmakers and the studios). As we were sticking thumb tacks in a calendar, we realized that this is going to be looked back upon as Omaha Beach."
The silver lining is that for Joe Moviegoer, there will be plenty to choose from. To help in that regard, I present my annual Summer Movie Preview, filled with details on all the movies expected to open in New Orleans-area theaters between now and the start of football season. I've also highlighted a handful of best bets along the way.
So now it's up to you, dear moviegoer. The fate of the following 65 films rests solely with you and your decision of which to honor with your hard-earned cash. Choose wisely.
Roll 'em ...
May 20 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Capt. Jack is back, and as popular as this theme-park-ride-inspired franchise is -- hauling in more than $1 billion in its first three outings -- the real reason to be excited is the direction that the filmmakers are taking with this fourth installment. With the series' ambitious but woefully convoluted initial storyline wrapped up in 2007's "At World's End," they've set a course for the Fountain of Youth -- and a nice, tidy stand-alone story. No "to be continueds," no impossible-to-follow plot, no argh-inducing intricacies. Thanks largely to Johnny Depp's performance as Capt. Jack, people love this series, and they love to love it.
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A decision by the US Supreme Court last week upholding an Arizona law that punishes employers who hire illegal immigrants may give Texas lawmakers some newfound momentum to file immigration-related legislation with the hope that the
As we were sticking thumb tacks in a calendar, we realized that this is going to be looked back upon as Omaha Beach." The silver lining is that for Joe Moviegoer, there will be plenty to choose from. To help in that regard, I present my annual Summer
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Djokovic is also closing in on the best start to a calendar year in tennis history, as John McEnroe began 1984 with 42 straight match victories. The Serbian slugger has won his last 40 matches overall, dating back to last year. A third-seeded Federer,
Anti-Dismal: Smith and Keynes share a birthday 2 (updated)
Here’s Nicholas Phillipson, on pages 16-17, of his 2010 biography of Smith entitled Adam Smith: “Smith was by all accounts a sickly child, and it may be that the slight confusion about his birth day arises from his having been baptized on the day of his birth – a common enough practice in the case of infants not expected to survive.” Just how "sickly" would have Smith had to have been on the day of his birth for a baptism to be arranged the very same day? We know Smith was unwell as a child but how early this was manifested itself is, without further documentary support, speculative. And we have no evidence that he was baptised on the day of his birth. Ian Simpson Ross writes in his book "The Life of Adam Smith", The Fife seaport of Kirkcaldy, ten miles across the Firth of Forth from Edinburgh, was the scene of Adam Smith's baptism on 5 June 1723 , in the Old Parish Kirk of St Brisse (Bryce). Possibly this was his birth-date , though there is no annotation on the 'Register of Baptismes in the Kirk of Kirkcalsie' (Bonar, 1932: 208), stating 'born this day', as there is in the case of Smith's great friend David Hume (Mossner, 1980: 6). It is reported, however, that as an infant Smith was 'infirm and sickly' (Stewart I.2), and understandable anxieties of the time about infant mortality and salvation may have hastened baptism (Flinn, 1977: 284). (Emphasis added) There is a second problem with Boudreaux's claim, the date 5 June is the date from the Julian calendar. Scotland continued to use the Julian Calendar until 1752. It was only then that the Gregorian calendar was commonly used. But Keynes's birth date is, of course, recorded using the Gregorian calendar and Smith's birth date under this calendar would be 16 June. So again the birthdays would not coincide. The 5 June, 1723, is the date on his baptism certificate; his birth date is not known for certain. Also, 5 June is under the old calendar; the modern calendar (from 1752) places it on 16 June, as pedants keep informing me. However, I think it best to stick to the convention of the date on the only known certificate, because retrospectively changing every date on every document before the date was changed by a modern calculation would make historical work prior to 1752 a hopeless mess, as anybody working with 18th century documents will tell you.
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