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Lottery Ticket – Opens August 27th

David Mumpower: I bet most of you don't even watch this clip, but I found it a lot funnier than Dinner with Schmucks. Also, Naturi Naughton displayed some ultra-nasty wiggle as Lil Kim in Notorious. I'm inclined to watch any movie she's in.

Josh Spiegel: Well, I'm not sure what it says, but since you brought up the comparison, I should be extra-excited for Dinner with Schmucks now. Because that just looked....well, it didn't look horrible (aside from the...thing Ice Cube had on his chin), but it looked dull and drab. I feel like I nearly fell asleep watching it.

Michael Lynderey: I think it'll be The Longshots all over again, especially since Bow Wow really hasn't headlined a movie in a while. And David, I promise I'll watch the trailer. At the very least, I'll see the movie, so that would cover most of it.

David Mumpower: I'm obviously not talking about the box office. If I were, the logical comparison in my estimation would be Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, which earned about $42.2 million domestically. And I think that's probably high. In terms of simply laughing at a concept/trailer, however, I think there is a lot to like here. Yes, it's messy and uneven but this strikes me as a cleverly implemented Barbershop variant. That's high praise from me since I thought the first Barbershop was exceptional.

Splice – Opens June 4th

David Mumpower: I guess we don't need a Bioshock movie now.

Josh Spiegel: Having heard about this film from its festival run, I'd be very excited to see this trailer, if I thought for one second that I would put aside my naturally squeamish nature and watch this. The movie looks very good, or at least very interesting and creepy. But, guessing that it'll be heavy on the ick factor, I'll be skipping out on this one, but just because it's not my kind of movie.

Michael Lynderey: I have a really hard time buying this as a wide release, especially since I was under the impression that it had already come out, somewhere, on its original due date of 9/18/09.

David Mumpower: Not only is Warner Bros. promising a wide release for this, there are plans in place for multiple (!) sequels. A Guillermo del Toro/Joel Silver production gets the royal treatment, I guess.

David Mumpower: Poor Sarah Polley needs to get out of the medical profession. First, she comes home from a hard day at the hospital and her entire neighborhood tries to eat her and now this.

This is going to seem out of left field a bit but I swear that the vibe I get from this is The Fly with some Mimic thrown in for good measure. All that is needed is for the girl to say "I'm getting better" before she attempts to maul Mira SorPolley.

Michael Lynderey: The vibe I get from this is six million dollars, and I don't mean opening weekend (or opening day).

Then, of course, right after I go and say a thing like that, the movie will prove me wrong just to mess with my head, and a year from now I'll be writing the forecast for that sequel.

Brett Beach: When I first heard about this months ago, my reaction was excitement mixed with "I am going to have to remember the name of this for Netflix someday as it will never get a full-scale theatrical blitz." This is one of those instances where I am happy to be proven wrong. To me, Sarah Polley represents Quality Job 1 (ever since she sang "Courage" in The Sweet Hereafter, I've been hooked; she was the sole reason I had interest in going to see Snyder's Dawn of the Dead) and her being teamed up with Adrien Brody makes this a small-scale version of an Event Picture in my universe. The trailer is sufficiently creepy and seems to show footage from one or two key sequences rather than reveal everything. I expect there may be some intelligence and moral relativity to walk hand in hand with the ick. There may not be much left to go around on June 4th with that weekend's lineup, but I think Splice may find its niche.

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