Is 2013 Going to be a Dark Year for Cinema?

Now if you've being keeping an eye on trailers for next years releases i think it's there to say you'll be able to see the influences of Christopher's Nolan's Dark Knight series on cinema and that can be seen in the darkness of the look  of two of the teaser/announcement/what ever the hell their calling them now trailers for two of next summers early big blockbusters.

A few weeks ago we got this rather Nolanesk look Iron Man 3:

And then just today we got our first look at JJ Abrams Star Trek Into Darkness:

 
It's obvious from the look of these trailers that both films are going to be a tab bit darker then what has gone before. And it cannot be doubted in my view that they both look like their going to be bloody good!! But when you look at the films been released it does seem that 2013 may be the darkest year in cinema history with Zack Synder's Superman reboot Man of Steel, Hugh Jackman's next bout as The Wolverine, The long Muted Sin City 2, The darkest sounding installment in Peter Jackson's new middle-earth trilogy The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and an even darker test for Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss Everdeen in Catching Fire.

So you can see from that list that it may not be the happiest year for film but it does seem like it might be pretty awesome all the same and i can guarantee you that i would personally be queuing up to see all of these films. It does seem though that dark story-lines might be the newest trend in Hollywood and it's pretty clear Chris Nolan is probably responsible for this!! And don't worry if your not a fan of darker cinema there's still some great looking happier films coming out this year (if you don't mind going to see a kids film). I mean who isn't looking forward to The Smurfs 2?? Sadly i actually am....