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I'm trying to figure out if my kid is old enough for Jurassic Park 3D. She turns seven today. I'm leaning towards yes.

I can't say I'm a specialist, but I'd say yes too. I remember watching Temple of Doom when I was about that age, it scared me a bit, but I loved it then, and I didn't need to see a shrink afterwards, or turned out a psychopath when I grew up. So I'd say Jurassic Park will be just fine.

Just as long as you reassure her afterwards that dinosaurs don't really exist anymore. Just in case she's prone to nightmares about scary stuff she sees in movies.

Over the past couple weeks we watched Avengers, Gremlins, and Gremlins 2. Those are probably worse anyway... She picked up Child's play and asked about watching it... Thought it was a kids movie.

I first saw Jurassic Park when I was four. Kids love dinosaurs so go ahead.

As for Jurassic Park 3-D being the only wide opener, Odd Thomas is supposed to go wide and I could see Trance opening wide immediately (though Fox Searchlight rarely does so anymore).

In other news, Fox has pulled the reissues of Star Wars Episodes II and III from the 2013 schedule. These are the second and third reissues that have been pulled from Fox's 2013 schedule (Independence Day was the other).

Evil Dead moved up to April 5th to take advantage of The Heat moving. It's a great move imo and it should boost its box office haul.

I saw the trailer for Evil Dead on Tuesday night before a showing of Parker. This might be the most pointless remake since Total Recall and it will impress no one. Also, if Odd Thomas gets a decent ad campaign then that film could take some of its audience (but since the producers had to rent a distributor, an opening over $5 million would be a surprise).

I like Evil Dead's chances to be honest. It looks fucking creepy and fans of the original appear to be giving the remake it's blessing. The horror market always has good odds to succeed and it's been a long time since a non-exorcism/ghost story has done well and I think all types of horror fans will flock to it.

Horror fans aren't exactly the most trustworthy people. They will praise anything with gore and do not care about quality. The film itself simply looks like a highlight reel of the first two films but instead of Ash, you have dumb teenagers that you could care less about. Also, I'm read that the undead are supposed to from withdrawal symptoms of an girl trying to kick a heroin addiction (or at least that's what the early drafts had the cause being). That is one awful twist when you think about it.

I wouldn't say horror fans praise anything with gore, pretty much every torture porn movie save for the original Saw got pretty poorly received by horror fans. The horror genre is without a doubt the most polarizing genre in all of cinema. Even the movies that are well-received (Insidious, Sinister, Mama) have a ton of detractors. I have no comment on the alleged plot twist since I clearly haven't seen the film and don't know how it fit in (That's if it's even still in or was ever in the movie.)

I know that it was in the early drafts and Diablo Cody's rewrites were set to keep it in. Unless Raimi and Campbell realized how awful said twist was.

It looks like Odd Thomas has been pulled from its 4/5/2013 date due to a series of lawsuits filed by the producers against some of the film's financiers over unpaid money that was promised to promote the film (the producers were promised $35 million, which is a reasonable amount for an adaptation of a popular book series). Seeing how one of the parties being sued is the distributor of Mike Newell's adaptation of Great Expectations, it looks like that film could be having difficulty being released as well.

In short, adaptations of Dean Koontz stories seem to be cursed. Either they are awful (Phantoms), have nothing to do the book (Watchers), flop despite a decent cast (Hideaway) or have a mountain of production issues (the aforementioned film).

Bunch of new changes:
Mr. Peabody and Sherman 3/7/14 (from 11/1/13)
Me and My Shadow TBD (from 3/14/14)
Last Vegas 11/1/13 (from 12/20/13)
The Boxtrolls 10/17/14 (from 9/27/14)

New dates:
Before Midnight 5/24/13 (Hawke/Delpy together again)
I'm So Excited 6/28/13 (Spanish comedy from P. Almodovar starring P. Cruz)
Blue Jasmine 7/26/13 (Woody Allen comedy with C. Blanchett and A. Baldwin)
The Maze Runner 2/14/14 (no word on cast yet)
Night at the Museum 3 12/25/14 (ditto, but presumably Stiller and Williams will be back)

The Boxtrolls is the project that was formerly listed as Untitled Laika Project. I'm wondering if this will be a different genre than horror for once.

As for The Maze Runner, why do I see Lionsgate suing over this one?

New dates/changes:

The Way, Way Back 7/5/13
The Longest Ride 2/13/15
We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks 5/24/13
Turkeys 11/1/13 (from 11/14/14)