This weekend has the potential to be one for the record books as things pick up again following Super Bowl weekend. There should definitely be something for everyone this weekend with a number of big stars releasing new movies, which may also make it a tougher than usual weekend to call since there are so many strong offerings. This week's mixed bag includes the romantic drama The Vow (Sony/Screen Gems), starring Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams, Safe House (Universal) with Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds, the rerelease of George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode I the Phantom Menace 3D (20th Century Fox), and the 3D action-adventure sequel Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (New Line/WB), starring Josh Hutcherson and Dwayne Johnson. We also have a look at this week's "Chosen One," the Oscar-nominated animated feature Chico and Rita (Luma Films).

Once again, Magnolia and ShortsHD, the Short Movie Channel, have teamed to release the Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012 theatrically across the US and Canada, starting on February 10, giving moviegoers a rare chance to see short films nominated in three categories which for years were a crapshoot in office pools, since few people actually had a chance to see any of the short films. We've seen most of them already and we're going to give you our thoughts, but you don't have to take our word for it and check them out for yourself if you're in one of the areas the program is playing, which you can check on the Official Site.

It was a neck and neck race at the box office as two movies, Fox's found footage superpowers movie Chronicle and CBS Films' horror film The Woman in Black, starring Daniel Radcliffe, each vied for the #1 position over the competition. Early estimates have Chronicle at $8.7 million for Friday compared to Woman in Black's $8.3 million but with the Super Bowl on Sunday, essentially cutting off all moviegoing business at the knees, it's really anyone's game in terms of which movie might win the weekend as both could end up doing around $19 million, give or take.

A few months back, a number of my Oscar blogging colleagues had been pointing out that no movie about Hollywood or the movie business had ever won Best Picture at the Oscars, which at the time was more of a disclaimer for what was already looking to be the frontrunner. Now it's a few months later and two of the top Best Picture contenders are movies about making movies that either celebrate Hollywood as a whole or celebrate the earliest filmmaking pioneers. Clearly, this is the year when Hollywood is ready to celebrate itself in a big way and the trend of movies about moviemaking not being considered Oscar-worthy is coming to an end.

It's Super Bowl weekend and also the first weekend of a new month as the box office continues to show its strength with a lot of surprise hits. The Super Bowl on Sunday normally affects every movie because so many people make plans to watch even if they're not football fans, and this year's match-up between the New York Giants and New England Patriots should knock out a good portion of the Northeast on Sunday… kind of like one of those big snowstorms. Like the big game, it should be a fairly tight race between two movies this weekend, one with a major star of the most successful franchises of all time, the other one starring unknowns in a fairly cool concept using the ever-popular found footage format.

The Sundance Film Festival has been over for a few days, and it's been another exciting week and a half for filmmakers, movie lovers and film writers alike as we get a taste of what's in store for the coming year. This year seemed to be much better for movies arriving at the festival looking for buyers, as according to our math, twenty-four movies were picked up for distribution during the festival proper and things certainly seemed far more positive and optimistic about the state of the industry.

That said, we saw roughly 32 films during the festival and nothing really affected us as much as last year's Incendies or Martha Marcy May Marlene, both which ended up in the Weekend Warrior's Top 10. Then again, maybe we were a bit warier of lavishing praise on the films we liked until we had a second chance to see them outside the normally-overenthusiastic festival environment.

ComingSoon.net talks to director Amy Berg (Deliver Us from Evil) about her new doc West of Memphis, produced by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, which takes a look at the case of the West Memphis 3 and new evidence discovered in the past ten years meant to fully exonerate them of the crimes they were accused of committing that put them in prison for 18 years.

Nicolas Winding Refn's critically-acclaimed Drive hits Blu-ray with UltraViolet, DVD and Digital Download tomorrow, Tuesday, January 31st, and today you can check out the first seven minutes here on ComingSoon.net!

Earlier this evening, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) presented their annual Actor awards for film and television acting, and the big winner of the night was Tate Taylor's The Help, which took home three of the five SAG film acting awards it was up for with Octavia Spencer winning in the Female Actor in a Supporting Role category, followed by Viola Davis taking the Female Actor in a Supporting Role award, and the film going on to take the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

The 2012 Sundance Film Festival announced the Jury, Audience, NEXT <=> and more at the festival's awards ceremony, hosted by Parker Posey, last night in Park City, Utah. Audience favorites included The Invisible War, The Surrogate, Searching for Sugar Man and Valley of Saints. Sleepwalk With Me received the Best of NEXT <=> Audience Award: