As we await the 85th Academy Award nominations announcement on Thursday morning, we now have a look at the opposite end of the 2012 film spectrum.  The 33rd Golden Raspberry Award nominations have been announced, celebrating the very worst of what 2012′s movie slate had to offer.  Leading the pack is The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 with 10 nominations, as the film landed a nomination in every single category.  The Twilight closer will go head-to-head with Battleship, A Thousand Words, That’s My Boy, and The Oogieloves in Big Balloon Adventure for the Worst Picture title.

It’s easy to beat up on the Twilight franchise, and even though I wouldn’t go so far as to call Breaking Dawn – Part 2 a good movie, it’s in no way the worst movie of the year.  The sheer amount of beheadings alone in director Bill Condon’s climactic fight sequence is enough to make the movie worth watching.  Anyway, hit the jump to check out the full list of Razzie Awards nominations.

After its enormous opening last weekend, The Lorax continued to impress – capturing its second number one title with an estimated $39.1 million, or a week-over-week decline of just 44%.  For once, however, people seem more interested in the film that didn’t make it to number one than with the film that did.

The wait is over. John Carter has arrived.  After years of speculation, we finally know how Disney’s BIG budget adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic is faring with audiences.  Long story short?  Not too well.  From 3,749 locations, John Carter earned an estimated $9.8 million on Friday – narrowly edging out The Lorax for first place. Trouble is, last weekend’s animated hit is expected to surge ahead on Saturday, all but guaranteeing John Carter an underwhelming second-place debut of around $28 million. That would be less than the $35.5 million of last year’s Battle: Los Angeles, a film that was considered a modest hit thanks to its $70 million price tag.  As you probably know, John Carter cost over three times that amount; which means it has a LONG way to go before it can escape the “flop” fate. Just in case anyone cares, two additional films saw releases this weekend, though only Open Road’s Silent House did well enough to make Friday’s top five.  In sixth place, Paramount’s A Thousand Words earned an estimated $1.9 million from 2,124 venues for what should be a weekend total in the $6 million range.  Details and analysis tomorrow.

Remember that brief moment where it looked like Eddie Murphy was going to turn his career around and go back to being that guy we all liked in the 80s?  Then he dropped hosting the Oscars after his moron Tower Heist director Brett Ratner resigned, and now there’s a new trailer for another one Murphy’s high-concept “comedies”, A Thousand Words.  In all fairness, Murphy made this movie almost a year ago, but it’s a strong reminder of why we all want to forget about him. The movie is about a guy who only has a thousand words left before he dies, which seems like a strong premise for a drama, but instead it looks like everyone involved said, “Let’s make Liar, Liar 2“.  At least it’s a nice reminder that we should all heed the warnings of Cliff Curtis.

Hit the jump to check out the trailer.  The film also stars Kerry Washington, Clark Duke, and Allison Janney.  A Thousand Words opens March 23, 2012.

Paramount has changed up the release dates on a couple of its upcoming films: the Eddie Murphy dramedy A Thousand Words and the Italian-set, horror/thriller The Devil Inside. Here are the details of the changes:

• A Thousand Words moves from January 13th to March 23rd, 2012. The change now pits the film against Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games
• The Devil Inside moves up from February 24th to January 6th, 2012. The film will now go head-to-head with the Sam Raimi-produced horror/thriller The Possession starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick

News of the release date changes come courtesy of THR whose report astutely points out that Paramount’s reasoning for moving A Thousand Words most likely stems from Murphy’s gig hosting the 2012 Oscars on February 27th and the near guaranteed publicity it will bring to the pic. A Thousand Words is directed by Brian Robbins (Norbit) and sees Murphy play a man who learns that he only has 1,000 more words to speak prior to his demise. As for The Devil Inside, the documentary-style film from writer/director William Brent Bell was made on a six-figure budget and follows a woman who becomes involved in a series of unauthorized exorcisms.

“A man discovers he only has one thousand words left to speak before he dies.”  That’s a cool premise, no?  Unfortunately, the end result is less promising.  Eddie Murphy reunited with Norbit/Meet Dave director Brian Robbins to shoot A Thousand Words in 2008, joined by Kerry Washington,  Allison Janney, Clark Duke, Cliff Curtis, and Ariel Winter.  The finished film was caught up in the February 2009 split between Paramount and DreamWorks, and Paramount has taken their sweet time to get the movie in theaters.  According to Exhibitor Relations, Paramount has finally scheduled A Thousand Words for release on January 13, 2012.

The test screening process has not shown favor to the comedy, and a January release date rarely indicates confidence in a project.  But man, d0 I love that premise.  I’ll cling to that until we see the first trailer.

Fred Figglehorn, created and played by teenager Lucas Cruikshank, is one of the most popular internet characters of all time. Now, he is appearing in his first-ever film, Fred: The Movie, premiering on Nickelodeon on September 18^th and out on DVD on October 5^th. Centering on Fred’s biggest adventure yet, the film follows his attempt to win over his unrequited love, Judy (British singing sensation Pixie Lott). Judy has moved away and a devastated Fred embarks on a journey to find her, along with the help of his best friend, Bertha (iCarly’s Jennette McCurdy).

Conceived and developed by filmmaker Brian Robbins, Fred: The Movie was made independently and financed with his own money, before he approached Nickelodeon about getting involved. And, with his pedigree and success behind the camera – as executive producer of the Disney Channel hit series Sonny with a Chance, the Spike TV series Blue Mountain State, The CW dramas Smallville and One Tree Hill, and kids’ programming like All That, The Amanda Show and Kenan & Kel – his desire to turn it into a franchise doesn’t seem far from realization.  Continued after the jump: