Thursday

There were three interesting trailers before Disturbia. The first was I Am Legend, starring Will Smith, and not coming to us until January. This film looks big. It's adapted from Isaac Asimov by the same writer who did I, Robot, which can only be a good thing. It's fair to say this was a 'teaser trailer', as it showed very little, but I was sufficiently teased. The scope of this movie looks immense - whole parts of Manhattan deserted - and I've already said here how a scene on one of the bridges was apparently the most expensive ever. As far as I can tell, Will Smith thinks he's the last man left alive, but he soon discovers he's not, and whatever it is (possibly) isn't human.

Secondly came Across the Universe, coming out next week, which started off looking fairly ordinary: an aspiring artist from Liverpool goes to America in the 1960s and gets involved in all the appropriate scenes and political movements, his friends get shipped off to Vietnam etc and it felt in way a bit like Forrest Gump. But then it turns out this film is actually a musical, starring Eddie Izzard. It looks very odd.

Lastly was 30 Days of Night, coming here in November. This started off looking good, then looked awful, then reverted to good again. It's another film adapted from a comic book. In a small town in north Alaska there are 30 days of night. Who is this good for? You guessed it: vampires. The community based there, starring Josh Hartnett, has to try to stay alive until the sun comes back. So, a bit like Pitch Black meets Blade, maybe.