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At the beginning of every month, IONCINEMA.com's "Tracking Shot" features a handful of projects that are moments away from lensing and we feel are worth signaling out. This february we only have a fivesome of films worth mentioning that are definitely going to be major studio titles to watch out for in 2012ish.

We're huge fans of Arnold's Fish Tank and her short film work (especially Wasp), and we look forward in seeing how she can add the funk to a tiresome old classic. With her trusted right-hand man in cinematographer Robbie Ryan and a ballsy casting decision move of picking up a non-actor lead for the role of Heathcliff -- demonstrates she's still shooting from the hip. Add this to the Arnold aesthetic which is soaked in a realism, this might become a contempo classic and carry more weight now that this critic appreciates.

Teaming with once again with dp Bobby Bukowski, and the integral acting trio of Foster, Harrelson and Steve Buscemi, I have the feeling that the ante will increase dramatically with this gut-wrenching sophomore project. The Messenger was a stellar debut.

At the beginning of every month, IONCINEMA.com's "Tracking Shot" features a handful of projects that are moments away from lensing and in the same token, we feel are worth signaling out. We ring in the new year with nine titles going into production this month that are worth pointing out. Among the projects that were originally slated for January but are slightly pushed back we have Valerie Faris & Jonathan Dayton's Will starring Paul Rudd Zach Galifianakis, the new Stephen Daldry film Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Polanski's Carnage. This January can officially be called the "Abi Morgan" month as the scribe has not one but two projects that'll be lensed.

Michael Tully (Septien), Todd Rohal (The Catechism Cataclysm) and Lucky McKee (The Woman featuring Amazonian beauty Pollyanna McIntosh) are seven of the eight filmmakers who'll be premiering their latest films in a Park City at Midnight Section. On paper, this year's eight selected titles is perhaps the best since I've been going to the fest and shows that should be quick sell outs are Hobo with A Shotgun, Corman’s World: Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel and the international preem for Troll Hunter will remind some of The Blair With Project from several years back.