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Please excuse the delay in running this week's Box Office Poll. I experienced some technical difficulties when working from home yesterday, so I put this post off for today. What a week we're in for movies. I don't know about y'all, but every wide release that opens is on my list as well as a fair few of the limited releases. So let's get to it.

Tough to say what the big one for the week is going to be. I think the top contender -- though not necessarily by a wide margin -- is "Zombieland," a comedy-horror flick starring Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin. As a zombie apocalypse sweeps across the world, the foursome set out on a cross-country trip to... well I'm not entirely sure. They kill lots of zombies though. Read more...

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Before diving in with the coming week's releases, let's take a quick look at last week's. I think the poll results usually paint a pretty telling picture of who is reading this blog. The weekend's big box office winner, Tyler Perry's "I Can Do Bad All By Myself," failed to pick up a single vote in the poll. "Sorority Row" took top spot in the poll (70% of your votes), followed in a distant second by "Whiteout" and "9," which were basically tied, at 15% and 13% respectively.

My takeaway is that you readers are on the younger side -- ie below 30, or at least not yet parents -- and that you prefer spectacle to schmaltz. That's definitely an overly broad generalization, but I do find the fact the weekend's biggest earner, by quite a wide margin I might add, didn't even pick up one vote in last week's poll. Now, let's take a look at what's in store this week... Read more...

Tags aaron eckhart, amanda seyfried, Bright Star, Charlize-Theron, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, Guillermo Arriaga, Jane Campion, jennifer aniston, jennifers body, Juliette Binoche, Kim Basinger, Love Happens, matt damon, megan-fox, Paris, steven soderbergh, The Burning Plain, The Informant!

I've got a special treat for y'all in lieu of this morning's Daily TwitPic. It's an exclusive look at Jane Campion's "Bright Star," which hits theaters on September 18. The movie follows the 19th century poet John Keats (Ben Wishaw) as he meets and falls in love with the woman -- next door neighbor Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) -- who inspires him to write the love poem after which the movie is named. I haven't had an opportunity to check out the movie yet, but Campion is a talented filmmaker and the trailers shows what looks to be a solid period love story.

After the jump, you'll find the full text of the Keats poem for your reading enjoyment and a trio of stills from the upcoming movie. Enjoy! Read more...

Tags Abbie Cornish, Ben Wishaw, Bright Star, Jane Campion, Paul Schneider, Photo