Review: Shutter Island

This week, we have Shutter Island, the thrilller/horror movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio.  The preview clearly stands out from others, but not in a really quantifiable way.

Predicted IMDB Score: 7.2
Predicted Weekend Gross: $27 million


Preview here.


There are cool filters on some of the shots, and the shushing woman in every preview will haunt your dreams, but it's difficult to nail down exactly what makes this preview intriguing (which gives our model some trouble).  It's likely some combination of Scorsese's direction and simply DiCaprio himself.  I mean really, DiCaprio's 5 previous movies have received an average IMDB score of 7.8 which is quite stellar.

Review: The Wolfman

This week's movie is The Wolfman featuring Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins.  And it's predicted to be a good one despite having a tagline belonging to countless Disney movies ("When the moon is full the legend comes to life").


Predicted IMDB Score: 7.4
Predicted Weekend Gross: $20 million


Preview here.


To find out more about the predictions, read more.

Movie Review: From Paris with Love

First up, this movie looks pretty bad.  Secondly, it looks like our predictions for Edge of Darkness last week were just okay (or rather, the ratings predictions were okay, the box office gross predictions were way off)--but more on that in a later post.  The numbers are:

Predicted IMDB rating: 5.7
Predicted first weekend gross: ...more than Edge of Darkness

Find the preview here.

Details after the jump.

Review: Edge of Darkness with Mel Gibson

As stated in the first post, the purpose of this blog is to create movie reviews based on data taken from the movie's preview.  Here we give Edge of Darkness a score (based on IMDBs 1-10 ranking) and we also predict exactly how much it will make opening weekend.

Predicted IMDB score: 6.7

Predicted weekend gross: $35 million

Predicted per-theater gross: $8,000

Trailer here.

In about a week, we'll see how we do.  Details on the review after the jump.