The year is coming to an end, which is the best time to sum up what movie videos have been the most successful this year. Here they are:
•    Inception. In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job till date. Leonardo DiCaprio’s CEO type character is a guy who can dive into people’s dreams to implant or extract information.

•    Tangled. Disney’s 50th animated feature is based on the German fairy tale Rapunzel. A long-haired Princess has spent her entire life locked up in a tower, but when she encounters a passing bandit she takes the opportunity to venture into the outside world for the first time.

•    Twilight 3 Eclipse. As a string of mysterious killings grips Seattle, Bella, whose high school graduation is fast approaching, is forced to choose between her love for vampire Edward and her friendship with werewolf Jacob.

•    Little Fockers. I love every part of this movie video series. The third part is not worse than the previous ones, and if you want to have a good time just watch it. De Niro returns to the role of retired-CIA man Jack, who becomes highly suspicious of his son-in-law’s ability to raise the twin grandkids.

•    A Team. This action comedy film is based on the story that goes about a group of Iraq War veterans. They look to clear their name with the U.S. military, who suspect the four men of committing a crime for which they were framed.

•    Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. A young fugitive prince and princess must stop a villain who unknowingly threatens to destroy the world with a special dagger that enables the magic sand inside to reverse time.

It has been more than a week since lots of new movies were showed on big screens. And it is time to make the first conclusions. The action entry The Warrior’s Way was the only new wide release and was dead on arrival landing in ninth place. Last weekend’s top two choices swapped positions as all films suffered steep declines. Overall, ticket sales slumped to the second lowest point of 2010 as moviegoers found almost nothing to be excited about or worth paying top dollar for. Outside of the top two films, no wide release averaged more than $ 2,500 this weekend.

From the second position Disney’s 3D animated best movie video Tangled rose to the first place. The Rapunzel tale dropped by an understandable 56% in its second weekend as it came off of a long holiday weekend debut. The Mouse House has collected a strong $ 96.5 million after 12 days. Three years ago, the studio led with its princess pic Enchanted which fell 52 % after Thanksgiving to $ 16.4 million which was enough to claim the box office crown that weekend. It went on to reach $ 127.8 million.

Dropping down to second place after two weeks on top was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows which took in an estimated $16.7 million in its third round falling a steep 66 %. Suffering the worst decline of any wide release, the Warner Bros. smash still raised its 17 day total to $ 244.2 million putting it 6.5 % ahead of the $ 229.3M that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire collected during the same period in 2005. Compared to the last two wizard series about Harry Potter which both appeared on July Wednesdays, Hallows is running 6.3 % ahead of 2007’s Order of the Phoenix but 0.5% behind 2009’s Half-Blood Prince.

Finally the nominees for the 2011 Independent Spirit Awards were announced. Among possible winners there are “127 Hours”, “Winter’s Bone”, “Greenberg”, “The Kids Are All Right” and “Black Swan”. Let’s watch bytes of each one of them.
•    127 Hours. This is a biographical film  starring James Franco as real-life mountain climber Aron Ralston who became trapped by a boulder in Robbers Roost, Utah for more than five days in 2003. Danny Boyle had been wanting to make a film about Ralston’s ordeal for four years. Boyle wrote a treatment for the film and Simon Beaufoy wrote the screenplay. Boyle describes 127 Hours as “very much a British film”, and as “an action movie with a guy who can’t move”.

•    Winter’s Bone. This drama film is a literary adaption of Daniel Woodrell’s novel of the same name. The film was written and directed by Debra Granik, and stars Jennifer Lawrence. The film has won a number of awards, including the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Film at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.

•    Greenberg. Greenberg is a 2010 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach. The film stars Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, Rhys Ifans and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The film follows Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller), A New Yorker who moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother’s assistant.

•    The Kids Are All Right. Directed by Lisa Cholodenko, this drama comedy describing a lesbian couple living in California. Within the relationship, Nic, a doctor, is the primary breadwinner and the stricter parent, while Jules is more laid back and lives as a housewife. While the couple is happy, and the family functioning well, it is also clear that their relationship has begun to go stale.

•    Black Swan. I have already reviewed this psychological film in details. You can read everything about it in Black Swan Promises to Be 2011 Best Movie Video.