I have just thought of another movie that will be coming out in a few months that i will probably want to go and see in the theater: Will Smith's new movie Seven Pounds . The Will Smith movie is scheduled for a December 19th release date in North America. From what I have heard of the plot, it is a movie about an IRS employee who is involved in a tragic accident that somehow claims the lives of several (seven?) strangers. Smith's character is supposedly so distraught from this that he is contemplating suicide when he meets a woman who has cancer and starts to fall for her. The woman is played by Rosario Dawson. I believe that Woody Harrelsson is also in the film, as well as Barry Pepper.
I think that the subject matter of this movie is a bit dour for the Christmas Season, but still it should be good. I tend to give Will Smith some leeway in his film/role choices so far because so far he has for the most part delivered almost every time. The film is also directed by the same guy who directed Will Smith in his other recent movie, Happiness. Like that movie, Seven Pounds is a drama that probably will be smaller in scale with much less hype than something like his last effort, Hancock, and will likely fly under the radar as much as a Will Smith movie is capable of doing.
I dont think that this film will have alot of competition but despite that, I am surprised at the low key approach that has been taken with the marketing for this film; Case in point: the Seven Pounds movie trailer - or more exactly the lack of one. That's right: it is less than three months until the release of the Seven Pounds movie and there is still no known trailer available for this film. Not even a teaser trailer for that matter. I find that quite surprising in this day and age of Hollywood hype and marketing.
Oh well, I'm not going to let a minor detail like that lessen my enthusiasm for this movie any. If anything I suppose that I should be greatfull that this movie has not yet been spoiled too much for me by those typical over-revealing trailers! |