Of vampires, entrepreneurs and opening movies

As I pointed out below, the bad news about this week in Spokae moviegoing is that Thursday will be the last day for “Animal Kingdom,” the tough-as-Vegemite Australian noir about police corruption and a family of armed robbers.

But then there’s good news, too. For among the opening movies we have:

“The Social Network” : Everyone who has a Facebook account knows who Mark Zuckerberg is. He’s the guy who invented that particular social network. This film, starring Jesse Eisenberg, purportedly tells the story of Facebook’s founding, keying on Zuckerberg’s (irony alert) antisocial manner of screwing over his friends and business partners. Written by Aaron Sorkin (“The West Wing”) and directed by David Fincher (“Fight Club,” “Se7en”), “The Social Network” boasts one of the most engaging movie trailers in years. That could be good … or not.

“Let Me In”: The original Swedish film, based on John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel, played at the Spokane International Film Festival and was a big hit. American remakes of foreign films are seldom as good as the originals, but the trailer of this Matt Reeves film at least has the look right. Matching the cold, dark Swedish scenes, Reeves sets his film in 1980s-era New Mexico. Casting the exciting Chloe Moretz (from “Kickass”), Reeves managed to thrill Salon.com critic Andrew O’Hehir, who called the film “and imaginative and largely intact retelling of the gory, troubling, uniquely sweet and uniquely dark vampire tale.”

And then, of course, there are the also-rans:

“Case 39” : Renee Zellweger stars as a social worker bent on saving a girl (Jodelle Ferland) from her abusive parents but who ends up learning the case isn’t as straightforward as she first thought.

“Like Dandelion Dust” : Two families, one rich, one not, fight over custody of a young boy. Think Hallmark Channel.

I’d still recommend that you see “Animal Kingdom” before it leaves. And if you haven’t yet seen “Winter’s Bone,” you might want to catch that at the Magic Lantern.

Below : The trailer for “Let Me In.”