Hollywood Movies 2010

Science fiction movies should be allowed only one major transgression of the laws of physics, according to a US professor who has won backing from a number of his peers after creating a set of guidelines for Hollywood.

The proposals are intended to curb the film industry's worst abuses of science by confining scriptwriters to plotlines that embrace the suspension of disbelief but stop short of demanding it in every scene.

The guidelines are by Sidney ­Perkowitz, a professor of physics at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and a member of the Science and Entertainment Exchange, an advisory body run by the US National Academy of Sciences.

Perkowitz said he liked Starship Troopers, but criticised its giant insects, saying if you scaled up a real bug to that size it would collapse under its own weight. He hated The Core, in which a team of scientists travel to the centre of the Earth and detonate a nuclear device to start the planet's core spinning again.

The Science and Entertainment Exchange is backed by Dustin Hoffman, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker and Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote the screenplays for The Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Perkowitz said: "The hope is that it will get better science into film while still making them interesting."

Most recently, the exchange has advised on the Watchmen movie and the TV series, Heroes.

"I am not offended if they make one big scientific blunder in a given film," Perkowitz added. "You can have things move faster than the speed of light if you want. But after that I would like things developed in a coherent way."

"If you violate that you are in trouble. The chances are that the public will pick it up and that is what matters to Hollywood. The Core did not make money because people understood the science was so out to lunch," he added.

Ron Howard's 2009 production of Dan Brown's Angels and Demons also fared poorly among scientists. In it, Tom Hanks's character, Robert Langdon, has to protect the Vatican from being destroyed by an antimatter bomb that is confined in a glass vial by a magnetic field produced by a small battery.

"The amount of antimatter they had was more than we will make in a million years of running a high-energy particle collider," said Perkowitz. "You can't contain it using an iPod battery."

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January 1, 2010: Case 39
January 8, 2010: Youth in Revolt
January 15, 2010: Let Me In
January 22, 2010: Tooth Fairy
January 29, 2010: When in Rome
February 5, 2010: Dear John
February 12, 2010: The Butchering Ghost
February 19, 2010: Shutter
March 5, 2010: Alice in Wonderland
March 12, 2010: Green Zone
March 16, 2010: The Back-Up Plan
March 19, 2010: Season of the Witch
March 26, 2010: How to Train Your Dragon
April 2, 2010: Repo Men
April 9, 2010: The Losers
April 16, 2010: Piranha 3-D
April 22, 2010: Oceans
April 23, 2010: Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps
April 30, 2010: A Nightmare On Elm Street
May 7, 2010: Iron Man 2
May 14, 2010: Robin Hood
May 21, 2010: Shrek Forever After
May 28, 2010: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
June 4, 2010: Killers
June 11, 2010: The A-Team
June 18, 2010: Toy Story 3
June 25, 2010: Grown Ups
June 30, 2010: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
July 2, 2010: The Last Airbender
July 9, 2010: Despicable Me
July 16, 2010: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
July 23, 2010: Salt +1 more release
July 30, 2010: Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
August 6, 2010: Step Up 3-D
August 13, 2010: Ramona and Beezus
August 20, 2010: The Expendables
August 27, 2010: Resident Evil: Afterlife
September 3, 2010: Born to Be a Star
September 10, 2010: The Town
September 17, 2010: Warrior
September 24, 2010: Guardians of Ga'Hoole
October 1, 2010: Priest October 8, 2010: The Zookeeper
October 15, 2010: Faster
October 22, 2010: Saw VII
November 5, 2010: MegaMind November 12, 2010: Unstoppable
November 19, 2010: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
November 24, 2010: Rapunzel 3-D
December 10, 2010: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
December 17, 2010: Tron: Legacy
December 22, 2010: The Green Hornet