Our Top 20 Most Anticipated Films of the New Year. How is 'Shutter Island' missing? It was on last year's list.
The Twenty-aughts are over as we celebrate the decade's best. 'Traffic' (pictured) just missed out.
Oscar is one of many courting Carey Mulligan in Lone Scherfig's "An Education." Our full review.
Nicolas Cage stars in Werner Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant" update which has 'over-the-top' written all over it. Is it though?
03 November 2009
Today, we just put up the latest releases on Blu-ray and now we have a great deal to share with you on two releases slated for next week. If you order both Pixar’s Up and Monsters, Inc. right now from Amazon.com you’ll receive an additional $10 off the total price. As of now, Up is [...]
03 November 2009
Owen Wilson just finished voicing an animal for Wes Anderson’s upcoming Fantastic Mr. Fox. To tell you the truth, I’m not really sure what kind of animal Coach Skip is from the trailer. He’s certainly an albino something. Anyway, Wilson is returning to the voice-over well, this time as the comic strip Great Dane star, [...]
03 November 2009
2009’s been a big year for George Clooney and we haven’t even seen any of his films yet. He has three due out in the next eight weeks, all retaining some Oscar Bait potential, not coincidentally because of his involvement. This week, we’ll see his The Men Who Stare at Goats, followed by Fantastic Mr. [...]
03 November 2009
ScreenDaily is reporting that Helen Mirren has joined the cast of Summit Entertainment’s DC Comics adaptation, Red, with Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman. The three-part comic book miniseries was originally published in 2003 and was written by Warren Ellis and drawn by Cully Hamner. The screenplay was adapted for the screen by Jon and Erich [...]
03 November 2009
Written and compiled by The Film Nest guest contributor “FightinIrish” (peep him in the Comments section) ‘Tis the season for monster Blu-ray releases and this week will having you thinking no different. Kicking things off is Sir Alfred Hitchcock’s first U.S. Blu-ray release, bringing one of his most beloved films to high definition. Following that is [...]
02 November 2009
Rodrigo Garcia’s Mother and Child, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in mid-September to a warm reception, was thought to be a late-season awards vehicle – especially for its star, Annette Bening. But with the dwindling independent market, Garcia’s film was never picked up for distribution until today. Screen Daily is reporting that Sony [...]
02 November 2009
Julia Roberts is another person whose star has seemed to fade recently. This is of course due to her choice t0 raise children and disappear a few years ago. While she’s been in a few films since 2004’s Ocean’s Twelve, the focus hasn’t been directly on her. She has a couple of projects upcoming, the [...]
02 November 2009
I thought it had been a while since we’ve seen Katie Holmes onscreen. It was back in 2005 when she was Rachel Dawes in Batman Begins, as well as the love interest in Jason Reitman’s stellar debut film, Thank You For Smoking. Since those films, it’s only been last year’s Mad Money. How I could [...]
02 November 2009
Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman is attached to star in a new untitled comedy, according to “The Hollywood Reporter.” Warner Bros. recently picked up the script, written by Josh Cragan (Bandslam) and Greg Coolidge (Employee of the Month), and it has Peter Segal interested in helming the project. Segal has previously directed such comedies as Tommy [...]
30 October 2009
Here is the latest installment of our world famous Movie Poster Round-Up featuring the best film one-sheets from around the web. Like MC Hammer said back in the day, “let’s get it started.” A new Sherlock Holmes poster kicks things off. Thematically, it keeps it the same as the others we’ve seen. How To Train [...]
Added on 16 December 2009

| # | Title | Weekend Gross | Total Gross | Week # |
| 1 | Michael Jackson's This Is It | $21,300,000 | $32,509,000 | 1 |
| 2 | Paranormal Activity | $16,540,000 | $84,780,000 | 6 |
| 3 | Law Abiding Citizen | $7,303,000 | $51,385,000 | 3 |
| 4 | Couples Retreat | $6,097,000 | $86,663,000 | 4 |
| 5 | Saw VI | $5,560,000 | $22,824,000 | 2 |
| 6 | Where the Wild Things Are | $5,081,000 | $61,800,000 | 3 |
| 7 | The Stepfather | $3,400,000 | $24,748,000 | 3 |
| 8 | Astro Boy | $3,035,000 | $10,891,000 | 2 |
| 9 | Amelia | $3,000,000 | $8,306,000 | 2 |
| 10 | Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant | $2,809,000 | $10,521,000 | 2 |
| 11 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | $2,700,000 | $118,557,000 | 7 |