Two confirmed “quality” actors have movies dropping in coming weeks. Both of whom were firmly established as “serious” actors in the early ’00s, but who got smacked with some of that reality shit in the past year and now have vehicle movies dropping in February (aka the movie biz’s Nevuary).

Point the first, Benicio Del Toro in The Wolfman. Dude caught a lot of (well-deserved) love from “Traffic” and spent the rest of the decade slowly squandering same. And now he’s in a wannabe tent-pole pic that was suppoed to come out last Halloween but got pushed and pushed like it was in labor and Heathcliff Huxtable was the attending. Shame cuz the previews looked like fire from a fanboy’s perspective. Apparently there were mutliple re-shoots and re-cuts and they had to change the score and shit. SMH. Dude prolly didn’t know that “Che” was gonna come out and be 4 hrs long and kill his career, but still. Del Toro’s always been a bit of an instigator, so you reap what you sow, wolfboy. Illbert Garenas’ first weekend prediction: $25-30 milli.

Second is prettyboy DiCaprio. Damn, damn, damn, James. Dude cannot get rid of that babyface, but still is A-List than a mug. However, everyone knows that they were showing previews for “Shutter Island” back in Summer ’09 with an October ’09 release date. Paramount decided that they couldn’t spill the guap on an Oscar campaign for the flick, so they pushed it to February…and still showed previews at every damn movie that came out between then and Winter. Now, this push is more of a slap in the face for Scorsese and Dennis Lehane (author of the book this is based on) than it is for DiCaprio, but still. Middle America thinks DiCaprio did everything from the production to the craft services, so holla at him. Illbert Garenas’ first week prediction: $30k.