Next week may not offer any sure bets, but it has a bit of potential. The Australian production Daybreakers with Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill has a certain degree of promise. It\u2019s kind of nice to see a vampire picture that isn\u2019t a Twilight travesty and isn\u2019t utter garbage like Transylmania. The trailer doesn\u2019t look bad, but is certainly in the \u201ccould go either way\u201d realm. The film\u2019s twin brother directors Michael and Peter Spierig are an unknown quantity to me. What amuses me about this one is that it\u2019s coming from Lionsgate as part of their latest new move to focus more on horror movies, which sounds a lot like their position pre-Joe Drake\u2014the guy responsible for burying The Midnight Meat Train. I guess Mr. Drake\u2019s insistence on \u201cquality\u201d pictures (which mostly seemed to mean more Tyler Perry) didn\u2019t pan out so well. I\u2019m not expecting much, but I\u2019m intrigued.<\/p>\n
Also up is Miguel Arteta\u2019s Youth in Revolt. Now, Arteta hasn\u2019t done much in the theatrical realm since the good, but not great, Jennifer Aniston vehicle The Good Girl. Plus, the film stars Michael Cera, who is going to have to work hard to win me over after Paper Heart and Nick and Norah\u2019s Infinite Playlist. (I didn\u2019t see Year One and have no intention of changing that.) For that matter, he needs to prove he can play more than one character, which this offers him the chance of doing. I\u2019m not optimistic, but I\u2019m willing to give it a shot.<\/p>\n