{"id":7388,"date":"2010-01-01T17:30:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T17:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=7388"},"modified":"2010-01-01T17:30:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T17:30:43","slug":"uk-cinema-releases-friday-1st-january-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/01\/01\/uk-cinema-releases-friday-1st-january-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Cinema Releases: Friday 1st January 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NATIONAL RELEASES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Did You Hear About The Morgans?<\/strong><\/a> (Sony): A romantic comedy about an estranged couple (Hugh Grant<\/a> and Sarah Jessica Parker<\/a>) who witness a murder in New York and get relocated to small-town Wyoming as part of a witness-protection program.<\/p>\n

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Directed by Marc Lawrence<\/a>, this looks to be in the mould of his previous collaborations with Grant (Two Weeks Notice, Music and Lyrics), which basically means it’s aimed at less-than-discerning female audiences. The negative reviews<\/a> and poor US box office<\/a> suggest that it will not be regarded as one of the defining films of the new decade. [Nationwide \/ Cert 12A]<\/p>\n

Post Grad<\/a><\/strong> (20th Century Fox): A comedy about a college graduate (Alexis Bledel<\/a>) who has to move back in with her family, while she attempts to find a job and the right guy.<\/p>\n

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Directed by Vicky Jenson<\/a>, it co-stars\u00a0Carol Burnett<\/a>,\u00a0Zach Gilford<\/a>,\u00a0Michael Keaton<\/a>,\u00a0Jane Lynch<\/a>, and\u00a0Rodrigo Santoro<\/a>.\u00a0It bombed in the US<\/a> and received fairly negative reviews<\/a> which is why Fox is probably releasing it now whilst people are watching films like Avatar, Sherlock Holmes and Alvin and the Chipmunks 2. [Nationwide \/ Cert 12A]<\/p>\n

Spread<\/a><\/strong> (Optimum Releasing): A sex comedy starring Aston Kutcher<\/a> as a serial womaniser who screws around a lot in LA. Directed byDavid Mackenzie<\/a>, it co-stars Anne Heche<\/a> and\u00a0Margarita Levieva<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It died a box office death<\/a> in the US last August (grossing just over $250,000) which suggests that Kutcher’s four million-plus followers<\/a> on Twitter didn’t make the trip to see it. [Odeon Covent Gdn., Vue West End & Nationwide \/ Cert 15]<\/p>\n

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ALSO OUT<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m Gonna Explode<\/strong><\/a> (Artificial Eye): A Mexican film about teenage angst which sees a young man (Juan Pablo de Santiago<\/a>) go on a road trip with an equally\u00a0rebellious\u00a0girl (Maria Deschamps<\/a>). Directed by Gerardo Naranjo<\/a>, it could do respectable arthouse business if word of mouth gets around. [Renoir & Key Cities \/ Cert 15]<\/p>\n

>\u00a0Get local cinema showtimes for your area via Google Movies<\/a>
>\u00a0UK DVD & Blu-ray picks for this week including District 9 and The Hurt Locker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Including Did You Hear About The Morgans?, Post Grad and Spread<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1256,1257,1258,1259,535],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}